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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 12, 2022 11:25:49 GMT -5
I txt him this morning and he is doing OK, he keeps passing out from the pain every once in a while he has surgery scheduled to get screws holding the bone in place later this week, just Rx painkillers to deal till then.
My arm is healing up but sensitive, there is a group that meets every Monday I really want to go but I am being an adult and going to take at least today off. There are other rides.
Also oddly enough I mentioned to the group I was with Saturday what ride I went to Friday night and this guy was like "Oh you rode with my son then, he is 14 and has his hair dyed pink" and showed me a picture, sure enough even tho there were 100+ people there Friday I ended up riding next to his son for a while.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 12, 2022 15:35:42 GMT -5
I am finally getting over COVID and have gone on a few rides finally, yesterday I could feel in my lungs the damage COVID did, but today it felt a lot better. I think getting out in the sun and getting some exercise did wonders, feels like I sweated more of that sickness out. I felt like I was biking in slow motion my first ride back from COVID. I was having one hell of a time with long climbs. I'm feeling much better now. In waaay better shape too from riding all summer. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 12, 2022 22:15:55 GMT -5
Also I decided to go on the ride tonight anyway and not skip it, glad I went. Was a fun ride all over the city and some trails in the woods. My bandage on my am fell off but fuck it got it cleaned up soon as I got home.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 15, 2022 7:39:52 GMT -5
My helmet light won't charge anymore. I have a really nice Bontrager helmet that has a dedicated light mount but I decided to hit up Amazon first and saw this for $17: www.amazon.com/dp/B08M9M67RM?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_detailsIts very slim compared to my last helmet light and I got the permanent mount on with no issues. Taking it out for a ride tonight. |
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 15, 2022 14:40:34 GMT -5
I've been on a few rides where someone loaned me one of those small super-powerful flashlights and a bungee cord to put it on my helmet, it worked pretty well.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 15, 2022 21:45:52 GMT -5
Tonight I lost my biking glasses, they were like $10 so no biggie, cheap light is working fine.
Was a girl I thought I recognized on the ride. It starts with a very steep downhill and she wrecked right behind me. After we stopped she said she had only done paved rides and had been meaning to make this Thursday night group ride all summer but her schedule didn't allow it. She said she thought she was in over her head and was going to go back to the parking lot. Convinced her to stay with us till almost the end. Gave her a list of newbie rides around town.
Her bike is a GT not sure if that is a good brand or not.
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 17, 2022 20:31:39 GMT -5
GT is one of the best I think, they've been around a while.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 17, 2022 22:17:30 GMT -5
My first "real" bike was a Gary Fisher Wahoo, on todays ride was a couple of elementary school kids, one was riding a Trek Wahoo. I forgot when Trek bought Gary Fisher they made the Wahoo a kids bike. Was cool seeing one IRL.
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 17, 2022 22:24:10 GMT -5
That's cool. My first "real" bike was a Dyno Compe (BMX) something or other. Not sure what happened to it, I think someone borrowed it and never gave it back, which sucks. Dyno was actually made by GT back then, was a more budget-friendly line but it was a very solid bike and I loved it. I think GT still makes a BMX bike called the Dyno Compe.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 23, 2022 15:38:21 GMT -5
Been busy the last week, yesterday I went out with a friend so skipped the group ride I usually do. Instead I did the same city ride I did when I got my bike last December. I was really out of shape then, took me over an hour and I had to hop off and push up a hill a few times. Took me 40 minutes and I didn't have to hop off my bike once this time around.
