Ride Lugged

The Sub 24 hour Overnight during the pivotal point of summer. The longest day of the year with a full moon to boot. We ( Casey and I ) cycled up into the Frederick Watershed and camped out at a well known site at the bottom of the drop trails.

My Hercules was all ready to go, until the pedals went wonky and dried up on me and started skweeking…I didn’t realize how easy it is to rebuild the Shimano AX-600 integrated pedals until we returned. In true Cory fashion, I rode Christines late 80’s Bianchi Strada LX which was too small for me and was geared for flying on flats…not climbing. We loaded up with gear and some bottled spirits and headed out from my house in downtown. We rode out toward the Fishing creek reservoir and headed up the gravel into the shed. We pretty much rode up the entire climb. I did need to push a couple of times due to no granny gear front ring and Casey walked with me once until he realized that pedaling his bike was easier than pushing.

Arriving at the site at the fall of night, we had a great mild night of camp fire, brewha-ha, and talk. We decided to set up the tent around 1am and were awoken the thud-thud of what was either a trail runner or a sasquatch at 5am. After the most powerful and bitter black coffee EVER brewed, we packed up and got ready to head out. BUT, of course…, Casey had a flat. We climbed up the rest of the gravel to Hamburg road and descended at MACH 3 back into the village. It was awesome.
See more of the pics on flickr.
Rob

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It’s summer time and the livin’ is easy!
just wanted to let you folks know that we’re doing well.
Verca and I have had 5 weddings and 6 bachelor(ette) parties in 6 weeks this may-june.

It is a bit of a chore. We can’t quite think about it too much. We definitely feel like we are getting old, too, for a number of reasons.

It is Thursday(Friday) at 1 o’clock in the morning and I just stumbled(really) home from a bachelor drink. (on the way home I was track skidding up a mofo, and totally crashed and scuffed my knee a bit after I dropped off my last friend.) I have to go to work again in the morning, but can’t even think about that now.

We hope all is well back east, and that you folks are prepping for Big Bear!

Rock out and keep the rubber side down!
-Cory and Verca

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So I have finally gotten around to picking and cropping images from our bike trip/tour from Prague to Vienna.
With some stats, here we go…
(don’t miss the story in the mouseover captions)

Praha – Wien Greenway

(day – summary – start town + time – end town + time – distance, time and avg. speed)

Day 1 – singletrack and lots of hills
27-04-2008 Sunday Praha 12:00 Votice 18:15 88.23k TOTAL
(20 min lunch) 355 min ride time 14.91km/hr

Day 2 – mega hills and dirt paths and fields + wind (20-25km/hr)
28-04-2008 Monday Votice 10:00 Jindřichův Hradec 18:15 82.87 171.10
(40m lunch + 15m + 15m) 445 min ride time 11.70km/hr

Day 3 – 7+ hours in the rain
29-04-2008 Tuesday Jind. H. 9:30 Vranov nad Dyjí 16:45 94.69 265.79
(15m + 45m lunch) 375 min ride time 15.15km/hr
rain from Nová Bystřiice to Vranov

Day 4 – rough and dirt roads and a crazy strong headwind (25-40km/hr)
30-04-2008 Wednesday Vranov 9:30 Lednice 17:45 104.26 370.05
(15m + 45m lunch +15) 420 min ride time 14.89km/hr

Day 5 – walk around the park and forest to relax
01-05-2008 Thursday Lednice rest day

No pics. We rested, walked around a bit, and drank some beer and a lot of wine.

Day 6 – 50% hills and 50% headwind
02-05-2008 Friday Lednice 9:15 Wien ` 17:45 110.24 480.29
(10m + 50m lunch) 450 min ride time 14.70km/hr

(eds. note: my comment was too long for the mouse over so here is the rest: I really have no idea what is going on here. this is only a small part of it too. someone with an internet addiction track this down and comment as to what is going on here!)

Hotel Search with none to be found in all of Vienna, 20+ hotels visited 10 more clled
18:00 Sudbanhof to Praha 21:30 508.70

Day 7 – home and tired
arrive in Praha at 6:30 03-05-2008 and home by 6:45

OK, that’s it. Hope you enjoyed the show (a long time coming. Its hard to do this what with the wife and job and friends visiting all the time and cheap beer in bars.)

