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    From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 14 21:48:36 2025
    I've been looking up average speeds in a process of trying to discover how fast of slow I am. Most of the articles show that as an 80 year old I am riding above my age by a bit.

    https://pedalstreet.com/average-cycling-speed-by-age/#Wind_and_Weather (suggests 11.5
    https://ilovebicycling.com/average-bike-speed/ (note that Grand Tour riders average 25 mph for the Tour.)
    https://www.cyclistshub.com/average-cycling-speed/


    It appears that good riders at 60 can average about 90 watts of full time power. (That is as much power as you can generate for 20 minutes and is as meaningless a measurement as you can get) Power st this level dramatically slows you down in a headwind.

    But my average speed is 10 mph almost exactly and on some 25 mile rides it has been as high as almost 12 mph despite a headwind Yesterday wrecked me at 29 miles including 1,300 feet of climbing with several spot of 9% for over 100 yards.

    Garmin used to report maximum rate of climb but they don't do that anymore. And looking back to before my stroke, I was climbing more than twice as much per week and my average speed with the old software was often over 10 mph or 12-13 mph with this
    software. And that was on a climb that went over 12%

    So, as I say, I appear to be slightly better for my age group.

    And it should also give you insight into people saying that I'm so slow and telling you that they've put in 600 miles this year with an average speed of 20 mph. Especially after they've told us that they are over 60.

    Whatever they are using to report their speed is highly inaccurate.

    By the way, that third reference gives a chart of average speed with level of ability but that is at about age 35 where your athletic/cycling ability is at your peak.

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 15 06:46:48 2025
    On 5/14/2025 5:48 PM, cyclintom posted yet another slew of horse shit:
    I've been looking up average speeds in a process of trying to discover how fast of slow I am. Most of the articles show that as an 80 year old I am riding above my age by a bit.

    https://pedalstreet.com/average-cycling-speed-by-age/#Wind_and_Weather (suggests 11.5
    https://ilovebicycling.com/average-bike-speed/ (note that Grand Tour riders average 25 mph for the Tour.)
    https://www.cyclistshub.com/average-cycling-speed/


    It appears that good riders at 60 can average about 90 watts of full time power.

    Not from these links.
    -first off, it lists 'average', not 'good'.
    -Second, absolute watts isn't useful except as an individual metric. The valuable comparison metric is power/weight ratio (generally measured in watts/Kg).
    -3rd, every competitive rider I know in my age group is able to sustain significantly more than 90 watts.

    Here's a link for actual trained cyclists, not people who ride rail
    trails every other weekend when the weather is good.

    https://trainabsolute.com/training/cycling-ftp-by-age/

    "While there isn’t an exact formula, rough cycling FTP by age
    expectations (in watts per kilogram, W/kg) based on different age groups
    look something like this:

    50s-60s (Gradual Decline, But Not Drastic)
    Elite: 3.5-5.0 W/kg
    Well-Trained: 2.5-3.5 W/kg
    Recreational: 1.5-2.5 W/kg

    70s+ (Performance is All About Maintenance)
    Elite: 3.0-4.0 W/kg
    Well-Trained: 2.0-3.0 W/kg
    Recreational: 1.0-2.0 W/kg"

    Right now my FTP is about 3.25 W/Kg, which for my weight is about 220
    watts. Trust me when I tell you that is _not_ impressive.

    (That is as much power as you can generate for 20 minutes and is as meaningless a measurement as you can get)

    FTP is the power you can generate for 60 minutes, not 20. It's usually
    measured over 20 minutes then an offset formula is applied. Try reading
    and learning for a change:
    https://www.trainerroad.com/blog/is-my-ftp-too-low/

    FTP isn't meaningless by any stretch of the imagination.

    Power st this level dramatically slows you down in a headwind.

    Thanks for displaying yet more of your misunderstanding of the laws of
    physics. The slower you go, less your speed is affected by head wind.
    It's the 'Square Law Effect' and it's exponential as a function of speed.


    But my average speed is 10 mph almost exactly and on some 25 mile rides it has been as high as almost 12 mph despite a headwind Yesterday wrecked me at 29 miles including 1,300 feet of climbing with several spot of 9% for over 100 yards.

    Garmin used to report maximum rate of climb but they don't do that anymore.

    Yes, it does. You're just having more problems understanding how to use
    your computer.

    And looking back to before my stroke, I was climbing more than twice as much per week and my average speed with the old software was often over 10 mph or 12-13 mph with this software. And that was on a climb that went over 12%

    So, as I say, I appear to be slightly better for my age group.

    And it should also give you insight into people saying that I'm so slow and telling you that they've put in 600 miles this year with an average speed of 20 mph. Especially after they've told us that they are over 60.

    Not really, except that your slow compared to someone who actually
    trains. You don't train. You don't do structured intervals, you don't
    threshold workouts or cadence drills, you don't monitor time in power
    zones.
    Lets look at some performance statics for older people who actually train.

    https://usacycling.org/article/60-national-titles-awarded-in-albuquerque-for-masters-road-nationals


    Master Men 60-64 Time Trial National Champion:
    Robert Fisher (Monument, Colo.; Tierra Plan Racing p/b IntraNerve) -
    49:40.5 (over 40K/25 miles, that's 30.2 mph)

    65 and over did a 20K course:

    Master Men 70-74 Time Trial National Champion:
    Jerry Rome (Denver, Colo.; Wholesome Masters Racing) - 28:12.7 = MPH

    Master Men 80-84 Time Trial National Champion:
    S Durward Higgins (Chattanooga, Tenn.; Hammer Super Masters) - 30:44.3 -
    24.42 MPH

    Master Men 85-89 Time Trial National Champion:
    Leon Malmed (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.; Alta Alpina Cycling) - 36:45.0 =
    20.40 MPH

    Looking at the 85-89 rider and punching some numbers into http://bikecalculator.com/, you get about 1.7 W/Kg, or about 150 watts
    for a 200 pound rider.

    For a comparison to your link, the 70+ national champion put out
    somewhere in the range of 3.3 W/Kg, which is about 300 watts for a 200
    pound rider.

    FWIW - I could never have matched what the 60-65 rider did, even at my
    most fit.


    Whatever they are using to report their speed is highly inaccurate.

    Yeah, because GPS is so easy to fake out. Let me remind you your the one
    who claimed to hit 69 mph on a downhill recently.


    By the way, that third reference gives a chart of average speed with level of ability but that is at about age 35 where your athletic/cycling ability is at your peak.

    Yup, 35 is generally a physiological peak, and yes, your VO2x max will
    decline with age.

    So you ride about what your link says is 'normal'. Good for you.
    You ride in the 'normal' range for someone your age after a (alleged)
    stroke. Good for you.
    You're still riding regularly at your age and after a (alleged) stroke.
    Good for you.

    Constantly claiming other people are somehow cheating because you could
    never - in your entire life - ride at racing speeds - fuck off.




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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 15 14:56:53 2025
    On Thu May 15 06:46:48 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/14/2025 5:48 PM, cyclintom posted yet another slew of horse shit:
    I've been looking up average speeds in a process of trying to discover how fast of slow I am. Most of the articles show that as an 80 year old I am riding above my age by a bit.

    https://pedalstreet.com/average-cycling-speed-by-age/#Wind_and_Weather (suggests 11.5
    https://ilovebicycling.com/average-bike-speed/ (note that Grand Tour riders average 25 mph for the Tour.)
    https://www.cyclistshub.com/average-cycling-speed/


    It appears that good riders at 60 can average about 90 watts of full time power.

    Not from these links.
    -first off, it lists 'average', not 'good'.
    -Second, absolute watts isn't useful except as an individual metric. The valuable comparison metric is power/weight ratio (generally measured in watts/Kg).
    -3rd, every competitive rider I know in my age group is able to sustain significantly more than 90 watts.

    Here's a link for actual trained cyclists, not people who ride rail
    trails every other weekend when the weather is good.

    https://trainabsolute.com/training/cycling-ftp-by-age/

    "While there isn?t an exact formula, rough cycling FTP by age
    expectations (in watts per kilogram, W/kg) based on different age groups
    look something like this:

    50s-60s (Gradual Decline, But Not Drastic)
    Elite: 3.5-5.0 W/kg
    Well-Trained: 2.5-3.5 W/kg
    Recreational: 1.5-2.5 W/kg

    70s+ (Performance is All About Maintenance)
    Elite: 3.0-4.0 W/kg
    Well-Trained: 2.0-3.0 W/kg
    Recreational: 1.0-2.0 W/kg"

    Right now my FTP is about 3.25 W/Kg, which for my weight is about 220
    watts. Trust me when I tell you that is _not_ impressive.

    (That is as much power as you can generate for 20 minutes and is as meaningless a measurement as you can get)

    FTP is the power you can generate for 60 minutes, not 20. It's usually measured over 20 minutes then an offset formula is applied. Try reading
    and learning for a change: https://www.trainerroad.com/blog/is-my-ftp-too-low/

    FTP isn't meaningless by any stretch of the imagination.

    Power st this level dramatically slows you down in a headwind.

    Thanks for displaying yet more of your misunderstanding of the laws of physics. The slower you go, less your speed is affected by head wind.
    It's the 'Square Law Effect' and it's exponential as a function of speed.


    But my average speed is 10 mph almost exactly and on some 25 mile rides it has been as high as almost 12 mph despite a headwind Yesterday wrecked me at 29 miles including 1,300 feet of climbing with several spot of 9% for over 100 yards.

    Garmin used to report maximum rate of climb but they don't do that anymore.

    Yes, it does. You're just having more problems understanding how to use
    your computer.

    And looking back to before my stroke, I was climbing more than twice as much per week and my average speed with the old software was often over 10 mph or 12-13 mph with this software. And that was on a climb that went over 12%

    So, as I say, I appear to be slightly better for my age group.

    And it should also give you insight into people saying that I'm so slow and telling you that they've put in 600 miles this year with an average speed of 20 mph. Especially after they've told us that they are over 60.

    Not really, except that your slow compared to someone who actually
    trains. You don't train. You don't do structured intervals, you don't threshold workouts or cadence drills, you don't monitor time in power
    zones.
    Lets look at some performance statics for older people who actually train.

    https://usacycling.org/article/60-national-titles-awarded-in-albuquerque-for-masters-road-nationals


    Master Men 60-64 Time Trial National Champion:
    Robert Fisher (Monument, Colo.; Tierra Plan Racing p/b IntraNerve) -
    49:40.5 (over 40K/25 miles, that's 30.2 mph)

    65 and over did a 20K course:

    Master Men 70-74 Time Trial National Champion:
    Jerry Rome (Denver, Colo.; Wholesome Masters Racing) - 28:12.7 = MPH

    Master Men 80-84 Time Trial National Champion:
    S Durward Higgins (Chattanooga, Tenn.; Hammer Super Masters) - 30:44.3 - 24.42 MPH

    Master Men 85-89 Time Trial National Champion:
    Leon Malmed (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.; Alta Alpina Cycling) - 36:45.0 =
    20.40 MPH

    Looking at the 85-89 rider and punching some numbers into http://bikecalculator.com/, you get about 1.7 W/Kg, or about 150 watts
    for a 200 pound rider.

