Is there a better feeling than ...

[dangerousdave]

blastin past the same bunch of 20 or 30 cars right when the light hits green and the top end of your big ring combined with a slight downhill grade and tail wind enables you to beat them all to the next light and beyond ....YEAH!!!

[robcycle]

blastin past the same bunch of 20 or 30 cars right when the light hits green and the top end of your big ring combined with a slight downhill grade and tail wind enables you to beat them all to the next light and beyond ....YEAH!!!

Yes, but I'm yet to figure out how to incorporate bicycles :eek:

Seriously though, I'm with you. In the city I live in, there is no better way to get around. So long as you stay in the urban/urban residential area, I would challenge anyone in a car to a point to point race. Its just faster to ride a bike and park out front.

-Rob.

[phlatlander]

Yes, but I'm yet to figure out how to incorporate bicycles :eek:

Well then... (http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_headline=accused---of-having-sex-with-his-bike--&method=full&objectid=19347288&siteid=64736-name_page.html)

[2dumb4gears]

My other favorite game (and this one is kind of smug) is "chase the team kit" when I'm commuting. Nothing better than being in knickers with a 25lb bag on your back, and blowing past a guy in full T-Mobile pink.:D

[dangerousdave]

My other favorite game (and this one is kind of smug) is "chase the team kit" when I'm commuting. Nothing better than being in knickers with a 25lb bag on your back, and blowing past a guy in full T-Mobile pink.:D

SMug blug, -crush em every chance you get! Jsut be sure and say :) Hi there!!!:)

My story: in yesterdays helter swelter- my typ. Vegas summer ride home is at least 105* 12miles, of about 2 then 3 then 4-5% for last 1/3rd and usually some face wind... anyway, a Team mobile type guy caught me in the intersection not far from work as I stopped to pick up a 3/8th's wrench and hose clamp-[ part of the treasures of looking while ridin right?]- right off he tried the nice guy routine- "How ya doing/ :cool: is everything alright? :rolleyes: can I help?:o " [B]I never fell for it, not for one second. I knew what this was, I knew that the Law of the Jungle was about to be exhibited yet again, I knew I was about to be crushed. So we rode tire to tire for a coupla miles, some small talk, weather, trafffic, close calls- you know- and realization of how close our respective work locations are, then the wind caught us and the grade picked up, I upped the speed a notch, easily perceptible but me being a hulking clunking bunking pedal masher at 220lbs had no need to change gears, Ryan- we were on first name basis now- did. So he dropped to my wheel, another mile or two and 1 length or so opened, along with my mouth, hiding my wry smile abit, so the speed went up again, I was going to put some serious old bull shows young bull how to -type distance- bewteen us before I hit the light up in another mile... but we were still trying to chat a bit, so I coasted, he came back up and we talked bikes, his beautiful full carbon pink on white Pinarello, resplendent with campy chorous, Ultegra, etc. my dirty xc/mtn Felt w/27's.... that was when I noticed his legs, good gawd what a set! Sleek shiny rippling sinuous works of art- shoulda been makin some serious $ off -em obviously, the kid needed some surgeries!!!! had to be a 38" inseam set to a 6' 2" frame at a whip-like 160lbs...I though if I had a build like that, well, I'd.....I'd be somebody else!:p He looked my bike over better and said it was absolutely the coolest thing he's seen in cross-overs- So we talked frame complications vs. body fit which explained my 78" reach and 32" inseam and the xlarge mtn/xc crossover, and his short TT tight cockpit, compact frame and hight post etc. Turns out, we both bought from same man, same shop and he is my LBS's 'adopted son" so at his turn, which was mile 8, I had another 1.5 up, then turn, we parted ways and we parted brothers-in-arms and wished each other a safe trip home and to hopefully see each other tomorrow....
Yeah right! I hope not. Not at least for a extra day or two so the soreness can work out of my quads, and the Ibuprofin to relieve the naggin 5xsurgery knee gets to do its thing! I'm pretty sure it was his Afterburners lightin up soon as he left my pokey dokey slow-ass side that was the cause of the sonic boom a few seconds later, not that Nellis Air force F-18 crackin it overhead going out to the test site....Hope I see that kid again today!

[MudInMyEars]

SMug blug, -crush em every chance you get! Jsut be sure and say :) Hi there!!!:)

My story: ....
Yeah right! I hope not. Not at least for a extra day or two so the soreness can work out of my quads, and the Ibuprofin to relieve the naggin 5xsurgery knee gets to do its thing! I'm pretty sure it was his Afterburners lightin up soon as he left my pokey dokey slow-ass side that was the cause of the sonic boom a few seconds later, not that Nellis Air force F-18 crackin it overhead going out to the test site....Hope I see that kid again today!
Thanks DD. I really enjoyed your story.

-Mud

[FBX]

Funny funny! Reminds me of when I worked at a landscaping company in Fairbanks, AK. Now, I'd ride to and fro on my dad's 35 year-old Schwinn mountain bike (a Chicago-made ten-speed that survived twenty years of service navigating CAT trails on the North Slope of Alaska with flying colors), coupled with wearing my Carhartts workpants, big work boots, and lugging along the jacket I'd wear in the mornings plus my lunchsack, water, tools, etc on the 14+ mile commute. Despite all this encumberment, I loved to chase, and often outpaced, the nylon-clad Tour de Alaska types who like to cruise around Fairbanks on my ride home from work.
However, this was on the sidewalk, since any cyclists who try to ride the roads of the 'Banks risk being pulverized by the numerous worktrucks and SUVs on the thoroughfares, so the fat tires and steel frame may have given me something of an advantage...

[S. cerevisiae]

Said it before...my joy in the work commute is in chasing down Amish buggies. On the old Schwinn Worldsport it was cake. Grab a gear, head down, more torque...

Now I ride 42x20 @ 29" SS on a Monocog. Makes the chasing a little more lengthy. Nothing quite like hearing the buggy driver kiss at his horse then hearing the hoof-beats become a little more rapid.

Otherwise I rarely see other riders on commute route. Recreational riding often sees more.

[RandomV]

I never see another rider on the commute. However, I went on the local shop's breakfast ride this morning. Seven other people looking at me like I'm crazy when I unload the stripped-down Redline and they note that I'm wearing Dickies and carrying a messenger bag.

Lots of me staring back at them in their jersies and their fancy-pants bikes that probably cost as much as four of mine.

Then I dropped them on the first hill, they realized I wasn't some sort of strange joke, and we were cool after that.

Some of the nicest people I've ever had the pleasure of a ride with, and it just goes to show that first impressions aren't always correct.

[dangerousdave]

I never see another rider on the commute. However, I went on the local shop's breakfast ride this morning. Seven other people looking at me like I'm crazy when I unload the stripped-down Redline and they note that I'm wearing Dickies and carrying a messenger bag.

Lots of me staring back at them in their jersies and their fancy-pants bikes that probably cost as much as four of mine.

Then I dropped them on the first hill, they realized I wasn't some sort of strange joke, and we were cool after that.

Some of the nicest people I've ever had the pleasure of a ride with, and it just goes to show that first impressions aren't always correct.

I was just being flipant about my "first" impression of young master Ryan. I'm sure you picked up on that, though...
Wow, I can't imagine, course I'm pushin 50, but I can't imagine droppin dudes on a SS, or ridin in Anchorage with all that baggage and dropin dudes.... you boys are the schnitzel.