BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

2010 Pedal Pittsburgh is set up for Sunday, May 16 beginning at Southside Works, same as last year. Great ride, good time...

http://www.pedalpittsburgh.org/

Anyone going? I signed up for the 50.

I'm in for the 35 miler.

I know me and a couple others are doing the 35.

35 or 60, depending on whether I get a babysitter for the afternoon.

What, your mom won't let you do the long ride alone?

I'm taking my toys and going home. You're mean.

A group of three (possibly 5) are doing the 35 mile. See Yinz there!

I'll be there. I'm doing the 50. That reminds me- I need to actually go register. Registration at REI evenings this week, right?

People on the board should take sharpie markers and put their board name on their number sheets so people can shout at each other, like the kids say.

@JZ

Yep, registration at REI is from 5-8 pm tomorrow (Thursday) evening.

you can still register online, then pick up your stuff the day of the ride

http://www.active.com/cycling/pittsburgh-pa/pedal-pittsburgh-2010

as well as register the day of the event

my wife is doing the 50 or 60. for the first time in years i won't be riding, as i will be covering for chris down at thick so he can ride.

I'm signed up for 60. Jacked up my back last Friday & am having a difficult time recovering... but hopefully will be well enough for an easy 60.

I will be doing the 6. Its been a loooong time since I have been on my bike.

I signed up online so I guess that you do NOT have to go to REI ahead of time and pick up your riders pack??? You can just get your riders pack the day of the race.

I signed up for the 35. Hopefully I'll see some of you tomorrow.

Peer pressured into signing up today. (Damn fellow cyclists!) @Quizbot I took a nasty spill Thursday and am in the 60 also, but I'm sure we can limp through. See y'all there! #3165

Was a pretty good ride, did the full 50, didn't want to kill myself on mount washington so I passed on the extra ten for the 60. Summerset was an unwelcome surprise - I'll know better when I do it next year to not bother with that portion.

Quizbot spotted me (not sure how), didn't see anyone else, but a ton of riders.

Oh and some cop in greenfield was apparently upset with someones handling of a stop sign, he peeled into a U turn, stopped at the intersection, opened his door, closed it, and then leaned against his car staring into the intersection, all gun-slinger style. Bizarre.

Does anyone have a mapped layout of the 50 or 60 mile courses?

Perfect day for a ride. I loved it. I started alone and met a bunch of cool people along the way. I tagged along with a couple different groups. I did the 35 for the first half, and the 50 route for the second. I bet it was about 37-40 mi.. I don't think the 35 was actually anywhere close to 35 to start with.

I skipped the Summerset loop.

+1 for 'perfect day for a ride'. 60 miles in 4:20. (Mt. Washington was a beast). Thanks to the cool guy from Best Bikes(?) at Highland park for fixing the brake pad I had rubbing. D'oh!

The 60 was roughly 55.5 miles...they really like to make you pay for doing those extra 10 miles around mount washington!

here's a GPS route of the 60 (start and end at OTB)

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/33528992

it was indeed a perfect day for a ride. i didn't do the pedal pittsburgh, but i was constantly finding myself riding with people while out running errands. good times!

Great day for a ride!

Ramage was my special friend, but only for the slope. Some road bike people had trouble with the milling - I saw one spill and another blowout.

I seriously wounded my dignity on the Somerset climb. I violated rule #0, got too close to the kerb, hit it with my pedal, and got a reminder lesson in physics. No harm done.

It was a really great ride - kudos to all the organizers and volunteers!

Had a Free Ride meeting in Lawrenceville while we all gazed out the window at the hundreds and hundreds of cyclists. So, so awesome!

I rode from L-ville through Downtown to the South Side and there was not one moment in my ride that was devoid of cyclists somewhere in site.

here are some photos, video soon

http://www.jonpratt.com/2010/pedal-pgh-may-16

@robjdlc - spotted you from your profile pic & that you had a camera. Figured it must've been you.

Was Summerset the crappy cement descent on the North Side? Not familiar with anything over there at all... there was a nice little section before the climb up to the observatory... Woods Run? Other than that, not so fun & won't be heading over there for a ride any time soon. Someone went down on a crappy section of scattered one inch deep potholes on a short steep drop after Mt. Troy Rd, on Ramage Rd. I think. Ambulance came out, looked like dude may have broken a collarbone from the way he was laid out.

60 mi route map with a few extra miles from Highland Park to & from the SS: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/33513465

I think the 60 was more like 56 or so... @ms88ms has it right tho about the last 10. 18th St up to & through Mt. Washington was properly difficult. Had to tell my legs & low back to STFU up there a few times.

Overall, really fun, good feelings seeing so many folks out on the road. Seeing the guy riding with his little white dog in a backpack made my day.

I had to work today, but my usual morning commute was filled with cyclists so it was much better than usual.

I also took bigelow into downtown instead of Penn, so much faster on a quiet Sunday!

Summerset was the spin downhill into a nice little development around Frick, then finding out you're coming right back up that lovely hill to get out.

That Ramage Rd section was ugly. I was trying to keep my camera from running away from my bike, flying over nasty potholes and cracks. Felt like they could have put up some caution signs or something.

