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CTodd's flying up there in 6th place... (11 sec in)
at 17 seconds about 50 riders make it through and then there's me... sitting behind (camera shot) a Caster's guy with an Annies guy trying to ride the same line as me...
the frame before the counter clicks to 18 you see Annie's guy stick his right lever into my thigh... maybe he had cross brake setup but he did that and went tumbling over the bars...
if ya wait through the tree section (not sure what the director was filming) you see said Annie's dude get back up and join the field in about last place...
I shoulda gone completely anerobic up the start... would gained me a dozen or more places and maybe woulda meant me catching the tubular rolling freak ctodd...
As far as cold weather goes...
BMR
BMR
what happens? Your basal rate increases, you burn more calories, and as long as you eat you'll be fine.
People are fat cause they like to be warm, they like to think its healthier to live in a house that's 72 degrees instead of 67 all winter... they think that being outside in the cold on a regular basis will get em sick...
no...
And i like how Solobuster tries to pull the whole Ivy crap out of his ass when he tries to razz Geewillikers its funny in a very sad way... like he feels inadequate...
oh and since when do a bunch of lycra wearing freaks get all heebie jeebie about skivies... dumb-bunch parade around with their junk on display... no hiding who's got nothing to hide... well those who buy the bibs with the wicked fat pad on there that warps around more than a unicycle saddlel... ya gotta wonder about them...
Um... nothing to hide folks... duh...
i think i need to switch my commuter brakes around to be like the cross bike... it's pretty intuitive now, but i do use the front brake a hell uvalot on the 'muter bike relative to the cross bike...
That and i'm shocked to see NAsty (wick nasty that is) riding 175mm crank arms... wtf? but then he's running 42/46? but with a 12-27... ahh
maybe i should get a 12-27 and stick a 42 on instead of the 38 and drop the 49.
Yeah the 49 is a bit big eh? It worked in that uphill sprint though... but that said i've got the leg speed for a lower gear too... and prolly should dig out something smaller... maybe not sewing machine leg speed like that FnF freak... but its passable for some six and a half foot tall freak.
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49 is kind of big for a cross bike, I have a 46 an am pretty happy with it.
blah blah blah -
when you grow up and get some leverage...
;-)
I run 175mm cranks...
yeah but seamantodd
you are a freakin midget - not as short as zooski or yogurt smoothie
Nasty is tall...
BTW Big Mig used 180s
You may be the same size as your heroes, but you're still going 25% slower than they are. So what gears they use has nothing to do with you. Why let them do your thinking for you? Can't you tell what gear is right? Maybe you need a power tap...
25% slower - damn i suck...
today i'm feeling about 95% slower...
from the race i know #1 a 38-46 with a 12-27 woulda been just about right for me...
48 was too tall based on me only getting down to the little cogs in the start sprint and the finish sprint - where i coulda just pumped out a bit more leg speed to compensate...
although wicknasty got nailed by Marky Mark in the sprint and if he'd had a 48 with 180s mark'd never have caught him... ;)
but yeah...
ineed a power tap...
right after i get myself some of those Dugast 34c tubulars and some Zip 404 tubular wheelsets...
I have a 38x47 and warmed up with a 12-27. The 47x24 was too big for the chicane sections before the barriers, so I planned on using the little ring there. Just before the start, I flatted and decided to use my fat clinchers front and rear, and they had a 12-32 on them. With this monster cog, I could have stayed in the big ring as 47x28 was plenty low. But, out of caution I shifted to the little ring for the chicane and then overshifted on my way out and dropped the chain into tangled oblivion...
There are a few things one could takeaway from that. #1 is the conventional wisdom that says long cage derailleurs are bad news for cross, but in this case loose chain had nothing to do with it, it was just a maladjusted front changer and an overly aggresive slap of the STI lever in the heat of battle. #2 is the obvious that most front changers are now engineered to work well with 39/53 and barely work with anything else. That's life. #3 as for gearing, with 9 or 10 speed 12-27 is the way to go. The only difference from a 12-25 is the 21-24-27 instead of 21-23-25. In cross there is no need to have close ratios, as in the big ring the 21 to 24 shift doesn't even feel drastic, and you want to have the lowest possible gear in order to stay in the big ring as much as possible, and the 24 gives you that little bit more over the 23 without fully crossing it up. In the little ring you should only be using the 3 largest cogs anyway, except on the very rare course that is muddy and slow enough to stay small ring all the way around.
I don't think I got anywhere near the 47x12 at the start or finish. And getting outsprinted by Markie is nothing to be ashamed of (and like you, he is a lover of giant gears). I think a 44x12 might be a little small, but most of the time it would be OK, and a 45 or 46 at the most would have you in the big ring all the way around on most courses.
BTW, FWIW, when I bought the bike from Mark, it had the 38x47 on it already, and the cassette was a custom 12-13-14-15-17-19-21-23-26 that he had pieced together with uniglide cogs (file the spline) and 9s spacers.
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