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I comple5td a relatively short ride today that put me at 1490 miles so far this year. I think that as the weather gets warmer I will be able to do longer rides like the one's I was doing before my stroke. All during the first of this year, I've just been doing easy rides. all flat.
The Ridley is Di2 11 speed so my Garmin cannot detect gear changes as it does with the 12 speed Di2. With the mess of bikes in the garage, I haven't been able to put the Raleigh tgravel bike on the stand to do the final adjustmentds on the V-brakes.
Today, the guys I was riding with really turn it up on the last 11 miles and I was riding up in the high 120 bpm heart rate rather than the 110 average on the way out.
My calculated max heart rate is 134 but on the ride over the bridge to Palo Alto I did hit 144 with little ill effect other than being very tired.
5 years agp at the beginning of the new year I would be overweight and the ride to Moraga left me exhausted then 3 months into the year I wouold be climbing with the best of them. My weight would be down and I would be adding climbs into the ride.
The Ridley is about 18 1/2 lbs with a water bottle and a flat kit. The steel bikes are 20 1/2. That weight means nothing. Aero wheels and wide tirs would add more weight to the steel bikes. But I have a set of Vento wheels (Campy) that use gaged bearings and a single row of pawls that roll so easy that the rear wheel turs as long as the front wheel. Who needs Aero a5t my speeds?
I now own the bikes I want to keep so it is a matter of selling the rest off and cleaning up the garage..I am going to throw away all of the junk that my wife simpy dumped in the garage and the covered patio. That will take 3 months and my bet is that she won't notice it's gone.
So it is only hanging on and selling off the bikes like the steel Aliveti that no one has ever heard of. A friend who I can't remember ever seen riding anything other than his Speciualized Tarmac sent me a pictue of his garage and he has 7 bikes hanging on his wall. So I am not unusual since I only have 3 more.
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On Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:56:10 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

My calculated max heart rate is 134 but on the ride over the bridge to Palo Alto I did hit 144 with little ill effect other than being very tired.

That's odd. Your Strava history for this morning (Apr 18, 2026) only
shows your usual 30 mile ride from San Leandro, around Oakland
airport, and back.
<https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450> <https://www.strava.com/activities/18162564304>
There is no indication that you rode across the bay to Palo Alto and
back which would involve riding in the opposite direction to Fremont,
across the bay via the Dumbarton Bridge to East Palo Alto, and back
again. That would also involve and additional 2 hrs each direction.
Like this:
<https://maps.app.goo.gl/Nn1QA8e7iZ8rUBpi9>
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Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 AE6KS 831-336-2558

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On Sat Apr 18 23:56:10 2026 cyclintom wrote:

I comple5td a relatively short ride today that put me at 1490 miles so far this year. I think that as the weather gets warmer I will be able to do longer rides like the one's I was doing before my stroke. All during the first of this year, I've just been doing easy rides. all flat.

The Ridley is Di2 11 speed so my Garmin cannot detect gear changes as it does with the 12 speed Di2. With the mess of bikes in the garage, I haven't been able to put the Raleigh tgravel bike on the stand to do the final adjustmentds on the V-brakes.

Today, the guys I was riding with really turn it up on the last 11 miles and I was riding up in the high 120 bpm heart rate rather than the 110 average on the way out.

My calculated max heart rate is 134 but on the ride over the bridge to Palo Alto I did hit 144 with little ill effect other than being very tired.

5 years agp at the beginning of the new year I would be overweight and the ride to Moraga left me exhausted then 3 months into the year I wouold be climbing with the best of them. My weight would be down and I would be adding climbs into the ride.

The Ridley is about 18 1/2 lbs with a water bottle and a flat kit. The steel bikes are 20 1/2. That weight means nothing. Aero wheels and wide tirs would add more weight to the steel bikes. But I have a set of Vento wheels (Campy) that use gaged bearings and a single row of pawls that roll so easy that the rear wheel turs as long as the front wheel. Who needs Aero a5t my speeds?

I now own the bikes I want to keep so it is a matter of selling the rest off and cleaning up the garage..I am going to throw away all of the junk that my wife simpy dumped in the garage and the covered patio. That will take 3 months and my bet is that she won't notice it's gone.

So it is only hanging on and selling off the bikes like the steel Aliveti that no one has ever heard of. A friend who I can't remember ever seen riding anything other than his Speciualized Tarmac sent me a pictue of his garage and he has 7 bikes hanging on his wall. So I am not unusual since I only have 3 more.

I was alerted that the two brain cell wonder claimed that I said that I rode over the bridge to Palo Alto yesterday. That was from a prior ride and was concerning heart rate. Even my step son who only likes me because I'm taking care of his mother when showed Liebermann postings said that there was no wonder he couldn't get a job.
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