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Recent content by darylm

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    Winter: Slow down? Increase?

    "They" say there is no bad weather, only bad clothing. In my experience that is often, but not 100% true. ;)
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    Winter: Slow down? Increase?

    Also look at Rouvy (real life video) and MyWhoosh (free, but fewer features and riders)
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    Winter: Slow down? Increase?

    We watch Ryan Van Duzer, Ride along Adventures, and Adventures with Bane on YouTube 😉
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    Winter: Slow down? Increase?

    I want to do the DSR this coming year
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    Winter: Slow down? Increase?

    Zwift and TrainerRoad for winter however I do significantly drop off riding November&December to avoid burnout. Basically maintenance fitness only.
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    Last bike photo on your phone!

    The Constitution Trail outside Normal, Illinois. I stopped in to see Tony but he was off saving the universe.... :D
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    Hello!

    Here in Naperville we have a good local NA brewer called "Go Brewing". They are available on Amazon also!
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    Hello!

    Do they stop at the St. Nicholas brewery afterward? :p
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    What's your biggest cycling weakness?

    Getting faster is a far more complicated question than you think when you are riding with others. Also, your personal physiology plays a large role. For example training apps (I’m using TrainerRoad) classify me as a sprinter. That means I can burst quite large power for not all that long but...
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    Cotton Crochet Cycling Gloves

    I need the gloves as much for (or more) to control sweat making an uncomfortable and slick handlebar. Still, the padding on the big thumb muscle in the palm is advantageous, especially on rides longer than a couple of hours.
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    The Dirty South Roubaix 2025 Post!

    Saw you on the Youtube video! 👏
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    The Tunnel Hill State Trail : Surface question

    I have submitted a pretty large set of changes to OpenStreetMap to add "compacted" or "unpaved" to everything not listed as paved (like Harrisburg). This should make it so that mapping apps like RideWithGPS properly list the trail as "unpaved". Hopefully I'll remember to post when I'm down for...
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    The Tunnel Hill State Trail : Surface question

    @Rom And I found his excellent TH trail web page with the very nice Google Map. I'm currently in discussion with RWGPS on how they map OSM over. The OSM data for TH is largely marked as "crushed_limestone" which is technically correct but a rarely used tag and doesn't map well to to "paved"...
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    The Tunnel Hill State Trail : Surface question

    P.S. Here is the current DRAFT collection. Lots more to do! Ride with GPS | Bike Route Planner and Cycling Navigation App
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    The Tunnel Hill State Trail : Surface question

    Greetings all, I'm currently working on a (volunteer) project for Ride Illinois to curate and enhance their various "Route Guide" routes into a set of RideWithGPS collections. I've ridden the southern part from the wetlands center north and my (faulty?) memory is there is limestone surface...
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