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On 2018-09-28 08:43, wrote:
On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 6:18:04 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 3:17:49 PM UTC-7, [...] I spend a half hour afterwards at a moderate pace and the longer in the ride it is the better I feel. I'm now returning home feeling better than when I left. Of course there are always those that believe that chemicals are much better than food. If by "chemicals" you mean electrolytes and minerals, then yes. Hammer Heed is a great beverage. Alright, now we're talking! https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/...-is-turning-30 ... I'll use a GU pack or Cliff Shot on occasion to clear my head. I also eat regular food -- just not meat and cheese sandwiches. I hate stopping in the middle of a ride, sitting for a long time, eating heavy food and then getting back on my bike for a long ride home. I have to ride for miles before my stomach settles and my legs start working again. I also like moving better than sitting. Even on long rides, I take short-ish stops, eat carbs, often drink coffee (because of my cohort) and save the meat sandwiches, beer, etc. for when I get near home. YMMV. -- Jay Beattie. Yesterday I did 47 miles with 2200 feet of climbing, stopping right in the middle of it for a half hour breakfast sandwich and coffee break and got home 4 1/2 hours after I left. The return climb is steeper and being later in the day had a 15 mph headwind. Now my fitness is returning but I normally do this climb at 5 mph. Yesterday I did almost the entire climb at 7 mph and when I returned home I was hungry. So I don't think that energy bars would improve a thing. Only 34mi for me yesterday, on account of a somewhat slow process at a bank plus a libation stop at Heckle Ale House for a Czech Pilsener. The climb back up home was more grueling than ever because of the humidity. About 1200ft altitude difference with lots of ups and downs. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 8:43:34 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 6:18:04 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 3:17:49 PM UTC-7, wrote: On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 2:59:38 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-09-26 14:12, jbeattie wrote: On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 1:05:50 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-09-26 08:36, wrote: On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 2:12:40 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-09-21 08:47, sms wrote: Headed up there yesterday, for the day. It's now in Reno, so from the Bay Area it's easier to drive than fly. The show has shrunk considerably from its heyday. But they had a bike that would probably be Jorge-Approved, and a light that might be Frank-Approved, though those are very high bars. Grant Peterson had several Jay-compatible models on display in the Rivendell booth, but he didn't have an aluminum model with a carbon-fiber fork, and disc brakes. Rather than post the report here, I put it up on Google Docs, including photos. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wAiw__UK7KkYw1CO2lbSIdy14p0LXdH8RpnVqneDv5k Thanks. The growler bike looks classic but I don't plan on using E-bikes until I am 85 or so. Is the bottom left picture on page 1 depicting a whiskey flask? The kind that John Wayne would throw his horse riding buddy before a gun fight? That would make a bike ride quite interesting. "No free beer" is ok as long as they sell good microbrew at reasonable prices. Though the show would probably not be too interesting for me because all this stuff trends too much in the direction of E-bikes. I prefer muscle power. As for the "ultimate new edible" I have yet to see any bike-specific fare that I wouldn't want to spit out into the sand. I even gave up on regular nut bars except for rides under 20mi. Too much sugar. Over 20mi I carry home-baked bread with generous layers of cheese and sausage. The real bread, of course, with the starter dough made from beer fermentation residue (trub), bread dough kneaded using an electric power drill and baked outdoors over manzanita fire. For electrolyte I use simple Emergen-C powder. $10 makes dozens of bottles. Since it tastes a bit medicinal we add freshly squished lemon juice. Which is a byproduct in our household because my wife makes her own Limoncello and the peeled lemons are sort of left over. Nothing goes to waste here. