London to Brighton bike ride

I cycled from Brighton to Portsmouth Harbour last year, took me a few hours... fun stuff ^^.

I'd highly recommend doing dumb physical stuff for kicks (as long as it doesn't injure anyone!).
 
These cycle rides are fun. Couple of boaties and I did the Oxford > Cambridge (93m?) last year in 4:07, awfully annoying that we didn't beat the 4 hr mark.
 
willhub said:
Wow that sure is a lot! :eek:, guess it took around 6-7 hours maybe doing 10 miles an hour and having breaks inbetween?
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Heheh indeed I am a fat guy, took me from about 9.45am until 8pm. Hurt so much...

EDIT : For reference, we took the train back, it took 2.5 hours to get back to brighton :D
 
willhub said:
Just makes me feel really unfit, I mean you said you were a chronic Asthmatic, I used to have asthma, I notice when I pedal really hard for a long time going fast I get weird pains up near my neck, but abit lower down, but I dont think thats to do with my lungs or anything. Do you have a speedo on your bike?
The races you mention sound interesting, but I think for me its going to be a long while untill I'm fit enough to take part in anything like that.
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I have a Cycle computer! Otherwise it would be hard to know how fast I was going, how far I have traveled and what my average speed was!

The weird pains are because your bike doesn't fit or you you have the saddle to high or low making your back go at a funny angle.

My physical limitations at the moment are more to do with my leg muscles than my lungs. That's the biggest problem with entering any official race is I don't yet have the endurance.

Nevermind, just remember that cycling is supposed to be fun.
 
platypus said:
Average of 22mph. The main problem we found was that the start was bitterly cold, and Jack had real problems in his calf muscles for the first hour or so.
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Was is difficult keeping 22mph? Was it windy?

LordSplodge said:
I have a Cycle computer! Otherwise it would be hard to know how fast I was going, how far I have traveled and what my average speed was!

The weird pains are because your bike doesn't fit or you you have the saddle to high or low making your back go at a funny angle.

My physical limitations at the moment are more to do with my leg muscles than my lungs. That's the biggest problem with entering any official race is I don't yet have the endurance.

Nevermind, just remember that cycling is supposed to be fun.
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Well when I'm on the drop bars I always get real bad lower back pain, I dont know the right height to set my bike, the fram size is small but I cant see how the frame size if effecting me surely if I raise the handlebars or seat it lower then so they are the right height it should be fine? I need to know what height I need them at though but have to work it out somehow.
 
willhub said:
Was is difficult keeping 22mph? Was it windy?



Well when I'm on the drop bars I always get real bad lower back pain, I dont know the right height to set my bike, the fram size is small but I cant see how the frame size if effecting me surely if I raise the handlebars or seat it lower then so they are the right height it should be fine? I need to know what height I need them at though but have to work it out somehow.
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How tall are you if you have a small frame size? My wife is 5' 1" and rides a small. If I ride it even with the seat post up it gives me back ache and saps all my power.
 
willhub said:
I'm 5ft 9", I cant take the bike back and cant afford a new one, oh dear, I'm ****** aint I maybe thats why I cant get any speed too? :(.

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Thats my bike with my old one on the left.
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I can't say for sure but I get back pains riding my wife's bike when mine is out of action. I am also a lot slower. She does have knobblys whereas I have slicks. Coming home from work I can keep up (mostly) with the traffic - around 22- 28mph. I couldn't even get close on hers.

Why did you buy a small frame?

That bike looks tiny.
 
willhub said:
Was is difficult keeping 22mph? Was it windy?
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Fairly, it was very windy. Always is in and around Cambridge, and it was very gusty at the start in Oxford. We managed to do some stints at ~25mph, and some slower. Some very large hills at the start of that race.

Good bikes & strong legs were the key to that I think ;).
 
platypus said:
Fairly, it was very windy. Always is in and around Cambridge, and it was very gusty at the start in Oxford. We managed to do some stints at ~25mph, and some slower. Some very large hills at the start of that race.

Good bikes & strong legs were the key to that I think ;).
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In 25mph wind if I'm going into it I'm down to 10mph :(.

LordSplodge said:
I can't say for sure but I get back pains riding my wife's bike when mine is out of action. I am also a lot slower. She does have knobblys whereas I have slicks. Coming home from work I can keep up (mostly) with the traffic - around 22- 28mph. I couldn't even get close on hers.

Why did you buy a small frame?

That bike looks tiny.
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Guy in halfords said it was ok for me, surely I can alter the seat and handlebars to suit me? :(.
 
platypus said:
Nah we were doing 25mph/hour speeds.

Take it back, and get yourself to a proper bike shop.
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They wont accept returns :\. And I dont want to take it back because It feels like I'm just being a pain in the ass to them tbh.

What do you mean you were doing 25mph/hour speeds? 25mph into the wind too? I dont see what could be wrong with the bicycle if the seat and handlebars is positiond, apart from the pain I found it quite a good bike, only 18 gears but I've done around 70 miles on it so far I think.
 
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