    For a comparison to your link, the 70+ national champion put out
    somewhere in the range of 3.3 W/Kg, which is about 300 watts for a 200
    pound rider.

    FWIW - I could never have matched what the 60-65 rider did, even at my
    most fit.


    Whatever they are using to report their speed is highly inaccurate.

    Yeah, because GPS is so easy to fake out. Let me remind you your the one
    who claimed to hit 69 mph on a downhill recently.


    By the way, that third reference gives a chart of average speed with level of ability but that is at about age 35 where your athletic/cycling ability is at your peak.

    Yup, 35 is generally a physiological peak, and yes, your VO2x max will decline with age.

    So you ride about what your link says is 'normal'. Good for you.
    You ride in the 'normal' range for someone your age after a (alleged)
    stroke. Good for you.
    You're still riding regularly at your age and after a (alleged) stroke.
    Good for you.

    Constantly claiming other people are somehow cheating because you could
    never - in your entire life - ride at racing speeds - fuck off.




    Flunky, you are nothing but excuses. I would be surprised if you could hold 90 watts. There has been nothing that you could do about your low performance except to lie about mine and to quote preposterous figures about yours. I do not think that my
    performanc4e is anything other than slightly above average because of the years I've put in on a bike. But you want peop[e to beliee that you can put in 30 year old professional racer performance. I just quoted the numbers so the only thing you're able
    to do is deny them. And that is exactly what you just did.

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  • From Zen Cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025
    On 5/15/2025 10:56 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 06:46:48 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/14/2025 5:48 PM, cyclintom posted yet another slew of horse shit:
    I've been looking up average speeds in a process of trying to discover how fast of slow I am. Most of the articles show that as an 80 year old I am riding above my age by a bit.

    https://pedalstreet.com/average-cycling-speed-by-age/#Wind_and_Weather (suggests 11.5
    https://ilovebicycling.com/average-bike-speed/ (note that Grand Tour riders average 25 mph for the Tour.)
    https://www.cyclistshub.com/average-cycling-speed/


    It appears that good riders at 60 can average about 90 watts of full time power.

    Not from these links.
    -first off, it lists 'average', not 'good'.
    -Second, absolute watts isn't useful except as an individual metric. The
    valuable comparison metric is power/weight ratio (generally measured in
    watts/Kg).
    -3rd, every competitive rider I know in my age group is able to sustain
    significantly more than 90 watts.

    Here's a link for actual trained cyclists, not people who ride rail
    trails every other weekend when the weather is good.

    https://trainabsolute.com/training/cycling-ftp-by-age/

    "While there isn?t an exact formula, rough cycling FTP by age
    expectations (in watts per kilogram, W/kg) based on different age groups
    look something like this:

    50s-60s (Gradual Decline, But Not Drastic)
    Elite: 3.5-5.0 W/kg
    Well-Trained: 2.5-3.5 W/kg
    Recreational: 1.5-2.5 W/kg

    70s+ (Performance is All About Maintenance)
    Elite: 3.0-4.0 W/kg
    Well-Trained: 2.0-3.0 W/kg
    Recreational: 1.0-2.0 W/kg"

    Right now my FTP is about 3.25 W/Kg, which for my weight is about 220
    watts. Trust me when I tell you that is _not_ impressive.

    (That is as much power as you can generate for 20 minutes and is as meaningless a measurement as you can get)

    FTP is the power you can generate for 60 minutes, not 20. It's usually
    measured over 20 minutes then an offset formula is applied. Try reading
    and learning for a change:
    https://www.trainerroad.com/blog/is-my-ftp-too-low/

    FTP isn't meaningless by any stretch of the imagination.

    Power st this level dramatically slows you down in a headwind.

    Thanks for displaying yet more of your misunderstanding of the laws of
    physics. The slower you go, less your speed is affected by head wind.
    It's the 'Square Law Effect' and it's exponential as a function of speed.


    But my average speed is 10 mph almost exactly and on some 25 mile rides it has been as high as almost 12 mph despite a headwind Yesterday wrecked me at 29 miles including 1,300 feet of climbing with several spot of 9% for over 100 yards.

    Garmin used to report maximum rate of climb but they don't do that anymore. >>
    Yes, it does. You're just having more problems understanding how to use
    your computer.

    And looking back to before my stroke, I was climbing more than twice as much per week and my average speed with the old software was often over 10 mph or 12-13 mph with this software. And that was on a climb that went over 12%

    So, as I say, I appear to be slightly better for my age group.

    And it should also give you insight into people saying that I'm so slow and telling you that they've put in 600 miles this year with an average speed of 20 mph. Especially after they've told us that they are over 60.

    Not really, except that your slow compared to someone who actually
    trains. You don't train. You don't do structured intervals, you don't
    threshold workouts or cadence drills, you don't monitor time in power
    zones.
    Lets look at some performance statics for older people who actually train. >>
    https://usacycling.org/article/60-national-titles-awarded-in-albuquerque-for-masters-road-nationals


    Master Men 60-64 Time Trial National Champion:
    Robert Fisher (Monument, Colo.; Tierra Plan Racing p/b IntraNerve) -
    49:40.5 (over 40K/25 miles, that's 30.2 mph)

    65 and over did a 20K course:

    Master Men 70-74 Time Trial National Champion:
    Jerry Rome (Denver, Colo.; Wholesome Masters Racing) - 28:12.7 = MPH

    Master Men 80-84 Time Trial National Champion:
    S Durward Higgins (Chattanooga, Tenn.; Hammer Super Masters) - 30:44.3 -
    24.42 MPH

    Master Men 85-89 Time Trial National Champion:
    Leon Malmed (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.; Alta Alpina Cycling) - 36:45.0 =
    20.40 MPH

    Looking at the 85-89 rider and punching some numbers into
    http://bikecalculator.com/, you get about 1.7 W/Kg, or about 150 watts
    for a 200 pound rider.

    For a comparison to your link, the 70+ national champion put out
    somewhere in the range of 3.3 W/Kg, which is about 300 watts for a 200
    pound rider.

    FWIW - I could never have matched what the 60-65 rider did, even at my
    most fit.


    Whatever they are using to report their speed is highly inaccurate.

    Yeah, because GPS is so easy to fake out. Let me remind you your the one
    who claimed to hit 69 mph on a downhill recently.


    By the way, that third reference gives a chart of average speed with level of ability but that is at about age 35 where your athletic/cycling ability is at your peak.

    Yup, 35 is generally a physiological peak, and yes, your VO2x max will
    decline with age.

    So you ride about what your link says is 'normal'. Good for you.
    You ride in the 'normal' range for someone your age after a (alleged)
    stroke. Good for you.
    You're still riding regularly at your age and after a (alleged) stroke.
    Good for you.

    Constantly claiming other people are somehow cheating because you could
    never - in your entire life - ride at racing speeds - fuck off.




    Flunky, you are nothing but excuses.

    as is evidence by the lack of evidence I show to support my claims, right?

    I would be surprised if you could hold 90 watts.

    Read it and weep, sparky: https://www.strava.com/activities/13234838066/segments/3309306898642021622

    I sustained 253 watt average for 15 minutes, with a peak at 357

    HEre's another - The peak power I recorded on Zwift: https://www.strava.com/activities/13092735298/analysis

    911 watts.

    And yes, my trainer is calibrated. and no, these numbers are _not_ that spectacular.

    There has been nothing that you could do about your low performance except to lie about mine

    Please list one "lie" I've written about you performance.

    and to quote preposterous figures about yours.

    Quote, yes...With evidence. Preposterous? no. Preposterous would be
    claiming my performance was equal to that of a well trained 30 year old.


    I do not think that my performanc4e is anything other than slightly above average because of the years I've put in on a bike. But you want peop[e to beliee that you can put in 30 year old professional racer performance.

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:

    20s-30s (Peak Performance Years)
    Elite: 4.5-6.0 W/kg
    Well-Trained: 3.5-4.5 W/kg
    Recreational: 2.5-3.5 W/kg

    As noted, my FTP is ~ 3.25, which puts me at the upper end of a
    recreational cyclist in their 20's/30's. This is hardly a case of
    'wanting people to believe I can put in 30 year old pro racer' numbers.

    I just quoted the numbers so the only thing you're able to do is deny them. And that is exactly what you just did.
    LOL...no, tommy, that's not "all" I did. I backed up my claims with hard
    data.

    You linked an article with suspiciously low numbers and no references. I
    linked articles with verified data and statistics (including peoples
    names and dates).

    It's about time you accepted the fact that you really have no clue what
    you're talking about.



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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 15 19:04:44 2025
    On Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:




    That Zwift "ride" is a "virtual ride".Anyone can fool that. Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    So your tears are all about telling us that you're really riding like a Cat 1 30 year old while the truth is something entirely different.

    Meanwhile. I got two days of 7 and 8 hours of sleep and averaged almost 11 mph for a 30 mile ride. It was flat, but I'm not telling people that at 65 I'm averaging 20 mph for the year so far which for you is 600 miles.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 15 19:28:26 2025
    On Thu May 15 19:04:44 2025 cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:




    That Zwift "ride" is a "virtual ride".Anyone can fool that. Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    So your tears are all about telling us that you're really riding like a Cat 1 30 year old while the truth is something entirely different.

    Meanwhile. I got two days of 7 and 8 hours of sleep and averaged almost 11 mph for a 30 mile ride. It was flat, but I'm not telling people that at 65 I'm averaging 20 mph for the year so far which for you is 600 miles.




    I should also add that those speeds are for the AVERAGE rider and you can expect a 10% variation among riders. Today, I had some sort of club come by. I was near my coffee stop and they were just heading out. They were all in their 30's and 40's and they
    were making pretty good speed. On the way home I passed the same group on their way home. Their speed was considerably reduced and half of the pack was sagging off the back. I have no idea what route they took since the place I passed them on the way
    home could have been a climbing course or a flat route. These guys were averaging just about what the numbers from my references said. But Flunky is averaging 20 mph over 600 miles.

    Before my initial injury I was probably averaging about those reference numbers as well and at that time I was in the front quarter climbing with the club. When my injury occurred I was 65. I lost a little over two years to the injury before diagnosis
    and treatment. Then it took me about three years to get back up to my level which was again in the front quarter of the club on climbs and dropping everyone by a LONG way on descents. Then I would ride with the back quarter on the flats.

    Flunky, you know, a Grmain 830 can be had quite cheaply these days. So WHY don't you get one, record a ride and post it since whatever you're going does not match real life?

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  • From Zen Cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Thu May 15 15:39:58 2025
    On 5/15/2025 3:04 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:




    That Zwift "ride" is a "virtual ride".Anyone can fool that.

    Virtual or not, power is power.

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Because you're doing something wrong, as usual


    So your tears

    You're the one crying here, not me.

    are all about telling us that you're really riding like a Cat 1 30 year old while the truth is something entirely different.

    Please post any reference to where I ever claimed I was riding like a 30
    year old cat 1.


    Meanwhile. I got two days of 7 and 8 hours of sleep and averaged almost 11 mph for a 30 mile ride. It was flat, but I'm not telling people that at 65 I'm averaging 20 mph for the year so far which for you is 600 miles.

