A couple of thoughts ramble around my head this morning. It being a quiet Monday, let us cogitate: As a general rule I am asked to ponder local things, which means I not supposed to spend a lot of time on national things, but it is hard not to notice that national things intrude on local, whether we want them to or not. Consider the current wars, of which there are at least two, although Libya ought to count, and Yemen, and Somalia where we sending in mercenaries and pretending we don know who they work for, and who knows where else? The Onion a while back ran an article about the military (click) apologizing for forgetting to tell us about the war in Syria, and who knows if that still fiction? Anyway, one of the ways local things are affected by the wars is in money. Notice how the national debt and deficit are both soaring? Notice how budgets are being cut? Notice how senior meals have been reduced? Yes there is a connection. This fun web site (click) run by the National Priorities Project gives a running tally of just the wars that are more or less official, in Iraq and Afghanistan. See the pretty numbers roll by? $1.23 trillion and counting. You can also break it down by state ($6.6 billion for Utah) city ($170 million for Ogden) counties (they only show Salt Lake and Utah) and congressional district ($2.17 billion for Rob Bishop 1st Congressional District). Isn that fun? Anyone else here thinK an extra $7 billion would have come in handy for Utah over the last decade? Every dime of that cost was added to the national debt, none of it paid by taxes (thanks to tax cuts by both Bush and Obama) and all of it represents non productive money taken out of the economy that could have much better been spent on schools, health care, infrastructure, and so on and so forth. Or just on keeping our national debt from growing. Oh yeah, and the wars also killed 5,000 and wounded another 44,000, plus another 100,000 or so traumatic brain injuries, PTSDs and on and on. Can forget them! And we note with displeasure that Iraq is still exploding (click), and Afghanistan and everything connected to it continue to be a complete FUBAR (click)so I think we can consider our $1.3 trillion pretty badly spent. I not for one minute advocating it, but this sort of thing does make one yearn for the days mostly mythical when a country could invade someone, stealgold or cotton or slaves or something useful, and actually come out ahead on the deal. Wait, wasn that what we were told about the War in Iraq? Yup. Is 2012 already decided? I keep wondering. Obama still has fully a third of his first term to work through, and since Gov. Perry of Tex tossed his hat into the ring, I seeing a lot of commentery (click) about why he likely to win. I wish this whole campaign would go away States trying to get publicity by hosting ever earlire campaign events that allegedly mean something havebrought us to the point where we actually give a rat patoot about the Iowa staw poll where candidates actually pay voters to show up, and this is supposed to mean something? And of course Perry, who wasn there, is already touted as the strongest challenge to Romney, who also wasn there, but the straw poll was still really meaningful, somehow. Meanwhile, economic disaster looms andwars continue but nothing is going to get done about any of those because everyone already looking over their shoulder at next year election. Which, keep in mind, (click) is already pretty much decided. You left of (strategic editing, you sly dog you) where I said i was not in any way advocating this but That last sentence was referring to bush employee, paul wolfowitz, who on March 27, 2003, told the House Appropriations Committee that oil revenue earned by Iraq alone would pay for Iraq reconstruction after the Iraq war. Yes, anti war people (not just liberals) did say it was all about oil, whichis not now and never was a good reason but it was, then, the reason. As one person including me said at the time, if Iraq chief export were broccoli, would we be doing this? your question of them being the only source of food on the planet is not only speculative but impossible since, if they were the only source of food on the planet, whether broccoli or kumquats, everyone else would starve to death before being able to mount an offensive to get some food. so I see no sense in speculating on an answer. Oil, on the other hand, is available in other places and, if one takes the trouble, can be done without, so I don see it as a reason to invade. If we did need their oil, it would have been far easier to just wait until they needed some cash to buy food (broccoli!) and, since oil is all they have to export, pointed out to them that they can either sell us the oil for our broccoli or go ahead and eat the oil. Air Jordan 4 Black Cement 2012 ,Air Jordan 5 Fire Red Black Tongue 2013 Air Jordan 4 Toro Bravo Air Jordan 6 Infrared 23 Air Jordan 4 Oreo 2015 Air Jordan 4 Fear Air Jordan 12 Gamma Blue Air Jordan 5 Black Grape Air Jordan 5 Oreo Air Jordan 7 Retro Raptor 2012 Since retrieval from the hands of BMW, Rover has become Britain's biggest domestically owned car maker. 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The Chiefs had to settle for three field goals and lost a chance for a miracle comeback when Ryan Succop missed a 51 yard attempt with 1:17 to go. Air Jordan 4 Black Cement 2012 I heard it was 172.5's but it hasn't been confirmed. I know Cavendish runs with 170's, could that possibly be the ideal length for the road, especially if one spins at a high cadence? Does it really make sense to go with longer arms in the TT, as Miguel Indurain did? I have my doubts. I'm thinking it's better to go with one length and stick with it, as that is what your muscles are used to. So we have a link saying 175 for Lance. I would say that what the pros use might not be the best guide for people who aren't training at something close to a pro level. and a lot of it is riding style, body type, etc. My leg and torso lengths are fairly close to Lance's. I use 172.5 cranks and I feel like I would have no problem riding 175's on hilly terrain or in a TT, but I also suspect that I would be a better rider if I used 170s and learned to spin better. Of course if I rode more than 150 200K a week, I'd also be a better rider Assuming the force being applied by the rider