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@streetsmarts 165149 wrote:

I have Coeur d’Alene on my list of places to visit. It looks absolutely gorgeous. What’s the best time of year to hike / bike ?

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Coeur d’Alene was the place where I first tried to ride in the mountains. I was still a smoker back then, in the 1990’s. I didn’t get very far, panting and gasping my way back down in defeat.

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@Judd 164867 wrote:

I’ll be there representing the Land of Lincoln in this bad boy:

I’ll plan on riding with Team Kitty this year.

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That’s a really weird sweat stain on the front of that jersey.

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I think I might have to do this.

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@lordofthemark 164751 wrote:

Balance bikes are so 21st century. As a child of the 1960’s, I insist on training wheels, whatever Steve says.

Also I want the entire way lined with old people sitting on lawn chairs, because they lack central air conditioning. Just like when I learned to ride in Brooklyn.

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I’m a child of the ’60’s and they didn’t use training wheels on my bike. They put me on it and pushed. I stayed up or I fell on the street. One learns quickly that way.

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I’m sitting here drinking beer and eating potato chips. That’s good preparation, right?

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@hozn 164066 wrote:

I fixed it again. Wait, I see a trend.

Honestly, the bike won’t make any measurable difference. Tires will. But I’m not discouraging you from n+1ing. I just wanted to share my experience where I’ve got one bike that can pretty much do anything from light MTB to road racing with just a wheel swap — and feels fantastic great doing any of it, and another bike that is feels great doing one thing, riding/racing on pavement. When I broke a spoke chasing Subby up a WedsMorning Hill, I swapped my road wheelset onto my commuter (tubeless 28s on 50mm carbon rims). And I immediately had a thought stream that went something like: “Wow this bike feels fast. Wow, this feels a lot like my road bike, actually, with maybe a little more relaxed steering. Wait, why on earth do I have two bikes that are so similar?”

I do think going to with a little 10 cog would make sense for me, so I would do that if I decided to really consolidate down to just one pavement-or-not bike.

This is where I need to go…been staring at craigslist and ebay for cyclocross bikes, but really, I need one bike where I can just swap out wheel sets and get what I want. That said, I’m killing myself for not jumping on this Litespeed Titanium bike I saw on craigslist a couple weeks ago…of course, it’s gone.

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I hit the Mt. Vernon underpass on Friday about 4:45 and didn’t realize the water was as deep as it was…and quickly was in waist deep. Reversed course and crossed over via streets, and carried that nice sewer stench with me for a while until the rain washed it off of me. I didn’t make the same mistake at Carlin Springs and Wilson.

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What’s the order on the billing? Are they playing first?

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And now registered. Still 1002 spots left.

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I haven’t registered yet, but I think I’m doing this.

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I have no idea if this matters, but I wonder what happens to the air pressure in the tires in the ascent/descent to 35K feet?

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@Sujiro 162347 wrote:

I done this like 3 times already and always I need to dismount at least twice on some uphills. I feel like I would die after the uphills. Lol. I dont know, but I guess its mental that I’m always hesitating if I could make the uphill or not without dismounting. The problem is after I mounted again, I feel drained.

Sometimes I literally tell myself, “you can do this”, like when I’m riding uphill in the winter into a 30 mph headwind, and I’m tired and cold and it would be SO easy to just get on the Metro. But as others have said here, the body is an amazing thing, and sometimes you’ll feel drained, and you’ll feel pain, and if you talk yourself into pushing through that, you discover that you’ve got one more level of energy and strength that you didn’t know you had. And it can be fun to make that discovery; to learn that you can push through the hard.

I’ve been back on the bike for about 4 years now. Even though I’m old, I get stronger and faster each year. I’m a gear faster than I was last year. It’s the doing that matters. Have fun with it; alternate hard days with easy days so your body can recover. Some days there’s no there there, and you just have to push through that. And those days make all the better the other days when everything is in sync, and you’re in this sort of Zen space, where you discover you can do things you hadn’t imagined.

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@sjclaeys 162241 wrote:

My son’s band, Harry Jay & the Bling, are playing at Jammin’ Java in Vienna, VA this Saturday evening. They are part of the Roots, Rhythm & Soul tour with two other bands, and play a cool mix of funk. Doors open at 7:00 and the concert starts at 8:00 (though they won’t start until around 9:30 or so).

I will by a beer for any Forum member who goes and answers a trivial question about the Forum (the more members who show up, the harder the questions).

More info and ticket purchases can be found here: http://www.jamminjava.com/event/1483375-roots-rhythm-soul-tour-2017-vienna/

Hope to see some of you there!

I note that under your rules, a correct answer is not required. You only require that the Forum member answer the question, thus, there is no need to ask progressively harder questions.

Thanks for the free beer!

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@KLizotte 162164 wrote:

Unfortunately runners hate running on concrete. They claim it is “harder” than asphalt which is often why they gravitate to the W&OD and bike lanes over sidewalks.

Concrete is harder than asphalt, but human weight isn’t significant enough to really put into play the fact that concrete compresses much less than asphalt.

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Oh, that sucks. I was wondering why you were trailer-less this afternoon.

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