Wow :shock: http://runningmagazine.ca/alistair-brownlee-jonathan-brownlee-world-triathlon-finale/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Feel good moment of the year! :lol: Kind of a weird sacrifice, though - he could have won the race, instead he helped his brother not with the championship...

Some of the most entertaining cycling I've ever seen... both races coming down to the wire, amazing. The dangerous descent, though - not sure that was the greatest idea, but to have a climb followed by a time-trial-like blast to the finish... well, you have to come down somehow. Sounds like everyone...

Wow did that look sketchy. That's being charitable... how do you destroy a record set by a doper without looking like you were ever really trying?

jono

I will be doing hills with the road bike but do you see a downside to using the hybrid bike for hills as well? Anyone is free to put in their two cents. It all helps - I flip between my 3 bikes all the time. Although the way you climb on a road bike is probably different than a hybrid - ie. when yo...

I think everyone pretty much covered it, but just to add another voice to the choir - for me it's about 3 things: #1 is weight - by a mile. On the flip side I can really pull away from people on the downhills when I'm heavy! ;) #2 is momentum - carry it into the hill (but don't kill yourself). I fin...

Mark.AU wrote:Unless the fit is waaaayyy off (which is unlikely), it's far more probable you just need to get used to the rotated/forward position of a road bike vs a hybrid.

+1... when my hamstrings are tight, I get all kinds of pain in the more aero position of the road bike. Stretch and it goes away.

jono

If one only looks at the overall, the Tour was relatively "boring". But for me, there was some real drama with regards to the Green and King of the Mountains. The move Sagan made to "win" was amazing. And after that, I thought there were a number of great and exciting stage vict...

Dull? Yesterday was gangbusters! Sure Froome recovered after dumping it, but just him going down added to the drama, not to mention the massive battle for the rest of the podium. Today should be awesome too, so much climbing and ends with a descent - sketchy. Hoping Bardet holds on to 2nd! General c...

Banff GranFondo - looks like a really cool ride.

jono

Nice wheels.

Haha even when he is knocked off his bike he can't seem to lose the Tour!

Once again a big assist from his teammates. He hit the nail on the head when he said it'd be a different race if he were on a small team...

jono

Short of Froome getting knocked off his bike, hard to imagine how he loses this Tour...

jono

Every day I say "that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen" and every day something dumber happens. According to twitter, they're giving Froome back all the time he lost. Ironic that they shortened the race in the name of safety, only to create an unsafe situation. I'd rather have taken my ...

Wow.

Sagan is the coolest guy on two wheels. Froome I can't stand but man he's made me a fan in the last few days.

Wow.

jono

Froome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPNuVJ1U5Y

Every year I say "this is the year I'm going to watch the tour and ignore the sideshow". And then Froome punches a spectator, George Bennett runs over a guy, and the finish line attacks a bunch of riders, and I'm sucked back in. I saw the spectator get flattened, but I didn't see the othe...

Should be big days for the GC boys today and tomorrow. I'll say! Froome's downhill attack was friggin' awesome! jono That position on the bike was insane, especially when he was pedaling while stradling the top tube. :lol: I've never seen anyone pedal that much while riding in that position ... sca...

5km wrote:Should be big days for the GC boys today and tomorrow.

I'll say! Froome's downhill attack was friggin' awesome!

jono

Great so far! Cavendish in yellow was pretty awesome... first time for him, neat stuff. Sagan was just awesome yesterday.

Contador ... ouch.



jono

But my pedantic and semantically contrarian side would argue that I ran a 50 K race and that fits into a category of its own. That is if one runs a marathon they do not say they also ran a 5 K, a 10 K, a half marathon race but that they ran a marathon. But if someone asked you "how many times ...

Two year ban: http://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/36482288" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; She's 29 which is pretty long in the tooth for tennis... but never say never, she could still return I guess? jono A number of high-profile women have returned to professional tennis after lengthy ...

Two year ban:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/36482288

She's 29 which is pretty long in the tooth for tennis... but never say never, she could still return I guess?

jono

Ok that's weird. Interesting though, and looks like really nice components. Rides nice?

jono

daddy_runner wrote:It's second-hand, a few years old. I'll try and scrounge some photos up. It's one of those weird half-aluminum/half-carbon frames.

I'm assuming you mean aluminium frame with a carbon fork and seat-post? That's not weird!

jono

Just for fun - I crunched the numbers (because I'm a geek that way). I had to throw out some people who didn't have split times or DNF'd, so I ended up with 1337 finishers. Of those, 60 negative split. Median finishing time for them was 3:45:13. The rest were positive splitters. Median finishing ti...