How was your ride?

This weekend i have been to Belgium to do all big Liege Bastogne Liege climbs without the boring parts🙂 Just over 3000 meters of climbing in 130km of riding. Climbs including:

• Ferme Libert Pepijn: very tough unknown climb, almost just as hard as the Redoute. Maybe even harder.
  
• Amermont
  
• Rossier
  
• Berinzenne
  
• Masquisard
  
• Hautregard
  
• Redoute: this one is though🙂
  
• Warnoumont
  
• Le Thier
  
• Xhierformont
  
• Rahiere
  
• Saint-Jaques
  
• Wanne
  
• Stockeu: actually not that insane climb. Nice Eddy Mercx statue after the hardest parts of the climb.
  
• Bellevaux
  

Sunday was a more easy day riding along the big roads and doing 800 meters of climbing in a 60km ride without insane gradients. I have never been to belgium and i am used to the flats but i like it very much🙂

I don't have pictures yet. Will post them when i have them.

Wow, that sounds awesome. I'm looking forward to the pictures!

Back to work, about 35 miles. My commute from Maryland and making deliveries in Washington DC for a local courier service. My legs were sore from yesterday. My biggest load today;
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Han RIver ride, east of Seoul. A rare moment when the trail is clear. 125 mile loop. Seoul has hundreds of miles of bike trails, but they are generally crowded and serious bike-on-bike accidents are frequent in the city.

45 miles of trailer hauling fun. Average speed 5.6mph, really fast for me. The best part was transporting a caption screen and stand from the Kennedy Center to Arena Stage. I took the scenic route, along the river.

How was YOUR ride?

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Han RIver ride, east of Seoul. A rare moment when the trail is clear. 125 mile loop. Seoul has hundreds of miles of bike trails, but they are generally crowded and serious bike-on-bike accidents are frequent in the city.

Sounds nice (except for the crowding and collisions [IMG]/img/vbsmilies/smilies/redface.gif[/IMG]). Did you do the whole 125 mile loop?

I did 103 miles of the loop this time. For some unknown reason (I do not read Korean) the ride was forced into traffic on a very narrow, windy mountain road for a few miles. Given that Seoul has the second highest pedestrian/vehicle fatality rate in the world, I turned back at that point. This saturday I'll try again. Seoul has great bike trails, but it is best to get out early in the morning before they fill up. In Seoul, the trails are flat. Outside of the city, you have flat trails mingled with 6% to 10% grades. Occasionally, some hills are very aggressive. In a few spots, the trail narrows to three feet. The laws of nature seem to dictate that I meet a mob of teenagers talking on their cells phones when on these narrow spots.[IMG]cyclingforums.com700Open ↗[/IMG]

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Sounds nice (except for the crowding and collisions [IMG]/img/vbsmilies/smilies/redface.gif[/IMG]). Did you do the whole 125 mile loop?

102 miles. The bike trail was routed into traffic due to construction so I turned back at that point. Nice rest area at that point.

Nice!

I rode with the Proteus Eagles today.
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27 mile group ride plus 14 miles commuting to and from the start/finish.

pictures are very funny, i like the eagle and who wears the waist with superman logo?haha, it is very cool......

I rode a "double century" today. That's a cycling expression meaning a ride that nets 200 or more dollars in commission. I delivered 3 bags of clothes, 4 tubs of mail, 45 boxes, and a few other assorted parcels. Rainy days requires extra effort to keep stuff dry and today was a rainy day.

20 jobs (I rarely do this many, less than once a month)
The largest job was 250lbs
8hr18mn elapsed time
36 miles
4.4mph average speed

A UPS truck backed into my trailer and damaged it but I did not realize what happened until I was way across town. It will cost about 45 dollars to replace the bent part unless I can somehow bend it back. I don't think my bike was damaged but I don't know how it was not. The part that got bent is the arm that connects trailer to bike. It is a thicker wider beefier tube than any of my frame tubes. I hope my frame is not damaged. I don't think it is.

Dispatch had to take some work off me. I could not complete what was assigned to me. I let them down and I feel like a failure.

So how was your ride today?

Today I rode a popular rout here in Albuquerque called the Fruit Loop (since it passes a cereal factory where it smells like Fruit Loops. My variation is a nice 25 miles up a dedicated city trail, down the Bosque Trail along the Rio Grande, then it skirts the downtown and heads up a sustained 4 mile hill back to my house.

BTW, this is my first post here in the forums!

Got out for two short rides in one yesterday. I enjoyed both very much.
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You can tell by the flag how stiff the wind was blowing. I left this area and traveled over to Narragansett Bay where the wind was blowing just as hard.
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I rode a "double century" today. That's a cycling expression meaning a ride that nets 200 or more dollars in commission. I delivered 3 bags of clothes, 4 tubs of mail, 45 boxes, and a few other assorted parcels. Rainy days requires extra effort to keep stuff dry and today was a rainy day.

20 jobs (I rarely do this many, less than once a month)
The largest job was 250lbs
8hr18mn elapsed time
36 miles
4.4mph average speed

A UPS truck backed into my trailer and damaged it but I did not realize what happened until I was way across town. It will cost about 45 dollars to replace the bent part unless I can somehow bend it back. I don't think my bike was damaged but I don't know how it was not. The part that got bent is the arm that connects trailer to bike. It is a thicker wider beefier tube than any of my frame tubes. I hope my frame is not damaged. I don't think it is.

