Road Cycling Essentials

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Saytan said:
I've found bontrager race light all weather plus to be superb for both wet confidence and puncture protection.
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Hmm..I'll have a look online. Thanks :)

grudas said:
cmon.. it's only £20, how bad can it be? do it for me <3 :D
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It's actually the fact that there are two of them that puts me off. If I don't like it I'll feel bad throwing the spare one away :p No plans to replace my front p4end as it still seems to be going strong (and I still really rate them for grip/feel).
 
Vonhelmet said:
Right, charity request...

In under 2 weeks I'm cycling in the London Triathlon with some colleagues from work to raise money for my employer's charity, the PwC Foundation. The Foundation supports various charitable bodies including Alzheimer's Scotland, Alzheimer's Society, Beyond Food Foundation who support the homeless, Groundwork who do environmental regeneration, National Literacy Trust and Wellbeing For Women, among others. Please give generously! Thank you!

Donation page.
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I'm doing that too, doing the whole thing though. Start time 12:40 on the Sunday. Good luck! I'll be taking it easy because my knee is playing up and I've got to get straight on marathon training afterwards.
 
FrenchTart said:
Hmm..I'll have a look online. Thanks :)



It's actually the fact that there are two of them that puts me off. If I don't like it I'll feel bad throwing the spare one away :p No plans to replace my front p4end as it still seems to be going strong (and I still really rate them for grip/feel).
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just put it aside so you can look at it and think "wow why did I ever buy that when those vittorias that lovely Grudas recommended are so good" ;):D
 
Jonny69 said:
I'm doing that too, doing the whole thing though. Start time 12:40 on the Sunday. Good luck! I'll be taking it easy because my knee is playing up and I've got to get straight on marathon training afterwards.
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I'm doing the cycle part of the sprint relay on the Saturday.
 
Achieved one of my goals tonight. Broke 19mph for 40 miles. Flat ish route but slightly frustrated by leads of repass which currently have 'loose chippings' thrown down. it seems that Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire council have picked this week to dump their stocks off this stuff. Not sure that without it I would have pushed 20mph but at least I know it's possible for me.

http://app.strava.com/activities/169478724
 
physichull said:
Welcome to the world of my commute.

Though you did manage to take in "Plodder Lane Climb" at a whopping 29% gradient! Haha! Something wrong there.
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Yep, that segment has been borked forever. Strava still shows it as my biggest climb, which is really irritating, so my biggest climb shows up as a whopping 28ft, which is the corrected amount for that segment, but because it was originally like thousands of feet or something it still shows up for some reason.
 
Vonhelmet said:
Yep, that segment has been borked forever. Strava still shows it as my biggest climb, which is really irritating, so my biggest climb shows up as a whopping 28ft, which is the corrected amount for that segment, but because it was originally like thousands of feet or something it still shows up for some reason.
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had that.. max was 17ft lol.. I just removed the ride and reuploaded :o

on my way home yesterday I saw a 2-3 year old girl NEARLY get killed..

a car is coming down the hill, cars parked on the left, pedestrian pathway on the left too.. car is going 25ish mph - I'm right behind him doing around the same.

and just out of nowhere a little girl runs out to the road like literally 100ms to react and falls on the floor right in front of the car.. the guy managed to stop like 50cm from her!

sat there shocked while mum ran out and picked up screwing her face looking at the driver??? WOT... that really peewed me off.. I rode off while the driver was still not moving, literally just sitting in his car frozen? poor guy.

my rear tyre is a bit doomed too after heavy breaking boo.
 
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I'm after some overshoes for the slight bit of aero advantage on TT's. I don't want anything designed for winter riding as they'll be too hot.

Anyone have any recommendations?
 
grudas said:
would be good fun! I've got a segment where I'm 1/1 lol.. but that's my commute to work, just so I can see my best time lol.
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Having 1 or 2 is fine.. Having 2 pages filled with segments you've made up, some of which involve cycling into a car park and back out, is less fine :p
 
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