    It's a good thing you aren't telling them that, because it wouldn't be true.






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  • From Zen Cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Thu May 15 15:59:56 2025
    On 5/15/2025 3:28 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 19:04:44 2025 cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:




    That Zwift "ride" is a "virtual ride".Anyone can fool that. Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    So your tears are all about telling us that you're really riding like a Cat 1 30 year old while the truth is something entirely different.

    Meanwhile. I got two days of 7 and 8 hours of sleep and averaged almost 11 mph for a 30 mile ride. It was flat, but I'm not telling people that at 65 I'm averaging 20 mph for the year so far which for you is 600 miles.

    I should also add that those speeds are for the AVERAGE rider and you can expect a 10% variation among riders.

    That makes absolutely no sense. Have you been taking word salad lessons
    from trump?

    Today, I had some sort of club come by. I was near my coffee stop and they were just heading out. They were all in their 30's and 40's and they were making pretty good speed. On the way home I passed the same group on their way home. Their speed was
    considerably reduced and half of the pack was sagging off the back. I have no idea what route they took since the place I passed them on the way home could have been a climbing course or a flat route. These guys were averaging just about what the
    numbers from my references said.

    I've ridden with plenty of pros taking it easy. It's called zone training.

    But Flunky is averaging 20 mph over 600 miles.

    Sure, in 1 to 2 hour segments. And?

    Before my initial injury I was probably averaging about those reference numbers as well and at that time I was in the front quarter climbing with the club. When my injury occurred I was 65. I lost a little over two years to the injury before diagnosis
    and treatment. Then it took me about three years to get back up to my level which was again in the front quarter of the club on climbs and dropping everyone by a LONG way on descents. Then I would ride with the back quarter on the flats.

    Flunky, you know, a Grmain 830 can be had quite cheaply these days. So WHY don't you get one, record a ride and post it since whatever you're going does not match real life?

    Oh, you mean like this?

    https://www.strava.com/activities/14256779418
    "Garmin Edge 530 "

    Or this?
    https://www.strava.com/activities/12716381377
    "Garmin Forerunner 745 "

    The tracking devices are listed on the right of the individual activity
    page.

    Before the Garmins I was using a Suunto Ambit3 https://www.strava.com/activities/5485198113

    For a long while I was using a Polar 720 and posting to Strava with my
    phone app.
    https://www.strava.com/activities/1139611450

    that's real life tommy - you should try it some time.

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450> <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too
    many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes" <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    --
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    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 16 01:36:01 2025
    On Thu May 15 15:39:58 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 3:04 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:




    That Zwift "ride" is a "virtual ride".Anyone can fool that.

    Virtual or not, power is power.

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Because you're doing something wrong, as usual


    So your tears

    You're the one crying here, not me.

    are all about telling us that you're really riding like a Cat 1 30 year old while the truth is something entirely different.

    Please post any reference to where I ever claimed I was riding like a 30
    year old cat 1.


    Meanwhile. I got two days of 7 and 8 hours of sleep and averaged almost 11 mph for a 30 mile ride. It was flat, but I'm not telling people that at 65 I'm averaging 20 mph for the year so far which for you is 600 miles.

    It's a good thing you aren't telling them that, because it wouldn't be true.




    We've got you Flunky, you only tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Except when you're posting here.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 16 02:11:33 2025
    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450> <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too
    many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes" <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?




    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a new
    one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles? Don't you know anything?

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 15 20:48:14 2025
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too
    many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a new
    one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The
    number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and
    no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on
    Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your
    ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode
    928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies,
    distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging
    what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot and
    you would still be the unchanged Tom.


    --
    Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Fri May 16 06:26:56 2025
    On 5/15/2025 9:36 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 15:39:58 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 3:04 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:




    That Zwift "ride" is a "virtual ride".Anyone can fool that.

    Virtual or not, power is power.

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Because you're doing something wrong, as usual


    So your tears

    You're the one crying here, not me.

    are all about telling us that you're really riding like a Cat 1 30 year old while the truth is something entirely different.

    Please post any reference to where I ever claimed I was riding like a 30
    year old cat 1.


    Meanwhile. I got two days of 7 and 8 hours of sleep and averaged almost 11 mph for a 30 mile ride. It was flat, but I'm not telling people that at 65 I'm averaging 20 mph for the year so far which for you is 600 miles.

    It's a good thing you aren't telling them that, because it wouldn't be true.




    We've got you Flunky, you only tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Except when you're posting here.

    _especially_ when I'm posting here.

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to Jeff Liebermann on Fri May 16 06:30:54 2025
    On 5/15/2025 11:48 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too
    many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a
    new one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The
    number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and
    no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your
    ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode
    928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies, distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging
    what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot and
    you would still be the unchanged Tom.



    He still doesn't seem to grasp the notion that he's only _claiming_ what
    his ride stats are, then claiming I'm cheating when I post actual data.

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  • From Zen Cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Fri May 16 10:21:44 2025
    On 5/15/2025 10:11 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too
    many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?

    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a new
    one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    OK, let me get this straight. You can't get into Strava for whatever
    reason - no account, account blocked, invalid credentials....whatever.

    Yet you've spent the last two months claiming I posted a 200 mile ride
    and that my stats are beyond pro level?

    If you can't get into strava, you have no visibility to anything I've
    posted except for time and distance for the rides.

    IOW - all these claims that you saw 200 mile rides and pro-level stats
    are complete fabrications.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    Jeff might not be insinuating that, but I'm stating it. I've now caught
    you in a blatant lie since you've admitted you can't see my account.
    It's not a stretch that you're lying about your rides, especially since
    you never post any tracking data.

    Don't you know anything?

    We know you incessantly lie about everything.


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  • From John B.@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 16 18:40:45 2025
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 20:48:14 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
    wrote:

    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too
    many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a new
    one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The
    number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and
    no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on >Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your
    ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode
    928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies, >distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging
    what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot andont
    you would still be the unchanged Tom.

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled =
    average speed :-)
    --
    cheers,

    John B.

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to jbslocomb@fictitious.site on Fri May 16 19:53:39 2025
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 18:40:45 -0700, John B.
    <jbslocomb@fictitious.site> wrote:

    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:
    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled = >average speed :-)

    I suggest you ask yourself "what problem is Tom trying to solve"
    before providing solutions. In this case, the problem is that Tom has
    no proof that he actually rode 928 miles over an unspecified time
    interval. Without proof, I do not believe any number provided by Tom, especially those provided for self-aggrandizement. That's the real
    purpose of Strava and similar online performance logging services.
    There's a fairly good chance that the numbers displayed on the Strava
    web site are real. There are ways to tweak the numbers in one's
    favor, but why bother when there's no financial or competitive award?

    Marginally related topic drift: I did my usual Friday morning walk
    this morning. However, I left my smartphone at home and therefore did
    not record my walk on Strava. So, no data and therefore no proof: <https://www.strava.com/athlete/training>
    Maybe next Friday.


    --
    Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
    Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
    Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to John B. on Fri May 16 21:23:28 2025
    On 5/16/2025 8:40 PM, John B. wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 20:48:14 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
    wrote:

    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too >>>> many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a
    new one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The
    number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and
    no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on
    Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your
    ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode
    928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies,
    distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging
    what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot andont
    you would still be the unchanged Tom.

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled = average speed :-)
    --
    cheers,

    John B.


    +1
    I don't have one on my bike but I do that regularly in autos:

    https://www.yellowjersey.org/cars/malibu01.jpg

    --
    Andrew Muzi
    am@yellowjersey.org
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to Jeff Liebermann on Sat May 17 08:23:21 2025
    On 5/16/2025 10:53 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 18:40:45 -0700, John B.
    <jbslocomb@fictitious.site> wrote:

    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:
    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled =
    average speed :-)

    I suggest you ask yourself "what problem is Tom trying to solve"
    before providing solutions. In this case, the problem is that Tom has
    no proof that he actually rode 928 miles over an unspecified time
    interval. Without proof, I do not believe any number provided by Tom, especially those provided for self-aggrandizement. That's the real
    purpose of Strava and similar online performance logging services.
    There's a fairly good chance that the numbers displayed on the Strava
    web site are real. There are ways to tweak the numbers in one's
    favor, but why bother when there's no financial or competitive award?

    Marginally related topic drift: I did my usual Friday morning walk
    this morning. However, I left my smartphone at home and therefore did
    not record my walk on Strava. So, no data and therefore no proof: <https://www.strava.com/athlete/training>
    Maybe next Friday.



    "if it's not on Strava it didn't happen"

    and yes, that's a thing

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15588661221148170

    "The purpose of this study was to explore the perceived psychosocial implications of Strava use among collegiate club runners."

    And no, it wasn't published on April 1st.

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to Frank Krygowski on Sat May 17 20:08:04 2025
    Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
    On 5/16/2025 9:40 PM, John B. wrote:

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled =
    average speed :-)
    FWIW: John's method is what I used for about 15 years, a
    "tick-tick-tick" mechanical rotation counting cyclometer - with the
    added trick that the number of wheel rotations in five seconds is very
    close to the speed in miles per hour.

    I think it was 1986 that I finally got an electronic cyclometer that displayed speed. It acted as a primitive performance motivator - as in
    "I can't believe I'm not going any faster than that!!" It caused me to
    push myself a bit more. Overall, I think it helped me stay in better
    shape over the years.


    For me it’s the navigation features I really like, I do look at speed and other data points during the ride but it’s not why I have the unit.

    That it’s cable less, is a boon, I always hated the cables!

    Roger Merriman

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 19:40:39 2025
    On Thu May 15 15:59:56 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 3:28 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 19:04:44 2025 cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:




    That Zwift "ride" is a "virtual ride".Anyone can fool that. Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    So your tears are all about telling us that you're really riding like a Cat 1 30 year old while the truth is something entirely different.

    Meanwhile. I got two days of 7 and 8 hours of sleep and averaged almost 11 mph for a 30 mile ride. It was flat, but I'm not telling people that at 65 I'm averaging 20 mph for the year so far which for you is 600 miles.

    I should also add that those speeds are for the AVERAGE rider and you can expect a 10% variation among riders.

    That makes absolutely no sense. Have you been taking word salad lessons
    from trump?

    Today, I had some sort of club come by. I was near my coffee stop and they were just heading out. They were all in their 30's and 40's and they were making pretty good speed. On the way home I passed the same group on their way home. Their speed was
    considerably reduced and half of the pack was sagging off the back. I have no idea what route they took since the place I passed them on the way home could have been a climbing course or a flat route. These guys were averaging just about what the
    numbers from my references said.

    I've ridden with plenty of pros taking it easy. It's called zone training.

    But Flunky is averaging 20 mph over 600 miles.

    Sure, in 1 to 2 hour segments. And?

    Before my initial injury I was probably averaging about those reference numbers as well and at that time I was in the front quarter climbing with the club. When my injury occurred I was 65. I lost a little over two years to the injury before
    diagnosis and treatment. Then it took me about three years to get back up to my level which was again in the front quarter of the club on climbs and dropping everyone by a LONG way on descents. Then I would ride with the back quarter on the flats.

    Flunky, you know, a Grmain 830 can be had quite cheaply these days. So WHY don't you get one, record a ride and post it since whatever you're going does not match real life?