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ You know Joerg, you remind me of a good friend who is so set in his ways that he won't even bother to investigate anything new. I have investigated. Regarding food pretty much all the cyclist's stuff including "astronaut pouches" that my sister uses. Bleccchhhh. I've even gone away from the nut bars I used to like a lot. Tastes too sugary by now and I am just not a fan of anything sweet. I found that good old bread with cheese and cold cuts is way better on bike rides. What is "way better?" The taste, the taste. ... Way better in tying up your digestive tract with fat and protein? Taking sandwiches and beer on the Trail of Terror is perfectly fine, but if you're riding tempo on a road bike over hill and dell for hours, you'll want carbs. We do that regularly, either on road bikes or for hours on a trail. There is only one other rider who favors bread over the sugary stuff though (but only if it's our trub bread) and he eats it with nothing but almond butter. ... Bread cannot be digested quickly and is not a good source of on-bike carbs. It's great for picnic sandwiches, however -- if you like sandwiches. I'd prefer some fried chicken and watermelon -- which we know you can strap to your rack. Maybe some corn on the cob. Ok, I don't have Tour de France ambitions. I just found it gives me a feeling of not feeling hungry during the rest of the ride and the slow release of energy hasn't been an issue. I know that a dextrose bomb could give me Speedy Gonzales capabilities for a short time, it's just that I don't like sweet stuff. I carry a couple tablets through in case I come across a bike rider or hiker who has totally bonked (which has happened). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOi4czjB1No https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyFjqPoVc84 Seen too many other riders with tubeless who got stranded. Needless to say they didn't carry a spare tube. Once I even had to cram my 29" spare tube into someones 26" MTB. At least that got him home.. That MTB video tells us nothing about the cause of the flat -- or if anything would have prevented the flat short of solid tires. The flat could have been caused by burping. Look how low he inflates the tire with his hand pump. Burping is the other problem with tubeless. Doesn't happen with tubes. OTOH, the video from Cycling Weekly covers about every flat producing hazard ordinarily encountered by a road cyclist -- nails, glasses, tacks. I think the tack experiment produced far more punctures than any roadie will see with goatheads, unless he or she goes overland through the brambles. Not quite. Goat's heads have longer thorns and they are also quite conical, making the hole much wider than a thumbtack can. According to Murphy's Law they are always positioned with the straight long thorn pointing up. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...idum_seeds.jpg I'm not running out to buy tubeless, but you cannot deny that the demonstration was impressive -- and a demonstration as opposed to dopes stranded on a trail somewhere who encountered unknown hazards and flatted a tubeless tire. You can flat any tire, including your tires with uber thick tubes and tire liners. It was impressive. Same when I watched similar youtube videos from the slime tube guys. I was impressed so I went out and bought some. Not cheap. In the end that was a mistake because it's just a matter of time until the slime can't handle it anymore. Of course, per Murphy's law my time was up almost at the farthest end on the trail. IMO there is nothing better than tire liner plus thick tubes. Except for even thicker tubes. Most people can't believe what I have under the MTB tires. Mr.Tuffy brown tire liners stuffed inside slit second "regular" tubes of good quality, then tubes with 0.160" or 4mm wall thickness. Flats in all those years: None. So I did that for the road bike as well which also dropped its number of flats to zero. Only thing is the chafing between the tire liner and the thick tube. I'll have to slide the liner into a thin tube first but it'll be diffiuclt to cram all that in. The other upside is that I can now ride tires down to their last sliver of tread. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ I have found that stopping for a REAL sandwich is FAR FAR better than pretending to be a Tour rider and eating chemically treated body waste from a camel. I don't know what you're thinking of, but I'm eating relatively simple carbs from Cliff Bars, fig bars, fruit, etc. Bread and jam is fine, although I'm not a big bread fan. Cheese and meat are not great sources of carbohydrates and are hard to digest when the body is working. I spend a half hour afterwards at a moderate pace and the longer in the ride it is the better I feel. I'm now returning home feeling better than when I left. Of course there are always those that believe that chemicals are much better than food. If by "chemicals" you mean electrolytes and minerals, then yes. Hammer Heed is a great beverage. I'll use a GU pack or Cliff Shot on occasion to clear my head. I also eat regular food -- just not meat and cheese sandwiches. I hate stopping in the middle of a ride, sitting for a