Long Ride with New Deep Drop 215

With all the cold and wet weather (and the colds) over the last month or so, today was the first day in a LONG time for me to put in a ride of over 3-1/2 hours. After the ride, I could tell that my body really needed it...

It was beautiful with some pretty decent Westerlies making riding the "easy way" harder. After my usual neighborhood warm up, I hit Tantalus from the stop sign after about 1:20 or so. Witht he wind blowing up the mountain, I figured I could do a pretty decent time, but was not really sure how the legs would be since I haven't gone hard for a long time. Did it in 19:19 so I figure with the regular wind it would have been about 19:45 or so...not bad, not good, but OK considering...

My new Deda Deep bars are pretty good, but I'm still working out the best position. I've been fiddleing with the angle, a lot, and with my seat height. Then today, I could tell my stand up climbing was really over working my upper body, compared to the Shallow bar. Since the hoods are higher with the Deep's bend, I decided to slam my bars all the way down, iow NO SPACERS, and that seemed to really help my stand up riding. And now, the drops are really really really really deep...we'll just have to see how this works out...