Hi all, Happy New Year! I'm back at work now so normal
spam service is resumed!
Plans for Christmas riding just took a bit of a hit - checked the winter bike over after taking it off the turbo, and hydraulic oil's leaking from where the hose joins the shifter. Tightened it slightly with no luck so I assume a seal's gone.
Gutted! I can only sympathise as I had the same thing one morning around a month ago. My front had been feeling a bit spongy for a few days, I found the fluid low so topped it up, it still felt 'poor' so then checked the pads and found fluid leaking out the caliper! One of my pistons was cracked.
Been very quiet in here! OBviously too much indulging in christmas dinner...
How's everyones Christmas' been? Get anything good or not worth the risk of your missus finding out how much stuff actually costs for cycling.
Socks! And, socks! Although have a bunch of gift money still as told most the family I wanted to buy myself some new commuting shoes and a helmet. Have still not spotted either... Spring sales where are you!
And far too much indulging here. Too much cheese, biscuits, alcohol and cake!
A couple of Zwift sessions I found really hard, almost like dropping my weekly commute for ~10 days with a reduction in miles (in the couple of weeks upto the break) before any real Zwifting had a huge impact on my FTP. I could previously sit at 2.5w/kg for 3+ hours (group rides), yet found myself popping at 2.5 in 30-40 minutes. It was a real shock, although after a few sessions, a trainer recalibration and fully recovering from some illness I seemed to recover some of it. Need to get some base volume back in!
I got 5 pair of Pongo socks though and a couple of Sticky bottles
Plus my RC901 shoes. So I done rather well!!
Hope you've continued to feel better buddy! What the hell is an official Sticky bottle?!
Beers most nights for me and I did 29 miles/2000ft on just eat on Thursday night.
Busy night! How many hours for that? On the MTB still?
Well, that’s the plan anyway!
Gotta have some plans and aims buddy! I'm going to go through mine shortly... Truth is I had very little coming from 2018 into 2019, but it was nice to tick some of them off and tick over 4000 miles.
But only 2 weeks until national champs so bit of recovery and some really good legs for 2 weeks time with some luck. Seemed to work last year.
Big aim so 'early' but I guess that's good with the CX based season?
I got slightly splattered on the group ride, even with full guards, if you don’t have a flap or they are a little wobbly you end up with spray. The guys with Raceblade Pro, they work well but seem a bit short even with the flap. OK for solo but flick up some water behind still.
Funny you should say that, had a good discussion about guards and their length on our group ride before Xmas. It was a damp one on filty wet roads. 4 of us out, all with various guards. I'd always thought mine where good, they are for me, but seems like they kick up quite a 'tail' behind as they don't wrap the rear tyre much past the horizontal. The best set of guards out for that had a flap past the horizontal, only 1-2" more than another almost identical set, but it made a huge difference. I've got some plans to extend mine, as the front has needed some tweaks for a while (I get a front 'tail' which covers my camera & ELEMNT through any substantial standing water). I've got it into my head as we've had a wet, but not cold December, that the rest of the winter is all going to be the same...
I've ordered a pair of Spatz. Took the plunge and ordered the Roadman V2. Could've saved ~£40 by going for the earlier ones (basically Legalz v1 - give me a holla if you want a link to them for £55) but got a good Xmas bonus and wanted them for wet & cold riding, not just wet. They need insulation as I've turned into a wuss.
Awesome price! Really happy with my 4iiii!
