Comments on: Epic Ride Checklist

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:43:03 +0000

ID and/or contact in emergency. No one wants it to happen, but if there’s a problem, you want someone to come get you. Dead or alive. You can carry a license or something else. I wear dogtags with contact info on long rides or runs, esp. if I’m out by myself.

By: cawddup

cawddup — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:37:59 +0000

…or you could auction Office and do something charitable with the cash. That’d be better.

By: cawddup

cawddup — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:27:37 +0000

1. Essential packing: chain tool. You may have one on your chain tool, but do you know if it works? Checking that it does will make sure you know how to use it. If you have a Shimano chain take a couple of their snap-off replacement link pins (make friends by packing more than one). Oh, then you need something to snap the bloody things off with, like a pair of pliers.2. Fat Cyclist logo: please do a (baggy) cycling jersey. I’d buy one as it would, as Barry1021 says, amount to a gloriously blinding statement of the obvious. It might be an idea to incorporate Teamfubar’s "inverted teardrops stemming from the man-boob" motif.When I place my order you can send it along with the copy of MS Office I won from you.

By: Azriel

Azriel — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:50:20 +0000

C’mon! you have forgotten the #1 life saver – TISSUE PAPER (also use cleanex). In case #2 calls in. A good wipie (those you clean the babies butts with) is also a good idea, especialy if the gel you try opening while riding does not open the way you thought it should…This way, you will never use poison ivy again :-)

By: BIg Mike In Oz

BIg Mike In Oz — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:58:56 +0000

Al – I have to side with Tim D. Mould is mould. Mold is the lowest-common-denominator phonetic version adopted by the US education system.

Although I’m sure phonetic will soon be fonetic, since sulphur has recently become sulfur under the Stah Spangelled Banna.

We’ll keep spelling English style in the Commonwealth and you can spell homogenised English (known as ‘Mercun) in ‘Murica.

Before you start… homogenised in not missing a Z, it’s spelled according to the 5 dictionaries in my house.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:57:26 +0000

I’ll note that in TimD’s very good instructions, he says you need to ensure you have a "mouldy" camelback. That’s correct. Being English, and under heavy rainfall pretty much every day, their mold is extra moldy, and the proper way to express that, as TimD shows, is "mould" with an extra "u" in it. You don’t need to use this spelling in the U.S. unless you ride in Seattle. Or anywhere in the Mid-Atlantic yesterday.

One added point. If you aren’t sure whether your camelback is mouldy enough, check the color of the mold. If the colour of the mould is bleu, then you are ready to geaux. Roque on!

By: Tim D

Tim D — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:09:14 +0000

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!

Prepareations for an epic ride are as follows. Give your tyres a bit of a squeeze and make a note to put a bit more air in. Go for a quick whizz up and down the road, if you can change a few gears & the brakes sort of stop you, OK. If you can’t change gear, put a bit of 3 in 1 on the chain. Don’t bother checking if that has fixed it. Get a few beers down you.

In the morning, forget you’ve put your front wheel on the floor & drive over it as you leave. Take the 48 spoke Rhyno front wheel, with the slick tyre off your tandem and race off. Arrive at the meeting point and realise you’ve forgotten your shoes.

Food – a melted lump of loose powerbars that have all congealed, some dry fig balls that suck you dry, washed down with out of date High 5 in a mouldy Camelbak.

Tim

By: ferhat

ferhat — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:03:31 +0000

Merhaba from Turkey

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:09:04 +0000

Wow, Elden! I hope you are putting all this together into a book or manual or something. You may be saving someone’s ride, their week, or maybe even their life.

You probably didn’t get this story, because it’s local, but a nearby cyclist went cycling alone up into the mountains, without telling anyone where he would be, got hurt, had to abandon his bike, spent the night in a hole at 40 degrees, while family, friends and search and rescue looked for him, etc. They found his truck at a trailhead but couldn’t find him. He was found the next morning but his wife wouldn’t let anyone go back to get the bike.

Hugs to you and yours,

MuMo

By: Teamfubar

Teamfubar — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:05:24 +0000

Thank GOD! I finally know of someone that has had the dreaded bleeding nipple syndrome (BNS). I first incurred BNS during a MTB race in Sundance WY. It was a 35 miler with about 5000′ elevation gain. After the race was over, someone asked me about the peculiar design of the Fisher grassroots team jersey I was wearing. I looked down to see two inverted teardrop shapes stemming from my man-boob area. ‘Twas blood, not the design of the jersey…though the red of the blood went well with the yellow/red/green jersey colors.