From: kim39@husc8.harvard.edu (John Kim)
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles
Subject: Thanks to Bill and Richard; deodorant; walking on bike shoes
Summary: Inspiration, my Perspiration, Use Shoe-goo eqv. on shoes
Date: 17 Apr 92 05:47:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Apr17.014750.11205
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes:
>Oddly, my perspiration doesn't seem to smell.  I would have to go three
>days without a shower before anyone might begin to notice.  
>        Tom Reingold
>        tr@samadams.princeton.edu  OR  ...!princeton!samadams!tr

	Tom, you're pretty lucky.  If I shower, then sweat a lot,
it doesn't smell immediately.  However, about 8 hours later my close
friends sometimes notice.  On the other hand (or armpit), I've known people
who start to smell about 20 minutes after starting to sweat.

II.  Inspiration vs. Perspiration;
	so yet again, after talking with the coach of the Harvard Cycling
Team (John Allis of Wheelworks), I planned to join them for a ride to
see if I could keep up.  Once again I work up at 5am, decided to sleep for
15 more minutes, and woke up again at 6:15, which was when I was supposed
to meet the team for their workout.  Feeling very disappointed, I headed
out anyway at 6:40 and cycled to Belmont Wheelworks and took the route the
team usually takes.  My fingers were freezing, my lips were chapped
(no lip balm), and my nose kept snotting up because of the temperature
(about 39 F?).  Besides, I felt wasted after just two small hills.
	Then I ran into this guy in Lexington.  He wasn't too fast, but
he had a bright yellow wind shell and a Bianchi in that famous
Celeste green color, so I asked if I could join him.  He turned out to
be a friendly easy-going person and we did about 2 miles before we were
joined by his usual riding partner.  I followed them all around
the Cambridge Reservoir on quiet backroads with little traffic.  They
never went to fast, but it was a lot easier for me to push up the
hills and go a little faster than if I had been alone.  Besides,
Bill and Richard were friendly and would drop back alongside me
to chat when there was no traffic.  I don't know how much was being
warmed up and how much was the psychological boost of cycling with
people, but even when I started to feel tired or cold, it was easy
to summon that little extra boost to keep going.  
	We rode a while and then parted so they could go to work and
I could go to wake up my roommate, who needed to finish his Physics.
I got home at 9am, woke up my roommate, and ate a huge breakfast.  
I felt great!  Great until I had to go to my 11 o'clock class, at which
point sleep was very tempting.  
	In any case, I rode 30 miles in 2.33 hours, made it to class, napped
in the afternoon, went to work, and felt generally great about the ride,
even though I missed the team workout.  I found out I was not nearly
as conditioned as I thought I was, so had I found the team, I think 
they would have dropped me after 2 hills--they probably
did about 34 miles in only 2 hours, maybe less.

III. Unusual things to do to your cycling shoes:
1) Add Kool Kovers so you don't slip on the Look cleat
2) Slip anyway by planting the plastic heel pad on a tile floor
3) Cut boots and small strips from old defective tire
4) put boot in other failing tire.  Glue two strips to hell of each
	shoe using 2-part plastic welder on one shoe and vinegar-cured
	silicone adhesive on the other shoe.  Watch both come unglued
	in a few hours.
5) Use 2-part 2-ton epoxy to glue rubber strips to both heels.
7) Walk around without clicking for one day--both strips come off
	Ponder failure of shoe modifications
9) Realize that epoxy bonds well to shoe but won't stick to inside
	of tire casing
10) Buy Shoe-Goo imitation and smear all over heels.  Let dry.
11).  Try out shoes today.   They work, so far....

6) Put duct tape over front vents next time to prevent my toes from going
numb again.  Also put bits of duct tape and reflective stickers on my
Look pedals to increase visibility and reduce chance of theft.
-Case