Road Cycling

Lethal` · 16 Jan 2019 at 11:45

Roady said:
Rubbish, low temperatures or just more moisture and debris around? Heal up and hope the shifter is easy to sort and the only issue.

It was like 10C down here on the weekend. Roads were mostly dry but I guess a few places the little moisture we've had brought out the oils and grease etc.

I replaced both shifters. Actually downgraded from 6800 to 5800. I didn't see it worth the expense of sourcing 6800 shifters for like 60g saving. There aren't many still about and R8000 isn't going cheap. I managed to get two 5800 shifters for £105. Fairly happy with that. My shifting is a lot more slick now too but that's somewhat due to fresh outer cabling (about a year since last replacement).

Managed to stay upright the whole of last year (on the road, MTB doesn't count). Streak now ruined!

XE11 · 16 Jan 2019 at 13:22

Lethal` said:
It was like 10C down here on the weekend. Roads were mostly dry but I guess a few places the little moisture we've had brought out the oils and grease etc.

I replaced both shifters. Actually downgraded from 6800 to 5800. I didn't see it worth the expense of sourcing 6800 shifters for like 60g saving. There aren't many still about and R8000 isn't going cheap. I managed to get two 5800 shifters for £105. Fairly happy with that. My shifting is a lot more slick now too but that's somewhat due to fresh outer cabling (about a year since last replacement).

Managed to stay upright the whole of last year (on the road, MTB doesn't count). Streak now ruined!

AH! just missed out lol. i have a pair of 5800 sitting here doing nothing. i was thinking i will be happy to let them go for (a lot) less lol. i will put them on ebay once im finished with moving house.

xdcx · 16 Jan 2019 at 14:01

XE11 said:
AH! just missed out lol. i have a pair of 5800 sitting here doing nothing. i was thinking i will be happy to let them go for (a lot) less lol. i will put them on ebay once im finished with moving house.

Give me a shout when you come to sell those 5800 shifters

Jonny ///M · 16 Jan 2019 at 14:50

xdcx said:
ah the ice breaker!
No way I am entering a TT in mid February when such travel is involved. It's always a very dicey one to enter that.
Good news for you is that by me not entering it is guaranteed to be a out of the ordinary February day with crazy sunshine and 15 degree's.... If I enter, it would end up being -5 and snowing = cancelled

Yeah a lot of people recon it's too early in the season and it is often pretty miserable but I've been out in the **** weather a lot this winter and used to it compared to these Zwifter pussys

Hopefully nobody will crash this year and get it cancelled

I'm using it as a goal to stay fit for, which will then strike me into the Fenwick APR at the start of March + reliability rides as I've entered a cat 2/3/4 race the Jack Campbell on the 12th of May. Hoping to do a cat 3/4 Eddie Morgan on the 19th of May too. I can't do the Lake of Menteith APR as it's a Saturday I'm sure.

xdcx · 16 Jan 2019 at 15:05

Jonny ///M said:
Yeah a lot of people recon it's too early in the season and it is often pretty miserable but I've been out in the **** weather a lot this winter and used to it compared to these Zwifter pussys Hopefully nobody will crash this year and get it cancelled

I'm using it as a goal to stay fit for, which will then strike me into the Fenwick APR at the start of March + reliability rides as I've entered a cat 2/3/4 race the Jack Campbell on the 12th of May. Hoping to do a cat 3/4 Eddie Morgan on the 19th of May too. I can't do the Lake of Menteith APR as it's a Saturday I'm sure.

Jack Campbell I might do an entry as the local 3/4 we have up here on the Saturday that same weekend is a pile of ****. That point in May is going to be ridiculous travel wise though as it is nat10 TT weekend before it and then a local 10 on the Wednesday as well. We shall see, in my head I'll do the travel and all that comes with it but reality may differ come the time.

Eddie Morgan is a good race, I've done it twice. It usually has perm for 80 man field up from the usual 60, so something to be aware of, bigger field does lead to it panning out a bit differently/more dicey. Young lads attacking in the neutral behind the car and all that usual nonsense for example.... ugh.

Lethal` · 16 Jan 2019 at 15:28

XE11 said:
AH! just missed out lol. i have a pair of 5800 sitting here doing nothing. i was thinking i will be happy to let them go for (a lot) less lol. i will put them on ebay once im finished with moving house.

Ah. Shame! but it looks like you have a bidder

I had ordered new shifters within about an hour of arriving home. I was keen to fix it on Sunday but Wiggle/DPD screwed me over there.

DaleTheWhale · 16 Jan 2019 at 15:40

tom_nieto said:
Based in Harborne so South is easy for me to get to. It’s good that you’re on the bike at least! I don’t think I’d used my road bike for 12 months prior to my jaunt to Stratford the other day.

Few of my club members are from Harborne and they made half the routes, I've been working late the past 2 days, but I'm free Friday so I'll pull them all together for you and send you some strava routes, I have a good extended Stratford run, goes through Tanworth and touched a few hills around there.

I rode last in October (45 miles) for a charity event and almost died, not rode properly since July 2017 I think...

Roady said:
Haha I did see you'd only done a few rides the last ~6 months buddy! Come baaaaack! You're doing Velo I guess?

