Road Cycling Essentials

grudas · 20 May 2013 at 18:26

uniQ said:
Going to try and finish the Castelli Strava challenge tomorrow, It's been a challenging week so far, looking forward to some well earned rest once it's over!

e: looks like I'll also finish the May Massive challenge on the same ride. 2-4-1

finish may massive? it doesn't have a distance/goal set how are you going to finish it?

js58426 · 20 May 2013 at 18:42

[DOD]Asprilla;24311131 said:
I think this looks a better bet: http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/...uctId_922789_langId_-1_categoryId_165534#tab2

Thanks for the suggestion. I've heard a lot of cyclists criticising Halfords for poor assembly, that's why I was looking at Decathlon. Do you think that's a major issue?

I've found a similarly priced hybrid on Decathlon's site - Riverside 1. Of the two, which do you think would be better?

uniQ · 20 May 2013 at 18:53

grudas said:
finish may massive? it doesn't have a distance/goal set how are you going to finish it?

Well what I meant is earn the last badge which is at 1000km

Vonhelmet · 20 May 2013 at 19:10

uniQ said:
Going to try and finish the Castelli Strava challenge tomorrow, It's been a challenging week so far, looking forward to some well earned rest once it's over!

e: looks like I'll also finish the May Massive challenge on the same ride. 2-4-1

Good work. I'm going to try to push on and get to 500km, but it'll be a challenge. Still, even 500km in one month will be the most I've done yet, so it's all good.

uniQ · 20 May 2013 at 19:19

Vonhelmet said:
Good work. I'm going to try to push on and get to 500km, but it'll be a challenge. Still, even 500km in one month will be the most I've done yet, so it's all good.

That's what it's all about, I find the challenges can help with the extra motivation to go out on days you might otherwise not or to ride further that you normally would etc

oli collett · 20 May 2013 at 19:38

I haven't hit 250 yet due to the disaster yesterday (plus I accidentally reset my data on my garmin!) but I've got a huge amount of cycling planned over this weekend and the next so might manage 500 if i push it

grudas · 20 May 2013 at 19:40

ill be at around 600 i guess.. unless i go decide to go for a ride during the weekend - which i might!

rogan · 20 May 2013 at 20:20

ive stripped the seatpost collar bolt on my alan, **** how do i fix this

Shamrock · 20 May 2013 at 20:36

I have sinned...

I wonder how long it'll take before the clip snaps off?

[DOD]Asprilla · 20 May 2013 at 20:43

Shamrock said:
I have sinned...

I wonder how long it'll take before the clip snaps off?

My bag rotted and had to be thrown away before anything happened to the clip.

touch · 20 May 2013 at 20:43

rogan said:
ive stripped the seatpost collar bolt on my alan, **** how do i fix this

Buy a new collar? Pretty cheap these days.

Shamrock · 20 May 2013 at 20:45

[DOD]Asprilla;24312217 said:
My bag rotted and had to be thrown away before anything happened to the clip.

So the clip is durable? Or the bag material rots easily?

The clip reversing works well I think to bring it nearer the post.

[DOD]Asprilla · 20 May 2013 at 20:49

Shamrock said:
So the clip is durable? Or the bag material rots easily?.

Three years of riding all weathers rotted parts of me as well. The clip is durable but you may need to tighten the bolt occasionally to keep it level.

Until recently all my bikes had Fizik Arione saddles so I could just move the one bag between then as I needed to.

Annoyingly the only two that have Fiziks on now use different sized inner tubes so I use different bags.

chanjy · 20 May 2013 at 21:14

rogan said:
ive stripped the seatpost collar bolt on my alan, **** how do i fix this

Drill it open, new collar + bolt?

One More Solo · 20 May 2013 at 21:29

topgun06 said:
:/

x1000

rogan · 20 May 2013 at 21:35

chanjy said:
Drill it open, new collar + bolt?

hmm, need to find a drill

DIABLO · 20 May 2013 at 22:04

js58426 said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I've heard a lot of cyclists criticising Halfords for poor assembly, that's why I was looking at Decathlon. Do you think that's a major issue?

I've found a similarly priced hybrid on Decathlon's site - Riverside 1. Of the two, which do you think would be better?

The Riverside seems to use wierd size wheels so you might have trouble getting replacement tyres for it.

Morpho · 20 May 2013 at 22:16

DIABLO said:
The Riverside seems to use wierd size wheels so you might have trouble getting replacement tyres for it.

They are standard 700c road/cross/trekking wheels.

[DOD]Asprilla · 20 May 2013 at 22:26

Yeah, they just list them as 28" instead of 700c

Berger · 21 May 2013 at 09:03

Too much weird stuff being said in here for my liking! Get a grip, it's only a cheap and now nasty looking road bike....!

Two laps of the Mount tonight with 20km on the flat after to increase the distance and spin my legs out. The times for the two ascents were within a second of each other! Nice and consistent! I could have done a third lap, but thought it might have hurt a bit too much.

Time limited a little bit as it is dark at 17:30 now, but only a month until the shortest (longest for you) day!