Spinning

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:59:25 -0400, Badger_South <[email hidden]>

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But did you not do some of these things in the past?

We used to race our BMX bikes around the neighborhood when I was
little. That was fun--full-blown, single-speed sprints. I haven't
got the legs or the lungs to do that competitively.

I only became a road rider, really, much more recently.

What we did do was ride jumps and drops. "betcha can't ride that" is
a hell of a game: down stairs. Down into construction sites. Up
kerbs. off ramps. Curbsurfing (hop the curb with your front wheel,
drag the sidewall along the face of the curb, hop off).

Pretty tame by today's freestyle BMX standards, I admit. But fun.

(Totally tangentially: I find its' hard to do any of that with my
present bike, probably because it's much bigger. I could probably
chuck around a bike that was technically too small for me, but on a
"decently" sized bike, I find it hard to jump or trackstand or any of
it. Probably a combination of lack of practice and different bike
setup)

Quoted message said:

I suspect those that ride for the reasons you do will still be on the
bike in 10 or 20 years. I hope to have a fusion of both, and can
imagine riding in a group in a few years, and maybe entering a race in
5-10 years from now with a lot more training; but I like to 'fake' it
even riding by myself.

Mind you, I'm not saying that competitive people don't ride forever,
either. I know a guy who used to race professionally and is into his
second career as a high school teacher. He commutes to school every
morning, riding hard. He still likes riding.

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Right now, my sprints are against cars whom I intuit are going to
right hook me from behind. I've intuited quite a few of them, but they
still persist in this passive-aggressive stuff - one person riding
much too close around a bend to the left, no other cars on the rode -
I could have touched the car. Oddly, I could have found the person
since they were driving into a dead end section of a housing
development. Just was too busy enjoying myself to get mad as I prob.
should have. ;-P

I always love the look of surprise that I get from motorists who think
they're going to cut me off when they find me level with them and
pulling away in a flat. That doesn't last, of course, since if they
had to slow down for traffic, I have to slow down, too, or risk
rear-ending some poor [censored].

-Luigi

Quoted message said:

-B

Quoted message said:

You'd get the same benefits on a trainer, with music, or in front of a
video tape or CompuTrainer.

Agreed, assuming one has the knowledge and dedication to properly train as
you describe.

There is no single path to nirvana.

Chris Neary
[email hidden]

"Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia" - H.G. Wells

Chris Neary said:

There is no single path to nirvana.

Someone write that down.

Bill "singletrack to Martha's Grove, on the other hand..." S.

Luigi de Guzman said:

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luigi, you need to make better use of your brother.

I'm eight and a half years older than this particular brother in
question. All confrontations have thus far been utterly unfair in all
respects.

man, suck it up & dust his ass. if you need help there's a wonderful post
out there by fabrizio detailing how he drafted an 8 year old girl in a
finishing sprint.

(i tried to find it but ryan's damn sig has increased the number of false
hits on fabrizio to impossible levels).
--
david reuteler
[email hidden]

23 Jul 2004 16:17:10 GMT,
<[email hidden]>, David Reuteler

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I'm eight and a half years older than this particular brother in
question. All confrontations have thus far been utterly unfair in all
respects.

man, suck it up & dust his ass. if you need help there's a wonderful post
out there by fabrizio detailing how he drafted an 8 year old girl in a
finishing sprint.

Luigi began the thread in which that message appears.
(Subject: "wanna race?"😉
http://tinyurl.com/6rqyk

Quoted message said:

(i tried to find it but ryan's damn sig has increased the number of false
hits on fabrizio to impossible levels).

I hit it by searching for the word "kids" among Fab's posts.
--
zk

(Mimi Forsyth) said:

It's awfully nice to close your eyes & ride at whatever cadence/whatever
resistance/ with friends, with music, in air conditioning. No worries about
trucks, broken glass, balance & such.

Afterwards, for dinner, do you enjoy nutrient emulsion administered
through a nasal tube?

Then a few video games, a quick bout with the odor-free sex mannequin,
and off to sleep in the sensory deprivation tank!

I'll have the real thing, thanks. Trucks, broken glass, "balance",
and all.

Chalo Colina

Zoot Katz said:

Luigi began the thread in which that message appears.
(Subject: "wanna race?"😉
http://tinyurl.com/6rqyk

that's the one.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

(i tried to find it but ryan's damn sig has increased the number of false
hits on fabrizio to impossible levels).

I hit it by searching for the word "kids" among Fab's posts.

out-googled. ohhh, the shame.
--
david reuteler
[email hidden]

In article <[email hidden]>,

David Reuteler said:

Luigi de Guzman said:

Quoted message said:

luigi, you need to make better use of your brother.

I'm eight and a half years older than this particular brother in
question. All confrontations have thus far been utterly unfair in all
respects.

man, suck it up & dust his ass. if you need help there's a wonderful post
out there by fabrizio detailing how he drafted an 8 year old girl in a
finishing sprint.