    Oh, you mean like this?

    https://www.strava.com/activities/14256779418
    "Garmin Edge 530 "

    Or this?
    https://www.strava.com/activities/12716381377
    "Garmin Forerunner 745 "

    The tracking devices are listed on the right of the individual activity
    page.

    Before the Garmins I was using a Suunto Ambit3 https://www.strava.com/activities/5485198113

    For a long while I was using a Polar 720 and posting to Strava with my
    phone app.
    https://www.strava.com/activities/1139611450

    that's real life tommy - you should try it some time.




    I see you pulled the block off of my name so that I can see your Strava files. You have a really bad habit of using virtual rides including "hill rides" on islands that even pass though the sea and doesn't even show route over the sea and being sea level.

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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 15:54:09 2025
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 19:43:20 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Fri May 16 06:30:54 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 11:48 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too >> >>> many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a
    new one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The
    number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and
    no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on
    Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your
    ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode
    928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies,
    distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging
    what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot and
    you would still be the unchanged Tom.



    He still doesn't seem to grasp the notion that he's only _claiming_ what
    his ride stats are, then claiming I'm cheating when I post actual data.




    You aren't posting "real data", you are posting VIRTUAL DATA and a kidergarten child could fool that.

    What's virtual data?

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 19:43:20 2025
    On Fri May 16 06:30:54 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 11:48 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too >>> many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a
    new one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The
    number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and
    no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your
    ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode
    928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies, distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging
    what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot and
    you would still be the unchanged Tom.



    He still doesn't seem to grasp the notion that he's only _claiming_ what
    his ride stats are, then claiming I'm cheating when I post actual data.




    You aren't posting "real data", you are posting VIRTUAL DATA and a kidergarten child could fool that.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 19:57:29 2025
    On Fri May 16 18:40:45 2025 John B. wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 20:48:14 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
    wrote:

    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too >>> many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a
    new one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The
    number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and
    no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on >Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your
    ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode
    928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies, >distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging
    what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot andont >you would still be the unchanged Tom.

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled = average speed :-)




    The Garmin's do that and by using GPS corrects the distance of each revolution automatically. A Garmin account is local so I don't have any idea of how to post the actual data. There IS a way to print the information but I don't know if it prints the
    readout with the graphs.

    But 900 miles IS NOT any distance 5 months into a year. It is quite short since I lost two months of riding due to my stroke. The local hill roads have been repaired and as soon as I recover enough to do climbing the road out to Moraga and back is 37
    miles and the road out to Pleansanton and back is also 37 miles. My suspicion is that the extreme effort of getting up the final 200 feet at the top of the northern access of Palomares Rd. is what caused the stroke so I have to limit my climbing to less
    than 12%. The Moraga reoute has a maximum grade of 10% but I have to recover enough to even do that. The southern entrance to Palomares Rd. Also has a spot here and there of 12% but very short and not 200 yards.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 20:25:18 2025
    On Mon May 19 15:54:09 2025 Catrike Ryder wrote:
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 19:43:20 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:


    You aren't posting "real data", you are posting VIRTUAL DATA and a kidergarten child could fool that.

    What's virtual data?




    Flunky is riding a trainer inside his garage and using that to put information into Strava. He is "racing" against people virtually and claiming he isn't finishing DFL which is funny since only losers would do virtual "races". In real races way back when
    he would ride real races, he was DFL by 5 minutes. Here they would have pulled him but where he lives there must be so few people racing that they're happy to have anyone in the field.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 20:19:17 2025
    On Fri May 16 19:53:39 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 18:40:45 -0700, John B.
    <jbslocomb@fictitious.site> wrote:

    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:
    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled = >average speed :-)

    I suggest you ask yourself "what problem is Tom trying to solve"
    before providing solutions. In this case, the problem is that Tom has
    no proof that he actually rode 928 miles over an unspecified time
    interval. Without proof, I do not believe any number provided by Tom, especially those provided for self-aggrandizement. That's the real
    purpose of Strava and similar online performance logging services.
    There's a fairly good chance that the numbers displayed on the Strava
    web site are real. There are ways to tweak the numbers in one's
    favor, but why bother when there's no financial or competitive award?

    Marginally related topic drift: I did my usual Friday morning walk
    this morning. However, I left my smartphone at home and therefore did
    not record my walk on Strava. So, no data and therefore no proof: <https://www.strava.com/athlete/training>
    Maybe next Friday.




    Jeff,you do not believe me? Gee, that really hurts my feelings. Especially from one who ran right down and got a mRNA vaccination to prove me wrong. You didn't die right away so you think you're safe. h\Hnag in there since it will take at least 5 years
    for your body to stop producing spike proteins.

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 13:46:33 2025
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 20:19:17 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Fri May 16 19:53:39 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 18:40:45 -0700, John B.
    <jbslocomb@fictitious.site> wrote:

    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:
    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled =
    average speed :-)

    I suggest you ask yourself "what problem is Tom trying to solve"
    before providing solutions. In this case, the problem is that Tom has
    no proof that he actually rode 928 miles over an unspecified time
    interval. Without proof, I do not believe any number provided by Tom,
    especially those provided for self-aggrandizement. That's the real
    purpose of Strava and similar online performance logging services.
    There's a fairly good chance that the numbers displayed on the Strava
    web site are real. There are ways to tweak the numbers in one's
    favor, but why bother when there's no financial or competitive award?

    Marginally related topic drift: I did my usual Friday morning walk
    this morning. However, I left my smartphone at home and therefore did
    not record my walk on Strava. So, no data and therefore no proof:
    <https://www.strava.com/athlete/training>
    Maybe next Friday.

    Jeff,you do not believe me?

    Yes, I do not believe you. Sometimes, you slip and tell the truth,
    but most of your amazing facts are lies and fabrications. It would be
    helpful if you would provide proof your amazing rides.

    Gee, that really hurts my feelings.

    Do you really believe that anyone believes of your claims? Most, if
    not all are totally unsubstantiated. It's probably not possible for
    anyone to provide evidence and corroboration of all their claims.
    However, you provide nothing, which would make anyone highly
    suspicious of their validity. Assertion is not proof.

    Oh, I almost forgot. I don't care if your feelings hurt. Take an
    aspirin and you'll probably hurt less.

    Especially from one who ran right down and got a mRNA vaccination to
    prove me wrong.

    Do you really believe I chose to be vaccinated because of anything
    that you said or did? You must have an over-inflated ego. Try
    setting your pump to a lower pressure.

    You didn't die right away so you think you're safe.

    I think that I'm safe: <https://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/Bicycle-Safety.jpg>

    h\Hnag in there since it will take at least 5 years for your
    body to stop producing spike proteins.

    In the past, I used to give talks on RF safety. There was a group
    that believed that RF exposure causes brain and CNS (central nervous
    system) cancer. When the number of new brain and CNS cancer cases did
    not follow the number of cell phones in use, they decided that there
    was a delay before an increase in brain and CNS cancers would appear.
    They're still waiting for this non-existent rise in cancers. Have a
    nice long wait: <https://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/Cellular%20and%20cancer.pdf>

    May you rot in the hell of your own creation.

    --
    Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
    Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
    Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 20:59:33 2025
    On Sat May 17 08:23:21 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/16/2025 10:53 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 18:40:45 -0700, John B.
    <jbslocomb@fictitious.site> wrote:

    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:
    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled =
    average speed :-)

    I suggest you ask yourself "what problem is Tom trying to solve"
    before providing solutions. In this case, the problem is that Tom has
    no proof that he actually rode 928 miles over an unspecified time
    interval. Without proof, I do not believe any number provided by Tom, especially those provided for self-aggrandizement. That's the real
    purpose of Strava and similar online performance logging services.
    There's a fairly good chance that the numbers displayed on the Strava
    web site are real. There are ways to tweak the numbers in one's
    favor, but why bother when there's no financial or competitive award?

    Marginally related topic drift: I did my usual Friday morning walk
    this morning. However, I left my smartphone at home and therefore did
    not record my walk on Strava. So, no data and therefore no proof: <https://www.strava.com/athlete/training>
    Maybe next Friday.



    "if it's not on Strava it didn't happen"

    and yes, that's a thing

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15588661221148170

    "The purpose of this study was to explore the perceived psychosocial implications of Strava use among collegiate club runners."

    And no, it wasn't published on April 1st.




    Well, they certainly got you right about psycho.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 21:05:37 2025
    On Mon May 19 13:46:33 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 20:19:17 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Fri May 16 19:53:39 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 18:40:45 -0700, John B.
    <jbslocomb@fictitious.site> wrote:

    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:
    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled =
    average speed :-)

    I suggest you ask yourself "what problem is Tom trying to solve"
    before providing solutions. In this case, the problem is that Tom has
    no proof that he actually rode 928 miles over an unspecified time
    interval. Without proof, I do not believe any number provided by Tom,
    especially those provided for self-aggrandizement. That's the real
    purpose of Strava and similar online performance logging services.
    There's a fairly good chance that the numbers displayed on the Strava
    web site are real. There are ways to tweak the numbers in one's
    favor, but why bother when there's no financial or competitive award?

    Marginally related topic drift: I did my usual Friday morning walk
    this morning. However, I left my smartphone at home and therefore did
    not record my walk on Strava. So, no data and therefore no proof:
    <https://www.strava.com/athlete/training>
    Maybe next Friday.

    Jeff,you do not believe me?

    Yes, I do not believe you. Sometimes, you slip and tell the truth,
    but most of your amazing facts are lies and fabrications. It would be helpful if you would provide proof your amazing rides.

    Gee, that really hurts my feelings.

    Do you really believe that anyone believes of your claims? Most, if
    not all are totally unsubstantiated. It's probably not possible for
    anyone to provide evidence and corroboration of all their claims.
    However, you provide nothing, which would make anyone highly
    suspicious of their validity. Assertion is not proof.

    Oh, I almost forgot. I don't care if your feelings hurt. Take an
    aspirin and you'll probably hurt less.

    Especially from one who ran right down and got a mRNA vaccination to
    prove me wrong.

    Do you really believe I chose to be vaccinated because of anything
    that you said or did? You must have an over-inflated ego. Try
    setting your pump to a lower pressure.

    You didn't die right away so you think you're safe.

    I think that I'm safe: <https://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/Bicycle-Safety.jpg>

    h\Hnag in there since it will take at least 5 years for your
    body to stop producing spike proteins.

    In the past, I used to give talks on RF safety. There was a group
    that believed that RF exposure causes brain and CNS (central nervous
    system) cancer. When the number of new brain and CNS cancer cases did
    not follow the number of cell phones in use, they decided that there
    was a delay before an increase in brain and CNS cancers would appear.
    They're still waiting for this non-existent rise in cancers. Have a
    nice long wait: <https://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/Cellular%20and%20cancer.pdf>

    May you rot in the hell of your own creation.




    My rides are a very great deal less than your perception of Amazing. Your best buddy Flunky posts about his performance as a very great deal more than mine. Krygowski who could presently do the same rides as mine if he had the motivation is not
    complaining since he is very well aware that he could do the same rides I'm doing with a heavy old touring bike.

