misery and the pain cave

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what the hell you are like 7 why are you doing this

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wtf

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lol cyclocross spills

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FACE

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What is that in the pool of blood? A kidney? A croissant?

BRANES

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^^^^ that happened in chicago. some friends of mine knew the dude. wife and two kids :(

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tFj9MG2Ol8Q

Wish the footage was better.
Ulle's vacant facial expression can't be seen properly :/

The orange guy in the snow is a great pic.

Paris-Roubaix a few years ago, it's a pretty famous photo I think

http://lafabuloserie.hautetfort.com/images/medium_ParisRoubaix.jpg

actually, if you jus gis "Paris-Roubaix" there'll be loads..

paris-roubaix in being fucking miserable non-shocker

YEAH I KNOW I WAS JUST SAYIN'.

THE DUDE AT DRUNKCYCLIST GOT HIS REAR TIRE CAUGHT IN A GRATE DOWN TO THE HUB...THE PIC AFTER THIS ONE IS GNARZZ.http://drunkcyclist.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/my_boxers.jpg
NSFW, UNLESS U WORK WITH SCROTUMS

........aaaaaaaaaaaand that's why you need health insurance

HOPEFULLY STEM PADS, WILL ONE DAY BE AS POPULAR AS TOPTUBE PADS.
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NSFW, UNLESS U WORK WITH SCROTUMS

Not at work, but there is no way on god's earth I am clicking on that link pal.

it's just a little bloody scrote, pal!

people much crazier than I riding some "trails" back home:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RzUNNcoK1Qo

warning: horrible music

Oh fucking hell, I was just watching highland vids and clicked on yr link and the pipes started but I thought 'NAH, MUST BE STATIC' and turned it down. Ahahaha.

That scrott shott wasn't that horrendous, I was bracing myself.

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Hel-LO Isadora.

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fuckkkk

Damn I didn't see that, bad one. Anyone remember that really old classic clip of some guy launching off this huge ramp (possibly after getting towed in) and trying to jump on to the roof of an apartment building, but really fucking it up and just hitting the side of the block? Thumone hath to find me that.

Shit, much easier than I thought:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVysytBQ57E

very vice city esque.

OK, since GH is at issue...I wanted to post this when someone in another thread said that only trek would make a bike that had a fork that a squirrel could break:

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http://www.pbase.com/jfhasson/accident

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I like that the alternative phrasing in Welsh is "fall-off area for cyclists". Because THAT'S not hilarious/confusing.

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niiiice

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Was that on ilx before? It's familiar for some reason.

Yeah, and what's funny is that you commented on it, Dan!

o_O maybe I smoke too much dope

where did the youtube link for that go?

DOUCHEBAGS.

I think mustache guy w/ camera takes the top prize.

What about girl in red dress who appears out of NOWHERE?? She's a freaking Murakami character, next time you see her you'll be at the bottom of a well.

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i saw "a sunday in hell" the other night.. amazing!

I like how Eddy Merckx keeps taking every opportunity to jump off his bike to measure his saddle height. Crazy bastard.

i love how his pristine white gloves are a deep brown by the end

The masochist in me really wants to get around to riding that course one day. I could be wrong but I *think* there is a public event held annually on it, but it would be horrendous carnage on the cobbles in a big crowd.

oh a sunday in hell has to move to the top of my queue

I just bought it.

Also I thought Zabel was good value in Hell On Wheels.

(I made my gf watch it with me at the cinema iirc)

Overheard: "I was already in the hurt locker. I was in the pain cave and I had dropped the flashlight, so it was pretty dark at that point." -- Michael Friedman (Slipstream-Chipotle), describing his condition when Gilbert blew past him 173 km (107 miles) into Omloop Het Volk. The American eventually finished 12th.

THE HURT LOCKER!

sunday in hell is pretty great

love it

Yeah I really enjoyed it. I'm so glad I bought it

netflix does not have it, i think :(

"a sunday in hell" playing in SF this sunday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ktTXjSqvJc

A Sunday in Hell
By Jorgen Leth
Aug 9, 2009, 2 pm

The best film ever made about professional cycling, this grueling documentary follows the 1976 Paris-Roubaix bike race, an intensive journey across the cobbled farm tracks of Northern France. The director uses 20 cameras and a helicopter to capture the drama of the race from every possible angle. The result captures every crucial moment from the hopeful fools in the breakaway to the grinding mass of the dense pack to the final, frantic, muscle-wrenching sprint. (1976, 110 min, digital video)

^^^^^^^^^^^love the sounds in A Sunday in Hell intro

Fucking love this doc obv

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this pic still rules for abject misery...DEAD EYES

A friend of mine was once hit by an SUV after the driver ran a stop sign. His nutsack caught on his seat & ripped open. Despite the mortal peril that must have ensued when he looked down on his exposed testicle, he walked to a nearby hospital, got stitched up & joined us for a Ween concert later that night. He was later awarded a large settlement from the driver's insurance provider.