I'll be back, I'm moving to Tamworth soon so that has taken up a lot of my time, think I mentioned before? But dragging bikes back and forth every weekend was a bit of an effort, but come this weekend I'm shifting all my gear ready for the move, so going to get out and about again!

I am indeed doing the Velo, paid up and bought the kit as an extra reason to get my ass back into shape.

Roady said:
Think @ThaReaperGuy is the only person here with Zuus? His are a year or two old now but don't recall any mention of any problems.

Can definitely recommend, they're fantastic for the price and made a big difference over the stock wheels on my Cervelo for sure, can confirm they were great going down Cheddar Gorge in the rain at 2AM in the morning

. Owner was great as well when I was speaking to him, UK warranty was a nice touch over buying direct from China/Japan.

Jonny ///M · 16 Jan 2019 at 16:42

xdcx said:
Jack Campbell I might do an entry as the local 3/4 we have up here on the Saturday that same weekend is a pile of ****. That point in May is going to be ridiculous travel wise though as it is nat10 TT weekend before it and then a local 10 on the Wednesday as well. We shall see, in my head I'll do the travel and all that comes with it but reality may differ come the time.

Eddie Morgan is a good race, I've done it twice. It usually has perm for 80 man field up from the usual 60, so something to be aware of, bigger field does lead to it panning out a bit differently/more dicey. Young lads attacking in the neutral behind the car and all that usual nonsense for example.... ugh.

I'll take any advice going haha. The jack campbell will have some good lads in it, I've got Scott McCrossan told to get entered as he's dropped down to a 2nd cat now. He'll smash it uo the Wiston as it's a local race having grown up in lanark

I'll need to scope out the circuit for eddie morgan but it's a bit further away than I'd like.

XE11 · 16 Jan 2019 at 17:17

xdcx said:
Give me a shout when you come to sell those 5800 shifters

sure. just be ware that i took them off the bike that came with them, so no cable/ housing.

tom_nieto · 16 Jan 2019 at 20:12

@ThaReaperGuy - thank you very much for that. Much appreciated! Going to have to bite the bullet and change from MapMyRide to Strava.

randomshenans · 17 Jan 2019 at 08:25

Windy out there this morning. I'm doing HIIT workouts 5 days a week in the morning pre work, and man my legs are feeling it come riding to work. This morning I was barely able to get here lol it's nice to be out though, albeit short, and the fact that I've nearly been taken out, or beeped at (was on the road not the ****** cycle path as there were cars on it), or many other things no less than 5 times this week. Tis the season!

@Roady do you have any lights on the back of your bike trailer? I think I'd like something more. I have the reflectors and my lights on the bike but want to get something to make it really as visible as possible. I just don't trust drivers.

xdcx · 17 Jan 2019 at 09:19

Jonny ///M said:
I'll take any advice going haha. The jack campbell will have some good lads in it, I've got Scott McCrossan told to get entered as he's dropped down to a 2nd cat now. He'll smash it uo the Wiston as it's a local race having grown up in lanark

I'll need to scope out the circuit for eddie morgan but it's a bit further away than I'd like.

EM is like an hours drive or a bit more for you?

Man up min! I am 2.5 hours just to get to Perth. Then an hour or more any which way to any race

The RR of the summer should be this belter - https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/e...iGpoeujWH4r9CvQ20ywRW5W8Z9erZewLu05sOZoTWYz58
Don't get many chances to race proper courses with proper climbing. Sam rob has it all

Jonny ///M · 17 Jan 2019 at 10:21

I was planning on buying my full license come payday and entering the sam rob. Might do it sooner rather than later.

Will get my baws felt in it but should be a good experience.

Roady · 17 Jan 2019 at 11:33

Lethal` said:
I replaced both shifters. Actually downgraded from 6800 to 5800. I didn't see it worth the expense of sourcing 6800 shifters for like 60g saving. There aren't many still about and R8000 isn't going cheap. I managed to get two 5800 shifters for £105. Fairly happy with that. My shifting is a lot more slick now too but that's somewhat due to fresh outer cabling (about a year since last replacement).

Managed to stay upright the whole of last year (on the road, MTB doesn't count). Streak now ruined!

Nothing wrong with 5800! That's all I'm running and more than happy with it. Although nearly everything else 5800 got upgraded gradually to 6800 on both of mine the shifters have remained unchanged (then again my ST-685 are 'non-series' and probably more equal to Ultegra). Sounds like you where due a new streak anyway! haha

Jonny ///M said:
I've been out in the **** weather a lot this winter and used to it compared to these Zwifter pussys

I take offence to that as it was actually colder in my garage last night (1 degree) than outside (2-3 degrees)!

Lethal` said:
I was keen to fix it on Sunday but Wiggle/DPD screwed me over there.

Tell me about it! Ordered random bits last thursday with free delivery. Came on Monday (with expected date being weds/thurs). Thought I needed pads, rapidly ordered some monday and paid for delivery (expected weds) and they're yet to turn up... :rolleyes:

ThaReaperGuy said:
I rode last in October (45 miles) for a charity event and almost died

ThaReaperGuy said:
I'll be back, I'm moving to Tamworth soon so that has taken up a lot of my time, think I mentioned before? But dragging bikes back and forth every weekend was a bit of an effort, but come this weekend I'm shifting all my gear ready for the move, so going to get out and about again!

