dubcbadass

[race report]

racing was REALLY fun though, if this weekend taught me one thing its that i gotta be trainin a lot harder n im lookin forward to that:)

train smarter, not harder, my friend.

[pickcharr of bike that doesn't know exactly what it wants to be when i grows up]

my ride!

i like some elements of this, but what are you going for with this?

new edc, old pocket triangle was getting thrashed so i made a new one in a thicker natural tan. (old one was thin shrunken grain)

should age like a champ

[ill leather work]

excuse the dumb question/maybe this has been posted before, but what you put in that?

^^^ dude's insane. more jawnz than i got underwear and socks combined.

my list:

pre - 7FAM, PD&C

then - got tired of that ish

then - copped one wash 501s, decided they weren't exactly what i wanted, turned too blue with washing

then - internetted that up and came up with STFs and Wrangler 13mwz and copped posthaste

then - found selvedge and got some N&F WGs in lightweight from Mauro on sale and wore for a year (shoulda taken an early pass on these and upgraded sooner b/c a year later with minimal washing, all they have is some wallet fades and marginal other fading)

now - AW grifters are my first high quality pair

[otherpplzconcerns]

dub cinch back - no matter if black or indigo - always straight up..cinch back looks sensless on a slim tight jean. and how do u convince ur girlfriend ? Just buy urself a wallet and wear it - if she leaves you because of that - it wasn't meant to be anyway...

thx, beatle, so true on both counts. way to help me get my head in the right place. still, tho, is there something un-authentic about a rural/suburban turned semi-yuppy professional student wearing cuffs, boots, and a wallet and leather reign? i feel like i want some of that ish for the aesthetics, but am not the biker badass i wanna be. maybe this should be in supertrash...

...$30 Brooks Brothers kids is basically BoO...

not exactly sure about this, but i am a wee dude, so i will give this a try and report back.

2 things:

1) black denims with a cinch back? slim or straight or slim straight.

2) how can i convince my girlfriend that i need a mid wallet and reign and won't look like a dweeb wearin' it? (need pics of steeziest dude ever with reign/mid length wallet)

capa embrace the tortoise.

Are you gonna keep stock or are you just gonna drop ship or whatever its called?

nice pseudo-photo tutorial, wild style! must spread, but i had full 600 on my first road rig.

[pickchars]

+rep. wish miami had some of that old florida feel.

^^^ nice, some size 12 will be lucky.

cool vintage/western/workwear from state of florida's archives:

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these two were from the black history related snaps, but there is a ton more for anyone with some time to kill.

edit: found this last one, which completes me. everything from the hats to the dog, to the bike in the bg, to the catcher's gear. so sick.

False yourself. If a few riders go down, it's a 'no contest lap' and whomever's bloody bike still works gets to hop back in.

For better or for worse, all your advice sounds like collegiate racing, big time.

Just don't hit your brakes or make any sudden movements. Causing a crash by being all over is horseshit. Don't freak out when you're getting elbows and knees, just pretend you don't care and it's the train.

Also, warm up really, really hard, eat a little, drink a bunch, race, cool down, drink booze.

I looked into what you said.. and I'm definitely liking the idea.. SRAM Rival groupset new goes for about 700~ shipped.. But it also gives me all these options on length and etc... do you know how I should go on deciding what length and etc?

That leaves me with about another 500~ for the rest...

what are you getting as part of the groupset? is it a full build kit or just transmission, levers and brakes (aka an 8 piece group)? if so, you might need a hair more than 500 to finish the job if you don't have shit lying around. find a bike shop friend who can get pro deal on qbp stuff is a great option (this might require blow jobs or pay off in cases of beer).

vintage hanover

i was about to ask what a 'vintage hangover' was, like it was some kind of hang over that was still around after 15 years or something.

Not my usual use of the light.... Came in handy at dinner last night when the lighting was too dim to read the menu & wine list!

