-Jim.
If you put some rivets facing outward on the smallblock 8's then you'd have the punk bike belt.
Do you think you could make up a bikini brief in a small block 8...not for me of course.
Going Long and Hard.
- Thread starter Steve Vai
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If you put some rivets facing outward on the smallblock 8's then you'd have the punk bike belt.
Do you think you could make up a bikini brief in a small block 8...not for me of course.
bigW
Well-Known Member
I have the day off tomorrow and am planning on puttering around on the MTB getting familiar with thegeneral area of that ride. Took some notes on the sequence of streets noted in that GARMIN track and it just kept going, looks like approx 38 turns! ( I have never been able to get more than three in a row correct ). Oh well, I guess that is the getting familiar part of 'getting familiar', no way around that. Likely to be more an excercise in patience rather than a good workout the first time out but that is OK for me. Hopefully I'll find at least one of those hills before calling it a day. Very helpful info for the newb road/cross biker. thx.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
The 3 main climbs in this ride are Palatine, Cokesbury, and Bissel. Palatine is off-road, and uh, steep.
It took me a few 20+ hour weeks back in there to finally get that loop right so be prepared to get lost once or 12 times😀
Speaking of.
Sunday
We had a pretty good group come out today to hit the Roubaix-A-Raptor loop. Originally I was gonna do another version but some of the guys haven't done this ride yet so we did the same as Friday. I was on the mountain bike again along with a couple other guys, the rest were on cross bikes...Bitches.
Had Dr. Rob, Sean, Joe Mundi, the Sneez, Dan again, Tyler, Eddy the 55+ slayer, and Scott.
We went a little harder than Friday and knocked a few minutes off the time. Only had a couple lollygaggers in the group that I tried to trim off early on but the group was a little more civil and let them catch back on. Not very murder. It rained for a bit and got kinda chilly for a bit, but not chilly enough to need gloves. Dr. Rob had us going on some of the climbs pretty good. Chasing a skinny punk on a cross bike had me up in the 180's a little more than I would like. But I got to live out my dream of sounding like a whiny single-speeder on a few of the descents by complaining about my gearing. Sweet. "I could've killed you if had a bigger gear" or "I thought there was more climbs so I'm running my easy gear" 😀
At some point we went for blood on Joe. Sorry Joe. He kept falling off the back and refused to take one of the shortcuts. He wanted to suffer, I was more than happy to ablidge. We were dressed by the time he made it back to the lot:getsome:
The file. And now my first goal. I want to do this ride on the mountain bike in under 3 hours. I think pushing it just a tad harder everywhere will drop it in easy. Maybe on a monday where I can do it alone or with Dan.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/61640600
PS-Anyone doing Battenkill? This loop is exactly what you need to doing to prepare. Son.
-Jim.
It took me a few 20+ hour weeks back in there to finally get that loop right so be prepared to get lost once or 12 times😀
Speaking of.
Sunday
We had a pretty good group come out today to hit the Roubaix-A-Raptor loop. Originally I was gonna do another version but some of the guys haven't done this ride yet so we did the same as Friday. I was on the mountain bike again along with a couple other guys, the rest were on cross bikes...Bitches.
Had Dr. Rob, Sean, Joe Mundi, the Sneez, Dan again, Tyler, Eddy the 55+ slayer, and Scott.
We went a little harder than Friday and knocked a few minutes off the time. Only had a couple lollygaggers in the group that I tried to trim off early on but the group was a little more civil and let them catch back on. Not very murder. It rained for a bit and got kinda chilly for a bit, but not chilly enough to need gloves. Dr. Rob had us going on some of the climbs pretty good. Chasing a skinny punk on a cross bike had me up in the 180's a little more than I would like. But I got to live out my dream of sounding like a whiny single-speeder on a few of the descents by complaining about my gearing. Sweet. "I could've killed you if had a bigger gear" or "I thought there was more climbs so I'm running my easy gear" 😀
At some point we went for blood on Joe. Sorry Joe. He kept falling off the back and refused to take one of the shortcuts. He wanted to suffer, I was more than happy to ablidge. We were dressed by the time he made it back to the lot:getsome:
The file. And now my first goal. I want to do this ride on the mountain bike in under 3 hours. I think pushing it just a tad harder everywhere will drop it in easy. Maybe on a monday where I can do it alone or with Dan.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/61640600
PS-Anyone doing Battenkill? This loop is exactly what you need to doing to prepare. Son.
