I smashed my bike in a crash last weekend. Thankfully I avoided injury but it's left me feeling a little low.
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I smashed my bike in a crash last weekend. Thankfully I avoided injury but it's left me feeling a little low.
All the kit I mention in today's podcast can be found at www.roadmanresources.com
Support this podcast:
www.patreon.com/anthony_walsh
“I have a shoulder injury from a crash in a bunch sprint in Detroit in 2013. And it still gives me problems. It's still sore. I still can't, like if I'm doing something like a lot pull down, anything like that. It's, the pain is excruciating.”
“Any day to week I would take a bad frame with a good bike fit over a good bike fit over the opposite... you can have the nicest frame in the world but if you haven't taken time to customize your stem, your bars, your saddle your contact points with that frame it's just going to be a miserable experience.”
“It's naming, treating, that you're thankful for at the start of the day and the under-laught interior behind this is if we're thankful, it's hard to be spoiled, it's hard to be hateful, it's hard to be in a bad mood. So be thankful for your health, be thankful that you're in this sport because it can change in the blink of an eye.”
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