Recent content by ATAC50

I also have to vote for clipless pedals; can't ride w/o them, had to in the past after getting used to them, had the worst calf cramps imaginable! I think I'd likely quit riding if I had to return to platforms. I don't own a bike computer anymore, and likely won't buy another; been off...

Dr. David Banner? Pal, I have an arthritic shoulder attached to a rebuilt collarbone, and I GUARANTEE I could fling you at least that far if we were bustin' it for the same space. Now, I see myself in the mirror daily (no, it doesn't break all that often), and I'm not green, or even all that...

I love the load of armchair psychologists here who are applying measured logic to actions that happened in split seconds; to listen to some of them, it's like hearing my kids: "I know his nose is bleeding, but I didn't mean to hit him with the book! I just threw it!" Accident? Bull...

Filters are good; they are devices of mental exercise. They make you think more creatively on how to get around them and still express yourelf. Sure, I hate the idea of anyone telling me what language I can and can't use; I'm an adult, full and well grown. But then, I don't like to hear...

+1. I'm much the same way -- after a good summertime ride, or even coming home from work in the summer, my shirts look like they're tye-dyed; helmet pads and straps look like they've been bleached. Oddly enough, I also discovered that Gatorade tastes better when I'm like this....lol

I just helped a bud put together a new bike; he's something of a weight weenie, too. Granted, it was nice handling all that bling while I assembled what he couldn't (which was about 2/3 of it), but in his case I can understand it a bit -- not only does he like the best stuff, he's not in good...

Sorry, but this one trumps you all: "GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN--NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN" (that's Tyler Hamilton grinding down the 11 teeth in the Giro, and however many more in the TDF the next year)

OK, so LA is the most tested athlete ever...he should know the routine, and WANT to keep the procedures straight. I WOULD, in his shoes! Everyone after ME, I'd want every T crossed, every I dotted, every Q curlied.... As far as Mr. Pound is concerned, he can go POUND sand up his a$$. You...

Not a big deal -- LA critiqued himself harder than that, both after Joux-Plane and in his books. Just because LA isn't smooching AC's chamois doesn't mean he's cutting him.... This is the grown-up, real world; nobody's promised 'a fair shake'. Nobody painted AC a rosy picture of him...

Looks like I'm in Different company... Everybody else is listing road bikes, and I'm a mountain hairball. Here goes, anyway.... Santa Cruz Nomad Fox 36 fr/DHX coil rr Azonic Outlaw wheelset w/ Hutch Spider 2.3's, tubeless Race Face cockpit -- Deus stem, Next carbon bar, post, Evolve-X...

To my best riding buddy & me, epic means more than 2x our normal daily mileage; to our 3rd wheel (now in Iraq), epic would have been anything where he could hang with us for more than five miles. To my daughter, epic is anything that doesn't have a destination -- winds up in the area of 15-25...