Just got back form 25 miles outside with Mikey, Mike Aderhold, Stephen.
Bad.
Mikey, a former U.S. National Cycling Team member has been in here riding the Computrainer with Stephen for months. Stephen was the guy who barfed a few months ago in here on a Computrainer ride.
So we go out on this ride. “We’re just going 18 today guys…” so everybody says.
Boom. 24 mph, 26 mph. I can hang on at 26 and even pull at 24 but I am no good at 28. We reach the trunaround and stephen announces, “I’m late for work.”
Fuck. 30 mph. I’m off. They wait. Their version of mercy is 28 into the wind. Damn.
I made it back. I’m out of shape. Good ride though.
Stephen has a new Felt SC1 frameset, Mario gets the first Felt F2C that arrives, I was on my R2.5 and Mikey was riding a broken Pinarello cross bike. Aderhold was on his Cannondale after I talked him out of his new Felt SC1 frameset.
Riding behind him is a trifle worrysome. I am just waiting for the darn bike to break. WE got him a new frame, but he has been too leisurely to build it up. One day he will leave his bike here, and when he come back, we will have switched his parts over…
If it hadn’t been for my shorty FSA/Visiontech aerobars I would have been gone much sooner…
Legs, core and biceps day at the gym followed by a 5 mile tempo run on the beach…where it’s raining. Cold rain. Cold, blowing in from the Gulf of Alaska winter storm rain.
I’m surprised you were worried, it looked like the paint was the only thing holding it together. What frame did you sort him with? I guess you would save yourself some sleepless nights if you pull an all nighter to swap components!
Lucky Mario to get the first Felt C frame, he’ll put some iles on that for sure.
SuperDave really lives up to his name, doesn’t he? I can understand Mikey’s reluctance, perhaps you should throw in some superGreen, bucket and sponge and he might be tempted.
It would be about as hard to get a Northrup B-2 as it would a Felt B-2 right now. But I do have a 54cm Felt B-2 parked ten feet from me, but not a Northrup B-2!
That sounds sweeeet. I am yearning to get back on the road. I am just getting back into things after a bout with bronchitis in early december and then a fucking evil virus called labyrinthitis. It felt like I had to learn how to swim again . . . not that I could really swim in the first place . . .
I hear ya about getting bamboozled into a 20 mph ride that turns to 28 mph - tough, but…
At least you got buddies to ride with. I hit up 8 guys to go for a ride this weekend as the weather sorta broke (got to 40) and not one showed up. Heck - only one even responded to my email saying he was out of town.
Damn Tom, you got me there. After 4 years of referring to it as the Rockwell B-2 it was when the B-2 first flew on July 17, 1989, at Edwards AFB, California, and when Northrop Grumman finally delivered the first operational B-2 on December 17, 1993 olf habits die hard.
Glad you got a 54cm model, cos that wouldn’t fit me, would it (please say No, please say No, please say No).
Cold? You live in SanDiego. It may not be warm today out there, but cold is 0 degrees with -21 windchill. That’s your-skin-rips-off-your-race and major chill sets-in post race cold!! It’s 40 today, rainy and windy. I’ll trade some of this cold for some of that!!! I have been on Coronado Island early in the a.m. and see the Seals doing their routines in some chilly temps. I know it does get chilly there.
Jack Northrup- the guy who “borrowed” the flying wing design from a German (of course) aerodynamic engineer named Horst or Henschel or some such thing. It was the Horton something or other-
It tooks years of dedication and banging his head against a wall to sell a successful flying wing design for Jack Northrup, but with the B-2 Spirit, he acheived it. The most sophisticated, advanced aircraft ever built- with a significant amount of technology that remains classified, including what some aviation writers have characterized as “active stealth”.
Tom, have you been going through your back issuess of “Boy’s Own” again? Shame on you, what’s wrong with Dan Dare! Love the retro feel of that illustration though.
