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Cool photo and a proper colour for a Bianchi! (I have a hatred for the red via nirone model urgh)
Had an interesting few weeks from hitting a car last Thursday(guy braked coming off a roundabout to give me a fright but ended up throwing myself into it with the back wheel in the air), couple of crap nights were I was out the back before guys that are usually slower than me and then tonight it was like I had taken EPO.
I took it into the start of the climb I was dropped on one of those bad weeks at 20mph and split the bunch, one guy attacked after it and got a gap, closed that on another small drag in the big ring like a boss, me and him then got away by about 10 seconds by the time we hit the main climb. I took it up the first bit, he came by nearer the top and it was a bit of cat and mouse for the next section until it all came together. Don't think the speeds are too shabby considering it was between 5/6/7 guys at different points.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1725431800/segments/43234346189
Had an interesting few weeks from hitting a car last Thursday(guy braked coming off a roundabout to give me a fright but ended up throwing myself into it with the back wheel in the air), couple of crap nights were I was out the back before guys that are usually slower than me and then tonight it was like I had taken EPO.
I took it into the start of the climb I was dropped on one of those bad weeks at 20mph and split the bunch, one guy attacked after it and got a gap, closed that on another small drag in the big ring like a boss, me and him then got away by about 10 seconds by the time we hit the main climb. I took it up the first bit, he came by nearer the top and it was a bit of cat and mouse for the next section until it all came together. Don't think the speeds are too shabby considering it was between 5/6/7 guys at different points.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1725431800/segments/43234346189
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I'd like to think so!
The very first spell to kick it off was a strong chap who decided to sit at 30mph and didn't even flick the elbow for ages. Went with every move he did but it was a hard shift as he's a cat2 and I'm a nobody.
The very first spell to kick it off was a strong chap who decided to sit at 30mph and didn't even flick the elbow for ages. Went with every move he did but it was a hard shift as he's a cat2 and I'm a nobody.
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Today was 101 miles, 10750ft climbing, with most of the ride above 7500ft.
Ready to eat everything now.
Ready to eat everything now.
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You always seem to have crazy climbing in your rides. I'd be about 5-6k feet on a 'hilly' 100 here.
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R7 mang. Black with minor red detail, mint condition but absolutely no use to me or my sensitive backside.
No worries. I have a R1, R3 and K1 just now. If it had been an R1 I would have taken you up on it as replacement for my R3.
You won't have any bother selling it on anyway dude
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The Rocky Mountains will do that for you. It's actually hard to map out rides without too much climbing, yesterday I just threw in plenty of big climbs to see what it would end up at.
Ah, I was on holiday so haven't been on the forum for a few days. Dropped you a trust message.
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Slowing down for lights whilst riding in traffic completely screws your Strava average speeds right? Tonight it's 1.1mph slower than my Garmin recorded on a 32 mile ride which I stop when I slow for lights and any traffic slowing me heavily. 20.1 on Garmin, 19 on Strava. Tues, 35 miles, 20.6 on Garmin, 19.8 on Strava although I can understand the second due to having to slowly loop back as a set of lights screwed a kom attempt before it even started.
Thanks, if only that had a Large!
Best just to nail it to the lights and break suddenly.
... or just not worry about your strava average
Thanks, if only that had a Large!
Shutt have 25% off whilst G is in yellow
https://www.shuttvr.com/collections/jackets-gilets/products/lightweight-gilet-1?variant=26568804295
I can see the annoyance if you're going for a KOM but in general average speed has to many factors going against it to care about.