Cycling Miscellany

[creekster]

Yes, and I/we didn't see a stick or anything else that caused my mishap. I kind of wish it had been Mrs. PAC doing a Team Cinzano on my bike with her bike pump, but she rides with CO2, so the mystery endures.

Ha, I thought about referring to Breaking Away but glad you did.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Yeah, that is scary to watch. Was PAC referring to his own endo?

Yes, and I/we didn't see a stick or anything else that caused my mishap. I kind of wish it had been Mrs. PAC doing a Team Cinzano on my bike with her bike pump, but she rides with CO2, so the mystery endures.

[smokymountainrain]

Yeah, that is scary to watch. Was PAC referring to his own endo?

yes

[BigPiney]

You can see the debris in the video lifts into his drive train rear triangle area. My guess is that the debris wedged against his rear wheel causing it (and the bike with it) to stop instantly but the rider's momentum carried him over the bars. Not pretty.

Yeah, that is scary to watch. Was PAC referring to his own endo?

[creekster]

That video is eerily similar to my experience two years ago. Wish I knew what caused a total endo.

You can see the debris in the video lifts into his drive train rear triangle area. My guess is that the debris wedged against his rear wheel causing it (and the bike with it) to stop instantly but the rider's momentum carried him over the bars. Not pretty.

[Moliere]

That video is eerily similar to my experience two years ago. Wish I knew what caused a total endo.

The guy right behind him looks to have evade his own disaster.

[PaloAltoCougar]

That video is eerily similar to my experience two years ago. Wish I knew what caused a total endo.

[Moliere]

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[mtnbiker]

They were saying at one point it reached 28% which I believe because they were really struggling to get up it.

Yeah, I was sure I heard that, too, but I looked at the UCI website, and it said 11.5%, which may have been for the overall final climb. I put the more conservative number. Tom Dumoulin was snaking back and forth across the road at that point, trying to catch the three leaders, so it had to be really steep.

[chrisrenrut]

They were saying at one point it reached 28% which I believe because they were really struggling to get up it.

Anytime a discussion of climbing grades come up, it makes me think of this blog. Funny stuff.

http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/08/01/a-handy-guide-to-climbing-grades/

[RC Vikings]

Good honk, I just saw the devil (Didi Senft) on the rebroadcast of today's UCI World Championships. It was near the top of the final climb, which had a ridiculously steep 11.5% grade. Didi was following the 4 leaders, and Paul Sherwin and Christian Vande Velde said it must be steep if Didi could keep up with them. I haven't seen Didi in a couple of years, and wondered if he had retired. Evidently not.

Crazy that Valverde won the race at age 38.

They were saying at one point it reached 28% which I believe because they were really struggling to get up it.

[creekster]

Good honk, I just saw the devil (Didi Senft) on the rebroadcast of today's UCI World Championships. It was near the top of the final climb, which had a ridiculously steep 11.5% grade. Didi was following the 4 leaders, and Paul Sherwin and Christian Vande Velde said it must be steep if Didi could keep up with them. I haven't seen Didi in a couple of years, and wondered if he had retired. Evidently not.

Crazy that Valverde won the race at age 38.

Didi was at the tour this year. I think he did knock off for a few years but he has been around the last year or two.

LOts of buzz on-line that there is no way he would have beaten those guys who are younger unless he was, once again, doping. It does seem hard to believe.

[mtnbiker]

Good honk, I just saw the devil (Didi Senft) on the rebroadcast of today's UCI World Championships. It was near the top of the final climb, which had a ridiculously steep 11.5% grade. Didi was following the 4 leaders, and Paul Sherwin and Christian Vande Velde said it must be steep if Didi could keep up with them. I haven't seen Didi in a couple of years, and wondered if he had retired. Evidently not.

Crazy that Valverde won the race at age 38.

[creekster]

I have followed Alberto Contador on social media for a number of years. It has been sort of amusing watching him transition to retirement. There he was today, on his insty account, with a flat tire on the side of the road. Unlike years past, however, he was not wearing a sponsor's kit, nor was there a team car rushing forward to supply a new wheel or a new bike. Instead, it was just Contador and his riding partner, on the side of the road, rear wheel off, seat post blinky flashing, and cars flying by, sometimes too close for comfort. Just like the rest of us. Apart from the palmares, of course.

[bluegoose]

Feeling especially sentimental this weekend surrounding the high school graduation of my oldest, I went through about 15 years of pictures the other day and relieved old memories for about 5 hours.

In the process I came across pictures from our 3 CUF/CS organized rides that we've done. Man, those were some fun weekends! From the empty heavenly highway around the east shore of Lake Tahoe, to our hidden supply stash during our ride around Mount Bachelor, to standing atop the old Donner summit, overlooking Donner Lake, we had some really good times.