Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Roger Merriman Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Mileage and Climbing Date: 4 Jan 2025 09:36:20 GMT Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net FKMCNlOj257sqlfyCVRxYAKeHHSA6tGSP+5htxCuK47JJPAO0b Cancel-Lock: sha1:FrWWHGC3dhcw+K/b/gOJzcVO64k= sha1:5A1N4OwlbxGrHCDMibsZKKuDU8M= sha256:KTzoBX8QP5YH5niUhOVszTi3dOx0XmJ6flhm7xvhnFc= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPad) Bytes: 3034 cyclintom wrote: > On Wed Jan 1 10:07:51 2025 zen cycle wrote: >> On 12/31/2024 4:25 PM, Tom Kunich proved once again that I live rent >> free in his head: >> >>> Flunky has gotten in less >>> than 1,000 miles >> >> You might have gotten more mileage in if you would stop obsessing about me. >> >> But to reply to yet another of your lies: >> >> https://www.strava.com/athletes/16053273 >> 2024 >> Distance 2,847.1 mi >> Elev Gain 160,297 ft >> >> I'm not all that concerned about mileage. Strava shows an overall >> average speed for the year of 17.2 MPH. Considering that about 25% of >> those miles were on the mountain bike with average speeds about 10MPH, >> I'm exceptionally happy with an overall average of over 17. >> >>> and Krygowski what? 500? Liebermann got in 6 miles which >>> wasn't bad considering his physical condition. Juhn talked about the old >>> days when he used to ride a bicycle. >>> >>> I can remember bsck when the only people on the group were riders. But >>> after Jobst published what he thought was my address, half of the group >>> left and never came back. Part of that was that his publishing my mother's >>> address was just the last straw since most of the group didn't like the >>> group being largely about Jobst. What we need is Flunky telling us all >>> about Jobst when he wasn't here while Jobst was posting and leading rides. >> >> What we actually need is for you to stop obsessing over me. > > > > > > I don't obsess over lying cowards, I just call them what they are. You > did not avarage 17 mph on a garmin and you did not do several 200 o9ne > day rides, you are simpoly lying. Your milage is far too low to put you > in shape for the bullshit you're claiming. Pro racers cannot do what > you're claiming. You put your Garmin in your car and drove those miles. I > came back from a ride in a car on the freeway and the Garmin said 25 mph > average. Give us more of your bullshit. > He didn’t say he did 200 mile rides, but that he averaged 17mph which seems to tally with a very brief snoop at his Strava account with 23mph TT and so on. Ie he did what he claimed to do! Roger Merriman