A+ flawless victory.
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The warm weather brings out the non-regular trail users and that section always confuses and scares them. I had two hostile interactions there on Sunday alone.
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oh boy oh boy its the season of dudes in basketball shorts blowing stop signs in the biggest gear on the horribly dilapidated mountain bike they ride four times a year.
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The two main Seattle summer archetypes are that guy and the guy on the fixed gear pedaling at ~10mph in a Chrome bag and State Bicycle Company cycling cap.
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Today I noticed the return of my least favorite commuter that I see regularly. It’s a guy that rides a fatbike with a stupid clip on fender, which is all the more annoying because I haven’t seen him once since it started raining like 4+ months ago. Fair weather fatbiking might be the thing that finally breaks my brain.
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Gonna start riding my Endpoint to work more as part of a resolution to enjoy the nice things that I have more often.
Bracing for the inevitable intensification of Cat6 challenges from commuterbros.
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Like, I’m not gonna lie - I really enjoy some mild cat 6 fun. Sometimes it works perfectly. My favorite being one time I passed this guy with a nice 333Fab rando bike with a rando bag, total chill normal pass with neither of us going particularly fast, then I notice he sped up and is drafting - but I felt like he knew what he was doing and was safe. So we spent 3 miles doing a perfect rotating 2 person pace line with each of us flogging ourselves mightily when pulling (that was the mildly competitive part). It was great, and when we went our separate ways there was an exchange of smiles and waves and the happy feeling of having worked together to go really fast.
I wish I had more of those.
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I saw one yesterday. 5" tires, yellow rubber raincoat, ski goggles, huge leather mittens with fur cuffs.
Forty seven degrees Fahrenheit.
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I can’t believe I forgot to mention the third and by far most common Seattle commuter, and that’s the person on a very sensible hybrid with the hi-viz Shower’s Pass jacket and optional Bar Mitts worn well into 70° weather.
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This was at 7am
Also saw a guy with rain pants on the other day when It got up to 74 degrees, no rain in forecast on the way home
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I was fair weather biker shamed yesterday!
On the commuter train an absolutely beautiful woman got on after me with an old steel gold Centurion with huge sweptback bars that looked really comfortable. We had the usual “where are you getting off?” conversation so we could stack the bikes accordingly. I remarked about how awesome her handlebars looked and how I liked her bike. She brought up that there were so many more cyclists on the road today since it was sunny, I agreed. Then she was like “you dang fairweather cyclists!” and pointed at ME accusingly and laughed! I was so shocked that I laughed awkwardly and shrugged and said “busted” even though my bike was clearly prepared for heavy rain. She went upstairs to the second floor of the train and I looked down to notice that he bike didn’t even have fenders.
Do you think she was fucking with me?
Also, kinda have a crush now.
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ftfy
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Purest squirrel
I miss riding my bike so much folks
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TC sup’s commuter still has bar mits on it
Do shop rides go here?
I should preface this with the info that the previous store manager was desperate for community outreach and tried to accomplish this through “ambassador” sponsorship and regular discounts at the first inquiry.
The store brought the weekly canyon ride out of hibernation last week, and yesterday was my first time up Mandeville in maybe 3 months. Right before I’m about to wash up and get changed, one of these “regulars” (regularly asking for a discount or free labor) came in with worn brake pads. I start to give him the spiel (pads are blah blah, labor is blah blah) and he interupts to say he knows how to do it and just needs to borrow the tools. Not gonna happen, sir. He waddles off to change his pads in the parking lot with his multi-tool.
The ride sticks together until the start of the canyon, but there is a downhill section on the way where the group tends to break apart. Douchenozzle passes me on this 50m descent in Sagan aero tuck mode. We get to the start of the climb some minutes later and he takes off up the road at like 23mph. Lol ok.
I see him come into view again about halfway up, and I leave whoevers on my wheel to bridge up. Pad Commander looks back, sees me, and jumps out of the saddle to try and get away. I’m on his wheel until about the 2/3rds mark, when I shifted into the big ring. I smacked the gate at the top with aplomb while he chugged away up the wall, absolutely cracked, 30 seconds later, only to proclaim “Yeah you are like 50 lbs lighter than me, also I put out 350 watts for the first half, so that’s why I lost.” Dude, come on.
TL;DR fuckwad keeps getting popped & re-inflates repeatedly using nothing but his own ego
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I believe she was implying that she herself was the fair weather commuter.
I love his excuse, basically just “You only beat me because I totally fucked up my pacing”
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descent in Sagan aero tuck mode.
TC: I lose all respect and immediately judge people as poseur jackasses when I see them do this.
I was descending Mt. Evans last year and some absolute jackass was doing this on the descent. He looked pretty phased when I cruised past him with almost zero effort north of 50mph, not in some ridiculous aero tuck.
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@russ’s edit, and yes.
if you can own it, go for it. there’s an ex-moto racer here who set the KOM for a crazy descent and I would be thrilled to see him in full tuck. if you’re a cat 4 white collar 40 year old, please refrain.
forgot to mention I was on my steel Allez and he was riding an enve’d '19 tarmac disc
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