Crested Butte little spin around from town
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Gorgeous country for a ride. Those leaves are almost peaking, man.
This reminds me of this post I read - I see it with the club I ride with, many of whom ride very racey dentist bikes... I ride a Specialized Roubaix which is a square geometry.
Why So Many Cyclists End Up on the Wrong Bike
Think you need a race bike? BMC’s endurance lineup could actually be faster—and far more comfortable.
velo.outsideonline.com
I know it's written by a manufacturer selling their frames, but I think there is a lot of merit in it when combined with your comment.
Ya, I get ya. It's all about finding a good fit.
I'm just amazed at some of the old dudes around here still riding.
This reminds me of this post I read - I see it with the club I ride with, many of whom ride very racey dentist bikes... I ride a Specialized Roubaix which is a square geometry.
Why So Many Cyclists End Up on the Wrong Bike
Think you need a race bike? BMC’s endurance lineup could actually be faster—and far more comfortable.
I know it's written by a manufacturer selling their frames, but I think there is a lot of merit in it when combined with your comment.
Gotta ask - what's a "racey dentist bike?" I think I know but making sure I understand the cultural idiom.
I totally agree with most of what’s written there. They keep talking about stack height but when you look at the photos, the bars are almost level with the saddle, and I think that’s what they really mean. Grant Peterson has been saying that for years - bars and saddle level with each other for comfort, and that comfort is the key to somebody using their bike more often and for longer durations.This reminds me of this post I read - I see it with the club I ride with, many of whom ride very racey dentist bikes... I ride a Specialized Roubaix which is a square geometry.
Why So Many Cyclists End Up on the Wrong Bike
Think you need a race bike? BMC’s endurance lineup could actually be faster—and far more comfortable.
I know it's written by a manufacturer selling their frames, but I think there is a lot of merit in it when combined with your comment.
Thanks for sending that.
We ate Himalayan hot noodles and drank beer by the oodles. Once our collective judgment was thoroughly impaired, and our intestines were swollen, we decided to hit some classic Creste Butte singletrack. At night. And we glugged beer at the stops, like the bridge over the creek, the top of the ridge, at the scary stabbin-cabin, and when Richard had to pee. 15 miles, 1800 'Merken feet elevation (and de-elevation), and no deaths.
I'm leaving CB tonight. I used to love this place. There's still a tiny bit of the crunchy quirkiness that made this place so special for all the years -- decades -- I've known it. I loved how far off the beaten path it was -- and not just geographically. I considered moving here in the early '00s. And then the rest of the world found this place during the pandemic. There were always dickhead fly-fishing poseurs, but now it's pretty much a place where trust nepos show off their subtle wealth and not subtle hotness. Their douchebaggery makes the fly fishers of the past seem like people you'd like to hang with. So long CB. It was fun for a while.
I'm leaving CB tonight. I used to love this place. There's still a tiny bit of the crunchy quirkiness that made this place so special for all the years -- decades -- I've known it. I loved how far off the beaten path it was -- and not just geographically. I considered moving here in the early '00s. And then the rest of the world found this place during the pandemic. There were always dickhead fly-fishing poseurs, but now it's pretty much a place where trust nepos show off their subtle wealth and not subtle hotness. Their douchebaggery makes the fly fishers of the past seem like people you'd like to hang with. So long CB. It was fun for a while.
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Expensive (AU$10k +... or more than I want to think about) race bikes... I think I'm about the only one who has mechanical shifting now, and certainly the only one with rim brakes... which (and the fact I'm not competitive) is why I can't be bothered with racing.
The local shop that looks after the road riders has a regular flow of Cervelo and similar coming through for builds.
Went out for a 22km loop on the gravel bike today, windy and warming up, and magpie season has started...
Came home, went to pub for lunch and then cleaned and oiled the chains on the gravel bike and the big yellow bike. BYB has to go in to get the brakes bled as they aren't right, and I suspect there's air in the system as if I pump them they come good...
Came home, went to pub for lunch and then cleaned and oiled the chains on the gravel bike and the big yellow bike. BYB has to go in to get the brakes bled as they aren't right, and I suspect there's air in the system as if I pump them they come good...
It’s too bad about CB. Even just before the pandemic it took family wealth to live there. Glad you got in one ride for memory’s sake. Fortunately nature, at least the public land part of it, will always be there and doesn’t care about property values. The earth will also be here doing its thing long after humans are gone, and in that sense places like what CB have become seem kind of silly.
You're right. But in hindsight I think my post isn't fair to CB. It came from a nostalgia for a place as it was when I first "met" it. Real people grew up, lived and worked there, and no DC lawyer's wife would have ever chosen it as a place for her daughter's destination wedding. The place that I met doesn't exist, but new people will meet and fall in love with where it once was, and they'll have that same bittersweet nostalgia, probably with different foundations, when they return in a few decades.
Man, this is an exact thought I've had over the years. I suffer deeply for all the nostalgia I have.
Quick run yesterday to scope out my segment of the Arizona Trail I steward…..
Saying it is one thing. Doing it is another. Bravo
Did the 11 miler this morning. Will try and do this loop one final time before the deer cull starts. After Thursday, next ride on this loop will be in 2026.
Legs felt great, although my pace was off 0.3 mph. Looks like I lacked a little oomph on a couple of the long grinds.
Rest day tomorrow and back at it Thursday.
Legs felt great, although my pace was off 0.3 mph. Looks like I lacked a little oomph on a couple of the long grinds.
Rest day tomorrow and back at it Thursday.
Did a quick 20 up Big Meadow, TRT and down the Christmas Valley Trail. Windy and cold but beautiful day out. Reached +8100-feet elevation.
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Beautiful summer day in Cardiff.
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Took the kiddo on her gravel ride along our canals. She really enjoyed it, 9 miles in the books today.
Not me, but have been following this journey. Pretty epic.
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