-c+v

Day 1 – 88km
(preride: 1.5 ham and cheese sandwiches, water, orange juice, slow release vitamin C capsule)
1 water bottle with energy drink, 1 with water
ham and cheese sandwich on buttered roll, 1 pack Clif Bloks
pork chop steak with potato wedges
2 - 17oz beers, 12oz Coke
2 cups of tea

Day 2 – 83km
2 egg omelette with ham and cheese, 1buttered roll with jelly, 1 with honey, wild berry breakfast cake, cup of tea, slow release vitamin C capsule
1 water bottle with energy drink, 1 with water
large block of fried cheese with french fries, 17oz beer, 10oz Coke
chocolate covered ice cream snack
2 more water bottles, 1 more wild berry breakfast cake
grilled chicken fillets in cream sauce with potato wedges, 2 - 17oz beers, 10oz Coke

Day 3 – 95km
2 buttered rolls with ham and cheese, small side salad, cup of tea, slow release vitamin C capsule
1 water bottle with energy drink, 1 with water
ham and cheese sandwich on buttered roll, 1 pack chocolate wafers
2 hot chocolates, Beef broth soup, small portion of fried meatloaf w/ spicy mustard, espresso, double shot of Becherovka
large ‘Mega-řizek’ pork steak, potato wedges, 17oz beer, 10oz Coke, Becherovka w/ currant juice

Day 4 – 104km
2 buttered rolls with jelly, 3 eggs scrambled with cheese, cup of tea, slow release vitamin C capsule
1 water bottle with energy drink, 1 with water, 1 pack Clif Bloks, 1 pack chocolate wafers
pork à la some Moravian sparrow with sauerkraut and potato dumplings, 17oz beer, 10 oz Coke
1.5 more water bottle
large portion of grilled pork ribs + side salad
1 bottle of local red wine

Day 5 – rest day
2 buttered rolls with ham and cheese, 1 with jelly, cup of tea, 2pc. strawberry breakfast cake, slow release vitamin C capsule
‘czech-style hamburger’ with tomato, cucumber, lettuce, & onion; 17oz beer, chocolate covered ice cream snack
olive, ham, and corn pizza; 10oz Coke
½ bottle of local red wine

Day 6 – 138km
1buttered roll with ham and cheese, 1 with jelly, 1 roll with honey, cup of tea, 2pc. strawberry breakfast cake, cream-filled doughnut, slow release vitamin C capsule
2 water bottles 1 pack Clif Bloks,
ham Pizza, 12oz Coke
1 more water bottle, 1 pack chocolate wafers
grilled chicken baguette, chocolate croissant, 12oz coke
3 – 17oz beers

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so this guy was stamped out august 1991, and I have retired him today.

it seems that I have actually worn this poor saddle out. a near fatal collision with a incorrectly labeled drive-thru canopy in North Carolina left it a bit worse for the wear almost 9 years ago, but it was still going strong. but it seems the last 510km loaded ride to Vienna was the downfall.

I never really thought my pointy sit bones could pierce a saddle shell. About 360km into the ride on some rough dirtroads, I noticed that it seemed that the padding directly under my sit bones had been quickly ground down and I was riding directly on the plastic/fiber reinforced shell.

when I made it back home this morning, I decided to put the flite out of his misery. in the interest of curiosity, I choose to break the saddle down to its base elements. the perforated leather cover came off without too much trouble, and the glue holding the foam on gave little resistance as well.

I was surprised to find the culprit of the sudden loss of padding.

it seems that my ass actually cracked the shell with my sit bones, at which point the padding in that small area was ground away fairly quickly.

I don’t recall any major impact, but there were so many repetitive jarrings that day, I am not surprised.
anyway I am saddle shopping now. I may look at a racy brooks, maybe a nice fizik (the misses seems to enjoy her two), i might stick with the flite. if I do stay with the flite, it looks like I will have some modding ahead, to fix the new and unnecessary spaceship styling.

ok, off like a prom dress!
-c

1. to pedal a bicycle along the edge or gutter of a rugged or rutted path in an attempt to find less demanding, smoother passage. ex. I just rode 500km from Prague to Vienna, and some of the roads were so rough I had to paris-roubaix that shit.

How To Properly Walk A Goat

I can only assume this is how Cory and Veronica train while out in the Republic. When they race goatless it’s like a 50lb. goat has been lifted off of their shoulders.

To readers of this blog that may be concerned:

The poster known as 5dollarbud, aka a4nick8tor, aka Big Killa N, aka Golden Balls, aka Kung Fu Jimmy is currently on holiday in Prague, CZ.

He appologizes for not notifing sooner and wonders if it would be possible to meet any other posters on this blog before Thursday when he leaves.

He can be contacted at his usual email, or by his swedish mobile (+46 70 fourseveneight fourfouronetwo), or by calling the hotel (+420 296 889 688)

kthanks!

(cory hearts hair shorts)

cory is sorta in town.  we’re gunna ride in the shed or maybe on the road on friday, meeting at cory’s unshanty between 10-11ish.  Afterwards: food (jolly ranchers ala mode?) and drink (sparks?) and barrel fires.  Bring your own two by fours.  bring your road bike and your mtn bike.  i bet you actually cant come because you got a job.  ahh.  too bad. sucka.

the wife and i will be in MD for a few days.
10-12 and 19-22. with the middle in AZ for 24hr racing.
it’s quite hectic, but if you happen to be around we need to go for a week-day pedal or a beer, or both at the same time.
word is frederick is smoke free now.
good excuse as any to get drunk in public.
-cory