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 23, 2022 15:41:51 GMT -5
Also I have a potential job in NYC with a really great company but I am hesitant because I just now got the hang of all the trails here. Dunno what kinda single track they have in NY/NJ
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 23, 2022 16:37:50 GMT -5
AFAIK there are mountain bike trails in NYC: www.trailforks.com/region/new-york-city-region/Was also reading about a place in Queens called Cunningham Park. Trailforks is pretty cool, if you zoom out it shows even more places with mtb trails that are around. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of trails in NY/NJ.  |
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Post by ForRealTho on Sept 29, 2022 15:04:19 GMT -5
Almost didnt go on this ride but glad I did. Was raining pretty good but the trails weren't too bad, just slick.  |
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Post by Coolverine on Sept 29, 2022 16:15:11 GMT -5
I won 2 tickets to a skills clinic with The Ride Series MTB from a raffle a while back, that's coming up pretty soon. Decided to take my brother, he's the one who got me into mtb'ing. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 10, 2022 11:46:13 GMT -5
Thursday I went on a great ride but had a couple of ebikes, the one dude was not in shape at all but was hauling ass through the woods. Then someone shared this in a local biking Facebook group:
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 10, 2022 11:46:56 GMT -5
Went on a full moon ride last night was really fun, starting to get cold at night
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Post by Coolverine on Oct 10, 2022 14:29:46 GMT -5
Very cool. I went on a great ride yesterday, did this expert section but it's not too bad, just has a lot of techy terrain which I enjoy a lot. I'm constantly discovering that I underestimate both myself and my bike a lot, starting to get good at track standing and ratcheting up tricky climbs. The trail I go to has a sewage treatment plant nearby, sometimes the air around the south part gets very ripe, I'm talking about strong enough to make a person pass out. Thankfully that part of the trail is pretty flat and boring except for a few small things, plus it tends to stay muddy since it's a low lying area, so I usually avoid it anyway. The north part has all the good terrain and climbs/descents and it's far away and upwind enough to avoid the smell. The air around the sewage treatment plant gets very smelly, if I go the short way to the trails I always end up driving right past it and that smell seems to stick to my car after I'm past it. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 11, 2022 9:24:28 GMT -5
Did this last night  |
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Post by Coolverine on Oct 11, 2022 15:48:08 GMT -5
That's awesome, I think the biggest group ride I've been on has been no more than 4 people.
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 11, 2022 20:26:23 GMT -5
We split into two groups, should have been 3 we had so many people
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Post by Coolverine on Oct 12, 2022 23:50:08 GMT -5
Was trying to count how many there are in that picture, seems like it could be more than 40.
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 14, 2022 21:08:41 GMT -5
Not very fast or technical but this was fun
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 15, 2022 13:06:59 GMT -5
On my group ride last night I happened to glance to my right and the dude next to me was riding the exact mountain bike I got when I graduated college, the Gary Fisher Wahoo. Pretty sure it was the same year and everything:
The pictures I took came out crazy blurry but the video was OK. Can't believe it was the same color scheme and everything. I thought about trying to buy it from him but it was too small for me anyway.
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 21, 2022 20:54:09 GMT -5
Forgot I filmed this
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Post by Coolverine on Oct 22, 2022 20:38:26 GMT -5
I went for a pretty good ride today, got my muscles burning.
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 25, 2022 20:28:30 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 27, 2022 22:52:46 GMT -5
Went on the last ride of the season for one of my biking groups, one of my friends finally got a mountain bike last Friday and she came too. I made the picture on insta, right in the middle:  |
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Post by Coolverine on Oct 27, 2022 23:04:49 GMT -5
I was looking forward to going this weekend but the closest trails are all rained out, I'll probably go somewhere further which I don't mind. Bentonville is only a 5 or 6 hour drive for me, I really should make that trip some time.
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Post by Coolverine on Oct 28, 2022 16:25:13 GMT -5
Since it's getting a lot cooler outside and all I have is shorts, I bought some new pants for biking. They're made for hiking but supposed to be very good for biking too. www.amazon.com/dp/B07T27KKT9/ |
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Post by Coolverine on Nov 3, 2022 21:05:55 GMT -5
A decade or 2 from now when I start getting old, I'll probably start considering an ebike but this one looks amazing:
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