whoa. id read about deathride, but i didnt know that it was 3 out and backs rather than an actual circuit. so steep, too.
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
some dudes swap out their rear derailleur for a MTB one to accomodate bigger cassettes... D:
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/menu.jpg
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
oh sorry, i thought this was "how to really train."
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
u fat, fat, fat mantis
u_u
― drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Fat_mantis_pic.jpg
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
<3ing that menu! would order 1 of each!
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
dude u dont order it just arrives platter after platter! all u gotta buy is vino
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
last time a nice gentleman was buying for everyone. i took water, but...
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
if I ever LTRMB w/u dudes pls have it end with many platters and vino, thx
― drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
chef's old restaurant was r1s1b1s1 in petaluma- he did rides out of there, too
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
!!! site of my impending RR coming up.
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.deercreekchallenge.com/event_info.html
this century is going up "my" home climb, maybe i should do it. interested to see how they get their vert. 100 miles is long and you can link loops up there in many (fun) ways.
otoh i ride this bitch once or twice a week anyway, crazy to pay for the privilege
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Friday, 2 April 2010 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
oh i found the map that route sucks
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Friday, 2 April 2010 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
what is your standard gearing? those kind of climbing centuries are attracting me to buy a climbing cassette to save my knees.
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 2 April 2010 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
39/23 is fine on (almost) any ride round here for your ability, since long grades over 8% are not very common, but my training wheelset has 25 for pootling/bonking. for an event that does "city view" 2x over 100 mi? i'd bring the 25. second time over city view could get you crosseyed. quite a bit of relentless 8% with chunk of maybe 10%.
theres some stuff out of boulder that has longish bits of 13-14%, i _raced_ magnolia rd. on a 27 and needed every tooth.
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Friday, 2 April 2010 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
when i was riding in central ny last year i was laughing- the biggest climbs are only like 500 ft, but they just ran the roads straight up all the hills steep as hell.
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Friday, 2 April 2010 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
laughing thru the tears, imo
i climbed the 16% selby ave hill in st paul last spring (super short) and had fukkin tunnel-vision at the end (didn't help that i was humping laptop/school books)
― drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Friday, 2 April 2010 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
oh dear lord... that hurts just imagining race conditions over such a grind. does the field just shatter apart?
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 2 April 2010 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, totally, but recongeals in little clumps, since it flattens and rolls (on dirt!) for a while before final gut wrenching 800ft 10% climb.
http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/co/boulder/577381846
i see it says 11% top grade, but that first stretch at mile 4.5 is def well more than that.
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Friday, 2 April 2010 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://cycleture.photoshelter.com/gallery/2011-Almanzo/G0000gJ8g8tTETok
so the almanzo 100 happened
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Sunday, 22 May 2011 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
did it happen in 1949? because color photography is all over the place now. (jk, i know we all have raphaesthetics to maintain).
― the entire premise of your tweet is incorrect (Hunt3r), Monday, 23 May 2011 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
I bit the bullet, gonna do my first brevet this weekend. 200km up and down the Northern California coast.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 3 November 2011 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
doin the DIRTY GRAN FONDO (lol). basically sounds like a road race on fire trails in a national forest.
"Gran Fondo 88.9K with 2036 Elevation Gain" - believe that's 55mi w/ 6680ft of 'vert' in ur imperial stylez. i am fuuuuuucked!
― $1 tarkus (haitch), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:19 (ten years ago) link
this is in three weeks btw
think i'll be hitting hills after work tonight
― $1 tarkus (haitch), Monday, 30 April 2012 00:32 (ten years ago) link
Which bike are you going to ride for this?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 30 April 2012 13:14 (ten years ago) link
one for the CX bike, methinks.
― $1 tarkus (haitch), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:11 (ten years ago) link
DIRTY GRAN FONDLE sponsored by GARU G
― am0n, Monday, 7 May 2012 17:31 (ten years ago) link
lol
― what I talk about when I talk about Runrig (haitch), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 01:38 (ten years ago) link
signed up for:
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/UltChallengeMAPJPG.jpghttp://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/TourofUtahUltChallenge.jpg
it doesn't reinforce my confidence that they can't be arsed to like, put an actual map/profile of event on their site, you get to go to some dude's strava.
― a single goddamn marshmallow fucked me for LIFE (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 18:40 (ten years ago) link
dirty gran fondle was hard, hard, hard. first 18km: soupy mud for 2km, then grind uphill for another 3km with road interrupted by 'water bars' (deep channel across road with big sharp stones used to fill in) every 300m, then rolling ascent leading to mega-steep gravel downhill (i walked it), then red clay climb for 1km @ 14% average (i walked that too).
after that it was quite nice! smooth rollers through bushfire area in the fog was eerie highlight. transitioned to red clay fire roads through thicker forested area, couple of long steady climbs, squirmy rolling forest section before last checkpoint, then return to the finish via the muddy section we'd started on.
― bull pillman (haitch), Monday, 21 May 2012 00:54 (ten years ago) link
some jokers bought along a fondue kit w/ cheese and a bottle of wine and had a picnic at one of the checkpoints!
― bull pillman (haitch), Monday, 21 May 2012 00:55 (ten years ago) link