Saw a few people in shorts this morning, but they had pink legs!
Kind of windy, I guess March is being a lion.
Grabbed this photo of the full moon over the Mountain Thursday night.
So JB and I went to Junction. Some guy was catching us with a mile to go, so I upped my wattage and soloed to the finish with a Passed'em : Passed-me ratio of 0:0.
Blog reader Corey, from Houston, wrote to tell me he thought 90% of the road riders there were on the big three brands of Specialized, Trek, and Cannondale. I told him those were popular brands here too but it was probably only about 50%. I decided to go down South Gate and do a DiabloSpyCam for a little data aquisition and analysis.
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| Is that a helmet cam? |
So that's 27 bikes from a controlled sample and the results are:
Specialized: 6
Trek: 0 (!)
Cannondale: 2
Giant: 4
Cervello: 2
Felt: 2
Look: 1
Masi: 1
Pinarello: 1
Bianchi: 1
Unidentifiable: 7
I couldn't see the descending bikes from my angle so I left those out of the pool. But one guy was climbing so fast I couldn't get his photo - he was a Team Saxo Bank rider and had a follow car right behind him. Easily going twice the speed of anyone else through my little observation window. Amgen Tour of California is going to love Diablo.
3 comments:
No Specialized? That's a surprise. But being faster, they were likely the ones already headed down you could I.D.
Are you going to share your prime viewing spot info with me?
I'd love to have a camera somewhere on the Northgate downhill. Wish I could be two places at once.
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...they were likely the ones already headed down that you couldn't I.D....
There were SIX Specializeds... does the formatting of my text get messed up on different computers? There were zero Treks.
Specialized: 6
Trek: 0 (!)
Cannondale: 2
Giant: 4
Cervello: 2
Felt: 2
Look: 1
Masi: 1
Pinarello: 1
Bianchi: 1
Unidentifiable: 7
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