ant1
Oct 15, 2008 Jun 02, 2012 196 9344
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cool bike ride mapping program (strava based)
plug in your strava id (you can try mine if you don't have one - 136505) and it'll map all your rides on one map.
USPRO 2012 in bad pictures pt. 1: the TT
by ant1 on May 29, 2012 10:56 PM EDT
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welcome to the prequel. the time trial isn't quite as exciting as the road race, but it does have it's advantages. you can get way closer to the riders. for example, as they finished their runs, they had to ride along a skinny sidewalk bordered by a wall on one side and barriers five feet from that wall. and that's exaclty where i stood as i waited for the third wave of riders to take their start. i figured i was in a good spot. across the barriers from me stood two giants of the american cycling media.
USPRO 2012 in bad pictures pt. 2: the road race
by ant1 on May 28, 2012 10:14 PM EDT
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for the last time, greenville sc hosted the us national championships. i was there. i took some bad pictures. where's part 1 you might ask. haven't gotten to that one yet. i figured the road race was more current. i'll do the TT sometime this week. exciting things happen near the finish downtown (like Timmy Duggan using his incredible atoc form to earn himself a stars and stripes jersey), but i prefer to act a fool on top of paris mountain, which the riders climb 4 times. this year was a little subdued, compared to prior years at least. we partied a little too hard saturday night and rode for hours hungover in the heat on sunday. thankfully, a couple buddies of ours showed up sunday night and made sure we had fun on monday.
we stayed at a hotel downtown, which we shared with the garmin mechanics (and their truck full of goodies) and the united healthcare guys. after the jump, you'll see what things looked like from my point of view.
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Dave Zabriskie wins his 53rd consecutive US TT championship. full post to follow.
cyclists - it's your fault if you get hit by a car
some moron in north georgia (no, not me, another guy) wrote a ridiculous (trying to not use my french here) editorial on why cyclists shouldn't be on the road. that's fine if that's your position, everyone's entitled to be wrong, but this guys goes a step beyond. well, like 10 or 20 steps. anyway, he's a total douche and it would be nice if he got a few hundred emails that clearly and respectfully explained to him why exactly that is.
if you have a little time, please send him an email (email found in article)
by the way, the riding around blue ridge is awesome. my favorite georgia mtb trail is minutes away. if i'm lucky, one day this guy might run me off the road.
pdc national champs ride sunday in greenville sc
here is the (very loose) plan so far. meet at the location linked above (base of paris mountain) at 10 am sunday morning. there's a grassy spot between poinsett hwy and buncombe rd we've parked on many times in the past. from there the "plan" is to head west toward caesar's head, climb to the top if people feel like it. don't climb to the top if people don't feel like it. this will be a social ride. a way to experience the area while chit chatting with fellow pdcers about the giro, the previous day's nat champ TT, or the following day's road race. to give you an idea of the terrain, this is the ride we did last year. if you take out the climb in the middle of the profile, you can see it's fairly flat around there. when we get back to the cars, if you have watts left in your legs you'd like to get rid of, we'll be at the base of paris mountain.
if you have a better idea, i'm all ears. the only requirements are quiet roads and easy terrain close to downtown greenville.
so far it seems like sminer and spokejunky are in. my buddy robert and i makes it four. there's a few other people that have expressed interest. pace will be slow, unless everyone wants to make it faster. i plan on having beers waiting for me at the end. we can always head back into town post ride for some more liquid fun and lunch.
if you need more info, ask here or hit me up on the email showed on my pdc profile page.
life in an atoc team car
Lyne (from www.podiuminsight.com) posted a nice video of what life is like sitting in a team car following a stage in california.
Jens! and Chris Horner talk cycling
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/05/video/video-jens-voigt-chris-horner-the-path-youve-traveled_217728
new roubaix velodrome coming along.
finding flow
just came across this. no idea where it's from or what it's for, but it's a great movie of what riding around in pisgah forest is like.
