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Roady said:
Liege Bastogne Liege?! :o

As you're still losing weight, is it having much impact on your waist? If so I would hold off spending ~£100 on Assos shorts which are not going to fit you once the warmer weather arrives...! ASV windslam is great too! I even messaged them to ask if I could have it at the same price as last week (£42) and they gave me a £6 refund! :D YMMW.
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Yup, Liege Bastogne Liege. We're not doing the full-fat version though! The middle distance (so not actually going to Bastogne).

As for my waist: I'm still aiming to lose between 7 to 10kg. However, as much as my wasit has reduced, my dhb Aeron bibs I bought when I first started still fit me just fine (and I dropped from 84kg to 67kg). I'll probably only lose another 2 inches max on my waist (I'm currently around 31 inches), and I have pretty wide hips for a short man (5 foot 4 as I mentioned before). So the smalls should still fit me fine.

Ace, I'm going to pick up one of those tops then. Do you just wear a baselayer with it? Or a gilet on top?
 
madindehead said:
Yup, Liege Bastogne Liege. We're not doing the full-fat version though! The middle distance (so not actually going to Bastogne).

As for my waist: I'm still aiming to lose between 7 to 10kg. However, as much as my wasit has reduced, my dhb Aeron bibs I bought when I first started still fit me just fine (and I dropped from 84kg to 67kg). I'll probably only lose another 2 inches max on my waist (I'm currently around 31 inches), and I have pretty wide hips for a short man (5 foot 4 as I mentioned before). So the smalls should still fit me fine.

Ace, I'm going to pick up one of those tops then. Do you just wear a baselayer with it? Or a gilet on top?
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Awesome to ride something like that, you can say you've done a monument/'La Doyenne'! :D

Good work on waist/weight, as you've dropped that far already you probably won't drop more with your hips? I went from a 34"-36" (depending on trouser brand) to easily fitting into a 32". I could probably go lower but my hips and thighs are now my determining factor. Most slouchy/comfort jeans I now buy in 34" just for a baggy thigh fit... 'Work' trousers or such I'm a 32". I went from ~100kg (never weighed myself at the start) down to (now) 80kg. I'm 5'8" with wide shoulders and can easily lose more on my torso with a better diet, but one of the reasons I cycle is so I can enjoy my food/beer/treats without feeling too guilty! ;)

Depends on how you run, I will wear it the same as my Windslam Blade jersey for morning commuting below 6-8 degrees. I always wear a base, but below -2/-3 I would also combine it with a midlayer (normal jersey). I always commute with a light windproof gilet anyway, but with a short commute I need the protection and don't have much danger of overheating. I do run warm so longer time/more intensity I would skip that mid layer but wouldn't wear it in temperatures much over 4-5 degrees, depending on windchill.

EDIT: DING! Congrats on 500 pages all! :D
 
PaulStat said:
Has anyone ever had a problem with their rear wheel coming out of the drop outs after pushing away hard? I've had it happen several times now, despite the skewer being done up really tight! I suspect the skewer it's not the shimano one that came with the wheel
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I had that problem on my mountain bike recently. I looked into it, you have the traditional internal cam (think Shimano qr's) and you get external cam (of which within that you get both brass and plastic bearing). I had the worst type which was external cam with plastic bearing, it worked for about a year and then started coming loose! In the end on a ride I had to zip tie it shut to make it home. I have since swapped to a Shimano internal cam and it has worked like a dream. The internal cam design puts on more clamping force for the same pressure on the lever. Wiggle have got the Ultegra ones for £13 each I see. Also steel shaft is stronger than a titanium one too.
 
uv said:
10% :)

http://www.strava.com/segments/6690931

I dare say a mile of 25% would be pretty much unrideable!
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Jono said:
Yeah... ok so it's not all 25% - some of it was. And it felt like all of it :D
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You won't find many rideable climbs in the UK more than 25% for a mile... The 'hardest' ones around here (Tumble, Llangynider Mountain, Gospel Pass & Dorstone Hill) don't really go above 20% and are only near it for a small section (if at all). You have to really hunt to find something 30% or higher that's rideable and then it's usually a 'Hill Climb' and well known!

Even the alpine climbs, not many of them go near 20%, the majority are below 10% except the start of Alpe d'Huez and the end of Tourmalet (I think, or is it the end of Glandon?). It's the distance (~10 miles in most cases) which rate them as so hard. :D

TLDR; do hill reps of anything 20% and you can climb Alpe d'Huez! ;)
 
Come on guys, Don be harsh to me :p

Turns out that you don't even need to offer sexual favours to all the admins to get Don status. I wish they'd told me that earlier.
 
Haha, nobody in the GD thread knows who he is.
I'm gonna suggest he's a girl and watch the post number increase exponentially! :p
 
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FFS, some bloke who still hasn't accepted me on Strava becomes a Don.
You had like at least 4 blatant opportunities to lay down the law with all us cycling pals in this very thread and you didn't even do it. Who decided you were doing a good job????

:p just kidding of course, well done Tarty!
 
xdcx said:
FFS, some bloke who still hasn't accepted me on Strava becomes a Don.
You had like at least 4 blatant opportunities to lay down the law with all us cycling pals in this very thread and you didn't even do it. Who decided you were doing a good job????

:p just kidding of course, well done Tarty!
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You totally don't appear in my list of people waiting for me to accept :p I've checked a few times now.

Cheers though :)
 
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