long time, eating heavy food and then getting back on my bike for a long ride home. I have to ride for miles before my stomach settles and my legs start working again. I also like moving better than sitting. Even on long rides, I take short-ish stops, eat carbs, often drink coffee (because of my cohort) and save the meat sandwiches, beer, etc. for when I get near home. YMMV. -- Jay Beattie. Yesterday I did 47 miles with 2200 feet of climbing, stopping right in the middle of it for a half hour breakfast sandwich and coffee break and got home 4 1/2 hours after I left. The return climb is steeper and being later in the day had a 15 mph headwind. Now my fitness is returning but I normally do this climb at 5 mph. Yesterday I did almost the entire climb at 7 mph and when I returned home I was hungry. So I don't think that energy bars would improve a thing. Yesterday, I did about nine miles on the way home from work with 1200 feet of climbing. I stopped at mile 2, at the top of a short-ish max 20% climb https://tinyurl.com/ybcv5uxz -- ate pizza, drank beer at a friend's house. Then I carried my bike up about an 1/8th mile of stairs and continued climbing home. https://georgerede.files.wordpress.c...t-stairs-2.jpg (like these, but the actual staircase is a little further south) Then I continued climbing, and climbing and finally dropped down toward my neighborhood, in the dark on ****ty pavement. https://tinyurl.com/y8slh2uy I felt totally miserable, bloated, cramp in my right flank, dead legs. Drinking (even just one beer), pizza and mandatory climbing don't mix. It didn't help that I had a backpack with a ream of paper and my clothes in it either. I couldn't imagine eating a bunch of bread, meat and cheese and drinking beer in the middle of a serious ride. -- Jay Beattie. |
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On 2018-09-28 09:52, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 8:43:34 AM UTC-7, wrote: On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 6:18:04 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: [...] I hate stopping in the middle of a ride, sitting for a long time, eating heavy food and then getting back on my bike for a long ride home. I have to ride for miles before my stomach settles and my legs start working again. I also like moving better than sitting. Even on long rides, I take short-ish stops, eat carbs, often drink coffee (because of my cohort) and save the meat sandwiches, beer, etc. for when I get near home. YMMV. -- Jay Beattie. Yesterday I did 47 miles with 2200 feet of climbing, stopping right in the middle of it for a half hour breakfast sandwich and coffee break and got home 4 1/2 hours after I left. The return climb is steeper and being later in the day had a 15 mph headwind. Now my fitness is returning but I normally do this climb at 5 mph. Yesterday I did almost the entire climb at 7 mph and when I returned home I was hungry. So I don't think that energy bars would improve a thing. Yesterday, I did about nine miles on the way home from work with 1200 feet of climbing. I stopped at mile 2, at the top of a short-ish max 20% climb https://tinyurl.com/ybcv5uxz That's a very short "climb". On my road bike I'd probably walk that to avoid breaking a spoke. Also due to the lack of low enough gearing. ... -- ate pizza, drank beer at a friend's house. Then I carried my bike up about an 1/8th mile of stairs and continued climbing home. https://georgerede.files.wordpress.c...t-stairs-2.jpg (like these, but the actual staircase is a little further south) Then I continued climbing, and climbing and finally dropped down toward my neighborhood, in the dark on ****ty pavement. https://tinyurl.com/y8slh2uy This is my favorite one ... not: https://goo.gl/maps/kJSHw7yYqxL2 As Eddy Merckx once said in an interview, "This chocolate cake here? No, chocolate cake isn't bad for you. It's hills, hills are what's bad for you". ... I felt totally miserable, bloated, cramp in my right flank, dead legs. Drinking (even just one beer), pizza and mandatory climbing don't mix. It didn't help that I had a backpack with a ream of paper and my clothes in it either. I couldn't imagine eating a bunch of bread, meat and cheese and drinking beer in the middle of a serious ride. I do that all the time though the bread is homemade. The beer as well if it's a lonely trail far from "civilization". Some other cyclists reported the same effects as you did but it has never had a noticeable impact on my riding performance. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:31:07 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-09-28 09:52, jbeattie wrote: Snipped Yesterday, I did about nine miles on the way home from work with 1200 feet of climbing. I stopped at mile 2, at the top of a short-ish max 20% climb https://tinyurl.com/ybcv5uxz That's a very short "climb". On my road bike I'd probably walk that to avoid breaking a spoke. Also due to the lack of low enough gearing. Snipped Why on earth would making a climb whilst riding a bicycle guarantee a b roken spoke? Cheers |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:40:23 -0700 (PDT), Sir Ridesalot
