Road Cycling Essentials
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I can also say that the NHS vouchers take the longest ever to arrive.
The average wait time is 2 weeks for the police and rolls royce who I've dealt with recently.
The average wait time is 2 weeks for the police and rolls royce who I've dealt with recently.
I've been let down big style by my Trust for this Cycle to Work Scheme.
I was 'approved' within 2 days but then told I would have to wait up to 4 weeks for my certificate which was last Wednesday.
I rang CycleScheme on Wednesday morning who said the Trust had not paid anything.
I got a name off them who was dealing with it at our end and rang them only to be told the Trust creditors were dragging their feet.
Five minutes later they rang me back saying they were paying the Certificates on Wednesday afternoon - hurrah.
Rang up today and they still haven't paid
I can only hope Cycle2Work, which my employer use, performs better than CycleScheme... Your experience seems pretty poor.
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It isn't CycleScheme's fault, the Trust haven't paid the bill yet.
[DOD]Asprilla;22262703 said:
The problem is we have had a brand new Hospital built and any Stokie will tell you that parking is a nightmare.
Our Fit For The Future Team are going mad because they want staff out of their cars and onto bikes so you think they would make an effort.
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Ah, OK. In that case, I hope my employer does a better job than yours!
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It's frigging July and this morning I find myself in overshoes, waterproof bib longs and a Castelli Isterco thermal gillet.
I know all the reasons why and as a small island on the edge of the Atlantic we don't really have any reason to expect anything different, but come on......
I know all the reasons why and as a small island on the edge of the Atlantic we don't really have any reason to expect anything different, but come on......
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Well I wasn't hurting yesterday, so I took my running shoes into work and ran home because I'd taken the day off cycling after the 120 miles on the Dynamo on Saturday night. I did a gentle 1km to the station at this end to check everything was ok, which it was, then ok'd myself for the 6km at the other end. Amazingly, apart from a bit of tightness around my left knee, it's not feeling like I rode that distance at the weekend and ran a reasonably fast Parkrun 5k before it on Saturday morning 
Well I wasn't hurting yesterday, so I took my running shoes into work and ran home because I'd taken the day off cycling after the 120 miles on the Dynamo on Saturday night. I did a gentle 1km to the station at this end to check everything was ok, which it was, then ok'd myself for the 6km at the other end. Amazingly, apart from a bit of tightness around my left knee, it's not feeling like I rode that distance at the weekend and ran a reasonably fast Parkrun 5k before it on Saturday morning
Did you make it to the coast for sunrise? I'm looking to do this next year, what did you use for lighting and did you have any power issues?
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Here's the profile for the 125 miler I've got this Friday.
Should be good as I've not ridden the last 70 miles before at all, so some nice new scenery
Should be good as I've not ridden the last 70 miles before at all, so some nice new scenery
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We were about 30 miles off the end for sunrise, mainly because we left quite late.
For lights I used my Fenix L2D up front and my Fibreflare and normal rear bike light at the back. I wouldn't have had any power issues in the torch if I'd charged up my batteries, but I left my charger at work and had to rely on Duracells, which I can reliably report do not last anywhere near as long as NiMh rechargeables
I definitely recommend it. Singlespeed or fixed if you can
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Here's the profile for the 125 miler I've got this Friday.
Should be good as I've not ridden the last 70 miles before at all, so some nice new scenery
That looks lovely.
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All year round.
Good gloves and a way to keep your feet dryish / warm and you'll be fine. As soon as you start chucking waterproof layers on you'll be sweating whatever the weather.
You just have to accept that you will get wet, either though sweat or though rain / snow so abandon any thoughts of staying dry and concentrate on staying warm with the flexibility to dump layers / vent as you start heating up.
[DOD]Asprilla;22267248 said:
Do you cycle to work, then? If I go ahead with it, I'd be doing 13 miles each way into Manchester. It's reasonably flat, but it's Manchester so the chances of it raining on any given day are about 135%. I think I can probably live with getting wet and cold, though I imagine I'll have to own about 4 sets of kit minimum so that I've got a dry set for each journey in the event of either dripping with sweat or getting drenched.
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Yup, cycle to work every day (beer allowing). 7,500 miles last year.
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