[Rod Smith]

When the cat’s away, the mice will play.

[Rod Smith]

Is riding for money “cheating”?

[Rod Smith]

I wonder if I could make the corner with my trailer.

[Rod Smith]

Last night I experienced a huge improvement! I could roll over without screaming loud enough to wake the neighbors. In fact I could do it without screaming at all! So nice to sleep well! I’m now sure nothing was broken and I was just being a big wussy. 😮

[Rod Smith]

@consularrider 40129 wrote:

At least the rain passed through quickly. Good thing because I need an extra long ride home since Dirt passed me at the top of the leaderboard.

If Dirt was on team 11, they would still be in last place.

[Rod Smith]

Haha. Not for that price if you haven’t ordered yet. Nice Fiziks Ares saddle on there now. http://www.chainlove.com/

[Rod Smith]

Chrome SPD sneakers available for a very limited time, $40. http://www.chainlove.com/

[Rod Smith]

I don’t know if I would ride a bike if I didn’t get to eat Clif Shot Blocks and Odwalla bars while doing it.

[Rod Smith]

Light and Motion Urban 180 at Chainlove for a very limited time. http://www.chainlove.com/?cmp_id=ODAT_GGSC1001&amp%3bmv_pc=1009&amp%3bcmp_sku=LTM0066

[Rod Smith]

@rcannon100 39588 wrote:

Huh. Guess I would get great power scores. Not sure I really wanna tell STRAVA how much I weigh. :p

I suspect it’s less than 190kg! Strava won’t laugh at your weight and she won’t tell anyone how much it is. Enter the data and get credit for the power you’re producing!

[Rod Smith]

Can you get individual rides GPX files and enter them one at a time now that you have the bulk entered?

The cool program that shows all your rides at once is available here, http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/map.php

[Rod Smith]

@Greenbelt 39544 wrote:

Hope you feel better soon — we missed you at potluck last night. So you didn’t get a chance to retain your crown as riding the heaviest in the ceremonial New Year’s weighing of the bikes.

I won this time (tied with Johnny) at 37 pounds on our commuter bikes. Todd totally lost, with his great big road bike weighing in at 16.5 pounds!
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Another interesting bit was that Ben brought in the 25 inch Proteus build from the 70s that he’s been cleaning up (and borrowing from) a friend.
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I’ve got my fair weather flyer back in service.I think it’s 29ish pounds. Orca, the killer whale, has lightened up with the rigid fork. Stiil I think I can beat 37 with rack and saddle bag with multi-tool, tube and patch kit. 😮

[Rod Smith]

Did I say the booboo on my knee was the size of a quarter? More like a dime. I’d only peeked at it once when I wrote that and didn’t see it again until I pulled my pants off and climbed into bed. It was a hard day’s night, very painful. My rib clicks and pops when I move certain ways. I think it’s getting better. Hand feels much better. Swelling is down, not much bruising, I can put weight on it.

[Rod Smith]

I’ve applied ethanol and I’m feeling no pain. Thanks for the well wishes.

[Rod Smith]

Strava says you can’t claim your bicycle weighs more than 50kg which is fine with me as my working rigs have gross vehicle weights less than 45 kilos but in fact they do not allow bike weight greater than 50 POUNDS! I think this effects the power score Strava calculates for my segment results.

Concerning the power score, I was happy to see I produced the greatest wattage of anyone even though I was generally slowest or nearly slowest on every segment. It seems that if you tell Strava you weigh 190 kilos, you get great power scores. Oops, I meant 190 POUNDS. :p

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