what a total clusterf*ck the day turned out to be... and here i am, at work a bit early and no chance in hell to get caught up...
no chance... and i'm gonna be selfish and self centered and check anyone's updates till later... if i have a chance. chance chance chance chance... Luck, odds, some day i'll win.
I spent the whole night in very strange dreams about the closing today. Its supposed to go off at 9am. The agent is supposed to call when its all over. if this actually happens today, i will be shocked, stunned and amazed. And one lucky guy. the dreams bugged the shit outa me. Totally vivid and completely ambiguous except it was definitely about the closing. Curious enough the one part i can remember is having to ride down a ramp system way up a few stories that was maybe 6' wide and with a 1' high railing... I'm tall, if ya hadn't figured that out and one fear that i have sometimes is heights... esp when center of gravity is in effect. I have no problem rock climbing or what not... anyway -
freaking interruptions, one of the things that broke yesterday (big scope) may not have broken or maybe it did. Insane though... very insane.
Soo following up on Solobreak's comments to yesterday's post... i'm actually wondering about Zinn's math, and wondering if it is actually his at all, based on the way the article is signed Dave or specifically:
Now do you see why folks plunk down $5000 to ride easily destroyed carbon wheels? My own crusade against rotational inertia motivated me to re-appropriate a discontinued 650c tri-bike for climbing purposes. I find the combined effect of wheel/tire weight savings and reduced moment of inertia (related to radius ^2) save an entire Hummer's worth of effort over my mountain course of choice.
David
See? That's the last Paragraph in the article which i appear to have not linked previously (i'm a DOOOOOOFUS - because either i linked it and can't find it on my own web log OR cause i didn't actually link it). Also supporting the thought that maybe he DIDN'T write that is the crazy notion that Zinn would have a 650c wheeled bike at all...
The notion of minimum wheel weight is great... and yeah i think maybe a heavier bike weight would be fantastic, but i'm a bigger guy and benefit less by having uber light parts than say a marco pantani or kerry l! Make them all use a one-design wheel. Or give them options. Force them to use a reliable equal weighted wheel and have random equipment checks and all that.
Just what we need - to add freaking MORE UCI regulations and UCI police... Patty O'Grady's stuff from years ago about the Obree stuff comes to mind.
Anyway back to that article in VeloSpews:
Still don't believe me? Try another experiment. Ride up your favorite mountain pass with a pound of fishing weights in your jersey pocket. Then do it again with the weights mounted out on the spoke nipples. You won't need a stopwatch to figure out how much the second configuration sucks.
I'm laughin my ass off (LMAO - but somehow i wanted to write it out) at that... a pound of fishing weights in your pocket or on the rim... Ya know... get some of those splitshot ones... the big ones... that i used to bite on to the line, hmm maybe that explains alot about fishing, stupification by using your teeth to secure the splitshot so the slip sinker stays in the right place.... back to the splitshot - get say 32 of them if ya got a nice 32 spoke wheel... and put em there just inside of the spoke nipple... They should clamp on nicely with no damage with a set of slipjoint pliers (slip - slip... get it... nevermind). Better yet... do that clandestinely to solobreak's wheels when he's not looking... maybe if he's riding with a little tiny rider he can use the splitshot idea to compensate for the total and complete lack of draft he gets... And you can be sure, next time i'm at a place that has fishing tackle... i'm gonna be looking for some big splitshot... cause it'd be freaking hysterical!!!
Oh i kinda left off at racing age, my bro got all confused and then i did and it was funny, except he didn't get it. I said, yeah, I'm 35. He said, no your not. I was very convinced i was... GD racing age. I haven't even sent in cash to the loonies at USFC/USAC (talk about identity crisis) and i'm thinking in terms of how old i'd be at 'worlds' (yes... i think i've lost it).
Two minutes... in two minutes the closing is supposed to start... I NEED MUSIC...
and today... I'm gonna be back to my old favorite from the summer at the old job:
king.org
something about listening to the DJs that i grew up with, hearing the weather from SEATAC airport, even if it's only 6:01 am there... the time change is strange... oooh BBC news is on there now... great... Chucky Taylor is headlining it. Interesting. Now there's a Rhode Island guy. I wonder if he was captured in a hole like Soddomizer Hoisinsane. Oh good i feel better, that Jill Carol girl is free and #2 story. News is depressing... phew, they are done.
Here, a bit of a personal anecdote from the ride home yesterday. Tooling along down the road, pseudo drafting down hope, the guy in the Chevy Luxury 1500 truck i'm following suddenly sees me and seemingly for no other reason accelerates, and to my surprise my jump is enough to not let more than a foot open up... and we're moving cause i'm in the 50x13 and spinning... Power is great, but power plus a high cadence kicks serious serious ass. It just surprised me that i was able to jump the way i after about just over 1 mile of high intensity and mostly going up. validates my effective rest! (yeah right). I'm slow and i know it, but this is a case in point where i find little bits of improvement.
Was it solobreak or some other type of individual that i've run across recently saying that cycling is a series of small improvements over years. That may be about right. And why lots of people just throw money after money at it. Hey if i spend money on bike parts instead of time on the bike riding, maybe i'll get faster. BWAHAHAHAHAH sad thing is... its true... while new bikes certainly are nicer to ride, and may give you a bit of improvement in the club Testosterone rides it ain't in the long run gonna be as helpful as gaining that improvement by sheer hard work and attention to the machine pushing the pedals.
The problem, people. There are FAR FAR FAR too many stupid people. And man do i get frustrated by them, and then equally impressed by intelligence. When i meet a genuinely smart person i feel batter about the human race.
Sure smart people do stupid stuff - Billy C from ar-kansas - he'd be a good example of a smart person who did stupid stuff... monica wasn't that fugly... He was just stupid in some respects...
Like most gifted people. The gift comes at the expense of some other capacity. Those child prodigies for example, their gifts come at the cost of a childhood and usually social skills. Or the brilliant mathematicians who have a hard time reading and writing words, but can listen and draw with absolute precision.
Well...
that covers about everything, probably more than once...
Damn - just read DC... Freaking YEAH - April ROCKS:
If you're like me, and it frightens me that some of you are, then you're excited about April.
This is the king hell month of cycling. Never mind that dull waltz in July (which, admittedly, is going to have more action this year than in the last five combined) April is where it's at. We got the Tour of Flanders coming up on Sunday the 2nd. Gent - Wevelgem gets us over the midweek hump on the 5th. Then it's right into Paris - Roubaix on the 9th. Amstel - Gold on the 16th, Fleche Wallone on the 19th and Liège - Bastogne - Liège on the 23rd.
Are you fucking kidding me? April is the shit. We got it all in four weeks. March madness my ass. I'm talking 'bout the Spring Classics. The races for the hard men. Big guy that can pound it across windswept cow tracks and cobbled tractor roads. Ah, it's going to be great. Just great.
It is going to be a very interesting month.
Big Guys... not those little climbing types... the hard men... the tough guys... cold shitty awesome weather for riding... Separate the fairweather fruits from the ones with a tough shell around their nuts!
okay now i'm gonna say peace out, unless i find something else just as profound
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