[pick-charr]

My friends suddenly think my EDC is cool!

not necessarily a bad thing, but my grandpa does that.

False yourself. If a few riders go down, it's a 'no contest lap' and whomever's bloody bike still works gets to hop back in.

For better or for worse, all your advice sounds like collegiate racing, big time.

Just don't hit your brakes or make any sudden movements. Causing a crash by being all over is horseshit. Don't freak out when you're getting elbows and knees, just pretend you don't care and it's the train.

Also, warm up really, really hard, eat a little, drink a bunch, race, cool down, drink booze.

what i am saying, and maybe i wasn't clear, re: free laps was that if a du is slow and the course is relatively safe, officials often either a) don't know or don't care if you get dropped and will let you jump back into the race without pulling you. they do this to be nice. i wouldn't call that a legitimate free lap due to mishap. would you?

also, i did race collegiate a, but i also raced juniors on the national level since i was a wee one (started racing road in 1998 maybe), and always raced category along with it. did a couple local pro 1, 2 races before i took 'early retirement' (haha, due to partying in high school) and lots of pro 1, 2, 3s in my time, so i think i can speak pretty well for many of the skill and intensity levels of road racing (especially ones average folks will attain) in the states short of like nrc pro races or uci shit.

i dig the advice in your last two paragraphs. that stuff is well put.

it was a local pro cat 1s n 2s and i also saw the masters 35+

it was a course called mothballs by my school

im racing a crit sunday, any pointers???

wanna talk the talk? call the "pro cat 1s n 2s" the "pro-one-twos," as in, "i just won my first pro-one-two race." pointers? don't poop yourself. lawl, no really, assuming that you have ridden in a group before, just don't get discouraged if you are at the back of the pack getting yo-yoed after the first lap or so. crits are always longer than the idiots at the beginning think. do your best to not see any wind (suck wheel) because it doesn't matter who is at the front the most. all that matters is who is at the frotn at the end.

So excited for the crit season here. We're just starting the road season and I've got a few months before crit series start up. I'm not sure if this is your first race/ crit or what, but be sure to get there early and warm up. Crits are so fast-paced, you have to be ready to go all out from the very beginning. Place yourself well when you line up- basically, just don't start yourself in the back of the pack. I actually like to start right in the middle.

If you happen to get lapped, don't get discouraged. It happens. Don't kill yourself trying to catch up with the pack (this depends on the length of the course though). you can save your energy and get back in the pack once they lap you. Just be sure to pick up speed before the group reaches you so you can more easily match their speed and hang on to a wheel.

more important than front to back position at the start is side to side position. if the first turn is a right and it comes up quickly, you wanna be as far left as possible so you can really bang on it wide open to get near to the front as possible. i cosign on jumping back in. just be safe about it and don't contests the primes and the field sprint at the end if it comes down to that.

How are they not pulling you from the course?

Should only be getting a free lap if you crash.

it's not a free lap, brah. it is just pity and letting a du get a workout in after he gets lapped.

I've never heard of a crit where they allow someone to get lapped and then sit in the pack.

happens at lower key races. most of the time the officials have their heads too far up their asses to even know, and if you are already lapped and get back in without them knowing it, what, are they gonna relegate you to the back of the women's cat 4?

Ah I see. Thanks!

I have another question.. I plan on racing this road season... I have about 1200~ to spend on a new bike..

Do you or anyone have any suggestions at what brand and model I should be looking at? (preferably used.. since this is after all my first road bike and I want to get the best "bang for the buck" out of my 1200..)

brand? i say cheap aluminum frame and decent groupset. others will disagree, but it takes a lot of time on a lot of bikes to really feel/appreciate the difference b/w frame quality levels and materials and the frame isn't a great place to save weight. all the crap you read in the bike mags are just press release from manufacturers that you are paying for. i am a big fan of sram for quality. i have a bike from '06 sram force on it and it took two years of salty winter and one season of a few cross races and other than swapping from road bike to cross bike, nothing on it has ever needed cables or adjustments. i don't know how, but it is true. sram rival is the best budget groupset out there. don't waste your time/money on tiagra or 105 or even ultegra (imho).

