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I've been looking around for rides with a little climbing I could do over lunch some time. Strava segment explorer turned up this one as a cat 3:

http://www.strava.com/segments/1958287

Obviously that's just someone's commute. Would it be really antisocial to take the KOM? :p

Go get it!
On a more serious note. Strava really could do with a clean up policy to stop so much segment creation. there are so many near duplicates appearing. I also think they might consider doing a periodic reset on all the leaderboards. Maybe they could employ some local moderators to sort out the segment proliferation.
 
Go get it!
On a more serious note. Strava really could do with a clean up policy to stop so much segment creation. there are so many near duplicates appearing. I also think they might consider doing a periodic reset on all the leaderboards. Maybe they could employ some local moderators to sort out the segment proliferation.

worst ones have got to be BH and RP.. crazy amounts of duplicate segments there..

but that guy stopped using strava in 2013.. but I'd take the kom away anyway ;)
 
do it ;) that'll motivate the guy ;)

I might do it at some point but the majority of the climbing starts part way through the segment and if I just start there I can get more climbing done and not have to ride extremely slowly through the centre of town :p

Go get it!
On a more serious note. Strava really could do with a clean up policy to stop so much segment creation. there are so many near duplicates appearing. I also think they might consider doing a periodic reset on all the leaderboards. Maybe they could employ some local moderators to sort out the segment proliferation.

Agreed. It wouldn't be that hard to set up some kind of community moderation with some Strava employees at the top of the chain so they can keep things civil.
 
Can anybody recommend me some decent arm and leg warmers, now that its getting to that time of the year.

Particularly some with a size suitable for long, but skinny arms! The ones I have keep slipping down my arms and are doing my head in! And before anybody says it, no, I'm not just going to lift some weights to rectify the problem! :)

Castelli nanoflex are great. Size up small and fit my titchy arms without falling down all the time.
 
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worst ones have got to be BH and RP.. crazy amounts of duplicate segments there..

but that guy stopped using strava in 2013.. but I'd take the kom away anyway ;)

Agreed. It wouldn't be that hard to set up some kind of community moderation with some Strava employees at the top of the chain so they can keep things civil.

I've mailed them a suggestion via the forum. Lets see what happens!
 
Yes. Segment duplication is ridiculous. I've begun hiding duplicate segments from my activity page.

People seems to create segments just to suit themselves. Like adding a stretch either before or after a climb because they believe they did particularly well in that section.

Ladderedge south: 0.8mi
Ladderege FULL climb: 0.7mi

The FULL climb starts after and ends before the first one. Pointless.

And while looking at those climbs I've noticed another segment on a farm track which I know goes to a dead end. And the segment travels through someone's farm. Not quite the same as a duplicate. But equally pointless, clogging up the segment explore screen.
 
Good choice of tyres. Grudas - take note :p

Mine are in the post! No tubes or Haribos though.

Working away, I brought the bike with me, the town I'm in does Crit style racing (turned out to be more like track, do 1/2 or a lap each then pull out and drop onto the back) on a Tuesday (last Tuesday of the season though) It's an almost perfect circle velodrome style outdoor laps on a slightly banked track on road bikes, barrier on the outside and overhead lights.

30 minutes plus 2 laps for A grade. I went out too hard and did too many pulls on the front trying to drop people, the strongest rider put the hurt on when I pulled off the front every other lap and really dragged the other riders forwards, missed getting on the wheel once and off the back I went after 20 minutes. I struggle doing short turns in a bunch so it was good to practice a weakness of mine.

My excuses are; I'm not used to racing in the dark under floodlights which disorientated me, I got dizzy after doing so many laps, I couldn't see my Garmin timer as it was dark, I worked too hard at work and didn't save anything for riding, there was a nice smell of cooking food at one end of the track and I couldn't focus.... :o do any of those count? :D

Will have to try and get a few training rides in the rest of the week or I'll go backwards quickly, Bathurst is great for morning bunches, nothing like that here and working long hours means riding in the dark I think :(


Edit: with regards to rollers, very difficult to stand and pedal. I can do it, but not at a good cadence, maybe 55-75. On the road I'd do 70-80 cadence stood, they are just very difficult to balance on if you pitch the bike sideways with your out the seat style, almost fall off on every other pedal stroke and spend more time trying to balance than riding.

Sitting down, no problem with the resistance, I've had maybe 800w max power on mine, and ride a constant threshold of 320-340w on them no problem.
 
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So out of curiosity how many miles a week do you guys cycle. If I cycle five days a week on my commuter route it works out to be about 80 miles or just over.

I plan to try and up this to about 150 by taking a bit of a detour on my commute twice a day. Just had my Specialized crossroads elite serviced in preparation to do so. New break pads, break cables, cassette, chain and headset. Had someone do it as I'm pretty clueless on such things, most I can do is fix a puncture, although I have tried and failed to do my own brakes several times!
 
Havent been on the bike for nearly 2 weeks:( ive got a muscle problem on the back of my right knee, still hurts now, so frustrating, only upside is the weather has been crap:)
 
So out of curiosity how many miles a week do you guys cycle. If I cycle five days a week on my commuter route it works out to be about 80 miles or just over.

I plan to try and up this to about 150 by taking a bit of a detour on my commute twice a day. Just had my Specialized crossroads elite serviced in preparation to do so. New break pads, break cables, cassette, chain and headset. Had someone do it as I'm pretty clueless on such things, most I can do is fix a puncture, although I have tried and failed to do my own brakes several times!

130 seems to be the average weekly distance for me.. ranges from 80 to 150 miles.. 120ish is my commuting alone
 
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