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Joerg Antidote
On 1/7/2018 5:22 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 1/6/2018 8:21 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 12:42:34 PM UTC-8, Radey Shouman wrote: Sorry, Joerg, I needed a subject and "Ride Report" seemed too grandiose. First ride of the new year: -5F and breezy, but at least the sun was shining.Â* Went to town, about four miles, for yoga practice, after breaking out the ski bibs and the balaclava.Â* I did wear my Adidas sneakers, on Lou's recommendation, they worked ok but I'm almost resolved to acquire a bicycle that can be comfortably ridden in big rubber boots. It was nice day here in PDX. I was in cleats and did a short-ish ride. I then drove my son around in the car on routes that we ordinarily ride together. He was visiting from Salt Lake and had a big accident when we were skiing on Mt. Hood on Christmas eve. Anyway, he ended up with a lot of hardware in both ankles (pilon fractures) and is now in a wheelchair for 12 weeks and living at our house. ... This is a long wind-up for my platform pedal story.Â* I used one when I was riding in an ortho boot following my ski fractures about ten years ago. Yow. Skiing sounds pretty dangerous! Then we drove around the West Hills.Â* I scraped the undercarriage coming up Brynwood -- which I rode last weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0lUZG8pku8 Go to 3:30 to get a sense of the grade. It's a killer. Any idea of the percent gradient? Hmm. Google Earth seems to give about 19% for the northward portion, and 25% for the portion that runs E-N-E. I think I'll skip it. 18% nearly killed me earlier this year. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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