^^They let me in my first crit. Maybe because it was my first crit, first race. Maybe because it was a woman's race with a mixed field (we race woman's 2/3/4s together. the 1s race with one of the guys groups and I think 2s have that option as well). Maybe it was because they saw I had no warm up- I got left immediately in the first lap but stayed with the group after getting lapped. I'm not really sure. I just know they let me stay on the course after getting lapped in my first race and I really appreciated it, because it was a great learning experience. Its a good point to bring up that you may get pulled if you're lapped though so thanks because it slipped my mind.

you might get pulled depending on course safety, but my experience is usually if the course isn't too dangerous and the field is small, people aren't total assholes for the sake of it.

You should see if your local club does a weekly TT series. Great for new racers to get information from experienced riders and see how they warm up, they are often free or $5, and can ease you into racing without the dicey, dicey danger of an industrial park after-work crit with >90º corners and sand everywhere and a pack of jittery 4's.

disagree, the only good way to get good at racing heads up is doing it, even if against jittery 4s. most 4s don't really even suck that bad if you don't suck.

i have one of those starbucks poss sitting around after an upgrade to a rancilio rocky. it would make a nice companion to a pressurized portafilter machine with unpressurized basket 'mod,' so you could put together a whole setup for less than like $125. will ship it to the first taker for like usd 5 + shipping. (7.50 basically free, just to make it worth my time). full disclosure: i 'modded' it, which means i just set it to grind finer by spinning the burr inside the case. it takes a little finagling to get it working tip top, too as the grind knob broke and i had to gorrila glue it back together.

fixed, i was kidding myself thinking my time was worth $7.50.

nobody wants to up their coffee game from pre-ground to cheaply self-ground? thing is just sitting in my living room waiting to go to the trash or whatever. if you live in south florida, we could even do a mini-sufu meetup whereby i teach you to use the thing.

i'm way too peasant steeze for this. wish i could find an easy way to sell a kidney.

2 things:

-i kopped store-brand string cheese and it tastes like real cheese. i was upset by this as i was expecting the usual rubbery taste.

-i wish we could start a new sufu so that i wouldn't have to read through 7000 pages of threads to feel like i know what is going on. mad posts up in this bitch.

this is the coolest thrad evar. wish i hadn't wasted so much rep today on other shit. i am not gonna subscribe, tho, b/c i don't want my life to feel so boring in comparison.

Seatbelt

seatbelt seals the deal

stop getting butt hurt son no homo

cosign this.

Hello and good day today to my internet friends! I am sorry to have been busy and could not take pictures of myself for the internet. Today was sunny and made me happy to take a picture! ... Vans of suede leather. Some spots on pants are not of private fluids to those who wonder.

Also here is a picture of my crotch. ... I enjoy looking at men's pants like everyone and yet I have few sexual feelings about them. I think it is best not to talk about such things.

Your writing is hilarious. I left the highlights (almost all of it). What means 'no homo' is if you are not teh ghey and you say something that is teh ghey like "here is a picture of my crotch" to some dudes, then you say "no homo" to let them know you weren't being teh ghey.

+rep if i could, way cool. also, i was just reading/appending the EDC thread in culture and an internal hip pocket might be the ticket for some of the better prepared EDCers that need some more space for killing instruments, etc.

sry for b2b posts, but...

http://www.bemeyers.com/index.php?option=com_product&catid=36&id=12&Itemid=53

my twin brother who is in the army/more badass than me sends me this link. i ask him if he thinks i could daily carry and

you could swing it, I think. it is 8 inches long and weighs about a pound. better for tactical carry on a vest or in a bag than in your skinny jeans though... unless you want to walk around looking like you have an erection.

lawl

plain ole beeswax will suffice.