Weight Weenies

commute to work


at work


the drive home


former clark us airforce base, philippines

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Port racine, the smallest port in France

bagac, bataan, philippines

Goury, west of Cherbourg

eurperg wrote:

EKIMIKE wrote:Lovely shots as usual eurperg! I'm just curious - do you use some kind of preset filter in post-processing or more conventional piecemeal post-processing?

Thanks! My post-processing is just choosing the right Instagram filter - usually Amaro or Rise...

your seatpost is too high and your stem too short. not aero at all..
Sweet photo btw

Agree on the seatpost. Disagree on the stem being too short. But the handlebar is way too wide, and that concern is not just based on aero considerations.

I like Vroomen when he speaks his mind

http://gerard.cc/2012/09/19/openness/

Waiting for Gerard's answer on this comment.

http://gerard.cc/2012/09/19/openness/ comment wrote:Jesse Says:

September 19, 2012 at 17:29

On another note…Not to state the obvious Gerard, but didn’t you sponsor CSC and Basso? Did you honestly have no clue that the team was rife with doping? I like your blog and generally agree with you but was curious how you would answer this.

covered new tracks today at work...













pampanga, philippines

Climbed the steepest stretch of paved road I've ever climbed.. My GPS was saying 30% and I would guess the incline is even greater, perhaps close to 40%.

Siouville beach and the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant La Hague in background ...

Baubigny

djm wrote:Climbed the steepest stretch of paved road I've ever climbed.. My GPS was saying 30% and I would guess the incline is even greater, perhaps close to 40%.

Do you have any idea how steep a 40% grade is? Well, it's 21.8 degrees (21,8 european style), where zero is the horizon and 90 is directly overhead, and 30% grade is 16.7 degrees. 20% grade, which is reasonably steep in its own right, is 11.3 degrees.

Perhaps you can try to make a real measurement of the grade, but I'd be mighty surprised if it's really 40%.

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HammerTime2: Yep.. I've climbed/dropped 30% grades on my MTB and I'd say this was worse.

The data from Strava perhaps isn't worth much, but shows there's a pretty steep section of road.
http://app.strava.com/rides/22587328#z8874|8920

I may be wrong.. maybe if somebody with less fatigue (I'm knackered ) could calculate the real incline of the first section of this road using this map. The increase in elevation is 5 metres per line. Scale is also indicated at the bottom.

Link to map: http://kart.finn.no/?lng=10.69311&lat=59.83008&zoom=20&mapType=finnvector