infobits - infopalat

The titanium bike is obviously fitted for him. Yet, when I got on it and went, ALL of my power went to the pavement. I am so jealous. The bike just takes all the power and uses every ounce. My carbon is nice, but damn that was a treat! It's a Seven custom job. Fuck, why did I do that?

Today's ride was the longest (~50 miles) ride that I have done since last August. That fact took me by surprise. I think I am past my "I trained for 8 months and I don't want to do long rides anymore phase." It's time to get my ass in the saddle a lot more. We climbed 2,655 feet. Mentally, I was not tracking elevation gain because I just assumed it was below 2K and who cares if it is below 2K on a 50-mile ride. Well, we did do some climbing today! It was likely Scott's longest ride. He did very well, and is on his way to enjoying the beautiful scenery that you have to work to get to.

On our way up Camino Alto, a bicyclist got hit by a car. He is fine in the sense that he was moving and talking before, during, and after being hit. I am not so sure about his bike. The sound of the impact was sickening. One never knows what to expect. He pulled a dick move and tried to pass impatiently on the left side of a car who ended up taking a left turn. All this on a curve that you cannot see beyond while descending. Hopefully the car was not too badly damaged. What a costly paint job otherwise! Patience people, patience. If you end up getting pissed off at something, grab a bar from your pocket and stick that down your throat!

More later, I am off to a nice dinner via my city bike.

I have approximately 3,000 miles on my 105 components as of today. The cassette is a newer cassette and will probably have more life in it than the other components. At most, I estimate that I put 500 - 750 miles on that old cassette before swapping it out.

Why blog about this?

In a year or two, I can come back to this post and track the age of my parts.

It was Scott's first ascent up the Headlands.

It was a beautiful day for a ride and there is still some weekend left because we kept it short.

Arun and I were back in the saddle this morning on our usual easy ride out to the ocean and back. It's nice to be back in the saddle. I noticed bison for the first time in Golden Gate Park!