This Sunday is the annual Fargo Street Hill Climb - 9 a.m., corner of
Allessandro and Fargo Streets, in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles.
The hill is only about 1/10th of a mile long, with a 33% grade.
The Los Angeles bicycle messengers hosted a series of challenging bike rides (and parties) this weekend. Fargo Street, steepest street in L.A., was on the...
This Sunday is the annual Fargo Street Hill Climb - 9 a.m., corner of Allessandro and Fargo Streets, in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles. The hill is only...
Hi all, Well I'm registered for the Six Gap Century and now I'm trying to figure out what sort of gearing I should use. It seems like the only really hard...
Karol, I have driven this stretch (I should have profiled it but was in a hurry) and I think your calculations are close. It has short stretches of steeps...
John Summerson
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Sep 10, 2003 5:40 pm
... Thanks Jim. I don't think time will permit a trip up Brasstown Bald. Maybe next time. Karol ============================== Karol E. Zielonko Jr. OpenVMS...
I expected that the French police would keep a low profile in its fight against doping in 2003 as its was the 100th anniversary for the TdF. The events of the...
François, What events are you talking about. Web pointers? Karol ============================== Karol E. Zielonko Jr. OpenVMS Engineering Hewlett-Packard...
Thanks ============================== Karol E. Zielonko Jr. OpenVMS Engineering Hewlett-Packard Company If you have me in your address book please configure...
Craig, I'll be at the Super 8. My flight comes into Atlanta around 2:30 PM on Saturday and I'm guessing I'll be pulling into Dahlonega around 4:30. If you want...
So Karol, Guess you have had time to settle back in the routine, how did it go down in Georgia? As for myself, i slept in a hotel 60 km from the start in...
Thanks for asking Francois. I had a great day. For the first 20 miles of small hills there was a long train in which I was one tiny speck. I'd advance some...
Looks like it was worth the trip. Congratulation on your performance >29 km/h on such a course is pretty fast. was that century like a "Brevet" ( no...
... Yes. I would like to do it again for sure. ... Thanks. I am very happy with that especially considering my training and the lingering breathing problems...
Karol, Impressive ride. Can you tell me what gearing ranges you used? Simon ... pretty ... training and ... rides are ... was a ... a one ... our ride ... ...
Well, Lance Armstrong won't be racing for the US in these championship, but i noticed a Kristin Armstrong racing in the US team today ;o)) Cheers François...
Thanks, Simon. I had a 39 X 53 in front and a Shimano 8 speed in back with a custom Ti cog set (from a place in Canada whose name I can't remember now) of 13 x...
... My experience is, that every aditional cog is usefull. I'm very sensitive to be on right (high) cadence especially on flats and for example missing 16...
... Thanks for the information on Xanadian company manufacturing Ti sprockets. Do you remember the name? - otherwise I'll search web for details. Do you get...
... I got outrageously inadequate life from Campagnolo 10 speed titanium sprockets. I used to get quite reasonable life from Marchisio aluminium sprockets, but...
... Sorry I never replied to this. We had a mail outage here and this one must have been one I lost. I have a CicloSport cyclometer and this is one of the...
... I looked it up. They're called Cycle Dynamics. They're at: http://www.bigtwincycling.com/cycle_dyn.htm ... I think I ordered the cogs around 1997 or so. I...
... Thanks for that info Brian. Typically none of the 3 shops I contacted in UK in May told me that altho Sigmasport said they had one remaining set which...
My "hill training" consisted mostly of hill repeats at a 900 meter long 7% hill 5 miles from my house in a subrub called Dover - up and down and up and down......
hello everybody, Yesterday I entered the Vaujany details here http://www.sportcommunication.com/newsite/horaire.php?Id=81&langue=2 Oege Hiddema, who won it a...
comando. commando is for the army Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com [Non-text...
Francois, you haven't been using an online translator by chance? My favourite was my translating instructions for a meeting in Paris for two of my work...
I prefered this event to the Marmotte -- a bit less of a slog, a bit more like a race, since people rode in groups more often in the places between the various...
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