My Hovel

[sandra]

Lisa, spread those speakers out and get you some glorious music going on while you work. I have two small Bose speakers and I'm coveting yours thrown in the shoebox!!!

[Flybye]

Silver - I love your tri pendant - what about doing a cycling pendant for us weenies who can't run and/or don't want to get wet?


Carry on as usual and forget the hi-jack.

[Pax]

Silver - I love your tri pendant - what about doing a cycling pendant for us weenies who can't run and/or don't want to get wet?


Carry on as usual and forget the hi-jack.

Excellent suggestion! I'll take a pin!

[mimitabby]

since my company makes airplanes, we test airplane parts and the microphones measure how loud the parts are in the wind. Yes, it would be fun to put a bike in that tunnel (not with me on it) Jan Heine already did a test (in the last issue of his classic bike quarterly) at the U of Washington wind tunnel. They found out some cool things like
don't wear a hoody while you're riding.
fenders don't increase drag, they decrease it.
bike duds are actually good for riding bikes because they create less drag.
showers pass raincoat has less drag than
burley raincoat .

[MM_QFC!]

hey Mimi...didn't Lance use it several times (along with UW's wind tunnel too)? I had a friend/avid cyclist/BigB employee who remarked on it a few years ago. I'm guessing that he had Nike, Giro product folks on his "TT improvement team" with him too.
Also, while he was up here, he did lots of rides in the area and a group of us spotted him (I'd recognize those calves anywhere, even covered up in gunky, cold weather!) while we were riding the LW loop...he was headed in the opposite direction with another rider and gave a friendly wave.

[Eden]

hey Mimi...didn't Lance use it several times (along with UW's wind tunnel too)? I had a friend/avid cyclist/BigB employee who remarked on it a few years ago. I'm guessing that he had Nike, Giro product folks on his "TT improvement team" with him too.
Also, while he was up here, he did lots of rides in the area and a group of us spotted him (I'd recognize those calves anywhere, even covered up in gunky, cold weather!) while we were riding the LW loop...he was headed in the opposite direction with another rider and gave a friendly wave.

I think Lance was here maybe once or twice, but most of the wind tunnel testing was actually done with a body double - no joke! One of the guys who was on my husbands team a couple years ago was paid to be Lance's body double for most of the really tedious wind tunnel testing stuff. He was the right size and shape - even down to the slight hump in the back. Very nice guy - he was studying Oriental medicine and I think the body double gig was needed cash (he was the one who told me I could get $25 massages at the school!). I believe he's finished up school now and has gone on to bigger and better things.

Jeremy otherwise didn't actually look like LA, but there is a guy around here who totally does. I know its not really him, but there was this guy who'd show up to the Thursday crits at Seward park (dressed completely in solid black too) who looked so much like Lance it made a lot of people look twice.

[MM_QFC!]

Interesting about the body double...didn't know that, however LA needed to ride while here, so a former pro-rider I know said his friend (a Seattle local) was contacted to be Lance's training ride buddy during his visit (mainly to show him western WA routes) and he had some good stories about Lance powering up his after-burners and leaving him in the dust on some area loops.

[silver]

Silver - I love your tri pendant - what about doing a cycling pendant for us weenies who can't run and/or don't want to get wet?


Carry on as usual and forget the hi-jack.

continued hi-jack and my apologies to Queen:

thanks,gals!

I do have a traditional cycle pendant charm that I get from my supplier, but I've never tried to make a stylistic one.....maybe I'll give it a tri.....I mean...a try.