Comments on: How to Ride the Correct Speed

By: LidsB2

LidsB2 — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 04:34:02 +0000

All of those things that you just said…are my favorite things too!

By: UpTheGrade, SR, CA

UpTheGrade, SR, CA — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 04:06:12 +0000

Is there any truth to the rumor (which I just started) that Rick Sunderlage (not his real name) is the mystery buyer of Femke’s no-longer-needed motorized CX bike, just so he can finally achieve the Correct Speed?
Perhaps he’s been struggling in the speed correctness department while riding with His Fattyness.

By: Arizona Guy

Arizona Guy — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:08:53 +0000

I mostly ride on my own, which ensures I am always at precisely the right speed.

Group rides are often spirited contests to determine the right speed, which almost always ends up being ‘ as fast as the skinny young bastard can pedal’.

By: bikemike

bikemike — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:23:27 +0000

Who is that Rick Sunderlage clown?

By: UpTheGrade, SR, CA

UpTheGrade, SR, CA — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:09:31 +0000

It must be a wonderful feeling to always ride at the right speed. The Pros could learn a lot from this blog post and thus avoid all those silly crashes etc.

For my benefit, being a right-speed-challenged cyclist, perhaps you could post the correct speed for the day on your blog, sort of like a weather forecast, so all other cyclists would know the average Speed Of The Day and stop causing their fellow cyclists so much bother.

By: lophat

lophat — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:13:14 +0000

I do this by leading rides, where everybody is automatically riding the correct speed. Except on hills, where I let them ride the wrong speed. And long flat sections

By: BostonCarlos

BostonCarlos — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:49:23 +0000

PS: Happy Pi(e) day!

By: Bill H-D

Bill H-D — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:29:43 +0000

I believe Tarzan wrote the following sentence:

“Your heart is in the right place, but you have weak mind.”

Given the otherwise sage advice offered here, I recommend a revision to Yodaspeak thusly:

“In the right place, your heart is. But a weak mind, you have.”

By: Ospina

Ospina — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:16:15 +0000

I find it much easier to just swap garmins before the race, I mean, group ride, starts. Then when you look at your computer on the ride, you can clearly see that there is something wrong with your brakes since you are clearly going faster and with more power than it shows. Only issue is when you get dropped, computer stops working.

By: BostonCarlos

BostonCarlos — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:01:52 +0000

Do I need to call you if I’m not riding with you to find out how fast you’re going? If so, we may want to establish either a live tracking website, or perhaps a hotline for people to dial into. We’ll call it Dial-a-fatty… wait… that’s probably taken, and probably not by someone with similar motives. On second thought … let’s just do the tracking website.