your daily bicycle log

Dunwich Dynamo survived. Awful, wonderful experience. It took me 12 hours, overtaken by every fucker on the road, but I got there and I only fell off once despite my chain coming off repeatedly. \o/

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/994860_10151792934734104_1796150932_n.jpg

Respect - well done

Thank you!

missed this, but that's great! also i like the color of your bike, i had a steel one mostly that color long ago, miss it.

something magical happened with my pedal stroke yesterday

Strava Heatmap!
http://x.raceshape.com/heatmap/view.html?id=ad13e8823b9f320ed1815e260c641212141df37c
Those are all my rides in the period of just over 1 year since I joined Strava. Well, except for the little local commute type things that I didn't upload and anything in the 'exclusion zone' around my flat.

me tooooo

http://x.raceshape.com/heatmap/view.html?id=6f8ad5aaa0d92cd1fc474a56149c7ea7c723f140

Cool

http://x.raceshape.com/heatmap/view.html?id=a6523179dfbe076c6cc5e1b845e7c511b0d53f62

Ha! Those straight grid American roads. You've got a ride in the middle of nowhere, from nowhere to nowhere, that consists solely of two straight lines at right angles to each other.

yeah that, and the other weird griddy nowhere to nowhere track to the north east are tt race courses out on the high plains.

That must be pretty handy actually - I'm guessing there's next to no traffic and the road is dead straight and flat. How do you turn around though? In Britain the vast majority of courses would have a roundabout at the halfway point where you do a 360-degree turn, the rest would consist of a loop with several left hand turns.

'round the cone 180. this years course/weather was awesome. the previous course (the one shaped like an "L") was p. hilly. and there's not a tree for 30 miles, it can be WINDY.

don't know if i told the story here but this year at state champs i was getting passed like an f'ing stop sign, just awful. finally, finally i caught somebody. he passed me back, and i was like REALLY? and passed him back after being sure i could do it. just then we approached a marshalled turnaround. as we slowed he shouted to the marshall "FUCK THIS, AIN'T TURNING. I'M QUITTING."

http://raceshape.com/heatmap/

the universal heatmap is fascinating--where EVERYBODY rides. read about it on dcrainmaker, but never checked it out til now.

http://x.raceshape.com/heatmap/view.html?id=da3db43a377c5c2a13581f02b0c9c6b7271ea5ae

xp - the UK appears to be the centre of the universe according to that link

I'm really liking the global heatmap, with my impending move to melbourne it is helping me plot where to ride.

Heatmap is way too cool. Fun to find random little criterium courses in the middle of nowhere. Here is mine:

http://x.raceshape.com/heatmap/view.html?id=0b59e63a0eba094d3a08cab5916b54a24f74e20a

it's so cool to see how people navigate to ride. i've only ever been to sd once for 5 days (no riding), and downtown and sunset/ocean beach (esp ocean beach) seemed pretty bike...dangerous? like not bike hostile but challenging. anyway, what a great app.

Btw you cant leave for oz, Usa needs u ed.

Is anyone on this thread from Glasgow and has initials DH? Such a person has suddenly started following me on Strava. I don't have a problem with that, but I have no idea who it is.

From memory there are at least two Glaswegians on this board and the mysterious DH is also following Ed, so I've followed you back (whoever you are).

DH is cozen.

ja that's me JF

strava-based heavy bike chat starts now

surprisingly little heat map activity in my neck of the woods, given that I am in strava's birthplace

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/07/cutting-removing-functionality.html

read this a few days ago, pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5b6-UAPvpg

another strava related, but this is really an ad, and also total bs imo.

http://youtu.be/QmILpd_eIM4

i went mtbing today. this is not me, but it could be, really.

ok, i'm done with the posts.

Just pedaled across the Williamsburg Bridge in red suede platforms.

I feel like someone needs to bring this thread down from its lofty heights occasionally.

need higher platforms to maintain loft then.

Yeah, get on that.

went for 50 mile ride w/group today and managed to somehow come off. was turning the corner at the bottom of a hill and hit a gravel patch and went down hard, head first. am alright, bit cut up and bruised w/scratched sunnies but no breaks so whew

was bloody windy blech

Ouch, sympathies. How fast were you going?

I am back in the saddle over the last month; having done only about 250 miles this year before July, I then easily doubled that. Have started using Strava, too, which is interesting. Convinced some people cheat on some of the hills around here. Also suspect that Devon riders do more hills than others do, judging by friends elsewhere...

not super fast; bit sore today but overall fine. milking it tho

Sympathies.

Surely people in devon ride more hills because of more hills?

Exactly my point. Just didn't quite realise how many more til now, somehow! Guess my other point of reference is Sheffield...

sorry to hear that, cozen

yeah, gws cozen

cozen was it like this

http://youtu.be/UqjOqgilwmQ

Set off at 8am with a vague intention to ride a road I've not done before, and did so. Then moved onto a road I have ridden before but which is beautiful and quick, and enjoyed that. 45 miles in, 2 from home but thinking I'd loop town to get up to 50, a wasp flew into my face and stung me on the top lip. Which swelled up like Lana Del Rey. So I went strait home and only got to 47. I still look like Lana 8 hours later. Beautiful ride until that damn wasp. Never been stung before in 34 years.

pics or it didn't happen

I get stung once or twice a year but it has always been the old yellow jacket down the jersey on the downhill. Terrible feeling ESP since they can get multiple stings in.

http://instagram.com/p/c3sHZSRDC9/

65ish miles today in about four and a half hours. (User error on both Strava and Endomondo so neither is accurate.) 5000+ feet of climbing over Dartmoor. Tired now.

tiiiiiiiiiired now
http://www.strava.com/activities/77109274

man I wanna do a big ride

Nice work, Cozen. I was meant to do 60 but bro in law screwed up the route...

I still need to get my road bike back on the road! Would love to have tagged along for something like that.