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re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 12/7/25 at 9:10 am to
Winter has pretty much arrived over here. 5 days of trainer, 3hrs yesterday on the gravel bike in Belgium weather, back on the trainer this morning…

Stupid

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 11/24/25 at 11:25 am to
Took the weekend off the bike to knock out some things around the house. Off work this week so just finished up 3.5hrs road/gravel
My vote doesnt count. 100%

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 11/17/25 at 7:02 am to
3.5hrs on the gravel bike saturday, 3hrs on the road bike yesterday. gonna be no hours today.... :nana:

re: Legal THC going away

Posted by gmrkr5 on 11/11/25 at 8:17 am to
does not read like there is a middle ground. i wonder if some states will move to legalize hemp now. this is all gotten pretty silly with regulated mj and completely unregulated hemp. gonna be hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 11/8/25 at 5:19 am to
The wife wants to go for a hike so i’m about to hop on the trainer for a couple hours then go walk around in the woods

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 11/7/25 at 6:36 am to
they have em around here. we coexist so far. the kids bother me less than some dork on an 1000w motor eMTB who run up behind on you on a trail ringing his dork arse bell. you aint passing i promise

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 11/4/25 at 3:28 pm to
hell yea glad to hear he's still rippin! bonus that he didnt break the bike!

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 11/4/25 at 5:48 am to
anybody riding bikes lately? starting to get cold over here. having to remember how to dress is always fun this time of year
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We were more about where Morgan Rd. dead ended and \ or beach behind Bellingrath.


yup.. buddies lived right there
sat on those train tracks getting wasted many a night.....

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 10/6/25 at 9:55 am to
yea that's definitely part of it too... enough power to sit in the draft and hang on but zero bike handling skills.

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 10/6/25 at 6:08 am to
with all the people that have moved to this area over the last 5 years, our fast groups have just grown to a pretty big size and quite a few will be able to hang on for dear life. Most everyone on this ride is "disciplined" to the point that they can hang on for ~80miles averaging 24mph, but some of them are just sketchy af. some people ride bikes better than others lol. sometimes there is lots of yelling...

we do an A+, A, and B on Saturdays and each ride will have 20-40 people depending on the day

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 10/5/25 at 2:01 pm to
There ya go! I haven’t been joining the Saturday group rides a ton the last couple months. The A+ group will leave with 30-40 people and sometimes it’s constant shenanigans. I’m not trying to go to the hospital cause people are over their limit staring at their stem.

3hrs on the mountain bike yesterday and 2.5hrs with my buddy and his son on the road this morning

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 9/30/25 at 12:32 pm to
makes sense.. when i saw the headline i thought i had a bit of deja vu because i was pretty certain this had been going on for a minute

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 9/30/25 at 10:11 am to
Did i see an article yesterday that said YT is shutting down?

Edit: Pinkbike

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 9/30/25 at 8:26 am to
that makes more sense haha

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 9/30/25 at 7:44 am to
wait, i misread... i thought you were saying that was the weight of the SS. yea 32.5 isnt bad for that much beef

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and you can't find aero bars that clip on to that handlebar diameter.


:lol:

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 9/30/25 at 7:13 am to
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Started at 34.8lbs and we got it down to 32.5


damn those suckers are heavy. i guess they are setup to take a lot of abuse. My "downcountry" 120mm Blur is like 27.5 and i'm not trying to make it light necessarily

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 9/29/25 at 7:39 pm to
You’re going to put clipon aerobars on this? Ok..



Whatever man, good luck

re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

Posted by gmrkr5 on 9/29/25 at 7:25 pm to
there is no way on the planet to mount aerobars on that bike and its incredibly proprietary cockpit, and if you actually owned one you wouldn’t even say something silly like i’m going to out aerobars on it.

Like i said, enjoy your bike bro