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twin peaks.

June 16, 2011 in riding | No comments

counting down the days until I get both my bikes fit…the knee discomfort is bearable, but definitely is becoming more of an issue on both the road and fixed gear.  it’s taking all the fun out of riding.

spotted this spool of steel cable yesterday.  I’m assuming this is the actual cable that the cable cars run on, possibly just a section of it.

then I saw this crazy camera contraption with a spinning mirror-thing on top of a truck.  I hope I end up a big blur on the next revision of google maps, *fingers crossed*.

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twin peaks.

June 14, 2011 in riding | No comments

left earlier this morning to avoid the slew of afternoon lunch breakers and tourists.  then had a random guy pacing me as I spun out on the marina greens.  hearing someone coasting as I’m soft pedaling along with the wind coming from behind us?  awkward.  leave it up to aggressive recreational road cyclists to pace my gear limited bike.

how excellent.

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tuesday.

June 7, 2011 in riding | No comments

home sweet home.

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monday.

June 6, 2011 in riding | No comments

I wasn’t expecting such a heavy fog drizzle all over the city.  I was still able to maintain traction throughout, and was thankful to have 2 brakes.  the langster isn’t due for it’s 300mi checkup yet, I haven’t been riding it nearly enough.  hopefully this mist goes away.

the fog can stay, though.  it’s very san francisco.

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twin peaks.

June 2, 2011 in riding | 1 comment

back to old habits on the fixed gear.  I really do enjoy riding the road bike in marin, which I haven’t done in a while.  it might be a sub-conscience back door to my lacking performance at races, or that I’ve been tired.  or maybe both.  mount hamilton took such a huge effort just to finish, and the fact that I was dropped at the crest and through the descent just made me almost not want to race anymore.  not this season at least.  I’ve raced over 25 this season, almost every single weekend since the san bruno hill climb on new year’s day.  I don’t regret the amount of racing, but I wish I had built the fixed gear trainer earlier.  whether it’s actually improving my fitness or not isn’t really relevant, I’m having such a good time riding it around the city, climbing hills I haven’t touched in years.

it reminds me of how fun riding is.  it’s not all about doing well at races.  it’s about enjoying yourself.  I should stamp that on my top tube.

a car full of seemingly tipsy girls (at 11am?) yelled, “nice butt!” to me as I climbed past the cable car tracks, so I’ve got that going for me, I guess.  there might be some hope after all!

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twin peaks.

May 30, 2011 in riding | No comments

the view.

the route (counter-clockwise).

I forgot today was memorial day, there were tons of people out.  surprisingly, it was quiet at twin peaks, but the marina and crissy were packed.  earlier on, I saw marc (chica sexy) riding his road bike.  then on my way back, I saw fergus (also on chica sexy) coming up lincoln sporting a new prototype cadence kit.  the same one that I posted a couple days ago.  it didn’t look too bad in person, the lettering was pretty subtle.

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twin peaks with the works.

May 26, 2011 in riding | No comments

my favorite view of san francisco.  previous to the climb from 7th, I rode along the coast from crissy/marina to lincoln, legion, ocean beach, golden gate park, and on.  road cyclists looked as confused as tourists were as I passed.  is it a road bike, single speed, or a track bike…hmmm.

two sky shots from yesterday.

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the works.

May 24, 2011 in riding | No comments

I hit up the presidio, legion of honor, and twin peaks on the langster.  needless to say, after riding earlier in the day, my legs weren’t feeling so great, but the view was worth it.  I stopped by freewheel on the way back to grab a snack, and talked to jason a bit.  he won’t be doing mt. hamilton this weekend, unfortunately, but he’s definitely in for pescadero and a few other races in the coming month.  now I’m going to find something to eat…

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funday.

March 15, 2010 in general | 1 comment

as mentioned in my previous post, I was planning on resting sunday because of the cough I developed on saturday.  I spend the morning catching up on x-files (THAT’S WHAT’S UP), and got a message from ben asking if I wanted to ride twin peaks with him and 2 other guys.  figured, what the heck, I could use the sunlight, and my cough was getting better.

alex (trang) and ben got a bit lost getting to SRSHOUSE, but eventually found their way.  we chilled for a second, and headed towards the academy of science in golden gate park to meet up with jeff (jeffsf on sffixed).  I led from 7th, up woodside, to portola, the beginning of the twin peaks climb.  it was beautiful outside, definitely glad I didn’t stay at home.

from left to right: alex, ben, (dom), jeff

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of course, we had to see an epic guy up here too.  check out the front-wheel drive his recumbent bike has.  he had campagnolo centaur carbon brifters, and claimed to descend twin peaks at a top speed of 40mph.  I believe him, you can really pick up speed on those things…

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and of course, the money shot of san francisco.

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bombed twin peaks blvd, wiggled from 17th to roosevelt, to 14th, my favorite descent (OF ALL TIME) in san francisco.  stopped at starbucks to get hooked up with drinks (thanks jeff!), then ben and I split to go to bother rai at chrome.  chilled until he was done with his shift, and bounced home.

big thanks to ben for picking up my kalavinka bag, I know it’ll go to a good home.  and an even bigger thanks for the rapha leg warmers; ben, you know they’ll get put to good use!  thanks man!

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friday nights.

February 6, 2010 in riding | No comments

twin peaks:

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legion of honor:

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when I initially left my house, I was planning on warming up with mission to market, wiggle, panhandle, through the park to get to 7th and eventually twin peaks – roosevelt – 14th – south van ness – cortland – 3rd – embarcadero – marina greens – crissy – lincoln – legion of honor – clement – skyline – lake merced – skyline – golden gate park – panhandle – home.  I’m pretty sure I threw down the map a couple days ago…here we go:

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I did do twin peaks, roosevelt to 14th, but didn’t make the right onto south van ness.  instead cut pretty much straight, and ran underneath 101 for a bit to division, eventually just making my way to 3rd.  I didn’t want to deal with the sketchiness of lower mission, especially at night.  that and the multiple intersections with massive muni rails nearly impossible to hop over.  finishing legion was a bit of a challenge as usual, but the headwind coming down from skyline was absolutely ridiculous.  I didn’t get a chance to swing lake merced, at the bottom left of the map.  oh well.

definitely glad it didn’t rain tonight.  bananas for dinner!

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