wrote: On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:31:07 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote: On 2018-09-28 09:52, jbeattie wrote: Snipped Yesterday, I did about nine miles on the way home from work with 1200 feet of climbing. I stopped at mile 2, at the top of a short-ish max 20% climb https://tinyurl.com/ybcv5uxz That's a very short "climb". On my road bike I'd probably walk that to avoid breaking a spoke. Also due to the lack of low enough gearing. Snipped Why on earth would making a climb whilst riding a bicycle guarantee a b roken spoke? I don't think that you understand. After all, if one is so powerful that people call you "Diesel Legs" nothing on a bicycle is safe when you leap aboard and start pressing the pedals. -- Cheers John B. |
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Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:31:07 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote: On 2018-09-28 09:52, jbeattie wrote: Snipped Yesterday, I did about nine miles on the way home from work with 1200 feet of climbing. I stopped at mile 2, at the top of a short-ish max 20% climb https://tinyurl.com/ybcv5uxz That's a very short "climb". On my road bike I'd probably walk that to avoid breaking a spoke. Also due to the lack of low enough gearing. Snipped Why on earth would making a climb whilst riding a bicycle guarantee a b roken spoke? Cheers Carrying a couple of growlers of beer and a side of beef for lunch must strain the under engineered wheels on a typical road bike. -- duane |
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On 2018-09-28 17:40, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:31:07 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote: On 2018-09-28 09:52, jbeattie wrote: Snipped Yesterday, I did about nine miles on the way home from work with 1200 feet of climbing. I stopped at mile 2, at the top of a short-ish max 20% climb https://tinyurl.com/ybcv5uxz That's a very short "climb". On my road bike I'd probably walk that to avoid breaking a spoke. Also due to the lack of low enough gearing. Snipped Why on earth would making a climb whilst riding a bicycle guarantee a b roken spoke? Lowest gear, standing in the pedals - KAPOCK I didn't say it guarantees it. It is a load the spokes never see on more level surfaces. All my broken spokes happened either on a hill or at an uphill traffic light when I stepped on it too hard after it turned green. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 10:31:07 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-09-28 09:52, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 8:43:34 AM UTC-7, wrote: On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 6:18:04 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: [...] I hate stopping in the middle of a ride, sitting for a long time, eating heavy food and then getting back on my bike for a long ride home. I have to ride for miles before my stomach settles and my legs start working again. I also like moving better than sitting. Even on long rides, I take short-ish stops, eat carbs, often drink coffee (because of my cohort) and save the meat sandwiches, beer, etc. for when I get near home. YMMV. -- Jay Beattie. Yesterday I did 47 miles with 2200 feet of climbing, stopping right in the middle of it for a half hour breakfast sandwich and coffee break and got home 4 1/2 hours after I left. The return climb is steeper and being later in the day had a 15 mph headwind. Now my fitness is returning but I normally do this climb at 5 mph. Yesterday I did almost the entire climb at 7 mph and when I returned home I was hungry. So I don't think that energy bars would improve a thing. Yesterday, I did about nine miles on the way home from work with 1200 feet of climbing. I stopped at mile 2, at the top of a short-ish max 20% climb https://tinyurl.com/ybcv5uxz That's a very short "climb". On my road bike I'd probably walk that to avoid breaking a spoke. Also due to the lack of low enough gearing. ... -- ate pizza, drank beer at a friend's house. Then I carried my bike up about an 1/8th mile of stairs and continued climbing home. https://georgerede.files.wordpress.c...t-stairs-2.jpg (like these, but the actual staircase is a little further south) Then I continued climbing, and climbing and finally dropped down toward my neighborhood, in the dark on ****ty pavement. https://tinyurl.com/y8slh2uy This is my favorite one ... not: https://goo.gl/maps/kJSHw7yYqxL2 Nice pavement! That looks like a lot of the suburban riding I did with my son in SLC. Commuting home through the West Hills in PDX involves a lot of goat roads and bad pavement. This is another option for getting about a 1/3 through the climb home -- max grade 22%: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq2jK7Amty0 You hit the top of that climb . . . turn left and climb up some stair steps and then keep on climbing. If you want climbs longer than 3-4 miles, you have to get out of town, but you can string together a bunch of short climbs if you want to rack up gratuitous elevation. That's the principle of the Ronde de PDX, 7,300 feet in 50 miles, much of that within a few miles of downtown. -- Jay Beattie. |
