"G.T." <[email hidden]> wrote in message Maybe I'm just getting old......but then it was 35F outside
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(my house)this morning here in Phoenix.
It's all relative. You wore less insulation than I did for our Chilao ride.
Greg
I would have overheated otherwise. There were a couple of times I wanted to shed my windbreaker at the top of those climbs......but was glad I didn't on the decents. I also hate wearing long pants so it takes some real cold (or cold rain) to get me into the riding tights.
"G.T." <[email hidden]> wrote in message Maybe I'm just getting old......but then it was 35F outside
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(my house)this morning here in Phoenix.
It's all relative. You wore less insulation than I did for our Chilao ride.
Greg
I would have overheated otherwise. There were a couple of times I wanted to shed my windbreaker at the top of those climbs......but was glad I didn't on the decents. I also hate wearing long pants so it takes some real cold (or cold rain) to get me into the riding tights.
Yeah, as long as my upper body is warm I don't care about my legs. In fact, I don't own any knee warmers or long tights. If it got too much below freezing here I'd have to break down and buy some.
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I'm just glad I'm not in Gunnison.........
brrrrr
That's for sure.
Greg
-- "Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late The battles we fought were long and hard Just not to be consumed by rock and roll" - The Mekons
Yesterday the low -27 and had a high of 13 and there's a foot of snow (which has settled from almost two feet a few days ago) on the ground. At least it's been warming up to -11 by the time I ride to work.
Nice RR..My toes are cold just from reading it :-) I think the stick-in-the-front-wheel auto-ejection I had on that ride was Karma biting me in the ass for making a little light of Pete's ejection a few weeks back. It was one of those moments when your hands are still in the handle bar position and the bike just disappears. I was in the air long enough to realize that this was going to hurt. I have not had a thump like that in quite a while. I was pretty freaking lucky to come on that with a mostly sore right side (the whole side) and a stiff neck. With all the pine straw in my helmet when I first stood up I felt like I was wearing a gila suit. You were right on, the second biff was straight up from me trying to be too macho and hoping right back on the bike, without fully shaking things off. And with those temps I was really shaking. Repairs to the bike are coming along quite well.
Bill "I have great health insurance, but the bike I have to pay to fix" Porter www.mountainbikebill.com
You were right on, the second biff was straight up from me trying to be too macho and hoping right back on the bike, without fully shaking things off. And with those temps I was really shaking.
You looked a little dazed and the tone of your voice when you said you were ok after the big biff was just not right. Wait until your hand stops shaking badly before jumping back on, it's a good gauge. If I had not done that on that chiquita banana trail, I probably would have biffed again in that one technical series.
Strange, but that RR warmed me up. Thanks! Cold is the state of Colorado right now. Yesterday topped in the 20s in Salida, same today. Tomorrow it's supposed to hit 13. Not that it's cold compared to MattB's burg (berg?) over the hill.
Shawn
When I see the weather report for GJ having a high of 22 today, I feel a little more fortunate. My guess for the temperature with wind chill at the top of our ride Sunday was in the low 20's or upper teens. It was freakishly cold for out here.
Cold is a state of mind. Having moved to California from Colorado earlier this year, one of the things I was looking forward to was not having to
endure cold weather. I can only remember seeing snow come out of the skies in the LA Basin twice in my lifetime, once in Jr High and another time in the mid 80's. It just doesn't get cold here. The moutains have other ideas though, at least attaining somewhat cold temeratures in Winter. Still, I doubt I'll ever be able to match the -19f I experienced XC skiing once at 10,000ft in Colorado. When your toes go numb, it doesn't matter if it's -19f or 40f though.
Well, actually if it's -19 and your toes go numb you have to do something about it or risk losing them. At 40 you'll probably be ok. You could still get hypothermia but not frostbite.
True, I was just being mellodramatic.
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Right before Bill stopped after a
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rocky turn, I had the good fortune to flip a good sized rock up into my right
shin. You know, the kind that makes a nice thud noise when it hits and
tends to leave a good strawberry and lump.
Ouch. I hate those.
When I pulled up to where Bill was and checked it out, it was already swelling up and bleeding.
Yeah, it was cold, even for an expatriate Coloradan.
That humidity kicks my ass when I head back East or to a coastal area. Definitely put more of a chill into and temperature.
Nice RR, and it sounds like Bill needs to get out on the MTB more!
If it was Sorni, I would have to agree, but it was Porter and my guess is that he had a little bit of "riding my new bike a little fast for conditions" syndrome going on.
Jumping out of the truck, I noticed that the 37f shown was enhanced by the aforementioned stiff breeze out of the North.
Sounds frigid.
Without the wind, it would not have been too bad.
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The surface of the trial didn't change much either, which was fine by me. A few stretches gave way to stunning views to the North off of the mountain we were on. If any of us happened to be an acrophobic, it would not have been a good thing.
When I pulled up to where Bill was and checked it out, it was already swelling up and bleeding.
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Whenever I get one of those I usually manage to whack it on my pedal later too.
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Nice RR, and it sounds like Bill needs to get out on the MTB more!
If it was Sorni, I would have to agree, but it was Porter and my guess is that he had a little bit of "riding my new bike a little fast for conditions" syndrome going on.
When I pulled up to where Bill was and checked it out, it was already swelling up and bleeding.
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Whenever I get one of those I usually manage to whack it on my pedal later too.
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Nice RR, and it sounds like Bill needs to get out on the MTB more!
If it was Sorni, I would have to agree, but it was Porter and my guess is that he had a little bit of "riding my new bike a little fast for conditions" syndrome going on.
JD
Oops, wrong Bill! Never mind then.
Matt (currently -9 here)
Funnily enough, on my Sunday ride I got one of those "hopping shin busters" (large flying rock) literally within the first minute of pedaling. DAMN, it hurt! I've never quite figured out why they pack such a wallop...
I was never (ahem) /invited/ on that other ride.
Bill "at least I didn't bash a pedal on the bruised shin -- prolly because no hike-a-bike sections" S.
Yes you were, first name on the email JD sent out (unless he changed locations).
Oh, THAT was the ride. (I never saw any replies and had no idea anyone from down this way was going.)
It was originally going to be in Greg's hood, but the venue got changed up when he had to bail. If you had shown interest, you would have been in the loop on the change.
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You've also been invited on rides the 17th and 18th.......gonna show?
Possibly the 18th if I can talk Miles into it. (Last time we did that ride, Miles declared he was through with mountain biking! LOL)
The rides for that weekend have been flip-flopped, the out and back is now Sunday and the point to point is Saturday.
