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smokey52
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| 05/27/2015 07:11 PM |
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The forum is not what it used to be. It hasn't been for a while. I respect VeloNation for keeping it afloat, but there really is little participation (except of course for Nick).
Thanks to all. I'll check in occasionally.
Keep the rubber side down.
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SideBySide
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| 05/27/2015 07:21 PM |
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| Sorry to see you go. This is still one of the few forums I visit every day, even though I don't post often. |
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smokey52
Posts:493
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| 05/27/2015 08:09 PM |
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| Oh, I'm not gone. I'm just sad. This is not one of those dramatic "good bye" posts a la fuzzball (the woose). |
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Dale
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| 05/27/2015 10:48 PM |
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| NoooooOOOooo! There's been a slow attrition that's thinned the pack to a few hardy souls. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 05/27/2015 10:50 PM |
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I'll turn out the lights when I leave.....I ain't goin' nowhere. 
Although that may hasten some others departures, dunno....LOL. |
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| Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
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Master50
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| 05/27/2015 11:10 PM |
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I try to use the CN forum but the number of posts often just results in the same point being made over and over. There are so many uninformed opinions which if fair but the subject material seems to be presented in such a random way. for example the possible use of motors to cheat is presented in the clinic. the call it bike doping?
I like the civility of discussion here. |
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THE SKINNY
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| 05/28/2015 07:39 AM |
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| our local bike club forum is petering out also. a lot of people are still riding but i guess they are not talking about it as much. is there a way to recruit people to be on the forum? |
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| How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 05/28/2015 09:12 AM |
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Posted By Mike Shea on 05/27/2015 11:10 PM
I like the civility of discussion here.
Fook off.
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| Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
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thinline
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| 05/28/2015 09:14 AM |
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It seems to me that people don't post as much about their own rides as they used to when the VN forum was active (pre-spear etc. days).
So, in that spirit I'll say I am trying to get ready for a 175-mile day in the Adirondacks on June 27. I did it last year and it is a crunch. About 12,000 vertical over the course of the ride with a big climb 5 miles from the end. We stay at a friend's place on a tiny island in Lake George, yup a tiny island, just big enough for the house and a decent sized yard with towering pines. Friday night, the long route riders are in charge of dinner for the whole group attending, but Saturday, the shorter route riders are in charge. The goal, finish, get on the boat for a chocolate milk toast on the ride back to the island all tired and sore, massive dinner, snooze, and a lazy day in the sun on Sunday before heading home.
What's your next big ride? |
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THE SKINNY
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| 05/28/2015 10:17 AM |
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| i would like to do some touring up in the adirondacks. we are heading to southeast tennessee and i'm taking my mtb. it's been years since i've been up that way and i hope to hit a couple of places in alabama as well. still trying to get over a certain infection that affects my sitting in the saddle for very long. |
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| How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. |
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huckleberry
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| 05/28/2015 10:23 AM |
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Okay, thinline, good idea.
My next big ride will be a ride of any distance, outside, not on my trainer.
Once I get past my ankle surgery healing, my lymphoma treatments, and my hormonal readjustments(now that I am on a new lymphoma treatment and off the corticosteroids)...
Not complaining, or whining - we all have our sh!t to deal with at some point in our lives, if not many points. So many people have it worse than I - most likely the majority of the world does.
Just so excited that the day will return that I can get out there. I lost my main identity 15 years ago when I had to give up running for my ankle OCD, and now without cycling, it feels so weird to stare at all my beautiful bikes and not ride them - I feel like such a poseur now ; )
Hopefully by late Summer - my goal.
Now, somebody give us a real ride to talk about!!! |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 05/28/2015 11:15 AM |
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Whoa...what did I miss? Didn't know you were battling lymphoma, huck. Sorry to hear that, but your attitude sounds great and it seems the battle is being well-fought.
No major rides planned for me this year....in the beginning phase of my Chicago Marathon training and just logging miles. Spent a crap load of time training last year and need to repay the family. |
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huckleberry
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| 05/28/2015 12:41 PM |
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CK - my lymphoma is not as scary as it sounds - it's a t-cell lymphoma. The worst part is what the previous therapy did to my hormones.
I still look as gorgeous as ever ; ) |
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79pmooney
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| 05/28/2015 12:45 PM |
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I've been quiet about my riding because this year has been about doing PT, addressing issues that have been caused by (or at least not addressed because of) more than 4 decades of riding.
