2) Your road bike is equipped with an 11-21 cassette and 42t/55t chainrings (this rule does not apply if your last name is McCormack)
is a 12-25 any different? or is it a 12-23 i never remember...
but lately i've actually felt i needed one there in the middle of the top in the back... prolly means i have a 12-25 and i wanna be in a 55-18 instead of a 55-17 or 19. Which makes sense as the 55-17 is 87.4" and the 55-19 is 78.2" that's a big jump... i suppose i could always get the 13-23 cassette. i dunna need the 11 or 12... i just have to spin faster in the 13 ;-)
I'm feeling the dreaded summer scourge creaping on... glands a bit swollen, tired... although the tiredness could just be the lack of coffee. Running out of coffee at home isn't such a bad thing eh? Can't make/get any till i get to the office and fire up the pot, cruise through the troubleshooting panic help me emails... prep for the transition to the other facility and... what i'm not looking forward to, talkin about the rates and options with the loan agent... just freaking insane... discount points, ARM, 80/20... one thing it re-inforces, we don't have much cash on hand. And looking back at the returns from the last few years... no wonder. They paid me peanuts not to mention is was driving 40,000 miles a year on my own coin. Sure it was me doing the work, and getting 48-50 mpg, but still that's a huge freaking chunck of coin ontop of a house that sucked ever last ounce of equity plus and extra 10-15 grand or so...
sorry - don't mean to get all into that, but i'm wagering part of this crud that is getting hold is from a weakened immue system... stress is a fucking nightmare... turns out i would deal with it as a kid by puking. Anytime i would get super nervous or anxious i'd puke... fun stuff eh? Just found that out from my mother.
well - i hope i can kick this bit and be able to show at the TT on thursday, but something lately has managed to find its way to keep me off that course. First the weather. Then, i forgot what it was last week and then they are also calling for a team meeting on Thursday night.
gonna grab some more coffee - yall be chillin - and oh, Saloirboy's birthday dinner sounds freaking kickass... i wonder if he used a feltslave product or my current favorite. Which i had with some bananas, rasins and grapennuts... on top of a nice big bowl of whole milk Hawthorne Valley Yogurt...
That and reading another yogurt container (it was on sale at the store and flavored so we got some) i noticed there is one heck of a lot of potasium in there.
That's a damn good thing. Yogurt kicks ass. Esp Organic whole mile stuff. I still like the taste and flavor of the Hawthorne Valley stuff, and its a step beyond organic. Its BioDynamic. Give that page a look over.
Yeah yeah cosmic forces. Think about one cosmic force that is visible. Tides. Yeah that's a freakign cosmic force. It ain't all voodoo crap, much of it can't be explained, yet. But results, emperical data is pretty impressive.
Okay - (feltslave has worn off a bit - remind me not to read more than three or four entries from someone's blog in the future) - Organic is great, but Biodynamic is better. The next level.
Oh and now that the impending departure from our building/apartment/3 unit house, is tangible, the folks above and below are getting annoying... how nice will it be to be on the second floor with no one but the stars above, nothing below moving around... the luxury of privacy, and owning your own shit...
practice Peace - but not at the expense of humor :p
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Yeah but to get an 18 cog on a 9 speed, you need a 13/23. (13-14-15-16-17-18-19-21-23). With a 13/25 9s, you don't get the 18. With 8s the situation was even worse.
My 10s 12-13-14-15-16-17-19-21-24-27 carpet bombing approach works very well with the 52 chainring. 52x21 and 52x24 are more than enough 90% of the time around here. At Housatonic, I would go to the 52x21, and if it started to look grim, then carefully go to the 38 (shifting this setup is not foolproof) until the crest.
I also have a 12-13 10s which is really cool, but I lose my crossover bailout gear, and lose my lowest gear just to get the 18.
On my 9s bike my preferred setup for training was a 41/52 with 13-14-15-16-17-19-21-23-25 and for racing I would use the 12/23. I HATE the 12/25 because it has no 16, which which is far worse than no 18.
On yesterday's subject, Mercx reportedly used a 13-18 6s with TWO 17 cogs fitted side by side, just to have a straighter chain run (one of the big ring, one for the small). How anal is that?
I drempt about cross last night
I was at the race
but not racing
it was a weird dream
Two mistakes - should be 12-23 10s (not 12-13) and I ran a 41/53, not a 41/52 on the Slim.
ahhh a 13-18 straight block... mmm the two 17 is messed up but completely understandable...
straight blocks rock...
we'll see your bigness at Nats this year Gwadz?
did i say 13-25? i mean 13-23 to get the 18...
anyway - thanks for reading and providing me with a bit of extra thought about bike geeky stuff while i go attack the city (should bring the camera and get some gwadz type shots...)
Oh yeah, you did say 13-23. With a 42/55, that would be pretty nifty, but I know that I would often find myself in the 55x21 wishing I had just a little more without going to the little ring. If you aren't racing, even a 53x13 is plenty of gear. It's way over 50kph before you spin out.
What Thursday night TT are you talking about?
TT (side bar on right, scroll down)
that's the one - its put on by Bikeworks in Swansea, the Bikeworks/Blount team.
Word is its an 8 mile point to point starting at:
Map of 500 Tremont St Rehoboth, MA 02769-1526, US
Its pretty fast, much faster than the Tuesday night Prov Velo Seekonk TT. The road's reasonable and the shoulder's pretty wide...
At this point unless i get a kick ass night of sleep and feel 80% tomorrow i may just bag it. I'm really hoping to get a decent night sleep and to feel better... heck maybe i'll go out and do a shitty first time so i can go faster next time ;)
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