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Weird. SAWCE just mentioned this...[user not found] wrote:So the wife and I just finished binge watching the first season of The Man in the High Castle.
5/7 would recommend.
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Maybe I'm weird, but I don't think could could get passed the fact that they're snails.Johnny_P wrote:Fucking escargot doe.... if any of you fucks go to France you need to get that and some local wine. It's seriously 5/7.
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Eh. I mean I eat squid so... And shrimp are ocean cockroaches.SAWCE wrote:Maybe I'm weird, but I don't think could could get passed the fact that they're snails.Johnny_P wrote:Fucking escargot doe.... if any of you fucks go to France you need to get that and some local wine. It's seriously 5/7.
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That's why I out on it last night. Should have just said fuck it doe and got myself into shape. It's a pretty serious ride doe.[user not found] wrote:You'd need to be putting in base miles now to do that.Johnny_P wrote:Looking up bicycles again. Last night I saw on facebook that a handful of friends signed up for the Lu Lacka Wyco Hundo bike ride in April. It's a 100 mile ride that goes up and down the mountain ranges in northeast PA by Wilkes-Barre. A shitload of climbing, lots of gravel roads and climbs, supposedly stupid hard. All my friends that have done it said it was fantastic.
I out because I was worried I wouldn't be able to train for it properly because of this fucking hernia. 6-8 weeks of no lifting / effort at all. Would give me 2 months to go from 0 miles per week to over 100 miles per week, during the winter. That's pretty rough. So I didn't sign up last night. This morning I thought, you know what, fuck it stop being and sign up. Nope. Sold out.
I kind of knew that would happen. Maybe for the better anyway. I don't even have a bike that would be suitable for that ride. The Cervelo would get mega trashed on it because of all the gravel, and the tires on that bike aren't really big enough to deal with a ride like that. The steel bike is even worse for tire clearance. And no way in hell would I ride my 29er MTB for 100 miles. Most people get "adventure bikes" or cyclocross bikes, put somewhat fat slick tires on them, and ride those. I don't own anything like that so I would have either had to deal with destroying the Cervelo or buying a bike and getting used to it over a 2 month period.
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Wanna do LLWH or Hell of Hunterdon next year?[user not found] wrote:I'm gonna start hitting the gym on tues/thurs before work, at a minimum. Some running, some leg and core work, hopefully get into a routine and then transition into riding on warmer/nicer days until it's actually nice out.Johnny_P wrote: That's why I out on it last night. Should have just said fuck it doe and got myself into shape. It's a pretty serious ride doe.
I want to race the Michaux Endurance Race Series races this year. Or do some more MASS 4 hr/50 mi endurance races. Miss those days.
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Puppy was good today. She was sorta scared by the parade and mummers, but got a solid 45 mins at the dog park playing really well, and a few walks, and a bunch of friend visits. She's sleeping now.
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That's a hell of a day in the saddle.[user not found] wrote:I've done HoH. It's a blast.Johnny_P wrote: Wanna do LLWH or Hell of Hunterdon next year?
Started at my place in Yardley with my buddy Derrick, we rode up to New Hope to the start, did the ride, then rode home.
100 miles and 7k+ of climbing. Epic day. Epic HTFU.
When you see it prepared and they're all soaked in butter you can get past itSAWCE wrote:Maybe I'm weird, but I don't think could could get passed the fact that they're snails.Johnny_P wrote:Fucking escargot doe.... if any of you fucks go to France you need to get that and some local wine. It's seriously 5/7.
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I liked it but thought it kind of petered out at the end. Kind of a meh non-cliff hanger cliff hanger.[user not found] wrote:So the wife and I just finished binge watching the first season of The Man in the High Castle.
5/7 would recommend.
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Johnny_P wrote:Johnny_P wrote: I want one of those too. Took the motorcycle test on a dirt bike. Was 5/7 ol:
Macho King. Steel bike, pretty expensive for what it is, about 23 lbs which is heavy. Race oriented.
Or something like this:
Specialized Sequoia. Quite a bit less racy, less expensive, more cruising oriented.
Or any of the plethora of carbon / aluminum racing cyclocross bikes out there. I kind of wanted a steel one. I had a request in to a local shop to call when they got a shipment of Sequoias in, but no response. Specialized is being really shitty about the roll out of those bikes despite hyping them up quite a bit.
First world problems I know, but I want a bike like this. And then my buddy ends up finding a few year old Ridley cyclocross bike for dirt cheap used with parts on it and he's been tooling that around. That's ultimately what I need to find.
You could have a bike with 30+ hp for that money instead of dicking around with 1 power.
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It's what I like doing, breh. How I unwind. Few things in life make me happier than climbing a mondo hill on my road bike, or railing a downhill on the MTB. I'd be far more likely to die on the 30 HP motorized dirt bike, and without the physical exertion there's no sense of accomplishment. Making it up that last hill that you weren't sure you could do is a fucking TRIP when you get to the top and look back at what you've accomplished. Shredding a particularly hairy section of gnar on the MTB is totally the first time you get through it cleanly.troyguitar wrote:
You could have a bike with 30+ hp for that money instead of dicking around with 1 power.
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Been there twice but haven't seen the catacombs yet. They look cool,Johnny_P wrote:We toured the catacombs of Paris too. Which was cool because it dumped us out in a decidedly non-tourist section of the city. Ate at a pizza joint where they didn't speak a lick of English. It worked out fine, we got some super tasty pizza and bottled waters, and the server was extremely polite. IDK why the French get the stigma of being super rude to Americans.wap wrote: Johnny gets it.
Escargot is and no matter where you go to eat, the house wine is excellent and is cheaper than the bottled water.
Agreed on French people. They have been, without exception, as kind, polite, and warm as anybody we've met in Europe, and better than some. The thing with French people is that they are rather formal and expect foreigners to respect their manners. They don't like when someone just walks up to them and starts talking to them. They require a polite greeting first. If you first say bon jour, parlez vou Anglais, they'll happily speak decent English to you and be very kind. It worked every time in France, Quebec, and even in Martinique, which is a French island in the Caribbean.