BIYF Winter 2020-2021: Go Zwift or Go Home!!!!

[jackx]

2/13
1:31 moving time for 1.5 points.

Cold day on the road as it felt like 15F or colder with the wind.

Some roads are still challenging with icy spots and hard piles of blue salt.

 

[rick81721]

2/15

1:44

1.5 pts

https://www.strava.com/activities/4792136365

Draft day!

Another strong south wind day, so headed west to Manasota key which has a 7 mile run along the beach - 7 miles headwind, 7 miles tailwind. Crossing the bridge to the key over Lemon bay, I spotted a woman rider. I passed her after the bridge as we headed south into the wind. About a mile later, I turn to look at cars and notice she is drafting me. No problem, I wave and say hi, figuring we will take turns during the headwind stretch. At 3 miles of drafting, she finally takes the lead. I drafted her for 2 miles, then took the lead the last 2 (which were the worst - completely open). I got ahead at the turnaround and with the wind boost, cruised at a steady 22 mph. About 2 miles north, a truck blocked the road and had to come to a stop. The same lady catches me, and when we take off, she drafted me the entire 5 miles back to the end! At least she said "thanks for the draft!" at the end. I peeled off went to the beach and took a pic. Water temp is rising nicely now - it was 63 about 2 weeks ago, now it's 72. Will be swimming soon

 

[iman29]

What pressure are you running? I was riding Tourne on Saturday with a 29 2.4 recon in the front and 2.35 Racing Ralph on the rear and pressure at about 17 and 19. Under the current conditions (in my opinion) as long as the packed areas are frozen/firm it’s more about holding ones line(and tire pressure) than the width of the tire. I saw mostly people riding regular mountain bikes the past few days on the trails.

I was probably closer to 20 since I didnt originally plan to check out the trail I was only planning to ride around on the road. It probably would have been a little better with less PSI but that middle line was lumpy bumpy from all the random foot prints and I was getting bounced around a lot.

Im still running tubes (for now) while I get used to the bike and fine tune things so I didnt want to experiment with anything and then have to ride 1.5 miles home on low tire pressure.

 

[goodvibe]

2/15
2h5m
2 pts

Rode the Tourne today. Ehhh. But I saw some local celebrities like @JimN and @UtahJoe Trails were okay and rideable, though SoMo was a little better yesterday. Afterwards, my cat made sure that my glove bag was thoroughly inspected.

https://strava.app.link/KWWEiR06Tdb

 

[Patrick]

2/15

1:15 rolling fat at the tourne

1 point

I did not see @goodvibe but i did see @JimN to complete the minion exchange.
The tires, not the cute yellow guys.

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Everything looks worse in black and white.

 

[pygmypony]

Happy to report I was back on a bike this morning. Less happy to report that my Garmin cropped out on my a did not record most of my ride, it wouldn’t be fair to ask for points as it has happened before...I’m not that type of guy. My score is meager anyway so...For those interested Ringwood fire roads are nicely packed, just don’t get on a trail or you’ll be in knee high soft snow trying to get traction. Also tried the big boy...Aarrrr....
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the big boy is the cat's meow

 

[pygmypony]

3 hours, "moving"

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This is my "quick hour loop" around my hood. Train tracks were pretty good, ventured onto the Canal to break trail for 8ish miles. Really surprised at how few people have been out.

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After the Franklin Bridge off Easton Ave it was nice and fast. So only about 5 miles was pushing at 1mph in foot deep snow.

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so, like a dummy, i saw your strava post where you "rode" the canal towpath...didn't look at speed or see this post...oooof...see later post for details...

 

[pygmypony]

2/15

1:44

1.5 pts

https://www.strava.com/activities/4792136365

Draft day!

Another strong south wind day, so headed west to Manasota key which has a 7 mile run along the beach - 7 miles headwind, 7 miles tailwind. Crossing the bridge to the key over Lemon bay, I spotted a woman rider. I passed her after the bridge as we headed south into the wind. About a mile later, I turn to look at cars and notice she is drafting me. No problem, I wave and say hi, figuring we will take turns during the headwind stretch. At 3 miles of drafting, she finally takes the lead. I drafted her for 2 miles, then took the lead the last 2 (which were the worst - completely open). I got ahead at the turnaround and with the wind boost, cruised at a steady 22 mph. About 2 miles north, a truck blocked the road and had to come to a stop. The same lady catches me, and when we take off, she drafted me the entire 5 miles back to the end! At least she said "thanks for the draft!" at the end. I peeled off went to the beach and took a pic. Water temp is rising nicely now - it was 63 about 2 weeks ago, now it's 72. Will be swimming soon

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beach pics...not fair

 

[JimN]

2/15
3:26
https://strava.app.link/ltT3TgjbUdb

Round and round and round at the Tourne. The snow was firmer today, but a little bit more slippery than yesterday. But the rain held off, and it was still 100% rideable. Though I did have probably 50+ dabs on the day.

