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Meh, can't decide what to do about cycling this weekend... Mrs is off work (so I can't do the shop ride tomorrow) and it's a 3 day weekend... With rain forecast every day from 10/11am onwards! Gah!
May just be a weekend of maintenance and then get out on monday (forecast slightly better) for some decent miles!
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I just searched the book name on Google images. 
Finally got everything booked for the Majorca cycling holiday
Because we've left it pretty late this year to book it, it feels so much closer!! We thought we would give Alcudia a try instead this year as opposed for Puerto Pollensa where we have stayed for the last two visits. Similar routes are planned I guess, just a few extra miles each way to get to the mountains. Looking forward to giving the road to Formentor a go now it has been resurfaced!
Finally got everything booked for the Majorca cycling holiday
Because we've left it pretty late this year to book it, it feels so much closer!! We thought we would give Alcudia a try instead this year as opposed for Puerto Pollensa where we have stayed for the last two visits. Similar routes are planned I guess, just a few extra miles each way to get to the mountains. Looking forward to giving the road to Formentor a go now it has been resurfaced!
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I'm sure I've mentioned it before here. It's my bible for fixing stuff.
Whereas stainless steel bearings just stop working straight away. Ceramic bearings still use stainless steel races too, so even if the bearings don't corrode the races do.
Frictionfacts.com published one of their reports in Tour magazine on ceramic bottom brackets and there is no difference in power loss between ceramic and stainless steel; the bb that topped the testing used stainless steel bearings.
You can get ceramic bearings with ceramic races too.
The rounder a bearing is, the more efficient it is.
Ceramic has a finer 'grain' than steel, so it can be machined rounder. That's all there is to it, ceramic isnt some magical friction-reducing substance.
You still have to put in the work to machine it accurately, just because a bearing is made of ceramic doesnt mean it's better than steel. Whichever bearing is rounder will be more efficient. Ceramic just has chemical properties which allow it to be made rounder than steel.
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Funny you should say that because he said there is fairly extensive research in the peer review journals but nothing completely conclusive (yet) other than most part-time athletes (i.e. us) can cope with a diet like that because of the way we live but full-time pro athletes cannot do it because their regime is simply too demanding and it affects their top-end performance.[Damien];27982513 said:
I'm interested to know this too. I was trying to think up a valid reason that I might be able to get one done at the quack's, like maybe say that I have a fairly demanding physical lifestyle but that I fatigue from time to time and if they could check for deficiencies. Like you say though, if you're not actually ill they're not usually interested.
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Yeah, that seems right to me tbh. Top end anerobic performance no doubt suffers due to reduced glycogen stores but everything below that should be more efficient once adapted. As always, more studies needed
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Starting a 3 day stage race tomorrow, with each stage at around 70 miles its going to be an accomplishment just to finish I feel. Especially as stage 2 is on a particularly tough course.
Half tempted to give it hell on the first day for an attempt at some BC points then see if I can hang on the rest of the days. Rather nervous about it now.
Half tempted to give it hell on the first day for an attempt at some BC points then see if I can hang on the rest of the days. Rather nervous about it now.
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Riding to Cheltenham in the morning. Technically the longest ride I'll have done though given how flat it should be I don't think it will be the hardest.
Should be fun anyhow.
Should be fun anyhow.
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Those do look nice - I agree with you /re the spokes though. I'd be scared to ride on them 
It's just under 140 miles to Cheltenham. Setting off in a mo.
It's just under 140 miles to Cheltenham. Setting off in a mo.
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About to go on club ride with the shiny bike....think it might get wet.... 
How far is that?
Got my new wheels from Halfords, they look lovely but there's not many spokes so might have to take a bit more care around potholes
They will be fine - I've given my Zonda's (same spoke count/pattern) a battering in potholes/winter etc, gave myself whiplash hitting a pothole so hard. Wheels are still true!!
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