Doshimichi – Izu Alternative for Saturday April 5
Jerome and I actually started at 7AM on the minute, made it up to the top of Doshimichi (the tunnel at the summit) and back before 4PM. We were at Takao in 1 hour and 18 minutes … and the pace fell from there, mostly as Jerome patiently throttled back as I suffered a bit on the hills — not enough sleep Wed or Thur nights = no power for an early Saturday start. I managed 21:02 over Otarumi — 17 seconds below my time a few weeks back, and without pushing at all on the upper part of the slope. We rode 180 km plus and the weather was ideal. With the gas tax cut, lots of people decided it would be a good weekend for a drive. Too much traffic along the way, though you don’t notice it when descending back down Doshimichi, at least, except when you pass someone in the S curves.
The Walking Bike
Click the pic for the video of this racy number in action..
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April Fool
This has arguably nothing to do with cycling, however with a similar and even better activity : flying. One of the best April Fool’s idea I ever saw:
Flying Ps
IZU WEEKEND RIDE
As the weather looks ok and the cherry blossoms are out as well, Juliane and me were thinking about planing a lomger ride in direction Shimoda next weekend, either Saturday or Sunday. We would meet and leave early in the morning by Shinkansen from Shinagawa station traveling to Atami or Mishima, then ride either in inner Izu or on the West coast in southern direction. We have not made detailed plans yet and welcome any ideas.
Last weekend, when I came back from the Shuzenji race [no further comment about that one] I notice a signboard pointing the the Yamabushi Toge. That one sounds nice.
We can also ride down road 414 to Shimoda – I always wanted to do the spiral on my bike. And then jump into the outdoor onsen pools just next to it.
Please let me know, if you are interested.
POSITIVO ESPRESSO TEAM JERSEY FINAL DESIGN
It took some time, but finally I could coordinate a good design with F2P in Singapore for the Positivo Espresso team jersey. As (almost) all members had confirmed their required sizes, I finally informed F2P today that they can start the manufacturing. If everything goes to plan, we should have the jerseys available by mid May, just in time for the Itoigawa fast run event.
I really hope that everybody is satisfied with the final design; some modifications became necessary to adopt to the production process. If there is really something important you would like to change, please let me know ASAP, so that I can get in contact with F2P. But it should be really important – as this might endanger our mid May deadline.
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Build your own Carbon C-Thru Road Frame
The structure of the frame is completely made from solid carbon fiber rods, except for titanium rear dropouts and 7075 aluminum alloy inserts for the BB and the headset cups. During construction, all the beams were bonded together in the frame jig, with systematic and precise control of the position and alignment in the structure and the overall geometry of the frame. Once all carbon beams were bonded together with special epoxy resin, each joint was lashed with carbon fibers to ensure their strength. This was almost surgical work, really requiring a lot of patience. The critical parts of this frame were the connections of the „main tubes“, mainly head tube and BB area. Then, each joint was softly sanded to have a smooth shape. On the frame, there are more than 300 joints, this painstaking work took about 300 hours.
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Thirteen and a Gold Medal
At 5ft 2in and 7st 7lb, 13 year old Tom Daley was a diminutive stick of dynamite among much older and bigger rivals. On average nine years younger, seven inches shorter and 40lb lighter than the other 11 finalists in the ten-metre platform final, Daley outperformed the world champion and the World Cup winner to claim an historic victory four months before he heads to Beijing as the youngest member of the Britain Olympic team and now the youngest European diving champion on record. “It’s amazing to be European champion ahead of that kind of field,” Daley said. “It’s totally unexpected. It’s thrilling, like being on a theme-park ride.” As hysteria built around him in the pool last night, Daley remained calm, just as he had in the competition. In contrast to his unsettled opponents, he looked unruffled throughout his six dives. How? “There’s a lot of work gone into it back home,” he said. “That gives you confidence. Daley will return to school at Eggbuckland Community College, Plymouth, tomorrow. “Thomas learnt a reverse 3 only a month ago. That’s incredible for a 13-year-old. He got scores of ten for it at the World Cup last month. He’s amazing.”
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Someone sitting on someone elses bike
There is a famous man in Tokyo who owns a bike.
Lately, a not-so-famous guy in the same town had the chance to ride on his bike.
Here is the result.
[provided courtesy of Juliane].
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Cervelo Inaugural Ride
Yesterday night I went to Nagai-San to collect my new Cervelo bike. The bike looked just great and Nagai-San really did an awesome job. I was close to tears.I went there with my both kids to show them what really matters in life.
Just like you do not introduce your new girlfriend to your family on the first date, I decided to go solo with my new bike today on Sunday. After all, her name is „Soloist“. I also wanted to do some quite of special ride, so I was pondering whether to go over Yabitsu, Tomin no Mori, Matsuhime or some other place. In the end I decided on Tomin no Mori which used to be a ride I did maybe two times during one season, this year I have been up there already three times, today included. I was also in need of some elevation as I am going to start in Shunzenji next week, D-class = 3 laps, never ever I attempted to do three laps in a row in Shuzenji.
The weather was good and the bike felt just great. I do not want to become this a bike to look at, or to treat it special. This is my new bike and I will ride it just as I rode my Cannondale, it is not an addition, it is the long awaited replacement.
Nagai-San adjusted the bike so that the position is more or less exactly as my Cannondale was, so I felt immediately good on the bike. However the clamp which keeps the saddle post in place does not. So while I was riding I constantly lost height. I put really some torque on the clamp to fix the position of the saddle post and it worked out – then the upper fixation started to get loosen and the saddle started rotating. Small things, Nagai-san will sort them out for me.
If anything, the bike feels very precise. I realize now that it was a mistake to use my Ultegra shifters for seven years and more – the new shifters shift effortless and precise. The frame feels not very much different compared to the Cannondale.
I rode a slow pace to the 7-eleven at Itsukaichi, had a break (lots of riders there) and then continued to Honjuku. I was eager to go up fast, but on the other hand I also wanted to try to stay at a high cadence and keep my heartbeat under control. That went very well. Just after Honjuku there eas the first speed trap by the police – no problem for me as I was going up. I continued to climb steady and with not so much effort until elevation 700 or so. One rider passed me (one of the riders I saw at the 7-eleven), but he wasn’t that much faster than I was and the more we climbed the slower he got. I was able to stay on his wheel.
Together we passed another guy who was only a little bit slower than we were. But this guy was not on a bike – this guy was running up the road towards Tomin no Mori. Very impressive, I guess he was running around 10 km/hr.
Basically I felt o
k and much better than two week before. I continued without a break and made it up to Tomin no Mori. At the deserted gatehouse at elv. 800 m my companion made a break and I continued to climb in a little bit less than 1:12 hours. I guess I wasn’t riding that much faster than last week, but I managed to go up without breaks.
I had some family obligations, so I started the descent early and rode home in one long stretch from Tomin no Mori. It took me close to four hours to go up and a little bit less than three hours to return to base.
A nice spring day in love.
Hey, who would say here „Hana yori dango“ ?
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