Awesome. One hundred miles is a lot to do without "training," but as you have shown, it's not impossible! And by making the mental shift from "training" to "just riding" your attention stays completely on the ride at hand. My experience has been that if most of your riding is "training" for some event in the future, it can get a little tyrannical.
In terms of the braking, one possibility is you picked up something on your rims that decreased effectiveness. Re: air pressure. Not sure what size Compass you are running, but even at 200 plus, 60 psi is probably way overkill if they are Switchbacks (48mm). If they were rideable at 25, I would say try another 10-15 in back and 5-10 in front. Too much pressure and you lose some of the major benefits of wide rubber. There is lots of great riding up the Hudson River a bit. Beacon is just over an hour from Grand Central on the train. The stop just before is Cold Spring, with easy access to miles and miles of great dirt roads. PM me if you'd like a route suggestion or two. On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 12:13:25 AM UTC-4, Antone Könst wrote: > > I did my first organized Century through the beautiful and not so > beautiful 5 boroughs yesterday on my trusty steed (or, ewe?), and enjoyed > it immensely. > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6KOXijRK3VRRXNDeTNjc0U3eG8 > > I am a bike commuter, I don't get to do many rides, and typically the most > adventure I have on the Chev is taking trails home through Prospect > Park...nothing crazy. But, I love biking so I figured 'what's 100 miles? > Sounds easy'... I didn't train or prepare in any way besides indulging in > more calories than usual the night before, and I bought a padded bib (thank > god). In retrospect I'm glad I didn't spend a bunch of time doing long > rides in preparation for this (well, doing more long rides sounds good but > I'm glad I didn't 'train'), because my Chev kept me comfortable all the way > back to my front door over plenty of crappy roads, while the lycra guys > next to me were complaining about their arms. I think I was somewhere in > the back of the front, only because I was the odd man out on my steel > frame, everyone else was on carbon and clipless taking breaks and then > catching up and passing me again as I steadily chugged along trying to keep > up! I couldn't find the end so I just did the last 5 miles back to my > apartment. > > It was super great to do this around the Boroughs, especially as a > resident...it's a massive massive city and every part is beautiful. Would > highly recommend to city commuters and visitors who are willing to run red > lights and weave through traffic...otherwise I think it would be even > slower than it was which could be frustrating. > > *The screenshot of my map has one glaring mistake - that it took 16 hours! > We left Prospect Park at 6:30 and I finished at 3:20, so I'm guessing I > left 'Ride with GPS' on during the night before after checking the route. > But at 9 hours it still probably seems very slow in comparison to a > non-urban century where you're free to ride for more than a few blocks > before stopping, I hope to do that soon. > > BIKE: > My set-up was very comfortable - I'm 6'1, 220, and like I said not > training or doing long rides often, it was still comfortable the whole time > thanks to the bike's set-up. > The 58cm Bosco's hand positions were useful at different times and my > Compass tires kept the road noise at bay on the park paths that were > slowing the road bikes down. I started first 30 miles at a very low PSI, > around 25, by accident (it was early!) and pumped up to 60 later. Was glad > to have a dynamo front and back light set-up with all the traffic. My Big > Blue Sac in a Wald basket on a Surly 6 Pack held more coconut water and > bananas than I needed, but had there not been checkpoints I would have been > well prepared :-) > My Paul Racer's seemed to get less effective as the ride went on - can > someone explain? I hadn't adjusted them prior. > I'm running just one chainring up front and my chain fell off 3 times - > how do I avoid this? I haven't adjusted my rear d. since taking off the > larger chainring. > > Anyhow, I certainly wouldn't have done this ride if I wasn't looking for > ways to get on my Cheviot for longer, which is partly how I justified the > Rivendell. Now I'm just very sore. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
