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Do You Road Bike?

62 degrees is shorts, short sleeve jersey and sleeveless base layer. Maybe a set of leg warmers first thing in the morning.
 
Weather down here has been comparable, 45F at 8AM, low 60s by 1pm. I'll probably be wearing a mesh baselayer, a spring jersey, sun sleeves, summer MTB gloves, and a vest. I'll probably pocket the vest after the first long descent and be good til the end. I really doubt I'll be wearing leg warmers or a fall long-sleeve jersey.
 
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Hey guys, so I have been lucky enough to come down with a head cold this week. Ughhhh. I think I'm going to be ok to ride saturday but my expectations have sunk even lower. Oh well.

My bib number is 569. I will be in wave 2. Hope to see ya there.
 
Tally Whacker said:
62 degrees is shorts, short sleeve jersey and sleeveless base layer. Maybe a set of leg warmers first thing in the morning.
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Revised forecast says a high of 54 and cloudy on saturday. 72 and sunny on friday of course :/ I'm stressing about being cold again. Just ride harder? :laughing
 
Can anyone recommend a southbay shop to do a tuneup/once over on a road bike?

It's been years since it's been ridden and i'd like to change that. I am in no way a hard core rider. Just casual rides.

thanks!
 
Mike95060 said:
Revised forecast says a high of 54 and cloudy on saturday. 72 and sunny on friday of course :/ I'm stressing about being cold again. Just ride harder? :laughing
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I now think I'll be wearing a fall jersey on Sat and the spring jersey with sunsleeves on Fri. I'll make a decision about leg warmers Sat morning.

Shitty about getting sick. Feel better quick!

Im #282, wave 1. Hooray less traffic!
 
I'm racing the Huffmaster Grasshopper gravel race at the end of the month.

It will be my first gravel race. 88.8 miles out of Maxwell. I am hoping that the 88 miles transports me "Back to the Future" when my FTP was 7 W/kg.
 
Cobbler Update:

I didn't die! I didn't get run over by a bull! I finished. This event is crazy. It was really hard. I'm humbled for sure. I had a lot of doubt during the ride that I could finish it. I'm proud of myself for hanging in there and making the distance. I need to ride my bike more. :laughing I'm glad I got to shake Robert's hand at the starting line and major hats off to anyone who tries this event. It's really special. I found a clip of myself at 2:53-2:57 Right before it got MUDDY!!

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Robert- I just saw you tell JOM that you're out:


[YOUTUBE]http://youtu.be/Pru6rGZFICs[/YOUTUBE]

(It's at the 4:20 mark)
 
Huffmaster was a epic 6 hours and 88 miles of mud.

Not me.

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Tally Whacker said:
For future reference, what did I get wrong in posting the uTube video?
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When embedding YouTube videos delete everything preceding the third slash including the third slash. I know it's not intuitive but its what the BARF bulletin board software allows.

For the video you posted, the url is: http://youtu.be/Pru6rGZFICs

Delete: http://youtu.be/

Keep: Pru6rGZFICs between the YouTube tags


And thanks to everyone who posted videos and photos from their races.





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Robert- I just saw you tell JOM that you're out:

(It's at the 4:20 mark)
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Ha, i was wondering if that was going to end up on YT. Thnx for finding it.

Ya i crashed on a descent at 32mph (GPS) and mildly separated my shoulder. I rode about a mile to that aid station after the crash and couldn't pull the left brake or descend safely. I also cracked my helmet a little bit. It's not my first DNF out of a race, but hopefully it's my last.

I started rehab-ing the shoulder a few days ago. It still hurts, but range of motion is back. I predict it'll be good enough for longer road miles or limited dirt miles in a week or two.
 
So I did the Strada Rossa in Redlands today. I opted for the 64 mile course, but thanks to poor turn markings and some shitty navigation on my part I did over 69 miles.

Jeebus, that course is hard. I mean, really, painfully hard.

Thanks to some serious cramping that started about mile 20 and plagued me for the next 50 miles, I had to walk all the steeper climbs, helping to contribute to my 8 hours and 13 minutes rolling time.

If not for that I'm sure I could have shaved at least an hour, but 7 hours in the saddle is still a long day.
 
Tally Whacker said:
So I did the Strada Rossa in Redlands today. I opted for the 64 mile course, but thanks to poor turn markings and some shitty navigation on my part I did over 69 miles.

Jeebus, that course is hard. I mean, really, painfully hard.

Thanks to some serious cramping that started about mile 20 and plagued me for the next 50 miles, I had to walk all the steeper climbs, helping to contribute to my 8 hours and 13 minutes rolling time.

If not for that I'm sure I could have shaved at least an hour, but 7 hours in the saddle is still a long day.
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Type 2 fun, nice :thumbup

That race was on my radar but I never bothered. Was the course fun aside from the pain? How was the dirt around Yucaipa? My sister-in-law lives right there and Ive been tempted to take my gravel bike when visiting.
 
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Thanks to the rain we've been experiencing, the dirt (almost entirely DG) was freaking perfect.

Now, as you might expect, a fair chunk of the course was basically just dirt roads through open land used mostly for dumping old couches and the like, but there was a ton of really fun singletrack, too.

The course was a lot of work- but I'll be back to hit it again next year.
 
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