Comments on: Dug’s RAWROD ‘06: “Bike Riding Sucks”

By: Dodger

Dodger — Fri, 05 May 2006 04:58:10 +0000

it really sucks that you had to suffer through that.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 03 May 2006 21:33:54 +0000

Repeat after me: Mountain bikes, bad.

Even more freudian than RAWROD, of course, is RAMROD.
Fatty, you doing it this year?

By: BIg Mike In Oz

BIg Mike In Oz — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:09:21 +0000

No Elk. But there’s plenty of equivalent monsters decomposing along our trails. And they all look very similar 10 days after they die.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:51:15 +0000

Great write-up!

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:18:23 +0000

Thanks for the invite, Fatty, you and dug make it sound *very* appealing. Given my gastro-intestinal tendencies, my going along will only increase the competition for that last toilet.

Botched

By: Jsun

Jsun — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:12:44 +0000

Do they have Wapiti (elk) in OZ?

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:09:31 +0000

re. GeekCyclist
Gotcha. Hiking in Utah (canyons) we were most concerned with not fouling the creek. Anyplace I’ve seen cryptobiotic soil they didn’t even want you leaving the trail – just walking on it is bad.

By: BIg Mike In Oz

BIg Mike In Oz — Wed, 03 May 2006 08:27:27 +0000

Fatty – Ew is right. The true definition of suffering is when the bonk hits so hard that you suck the remnants of an old Mars Bar out of the seams of your jersey pocket while hallucinating about finding the elk.

Of course that never happens to roadies. They have an ample supply of road kill to nourish themselves with. Equally, it never happens to trackies. We ride round in circles and are therefore never more than 200 yards from the cafeteria.

By: Fat Cyclist

Fat Cyclist — Wed, 03 May 2006 06:17:31 +0000

geekcyclist – exactly.

botched – i think i can answer for dug on the diet (vs. non-diet) coke, since he and i have similar soft drink preferences (ie, we both like a lot of it, and we both think diet coke with lime is the best thing ever, although i’m also happy to drink diet pepsi and dug is not): diet coke is better than corn syrup coke. the texture is better (lighter, crisper, not so thick) and the sweetener is better (corn syrup has an opaque flavor of its own that gets in the way of the cola taste). by the way, botched: i think you should come next year.

big mike – ew.

jsun – "endurance" does lend the sound of nobility to long rides, doesn’t it? A stoic aesthetic, as it were. when in reality, we’re just creepy masochists.

rocky – i don’t buy your argument at all. there were times when i hated doing it, but it was still an intense experience and i’m glad i did it. aren’t you glad you and i did all those kokopelli trips? the moments you stare into the abyss are the moments you remember. like kodak moments, but in stereo, and with the likelihood of barfing.

rick – man, i wish you could’ve come.

rich – you finished that ride no more than 10 minutes behind me. you are ready to do the lt100. you rule, man.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:54:00 +0000

FC – These two posts just make me want to ride more.Rupert – in much of the desert southwest it is bad form to relieve yourself in the wild using the typical "cathole" approach. It destroys the cryptobiotic soil. So, unless you are prepare to carry out everything, not just the TP, FC set the good example…