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06-15-2020, 07:55 AM #2026
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06-16-2020, 05:00 AM #2027Registered User
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How long do you think one of those would last outside in the driveway in a place that gets ~48" of rain a year? Two months maybe? Nope no extra bedroom, 4 people in a 2 bedroom house, and the ceiling in what used to be the garage is 6'2" so you couldn't lift weights over your head. Next...
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06-16-2020, 08:44 AM #2028
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06-16-2020, 08:52 AM #2029www.dpsskis.com
www.point6.com
formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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06-16-2020, 09:48 AM #2030
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06-16-2020, 10:49 AM #2031
I've been doing upper body work for 35 years now, and definitely to the detriment to cycling. No way you need or should have all that weight and mass up there while on the bike. Look at any pro cyclist, and they are scary skinny above the waist. I saw a picture recently of Chris Froome with his jersey off during what had to be a grand tour race (had that tan, too), and it wasn't nice. Concentration camp style. I read that Lance didn't even do sit ups after he rebuilt his body from the cancer. No wonder those guys break like twigs when they crash.
But, it's awesome protection from skiing impacts. Maybe ten times I've gotten up after a bad one and thought, sure glad I do weights. Had a bad one this winter when I went tumbling in super icy Vermont bumps, and directly impacted my left shoulder big time. Had me kneeling for a minute or two, hoping it wasn't bad, and, eventually, it wasn't. Had the padding. Otherwise, probably screwed for the rest of what little time I have left.
Besides, chicks dig shoulders.
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06-16-2020, 11:30 AM #2032
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06-16-2020, 12:25 PM #2033
Being able to crush HC-rated climbs is much different than the core and upper arm strength and endurance needed to float the handlebars and keep the front wheel planted down high speed chunder, into tight berms, and smashing off of boulders ... and most of this sub-forum chatter is dedicated to the latter type of riding. I think some upper body and core strength does MTBing real benefits, while I never needed it when I was a 100% roadie.
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I'll be there." ... Andy Campbell
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06-16-2020, 04:46 PM #2034
I'm doing my best to remain calm and it's really fucking hard!
New bike day! Yeah!
Reverb does not work...at all. Pulled seat made sure was 250lbs and still nothing. Needs a bleed? Needs the dumpster!!
Fuck you reverb pos
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06-17-2020, 08:37 AM #2035
Online shops.
They need 48 hours to get an order into the hands of the UPS guy. Then they cry about how much business they’re losing to Amazon.
Sent from my iPhone using TGR ForumsHowever many are in a shit ton.
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06-17-2020, 11:20 AM #2036
No trying to pile on but there's a dude on a lifting forum I sometimes peruse and he's been training for years in his basement and hasn't done a standing press except in competition in a long time because of low ceilings and he's pressing 285 these days IIRC, all off kneeling presses. I promise if you spent any time on a lifting forum you will find that there isn't a home-gym obstacle that some meathead hasn't figured out a way to solve, including keeping a squat rack outside in wet/humid climates, low ceilings, whole setups in 600sq ft NYC apartments, etc. Not saying you have to start lifting but the health benefits, especially as we age, can't be denied. Where there's a will, there's a way.
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do."
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06-17-2020, 11:35 AM #2037
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06-17-2020, 12:04 PM #2038
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06-17-2020, 12:08 PM #2039
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06-17-2020, 01:17 PM #2040
I enjoyed watching this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PvF_QNb1z-U
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06-17-2020, 02:34 PM #2041Registered User
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06-17-2020, 02:59 PM #2042User
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06-17-2020, 03:46 PM #2043
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06-17-2020, 09:34 PM #2044
Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?
Sometimes that’s a rider problem.
Sometimes that’s a builder problem.
Sent from my iPhone using TGR ForumsHowever many are in a shit ton.
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06-18-2020, 01:04 AM #2045
It's not just noobs who do that. Trust me.... And FWIW, if that was a perfectly good section of trail with a rock sticking out in the middle of it, 90% of riders would go around rather than over that rock.
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06-18-2020, 11:32 AM #2046
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06-18-2020, 11:34 AM #2047Registered User
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Puddles are an excuse to practice manuals, even if you're bad at them like me.
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06-18-2020, 11:42 AM #2048
This. Rocks are there for a reason, hop over them, roll them, what's the point of going around? That's what road biking is for...
I've been guilty of going around the occasional puddle as for some reason I'm reluctant to get splashed the 1st time. Once it happens though I turn into a fucking pig and happily wallow around in muddy water. Some of the PC and Millcreek trails have seen some legendary widening this year from people going around snowfields. We're talking tracks 5' to the side of the trail for over 30'.
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06-18-2020, 11:51 AM #2049
Once in a cat 3 road race a looong time ago, I was in front, and bunny hopped over a road kill raccoon. No one was immediately behind me, but all the weenies were pissed that I didn’t go around it and point to the ground. Not a single one of them could bunny hop. My fondest road racing memory.
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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06-18-2020, 07:06 PM #2050
Heh - was on a long training ride where similar happened. Leader hopped it second wheel went through it. Everybody behind was able to dodge. The carcass was pretty gooey, got into the guys spokes, dried to beef jerky consistency by the end
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