Last fall I partially tore both Achilles. Didn't go to a doctor but backed off riding some and watched. Then over the holidays, I took on a new (old) bike build; a ~1974 Raleigh Carleton International to be a super snow/ice and gravel bike. (It is!) But to dothat I had to break down a previous bike. Couldn't get the stem out. Pulled harder. And harder. Finally put both feet on the rim and really pulled. Oops! A few weeks of semii-hobbling later, I went the the Cycle Oregon Kickoff party. The usual vendors were there and I made the rounds seeing them. Stopped at Bodywise, Megan Mosley, the PT for CO who I have known for years as she was seeing the builder of my bike soon after I got it. SHe asked how I was. I simple honesty, I said I was good but I had partially torn Achilles. Her comeback? "Well I can do something about that!" and handed me a card for a free consultation. Obviously I was supposed to be at that kickoff!
That first free visit: She had me put on shorts and walk the room away from her and back. And said "Your left leg is longer than your right leg." By 1/2". Gave me 12mm lifts for all my shoes. Next I learned that everything on the backside of my legs is really tight. Achilles, hamstrings, glutes. And my quads. Sent me home with floor exercises to do.
These expanded to stretches I do from a strap hung over a door, stretches with a foam roll or two tennis balls taped together to open my ribcage and vertebra. Started feeling like I never remember feeling, but ran into allergies form my 25yo carpet I was doing my floor exercises on. After taxes were in, I ripped out the carpet and put in hard flooring, painting and wiring the ceiling for an overhead light in the process. As soon as that was done, I flew to DC for a convention, getting back yesterday after 21 hours in planes and airports. (Spent Tuesday evening at "Motel D6", sleeping on the gate seats.)
So, exercises this morning for the first time in a while. I'll do a few miles fixed on a 42-19 later, lift a few weights and go to bed feeling it. (Cycle Oregon in September is my goal. I'll ride with gears; it's only 25,000' of climbing with one hard day but this year is all about re-building, my Achilles and doing it right. I want to enjoy my bikes for a long time, especially now that I am down to 5 bikes but they are all super rides.
'79 Mooney - my super all-'rounder, now mostly a farmer's market bike but may go touring again.
'07 TiCycles good bike - 9-speed triple. Best bike I have ever owned.
'11 TiCycles fix gear - most fun bike I've owned. Race quick. Can handle 12-23 teeth on one chain
'83 Trek 420 fix gear - fenders, Lowriders, lock. Great rain/city. Not light but a good ride.
~'74 Raleigh Carleton International - fenders, 531, 7-speed triple (26-28 low!), 32c tires (can handle far bigger easily). The ride is completely old school; very laid back front end, lots of fork rake and wheel flop, but at speed, sweet! Frame is light! What fun on gravel roads! I am going to have Dave Levy at TiCycles get it painted (probably with RAD Finishes; his painter) so he can see it before and after stripping to both look for cracks and other issues and get dimensions and wall thickness so this frame can be duplicated. My plan is to powdercoat it and keep it plain (in part to not advertise) but order up the Reynolds stickers to document that it is the real thing. (It is fully stickered now.)
All of these bikes fit like true customs. All ride really well. Steering and transitions are easy from one bike to the next except the Carlton is VERY different! (bikes go from TiCycles fix gear, Carleton, TiCycles geared and Mooney to Trek - quickest to slowest steering. I think putting 700c on the obviously 27" Carlton adds real quickness to the steering.)
Gotta go. Got a bike to ride! And to get on topic; you will see more of me now that the forum has allowed me back and I am riding again.
Huck - my intro to lymphoma was as a platelet donor in the '70s when I spent some time as a matching donor for a patient. I never visited him, but I was told of him, even his name, hospital and room number. The nurses who poked me visited him periodically. I got updates on him every two weeks. That was soon before my head injury and sadly I have no memory of his outcome. I know I helped a bone marrow transplant patient once but do not know know if that was the same patient. Edit: lymphoma, leukemia - I was talking of leukemia; there platelet replacement can be lifesaving. I am glad to be wrong about you, Huck. Best of luck. We want you around!
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huckleberry
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| 05/28/2015 01:19 PM |
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Thanks, Ben.
I look forward to finding an excuse to get to Portland and ride once I finish my house up in Washington.
Hopefully we can meet up! |
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