Recent content by splintersp3

being of similar height, i find 160 to be a very comfertable weight. If you are cycling 5 days a week, you will still be able to eat alot and maintain. I have heard that to be a great climber one most have a 2lb/1inch ratio which for a person of your size means a scranwy 140 pounds. there is no...

how do you guys and girls like your seats, up down or neutral ? neutral seems to be most comfertable to me. someone recently told me that angeling up 10-15% can increase power, which i tested and did not find to be true in the slightest

give twitter a chance! once you have had the thrill of tweeting something like "just took massive ****...close to a foot long, dont know if the ole plunger will work for this one!" to your 3 followers you will understand the joy. :p

have recently begun using map my ride, but tonite was the final straw. After spending a frustrating hour of painstakingly mapping out over 60 miles of todays ride the dam thing had to stop running script and then finally froze. Elevations are not even close to being correct, often varying by 5-7...

Am all for helments in pro tour races today, but i wish pros were still allowed to take them off if a stage ends on a climb, like they did for a few years. Nothing was more thrilling to watch then when the big guns threw off there helments at the foot of a great climb such as the alp d huez. It...

i always wear a helment now but back when i was younger i resisted it and never would because i wanted to look cool like my favorite pros. My parents were good friends with a brain doctor who had seen many bad falls that lead to brain damage and becasue of this my parents were adamit that i must...

looking to ride 100milers and race. Have narrowed my new bike to 3 different models. 2009 trek modone 5.1 , 2009 look 566, and 2008 bianchi 928. all with ultegras and are in the 3000 $ range. Not much of a gear or bike expert so any reccomendations would be greatly appreciated

Iban Mayo has been a big dissipoinment for me. After he ran away from the field on the Alp d huez in the TDF 6 or 7 years ago I thought hed be a consistent GC man. he looked like a true natural climber