I watched road to roubaix the other night

wilter, r u familiar w/cyclingtorrents.nl

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Thanks, I really needed to see that 50 times.

sorry :/

better than what he could have done imo

i saw "a sunday in hell" the other night.. amazing!

― cutty, Thursday, November 15, 2007 5:07 PM (2 years ago)

watched it tonight

the best, right?

the film? yea its awesome

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This is from an oldish article in the NY times about Jure Robic,
perennial RAAM winner, and crazy person:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/sports/playmagazine/05robicpm.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

"Researchers . . . have long noted a link between neurological
disorders and athletic potential. In the late 1800’s, the pioneering
French doctor Philippe Tissié observed that phobias and epilepsy could
be beneficial for athletic training. A few decades later, the German
surgeon August Bier measured the spontaneous long jump of a mentally
disturbed patient, noting that it compared favorably to the existing
world record. . . .
In 1999, three physiologists from the University of Cape Town Medical
School in South Africa took the next step. They worked a group of
cyclists to exhaustion during a 62-mile laboratory ride and measured,
via electrodes, the percentage of leg muscles they were using at the
fatigue limit. If standard theories were true, they reasoned, the body
should recruit more muscle fibers as it approached exhaustion — a
natural compensation for tired, weakening muscles.

Instead, the researchers observed the opposite result. As the riders
approached complete fatigue, the percentage of active muscle fibers
decreased, until they were using only about 30 percent. Even as the
athletes felt they were giving their all, the reality was that more of
their muscles were at rest. Was the brain purposely holding back the
body?

‘‘It was as if the brain was playing a trick on the body, to save
it,’’ says Timothy Noakes, head of the Cape Town group. ‘‘Which makes
a lot of sense, if you think about it. In fatigue, it only feels like
we’re going to die. The actual physiological risks that fatigue
represents are essentially trivial.’’

From this, Noakes and his colleagues . . . postulated the existence
of what they called a central governor: a neural system that monitors
carbohydrate stores, the levels of glucose and oxygen in the blood,
the rates of heat gain and loss, and work rates. The governor’s job is
to hold our bodies safely back from the brink of collapse by creating
painful sensations that we interpret as unendurable muscle fatigue.

Fatigue, the researchers argue, is less an objective event than a
subjective emotion — the brain’s clever, self-interested attempt to
scare you into stopping. The way past fatigue, then, is to return the
favor: to fool the brain by lying to it, distracting it or even
provoking it. (That said, mental gamesmanship can never overcome a
basic lack of fitness. As Noakes says, the body always holds veto
power.) . . .

Some people ‘‘have the ability to reprocess the pain signal,’’ says
Daniel Galper, a senior researcher in the psychiatry department at the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. ‘‘It’s not
that they don’t feel the pain; they just shift their brain dynamics
and alter their perception of reality so the pain matters less. It’s
basically a purposeful hallucination.’’

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same club (SJBC) as this guy:
my weekly race log

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(is the "the" between "quiet" and "steady" a typo or a poetic device missing a comma?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki2re9uILtc&feature=player_embedded

~inspirational~

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Some 20 kilometers from the finish, Zaaf started to zigzag across the road. A safety official pulled him from the race, afraid for his safety, and Molines rode through alone. Zaaf did not agree with the safety official, and mounted his bicycle again. He quickly fell off his bicycle and fell asleep, and spectators moved him into the shade of a tree.[18] When he woke up, he realized that he was in a race, got on his bicycle again and rode away, but going into the wrong direction. An ambulance was called, and Zaaf was taken away.

wowwwwwww

That was also the year the peleton took a break for a dip in the Med.

they were talking about that guy today on the tdf, the locals fed him wine when he broke down exhausted and then he got back on the bike and rode back along the road in the wrong direction : /

dude needs a bit of sunscreen too, wtf

is this on here?

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imo this thread is kinda being bastardized by the crash thread.

misery/pain cave imu is pushing the bounds of your physical limitations of exertion. when you start blacking out/tunnel vision in desperate throes of oxygen deprivation = the cave of which you dwell in pain and misery.

crashes are a whole nutha ingredient that are marginally related.

all imho fuiud.

no i agree, but crashing and THEN getting back on yr bike and TTing yr ass off is pretty pain cavey