Cycling in 2016

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Anyone do any big rides today?

[mitlen]

Anyone do any big rides today?

Motorcyclists do a "polar bear" run on New Years Day.    Do bicycle riders have gatherings like that?

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Motorcyclists do a "polar bear" run on New Years Day.    Do bicycle riders have gatherings like that?

there is a 100 mile ride around Hains Point. I think Ali has done it.

[MarquisDeSade]

New bike will be ready early next week which is right around the time I'll be cleared to ride again.

[mitlen]

NBC4 just had a piece on the 300 (or so) bikers who did Hains Point today.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

300! that is nuts without any organization. 

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Could be in the "let's vent" thread, but I went into Teaism on 8th and D this AM, locked up my bike, and, when I got out, found out someone had relieved me of my computer / odometer (a Catseye Urban Wireless) and my underseat bag with my spare tube and tire changing stuff.  I'm insulted.  The person left me the hand pump and the headlight and tail light.  What, they weren't good enough for you even though they'd cost the same?

[MarquisDeSade]

Pick up the new bike today.  Just shoveled the front walkway and the back and legs feel alright so we'll see how it goes today when I do the fit test rides.  If there aren't any setbacks I'll be riding four days a week next week to get myself worked back up to riding seven days a week. 

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

I love this business of having the shoveling of snow and the riding of a bike being part of the same thought 

[MarquisDeSade]

Got my new bike and it is quite bad ass:



The 45NRTH Nicotine studded tires are a bit pricey at $260 a pair (retail) but damn are they perfect for winter here.  Velocity hooked me up with a steal on a 40h disc wheelset for this build so outside of replacing the chain in the spring and hosing it down every so often this thing should rock for 10,000 miles before an overhaul.  Still getting used to the Jones H-Bar but I really like how easy this thing rides.

[GburgNatsFan]

Bad news. You bent the seat post.

 

Got my new bike and it is quite bad ass:

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The 45NRTH Nicotine studded tires are a bit pricey at $260 a pair (retail) but damn are they perfect for winter here.  Velocity hooked me up with a steal on a 40h disc wheelset for this build so outside of replacing the chain in the spring and hosing it down every so often this thing should rock for 10,000 miles before an overhaul.  Still getting used to the Jones H-Bar but I really like how easy this thing rides.

[MarquisDeSade]

Bad news. You bent the seat post.

Bent by design boss, setbacks are where its at and Thomsons are all I run on my bikes now.

[GburgNatsFan]

(Just for the record... I knew it was a setback.)

Bent by design boss, setbacks are where its at and Thomsons are all I run on my bikes now.

[tomterp]

Pick up the new bike today.  Just shoveled the front walkway and the back and legs feel alright so we'll see how it goes today when I do the fit test rides.  If there aren't any setbacks I'll be riding four days a week next week to get myself worked back up to riding seven days a week.

Damn, they did a hell of a job stapling that achilles back together. 

[MarquisDeSade]

Damn, they did a hell of a job stapling that achilles back together. 

PRP injection and physical therapy did a good job of getting the inflammation under control.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/01/news/giant-alpecin-riders-injured-in-training-crash_393738

Degenkolb (fractured for arm and leg gash), Barguil (scaphoid fracture), and Chad Haga (orbital fracture and face and neck cuts).  Some English tourist wiped out 6 riders on the team when she was driving on the wrong side of the road in Spain while the team was out training.  No way Degenkolb defends Milan-San Remo, and I'll guess it'll be tough for the cobbles races.  Barguil I'll guess will be ok for stage races in May and be able to do the Tour.  Haga will tough it out when he can see again.

[MarquisDeSade]

Those guys couldn't hang with the guys about to pound ass in Arrowhead tomorrow.  Road racing is for wimps.  Ride groomed or don't ride.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

I sense a Sky plot to make inroads on the spring classics.  Probably granny Froome.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/01/news/giant-alpecin-riders-injured-in-training-crash_393738

Degenkolb (fractured for arm and leg gash), Barguil (scaphoid fracture), and Chad Haga (orbital fracture and face and neck cuts).  Some English tourist wiped out 6 riders on the team when she was driving on the wrong side of the road in Spain while the team was out training.  No way Degenkolb defends Milan-San Remo, and I'll guess it'll be tough for the cobbles races.  Barguil I'll guess will be ok for stage races in May and be able to do the Tour.  Haga will tough it out when he can see again.

[MarquisDeSade]

Riding across Lake Nokomis today made me extremely glad I bought studded tires. Few things are cooler than being literally in the middle of a frozen lake doing donuts on a bike.

[GburgNatsFan]

Frozen that solid already. Wow.

Riding across Lake Nokomis today made me extremely glad I bought studded tires. Few things are cooler than being literally in the middle of a frozen lake doing donuts on a bike.

[MarquisDeSade]

Frozen that solid already. Wow.

Doesn't take long.  Two weeks ago the water was still flowing.

[GburgNatsFan]

You guys don't hover around 40 degrees in January, do you.

Doesn't take long.  Two weeks ago the water was still flowing.

[MarquisDeSade]

You guys don't over around 40 degrees in January, do you.

Nope.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I sense a Sky plot to make inroads on the spring classics.  Probably granny Froome.

Stannard or GTFO.

[HalfSmokes]

http://deadspin.com/cyclist-caught-using-illegal-motor-in-bike-1756145163

It actually happened