@robjdlc Ramage? Try Damage! This stretch knocked my rear derailleur so far out of line it was hitting the spokes in my granny (which saw waaaaay too much action today) glad I wasn't trying to carry a camera.

@quizbot Feel ya. I started cramping on 18th and was really glad I didn't know what was still in store for me. Every time I'd crest a hill in Mt. Washington I'd think 'ok that's gotta be the last one' LOL Ignorance is bliss.

Hope that guy was okay. Anybody know?

One of my friends said "oh, no, I hate that road. It's too dangerous, even on my motorcycle." So we made our own route. We started before that, opting to stay on the roads instead of riding the trail from the casino to the heinz lofts. I'm glad I listened to her.

I had a little run-in with an idiot motorist on butler near the 62d st bridge. Maybe somebody here witnessed it?

Summerset was ok... I knew it was a drop & climb but I was up for it at that point in the ride. Mt Washington after 50 mi was a bit of a test... GPS says the 60 mi route was 4800+ ft of climbing for the day. Legs concur that it seems about right.

Hi I'm new to this board. I have been reading for a while but haven't posted.

I look forward to pedal pgh every year. I did the "60 mile" course. I didn't really hang out with anyone, but did chat with a few people on mt washington for a minute, including a guy on a single speed. I'm just very glad that the weather was perfect. Usually it's my hands and toes that are hurting me, but it was my back because i need a shorter stem on my new bike.

I rode with the fatheads crew for the first 35, then my knee started to bug me. So I took it easy, 10-12mph for the rest of the ride back to the south side. Total mileage, 41.5 or so. After the 35 I didn't really follow the designated path, just the shortest I knew.

I bailed.

Left Achilles has been getting progressively crankier since CTC, so I figured discretion was the better part of valor and took my son kayaking instead. A tandem 'yak on the Allegheny, a waterborne picnic, and a 5-year-old performing his first experiments with fluid dynamics was a darn fine consolation prize.

I also worked yesterday, but did get to ride in with the flow on the Jail Trail, in the am. I thought there were many more cyclists than normal riding aroudn in the afternoon though. Spillover from the morning?

I did wonder this morning how many of those that thought nothing of riding 35 to 60 miles on Sunday were riding to work on Monday in the rain.

I did the 50 and really got my butt kicked by the North Side... I'm kind of worried that the MS150 is now 4 weeks away - I've been slacking on doing longer rides and certainly felt it yesterday.

BTW, I talked to the guy on the uni briefly - he said he was definitely doing 50 and maybe 60.

it was SO NICE being joined by other cyclists literally everywhere I went... i wish every day was pedal pittsburgh... i was riding for probably 3 hours that day, not on the ride, and i don't think i ever had a view that didn't have at least one cyclist in it... amazing

Funny thing happened that kinda aggravated me. On the ride, we caught the redlight at highland and center. I was sitting there waiting about 10 ft back from the line as there was a car wanting to make a right turn just in front of me. The light turns green and I wave so the car can see im not going to try to ride past him and he can go. A cyclist behind me yells at me with "lets go, he is just making a right turn" im plying that hey we can pass him on the right.

This same person, or the person they were riding with had proclaimed at a previous light, "Its ok for bikes to ride the red lights!"

I seen a guy on a 29'er single speed, brown ridid frame really kicking some ass out there. I was impressed.

Salty - same here. This was the first long distance ride I had since having my knee looked at by the UPMC sport fitness center, which was rough, but helped me pinpoint exactly what my injury is - which I should be able to fix. They also took out some of the awful hills from last year's ms150, so heres hoping we're still alive on sunday.

Great day for a ride. Did the 35 mile then added the 10 miles of Mt. Washington on the end. Missed Ramage and Summerset and got a great ride on decent roads.

yeah the first day of the ms150 last year was kind of cruel, but I heard that they didn't have a lot of time to plan it. I slacked a lot last year and didn't get many long rides in prior to the ms, but i went at a comfortable pace and took my time at the rest stops, and i was ok.

eek, Highland at Center. That's where I got hit back when. Glad you played it safe. The ride was great. I had to teach that day, so I rode about 20 miles and left the pack. The weather could not have possibly been any more perfect. Hi stefb I'm also a steF:)

a little video from the ride...

Pratt, NICE video! It was extremely well done.

Do you use a gopro hd? Do you have it mounted on the handlebars?

thanks, hard to make a video of a 60 mile road ride interesting.....lots to sort through.

It's a GoPro HD mounted to the handlebars.

It is pretty heavily compressed, the original looks a ton better, the GoPro is really freakin' nice.

The mount failed at the end when we were about to climb 18th street...that's why it looks like it's getting zipped up in a body bag, it was being put away in my pack.

There will be a pedal pale ale one in the next day or so

I loved it. One of the best ride videos I've seen. I thought the bit at the end was you passing out before/during the mt washington climb

The quality looked pretty good to me. Have you tried the non-HD version? Is the quality similar, just scaled down?

the standard gopro is pretty good, nothing like the HD one.

here are some of my gopro videos

http://www.jonpratt.com/keyword/gopro

The 16x9 (movie screen dimensions) ones are the HD, the 4x3 (TV screen dimensions) are the SD.

Windowlicker. Great. Thanks for that.