    Your comments about not believing my "amazing rides" are worth exactly what you are - public assistance.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 21:26:07 2025
    On Sat May 17 14:55:10 2025 Frank Krygowski wrote:
    On 5/16/2025 9:40 PM, John B. wrote:

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So
    time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled = average speed :-)
    FWIW: John's method is what I used for about 15 years, a
    "tick-tick-tick" mechanical rotation counting cyclometer - with the
    added trick that the number of wheel rotations in five seconds is very
    close to the speed in miles per hour.

    I think it was 1986 that I finally got an electronic cyclometer that displayed speed. It acted as a primitive performance motivator - as in
    "I can't believe I'm not going any faster than that!!" It caused me to
    push myself a bit more. Overall, I think it helped me stay in better
    shape over the years.




    That is an interesting statement. I would have to calculate it out but I will take your word for it. My average cadence is 65 with a gear ratio of 50-24 This is not very fast as I've said, though at times I can ride at 15 mph for some distance. At 65 I
    expect Flunky cn ride faster since I was a great deal faster 15 years ago, But riding faster and having a higher agerage speed are different things.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 21:31:47 2025
    On Fri May 16 10:21:44 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 10:11 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too
    many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?

    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a
    new one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    OK, let me get this straight. You can't get into Strava for whatever
    reason - no account, account blocked, invalid credentials....whatever.

    Yet you've spent the last two months claiming I posted a 200 mile ride
    and that my stats are beyond pro level?

    If you can't get into strava, you have no visibility to anything I've
    posted except for time and distance for the rides.

    IOW - all these claims that you saw 200 mile rides and pro-level stats
    are complete fabrications.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    Jeff might not be insinuating that, but I'm stating it. I've now caught
    you in a blatant lie since you've admitted you can't see my account.
    It's not a stretch that you're lying about your rides, especially since
    you never post any tracking data.

    Don't you know anything?

    We know you incessantly lie about everything.




    That's your usual bullshit. You published a direct reference into your account. I didn't need access to your account that way. And you could hsve put that in LATER after I pointed your BS out. And you can erase ANYTHING out of your Strava File just as I
    erased years of rides.

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Mon May 19 17:51:26 2025
    On 5/19/2025 3:40 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 15:59:56 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 3:28 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 19:04:44 2025 cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:




    That Zwift "ride" is a "virtual ride".Anyone can fool that. Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    So your tears are all about telling us that you're really riding like a Cat 1 30 year old while the truth is something entirely different.

    Meanwhile. I got two days of 7 and 8 hours of sleep and averaged almost 11 mph for a 30 mile ride. It was flat, but I'm not telling people that at 65 I'm averaging 20 mph for the year so far which for you is 600 miles.

    I should also add that those speeds are for the AVERAGE rider and you can expect a 10% variation among riders.

    That makes absolutely no sense. Have you been taking word salad lessons
    from trump?

    Today, I had some sort of club come by. I was near my coffee stop and they were just heading out. They were all in their 30's and 40's and they were making pretty good speed. On the way home I passed the same group on their way home. Their speed was
    considerably reduced and half of the pack was sagging off the back. I have no idea what route they took since the place I passed them on the way home could have been a climbing course or a flat route. These guys were averaging just about what the
    numbers from my references said.

    I've ridden with plenty of pros taking it easy. It's called zone training. >>
    But Flunky is averaging 20 mph over 600 miles.

    Sure, in 1 to 2 hour segments. And?

    Before my initial injury I was probably averaging about those reference numbers as well and at that time I was in the front quarter climbing with the club. When my injury occurred I was 65. I lost a little over two years to the injury before
    diagnosis and treatment. Then it took me about three years to get back up to my level which was again in the front quarter of the club on climbs and dropping everyone by a LONG way on descents. Then I would ride with the back quarter on the flats.

    Flunky, you know, a Grmain 830 can be had quite cheaply these days. So WHY don't you get one, record a ride and post it since whatever you're going does not match real life?

    Oh, you mean like this?

    https://www.strava.com/activities/14256779418
    "Garmin Edge 530"

    Or this?
    https://www.strava.com/activities/12716381377
    "Garmin Forerunner 745"

    The tracking devices are listed on the right of the individual activity
    page.

    Before the Garmins I was using a Suunto Ambit3
    https://www.strava.com/activities/5485198113

    For a long while I was using a Polar 720 and posting to Strava with my
    phone app.
    https://www.strava.com/activities/1139611450

    that's real life tommy - you should try it some time.




    I see you pulled the block off of my name so that I can see your Strava files. You have a really bad habit of using virtual rides including "hill rides" on islands that even pass though the sea and doesn't even show route over the sea and being sea
    level.

    You were never blocked to begin with you dumb fuck. You're just too
    braindead to be able to figure out how to use a computer.

    Besides that, Mine aren't the only rides that show cross over off land.
    It's a thing, you dumbass.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/comments/dri7ez/why_does_zwift_create_artificial_gps_tracks/

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Mon May 19 17:53:36 2025
    On 5/19/2025 3:43 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Fri May 16 06:30:54 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 11:48 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava >>>>> account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too >>>>> many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so, >>>>> trying to login to your former account would result in something like >>>>> "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having >>>>> Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse >>>>> or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't >>>>> think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a
    new one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The
    number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and
    no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on
    Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your
    ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode
    928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies,
    distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging
    what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot and
    you would still be the unchanged Tom.



    He still doesn't seem to grasp the notion that he's only _claiming_ what
    his ride stats are, then claiming I'm cheating when I post actual data.

    You aren't posting "real data", you are posting VIRTUAL DATA

    Wattage is wattage. It doesn't matter if you generate it on the road or not.

    and a kidergarten child could fool that.

    REally? Explain in your own words how one can fool smart trainer data.
    This should be entertaining.

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 21:31:47 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    That's your usual bullshit. You published a direct reference into your account. I didn't need access to your account that way. And you could hsve put that in LATER after I pointed your BS out. And you can erase ANYTHING out of your Strava File just as I
    erased years of rides.

    You might be lying. I'm not certain. I don't think you could have
    been so diligent at removing only your data. Did you also delete all
    your 15(?) bicycles? At some point, you claimed to have "lost" many
    years of Strava ride logs. What I see on both of your accounts is
    what a newly created account looks like. No settings, no photos, no
    equipment, no data, etc. What you probably did was close the account
    and then re-create it as if you were a new user of Strava.

    Incidentally, it seems that you can mass delete every activity.
    However, Strava keeps the data for 30 days under "recently deleted"
    before actually removing it from your account. <https://www.strava.com/athlete/training/recently_deleted>
    "Deleted activities can be restored for 30 days after they are
    deleted"

    "Delete Your Strava Account" <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918827-Delete-Your-Strava-Account>

    "How to Restore a Deleted Activity" <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216927877-How-to-Restore-a-Deleted-Activity>

    You could have downloaded all your account info and data before you
    deleted it. I'm rather surprised you didn't do that.
    "Exporting your Data and Bulk Export" <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Exporting-your-Data-and-Bulk-Export>
    Were you so afraid of the 10 year old critics that you wanted to
    destroy any evidence of your performance?


    --
    Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
    Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
    Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Mon May 19 18:02:58 2025
    On 5/19/2025 5:05 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 13:46:33 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 20:19:17 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Fri May 16 19:53:39 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 18:40:45 -0700, John B.
    <jbslocomb@fictitious.site> wrote:

    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:
    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    Youse guys just like to spend money. I had a mile recording device
    that recorded miles by counting wheel rotations (a known distance). So >>>>> time I got home less time I started divided into distance travelled = >>>>> average speed :-)

    I suggest you ask yourself "what problem is Tom trying to solve"
    before providing solutions. In this case, the problem is that Tom has >>>> no proof that he actually rode 928 miles over an unspecified time
    interval. Without proof, I do not believe any number provided by Tom, >>>> especially those provided for self-aggrandizement. That's the real
    purpose of Strava and similar online performance logging services.
    There's a fairly good chance that the numbers displayed on the Strava
    web site are real. There are ways to tweak the numbers in one's
    favor, but why bother when there's no financial or competitive award?

    Marginally related topic drift: I did my usual Friday morning walk
    this morning. However, I left my smartphone at home and therefore did >>>> not record my walk on Strava. So, no data and therefore no proof:
    <https://www.strava.com/athlete/training>
    Maybe next Friday.

    Jeff,you do not believe me?

    Yes, I do not believe you. Sometimes, you slip and tell the truth,
    but most of your amazing facts are lies and fabrications. It would be
    helpful if you would provide proof your amazing rides.

    Gee, that really hurts my feelings.

    Do you really believe that anyone believes of your claims? Most, if
    not all are totally unsubstantiated. It's probably not possible for
    anyone to provide evidence and corroboration of all their claims.
    However, you provide nothing, which would make anyone highly
    suspicious of their validity. Assertion is not proof.

    Oh, I almost forgot. I don't care if your feelings hurt. Take an
    aspirin and you'll probably hurt less.

    Especially from one who ran right down and got a mRNA vaccination to
    prove me wrong.

    Do you really believe I chose to be vaccinated because of anything
    that you said or did? You must have an over-inflated ego. Try
    setting your pump to a lower pressure.

    You didn't die right away so you think you're safe.

    I think that I'm safe:
    <https://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/Bicycle-Safety.jpg>

    h\Hnag in there since it will take at least 5 years for your
    body to stop producing spike proteins.

    In the past, I used to give talks on RF safety. There was a group
    that believed that RF exposure causes brain and CNS (central nervous
    system) cancer. When the number of new brain and CNS cancer cases did
    not follow the number of cell phones in use, they decided that there
    was a delay before an increase in brain and CNS cancers would appear.
    They're still waiting for this non-existent rise in cancers. Have a
    nice long wait:
    <https://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/Cellular%20and%20cancer.pdf> >>
    May you rot in the hell of your own creation.




    My rides are a very great deal less than your perception of Amazing. Your best buddy Flunky posts about his performance as a very great deal more than mine.

    only to expose your lies and misunderstanding of exercise physiology. My performance metrics are far from impressive.

    Krygowski who could presently do the same rides as mine if he had the motivation is not complaining since he is very well aware that he could do the same rides I'm doing with a heavy old touring bike.

    Your comments about not believing my "amazing rides" are worth exactly what you are - public assistance.

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Mon May 19 18:08:28 2025
    On 5/19/2025 5:31 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Fri May 16 10:21:44 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 10:11 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava
    account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in
    place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too >>>> many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so,
    trying to login to your former account would result in something like
    "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having
    Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse
    or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't
    think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?

    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened a
    new one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    OK, let me get this straight. You can't get into Strava for whatever
    reason - no account, account blocked, invalid credentials....whatever.

    Yet you've spent the last two months claiming I posted a 200 mile ride
    and that my stats are beyond pro level?

    If you can't get into strava, you have no visibility to anything I've
    posted except for time and distance for the rides.

    IOW - all these claims that you saw 200 mile rides and pro-level stats
    are complete fabrications.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    Jeff might not be insinuating that, but I'm stating it. I've now caught
    you in a blatant lie since you've admitted you can't see my account.
    It's not a stretch that you're lying about your rides, especially since
    you never post any tracking data.