is constant, the longer lever arm provided makes it easier to turn a given gear ratio. Think about what you do when you are trying to free a stuck nut from a bolt: most people grab a longer wrench or put a bit of pipe over the wrench to give them a longer lever arm. The amount of force they apply to the wrench handle is the same, but the longer lever applies more force (torque) to the nut. In a "practical" sense, this means that you can apply less force on the pedal with longer crank arms, which saves some of your legs, which makes it easier to recover for the next day. I'd guess that over a long Tour, the effect is cumulative: the less you expend and the quicker/easier you recover in the first week, means you should have more left in the tank for the third week. In the uphill terrain, the longer lever means you can probably go up with a bit less effort for a given speed or faster for a given effort. The downside of longer crank arms is that at a given RPM, your feet are actually moving faster (they are describing a circle with a larger circumference). Steady state efforts (TT's, long climbs) this tends to not be an issue, but something with a lot of change of pace (crits) you lose the ability accelerate quickly (need to close a small gap? Spin the legs up a little bit instead of shifting a gear). Watch a really good crit rider or a trackie in a points race, leg speed changes all the time. I heard it was 172.5's but it hasn't been confirmed. I know Cavendish runs with 170's, could that possibly be the ideal length for the road, especially if one spins at a high cadence? Does it really make sense to go with longer arms in the TT, as Miguel Indurain did? I have my doubts. I'm thinking it's better to go with one length and stick with it, as that is what your muscles are used to. I didn't think 5mm would make such a difference but I was really really surprised at how much it did going from 170 to 165. I did a lot of TT drills etc on 170s long ago and then got a new mtn bike equipted with 175s as standard it felt different, but not nearly as much as going onto 165. 5 mm crank length is 1 cm diameter difference and according to where the power is on the pedal stroke, again that can make a big difference when the cadence is 90+ rpms, that is 1 meter per min 20m for 20 minutes and there you'll see the difference perhaps less effort but more work or, for those with metronomic cadences perhaps less effort equal work and slower average speed. What did the loss feel like? Weird question, but did you feel that you couldn't maintain the cadence going uphill, or more pain in the quads? As I said, i'm on 175s, but will change back to 170s. I was considering going right down to 165's, but if that means difficulty climbing, then i'm not to sure The reason is that I always found it uncomfortable to spin the whole circle at my high cadence (usually around 100). So if i drop 10mm, then the circle would be 2cm less diameter, which seemed like a good idea, but maybe that's too much. Anyone else had trouble climbing on 165s?? From the look of the pro's list, 175 is what the big climbers are pushing, but hard to compare us to them Below is my opinion, based on personal experience, it may be greatly different than others. I've ridden 170s (with a 38x52 in front, 12x25 10spd rear) on a road bike for "just about forever" (greater than 20 years), 165's on a fixed gear (usually ridden on the road). Stylistically, I've always been higher cadence, I feel on top of a gear in the 95 100 range (made it easy to do group rides with a bunch of track riders). The 165s give you a shorter lever arm from the pedal spindle to the crank axle, so for any given amount of force you apply at the pedal, there is less effective force applied at the crank (simple physics). For a "normal" length of 170mm, the 5mm represents a difference of about 3% in lever arm length; this means that at the crank you'll apply 3% less (going to 165) or 3% more (going to 175). Now, exactly what does that 3% mean on the bike? Normally, about 1 tooth on a chainring. Still using the 170 as the normal length crank arm, a 39x16 with 165s will feel like a 40x16, with 175s it will feel like a 38x16. If you plot out the deltas in gears across the gears normally used by racers, say a 39x53 with a 12x25 10spd, the steps between successive gears is about 1.5 3%. Climbing I felt the impulse was stronger, but of a shorter duration (a little more pedal loading, but you move through it quicker). Absolute position of the seat relative to the pedal can change the way it feels (seat up/down, back/forwards). It may take a few rides to get used to the feeling, but you should be able to adjust to it. On a mountain bike, you want to limit the delta between peaks of applied power (easier to maintain traction). The longer crankarms mean lower peak force has to be applied, but it's applied for a longer time. Don't forget that the differences between the GC contenders in a 3 week tour (assuming all undoped) are actually very small. Assuming they all start the tour out with a "full tank", every little bit they save in the first 2 weeks means they have more for the third week. If changing the crankarms means they save a little bit more, then it's easy to see why they run longer cranks. I used to do most of my climbing seated but did something late august and was off the bike for 4 weeks; I got the 165s and had a few rides on them on regular routes. I am trying to avoid re injury so I am refraining from the grind climb and trying to spin low gears up or stand. The standing part the cranks do feel short, no question. And it's not like you can go down a gear to compensate, because if I have to stand I am in my lowest gear already BUT I did notice on an ultra steep climb I did on the weekend I was able to turn the crank over the top faster and maintained a rolling momentum, whereas before I used to go up seated because I could maintain the tension on the chain better, like there was a dead spot at the top of the crank rotation. you might even have a spare set of 170s to try they are easier to come by than 165s and a new set of cranks can cost a bit of money too it might be easier or more worthwhile to step down 5mm than do a whole cm and find the change too extreme to adjust to properly. just my humble opinion.
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