Dispatch had to take some work off me. I could not complete what was assigned to me. I let them down and I feel like a failure.

So how was your ride today?

Hopefully you can get this sorted out quickly. You are far from being a failure. Some things just are not in our control. Good Luck.

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Wow, that sounds awesome. I'm looking forward to the pictures!

Back to work, about 35 miles. My commute from Maryland and making deliveries in Washington DC for a local courier service. My legs were sore from yesterday. My biggest load today;
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I can't understand a courier delivery like that! Is that load for one destination or multiple destinations... If multiple this would be a problem as when you leave packages on that trailer someone else could just stop by and steal your stuff. This happened to my Walmart groceries in my Burley Nomad, someone stole all of my groceries when I stopped by Performance Bike in Houston!

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A UPS truck backed into my trailer and damaged it but I did not realize what happened until I was way across town. It will cost about 45 dollars to replace the bent part unless I can somehow bend it back. I don't think my bike was damaged but I don't know how it was not. The part that got bent is the arm that connects trailer to bike. It is a thicker wider beefier tube than any of my frame tubes. I hope my frame is not damaged. I don't think it is. Dispatch had to take some work off me. I could not complete what was assigned to me. I let them down and I feel like a failure. So how was your ride today?

From the pic it looks like your trailer attaches to a chain stay. If that's the case, I think you'd notice any damage. A crease or dent would be obvious, and if the chain stay were bent, the rear wheel would be misaligned. It's too bad you didn't notice until later because any damage would have been on UPS's shoulders. I'd say there's no reason to feel like a failure. Sometimes sh!t just happens. Downtime happens. When I was working as a paramedic, my partner and eye were on an errand in our box ambulance with dualies on the back. We turned a corner, and I saw someone's wheel rolling fast through the intersection. Wouldn't you know it: it was one of the wheels off a dualie pair. No one begrudged is for missing a couple of calls in order to have the wheel remounted. Sh!t happened to us....well, actually the alcoholic company mechanic happened to us. I'll bet no one in dispatch begrudged you for the UPS driver's screw up.

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Today I rode a popular rout here in Albuquerque called the Fruit Loop (since it passes a cereal factory where it smells like Fruit Loops. My variation is a nice 25 miles up a dedicated city trail, down the Bosque Trail along the Rio Grande, then it skirts the downtown and heads up a sustained 4 mile hill back to my house.

BTW, this is my first post here in the forums!

Welcome to the forums and thanks for sharing your ride with us!

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Got out for two short rides in one yesterday. I enjoyed both very much.
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You can tell by the flag how stiff the wind was blowing. I left this area and traveled over to Narragansett Bay where the wind was blowing just as hard.
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You rode from Arlington, Virginia to Narragansett Bay!? Where did you go on your other "short" ride? [IMG]/img/vbsmilies/smilies/biggrin.gif[/IMG]

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From the pic it looks like your trailer attaches to a chain stay. If that's the case, I think you'd notice any damage. A crease or dent would be obvious, and if the chain stay were bent, the rear wheel would be misaligned. It's too bad you didn't notice until later because any damage would have been on UPS's shoulders.
I'd say there's no reason to feel like a failure. Sometimes sh!t just happens. Downtime happens. When I was working as a paramedic, my partner and eye were on an errand in our box ambulance with dualies on the back. We turned a corner, and I saw someone's wheel rolling fast through the intersection. Wouldn't you know it: it was one of the wheels off a dualie pair. No one begrudged is for missing a couple of calls in order to have the wheel remounted. Sh!t happened to us....well, actually the alcoholic company mechanic happened to us. I'll bet no one in dispatch begrudged you for the UPS driver's screw up.

My post was a bit misleading. The bent tow arm did not slow me down much. It was not only bent but also rotated where it attaches to the trailer. This caused my rear tire to hit the arm when I tried to turn right. I detached the trailer and jumped up and down on it until the arm was again parallel to trailer bed which gained me the clearance I needed to continue. I did not tell dispatch about any of this. I still hadn't noticed the arm was bent yet, but the bike was rideable. The reason I asked dispatch to remove some jobs from my itinerary was because I was running out of time to deliver everything on time. So it was my fault for accepting more jobs than I could handle. Bit off more than I could chew, so to speak. [IMG]/img/vbsmilies/smilies/redface.gif[/IMG]

I actually did not want to pull another "double century" today because I'm hoping to ride 200 miles on Saturday and I'd like some easy days between now and then.

I "only" did 19 jobs today, but more "zone busters" (long runs) and more "double rushes" than yesterday. 45 miles, the most I've done on the job since I started measuring in May.

Before I got my GPS, I figured I rode 20 to 30 miles during a work day. In fact 30 to 40 is much closer to the mark.

I shared my PB&J with "Obama" a black squirrel who lives on the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. He's named after the Obama who lives across the street. I did not have time to finish my lunch.
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The bent tow arm compared to the unbent unit it replaced. The bushings on the unbent one are shot, but I think I should use it as it is now in better shape than the new one.
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I did not find time to replace the bent arm yet. You can see how off center my trailer is sitting now.
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I got this load up to 23 mph. (Long downhill, Mass Ave from Observatory Circle.)
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