    Don't you know anything?

    We know you incessantly lie about everything.




    That's your usual bullshit. You published a direct reference into your account. I didn't need access to your account that way.

    No, but you do need an active strava account to read the details. The
    fact that you admitted you couldn't get into Strava at all proves you
    were lying about seeing 200 mile rides.

    > And you could hsve put that in LATER after I pointed your BS out.
    And you can erase ANYTHING out of your Strava File just as I erased
    years of rides.

    You can't enter activities that never occurred.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 22:08:55 2025
    On Mon May 19 17:53:36 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 3:43 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Fri May 16 06:30:54 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 11:48 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava >>>>> account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in >>>>> place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too >>>>> many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so, >>>>> trying to login to your former account would result in something like >>>>> "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having >>>>> Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse >>>>> or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't >>>>> think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened
    a new one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The
    number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and
    no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on >>> Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your
    ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode
    928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies,
    distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging
    what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot and >>> you would still be the unchanged Tom.



    He still doesn't seem to grasp the notion that he's only _claiming_ what >> his ride stats are, then claiming I'm cheating when I post actual data.

    You aren't posting "real data", you are posting VIRTUAL DATA

    Wattage is wattage. It doesn't matter if you generate it on the road or not.

    and a kidergarten child could fool that.

    REally? Explain in your own words how one can fool smart trainer data.
    This should be entertaining.




    If you do not know how a watts/kg can be fooled on a smart trainer, you should siumply retain your ignorance.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 22:42:51 2025
    On Mon May 19 17:51:26 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 3:40 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 15:59:56 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 3:28 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 19:04:44 2025 cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:




    That Zwift "ride" is a "virtual ride".Anyone can fool that. Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    So your tears are all about telling us that you're really riding like a Cat 1 30 year old while the truth is something entirely different.

    Meanwhile. I got two days of 7 and 8 hours of sleep and averaged almost 11 mph for a 30 mile ride. It was flat, but I'm not telling people that at 65 I'm averaging 20 mph for the year so far which for you is 600 miles.

    I should also add that those speeds are for the AVERAGE rider and you can expect a 10% variation among riders.

    That makes absolutely no sense. Have you been taking word salad lessons
    from trump?

    Today, I had some sort of club come by. I was near my coffee stop and they were just heading out. They were all in their 30's and 40's and they were making pretty good speed. On the way home I passed the same group on their way home. Their speed
    was considerably reduced and half of the pack was sagging off the back. I have no idea what route they took since the place I passed them on the way home could have been a climbing course or a flat route. These guys were averaging just about what the
    numbers from my references said.

    I've ridden with plenty of pros taking it easy. It's called zone training. >>
    But Flunky is averaging 20 mph over 600 miles.

    Sure, in 1 to 2 hour segments. And?

    Before my initial injury I was probably averaging about those reference numbers as well and at that time I was in the front quarter climbing with the club. When my injury occurred I was 65. I lost a little over two years to the injury before
    diagnosis and treatment. Then it took me about three years to get back up to my level which was again in the front quarter of the club on climbs and dropping everyone by a LONG way on descents. Then I would ride with the back quarter on the flats.

    Flunky, you know, a Grmain 830 can be had quite cheaply these days. So WHY don't you get one, record a ride and post it since whatever you're going does not match real life?

    Oh, you mean like this?

    https://www.strava.com/activities/14256779418
    "Garmin Edge 530"

    Or this?
    https://www.strava.com/activities/12716381377
    "Garmin Forerunner 745"

    The tracking devices are listed on the right of the individual activity
    page.

    Before the Garmins I was using a Suunto Ambit3
    https://www.strava.com/activities/5485198113

    For a long while I was using a Polar 720 and posting to Strava with my
    phone app.
    https://www.strava.com/activities/1139611450

    that's real life tommy - you should try it some time.




    I see you pulled the block off of my name so that I can see your Strava files. You have a really bad habit of using virtual rides including "hill rides" on islands that even pass though the sea and doesn't even show route over the sea and being sea
    level.

    You were never blocked to begin with you dumb fuck. You're just too
    braindead to be able to figure out how to use a computer.

    Besides that, Mine aren't the only rides that show cross over off land.
    It's a thing, you dumbass.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/comments/dri7ez/why_does_zwift_create_artificial_gps_tracks/




    In case you missed it, the joke is that you actually believe a virtual ride without rolling resistance or wind resistance is a real ride.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 22:47:53 2025
    On Mon May 19 18:02:58 2025 zen cycle wrote:

    only to expose your lies and misunderstanding of exercise physiology. My performance metrics are far from impressive.




    They seem to spur you on to tell everyone else how impressive they are? 600 miles at an average speed of 20 mph? Explain that to God on the final day.

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Mon May 19 18:42:58 2025
    On 5/19/2025 6:08 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 17:53:36 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 3:43 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Fri May 16 06:30:54 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 11:48 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> >>>>>>> wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava >>>>>>> account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in >>>>>>> place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too >>>>>>> many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so, >>>>>>> trying to login to your former account would result in something like >>>>>>> "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having >>>>>>> Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse >>>>>>> or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't >>>>>>> think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't have the account name and password so opened
    a new one to look into Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The >>>>> number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and >>>>> no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on >>>>> Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your >>>>> ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode >>>>> 928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies,
    distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging >>>>> what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot and >>>>> you would still be the unchanged Tom.



    He still doesn't seem to grasp the notion that he's only _claiming_ what >>>> his ride stats are, then claiming I'm cheating when I post actual data. >>>
    You aren't posting "real data", you are posting VIRTUAL DATA

    Wattage is wattage. It doesn't matter if you generate it on the road or not. >>
    and a kidergarten child could fool that.

    REally? Explain in your own words how one can fool smart trainer data.
    This should be entertaining.




    If you do not know how a watts/kg can be fooled on a smart trainer, you should siumply retain your ignorance.

    non-answer duly noted.
    Explain in your own words how one can fool smart trainer data.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 22:55:53 2025
    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 21:31:47 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    That's your usual bullshit. You published a direct reference into your account. I didn't need access to your account that way. And you could hsve put that in LATER after I pointed your BS out. And you can erase ANYTHING out of your Strava File just as
    I erased years of rides.

    You might be lying. I'm not certain. I don't think you could have
    been so diligent at removing only your data. Did you also delete all
    your 15(?) bicycles? At some point, you claimed to have "lost" many
    years of Strava ride logs. What I see on both of your accounts is
    what a newly created account looks like. No settings, no photos, no equipment, no data, etc. What you probably did was close the account
    and then re-create it as if you were a new user of Strava.

    Incidentally, it seems that you can mass delete every activity.
    However, Strava keeps the data for 30 days under "recently deleted"
    before actually removing it from your account. <https://www.strava.com/athlete/training/recently_deleted>
    "Deleted activities can be restored for 30 days after they are
    deleted"

    "Delete Your Strava Account" <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918827-Delete-Your-Strava-Account>

    "How to Restore a Deleted Activity" <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216927877-How-to-Restore-a-Deleted-Activity>

    You could have downloaded all your account info and data before you
    deleted it. I'm rather surprised you didn't do that.
    "Exporting your Data and Bulk Export" <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Exporting-your-Data-and-Bulk-Export>
    Were you so afraid of the 10 year old critics that you wanted to
    destroy any evidence of your performance?




    Gee, I must have lied about my bicycles too even though I published pictures of them on facebook all obviously taken in my backyard leaning aginst the same table on Favebook. Your being a whiny little nobody that destroyed your own life by trying to be
    the expert at everything sort of shows why Hitler decided to kill the lot of you. He must have had to live around people like you.

    That's a rather terrible thing to say, but SOMETHING motivated that little Austrian corporal to act as judge, jury and executioner.

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Mon May 19 19:21:59 2025
    On 5/19/2025 6:42 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 17:51:26 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 3:40 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 15:59:56 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 3:28 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 19:04:44 2025 cyclintom wrote:
    On Thu May 15 12:13:46 2025 Zen Cycle wrote:

    Funny, I've claimed exactly the opposite. From my link above:




    That Zwift "ride" is a "virtual ride".Anyone can fool that. Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    So your tears are all about telling us that you're really riding like a Cat 1 30 year old while the truth is something entirely different.

    Meanwhile. I got two days of 7 and 8 hours of sleep and averaged almost 11 mph for a 30 mile ride. It was flat, but I'm not telling people that at 65 I'm averaging 20 mph for the year so far which for you is 600 miles.

    I should also add that those speeds are for the AVERAGE rider and you can expect a 10% variation among riders.

    That makes absolutely no sense. Have you been taking word salad lessons >>>> from trump?

    Today, I had some sort of club come by. I was near my coffee stop and they were just heading out. They were all in their 30's and 40's and they were making pretty good speed. On the way home I passed the same group on their way home. Their speed
    was considerably reduced and half of the pack was sagging off the back. I have no idea what route they took since the place I passed them on the way home could have been a climbing course or a flat route. These guys were averaging just about what the
    numbers from my references said.

    I've ridden with plenty of pros taking it easy. It's called zone training. >>>>
    But Flunky is averaging 20 mph over 600 miles.

    Sure, in 1 to 2 hour segments. And?

    Before my initial injury I was probably averaging about those reference numbers as well and at that time I was in the front quarter climbing with the club. When my injury occurred I was 65. I lost a little over two years to the injury before
    diagnosis and treatment. Then it took me about three years to get back up to my level which was again in the front quarter of the club on climbs and dropping everyone by a LONG way on descents. Then I would ride with the back quarter on the flats.

    Flunky, you know, a Grmain 830 can be had quite cheaply these days. So WHY don't you get one, record a ride and post it since whatever you're going does not match real life?

    Oh, you mean like this?

    https://www.strava.com/activities/14256779418
    "Garmin Edge 530"

    Or this?
    https://www.strava.com/activities/12716381377
    "Garmin Forerunner 745"

    The tracking devices are listed on the right of the individual activity >>>> page.

    Before the Garmins I was using a Suunto Ambit3
    https://www.strava.com/activities/5485198113

    For a long while I was using a Polar 720 and posting to Strava with my >>>> phone app.
    https://www.strava.com/activities/1139611450

    that's real life tommy - you should try it some time.




    I see you pulled the block off of my name so that I can see your Strava files. You have a really bad habit of using virtual rides including "hill rides" on islands that even pass though the sea and doesn't even show route over the sea and being sea
    level.

    You were never blocked to begin with you dumb fuck. You're just too
    braindead to be able to figure out how to use a computer.

    Besides that, Mine aren't the only rides that show cross over off land.
    It's a thing, you dumbass.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/comments/dri7ez/why_does_zwift_create_artificial_gps_tracks/




    In case you missed it, the joke is that you actually believe a virtual ride without rolling resistance or wind resistance is a real ride.

    in case you missed it, rolling resistance and wind are calculated into
    the rides. You might want to actually participate in a virtual ride
    before you embarrass yourself further with your willful ignorance.

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Mon May 19 19:27:27 2025
    On 5/19/2025 6:47 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 18:02:58 2025 zen cycle wrote:

    only to expose your lies and misunderstanding of exercise physiology. My
    performance metrics are far from impressive.




