Friday, April 22, 2011
4/22/2011 25miles
I rode My new mapmyride.com route today and was cold, but it looks like we're going to be socked in by bad weather again. There was two nasty car wrecks in the first 5 miles of the ride and I had to walk awhile, I was on My toes the rest of the ride. Quite a few sidewalk closures also, but no near misses, I would love to know how many sidewalk squares I rolled over today.
Stats: 2:30minutes, Average speed 9.7, 24.67miles, max 21.5
Note to self: I changed the chain at 464mi
Stats: 2:30minutes, Average speed 9.7, 24.67miles, max 21.5
Note to self: I changed the chain at 464mi
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Road bike review highlights
Would You rather ride a trail, or a filthy bike lane?
litespeedchick: Our city has some recently installed bike lanes. The ones downtown drive me nuts because I don't know how to negotiate them as a driver. it seems unsafe now to make a right turn. Normally when you make a right turn, you move into the right lane first before you turn. Now and can't do that, and I'm crossing someone else's lane of travel. The bike lanes go "dotted" right before the intersections...what does that mean? As a cyclist, does it mean I'm not really in a bike lane anymore and better watch out?...
...Worse, a major thouroughfare that was formerly 4 lanes, is now 2 lanes of traffic, one center median, and bike lanes. To begin with it has angered drivers because it has impeded travel and I think that impacts my safety when drivers start to resent cyclists (multiple inflamed letters to the editor). But more importantly, the road was not quite wide enough to meet DOT specs for a bike lane the whole way. So the bike lane comes and goes. It will just randomly disappear forcing a bike to suddenly merge left into traffic. Where the bike lane is gone, there are "sharrows" , pictures of bikes that apparently warn a motorist to share the road, but do not indicate a bike lane.
Dossy: Normally the everybody oncoming has to yield, I read that laws very in different areas though. Our lanes I think were built to channel people to the bike trail which is all messed up this year again, and are fair game for parking. There's always roadkill too, on the other hand the way your city's done it sounds worse, I take to the sidewalk over the road but I'm kind of a weirdo.
JoelS: For the most part, the bike lanes here are well done. There are a couple of examples where they just don't work well, but in general they're great. The biggest problem is all the bozos that throw bottles out of their car windows and leave the bike lane littered with glass. These are probably the same people that yell at us when we're not in the bike lane (that has been covered with broken glass).
litespeedchick: Our city has some recently installed bike lanes. The ones downtown drive me nuts because I don't know how to negotiate them as a driver. it seems unsafe now to make a right turn. Normally when you make a right turn, you move into the right lane first before you turn. Now and can't do that, and I'm crossing someone else's lane of travel. The bike lanes go "dotted" right before the intersections...what does that mean? As a cyclist, does it mean I'm not really in a bike lane anymore and better watch out?...
...Worse, a major thouroughfare that was formerly 4 lanes, is now 2 lanes of traffic, one center median, and bike lanes. To begin with it has angered drivers because it has impeded travel and I think that impacts my safety when drivers start to resent cyclists (multiple inflamed letters to the editor). But more importantly, the road was not quite wide enough to meet DOT specs for a bike lane the whole way. So the bike lane comes and goes. It will just randomly disappear forcing a bike to suddenly merge left into traffic. Where the bike lane is gone, there are "sharrows" , pictures of bikes that apparently warn a motorist to share the road, but do not indicate a bike lane.
Dossy: Normally the everybody oncoming has to yield, I read that laws very in different areas though. Our lanes I think were built to channel people to the bike trail which is all messed up this year again, and are fair game for parking. There's always roadkill too, on the other hand the way your city's done it sounds worse, I take to the sidewalk over the road but I'm kind of a weirdo.
JoelS: For the most part, the bike lanes here are well done. There are a couple of examples where they just don't work well, but in general they're great. The biggest problem is all the bozos that throw bottles out of their car windows and leave the bike lane littered with glass. These are probably the same people that yell at us when we're not in the bike lane (that has been covered with broken glass).
If they wanted us to stay in the bike lanes, they should stop throwing trash into them!
Dossy: Yeah that too.
Bike Bumbs
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1024854
Dossy: Yeah that too.
Bike Bumbs
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1024854
Fixed: I suppose there is a fine line between touring and homeless.
Dossy: I'm perplexed by these people, they do this off the goodness of strangers. : Myself, riding 30 or 40 miles once a week & the repairs eat Me up. But most of the time I don't even think they ride, the last words out of My mouth are always '.. and don't bonk."
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
4/18/2011 7lost miles
I was a little down in the dumps yesterday(again) so I rode a little while before school, I went through downtown and home on cliff and didn't really expect it to be more than 3 miles. An I had some extra time today so I ran it on mapmyride.com, and it ended up being a seven mile ride. I wonder if I found those lost miles from the other ride that I don't think I'll get to this week anyways, Quenkie-dink?
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Film world
Looks like James Bond is played by George Hincapie in this movie.
And its really really really really long.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Weather & planning
Today I have been working on a ride which I'm going to do once the weather gets better. It hasn't been coming together well, it seems like every ride along a city street I get something in the eye.
And its messed up for 1/2 hour, so I tried to find a low cost solution for this but was unable to, beyond sunglasses I mean. This is about the extent I belive, of riding You could do in town and it still isn't very far, I figured it would be a longer ride for some reason.
This is a challenging year to ride, with this weight I've put on riding in inordenant weather is getting tempting. Even then finding safe places to ride, and riding safe is the problem. I'm bored today and looked into making one of those Hitler reacts videos about the weather, which in My case would kind of fit. But I didn't want to download the program to do it.
Oh yeah, this page is getting quite a few clicks, thanks for taking interest in Me. :)
And its messed up for 1/2 hour, so I tried to find a low cost solution for this but was unable to, beyond sunglasses I mean. This is about the extent I belive, of riding You could do in town and it still isn't very far, I figured it would be a longer ride for some reason.
This is a challenging year to ride, with this weight I've put on riding in inordenant weather is getting tempting. Even then finding safe places to ride, and riding safe is the problem. I'm bored today and looked into making one of those Hitler reacts videos about the weather, which in My case would kind of fit. But I didn't want to download the program to do it.
Oh yeah, this page is getting quite a few clicks, thanks for taking interest in Me. :)
Friday, April 8, 2011
4/8/2011 30miles
I rode My bike lane route pictured earlier, as I told a rider earlier it was pretty windy. I did 2 laps, the bike was great, traffic was ok, kind of felt like John Bonjovi. Stats: Average speed 11.3mph,(low) Distance 30.39, Max 27.5, Time 2:41
Friday, April 1, 2011
Uncoventional climbing
As I was working towards hopefully riding in the dakota five o race
I never got the chance to ride in that race, but this bridge is still a climbing spot. Especially with the closed stretch of biek trail in the area, of course if you run into someone walking that could be awkward but its never happend to Me. I did get a flat near the thing one time but whatever.
I decided one day to ride over the viaduct.
I never got the chance to ride in that race, but this bridge is still a climbing spot. Especially with the closed stretch of biek trail in the area, of course if you run into someone walking that could be awkward but its never happend to Me. I did get a flat near the thing one time but whatever.
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