ArmyOfNone
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ryderX
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Hotronics....
Stupid money though mine are starting their 3rd season and are still inflicting 2nd degree burns on the souls/soles of my feet. No matter the outside temps on the road, or a wet mountain ride my feet are "toasty" and damn sexy...
http://cozywinters.com/hotronic/
Stupid money though mine are starting their 3rd season and are still inflicting 2nd degree burns on the souls/soles of my feet. No matter the outside temps on the road, or a wet mountain ride my feet are "toasty" and damn sexy...
http://cozywinters.com/hotronic/
I got these for my wife for snowboarding. Now she can stay out twice as long. Read: I can now stay out twice as long.
i wussed out today. 40 minutes on the spin bike. hopefully tomorrow i can get some time in at PP/LM. that's about the only place i can think of (in N. NJ) that may be rideable. just as any fyi, there were only two patches of ice that i can remember, both on patriots path coming into LM on the otherside of mendham road.
today was a good day. got in 11 miles @ PP/LM and saw a few other folks riding around enjoying the great trail conditions. ride data here:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=2095191
anyone who is planning on riding tomorrow (or as long as the snow stays) i would reccomend doing it earlier in the day. i rode after noon today and found myself bogging down a lot and i was running about 30 psi in the exiwolfs (i didn't realize that the min they say to run is 35...i guess it's ok to go a bit lower??). it got really soft and made climbing almost not possible at some points which led to more than a couple hike-a-bike situations.
so, i've decided that my 'smoke heythorp up the needle' goal isn't that good...and likely isn't going to happen. fact is, he has a ton more saddle time over the years and even if i did somehow manage to double his saddle time this year, he'd still smoke me as he's probably got 10 times the saddle time that i do overall...if not (likely) more. so i'll shoot for next year with that one...along with doing a 100 mile race.
this year i'm setting my sights on the darkhorse 40 and the lewis morris challenge. i want to do them both on the mary but i'll have to see how it all shakes out. i'm committed to doing the darkhorse and the boss is behind me which is extremely important to me.
my only goals for both races are to finish. i think that's a better way to go.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=2095191
anyone who is planning on riding tomorrow (or as long as the snow stays) i would reccomend doing it earlier in the day. i rode after noon today and found myself bogging down a lot and i was running about 30 psi in the exiwolfs (i didn't realize that the min they say to run is 35...i guess it's ok to go a bit lower??). it got really soft and made climbing almost not possible at some points which led to more than a couple hike-a-bike situations.
so, i've decided that my 'smoke heythorp up the needle' goal isn't that good...and likely isn't going to happen. fact is, he has a ton more saddle time over the years and even if i did somehow manage to double his saddle time this year, he'd still smoke me as he's probably got 10 times the saddle time that i do overall...if not (likely) more. so i'll shoot for next year with that one...along with doing a 100 mile race.
this year i'm setting my sights on the darkhorse 40 and the lewis morris challenge. i want to do them both on the mary but i'll have to see how it all shakes out. i'm committed to doing the darkhorse and the boss is behind me which is extremely important to me.
my only goals for both races are to finish. i think that's a better way to go.
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J-Dro
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I'm finding that the extra air volume in the 29" tires lets you go with a lower pressure then normal. Mid 20's psi seems to be no problem... so far.
I'm going to try my luck at 6 mile run tomorrow morning. If the conditions suck and its all ice, at least I didn't drive far.
I'm going to try my luck at 6 mile run tomorrow morning. If the conditions suck and its all ice, at least I didn't drive far.
no, zilch in terms of ice. i knew it wasn't icy though since i rode it before the snow. it was actually downright sticky in the places the sun hadn't baked. that was the first time i've ridden in anything like that (ridden in powder before but...) and it was tough. like slogging through non-stop muck.
20 psi huh? i toyed with the idea of dropping to 25 but when i saw that 35 recco'd min on the tire i thought otherwise. guess it's ok? i'm still not going to run that low until i'm AT LEAST around 200lbs. i'm just happy i'm not pinching at 30 right now (knocking on wood.........).
Did LM this morning on 25 PSI which was fine. Conditions ranged from great to mushy. Did the race loop and by the second lap things were already getting softer. Too many people ride like morons and break up the nice hard pack surface.