I am indeed doing the Velo, paid up and bought the kit as an extra reason to get my ass back into shape.

Good to hear it's going well, Tamworth is quite well situated for some quieter roads than where you were before! Less commuting then too? Think you had a part ride-rail-ride commute (which sounded an utter ball-ache!).

Good luck for the Velo, without the Cardiff Velothon on this year (grr, the only year I was actually ready to commit to it!) I may be tempted to venture out that far as need to fix some challenges for the year...

Thanks for sharing your Zuus feedback too!

tom_nieto said:
@ThaReaperGuy - thank you very much for that. Much appreciated! Going to have to bite the bullet and change from MapMyRide to Strava.

Strava is quite good for a quick & easy, but I far more prefer ridewithgps for serious planning and routing & info. Also being an ELEMNT user I need the tbt instructions from it.

randomshenans said:
@Roady do you have any lights on the back of your bike trailer? I think I'd like something more. I have the reflectors and my lights on the bike but want to get something to make it really as visible as possible. I just don't trust drivers.

Driver always gonna driver! Just 'glad' to hear it's not just those in the UK! :rolleyes:

I have technically 5 lights on the back of the chariot. 1 of them is emergency/backup so not lit.

I specced out which I'm using here - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32411655

Basically have 2 rubber mounted lifelines on the rear lower at the sides. The cateye mini is mounted on the top right edge (highest point - so very obvious to cars overtaking) with the cateye duplex (front and rear flashing) is side mounted on the left front to be most obvious from the side (joining traffic at roundabouts). When riding I have my seatpost TraceR on solid red (just thinking a solid bright red is kinder on my boys eyes than an even brighter flash), then also a helmet mounted cateye mini RC on flash/pulse so I'm obvious around cars (around 0.2m of the ride home from Nursery is in stop/start traffic).

I can take some pictures if you want? They'll display my reasoning with the positioning a little better.

londonbairn · 17 Jan 2019 at 12:30

Prime wheels are decent too. I have a set of the Black Edition 50mm discs and the RP-50s. Both perform well, had no issues. I wanted the Zipps but I wanted a centerlock hub so went with the BE. I must admit I (pointlessly) spent extra for the Dura Ace RT900 rotors as they look awesome with deep wheels with the painted centre.

#Chri5# · 17 Jan 2019 at 12:33

Roady said:
This can be quite important - spending on a wheelset which makes you want to ride more/harder should not be overlooked. If some of that appeal is a branded logo (like me) then you have to justify to yourself the compromises in doing so (usually increased cost).

It was a fantastic spreadsheet! Did really point some pretty obvious gaps in some of the well known brands/models if I remember?

How are your DCR wheels going anyway? Interested in how the 350's are now they've got some good miles in them. I'm still intending to get a rear at some point and the 350 was top of my list.

FWIW, http://www.noble-wheels.com/about-me/ will do custom decals on builds

Very few miles on my DCR wheels - the best bike hasn't come out of the garage for weeks now, so I just stroke the rims when getting the old Planet-X out for some dirty miles.

From memory, if you are caught for duty/tax on wheels, it's 5% duty and 20% VAT (plus probably a handling fee from the courier). So £550 wheels would be around £700 to £730. Nice saving, so comes down to your personal attitude to service and warranty convenience,

Thomas. PLease. · 17 Jan 2019 at 13:06

Just had some Knight 50s built up on CK hubs by Noble. Never really ridden anything quite like them, wasn't expecting much difference from my old zipps or dt swiss mon chasserals but they're seriously impressive. Feels like a magic carpet ride.

Unfortunately he's actually in the process of closing down his workshop, I think he's still planning to build from home but I imagine it may well be a scaled down operation.

Shadowness · 17 Jan 2019 at 13:46

oooo that's worth knowing as I have a set of Knights on my TT bike. Loving them so far!

Roady · 17 Jan 2019 at 17:15

xdcx said:
The RR of the summer should be this belter - https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/e...iGpoeujWH4r9CvQ20ywRW5W8Z9erZewLu05sOZoTWYz58
Don't get many chances to race proper courses with proper climbing. Sam rob has it all

Then back for a well deserved tea and buns and presentation

My appreciation of you guys being hardy norsemen has now been utterly ruined.

Thomas. PLease. said:
Just had some Knight 50s built up on CK hubs by Noble. Never really ridden anything quite like them, wasn't expecting much difference from my old zipps or dt swiss mon chasserals but they're seriously impressive. Feels like a magic carpet ride.

Unfortunately he's actually in the process of closing down his workshop, I think he's still planning to build from home but I imagine it may well be a scaled down operation.

Nice build, pics please?!

Yeah shame a guy like that has to wind up shop, his website was always one of the better ones for info/an informed read.

Thomas. PLease. · 17 Jan 2019 at 17:39

Not a very good pic but there we are. Ultra stealth decals on the wheels themselves.