Daily Ride Thread

i'm not a racer either but i didn't accidently end up on a a specialized tarmac elite because i was wanting to slow dance at the rodeo, so to speak. good first road bike for myself but i want titanium. this carbon is gonna break, i can feel it.

work is shadowing everything at the moment but soon.

Good stuff... I'm not a racer at all, or at least not anytime soon 😉 but I'm getting more and more into cycling with each and every day. Just went on a quick "after work" ride 16.21mi in 01:02:33. Getting a little better, plus just got on a scale, and gained about 8 lbs. since I started riding. Legs feel great 🙂

-Greg

well that's cool. i jog to run the at the moment over ride as that is what my body feels as if it needs the most righ now but come time, i will dominate. 😄

when? dunno. 🙁

that's the plan at least. 🙂

Hope to get some saddle time tomorrow, gonna be working in Gloucester so I have a long drive to get home afterward.

Is it at all possible for you to take your bike and gear with you to work ? If it is, I'm telling you route 127 and 127A around Glouster/Rockport/Manchester are the best I've ridden so far. Ride through some waterfront streets where the houses don't go below $2 mil and some nice 2-3% grades even. It's a beautiful ride 😎

-Greg

gman0482 said:

Is it at all possible for you to take your bike and gear with you to work ?

Don't I wish sometimes. That would be cool if I could do that one of these days. But, I wouldn't trust a construction site to leave my bike unattended on whilst I'm working, even with a good lock. Not to mention, places to change into my riding duds are few and far between.

gman0482 said:

Ride through some waterfront streets where the houses don't go below $2 mil and some nice 2-3% grades even. It's a beautiful ride 😎

-Greg

I might attempt that in October during my next visit to the Witch City.

memorial area in houston is the rich neighborhood. rudy t (x- rockets head coach) and that type of money dwellings, i'd guess in the 10 mil range by now.

the death ride goes right through there.

I'll be working in Gloucester again on Monday. I thought about bringing the bike, but that's gonna be a no-can-do because I have to play Chauffeur to my 'village idiot' co-worker. 😠

cyberlegend1994 said:

I'll be working in Gloucester again on Monday. I thought about bringing the bike, but that's gonna be a no-can-do because I have to play Chauffeur to my 'village idiot' co-worker. 😠

that's what tandem bikes are made for!

i know the feeling cyber, all i can think about all day long is riding all day long but work is just taking it out of me as in 10's and 12's straight and i gotta work this weekend too, tomorrow at least.

i'm an electrician btw so it's not easy office work, it's ladders and up and down with material and tools and in the heat and it can be brutal, like the ironman! 😉

sunday sunday sunday, i hope.

roadhouse said:

that's what tandem bikes are made for!

I don't have to drive him up there, I just have to drive him back to the warehouse so he can retrieve his car. He's gonna be carpooling up there with one of the other guys.

roadhouse said:

i'm an electrician btw so it's not easy office work, it's ladders and up and down with material and tools and in the heat and it can be brutal, like the ironman!

Ain't that the truth, a lot of people don't realize that not everyone in this world works in a cushy office job where they go to the same place every day. Also, being the company's resident fire alarm system expert, I do a lot of the emergency service work so I can get called out of a construction site at any time during the day.

I hear ya on that ! I had a cushy office job once and didn't last very long :eek: . I can't go to work and stay in one place all day. I run 9 supermarkets for Polar Beverages so I'm constantly moving. Always leave the rack on my car, but wouldn't trust to leave my bike on it, even w/ a lock. Tues. and Sun. are long rides, and everything else is no more than 15 miles.

well, i just got off of work (9.5 straight, single phase 60 amp circuit for both air handler and condensor and 120 v circuit < wire pulls> for water heater plus a few dedicated circuits, disconnects and the likes and all on top of a ten foot ladder and on top of a roof) and it's now beer thirty at my place but i Sir Will ride tomorrow though.

I hope. 😉

ug. do i have to?

do you have to what ??

ride my bike. i want to and i will but it may take me a bit to get there. maybe in the evening.

btw, what time is it where you are? it's 8:43 a.m. in Houston right now.

Im in MASS so it's 9:46 here. I gotta coach a LL ball game @ 12, so kinda want it to rain 🙄

that's right, you're an hour ahead of us.

so many people from all over the world on this forum which makes it really unique. i like it.

Yea it's great. I have to get my uncle signed up on this, he's in Poland and rides around 80 km average. He has his team and everything. Thanks to him and this years Tour de France, I'm riding now.

your uncle is on a bike team? he's a racer?