Going Long and Hard.
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Dr Superb
Active Member
i've had my eyes on that bike since cdale put up the 2012 bikes on their website. it looks better in that pic then it does on their website. on the website its hard to tell that it's blue...but i'm color blind...
the one in the pic looks like a miniture though. what size is that?
the one in the pic looks like a miniture though. what size is that?
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
I don't ask questions about people's position anymore...Unless they ask me, people are weird. I'm sure she'll notice they're too low on it's maiden voyage 😀.
Normie, what's a BMI? Kidding of course. My BMI always measures very high. At 155 pounds you can see most of my veins and every strand of muscle in my legs yet my scale will have me at something like 17%. On the flip side of that, this morning at 175 pounds it read 20%. So I can't go by that. I use a much simpler method, when I need to pull a little to get my zipper started on my jersey, I need to lose 10 pounds. I have one small jersey, when it fits I'm 155 pounds. I do think I'm gonna go get a better scale though. Anyone have the one that hooks into Garmin?
-Jim.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
The site does it no justice at all. I've seen the car in real life so I knew what the colors actually were. Lori is tiny, this is a 48cm.
Oh I forgot Normie, not old Pete with beard, the other one...
-Jim.
My next scale and toilet seat will both have power meters installed. That's valuable TSS I lose every day, straight down the toilet.
Good to know about bearded Pete.
That is who you sick on Trek when you are trying to get them to warranty something. He doesn't take no for an answer!
ArmyOfNone
Well-Known Member
I need another one of those saddles😀
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
The other Pete has 2 kids in high school right? If so, I can kinda get that anger thing.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
I could tell you something about one of them there kids dating a fellow that definitely causes some stress in that home 🙂
gtluke
The Moped
I finally started to understand how to use the pedals more to control the bike. I've always just bunnyhopped by yanking up on the bars and rotating with the wrists. This bike is just too raked over to do that, and the internets has helped me figure out that if I give a good kick first the bike lifts up, and to use that instead of my arms to get the front of the bike up. Feels cool as hell! I can land on the back wheel, but for the life of me I just can absolutely not hold the manual unless it's straight the hell up.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Almost everything in trials is based off using the pedals. Learning that little kick thing will open up a lot of doors for you. Despite how it may seem, learning in the rocks is much better for you than the urban stuff. In urban you can fake a lot of things and never get the correct technique down. Trails is 100% technique. Practice on obstacles that you can't ride on your mountain bike. 😀
Here's a fun very old video I found. I live right down the street from this park...
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=1200995106987
Wednesday.
CX workout. The plan. Double session. Running circuit thing in the morning, CX practice in the afternoon.
Headed out to the park in the am. My left leg was sorta more sore than normal. Stretch, warm-up, hit circuit #1. Leg still felt a bit tight and sore. I just figured it was because I wasn't warmed-up yet so I hit circuit #2. Run the mile loop then hit the stairs and POW!! My calf exploded. Much pain. I try to walk it off but that didn't work. Any pressure on my leg was too much. So I sat there on the bleachers instead. Damn it!!
So I head into work and hobble around all day. As the day went on my leg got more and more swollen. Needless to say, I skipped CX practice.
Once I got home I hit the ice pack and Ibuprofen. By the time I hit the sack it came down almost back to normal. This morning it's still painful to the touch but I can walk pretty good. I'll take today off the bike and see where we are.
I raced the whole season in '08 with a similar calf injury in the same leg. Maybe that old injury never healed all the way?
Onto more positive things...Like food!!
This is my salad in bag, Quorn cutlets, olives, black pepper, balsamic dressing. It's not very much different than the veggie thing I normally eat for lunch. I'm sure my meals are all good and healthy. The crap in between might not be. EJP keeps a constant flow of temptation 4 feet away from me. Yesterday he brought in Combos, Swedish Fish, and Biscoff...He also pounded a huge can of Chef Boyardee Raviolis for lunch. Just off the top of my head he may have taken in 5,000 calories just during work. In comparison I feel like I don't eat anything. Yesterday I had Met-RX for breakfast, that salad for lunch, a greek yogurt for snack, 2 bean burritos for dinner and that's it. Less than 2,000 calories for sure. It's been about the same all week, even on monday after a 3-hour ride. I feel I'm on the right track...
Bike porn? Sorta. I got some new shoes.
Lenosky signatures. I got them because they're purple. Actually, if you look at his shoe colorways, they match all my bikes. I hear tale they'll increase my vertical hop by at least a foot. 😀
That is all...
-Jim.
Here's a fun very old video I found. I live right down the street from this park...
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=1200995106987
Wednesday.
CX workout. The plan. Double session. Running circuit thing in the morning, CX practice in the afternoon.
Headed out to the park in the am. My left leg was sorta more sore than normal. Stretch, warm-up, hit circuit #1. Leg still felt a bit tight and sore. I just figured it was because I wasn't warmed-up yet so I hit circuit #2. Run the mile loop then hit the stairs and POW!! My calf exploded. Much pain. I try to walk it off but that didn't work. Any pressure on my leg was too much. So I sat there on the bleachers instead. Damn it!!
So I head into work and hobble around all day. As the day went on my leg got more and more swollen. Needless to say, I skipped CX practice.
