Useful Roadie Tricks
02-14-05, 07:32 AM
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Forget the bunny hops and front wheel stands and wheelies.
Can you do the important tricks such as...
1. picking up a water bottle off the ground at 20 miles per hour? Useful in a feed zone.
2. peeing off the bike in the middle of a race? (Preferably at the back of the pack.)
What can you do? And how is it useful?
Photo taken during the 1989 Tour de Trump somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Can you do the important tricks such as...
1. picking up a water bottle off the ground at 20 miles per hour? Useful in a feed zone.
2. peeing off the bike in the middle of a race? (Preferably at the back of the pack.)
What can you do? And how is it useful?
Photo taken during the 1989 Tour de Trump somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Last edited by EventServices; 02-14-05 at 07:35 AM. Reason: Added photo
02-14-05, 07:48 AM
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What about the old frame pump in the spokes trick. Always good for a laugh....ok never mind.
Lets see a show of hands from the people that can pick up a water bottle off the ground while riding their bike. I know for sure I can't do this.
Lets see a show of hands from the people that can pick up a water bottle off the ground while riding their bike. I know for sure I can't do this.
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02-14-05, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by EventServices
Forget the bunny hops and front wheel stands and wheelies.
Can you do the important tricks such as...
1. picking up a water bottle off the ground at 20 miles per hour? Useful in a feed zone.
2. peeing off the bike in the middle of a race? (Preferably at the back of the pack.)
What can you do? And how is it useful?
Photo taken during the 1989 Tour de Trump somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Can you do the important tricks such as...
1. picking up a water bottle off the ground at 20 miles per hour? Useful in a feed zone.
2. peeing off the bike in the middle of a race? (Preferably at the back of the pack.)
What can you do? And how is it useful?
Photo taken during the 1989 Tour de Trump somewhere in Pennsylvania.
02-14-05, 08:51 AM
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Haha....I almost tried peeing on the bike about a week ago, but I wimped out and found a dumpster to pee behind. I guess since I'm a first-timer I should wait for a tailwind.
02-14-05, 09:00 AM
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Well I can pick up a water bottle off the ground on my mountain bike while riding on the grass. I started practicing it because I read it somewhere that it was a way to develop bike handling skills. Like riding rollers or anything else it takes some practice but it's not too hard.
As you ride up to the bottle you actually have to lean the bike away from the side that the bottle is on so that the weight of the bike leaning right counters your body leaning left....sort of like counter stearing in turns
If you try it make sure you practice picking up the bottle with both hands. You'll find you'll be naturally better with one hand over the other.
I'm sure you could do this on a road bike on the road but I would think that pavement would be harder because the water bottle would slide away if you didn't grab it just right.
As you ride up to the bottle you actually have to lean the bike away from the side that the bottle is on so that the weight of the bike leaning right counters your body leaning left....sort of like counter stearing in turns
If you try it make sure you practice picking up the bottle with both hands. You'll find you'll be naturally better with one hand over the other.
I'm sure you could do this on a road bike on the road but I would think that pavement would be harder because the water bottle would slide away if you didn't grab it just right.
02-14-05, 09:04 AM
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[QUOTE=EventServices]
Can you do the important tricks such as...
1. picking up a water bottle off the ground at 20 miles per hour? Useful in a feed zone.
QUOTE]
A bigger trick for most is finding a girlfriend or wife willing to do team hand-ups at road races throughout the season.
Can you do the important tricks such as...
1. picking up a water bottle off the ground at 20 miles per hour? Useful in a feed zone.
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A bigger trick for most is finding a girlfriend or wife willing to do team hand-ups at road races throughout the season.
02-14-05, 09:36 AM
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I'm trying to teach myself to put the chain back on the ring in case it slips off. Has only happened once or twice, but having to stop to fix it really sucks. I don't race yet, but I will be.
02-14-05, 10:05 AM
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A guy who once raced for our club could do a track stand, then roll backwards, lock his back wheel, do a backroll while still clipped in, roll completely over (360 degrees) and return to his wheels.
02-14-05, 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by JoeOxfordCT
If you try it make sure you practice picking up the bottle with both hands.
Definitely a Calvin and Hobbes moment.I was impressed when Dave managed to pick up a notebook off the ground while riding in Breaking Away.
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02-14-05, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by HigherGround
Being entirely too literal for a moment, I had a good laugh when I pictured someone reaching for the bottle with both hands simultaneously... Definitely a Calvin and Hobbes moment.
I was impressed when Dave managed to pick up a notebook off the ground while riding in Breaking Away.
Definitely a Calvin and Hobbes moment.I was impressed when Dave managed to pick up a notebook off the ground while riding in Breaking Away.
I knew someone would think that when I wrote it......
02-14-05, 10:52 AM
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OK, here it is. In street clothes. On wet pavement. Without helmet. And a small bottle.
This is handy when you miss a hand up in the feed zone, and your support crew mysteriously leaves a full bottle along the road a few miles later.
I think it was Davis Phinney that got caught doing this. Not sure.
This is handy when you miss a hand up in the feed zone, and your support crew mysteriously leaves a full bottle along the road a few miles later.
I think it was Davis Phinney that got caught doing this. Not sure.
02-14-05, 11:11 AM
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I knew someone would think that when I wrote it......
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Originally Posted by EventServices
Just for fun, here's a Sharpie Pen.
02-14-05, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by EventServices
Just for fun, here's a Sharpie Pen.
I was going to use a dime, but I spent my last one on bike stuff.
I was going to use a dime, but I spent my last one on bike stuff.
Bonus points if you kept the bar end out of your ear when you came back up!
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Originally Posted by DXchulo
Haha....I almost tried peeing on the bike about a week ago,
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02-14-05, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Jaco
How about the ability to shoot a snot rocket from either nostril with sharpshooter accuracy?
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Whose bike did you try to pee on and what did its owner do to deserve it?
02-14-05, 01:15 PM
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Hmmm...I wonder if women would have an advantage over us on this one? In every other situation in the world, it is always easier for a man to take a pee, but perhaps women could do this one easier.
These are the kinds of thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.
These are the kinds of thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.
02-14-05, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by pedal
Hmmm...I wonder if women would have an advantage over us on this one? In every other situation in the world, it is always easier for a man to take a pee, but perhaps women could do this one easier.
These are the kinds of thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.
These are the kinds of thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.
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I was riding with a mate recently and had to stop for a squirt. He kept riding and when I caught back up he showed me how to do it on bike and one does not pee in one's pants. Pretty basic stuff given the equipment men have.
Not without a drinking straw pedal.
Not without a drinking straw pedal.
02-15-05, 12:51 PM
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I never tried for the water bottle or sharpie but did save myself a fall when I couldn't get unclipped at a light. I leaned it over put my hand on the ground and shoved as hard as I could manage to right myself...off I went.
I'm not going to lie, I was amazed by the whole thing and probably couldn't do it again though.
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I'm not going to lie, I was amazed by the whole thing and probably couldn't do it again though.
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