tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:11:58 +0000http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/kdublog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)Blogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-4633317354107745733Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:52:00 +00002008-07-15T22:02:29.372-07:00powerSRMtrainingpowermetergizmos...bonus points for those that can decipher the 3-d histograms below (they are the same plot, just from different perspectives)! ooooh - look at the pretty colors! :-) I haven't fired up this matlab script in awhile, but when I do, I find that it's a pretty descriptive way to discover the "gold" in my srm files. From the looks of it, it seems that I can do about 13+ minutes @ 6+W/kg in http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/07/my-lunch-hour-ride-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-5911344184936451654Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:09:00 +00002008-07-12T17:19:06.603-07:00TDF...since he's not there... here he is guaranteeing more victories for Contador in the future: and on whether or not he'll be watching the tour this year: Here's what Levi did yesterday morning, when all his euro-dawg buds were throwin' down in letour: cascade classic TT d'oh! he would have put 10 minutes on me! Nice to see lots of familiar names on that TT result sheet - BTR folks and http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/07/leipheimer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-4665919400918873484Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:30:00 +00002008-07-05T20:41:18.370-07:00Crr A couple of quick shots of three tires hanging from my garage door opener track. Lots of folks talk about tires being supple, and how this "supple-ness" can be a good indicator of tires with low rolling resistance. Based on this supple-ness deal, which one of the tires above, would have the _worst_ rolling resistance? Well, I dorked around in the garage this morning with my new toy (an IR,http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/07/supple.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-2449682931122908132Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +00002008-07-05T20:28:41.288-07:00racingI woke up last Saturday thinking I'd go for a nice stroll up Couser Canyon and have a relaxing afternoon of rest prior to toein' the line at the Manhattan Beach Grand Prix on Sunday. Well, I did give it a go up the Couser climb (this is where I do all my 20 mp type efforts) in the morning and began to enjoy the afternoon. As I was checkin' things out on socalcycling.com, I remember that the http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/07/last-races-for-bit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-7664333521619500107Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:09:00 +00002008-06-26T23:27:31.067-07:00golfracingI took a couple weeks off there, eh??? Anyway, here's the highlights... I was big time into golf when I was a youngster - I can remember watching Curtis Strange rip it up at the US Open back to back (just like the Lakers did in the 80's, and as mentioned in the R-rated, Red Hot Chili Peppers Song clip below): My passion for the unseen intricacies of competitive golf is why I jumped at thehttp://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/06/memories.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-6210539376477283107Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:23:00 +00002008-06-11T21:41:28.175-07:00DOPINGhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/sports/othersports/12brown.html?_r=1&oref=slogin where were the congressional hearings about cycling in the 80's and 90's, or even today? The Clemens and Bonds thing was interesting... Now, horses have the limelight in the USA? Wow. I'm under-impressed -> further confirmation that cycling is a fringe deal here in the states. I won't complain about the http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/06/horses-and-baseball-players-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-5964885521961020796Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:35:00 +00002008-06-08T20:09:13.576-07:00old skoolfamilyracingBig sports day for me today! Brought back lots of old skool memories of my youth sports experiences... Started out with some Euro 2008 action where Croatia took on Austria, and Croatia scored early on a penalty shot in the opening minutes of the match. Great coverage I was watching - pretty funny to hear the announcers chattin' about "dumping" an opponent - the description the color guy gave http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/06/old-skool.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-7995943274104570388Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:07:00 +00002008-06-04T22:08:49.353-07:00miscracingI've made a pretty conscious effort this year to make a move towards a more positive mental energy state... Yeah, all the numbers/smart guys out there will scoff at this - but hey, that's cool, I can respect that perspective. Often times, though (I'm human, right?), it becomes difficult to ignore all the "forum" threads that get forwarded to me by friends of the BTR cause. Recently, I was http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/06/positive-energy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-8265623014827891726Wed, 28 May 2008 06:00:00 +00002008-05-27T23:03:59.422-07:00TT PositionThis past holiday weekend was front loaded! Big day on Saturday, as I finally got to see Vicente Fernandez live in Concert. I totally dig the mariachi scene and if you are into that sort of thing - Vicente (Chente) is the man!his son, Vicente Jr., opened the show promptly at 8PM and sang with the Mariachi for about half an hour. Then Vicente came on stage and lit it up for nearly three hours of http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/05/chente-and-bike-race.