(i tried to find it but ryan's damn sig has increased the number of false
hits on fabrizio to impossible levels).

Might I suggest "-President" as a search term? or -"Fan Club"?

--
Ryan Cousineau, [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com
President, Fabrizio Mazzoleni Fan Club

David Reuteler said:

Zoot Katz said:

Luigi began the thread in which that message appears.
(Subject: "wanna race?"😉
http://tinyurl.com/6rqyk

that's the one.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

(i tried to find it but ryan's damn sig has increased the number of false
hits on fabrizio to impossible levels).

I hit it by searching for the word "kids" among Fab's posts.

out-googled. ohhh, the shame.

Don't feel too bad, David. I can be out-googled by my 13-year-old son.
As long as I'm around, there will be someone you can out-google.
*snorfle*

-km, the search engine moron

--
the black rose
GO LANCE GO!!!
proud to be owned by a yorkie
http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts

the black rose said:

Quoted message said:

out-googled. ohhh, the shame.

Don't feel too bad, David. I can be out-googled by my 13-year-old son.
As long as I'm around, there will be someone you can out-google.
*snorfle*

-km, the search engine moron

yea, but i'm a "UNIX Professional"(tm) (& thus not Certified) .. i've been
using google since nearly day one, so i'm gonna fall back to the tired and
overused "i was on my way to work & didn't have time to do it right" excuse.
as i said: the shame.
--
david reuteler
[email hidden]

24 Jul 2004 15:48:00 GMT,
<[email hidden]>, David Reuteler

Quoted message said:

the black rose said:

Quoted message said:

out-googled. ohhh, the shame.

Don't feel too bad, David. I can be out-googled by my 13-year-old son.
As long as I'm around, there will be someone you can out-google.
*snorfle*

-km, the search engine moron

yea, but i'm a "UNIX Professional"(tm) (& thus not Certified) .. i've been
using google since nearly day one, so i'm gonna fall back to the tired and
overused "i was on my way to work & didn't have time to do it right" excuse.
as i said: the shame.

If it's any consolation, that was the first time I'd ever bothered
using Google's text search function. Chalk it up to beginner's luck
and feel secure in your übergeek status
--
zk

Zoot Katz said:

24 Jul 2004 15:48:00 GMT,
<[email hidden]>, David Reuteler

Quoted message said:

the black rose said:

>out-googled. ohhh, the shame.

Don't feel too bad, David. I can be out-googled by my 13-year-old son.
As long as I'm around, there will be someone you can out-google.
*snorfle*

-km, the search engine moron

yea, but i'm a "UNIX Professional"(tm) (& thus not Certified) .. i've been
using google since nearly day one, so i'm gonna fall back to the tired and
overused "i was on my way to work & didn't have time to do it right" excuse.
as i said: the shame.

If it's any consolation, that was the first time I'd ever bothered
using Google's text search function. Chalk it up to beginner's luck
and feel secure in your übergeek status

My husband is a supreme ubergeek. He's such a mainframe computer nerd
that he has trouble coping with PCs. He spent a couple of decades using
monitors and keyboards wired directly to mainframe. True story: when
his workstation was replaced with a PC, he was madly typing away one day
when his computer stopped accepting input. He tried everything he could
think of, went away for 20 mins to do something else, came back, stared
at it, couldn't figure it out. Finally someone wandered past his
cubicle, noticed he was flummoxed, took a quick look... and turned off
the scroll lock. Problem solved. I love my husband dearly, but I swear
he's the biggest geek in the universe.

-km

--
the black rose
GO LANCE GO!!!
proud to be owned by a yorkie
http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts

Pbwalther said:

Quoted message said:

It's awfully nice to close your eyes & ride at whatever
cadence/whatever resistance/ with friends, with music, in air
conditioning. No worries about trucks, broken glass, balance & such.

Hey, bicycling is all about being alert and watching for hazards.
Also, I get to see sunrises, wildlife, great vistas, new areas and
so on. In the process, I encounter surly drivers, errant stinging
insects, rain, glass, flats and other minor inconveniences.

I guess spinning is bicycling with all the interesting parts taken
out.

<oink>

Fitness models in bicycle shorts in spinning classes.

</oink>

All kidding aside, the guy who was inquiring about becoming a
spinning instructor to stay in shape over the winter might really be
on to something. You get a very vigorous workout a couple of times a
week with a built-in social group, and you're reasonably committed to
having to show up and do it.

When it's already dark out before you leave the office to go home
from work, it's entirely too easy to give in to the sleepies and blow
off exercise, particularly if it means staring at the wall in your
garage because there's no room for a trainer and a bicycle in front of
the TV.

Though I'm already giving thought to obtaining a throwaway
cheapo mountain bike to sacrifice to the sleet, slush, and salt. 39
hilly miles each way during the winter, in the dark, though. Hmm.

--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "allspammersmustdie" before responding.)
[email hidden]
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.

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