June 10, 2009 10:55 am
06.10.2009 AM Bike Commute
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This morning’s commute to work from Silver Lake to Westchester took me south through downtown and across Jefferson Boulevard through Culver City to the Howard Hughes Center.
6.10.2009 AM Bike Commute
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Yeah well so REI’s Bike Your Drive ain’t perfect. Looking at the track and the stats, things went a little screwy coming into and going through downtown. Not only that but somewhere in the fifth mile the app clocked me doing 172 mph. I don’t think I was going QUITE that fast.
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June 10th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Hmmmmm. Oh sure, 172 mph is pretty impressive, but how long can you keep it up? Regardless, I think I’m putting my money on you in this year’s Tour de France.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Ha! Well, according to the app, I bonked at 172.7 mph after steadily accelerating up to that speed from around the 4-mile marker. Even at that short a distance that would put me well out in front of the peleton (at least until I woke up!).
June 10th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
I don’t ever see you exploding off the back of the peleton, Will. But I do love the Joe Isuzu reference, something about 172 kph “downhill in a hurricane”.
Hmmmm, just dated myself.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Even more impressive is that it looks like you hit 172 mph on a slight uphill, then slowed down to around 20 mph in a very short distance. Excellent brakes!