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-524916036371775928Sun, 25 May 2008 16:27:00 +00002008-05-25T09:27:05.755-07:00Wind TunnelhumanipersCool Steve Hed interview over on Road magazine's site that I just ran across: http://roadmagazine.net/road_home/road/interviews/hed08/hed08.htmlhttp://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/05/hed-interview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-2436566437515672445Wed, 14 May 2008 04:04:00 +00002008-05-13T21:39:40.199-07:00randomI spent a bit of time in Germany last summer: and I want to convince myself that I remember that "Der Kinder" in German is something like: "the children"... I'm not totally sure why "Der Kinder" popped into my head when I received a semi-spam related email from Amazon today about their "Kindle" product - but I'll pull no punches and admit that "Der Kinder" did. Cool slowmo of a Kindle being http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/05/der-kinderstream-of-consciousness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-6066249316416628340Wed, 07 May 2008 03:17:00 +00002008-05-06T20:52:28.875-07:00racing..is 20/20. Well, I planned to get a couple of hard efforts in last weekend to put the final touches on my preparation for the Masters Road Champs here in Socal this coming Saturday. It all started probably 6 years ago, maybe... That's when I got tired of getting my ass handed to me in the Pro 1,2 races - and I thought the only way I wouldn't get my ass handed to me was to recreate the mega http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/05/hindsight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-6090595319710618129Sat, 03 May 2008 16:01:00 +00002008-05-03T09:08:27.287-07:00stripped downtrainingtriathlonWell, I got a swift kick in the rear a week or so ago by a BTR/kdublog reader asking what's up with the whole stripped down series... That wasn't the first time I'd heard that! :-) I finally got the next installment done -> Fill! Heres the first installment in the series: http://www.biketechreview.com/performance/stripped_down.htm and the latest: http://www.biketechreview.com/performance/http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/05/stripped-down-fill-right.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-3137334891149266197Fri, 02 May 2008 05:36:00 +00002008-05-01T22:50:05.056-07:00golfProcessI've been doing the sporting good product thing for a little over a decade now (a couple years in the bike biz, and the rest where I currently am in the golf biz), and I still get pumped when the team I am on launches a new product: http://www.taylormadegolf.com/campaigns/burnerbloodline/content/microsite/ When new product ships, it's a crazy mix of nerves and pride for the team - it's an http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/05/any-golfers-out-there.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-6761247714759741623Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:20:00 +00002008-04-25T21:37:28.127-07:00randomI was making the rounds at work today... We have a pretty good crop of avid lunch hour surfer regulars where I work in the golf biz, and the talk of the day was this tragic incident: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20080425-1658-bn25shark7.html As an occassional surfer (I'm not very good, BTW...), and since many of my friends and colleagues are surfers it really made me think a http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/04/tragedy-in-solana-beach.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-7670304044127238736Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:27:00 +00002008-04-14T22:48:51.569-07:00vacationfamilyA week or so ago, me and the Mrs took a trip to Chihuahua for her cousin's wedding. Chihuahua? Is that a real place? Yeah, it's a real place. I reckon it is one of the largest cities in the Mexican State of Chihuahua: View Larger Map Chihuahua, the state, might be best known as the place where Pancho Villa was assasinated - they have a nice museum in the town of chihuahua that we have visitedhttp://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/04/chihuahua-and-la-revancha-de-chihuahua.