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I've been getting some nasty skipping on my commuter. Checked the chain wear and yup, I left it too long. Completely worn. Yay.

Crank's creaking too. I think it needs some proper T&C.
 
Charged home tonight, no idea what time as the battery was flat on my GPS but I shared the work from Kingston to home with a chap carrying an Ironman rucksack.

I'd had to tighten the crank bolt again as it had come loose in Richmond Park again. I've got some Royce ones on the way and I hope they fit better. Just been out to the garage to threadlock the bolt that in there now only to find it's missing again!!

I was spinning out at times on the way home and I could have lost the crank at any time!
 
One More Solo said:
Dunno, you might get off to sleep all right but your quality of sleep will be pretty crappy.
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no problems sleeping at all, I get a good nights sleep lol, and I LOVE SLEEPING so no way would I make it worse..

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It's quick to get over that though. Stop drinking coffee for a week and then have an espresso before a race and you get pretty much the same kick off it as somebody who doesnt drink coffee.
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I only drink a cup or two/week AT MOST if that.. :) I'm a tea guy all the way.. caffeine simply has little to no effect on me.. which is a shame since I need a good cheap kick up my bum before gym :o

parking a bike in London..

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My bike.. the yellow SS and my brothers new/old classic frame he got off ebay that he spent a week preparing and then I've spent the whole weekend painting it.. a nice frame for sure but jeebus is it flexy.
 
Saundie said:
Ribble seem to be letting people down quite a lot lately. Hopefully you'll be able to get it sorted without too much hassle!
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No, their customer service has always been pretty dire for me, and recently the last straw, so despite their quality products I won't be using them again.
 
Nice one [DOD]Asprilla.

My commute this morning took me over 1000km for August. 4th month in a row I've hit 1000k. Think September might be the last one this year though.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;24797679 said:
44.03min commute this morning. 31.3kph average. Getting closer to that magic 20mph.
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Damn, that's some going. Do you even stop for lights?

By the way, which of your many bikes do you commute on?
 
Saundie said:
Damn, that's some going. Do you even stop for lights?

By the way, which of your many bikes do you commute on?
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Of course I stop for lights, I just don't have many on my commute.

At the moment I'm commuting on the single speed, but I'm trying to get the S1 up and running so I can at least try out out before the rainy season comes. Over the winter it will be the single speed and the Burls sharing most of the effort with the CX coming out for snow and ice.

Can't upload today's until I get home, so here's my previous quickest on this commute: http://www.strava.com/activities/74192903
 
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You are a fortunate man, then, as I have five sets of lights on my short 3.5 mile commute. I managed an average of 17.5mph on my commute this morning, but I got extremely lucky with the junctions; for the first time in the three years I've been cycling to work, all of the lights were green as I approached them, and there was nobody on the roundabout.

I wish Van Nicholas would hurry up and confirm my order, I would really like to get the Aquilo before it starts getting cold and the roads turn to crap. I'm leaning towards keeping the Yukon to commute on, and selling the Pinnacle instead. I'd lose less money that way, and have a nicer bike to commute on. The other option is to get rid of the hybrid I got as a winter hack, and leave the studded tyres on the Pinnacle ready for winter. I can get away with having three bikes, but not four, so one of them must go.
 
Just counted and I've got 15 sets of lights (ped x and junctions), 5 junctions without lights where I don't have priority ( :eek: ) and three roundabouts.

Not bad actually.

You are getting an Aquilo? Nice! What's the spec and how did I miss that?
 
[DOD]Asprilla;24797808 said:
Of course I stop for lights, I just don't have many on my commute.

At the moment I'm commuting on the single speed, but I'm trying to get the S1 up and running so I can at least try out out before the rainy season comes. Over the winter it will be the single speed and the Burls sharing most of the effort with the CX coming out for snow and ice.

Can't upload today's until I get home, so here's my previous quickest on this commute: http://www.strava.com/activities/74192903
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good effort, mine is start... 200m stop.. start.. 300m stop.. :/ look at the graph each dip is either red light or traffic :o

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Saundie said:
You are a fortunate man, then, as I have five sets of lights on my short 3.5 mile commute.
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10 mile commute i probably got 20+ red lights..

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actually counting them up I have over 40 :O WAT.
 
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I should have a Rapha softshell and Rapha backpack arriving today. I think I've rewarded myself far too well for getting a new job.

It's all your fault Asprilla.:(
 
Only real issue I have on my commute is crossing the train tracks. Difficult to judge because the train service is so unreliable there is invariably a good 5-6 minute period when the barriers can be down.

Oh yeah the A505. Crossing that can sometime take up to 5 minutes because the drivers are ****tards, and despite them often only being able to travel slowly they won't stop to let you across.
 
I've been playing around with my Garmin 800 this week testing the TomTom style navigation part. I think I will have to use Bike Route Toaster to plot a route as turning on "avoid highways" in an effort to avoid dual carriageways seems to result in crazy, indirect routes that would probably make my journey 200 miles!
 
Saundie said:
I wish Van Nicholas would hurry up and confirm my order, I would really like to get the Aquilo before it starts getting cold and the roads turn to crap.
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You bought another Ti?

My LBS has Garmin Vector demo peddles I'll be hopefully borrowing soon :D

8 days until Eurobike, really looking forward to seeing some of the next gen bikes.

New Cervelo's, return of the Scott Addict The new Felt AR FRD looks interesting, think Canyon might give the Aeroad a redesign?

"Aero" really seems to be where it's at, and where bikes are heading now?
 
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