White bibs make you look pro.
That worked magically for me in my twenties. I’d start piling on the miles in the early spring and the weight would just drip off effortlessly. At 57, with a very clean diet, I can ride every day plus count calories and maybe lose 3 pounds in a month. And as soon as I stop counting the calories, I’m guaranteed to gain 2 of those 3 pounds back in like a week.
It could be. I often see old geezers still riding the Peugeot 10 speed they bought in 1975.
I once figured liquid honey would be perfect as it comes in a squeezy bottle with a lid, and one package is about 300 grams of carbohydrate. Needless to say, it is not perfect. In fact, I found out rather quickly that honey is quite acidic (slightly more than coffee, for reference), and it was one of the less enjoyable experiences I’ve had on a bike.
I started doing this over the summer and it has been great….I do add a few pinches of pink Himalayan salt, but that is more for flavor than anything else.
Jug of Costco organic Maple Syrup is a helluva lot cheaper than gels….
Worst I’ve felt on the bike. Never again. Gels (races) or home brew carb mix (training) for me.
Reading between the lines here …
But if people (like you and me) are talking about optimizing those last 2-3 lbs., that is probably not what the 80% of the bell curve is referring to when their referring to “weight loss”
When I was 225lbs., I cared about ‘weight loss’ now I’m just trying to optimize body composition based on my workload.
Not arguing … but I think weight loss is too broad a topic to be addressed under one umbrella.
Right now, at 49 y.o., I’m trying to optimize, I’m 170lbs at 6’ tall and would like to be at 165. Mostly for vanity reasons. That was a different mindset and/or reality from with I was > 200lbs.
EDIT: Also, I drink too much wine. So getting those last gains are still a low hanging fruit for me. Alas, in vino veritas
I honestly thought it would be cheaper than golf. A garage with 6 bikes in it plus one on the turbo has proved me somewhat wrong. A wardrobe of kit suitable for every two degrees difference in temperature doesn’t help either.
“Your FTP is too high”
Haha that’s exactly what I tell my friends who start riding. The bike is the cheap part. Just wait until you start building the wardrobe…
LOL….I feel this deeply. We were talking in our ride the other day and someone said they stopped checking the temps before we ride in the early AM because it is usually colder than the forecast and if they checked, they would likely bail on the ride. They lay out their kit the night before and just head out the door.
No way I could do that….a 3* temp swing would trigger a completely different ensemble for me!! 
“Outside is free!” says man wearing $500 of thermal gear.
“ you don’t need to fuel 90 minute workouts” sure if you workout at 5pm, maybe you can get away with it. Try doing that at 5am….
You described me perfectly except I am 6 years older than you.
I think I know that thread… given that even in novice athletes, and those like myself who are quite anaerobic, time to exhaustion at FTP seems to be at least ~30min, then yeah, most people who have been riding for a while should be at least pretty close to being able to do 2x20 (or at least 2x15).
If you base FTP off of 75% of your ramp test result, then many people can’t do this… if you base your FTP off something like 95% of a 20min effort after an attempt at anaerobic depletion… most people can. Which kind of makes sense. One is testing your MAP and making assumptions on the shape of your PDC from that. The other is directly measuring your maximum sustainable aerobic power… so it makes more sense that the results of this would better predict the target power someone is likely to be able to hold 2x20 for.
This disagreement is probably more a reflection of the fact that ramp tests and 20min test results are often very different from each other… and that FTP measurements are not very precise. And that as a result, different people mean different things when they talk about threshold work.
For me, threshold work means a 6/10 RPE (VO2 work is an 8-9/10) - something that feels sustainable for at least 30min. It’s similar to 5k run pace, and easier than 2k row pace. HR should not be going over LTHR, except maybe at the very end of the last interval.
Is that 6 for the intervals as a whole or a ‘starting’ RPE?
For me threshold might start at 6, but it’s usually an 8 after 20 minutes and somewhere north of a 9 after 40 minutes
Get a (too) wide saddle due to marks left after sitting on a piece of cardboard.
This (MTB) rear wheel is stable enough for you. Today I have a rear wheel cemetery on my patio.
Wash your bike.
Get a bike fit from this dude with his laser.
I don’t get this one 
I agree that it’s often misguided advice, at least the way many people wash their bikes (spray nozzles on hoses and even pressure washers).
On a modern bike with sealed bearings, it’s often doing more harm than good to clean anything other than the drivetrain (and rim brakes where that applies). Spraying water near a bottom bracket or head tube (or any spot with a bearing) is just a bad idea in my opinion.
I swap freshly waxed chains constantly, but the bikes might get washed 4-5 times a year (typically after a serious mud fest race).
Don’t get me wrong, I like the looks of a clean bike, but I prefer riding to washing and it’s just going to get dirty on the next ride anyway. Especially for MTB.
Watching people get their bikes pressure washed at the end of big races by muc-off (or whoever is offering the service) makes me cringe, just not a good idea in my opinion. And then people are surprised when they only get 5k miles out of a bottom bracket or head tube bearing…