RE: 9/11 Ride

Who’s interested in either the Hamptons century in 2 weeks on 9/26, or the MS Century the following weekend in NYC Oct 3^rd?  please let me know so we can organize a group for each ride.

 

Bob

 

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From: Arthur Finkel [mailto:quasiguru@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 8:25 PM
To: Robert Leighton
Cc: Oriel Mor; Isaac Seinuk; northshorerenegades.chainring@blogger.com; David J. Shereck; David Wargin; Gus Condiles; Barry Feirstein; Greg Keller; George Uribe; Bill Eisenberg; Mitchel Lang; Larry Nipon; Todd Manas; Jan Lemerman; Yihao Ou
Subject: Re: 9/11 Ride

 

It certainly was a sin not to ride today.  I set the alarm for 7:15 but when I woke up thought I could use more sleep (lame excuse - i have a cold).  I still have a couple of weeks to throw away sins.  I have not done a road ride since early July.

Greg, Ori - I am going to Glacier Ridge tomorrow at 7:30 if you are interested.  This will be a social pace.

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Robert Leighton <rleighton@leightonassociates.com> wrote:

Most excellent ride today!  As someone else put it, it was a 10 1/2 on a
scale of 0 to 10.  Not sure I can ride Sunday; will decide in the am.
Cheers.

Bob

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From: Oriel Mor [mailto:oriel61@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 2:33 PM
To: Isaac Seinuk; Arthur Finkel; northshorerenegades.chainring@blogger.com;
David J. Shereck; David Wargin; Gus Condiles; Barry Feirstein; Greg Keller;
George Uribe; Bill Eisenberg; Robert Leighton; Mitchel Lang; Larry Nipon;
Todd Manas; Jan Lemerman; Yihao Ou
Subject: 9/11 Ride

You guys missed a perfect riding weather day. It was just Bob and I at
home base. I wore my 9/11 memorial jersey. Bob was in his full Radio
Shack kit.

We did one of our usual routes, straight out to West Hills, back to
108 and up Lawrence Road, to be followed by the Snake Hill and
Huntington segments. Just as we started attacking Lawrence, my chain
broke, right in the steepest part. I then understood why my gear had
been skipping earlier. One of the outer plates had obviously popped
and, under the full load of the steepest of climbs, the link gave out.

In this case I couldn't just push the link back in its place. I had no
choice but to remove a pair of links and close the chain back, making
it just a little shorter than before. I had to get my hands really
dirty, because I never clean my drivetrain. It was tough to start
pushing the good pin out of its link, because my portable chain tool
has very little leverage on the fixed part. But with Bob's help and a
couple of sticks, I was able to improvise a longer handle, got that
work going and quickly finished the job.

There's nothing like starting off again on a 20% incline (it felt like
20%, anyway). From that point on, my only concern was to watch my
gears and avoid the largest one or two rear cogs whenever I was in the
large chainring.

There was a street fair going on by the Syosset train station with
partial road closures. We had a short stop at the 7-11. We completed
our ride the usual way, including the campus. We didn't pick up any
new members today, even though we were temporarily joined by one or
two riders every now and then. We dropped all but one.

Beast

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