Comments on: Separation Anxiety

By: Dudsbait

Dudsbait — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 03:51:17 +0000

Even when it goes wrong, riding bikes is awesome!

By: Augustus

Augustus — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 02:49:19 +0000

I skipped to the comments do I could mention I ride a Cannondale Trail. It is a much lower end bike, but I am just a janitor not a world famous bicycle blogger.

By: JL

JL — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:21:39 +0000

My favorite loop in AF Canyon, EXCEPT from the Summit parking lot take Horse Flat (#250) to Snow Gauging (#189) to Salamander Flat back to Timpooneke. The Snow Gauge trail is narrow, fast and not torn up by motorcycles (they are verboten). Try it, I think you’ll like it.

I have never ridden those trails — didn’t even know they exist! I will look for and try them out pronto. Thanks. – FC

By: davidh-Marin,ca

davidh-Marin,ca — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:47:01 +0000

@jeffdieffenbach
Spot on about Fatty and the Tandem assignment. So miffed he probably ‘wouldn’t pedal’ back there.

By: Jeff Dieffenbach

Jeff Dieffenbach — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:29:51 +0000

@Peri, you are forgiven for being confused by the Hammer’s being able to complete a race report in a mere 2 parts! [grin]

By: Peri

Peri — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:19:00 +0000

Any chance you are going to finish the Hammer's story about Lotoja? I think you did this to us recently with another race report that you never finished. These loose ends are keeping me up at night imagining the different race scenarios.

The Hammer's Lotoja race report is actually complete. Here are links to part 1 and part 2. You're right about my needing to complete my race report for the Crusher in the Tushar, though. That's embarrassing. - FC

By: Miles Archer

Miles Archer — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:17:33 +0000

Do you have cell phone coverage where you were riding? I guess probably not.

Tandem = divorcecycle

Nope, no cel phone coverage in AF canyon. – FC

By: Jeff Dieffenbach

Jeff Dieffenbach — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:24:46 +0000

Some have speculated that Fatty’s reason for steering clear of the tandem is his not being 100% thrilled with being assigned the stoker’s seat.

You know, I think I’ll write a blog post about why I am not interested in the tandem. – FC

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:13:41 +0000

I’ll never understand a lot of the cyclists and runners either when it comes to weather. It seems like that, as a runner, just when it starts getting to be the time of the year that I know the good weather is over is when I see the sudden explosion of people out for a run. How do these people know that running in 60 degrees is SO much better than running in 80 degrees? Given that I’m in southern Georgia and our typical highs in January are around 70, why aren’t they out more in the winter than the summer? Makes no sense.

I’m a lot more active between October and March than I am May-September, although I do run more in the winter than ride. Cold weather is colder on the bike.

By: Tom in Albany

Tom in Albany — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:36:09 +0000

We once lost my then 4 year old daughter at a public place. The fear and panic is something I wish on no one!

Also – I also have framed those snarky, sarcasm-laced monologues in my head, only to have them quickly disappear when, I, too, realize I’M the one being the “not a jerk but, well, you know…”

Yeah, even a moment of not knowing where your toddler is in a crowded public place spikes the HR like nothing else I know. A few years ago (when the Twins were little girls, not teenagers), we went to NYC around New Years, and I don’t think I ever saw the city; I spent more or less every moment swiveling between the girls. – FC