I would say that 20 is a little low at your weight. I'm upper 180s now and the 20-25 range works for me, in this. Remember I'm on a FS both days though.
I would say that 20 is a little low at your weight. I'm upper 180s now and the 20-25 range works for me, in this. Remember I'm on a FS both days though.
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put in 40 minutes on the spin-o-rama hamster wheel of fun today. i pushed myself pretty hard too. its not all that fun to do when there's no acomplishment at the end of the torture other than 'yippie, i made it through the song!'
i checked my weight again and based on a rough estimate of what all my clothes weigh, i think i'm under 220 for the first time in three and a half years. it won't be official in my mind until i step on the scale and it acutally reads 21x. at this point, based on my rough estimates, i've lost almost 13lbs since christmas. i know i'm going to bottom out eventually, but i don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. i know i can drop at least another 20lbs and hopefully over the next two months. if i can do that it'll mesh up with the time i want to really start training for the darkhorse 40, in mid-may, almost perfectly and have me in a much better place for the lewis morris challenge.
i checked my weight again and based on a rough estimate of what all my clothes weigh, i think i'm under 220 for the first time in three and a half years. it won't be official in my mind until i step on the scale and it acutally reads 21x. at this point, based on my rough estimates, i've lost almost 13lbs since christmas. i know i'm going to bottom out eventually, but i don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. i know i can drop at least another 20lbs and hopefully over the next two months. if i can do that it'll mesh up with the time i want to really start training for the darkhorse 40, in mid-may, almost perfectly and have me in a much better place for the lewis morris challenge.
ArmyOfNone
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keep it up man! its alway encouraging when you can see all the hard work and sweat is payin off
wow, what a beautiful day! got out today for about two hours on the road. did aboot 25 miles and even though i felt good, i really thought i did A LOT more. i know i got thrown off b/c of all the climbing. fawking slayed myself. data here:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=2116360
the reception from the garmin was POOR b/c i had the damn thing in my pocket the whole time. i discovered as i was leaving that the mount got busted while the bike was at the shop. i was hoping that the garmin would stay in place but no such luck. a mile in it popped of and hit the road. a little nicked but no other damage to speak of.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=2116360
the reception from the garmin was POOR b/c i had the damn thing in my pocket the whole time. i discovered as i was leaving that the mount got busted while the bike was at the shop. i was hoping that the garmin would stay in place but no such luck. a mile in it popped of and hit the road. a little nicked but no other damage to speak of.
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DANSPANK
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Hey Jake,
I just bought another mount on ebay for about 10 dollars. Mine originally came with two mounts but I broke one testing its limits!
Does anyone know if there's an armband attachment for the Garmin edge? I wouldn't mind wearing it whilst trail running but thought that keeping it in a pocket will jepardise the reception - Jake just confirmed that...
I just bought another mount on ebay for about 10 dollars. Mine originally came with two mounts but I broke one testing its limits!
Does anyone know if there's an armband attachment for the Garmin edge? I wouldn't mind wearing it whilst trail running but thought that keeping it in a pocket will jepardise the reception - Jake just confirmed that...
I also broke one of my mounts a few weeks back. The release lever was the weak link there. Seems to be a fairly common thing. I'd almost be more comfortable with a soft case type of holder, similar to one for a cell phone, that would mount on the stem with velcro straps around the bottom of the stem. It just seems to easy too break the stock mount.
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DANSPANK
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Talk about thread jacking!!
When i had the Garmin 60csx unit I had it attached to my biuke with a velcro sleeve. The crappy thing threw my gps thing out during a jump and I spent the next 45minutes looking for it! Crappy, velcro shite!
When i had the Garmin 60csx unit I had it attached to my biuke with a velcro sleeve. The crappy thing threw my gps thing out during a jump and I spent the next 45minutes looking for it! Crappy, velcro shite!
anrothar
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i think it might be designed to break under a certain amount of pressure. something's gotta give, and i would much rather it be a 10 dollar mount than a 300 dollar gps unit. i've had mixed results with the unit in my pocket. sometimes it get's good reception, others it doesn't my one windbreaker seems to be worse than my other riding gear at allowing a signal through.
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