    They seem to spur you on to tell everyone else how impressive they are? 600 miles at an average speed of 20 mph?

    Please point to any claim I've made that they were impressive.

    Explain that to God on the final day.

    "God is dead, and no one cares
    If there is a hell, I'll see you there"
    - Trent Reznor

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey9ESqfah-Y

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 19 17:32:45 2025
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 22:55:53 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 21:31:47 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    That's your usual bullshit. You published a direct reference into your account. I didn't need access to your account that way. And you could hsve put that in LATER after I pointed your BS out. And you can erase ANYTHING out of your Strava File just
    as I erased years of rides.

    You might be lying. I'm not certain. I don't think you could have
    been so diligent at removing only your data. Did you also delete all
    your 15(?) bicycles? At some point, you claimed to have "lost" many
    years of Strava ride logs. What I see on both of your accounts is
    what a newly created account looks like. No settings, no photos, no
    equipment, no data, etc. What you probably did was close the account
    and then re-create it as if you were a new user of Strava.

    Incidentally, it seems that you can mass delete every activity.
    However, Strava keeps the data for 30 days under "recently deleted"
    before actually removing it from your account.
    <https://www.strava.com/athlete/training/recently_deleted>
    "Deleted activities can be restored for 30 days after they are
    deleted"

    "Delete Your Strava Account"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918827-Delete-Your-Strava-Account>

    "How to Restore a Deleted Activity"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216927877-How-to-Restore-a-Deleted-Activity>

    You could have downloaded all your account info and data before you
    deleted it. I'm rather surprised you didn't do that.
    "Exporting your Data and Bulk Export"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Exporting-your-Data-and-Bulk-Export>
    Were you so afraid of the 10 year old critics that you wanted to
    destroy any evidence of your performance?

    Gee, I must have lied about my bicycles too even though I published pictures of them on facebook all obviously taken in my backyard leaning aginst the same table on Favebook.

    That's mostly true except that you probably meant your Flickr site: <https://www.flickr.com/photos/153690295@N06>
    and that all but one of the photos are dated between 2000 between and
    15, with one each on 2018 and 2018. You joined in 2017 and uploaded
    most of the photos in Aug 2024. All of the photos were probably
    copied from one of your other web sites. So, where are your more
    recent photos? At least you have your Ridley photo on Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/thomas.kunich.1/photos> <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1013539423124140&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>

    These look new and were added recently (Mar 26, 2025): <https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1349578936186852&set=a.467381291073292> <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1349578982853514&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1349579019520177&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>
    Just one problem. The glass top coffee table is yours, but the mess
    in the background does not resemble your back yard as in other photos.
    What happened that inspired you to make such a mess?

    Your being a whiny little nobody that destroyed your own life by trying to be the expert at everything sort of shows why Hitler decided to kill the lot of you. He must have had to live around people like you.

    Wow. That's impressive. What's with the "little"? Do you think that belittling me is going to make you any taller? Or are you envious of
    short people. I'll ignore the Hitler remark.

    That's a rather terrible thing to say, but SOMETHING motivated that little Austrian corporal to act as judge, jury and executioner.

    I think the same way about your bicycle building and maintenance.
    Something must have motivated those parts to fall off your bicycle(s).


    --
    Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
    Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
    Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to Catrike Ryder on Tue May 20 15:01:18 2025
    Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 19:43:20 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Fri May 16 06:30:54 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/15/2025 11:48 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Fri, 16 May 2025 02:11:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Thu May 15 16:50:43 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:04:44 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    Why does the Strava ride say that I am blocked?

    Now, that's interesting. I thought that you no longer have a Strava >>>>>> account:
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/27432450>
    <https://www.strava.com/athletes/114659696>
    It would seem that you wiped all your data, but left the account in >>>>>> place.

    I recall that you intentionally closed your Strava account because too >>>>>> many 20 year olds were ridiculing your amazing achievements. If so, >>>>>> trying to login to your former account would result in something like >>>>>> "account closed". A "blocked" account would be the result of having >>>>>> Strava kick you off their system, probably due to some form of abuse >>>>>> or misuse.

    You can "block" any other athelete you don't want to see, but I don't >>>>>> think you can block yourself:
    "Manage Followers and Block Athletes"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918327-Manage-Followers-and-Block-Athletes>

    Want to revise your claim that you are "blocked"?


    I don't know about those accounts other than I thought I needed an
    account in order to get into Flunky's reference. Maybe one of those
    accounts is the old original but the newer on was because I didn't
    have the account name and password so opened a new one to look into
    Flunky'a reference. But no - it said that my NAME had a red light.

    I don't think anyone cares about what you DON'T know.

    I didn't mention your claim to have ridden 928 miles this year. The
    number may have come from a different thread. I was commenting on
    your Strava account(s) being "blocked" and your rather vague and
    misleading error messages. You seem to have problems reproducing
    error messages.

    Is it your insinuation that because Strava shows zero miles that I didn't do 928 miles?

    No. I think it's rather obvious that if Strava shows zero miles and
    no other information beyond your name, you didn't record your rides on >>>> Strava. If you have a different explanation for the absence of your
    ride data, I'm willing to listen. Some proof that you actually rode
    928 miles would be useful.

    Don't you know anything?

    Why do you care what I know? The problem is that you can't explain
    things that are easily researched online and produce endless lies,
    distortions and fabrications apparently for the purpose of salvaging
    what's left of your reputation. What I know, or don't know, has
    nothing to do with what YOU know. I could be a genius or an idiot and >>>> you would still be the unchanged Tom.



    He still doesn't seem to grasp the notion that he's only _claiming_ what >>> his ride stats are, then claiming I'm cheating when I post actual data.




    You aren't posting "real data", you are posting VIRTUAL DATA and a
    kidergarten child could fool that.

    What's virtual data?

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman


    Tom is trying to prove that Zwift aka smart trainers that one generally
    ride your own bike on the trainer which uses power meters and so on.

    It’s not my interest as I’m not performance oriented, though I take a mild interest as well technology! But regardless the folks I know who use Zwift
    seem to get the same sort of results as they do in non virtual rides, which makes sense as it measures power etc.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Tue May 20 12:05:43 2025
    On 5/19/2025 6:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:

    You could have downloaded all your account info and data before you
    deleted it. I'm rather surprised you didn't do that.
    "Exporting your Data and Bulk Export"
    <https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Exporting-your-Data-and-Bulk-Export>
    Were you so afraid of the 10 year old critics that you wanted to
    destroy any evidence of your performance?


    Gee, I must have lied about my bicycles too even though I published pictures of them on facebook all obviously taken in my backyard leaning aginst the same table on Favebook.

    Jeff was talking about strava, you little putz.

    Your being a whiny little nobody that destroyed your own life by trying to be the expert at everything sort of shows why Hitler decided to kill the lot of you. He must have had to live around people like you.

    Does it make you feel proud to sympathize with why hitler set a plan in
    motion that murdered 6 million people for nothing more than their
    ethnicity?



    That's a rather terrible thing to say,

    It is, and it says a lot about you - none of it good - that you're
    willing to promote it.


    but SOMETHING motivated that little Austrian corporal to act as judge, jury and executioner.

    Hitlers "justifications" are well-documented And based on your stated sympathies, I don't think it's much of a stretch to posit that you would
    have been one of the "good" little nazis ripping babies from the arms of
    their mothers at Auschwitz before they were murdered, with the attitude
    that they brought it on themselves.

    Yes, kunich, you are that loathesme little shit.

    So, fuck you, you pathetic excuse for a human. I'm done with you.

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to zen cycle on Tue May 20 11:36:30 2025
    On 5/20/2025 11:05 AM, zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 6:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann  wrote:

    -snip the usual conversation-

    I'm done with you.

    ...and the assembled crowd rejoiced.


    --
    Andrew Muzi
    am@yellowjersey.org
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Tue May 20 13:32:31 2025
    On Tue, 20 May 2025 11:36:30 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

    On 5/20/2025 11:05 AM, zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 6:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann  wrote:

    -snip the usual conversation-

    I'm done with you.

    ...and the assembled crowd rejoiced.

    +1

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 20 19:44:33 2025
    On Tue May 20 11:36:30 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    On 5/20/2025 11:05 AM, zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 6:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:

    -snip the usual conversation-

    I'm done with you.

    ...and the assembled crowd rejoiced.




    I agree. I've had enough of his BS about everything. The least he could do is READ the postings he's commenting on. Liebermann said that he didn't believe that I owned any of the bikes I talked about when pictures are posted on Facebook. I don't remember
    pictures of bicycles posted on
    Strava, have you?

    When I post several articles about average speed and age why would you suppose that he would post average speeds double what authorities report is normal and then telling us that he doesn;t finish DFL in races that turn out to be virtual races that real
    racers do not have anything to do with?

    Then he claims that Abbott doesn't make a medicine that I take. When I show it on their website he doesn't comment.

    But since Flunky is claiming he isn't going to respond to me I will not respond to him, Liebermann nor Krygowski. They haven't added anything to this group that I've noticed. Even Frank stopped posting about his touring bike. My touring bike is rusting
    away. Like Frank's, it has bar end shifters and I think that it is a 9 speed ultegra.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 20 20:03:37 2025
    On Tue May 20 15:01:18 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    Tom is trying to prove that Zwift aka smart trainers that one generally
    ride your own bike on the trainer which uses power meters and so on.

    It?s not my interest as I?m not performance oriented, though I take a mild interest as well technology! But regardless the folks I know who use Zwift seem to get the same sort of results as they do in non virtual rides, which makes sense as it measures power etc.




    The people you know are probably just entering the proper information. But performance is based on watts/kg so Flunky gets those preposterous numbers simply by entering a lot lower weight than actual. He has made so many entirely unreal claims I find it
    difficult to believe that you haven't wondered.

    In REAL races which he no longer does, he was DFL by 5 minutes behind the next to last! Now he is claiming that he is middle of the pack - of course in virtual races. As we all know, good Cat 3's all do virtual races. And you CANNOT add in rolling
    resistance or wind because these are wildly variable depending on surface and wind speed. You CAN calculate power to climb but that is pretty general. Real hills have variable rates of climb but virtuzl rides only put in a steady climb to make the
    calculations easy.

    He claims to be an EE but he makes these totally basic math errors.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 20 20:19:16 2025
    On Mon May 19 17:32:45 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:

    That's mostly true except that you probably meant your Flickr site: <https://www.flickr.com/photos/153690295@N06>
    and that all but one of the photos are dated between 2000 between and
    15, with one each on 2018 and 2018. You joined in 2017 and uploaded
    most of the photos in Aug 2024. All of the photos were probably
    copied from one of your other web sites. So, where are your more
    recent photos? At least you have your Ridley photo on Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/thomas.kunich.1/photos> <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1013539423124140&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>

    These look new and were added recently (Mar 26, 2025): <https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1349578936186852&set=a.467381291073292> <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1349578982853514&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1349579019520177&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>
    Just one problem. The glass top coffee table is yours, but the mess
    in the background does not resemble your back yard as in other photos.
    What happened that inspired you to make such a mess?





    Jeff, thanks for reminding me about Flicker. With the additional damage from the stroke I can't even remember that there is a Flicker.

