Cool how your heart was just hanging out, and then shortly after you started riding, it was like "holy shit, I gotta start really pumping."

Yeah, the route I took isn't a soft start. When we go to Shindagan we have a long tough start, it'll be fun to get the data on that.

The heart rate went way up on the downhill, was that fear?

If you look closely it tracks elevation gain and loss pretty well. The initial climb gets me up to 165bpm or so. It drifts down on the downhill pieces but shoots back up with even slight climbs mid-descent. The big spike is on the really long steep climb from my lowest elevation. There is a spot at 6 ' where I almost ate it when I got a stick in my shoe and 8' which I think is a log crossing which may have popped it up for a little bit. I think if I sync to the phone app I can take pictures and it will place them along the route.

This is the long climb from the bottom. Photos don't do it justice but the elevation map gives a better sense of it. I'm a little fitness challenged at the moment but this loop should get me squared away. The a-hole in the black and white jersey lapped me.

Lapped you and stuck his tongue out too, how uncouth. :lol:

You could pick up one of these for about $10,000.

OR

You could pick up one of these for a LOT less and use your current bike:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/l...iant=control#/

I enjoy the pics of Benny. He reminds me of my friend's bordie. He's been gone for about five yrs now. The dog, not the friend.

He was a great dog.

My love for this dog is way over the line but damnit he's a good friend.

Loyal doesn't begin to describe BCs. I've never met one that wasn't a great buddy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHQ...ature=emb_logo

Don't room with Fabio Wibmer if there's a lockdown.

I lost track of how many times I said "No fucking way!".

Way, I reckon.

Way.

How many cases of Red Bull did that take? :rolleyes:

Probably never drinks the stuff...

This is what you get when Danny MacAskill and Joseph Herscher have a baby on the YouTube.

Today's work after missing a couple rides. I still had trail work to do in the lowest elevation and the swamp but it's smoothing out.

Recovery time 62h, is that hours?

Here's a handy accessory, a wrist mirror for watching for Pumas tracking you and lay out lines for escaping them.

Yeah, that seems long though.

I was reading about the Hellbender 100 in the Carolina Mountains.
It's a 100 mile foot race but seems to be mostly off road on paths a mountain bike could handle.
I think it said the first 5 miles was on pavement. It would be a challenge, lots of fresh air. :D

It should be done in thinner air though. Leadville

But Leadville is so far away you'd be tired before you got there. ;)

Well you could repeatedly ride the Skyline Access Trail to the Ben Lomand trail like Ben Hildred did for 19 straight hours completing one Mt Everest. Lil G and I hiked it as part of our Ben Lomand day.

https://www.trailforks.com/trails/skyline-access-road/

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/video-...rue-story.html

He also did 55,000 meters in 30 days before work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

worth a watch

Perhaps he can find a kindly shrink to cure him. :facepalm:

I used to work with an Engineer at Westinghouse who was around 60 and legally blind. He had a two car garage
full of bikes including 2 of these. he'd actually ride the damn things around the block on the street. Risky business.

Brenden Fairclough joins the stay at home party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

Did he grow up to be Al Pacino?

(Scent of a Woman)

Tom Cruise, then?

This Al Pacino...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

10,000 calorie challenge, do not try at home.

Do as I say not as I do...

Seems like an unlikely traffic safety spokesman, but as a kid I'd have listened to him. He Evel Freaking Knievel!

Sparking bikes...

Nice.

Looking at the front sprocket, I think the rest of the caption reads..

"Help me help you, but first give me a push, please."

????

More bike madness:

Ridiculous!

Got the best of my partner this morning.

I got yer (indoor) pump track...

Heh, tuckered doggeh is tuckered.

The three old bastards rode today.

Everesting has now become a thing.
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/rebecc...19-relief.html

Lord, no.

At least that first guy got to coast on the way down, presumably.

I think they all do some coasting time. Just a brutal exercise though.

The most I have climbed in a day under my own power is about 3,500 feet. I can't imagine doing that 8 or 9 times (in 23 hours)

Granted, I was on foot, and she was on a bike, but that's still amazing.

Jules did it in 9 hours and Katie in 10... wow

Top male runner 13:45 dang

Good grief, 29,000 ft INDOORS! :shock:
Where can they do that more than like 15 or 20 feet at a time?

They could cheat...

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And give the winner a fancy prize.

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Probably staged but a good reminder...

More Danny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGj8...ature=emb_logo

Boy, Danny is really going to be hurting when all those things in the blooper reel come back to haunt him. :thepain:

Cobble stones...
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Hey, how do I get this thing out of 2nd gear?
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Some guys can just ride.

That blooper reel thought makes me consider my brother. Lyme disease lit up everything in his personal blooper reel and there's a lot of film.

Yeah, guys with a lot of lumps seem to suffer the worst from Lymes.

Places in Europe with more people than land are seriously into bicycles, not just for riding
point A to point B, but doing work we use a $50,000UP truck for.

When you absolutely positively got to get there and kill that fire quickly.

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This independent front suspension trike looks like it's going to be the basis of some kind of hauler.

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332 failed attempts at the log slide...

Not a quiter.

They must be paying him a lot. I got to thinking last night, those hundreds of failed attempts, he had to push that bike back up the damn hill, too. :smack:

I feel like once he has a problem in his head he has to solve it. I'm not sure how lucrative his sponsorships are, it seems like a shoestring operation. He has a clothing contract with Endura.

Wonder how many kids were victims of or on these things?
WTF, no blue?

I’m a little surprised that they haven’t been reintroduced to capture the nostalgia market.

Gen X would remember them fondly, but I guess their kids are too old now to be getting bikes like that. Plus, Gen X was never that interested in nostalgia. The Boomers probably aren’t buying bikes for their grandkids.

For all it's faults, the bike industry has improved quality and usefulness of bikes over the years these don't have a lot of appeal in a world where older brothers don't have street rods...