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-1993299340703330641Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:02:00 +00002008-04-13T07:47:24.466-07:00miscwheelsI was catching up on some of the spring classics the other morning, and mozy-d on over to http://www.cycling.tv/ and watched the highlights of the tour of flanders. Oh, that's a bike race! Anyway, during the race, I saw something I hadn't seen before - and that was a Saunier Duval rider (announcer said is was Gomez Marchante, but not sure if it was...) going au bloc with his head down and http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/04/flanders-and-catastrophic-wheel-failure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-8865201712416307696Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:41:00 +00002008-04-09T21:50:01.851-07:00TrekLemondLANCE I'm a huge Lemond Fan (I finally got to shake his hand and pose for the pic above during the 2006 Interbike show). I'm also a big Trek fan (that was my very first "racing bike" back in the day. LANCE? Hmmm.... Not so much. So, it kind of made my gut hurt a bit when I read this: http://www.velonews.com/article/74387/ It feels a wee-bit like Trek is compromising on some core values to me... http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/04/lemond-and-trek.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-5158858440439751709Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:30:00 +00002008-03-30T20:45:01.654-07:00racingIl Marco is the hero of the week, for encouraging me to grab his wheel on the final lap of the crit today during the San Dimas Stage Race. The guys at the front were drillin' it hard, and I was pegged pretty good with four corners to go, when all of a sudden I here my name from someone on my left. yeah, it was Il Marco and all of his Platinum Performance makin' a go of it up the left hand side http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/03/hero-of-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-2552151564166800798Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:55:00 +00002008-03-30T20:02:47.610-07:00trainingracingI was pointed to this thread on a yahoo-based message board: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/AltoVelo/message/17061 That article about base training that Kirk wrote has been all over cyberspace, it seems. Cool to see that folks are still discussing it this many months past its initial publication! That is the sign of a real good article, IMHO... I don't know if Kirk would respond like http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/03/alto-velo-base-and-potential.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-3893902136352886793Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:41:00 +00002008-03-30T07:20:41.068-07:00Wind TunnelracingNot more than 30 seconds (for me) after the finish of today’s SDSR Bonelli Park Circuit Race, I had a perspective shifting chat with a rider whom I respect, and at the end of the day, am a wee bit envious of. His comment to me, as I was trying to catch my breath after giving it all I had in the finale, was simple and to the point: “You might have gone faster yesterday if you hadn’t been http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/03/perspective-shifting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-5054609248579236053Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:34:00 +00002008-03-28T17:34:43.378-07:00D'oh! Really bad legs today at the san dimas hillclimb. Thirty seconds slower and fifteen watts less than last years effort. Pretty silly, as I can usually knock out 291 watts for this duration at the nadir of my yearly fitness.I've got a pretty good idea as to why things were a wee bit amiss today. Sometimes life just gets in the way of going hard on your bike! ;-)Tomorrow is another day, http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/03/sometimes-it-happens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-6736177547518260910Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:19:00 +00002008-03-28T17:27:05.590-07:00racingSRM screenshot of Ontario Racing (M35+ and Pro 1,2,3) It was a fun weekend of bike racing here in socal. Toed the line in the finale of the DelMar Crit series in the M35+ field on Saturday, then did a couple more crits up in Ontario on Sunday -> M35+ followed by a 90 min drag race in the Pro 1,2,3 race. Del Mar was a crazy one. Our race was delayed for over an hour, as the M45+ race had a badhttp://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/03/slotting-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-7584430658440348326Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:07:00 +00002008-03-19T23:33:51.951-07:00racing It's gettin' late, so this will be a short one... Did the LA circuit race last weekend as the second day of hard-ish ridin'. Laid down a maximal 20MP effort on Saturday, where I'm still a handful of watts behind where I was at this time last year. Then set out to get some fill/racing in up in LA. Whoa, super windy day of racing on Sunday. Seems as if we were going 55-60 kph in the tailwind http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/03/la-circuit-race.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-5069497606632111727Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:50:00 +00002008-03-14T21:26:26.628-07:00racingWell, I still had some leg stuff going on, but managed to snag my best result since trying my hand at the masters racing here in socal a year or so ago. There was a midweek crit in Del Mar - pretty crazy to see what, about 50 guys??? toe the line at 3:45PM on a wednesday. Don't these people have jobs? ;-) Here's some in race footage I found over at http://www.delmarcrit.com/: BTR forum http://www.biketechreview.com/kdublog/2008/03/mid-week-del-mar-crit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (kraig)