Re: Since March 30

On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 19:28:50 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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On 4/13/2025 5:37 PM, zen cycle wrote:

On 4/13/2025 12:32 PM, cyclintom wrote:

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I don't know, maybe he can't tell the difference but then
he said that unlike my experience racing, he never looked
down at friction shifter lever position and the actual
pros I spoke to said that they always looked at the levers
before reaching down. Andrew said he never looked down but
I don't think he was referring to racing. Certainly you
know where the position of the lever is but in racing you
don't want to be grasping around trying to figure out what
gear you're in.

 
gawd....
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjU2-x6Hcik
0:47 - rider in center of screen: Freddy Maertens.
1:31 - rider with black sleeves: Jan Raas. Yes, he looks
down, but only after he has already made the shift and is
putting his hand back on the bars
1:32 - Rider in green in the draft of Jan Raas
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CHjZQSNo2s
  4:47
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce6Hy57Cl8Y
  1:12 - the rider on the left
17:19 - rider on left ( Greg Lemond)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akmRLwI80_o
1:38 - rider on the left in light colored jersey
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U33kCGqzn8I
0:13 - Eddy Merckx
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4uRR1Q1mA
1:35 - rider in center of screen
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym7bfpp-gUw
2:05 - 3rd rider in line (might be Greg Lemonde?)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCQ32pTF2Tg
2:50 - Alexi Grewal
11:08 - rider on the right
 
in other words, you're still a fucking idiot
 

So if Flunky never looked he was never up in the thick of
the racing.

 
Actually, the opposite is true. as all of the above videos
show, and every person in this forum who has commented
attests, there's no need to look down if you have a fucking
clue. You're likely confused about what any pro you claimed
to have spoken with ever told you, if not outright lying
about it.
 

No big deal since he was racing for the sake of racing and
not to be on the front.

 
You wouldn't know the difference.
 

When I was racing I sort of took it serious and although
the cat 4's and 5's (I was 5) started a minute behind the
Cat 1's, 2's and 3's, I would ride right up to the tail
end group of 3's and then be too exhausted to do anything
but ride with the tail end 3's. They did race amoung
themselves but eventuslly the fast 4's would catch and
pass us. My racing was all wrong and I should have stayed
with the fast 4's which would have put me ahead of all but
the fastest 5's and I would have advanced. But that was
just at the time I damaged my lungs so in the end it
didn't matter at all. But I can say that I was a 5 that
was as fast than the slower 3's. For all that's worth.

 
If you took it seriously, you would have eventually become a
cat 4, then a 3, possibly even further. The fact that you
never made it past a 5 shows that you never took it
seriously and sucked at it anyway.
 
So what did we learn from tommy's rant? Only that I continue
to live rent free in his head and he has an abnormal
obsession about me not dissimilar to the fetish the floriduh
dumbass has for frank.
 
 
 

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Yes to all that.
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But simpler, a priori, why would a man look at a shifter
when he could look at the cute girl riding next to him?
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(I actually rode into a parked truck doing just that. Shed
lots of blood learning to watch where one is riding.)

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I was once assigned to a Base where Cadets were receiving their
initial flight training (learning to fly)  and the Instructors
emphasized looking around". Up/Down/Right/Left/Front/Back/
continuously.
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I was a mechanic and we had to be standing by when our plane was
undergoing pre flight inspection and used to hear this every day. The
penny finally dropped, "Hey! That will work on the roads too!"
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Some may recommend riding out in the middle of the road so "they can
see me". My style is "keep my head moving so I see them before they
see me".
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The thesis being that I have yet to see a car in the ditch all
battered and broke with the blood dripping out while the bicycle goes
pedaling happily down the road with a little dent in the fender (:-})