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On 2018-09-29 08:45, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 10:31:07 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-09-28 09:52, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 8:43:34 AM UTC-7, wrote: On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 6:18:04 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: [...] I hate stopping in the middle of a ride, sitting for a long time, eating heavy food and then getting back on my bike for a long ride home. I have to ride for miles before my stomach settles and my legs start working again. I also like moving better than sitting. Even on long rides, I take short-ish stops, eat carbs, often drink coffee (because of my cohort) and save the meat sandwiches, beer, etc. for when I get near home. YMMV. -- Jay Beattie. Yesterday I did 47 miles with 2200 feet of climbing, stopping right in the middle of it for a half hour breakfast sandwich and coffee break and got home 4 1/2 hours after I left. The return climb is steeper and being later in the day had a 15 mph headwind. Now my fitness is returning but I normally do this climb at 5 mph. Yesterday I did almost the entire climb at 7 mph and when I returned home I was hungry. So I don't think that energy bars would improve a thing. Yesterday, I did about nine miles on the way home from work with 1200 feet of climbing. I stopped at mile 2, at the top of a short-ish max 20% climb https://tinyurl.com/ybcv5uxz That's a very short "climb". On my road bike I'd probably walk that to avoid breaking a spoke. Also due to the lack of low enough gearing. ... -- ate pizza, drank beer at a friend's house. Then I carried my bike up about an 1/8th mile of stairs and continued climbing home. https://georgerede.files.wordpress.c...t-stairs-2.jpg (like these, but the actual staircase is a little further south) Then I continued climbing, and climbing and finally dropped down toward my neighborhood, in the dark on ****ty pavement. https://tinyurl.com/y8slh2uy This is my favorite one ... not: https://goo.gl/maps/kJSHw7yYqxL2 Nice pavement! That looks like a lot of the suburban riding I did with my son in SLC. Commuting home through the West Hills in PDX involves a lot of goat roads and bad pavement. This is another option for getting about a 1/3 through the climb home -- max grade 22%: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq2jK7Amty0 Platt Circle is about that steep but not as long. And, oh, that guy went through a "Do Not Enter" sign, wrong way up a one-way street. ... You hit the top of that climb . . . turn left and climb up some stair steps and then keep on climbing. If you want climbs longer than 3-4 miles, you have to get out of town, but you can string together a bunch of short climbs if you want to rack up gratuitous elevation. That's the principle of the Ronde de PDX, 7,300 feet in 50 miles, much of that within a few miles of downtown. For me climbs are no fun at all and try to avoid them wherever possible. If there is an alternate route 5mi longer that avoids a long climb I take that. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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Joerg wrote:
On 2018-09-28 17:40, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:31:07 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote: On 2018-09-28 09:52, jbeattie wrote: Snipped Yesterday, I did about nine miles on the way home from work with 1200 feet of climbing. I stopped at mile 2, at the top of a short-ish max 20% climb https://tinyurl.com/ybcv5uxz That's a very short "climb". On my road bike I'd probably walk that to avoid breaking a spoke. Also due to the lack of low enough gearing. Snipped Why on earth would making a climb whilst riding a bicycle guarantee a b roken spoke? Lowest gear, standing in the pedals - KAPOCK I didn't say it guarantees it. It is a load the spokes never see on more level surfaces. All my broken spokes happened either on a hill or at an uphill traffic light when I stepped on it too hard after it turned green. Stop buying ****ty wheels then. Or at least stop buying wheels not rated for the weight. What you describe is typical use. -- duane |
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