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ITT: greentext your first race>march of this year >Buenos Aires Grand Fondo >Arrive almsot late with a buddy, not even enough time to warm up >pin my number and rush to the grid >U23 so in the same spot as the pros >3, 2, 1, GO OMGOMGOMG >Girls can't clip well and falls in slowmo, barely miss her >the junior national teams flies by >500m in, merging into the freeway, 65km/h >NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE NIGGA I'M FUCKING SCARED YOOO >adrenaline kicks in, do the first 10km on a 50km/h avg >finally merge into a peloton, do the whole race with an avg of 41km/h >lots of highways, passing through the whole downtown avenues closed entire for us >dat sunrise >a lap around the Buenos Aires race car track >finish 223 of 800 riders, happy and not really tired >take a hughe dump from eating 4 energy gels in just 2 hours
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>>892086 >4x mechanical during the race >front derailleur miss aligned so when you shift to the outer the chain comes off >i rode my friends bike because mine broke the day before the race >managed to make back 5minutes on the group and finished in the main bunch behind the break. >9th overall >not bad for a race with 850 vertical meters of elevation I intend to return next year and win the grade higher up.
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>>892086 >about 3 years ago >get a ride to the race because was only 15 yrs old >sign up for cat 4 >in a cycling club >just drafting people poorly for 5/15 laps >teammate tells me to attack >being 15 yrs old and been in a race b4 no one saw me as a threat >opened a 15 second gap in 3 laps >held it for 7 more laps and placed 1/49 >got lectured by the race officials and my teammates for not having junior gearing on, even though I was in a cat 4 race with no other juniors in it Anonymous
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>about 5 years ago >there's a short time trial up one of the wicked steep hills in town >go to watch >ride my hybrid/commuter bike there because wtfn >repeatedly ride between the top and bottom of the next street over because i get tired of watching just the finish or just the start. >gee, this doesn't seem too hard >oh look, registration is still open even though the time trials have begun >good thing i brought $20 >ohfuckohfuckthisishardpleasedontfalldown >oh god i made it under a minute at least >average time for age group is ~30sec >went straight home cause feeling sick to stomach, skipping awards ceremony or whatever >proceed to be sick to stomach
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>>892103 >underage b& Are you Greg Lemond or something?
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>>892086 >red mountain, Mission, BC >18 km and around 1000m elevation >dat climb and singletrack DH >on a single speed fully rigid Kona Unit >46 of 49 Had a lot of fun
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>be 14 bmxer >on a heavy freestyle bike, back then heavy was 35lbs and look just like someone who is having his 1st race >gate of 8 3 qualifying rounds 2 people will get dropped for the final >RIDERS READY WATCH THE GATE >BEBEEPBEEPBEEP >gate drops >I am out with the 1st couple guys >over the 1st roller >pedalpedalpedal >get squeezed into 2ndish over the 1st jump but not backing off >motherfucker infront of me crashes and I run into him flipping the bars >get run over a little bit but otherwise fine >get up and finish the round >get 2nd to last place that round >next round all goes fine except I am in 5th, 3 places out of qualifying but still with the pack >3rd round, gotta do it this time >end up getting 1st somehow, not sure what happened behind me tbh but was clear sailing >finals, this one counts for throphys >we are all in a pack with me in 2nd place as we go into the 1st turn >I have the low line but not in place enough to do anything with it >go through the triple set of doubles gaining a little bit >enter the 2ned turn still on the inside and go low to high blocking the guy in 1st but leaving low open >3rd place swooped in high to low >still in 2nd but hit the rhythm section better since I did ride there almost everyday >catch and pass him when he bobbled >3rd turn and pedaling my ass off >end up 1st place out of a bunch of beginners
BaconRider !!r91B20sYt4z
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>Posers ITT
