EB Cycling Club

[Road Guy]

looks like part time painter Jens is way down in 18th place,, leading this race is some dudes from Bolder (at least they are US) but they dont look like they have eaten a solid meal in a while

 

[Wolverine]

Jens says hello.

UH OH, You've ANGERED Jens!

 

[Road Guy]

Did he also play in that movie Dallas buyers club?

 

[Wolverine]

Phew, lucky for us, Jens found some podium girls. Now he's happy again.

 

[Road Guy]

I wouldn't show that pic, the girls are thicker than he is (more manlier)

 

[roadwreck]

Riding from Atlanta to Anniston Alabama tomorrow. 102 miles one way. It's supposed to be 96 degrees tomorrow. I haven't trained at all.

 

[matt267 PE]

Riding from Atlanta to Anniston Alabama tomorrow. 102 miles one way. It's supposed to be 96 degrees tomorrow. I haven't trained at all.

Ummm... Sounds fun?

 

[knight1fox3]

This comes to mind...

 

[Road Guy]

So what's up with all these crazy outfits people are wearing for this bike race in Colorado this week? Is that just like the bicycle equivalent of the people that where the pig costumes at the Washington Redskins games?

 

[Road Guy]

For example.......

 

[csb]

You mad your girlfriends are hanging out without you?

Like what is with that girl's skirt?

 

[Road Guy]

I don't think guys should have a gap in between their legs?

 

[csb]

His junk is pushed up from the chamois. I saw a lot of junk this week. Total spandex sausagefest.

 

[csb]

Met:

Taylor Phinney

The entire Trek Factory Racing Team, including Jens

Tejay van Garderen

Had lots and lots of fun (until the part where my car broke down in I-70 right out of the Eisenhower/Johnson Tunnel). Kid wants to be a pro-biker now.

 

[Wolverine]

SWEET!

<envy> (...except I wouldn't know what to say if I met the elite riders: "Um, hey, uh, yeah dude, like, uh, you're a good rider, you know?")

And I like the KOM skirt! Or is that Queen of the Mountains?

RG: the crazy outfits is just attentionwhore stuff. Whee, look at me, I'm dressed like a moron.

RW: How'd it go? Need post-ride report!

I climbed the biggest road cliimb in GA over the weekend. Got the KOM when the two from my group that were about 1 min in front of me stopped at the overlook, not realizing that wasn't the top.

 

[csb]

For one day, it was QOM, for the Queen stage. The other two days, KOM. (I did get a QOM once on Strava. I should have printed that off and laminated it.)

 

[roadwreck]

RW: How'd it go? Need post-ride report!

I'M ALIVE!!!!!!!!!

It really wasn't that bad. The stretch between Rockmart and Cedertown kinda sucks, but you probably already knew that. The Alabama section would have been nice if it weren't so freaking hot when we got there. Anywhere there was a chance to stop we were filling up our water bottles at that point. The trail in Alabama is narrower than Georgia and it seems a lot rougher. We had multiple water bottle ejections, doubling back to get them when you were making good headway was a little demoralizing. All in all it was fun though and everyone in our group made it without major incident.

We had fun in Anniston too where there was a biker convention going on (the kind of bikes with engines). We didn't exactly fit in with that crowd but the folks that we talked to at our hotel were all very nice and very impressed that we had ridden that far (without aid of a motor).

 

[Road Guy]

I spent some time at Fort McClellan in Anniston many moons ago. all I recall if you could see one end of the mall from the other end..

Also guess who else spent time training there? One guess, we took over his country, captured him, and then he was hung..

So the silver comet goes all the way to Anniston now?

 

[roadwreck]

So the silver comet goes all the way to Anniston now?

The Silver Comet goes to the Alabama/Georgia line. Once you cross into Alabama it is named the "Cheif Ladiga Trail" and it stops in north Anniston.

We did a paving project for Eastern Federal Lands on what was once Fort McClellan. Does the name Bains Gap Road ring a bell? We did the design for some culvert repairs and repaving. The fun part was that apparently this area was part of the artillery range? That's what they told us at least. They were clearing unexploded ordinance from the area. They had cleared the road and a certain distance either side (can't remember what the exact distance was) but they told us not to venture to far from the road while we were out there.

 

[engineergurl]

So the silver comet goes all the way to Anniston now?

The Silver Comet goes to the Alabama/Georgia line. Once you cross into Alabama it is named the "Cheif Ladiga Trail" and it stops in north Anniston.

We did a paving project for Eastern Federal Lands on what was once Fort McClellan. Does the name Bains Gap Road ring a bell? We did the design for some culvert repairs and repaving. The fun part was that apparently this area was part of the artillery range? That's what they told us at least. They were clearing unexploded ordinance from the area. They had cleared the road and a certain distance either side (can't remember what the exact distance was) but they told us not to venture to far from the road while we were out there.

I miss the days of dealing with UXO's...