#255631 - 08/05/2005 03:28
new bike: day 1
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Last year I got my wife a bike for her birthday (which was now literally just a year ago). This year she got me one for mine (which is still a couple days off). Same model, Raleigh SC30, because I had no real way to know what I was after, and hers worked out well enough. I haven't been on a bike since 1993, so a 16 mile round trip on the Youghiogheny River Trail (formerly the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad) from Sutersville upstream past Cedar Creek Park and back was good for a first ride. We'll see how sore I am tomorrow 
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#255632 - 08/05/2005 05:08
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: Daria]
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old hand
Registered: 14/02/2002
Posts: 804
Loc: Salt Lake City, UT
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I remember the day I got my latest bike. I was riding down some singletrack in one of the local canyons and being new to full suspension, wasn't ready when it threw me over the handlebars. Broke a shifter display. It was a great first ride! 
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#255633 - 08/05/2005 10:26
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: Waterman981]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14493
Loc: Canada
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Heh.. sounds familiar! I'm clumsy enough on foot, so cartwheels are de rigeur when I'm flying around the local dirt singles. But my poor buddy Doug sometimes goes biking with me, and it nearly always results in some epic adventure -- hours and kilometres more than planned, bushwhacking through some swamp, or across beaver dams and the like. Generally takes a year or so before he forgets enough about the last time to try it again!
Cheers
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#255634 - 08/05/2005 14:28
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: Waterman981]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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I remember the day I got my latest bike. I was riding down some singletrack in one of the local canyons and being new to full suspension, wasn't ready when it threw me over the handlebars. Broke a shifter display. It was a great first ride!
My body was ready for no such thing, hence the "fish in a barrel" ride...
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#255635 - 08/05/2005 15:50
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: Daria]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
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We'll see how sore I am tomorrow
Last year when I was on vacation in Amsterdam, I walked around the city the first day. After having rather sore feet the next morning, I decided to rent a bike to ride around on. All that did was move the pain up to my lower leg.
Thankfully the days after that I was on a bike with a motor.
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#255636 - 09/05/2005 02:55
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: Waterman981]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
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Broke a shifter display.
Good riddance, to it. The dang things seem added solely for the purpose of breaking off. 
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#255637 - 09/05/2005 03:05
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: mlord]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
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bushwhacking through some swamp, or across beaver dams and the like.
Wait a second... I think I know that "trail"! Does either this or this look familiar? It's a trail in Kanata. Although, I suppose there's plenty of beaver ponds up yonder.
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#255638 - 09/05/2005 11:29
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: canuckInOR]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14493
Loc: Canada
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Ha! That (EDIT) first photo looks like a pond high up on the Huntmar ridge, about 150m or so from the Shoeshoe Run geocache site! There's some really serious (and I mean *serious*) single-track in that area!
Cheers
Edited by mlord (09/05/2005 11:30)
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#255640 - 09/05/2005 11:35
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: canuckInOR]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14493
Loc: Canada
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Oh man.. is the Rock Flat photo from the same space, or from Stoney Swamp in Bells Corners?
Cheers
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#255643 - 10/05/2005 01:32
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: RobotCaleb]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Yeah, uh, none of that for me thanks.
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#255644 - 10/05/2005 02:06
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: mlord]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
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Heh. I really don't know where it was, exactly, and the name Huntmar doesn't ring a bell. It was just west of the Alcatel campus, I think, wherever that is. We had to ride a mile or two through a fairly new subdivision. I'd never been in that area before -- when I lived there, I did all my biking in the Gatineaus.
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#255645 - 10/05/2005 02:08
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: mlord]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
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Oh man.. is the Rock Flat photo from the same space, or from Stoney Swamp in Bells Corners?
Same place -- that was all one ride. I miss the Canadian Shield. 
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#255646 - 10/05/2005 02:18
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: mlord]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
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Oh yeah, and what's with all of the wussy bikepacking photos, anyway? Double flat tires, or just non-flat abs?
I think a little from column A, and a little from column B. Brian had just had a kid recently, so his riding time has been cut back drastically. I was on a borrowed bike that was too small, and had a bit of a loose headset. There wasn't much on the trail that I wouldn't have tried, were I on my own bike (no-one makes a hard shell travel case large enough that I could take it ). I was also rather out of practice -- the terrain out here in SoCal is a little less... challenging, for the most part. Lots of dusty fireroads and hardpack singletrack. Wet rocks and roots are a bit of an anomoly, here, owing to a lack of trees larger than shrubbery. We make up for it with big-ass hills to climb. I think the lack of wet is a big part of the reason I haven't been doing much biking lately.
The folks in those pictures were the guys that got me into riding, in university.
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#255647 - 10/05/2005 11:37
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: canuckInOR]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14493
Loc: Canada
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Yeah, that would indeed be the Huntmar Ridge area in Kanata then. It's a mix of shield-like granite and Ontario limestone -- the flat stoney field is limestone.
Cheers
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#255648 - 10/05/2005 11:40
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: canuckInOR]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14493
Loc: Canada
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Great pics, dude! And I'm so out of shape I make you guys look like Olympians!
Cheers!
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#255649 - 12/05/2005 02:24
Re: new bike: day 1
[Re: mlord]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
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 They were taken with a little Olympus D-40. Fills out a jersey pocket quite nicely. I'm not sure how you can describe yourself as out of shape -- I saw that workshop photo of yourself, and if it's recent, you don't look out of shape in the least bit! Now, *me* on the otherhand... this past week, I asked my kayak instructor what I needed to work on most, and his answer was "your lack of endurance is holding you back more than anything else." After a couple hours on the river, I was bagged.
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#255650 - 25/07/2005 03:51
Re: new bike: day 79
[Re: Daria]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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As of last night I'm up to 37 miles in a day.
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#255651 - 25/07/2005 10:38
Re: new bike: day 79
[Re: Daria]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
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cool. We need someone to pick up Lance's slack next year.
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