I bought a road bike! - Page 5

I envy you.

 

That tired feeling is a good one.

 

I hope you don't cramp up at night.

Nice bikes. I've got a couple that are ancient compared to most of the ones in this thread. One is an early 1980's Motobecane Grand Jubile that should be a comfortable bike once I get to riding it.

Nice job on the miles, you were close to a metric century.

Here's the ancient Moto

 

(I'm still trying to figure out the image process on the site here, posting this from the desktop instead of the phone)

 

I had some studded tires that I used over a winter several years ago. Some of the early pre-season races can have ics for the earlier sessions. Dress right and it isn't tooo bad. Of course I preferred riding the winter better when I lived in California for awhile.

Avid cyclist here.  Just got back a month ago from a NYC to Joplin, Mo loaded tour to raise money for charity.  You can see where I went at www.cycleforjoplin.com and www.facebook.com/cycleforjoplin  I wore loudmouth golf shorts for virtually the entire trip!  They caught wind of what I was doing and they actually sent out a couple more pairs to me.  Really great guys!

This was a 20 day tour to raise money to build storm shelters and to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of the Tornado

 

 

This was my first loaded tour, normally I'm riding my road bike.  I don't race but I have a few friends who do and I do some aggressive training rides with them.  Average pace is usually around 23mph with 50-100 riders so definately benefitting from the draft.

Welcome to cycling. I'm riding a Cannondale Supersix 1 and love it.

 

Wow, nicely done on the tour.  I'm training for the Leadville 100 MTB race in August.  I'm an avid mountain biker, but don't care too much for road riding.  But I did get myself a nice road bike fitted well for me to train with, and have done a century ride about a month back as part of my training.  I do *not* care for group rides, though, so most of my riding is solo or with a single buddy, so we stay sub-20 average generally.  I'm also 6'2" and don't give a crap about getting very aero since I'm using it as a training tool, so that doesn't help the speed. 

 

My regular long rides on the MTB are up in the 6 hour range now, so I feel like I'll be in good shape to finish Leadville, though I certainly won't be competitive.  But for that race, most of the 1700 competitors are really just trying to finish it. 

 

 

--Donnie

Good stuff, I find most cyclists do have a prefferred element but often times MTB'ers like the raw speed of the road and road cyclists like the down and dirty MTB action.  For me, I would probably prefer MTB but since I live in NYC road cycling is really the only option.  bought a bike 2 years ago after blowing out my ACL and not having insurance to get it repaired.  I'm in the fitness biz and I have a client that has done Leadville, the ULTRAMARATHON which is absolutely crazy.  As for group rides, I don't really love them either but this particular one is essentially a race so it's all action and pretty experienced riders so relatively safe though some crashes do occur.

 

Yeah, I've got a buddy who is a hard core ultramarathoner.  The Leadville race has been his nemesis...failed to finish it twice, even though he's finished a BUNCH of other 100 mile races, including the Tahoe Rim Trail one and a couple others at decent altitude.  But Leadville is just a bit worse as far as being above 10k for basically the entire thing with some killer climbs to nearly 14k on that course (it's a different course than what we ride on the MTB, and while it's kind of similar, it's still worse).

 

And when I say that I don't like riding on the road much, believe me, no need to defend it.  If that's what you enjoy, or if that's just the closest thing to getting what you enjoy, it's all good.  I really want to see one of those criterium races up close...those dudes are every bit as crazy as the big world cup downhill guys!  You *will* crash in those, and it WILL hurt!

 

Sucks about the ACL, but glad you've found something you can do and enjoy as far as that goes, too.  I've had both my knees scoped for internal cartilage damage.  While the actual problem and repair wasn't NEARLY as involved as an ACL, both involved impact zones in the knee and thus required a full six month rehab before I was allowed to jump in any way again.  It was horrible.  I wasn't a cyclist then, so I have no idea how it would have affected that, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been good!

 

 

--Donnie

Just watched my first crit live last week, the Harlem skyscraper classic. It was NASCAR on bikes, just a .75mile lap around Marcus Garvey park in Harlem. The pro race was 60laos (50 miles) they averaged 33mph on dead flat ground. Race was over in an hour and a half!

Finally have a photo of my bike.  Been back on it more - have a nice 70 miler planned for July 4th.  Great riding here in Western VA. though a little moderation in temp and humidity would be appreciated!  Not a great picture but I do like the bike!

 

excellent!  a bike thread.

 

 

I see your in Waynesboro!  Go hit the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Some of the hardest work you'll ever do but some great rewards!  I just rode through there 6 weeks ago on my way out to joplin, mo from NYC

That's great!

 

Makes me sad though, as I had to retire from cycling in 1998 when I shattered my left wrist while ice skating.  but before that, I rode about 300 miles per week, racing on the weekends.

 

1991, 1992 & 1993  completed the Cross Florida....170 miles in one day, from Cocoa Beach to Weeki Wachi.

 

Here's to you for getting on the Bike!

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Here is mine; done some upgrades to her and love it! I wouldn't mind a new Roubaix frame though, that would be awesome. Unfortunately, I was involved in a car accident and haven't been able to ride, not to mention it's 108 degrees outside. can't wait to get back on it!

 

Haven't been on the Parkway this year but that is normally a regular part of our ride routes.  It's only about 6 miles from my house (a lot uphill to get there though!). Any you are right - a great place to ride.