-Jim.
allygadget
Active Member
Thanks for the GPS file. I think I am going to use it since I know all the roads around that area and modify it to fit myself for now and work up to the 50 miles and then work on my time also. No murder loop with the boys. You move to fast for me lol
This is definitely becoming one of my favorite rides. Lets do it or a modified version next Monday.
I think you can hit under 3 hrs on the MTB by yourself or w/ 1 or 2 more; the short time waiting at the intersections and top of hills adds up. Oh ya Dan is fast does he race MTBs?
I think you can hit under 3 hrs on the MTB by yourself or w/ 1 or 2 more; the short time waiting at the intersections and top of hills adds up. Oh ya Dan is fast does he race MTBs?
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
He does. He's a Cat1 on the road and on the mountain bike. Great guy to ride with, he'd be down for a monday TT run on the Roubaix loop.
Ally, I have an extension to this loop where it goes down that road your horse is on. I've been trying to hook it from there to the canal, do you know that area at all?
-Jim.
Ally, I have an extension to this loop where it goes down that road your horse is on. I've been trying to hook it from there to the canal, do you know that area at all?
-Jim.
allygadget
Active Member
I do know that area. What roads are you trying to get from and onto specifically?
You're so close to some Killer roads... that arent dirt. You should drive a little further down 22 and do the lebanon 52...
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
I may have figured it out, sorta. Trying to loop around Round Valley, go up Stanton Mountain, which drops onto a dirt road heading south, then it's a couple roads to get onto Rt 620 and then onto Lightfield. Cross 22 onto Island, right on River Road, left on Rattlesnake, right on Lamington and then dip into the golf course for the end of the normal Roubaix loop. Should add about 20 miles to the ride.
Add the extension around Hacklebarney and down Pottersville and you have yourself a pretty hard 80 mile loop. Riding to/from on the canal and through C-Rock would make it well over 100, maybe 70% dirt:getsome:
I'll have to loop it out on MapMyRide and schedule a death march for a few weeks from now😉
-Jim.
Well that's just crazy. You rode right by my house.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Leave Monster and Honey Stinger waffels on your back porch so I have a pit stop😀
I'm gonna stash coolers filled with food all around the state so I don't have to carry so much crap with me.
-Jim.
ArmyOfNone
Well-Known Member
ill be jumping back on these in a couple weeks when we get back from our trip. on the fixie son!
dhsean
Member
We should ride with trailers attached for the death march. That way it is harder and we can bring more food.
DD Munchkins - 3 boxes.
Cheeseburgers - veggie for you son.
A case of monster.
A case of stinger waffles.
Constant IV drip of Hammer Gel directly into the veins.
And bungees to drag the people back that die in the face. 😀
DD Munchkins - 3 boxes.
Cheeseburgers - veggie for you son.
A case of monster.
A case of stinger waffles.
Constant IV drip of Hammer Gel directly into the veins.
And bungees to drag the people back that die in the face. 😀
kush
Active Member
I just tried the honey stingers, they the bomb!
for real. They are like glazed donuts. So good.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
I've only found 2 small issues with the waffels.
A) You need to pre-cut the package before your ride because they are damn near impossible to open on the bike.
B) You need to eat them fairly early in the ride otherwise you'll just be sucking waffel dust out of the bag😀
Monday
Bike? No bike. Had to keep Eric home today and take him to the doctor for his throat. The Doc says he's gonna have to get his tonsils taken out. Poor little guy🙁
So we went to Pantera for lunch. And then went to the Wal-Mart to pick up a movie or 3. Then we came home to veg on the couch. We rock.