WTFRU - PFP edition
note to self, don't show up at her door with flowers.
the future of cycling
by ant1 on May 2, 2012 11:15 PM EDT
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ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the dick lane velodrome. as you can probably tell, it's not quite as new and fancy as london's new olympic track, but it has its charm. a little creek runs through it, and the tree in the in-field is a nice touch. it was built in the mid 70s, and has seen a good bit of action over the years. it's concrete, banked at 36 degrees in the turns, a 1/5 of a mile in length and has a bit of a dip between turns 3 and 4 (more charm). why am i doing a post on it, you might ask. well, i'll let you know after the jump.
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terrapin twilight results
it was good night in athens, ga. the crowds were out as usual. it was a hot day, and i'm sure the racers felt it. we found a spot serving ranger and pbr right before the finish line. i got to do a little bit of screaming at cyclists, which is always fun. unfortunately, my pick for the women's race came in second to last. she was up near the front all race, but i guess couldn't hold it as the pace went up in the last couple of laps. on the men's side, things were a little less interesting. the field is much bigger (120 vs 30 something) and they go faster so it's much more of a big blur going by. makes it tough to identify anyone. spent all race trying to find my buddy Ben racing. it took several pairs of eyes a few laps to get a sighting. i guess things were exciting on the back stretch, when the night's big wreck happened. i managed a couple beer handouts, hung out with friends, saw my sister... can't complain.
title link takes you to the women's report. this link takes you to the men's report. and this link takes you straight to the women's podium, atop which stands the lovely Erica Allar.
and if you get the chance to try a terrapin hopsecutioner, don't pass it up.
a little riding through pisgah
by ant1 on Apr 24, 2012 8:04 PM EDT
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hadn't done one of these in a while. it's not always easy bringing the camera along. i've done a few fun rides that went undocumented. i wish i'd done a post on rouge roubaix. haveagreatday brought it up in the "First Bike Races" post. kickass race in louisiana. 105 miles over crappy backroads, a bunch of it on gravel. i'll get some pics next year and do a proper post. anywho, this post is about pisgah, so grab your mountain bike and a sleeping bag, cause after the break, we're going to the mountains.
tech mech - sea otter mtb news
by ant1 on Apr 19, 2012 1:53 PM EDT
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i was following the sea otter action on twitter (thanks to the return of Lyne of Podium Insight's live updates). i also checked out Gerard Vroomen's new mtb company's first offering, the O-1.0. then i finally put 2 and 2 together and remembered that sea otter has traditionally been a time when a lot of new mountain bike tech is released/revealed to the public. i haven't seen much of it yet (probably because i now get 99% of my cycling news from the cafe), other than this Shimano release of new gravity oriented goups, so i figured, why not start a post where we can dump whatever interesting new technology coming out this weekend? if you see anything, please post a link in the comment section so all the dirt-o-philes here at the cafe can be better informed. merci!
the illusion of me running a stop sign
a physics professor gets out of a running a stop sign ticket using this argument. fitting that i found this article after finding out the DOT added a stop sign to my route to the pub last night. a stop sign i may have seemed to run twice, but that was all an illusion on your part. same with the other three. like motorists, i follow all traffic laws all the time.
pdc US champs RR recon ride
by ant1 on Apr 10, 2012 3:02 PM EDT
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i've been meaning to put something like this up for a bit, so thanks to thebongolian for the inspiration. as some of you may already know, i'm a fan of the US national championships held in greenville south carolina for the past several years. it's only a couple hours from atlanta, so getting up there is easy. greenville, or g-vegas as it's also known, is a fun little town. nice walkable downtown area, paris mountain (which the race climbs 4 times) is only miles away, and there's plenty of beautiful country roads all around to enjoy on two wheels.
it's a pleasure meeting other pdcers there, so i figured why not turn it up a notch this year.
FDJ PR video
it should work for everyone with a facebook account, as it's set to public. if not, blame someone other than me.
tech/mech - Cance's new trek for the cobbles
by ant1 on Mar 30, 2012 8:57 AM EDT
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maybe someone's brought this up around here already, but i haven't seen it. trek has a new classics frame, the domane. some unusual stuff around the seat tube / top tube junction. spartacus raced it at strade bianche, something i was completely unaware of.
anyway, here's what cyclingnews had to say about it, and don't forget to check out the picture gallery for some additional trek/bontrager goods.
BMC roster for flanders
at least a couple guys you may have heard of in there.
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