Bike Log

[Goblin84]

yeah, biking vacations are amazing. Skiing is also up there Was nice to bike in an organized group. We kept the speed down pretty low only around 19-20mph in a double pacelane. Me and a few other guys decided to race the last 5 miles in. Not sure if that was a good idea or not, I could only push it up to 25mph the last few miles and was freaking exhausted.

going to meet up with those guys again tonight, temps have sored though into the upper 80's, supposed to be in the 90's tomorrow

 

[56fish]

6/19 to 6/21:

65 miles; 5500' vt; 14.5 mph avg. All NEK...242 up to Jay from Westfield & back; Westfield>105>East Hill Rd>100..back way thru Troy home; Echo Lake Loop (twice) to prep myself for the benefit ride late Aug..shaved 4.5 minutes from last year's dismal time.

First time on my new Pilot frame. Very nice.


:beer:

 

[Goblin84]

looks like a nice ride 56fish.

I just did an easy 30miler with the boys from NFBC, avgs just over 20mph.

 

[andyzee]

16.5 miles this morning at 17.2 mph. Nothing like a nice morning ride before work.

 

[bruno]

96 miles of urban NYC ridin' sunday and monday. bridges, taxis, central park, prospect park--good times!!!!!!!:smash::-D:lol::???::flag::beer::dunce::blink:

 

[andyzee]

96 miles of urban NYC ridin' sunday and monday. bridges, taxis, central park, prospect park--good times!!!!!!!:smash::-D:lol::???::flag::beer::dunce::blink:

NYC is fun town to peddle around.

 

[andyzee]

13.5 miles @ 17.5 mph. baby steps

 

[andyzee]

More miles, 33. Slower speed 12 mph average. Biked from Red Bank, NJ to Sandy Hook with my wife. Great ride great weather. Speed wasn't there, but the distance doesn't hurt.

 

[bvibert]

Another nice Sunday ride for me. This time I got in 3 hours of a mix of fireroad, unmaintained dirt road, maintained dirt road, and asphalt. Including a hike-a-bike of a downed tree from the storm that rolled through the area Saturday night. As usual I have no idea how far I went or how fast. I do know that it took 2:57 and I burned around 2800 calories with an average BPM of 149. Which is lower that the last few times out but I also went longer which meant a few more stops, including one for severely cramping legs at 2:30ish...

 

[tree_skier]

Got out with my son for a 3 hours of Downhill at Mt. Sneaux yesterday. trails were in better shape then i've seen them in years. All i have to say is I need a full suspension bike.

 

[skizilla]

MIlwaukee area ride.

I am on vacation in milwaukee and just rode about 22 miles next to lake micigan between two towns grafton and Port Washington. Very nice ride, lake views, farm country, Mc mansions, little traffic, one small hill, and port washington is a fishing tourist town with water fountains and a trail along the harbor. Much better than i expected. I had to borrow a much smaller bike for this ride though I think i kind of looked like i was on a clown bike or something.

 

[marcski]

Been doing mostly road since the shoulder has been hurting the last 4 weeks or so. Did my normal 28 mile, 3000' climb ride before work on tuesday. Avg. 15.9. Then yesterday did 58 miles at 16.9. (3:23 mins of pedal time, and I was out for only about 3:40 total). Got to get ready for those 2 century rides i have coming up in August!!!

 

[bruno]

39.8 @ 16.8 yesterday mornin' on my geared whip. arlington, lexington, concord, lincoln, weston, etc. perfect ridin'. a lot o' folks out!!

then a lotta ridin' around boston on fixed gear just lookin' at 4th stuff!! good times!!!!

happy everything to everybody!!!:beer::dunce::flag::-D:lol::smash:

 

[bvibert]

I had a decent MTB ride yesterday, even if the weather didn't want to cooperate. :roll: I started out meeting up with my Dad who was taking my daughter for a little ride in our trailer on some of the smoother sections of fire road where I ride. She had fun and I rode with them for a little bit before splitting off the start my ride.

It was over-cast and dreary, but that meant if wasn't too hot. The weather man said it shouldn't start raining until around 4 and it was noonish so I figured I was safe... I decided to start the ride out with one of the more decent climbs in the area, which was going good until I dropped the chain off the cassette into the spokes. Luckily I caught it before any damage was done, unfortunately that set the tone for much of the next hour or so. I dropped the chain one or two more times and had a couple cases of chain suck when shifting in the granny gear. I knew my derailuer hanger was bent a bit, but it hadn't been giving me any trouble until now. A little on the trail 'un-bending' seems to have done the trick for now.

In the middle of the chain incidents I hit a rock hard enough on a downhill section to make me stop at the bottom to make sure everything was alright. I noticed the rear wheel was a bit out of true and rubbing on the brakes. Just when I decided that I would just loosen the brakes a bit and re-tension the wheel at home the tube rapidly let all of it's air out. To top that off it starting raining right then, damn weather man, it was only around 1. Luckily I had all the supplies to perform my first trail side tire repair. Just as I'm finishing up I hear a car coming down the section of pretty washed out unmaintained dirt road that I had just come down. Eventually I see a guy driving a beat-up Rav4 who's taking is dog for a walk (the dog is walking in front of the car). I guess the roads aren't as impassable as I thought. The guy stops and offers assistance and is amazed when I tell him that I just had a flat, and that I had all the stuff to fix it on me. He also can't believe that it only took a few minutes. I guess I can't be too surprised that he didn't know too much about bicycles since he uses his car to take it dog for a walk. I would later see more cars on the dirt roads that I didn't think people really drove on that day, including a mini-van navigating down a section of road that I figured only 4x4's would make it down.

Aside from the those issues the ride went well. It never rained hard and the woods stayed relatively dry. I rode for about 2:45 I guess (forgot to start my HRM at first) and burned somewhere above 2200 calories with an average BPM of 141, all the stops really brought that down.

Wow, I didn't mean to write a book on my ride, sorry for the long post!

 

[Goblin84]

so much for actually walking your dog.... America has reached an all new low


I went out for a quick 35 mile ride, total eval only around 2000ft but avg speed was 18.5. either way half way through I started having pretty bad knee pain on the lateral side of my right knee. Once next paycheck comes in im going to get refit on my bike. I am beginning to think god just didnt want me to be active, I swear to god I get injured more times then.... well something that happens a lot

 

[Marc]

so much for actually walking your dog.... America has reached an all new low


I went out for a quick 35 mile ride, total eval only around 2000ft but avg speed was 18.5. either way half way through I started having pretty bad knee pain on the lateral side of my right knee. Once next paycheck comes in im going to get refit on my bike. I am beginning to think god just didnt want me to be active, I swear to god I get injured more times then.... well something that happens a lot

I feel your pain man. Literally. I haven't been on a serious ride for 2 weeks now, with pain in my right knee just medial of the patella. I'm chalking it up to overtraining and probably pushing harder gears than I should. My gf is a doctoral PT candidate and says the patella might not be tracking correctly.

At any rate, it might not be a fit problem. Knee pain is a very common cycling affliction, you know that probably better than I do.

 

[andyzee]

Decent ride this morning (for an old man that is ) 32 miles @ 17 mph 610 vertical.

 

[Big Gay Al]

88.1 miles, 10,500 ft Ascent yesterday. Watched the prologue today, then did a nice easy spin for 20 miles.

 

[marcski]

51 miles yesterday in Harriman State Park including the 4.5 mile Bear Mtn. Climb. About 5-6,000 total vert. Awesome riding up there...my first time. Will Not be my last!!!

Probably going to go out in the woods this morning.

 

[Goblin84]

no riding yesterday. instead I sat in front of my tv and dreamed