Had a lesson tonight so I had to play a bit to loosen up before I went, about an hour. Can't go to Mastah Shreddah without being ready to rock or my hand will blow apart. Went over some more modes and finger twisting exercises. Ouchie. He's in the process of recording a new CD so he's got all his monster licks super tight. He also just finished recording a promo video that'll be playing in the Ibanez booth at NAMM to promote the new Prestige 7-string. Crazy poop I tell you. Crazy. Every lesson I leave amazed at how incredibly talented and motivated this guy is. It's no wonder he's rated the best amateur guitarist in every magazine out there and got picked up by Ibanez. To be at a big deal event like NAMM over guys like Satch and Vai? Dude. Seriously? SHRED!!
Something that we both noticed during tonight's murder shred session was how I pick up scale shapes and move them into different keys without much effort. Same thing with licks and runs. I move them through different modes and keys pretty easy. We think it's because all 3 of my guitars are tuned differently to each other and it forces me to remember the shape over the frets I learn them on. As an example playing a C Major Ionian on a guitar tuned to E would have you start on the 6th fret of the 6th string. On my Drop-C guitar that first note would be on the 12th fret of the 6th string. Also on a drop tuned guitar the 5th is the same fret instead of a whole step, so your fingering is different. Just to completely F my brain I jump onto the 8-string which not only has 2 extra strings, it's also tuned Drop-E. The only saving factor is that the 6th and 8th strings are the same just an octave apart, and the low B is the same as the high B so you can just play the same notes on each. My brain hurts right now, be glad you don't play guitar so you can just skip this section. If you read that, I'm sorry😀
-Jim.
A) You need to pre-cut the package before your ride because they are damn near impossible to open on the bike.
B) You need to eat them fairly early in the ride otherwise you'll just be sucking waffel dust out of the bag😀
Monday
Bike? No bike. Had to keep Eric home today and take him to the doctor for his throat. The Doc says he's gonna have to get his tonsils taken out. Poor little guy🙁
So we went to Pantera for lunch. And then went to the Wal-Mart to pick up a movie or 3. Then we came home to veg on the couch. We rock.
Had a lesson tonight so I had to play a bit to loosen up before I went, about an hour. Can't go to Mastah Shreddah without being ready to rock or my hand will blow apart. Went over some more modes and finger twisting exercises. Ouchie. He's in the process of recording a new CD so he's got all his monster licks super tight. He also just finished recording a promo video that'll be playing in the Ibanez booth at NAMM to promote the new Prestige 7-string. Crazy poop I tell you. Crazy. Every lesson I leave amazed at how incredibly talented and motivated this guy is. It's no wonder he's rated the best amateur guitarist in every magazine out there and got picked up by Ibanez. To be at a big deal event like NAMM over guys like Satch and Vai? Dude. Seriously? SHRED!!
Something that we both noticed during tonight's murder shred session was how I pick up scale shapes and move them into different keys without much effort. Same thing with licks and runs. I move them through different modes and keys pretty easy. We think it's because all 3 of my guitars are tuned differently to each other and it forces me to remember the shape over the frets I learn them on. As an example playing a C Major Ionian on a guitar tuned to E would have you start on the 6th fret of the 6th string. On my Drop-C guitar that first note would be on the 12th fret of the 6th string. Also on a drop tuned guitar the 5th is the same fret instead of a whole step, so your fingering is different. Just to completely F my brain I jump onto the 8-string which not only has 2 extra strings, it's also tuned Drop-E. The only saving factor is that the 6th and 8th strings are the same just an octave apart, and the low B is the same as the high B so you can just play the same notes on each. My brain hurts right now, be glad you don't play guitar so you can just skip this section. If you read that, I'm sorry😀
-Jim.
Wobbegong
Well-Known Member
That sucks. Hope all goes well.