Once I got home I hit the ice pack and Ibuprofen. By the time I hit the sack it came down almost back to normal. This morning it's still painful to the touch but I can walk pretty good. I'll take today off the bike and see where we are.
I raced the whole season in '08 with a similar calf injury in the same leg. Maybe that old injury never healed all the way?
Onto more positive things...Like food!!
This is my salad in bag, Quorn cutlets, olives, black pepper, balsamic dressing. It's not very much different than the veggie thing I normally eat for lunch. I'm sure my meals are all good and healthy. The crap in between might not be. EJP keeps a constant flow of temptation 4 feet away from me. Yesterday he brought in Combos, Swedish Fish, and Biscoff...He also pounded a huge can of Chef Boyardee Raviolis for lunch. Just off the top of my head he may have taken in 5,000 calories just during work. In comparison I feel like I don't eat anything. Yesterday I had Met-RX for breakfast, that salad for lunch, a greek yogurt for snack, 2 bean burritos for dinner and that's it. Less than 2,000 calories for sure. It's been about the same all week, even on monday after a 3-hour ride. I feel I'm on the right track...
Bike porn? Sorta. I got some new shoes.
Lenosky signatures. I got them because they're purple. Actually, if you look at his shoe colorways, they match all my bikes. I hear tale they'll increase my vertical hop by at least a foot. 😀
That is all...
-Jim.
It's funny that Luke and I were pre-riding the mooch madness course and he mentioned his slow tech was something to be desired. I said to him best way to ace that skill is pick up a trial bike. Fast forward here he is, whats funny is this will be the new obsession of his and he will not be able to go anywhere without it because everywhere he goes will look like a trials park.
When you posted that pic of you at Plattekill doing the trials course I was like hey I know I must of been watching you. We did all the DH series races back then. I remembered Hayes did that xc race and said it was the absolute suck of all xc races. I can understand why the vertical is ridiculous there...
When you posted that pic of you at Plattekill doing the trials course I was like hey I know I must of been watching you. We did all the DH series races back then. I remembered Hayes did that xc race and said it was the absolute suck of all xc races. I can understand why the vertical is ridiculous there...
gtluke
The Moped
I'm having a really hard time finding places to practice near me. I LIVE in the middle of urban, and rocks, and there is NOTHING.
Some executive in my county must have a brother in the hand rail making industry.
Maybe I'll try dragging it into Suicide Jack's, but man I think all the rocks in there are situated in a way that you are certain to break and ankle or leg if you fail.
I know I was hitting that stage with the wrong technique. I wanted to bad to be able to lock up the front wheel and pivot the rear wheel up there, I just couldn't do it so I rolled it too much.
I can't believe that Jim can ride all that cool ass shit but in a straight line he falls and breaks his arm, twice 😉
Some executive in my county must have a brother in the hand rail making industry.
Maybe I'll try dragging it into Suicide Jack's, but man I think all the rocks in there are situated in a way that you are certain to break and ankle or leg if you fail.
I know I was hitting that stage with the wrong technique. I wanted to bad to be able to lock up the front wheel and pivot the rear wheel up there, I just couldn't do it so I rolled it too much.
I can't believe that Jim can ride all that cool ass shit but in a straight line he falls and breaks his arm, twice 😉
HA! that's awesome.
i've been thinking about adding a bmx bike to the mix, but maybe what i really need is a trials bike. i do have several big rocks littering my front yard. :hmmm:
where does one get one of these things?
I have a BMX bike for you if you are interested...
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Matty, I'm sure we've crossed paths at some point. I did the every national level event on the east coast. I did Mt. Snow as an expert 2 years in a row. I actually liked the Plattekill XC course. I didn't race back then so I didn't really know any better, but it does make me chuckle when guys bitch about the climb at Tymor. That's ***** compared to P-Kill!!
Luke, HAHA. Jerk. PS, I broke my shoulder on the road even. THE ROAD!! Find a playground near you. Tons of lines in playgrounds. Or practice going off that wall on the rear wheel. I need to ride with you just long enough to show you that and you'll advance a lot faster. We can do friday after work!! SILLY BIKES!!
PPS-I still can't walk without limping. The swelling has gone down quite a bit though.
PPPS-I'm up here goofing off because Trek is here making a video of our shop for their dealer training thing.
-Jim.
Luke, HAHA. Jerk. PS, I broke my shoulder on the road even. THE ROAD!! Find a playground near you. Tons of lines in playgrounds. Or practice going off that wall on the rear wheel. I need to ride with you just long enough to show you that and you'll advance a lot faster. We can do friday after work!! SILLY BIKES!!
PPS-I still can't walk without limping. The swelling has gone down quite a bit though.
PPPS-I'm up here goofing off because Trek is here making a video of our shop for their dealer training thing.
-Jim.
gtluke
The Moped
I've stopped by FOUR playgrounds now. They must be building these things anticipating people might have fun in them. Nothing can be ridden, hand rails on everything!
Have to find one of those 90's parks made out of wood and used tires. Those seem like they might have some good stuff in them.
Have to find one of those 90's parks made out of wood and used tires. Those seem like they might have some good stuff in them.