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Calpol said:
Very respectable.especially taking on bison hill which is a nasty climb. I was out that way today too. Well done.
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Thanks mate.

Its not my favourite hill and I am not ashamed to admit its the only hill that defeated me on the whole ride. Although I did clip back in and finish near the top.

I plan to go back next week (close to my house) and conquer that beast.
 
Musty Pie said:
I did my first ever road ride this morning with some friends who go out a fair bit.

Struggled towards the end but don't think it was a total train wreck.

http://www.strava.com/activities/142099355
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im guessing you've ridden some of them roads on a mountain bike then or something if it was your first roadie ride?
I wouldn't say that was bad, far from it, for a first actually proper ride on the road you did well
 
ShiWarrior said:
im guessing you've ridden some of them roads on a mountain bike then or something if it was your first roadie ride?
I wouldn't say that was bad, far from it, for a first actually proper ride on the road you did well
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Yeah I used to (last summer) be a fairly active MTB'er so I used to have some bike fitness. I have ridden a lot of the roads locally around here on my MTB, but never really tried to maintain pace etc and only ever used the roads to get into the woods etc.

I only just got a roadie though (last Thursday) and that's the first ride out on the roads with it.
 
Here's what an sram chain did to my chainring bolts btw lol
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KMC chain came from wiggle this morning so back to a decent chain again and put my new steel chain ring bolts on
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Those totally flat side sram chains are awful
 
arknor said:
Here's what an sram chain did to my chainring bolts btw lol
KMC chain came from wiggle this morning so back to a decent chain again and put my new steel chain ring bolts on

Those totally flat side sram chains are awful
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Can we get a picture of your chainring to see where the bolts are? It must be different to mine, as the only way I could get my chain to touch the bolts is if it has come off the top of the big chainring, which is quite unlikely to happen.
 
you seriously wouldn't be expect a chain to go anywhere near them but the chain would fail to climb from the middle ring and either rub the bolts or get stuck on them completely half of the time

indexing was perfect again as soon as I stuck the kmc chain on and the new bolts..
 
I'm not too sure what's up with your chain issues either, never had a problem with SRAM chains myself.

Did you have a 9 speed chain on a 10 speed bike or something daft like that?


Had a short ride this afternoon meant as a recovery from yesterday. Starting to feel great again, was riding along happily not feeling like death and like I actually had some power. Racing yesterday obviously kicked my body into action! Sprint for the 60 sign coming into town had my Garmin showing over 800w on the 3 second average :D

April and the start of May have been a bit of a write off training wise, Jan 30 hrs, Feb 28hrs, March 33hrs, April 16hrs and so far only 10 hrs in May. Those big blocks in the first three months of consistently riding good distance week in week out really improved my riding.

Not much compared to you lot now its summer time UK, but 240km for the week for me and 1800m elevation. Will aim to keep doing 200km+ a week and try to do 2000m elevation but can be difficult depending on if I do hill reps or not!
 
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Had a stomach bug all this week and weekend, it's a fair bit better today but still not good enough to get out on the bike. Perfect weather, doh!

Will hit it hard this coming week.

I'm thinking about getting some new wheels and a new seat, mainly to lower the bike weight a bit as I think my current wheels are a bit heavy and over engineered. Something like these?

Do you think it would be worth it, I'm a bit torn as I might just save the money and get a new bike next spring. Hmm..
 
arknor said:
Here's what an sram chain did to my chainring bolts btw lol
l1ATsxn.jpg

KMC chain came from wiggle this morning so back to a decent chain again and put my new steel chain ring bolts on
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Those totally flat side sram chains are awful
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Such drama. Something has been wrong on the setup somewhere for them to end up like that.
 
Vonhelmet said:
I wondered about a wrong speed chain, but surely that would cause issues at the cassette rather than the rings?
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They are both 9 speed chains.

Sram one just seems terribly bad, even the rear sounded louder and more clunky where as its usually uber smooth and often you can't even tell it changed without looking down.

guy in the bike shop tried to convince him self it wasn't a 9 speed chain until he saw it had a 9 speed power link. (sram pc971)

anyway it's all fine again with kmc so I won't worry about it..


I'll take a pic when I can be bothered if you really want but visually the middle chain ring has bumpy bits designed to help the chain up from the granny ring that stick out more than the bolts did and it's impossible to stick the chain rings on wrong because they physically only fit the correct way, three's no spacing to put them on backwards so it wasn't that and the only thing that changed was the chain anyway those old red bolts worked completely fine with the original kmc chain, they only became worn looking after the kmc chain was replaced.

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Might looks like the chain has rubbed the chainbolts from that photo but it hasn't for some reason the edge of the lip bit is silver whilst the rest of the bolt is black.

The ridge bit on the middle ring sticks out about twice as far as the bolts do but you can't tell from that angle and I'd assume the rivet above the chain bolts is designed to stop the chain from being to fall off onto the bolts but it wasn't coming down to the granny ring anyway it was shifting up from it.

I suspect for some reason the sram chain was hitting the rivet on the way up and then getting stuck between it and the chain bolt but it wasn't getting stuck on it's way up every time the guy in the bike shop had to change gears about 7 times before it first happened to him
 
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Just realised I was thinking it was the other end of the bolts that were catching on the chain. Makes a bit more sense now :)

Can only be bolts too long/chain to wide really - unless the chainring where it is catching was put on backwards perhaps?
 
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Surprised my Ti hasn't sold, close to just keeping and putting in storage while I'm away. Gave her a mini service and slightly regretting going with a standard double and not a compact :(

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One More Solo said:
If you fancy donating it I'm sure I can find room for it. :p

Bit of a novelty today, my first flat ride in weeks/months. Should really have extended it to 100km but I only took water and was bonking horrifically.

http://www.strava.com/activities/142593404
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I am not surprised after last weekends monster! I bet the change in pace was very welcoming ;)

I took part in the wiggle tour of the peak today, it was my toughest ride to date. Good day for it despite the wind. Also, forgot my gloves which was annoying and harsh on some of the road conditions.

http://www.strava.com/activities/142676430
 
My bikes developed a clicking sound on the down stroke of my left peddle when pushing on. Does anyone have an idea of what might be the problem? It only happens when pushing on a bit or going up hill not when going a consistent speed on level ground. Cheers.
 
Could be a number of things, gets harder to pinpoint when you consider flexing and sound travel. Have you tried taking the pedal off, cleaning then re-greasing?

Lovely bike uniQ, I have the etape.
 
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