Rode the Tourne today. Ehhh.

That is a perfect summary of the Tourne. We're lucky to have someplace that is rideable after two feet of snow though.

 

[Steve Vai]

so, like a dummy, i saw your strava post where you "rode" the canal towpath...didn't look at speed or see this post...oooof...see later post for details...

Did you see where I tried to make a trail in the 2 feet snow over the spillway?

 

[pygmypony]

2/15

4 pts

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sadly, i suspect that today will be the last of the local tingley woods goodness...tonite's rain forecast doesn't bode so well..

so, i went out and put down the gas to try to take the KOM of the newly established Groundhog Day loop from @jimvreeland...i came up short, but happy with the effort!

headed out of the woods and considered a westward traverse of the conrail tracks from tingley lane...no f*****g way....unless you are crazy enough to ride on the actual tracks!

aired up the tires at MLK school...the school of many signs

headed west towards bound brook...NJ Transit tracks were very rideable...

made it to the canal tow path at the queens bridge...the initial 1/2 mile or so to the water co was fine...after that...no so much...

followed vreeland's hike-a-bike tracks for the next ~3 miles and just silently suffered...at 3mph

set an all time HIGH for my time from main street bound brook to landing lane! 😂

 

[pygmypony]

Did you see where I tried to make a trail in the 2 feet snow over the spillway?

i saw all the trails! it was funny seeing footprints with SPD impressions in them! thank god i had your tracks to follow...

 

[pygmypony]

Did you see where I tried to make a trail in the 2 feet snow over the spillway?

seriously i thought about throwing my bike over my shoulders and carrying it like a back pack...how do you do alaska without snowshoes? i’m amazed at that...3 miles pushing a bike today on the flat tow path constantly post-holing with boots was so much harder than 3.5 miles at chimney rock yday on snowshoes...granted i wasn’t pushing a 40 lb bike but i’ve snowshoed with 40+ lb back packs...

 

[Steve Vai]

i saw all the trails! it was funny seeing footprints with SPD impressions in them! thank god i had your tracks to follow...

Next time I'll just stay on Easton Ave until the Franklin Open Spaces bridge, trail was Primo from there to Landing Lane.

 

[Steve Vai]

seriously i thought about throwing my bike over my shoulders and carrying it like a back pack...how do you do alaska without snowshoes? i’m amazed at that...3 miles pushing a bike today on the flat tow path constantly post-holing with boots was so much harder than 3.5 miles at chimney rock yday on snowshoes...granted i wasn’t pushing a 40 lb bike but i’ve snowshoed with 40+ lb back packs...

I honestly don't think about it. Just keep pushing until it's rideable again. Also, having Alaska to look at while pushing helps a lot.

 

[serviceguy]

Everything looks worse with mismatched wheels.

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FTFY

 

[Tim]

I’m glad to see all the riding still happening. I had a lackluster weekend and tomorrow morning isn’t looking great. I really need to get out on the bike as I’m getting borderline stir crazy after just 2 days of inactivity. I went skiing Saturday, but I haven’t been on the bike since Friday. It feels like an eternity.

I actually like winter but I will admit I was a little jealous of @rick81721 s sunny beach pics...

 

[olegbabich]

2/15
58 min + drizzle / frozen rain (on and off) = 2pts

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Quick spin on a Fat Bike. Used lights for last 1/2 hr and got Rolling Coal too.

 

[kearneyb]

2/15
1hr Zwift, 0.5pts

45-minutes into the Zwift ride, felt the tire slip on the trainer and I knew I flatted. 🤬. Changed the tube and did another 15-minutes to get a full hour. Need to earn that half point.

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Flats always occur at the same spot on the tire side about six inches from the stem. I’ve used two separate tires and have vacuumed out the tire interior prior to installing a new tube.

 

[thegock]

2/14/21

1:49----1.5

ROUL ETTE


After Thursday’s pushfest and Saturday’s mixed blessing of riding and walking, I waited until midday after the herds of Covidian hikers had packed the 15” wide trails to ride Sunday. There was more trails traffic, but only near the parking lots. I ran into three guys I know in different parts of the trail a couple of miles apart, so that was a big plus.

I made better trail choices on Sunday and had a lot more fun. The snow made the most technical trails easier and I saw four inch tracks that a friend of mine had left up on the ridge.

Mrs. G told me after Saturday’s ride that one of her two friends from grammar school, who we socialize with regularly had a stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis, which metastasized to her liver. This was exactly one week after a friend of mine from college, who had moved to the Midwest, called me with his stage 3 colon cancer diagnosis.

In his case, though he is 64 years old and has family history of the disease, he never had gotten scoped. Don’t do this. Back to our regularly scheduled programming.

The third friend I ran into on NWA is a local politician. He told me about a bunch of haters from the hood who were reaching out to the government to have kids’ trails destroyed in a couple of local parks. We decided to send the A$$HOLES a video message: