The Hangover 9/7

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This thread is called an "ARGUMENT."

Can we get a Venn diagram showing the overlap of aero ski helmets, front brakes behind the fork, oval forks with aero gaps in them, adamo saddles and tallwheels, or is that just one big circle?

Are you saying that Shimano is crap?

schmalz, venn diagram for compression socks and chastity:

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Can we get a Venn diagram showing the overlap of shimano usage, podium winners, compression sock usage and chastity?

Curiously, each of the 15% of GMSR podiums that were non-Shimano are also big proponents of training with powercranks but have never tried compression socks.

Is he ok? Where did Tallwheels go? Why is he not responding? Can he not hear us in his ski helmet?

Please take the Sram vs. Shimano crap to bikeforums.

Do the jeans come with any yayo?

tallwheels? 'splain please...

I'm not surprised SRAM didn't make it to the podium as much as Shimano. Having owned SRAM now for a couple of years I am not too thrilled with it. It requires more maintenance than Shimano and wears out faster. Most GMSR are amateurs so their stuff will not get the daily attention that the pros get, so their stuff will not work as well.

Funny how someone on ebay things a GH bike is worth over $1k. George is a great rider and probably a great guy, but just cause his ass touched the seat does not make it worth any more than any other old Trek bike. His starting bid is a lot more than the bike is worth.

Which reminds me, does anyone really pay $150 for GH jeans? You can get other jeans made in Colombia for a tiny fraction of what GH charges.

I like that.

Well, if the steering snaps while your riding it you know its authentic.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110583396573#ht_500wt...

A day after GMSR, Powers was well into 'cross mode, even with a broken hand.

http://blue-mondays.blogspot.com/2010/09/cannondale-cyclocrossworldcom-p...

No one who podiumed used fizik bar tape.

what do the other 2 recommend?

Three out of five psychologists recommend getting a life.

More than two thirds of those who podiumed at GMSR this weekend were using BB30. Also, 85% had Shimano drive trains while the field in aggregate was 55% Sram.

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Tallwheels? are you on here? why did you leave VT? The Cat 2s love you. Specifically your spare RR bike and helmet. come'on now Tallwheels. We so loved watching you chop Metlife all day long

Kids and wives LOVE amateur four-day stage races. Wives love gossiping and drinking Cosmopolitans with the other wives in the feed zone. And you can make it fun for the kids by having them scrub your bike's drivetrain each day. Then, at night, the whole family can go out with your single, childless teammates and listen to wild stories about each individual stage.

...a resentful passive aggressive wife who withholds sex because she is pissed that her husband rides his bike all the time and leaves her at home with the kid(s). IMHO, married guys with kids who take up racing are on the road to divorce...and or a sexless marriage.

I've been there, now I get to race Masters- guilt free and with sex! Not at the same time of course.

What kind of bride goes to a four-day stage race? Assuming it's the mail order kind.

No, didn't say that. I said I was married, meaning the only way I get my balls lubed is by self service.

you got your balls lubed!

*priceless*

Took my wife and our son actually. Stayed at a nice place on the Sugarbush Access Rd near race HQ. They had stuff to do all day and loved it and I got to race 4 days in a row guilt free.

Ok, thanks for the clarification, Brent.

i was out having a beer with stuey and the shlecks, o yea, floyd was there too. i guess i'm a bike racer, but woe is me, i couldn't make it up there for the weekend

in all seriousness, though, it does look like a great event, just a bit far and a bad time of year for me, schedule-wise. catskills was more convenient so glad i made that one

If I do that race on Labor day weekend my wife wouldn't lubemyballs, she'd kickmyballs.

your post reeks with the excitability of a cat 4ever

Vid Link: R.Lattanzi pulled some serious Jedi move to avoid that crash up - He gets the Flecha award.

A break that stays away for (40mi)?!? - sounds like a page right out of the Harlem Crit.

joke is on me? there was a super-badass throw down in the cat 4 race? ...what?

What's with the jacked-up GMSR dudes. It's fall. You're fit, nice job. Have a decaf and a scone.

The field let a GC contender (Ryan Short) bridge to a known strong climber, formerly from CRCA, John Cutler. Together they hooked up with Abraham (KOM leader), and rode away from a a break of 8. They rolled as a group of three puny climbers with no time gaps for 40+miles. Ryan took the stage and cutler took 2nd.

Joke is on you. Quit your whining.

don't fucking tell me what to do.

If you claim to be a bike racer and were not at GMSR last weekend, where the hell were you? Race is gorgeous, people are awesome and the area is super nice to stay in. And dont give me the "i am not a climber" argument.
TT favors the strong more than the waif climbers. Stage 2 almost always comes down to a sprint and stage 4 is one of the fastest crits you will ever do.
Be there in 2011.

dont know about the ex cat 1 etc, but the neutral did seem to jump from 1.20 min break to 6.50 very very fast, field was made neutral whilst 40 plus came past, the cat 3 proceeded to then get held up whilst passing the 40 plus again before middlebury climb.

There is always the worry that the break might not be neutral as well but the pack did catch everyone in the break before the end.

A Great race and think the guys on podium deserved there spots,

dylan's right. once you get to 3, whining about sandbaggers is BS. if you want to beat people and can't, downgrade.

and if a horse enters the field and/or a bunch of masters have their flomax kick in at the same time, and you're not the one smart enough to take advantage of it, dont come crying here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOFltygsjM

did you come in 4th place? didn't think so.

GMSR Cat3 podium was a joke. 1 ex Cat1 guy who downgraded to the 4s early this year, and two guys who took advantage of a neutralization and 40+ pee break during Stage3. 10hrs driving for that?

re: jeremy. Yeah, it was. He was dropped from every break in the past 3 races I did with him, why not that one? Being a newbie I didn't know he was coming from a mid-season resting period and was prepping for a peak for cyclocross. he kicked some butt this weekend and i'm sure will do the same in cyclocross.

Wasn't Jeremy Powers the rider that Sean Smith commented about in his blog posting about the Housatonic RR (?) saying that once he saw that JP was in the break, he should've backed off?

Great job , I would say that you recover from injuries fairly well looking at that result.

http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?permit=2010-2507

http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?permit=2010-2536

Fabienne Gerard (CRCA/Flouriclasse Racing - Discover Chiropractic) 7th in Women's Pro/1/2!!