    I apologize to you about the Hitler comments but they are true. What would have caused that raving lunatic to kill millions unless he had been really angered by most probably a specific jew?

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 20 16:32:17 2025
    On Mon, 19 May 2025 14:59:50 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
    wrote:
    (...)
    You could have downloaded all your account info and data before you
    deleted it. I'm rather surprised you didn't do that.
    "Exporting your Data and Bulk Export" ><https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Exporting-your-Data-and-Bulk-Export>
    Were you so afraid of the 10 year old critics that you wanted to
    destroy any evidence of your performance?

    Sorry. That should be 20 year old critics etc...

    --
    Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
    Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
    Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to apology that does not express remor on Tue May 20 16:29:24 2025
    On Tue, 20 May 2025 20:19:16 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon May 19 17:32:45 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:

    That's mostly true except that you probably meant your Flickr site:
    <https://www.flickr.com/photos/153690295@N06>
    and that all but one of the photos are dated between 2000 between and
    15, with one each on 2018 and 2018. You joined in 2017 and uploaded
    most of the photos in Aug 2024. All of the photos were probably
    copied from one of your other web sites. So, where are your more
    recent photos? At least you have your Ridley photo on Facebook:
    <https://www.facebook.com/thomas.kunich.1/photos>
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1013539423124140&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>

    These look new and were added recently (Mar 26, 2025):
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1349578936186852&set=a.467381291073292> >> <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1349578982853514&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1349579019520177&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>
    Just one problem. The glass top coffee table is yours, but the mess
    in the background does not resemble your back yard as in other photos.
    What happened that inspired you to make such a mess?


    Jeff, thanks for reminding me about Flicker. With the additional damage from the stroke I can't even remember that there is a Flicker.

    I apologize to you about the Hitler comments but they are true.

    I'm not interested. Find someone else who might care about your
    opinion. However, I could use an apology for tacking your worthless
    comments onto a thread about your photos and then changing the topic.
    If it's not too painful, try making the apology sound like you really
    mean it.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology>
    "A non-apology apology, sometimes called a backhanded apology, empty
    apology, nonpology, or fauxpology, is a statement in the form of an
    apology that does not express remorse for what was done or said, or
    assigns fault to those ostensibly receiving the apology."

    What would have caused that raving lunatic to kill millions unless he had been really angered by most probably a specific jew?

    I'm not interested in debating your "apology". Find someone else who
    might care about your justifications for mass murder and genocide.

    --
    Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
    Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
    Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Wed May 21 14:13:32 2025
    On 5/20/2025 12:36 PM, AMuzi wrote:
    On 5/20/2025 11:05 AM, zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 6:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann  wrote:

    -snip the usual conversation-

    I'm done with you.

    ...and the assembled crowd rejoiced.



    Good to know you're fine with tommy promoting justifications for the
    holocaust, but you take issue with people calling him out.

    fuck you too.

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to zen cycle on Wed May 21 13:57:39 2025
    On 5/21/2025 1:13 PM, zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/20/2025 12:36 PM, AMuzi wrote:
    On 5/20/2025 11:05 AM, zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 6:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann  wrote:

    -snip the usual conversation-

    I'm done with you.

    ...and the assembled crowd rejoiced.



    Good to know you're fine with tommy promoting justifications
    for the holocaust, but you take issue with people calling
    him out.

    fuck you too.


    My comment was not directed to you in isolation.

    Not that you're incorrect, but no amount of correction,
    elucidation, or insult seems to affect Mr Kunich.

    Or as the Chicago expression goes, "Datuayuz"

    --
    Andrew Muzi
    am@yellowjersey.org
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to funkmasterxx@hotmail.com on Wed May 21 15:48:48 2025
    On Wed, 21 May 2025 14:13:32 -0400, zen cycle
    <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/20/2025 12:36 PM, AMuzi wrote:
    On 5/20/2025 11:05 AM, zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 6:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann  wrote:

    -snip the usual conversation-

    I'm done with you.

    ...and the assembled crowd rejoiced.



    Good to know you're fine with tommy promoting justifications for the >holocaust, but you take issue with people calling him out.

    fuck you too.

    The ranting and ravings over and by Tom Kunich are boring.

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 02:01:57 2025
    On Wed May 14 21:48:36 2025 cyclintom wrote:
    I've been looking up average speeds in a process of trying to discover how fast of slow I am. Most of the articles show that as an 80 year old I am riding above my age by a bit.

    https://pedalstreet.com/average-cycling-speed-by-age/#Wind_and_Weather (suggests 11.5
    https://ilovebicycling.com/average-bike-speed/ (note that Grand Tour riders average 25 mph for the Tour.)
    https://www.cyclistshub.com/average-cycling-speed/


    It appears that good riders at 60 can average about 90 watts of full time power. (That is as much power as you can generate for 20 minutes and is as meaningless a measurement as you can get) Power st this level dramatically slows you down in a headwind.

    But my average speed is 10 mph almost exactly and on some 25 mile rides it has been as high as almost 12 mph despite a headwind Yesterday wrecked me at 29 miles including 1,300 feet of climbing with several spot of 9% for over 100 yards.

    Garmin used to report maximum rate of climb but they don't do that anymore. And looking back to before my stroke, I was climbing more than twice as much per week and my average speed with the old software was often over 10 mph or 12-13 mph with this
    software. And that was on a climb that went over 12%

    So, as I say, I appear to be slightly better for my age group.

    And it should also give you insight into people saying that I'm so slow and telling you that they've put in 600 miles this year with an average speed of 20 mph. Especially after they've told us that they are over 60.

    Whatever they are using to report their speed is highly inaccurate.

    By the way, that third reference gives a chart of average speed with level of ability but that is at about age 35 where your athletic/cycling ability is at your peak.




    The new Garmin Edge 1030+ has a completely different operating system and it almost perfectly matches the average speed of my 830 with the new software in it. In another month I should have enough confidence in my riding to start returning to my older
    longer rides. Hopefully this will bring me back to somewhat better shape.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 02:22:32 2025
    On Wed May 21 14:13:32 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/20/2025 12:36 PM, AMuzi wrote:
    On 5/20/2025 11:05 AM, zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 6:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:

    -snip the usual conversation-

    I'm done with you.

    ...and the assembled crowd rejoiced.



    Good to know you're fine with tommy promoting justifications for the holocaust, but you take issue with people calling him out.

    fuck you too.




    How many times do you have to be told that my mother and her parents were Jews. By extention that would make me a Jew to you antisemites.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 02:25:12 2025
    On Tue May 20 16:29:24 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Tue, 20 May 2025 20:19:16 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon May 19 17:32:45 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:

    That's mostly true except that you probably meant your Flickr site:
    <https://www.flickr.com/photos/153690295@N06>
    and that all but one of the photos are dated between 2000 between and
    15, with one each on 2018 and 2018. You joined in 2017 and uploaded
    most of the photos in Aug 2024. All of the photos were probably
    copied from one of your other web sites. So, where are your more
    recent photos? At least you have your Ridley photo on Facebook:
    <https://www.facebook.com/thomas.kunich.1/photos>
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1013539423124140&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>

    These look new and were added recently (Mar 26, 2025):
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1349578936186852&set=a.467381291073292>
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1349578982853514&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1349579019520177&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>
    Just one problem. The glass top coffee table is yours, but the mess
    in the background does not resemble your back yard as in other photos.
    What happened that inspired you to make such a mess?


    Jeff, thanks for reminding me about Flicker. With the additional damage from the stroke I can't even remember that there is a Flicker.

    I apologize to you about the Hitler comments but they are true.

    I'm not interested. Find someone else who might care about your
    opinion. However, I could use an apology for tacking your worthless
    comments onto a thread about your photos and then changing the topic.
    If it's not too painful, try making the apology sound like you really
    mean it.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology>
    "A non-apology apology, sometimes called a backhanded apology, empty
    apology, nonpology, or fauxpology, is a statement in the form of an
    apology that does not express remorse for what was done or said, or
    assigns fault to those ostensibly receiving the apology."

    What would have caused that raving lunatic to kill millions unless he had been really angered by most probably a specific jew?

    I'm not interested in debating your "apology". Find someone else who
    might care about your justifications for mass murder and genocide.




    Tell us Jeff, by what line is a semetic religion passed on?

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 29 19:31:38 2025
    On Fri, 30 May 2025 02:25:12 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Tue May 20 16:29:24 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Tue, 20 May 2025 20:19:16 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon May 19 17:32:45 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:

    That's mostly true except that you probably meant your Flickr site:
    <https://www.flickr.com/photos/153690295@N06>
    and that all but one of the photos are dated between 2000 between and
    15, with one each on 2018 and 2018. You joined in 2017 and uploaded
    most of the photos in Aug 2024. All of the photos were probably
    copied from one of your other web sites. So, where are your more
    recent photos? At least you have your Ridley photo on Facebook:
    <https://www.facebook.com/thomas.kunich.1/photos>
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1013539423124140&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>

    These look new and were added recently (Mar 26, 2025):
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1349578936186852&set=a.467381291073292>
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1349578982853514&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>
    <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1349579019520177&set=pb.100034042758783.-2207520000&type=3>
    Just one problem. The glass top coffee table is yours, but the mess
    in the background does not resemble your back yard as in other photos.
    What happened that inspired you to make such a mess?


    Jeff, thanks for reminding me about Flicker. With the additional damage from the stroke I can't even remember that there is a Flicker.

    I apologize to you about the Hitler comments but they are true.

    I'm not interested. Find someone else who might care about your
    opinion. However, I could use an apology for tacking your worthless
    comments onto a thread about your photos and then changing the topic.
    If it's not too painful, try making the apology sound like you really
    mean it.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology>
    "A non-apology apology, sometimes called a backhanded apology, empty
    apology, nonpology, or fauxpology, is a statement in the form of an
    apology that does not express remorse for what was done or said, or
    assigns fault to those ostensibly receiving the apology."

    What would have caused that raving lunatic to kill millions unless he had been really angered by most probably a specific jew?

    I'm not interested in debating your "apology". Find someone else who
    might care about your justifications for mass murder and genocide.

    Tell us Jeff, by what line is a semetic religion passed on?

    See my comment above, where I indicated that I wasn't interested in
    debating your "apology". Find someone else who might care about your justifications for mass murder and genocide.

    --
    Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
    Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
    Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Fri May 30 07:45:53 2025
    On 5/29/2025 9:22 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Wed May 21 14:13:32 2025 zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/20/2025 12:36 PM, AMuzi wrote:
    On 5/20/2025 11:05 AM, zen cycle wrote:
    On 5/19/2025 6:55 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Mon May 19 14:59:50 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:

    -snip the usual conversation-

    I'm done with you.

    ...and the assembled crowd rejoiced.



    Good to know you're fine with tommy promoting justifications for the
    holocaust, but you take issue with people calling him out.

    fuck you too.




    How many times do you have to be told that my mother and her parents were Jews. By extention that would make me a Jew to you antisemites.


    Ancestry, philosophy and politics do not always align:

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-tear-in-the-tent-the-us-jews-who-are-protesting-israel-following-hamas-massacres/

    https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

    --
    Andrew Muzi
    am@yellowjersey.org
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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