Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me! 42... Christ, not sure how that has happened?! Still consider myself 'young' (my knees would say otherwise), really does not seem like over half of my life as been after the year 2000! That was only a few years ago wasn't it!?
How on earth do you think bike shops remove bb bearings, Will power ?
It’s how you take them out, it’s not a big deal it’s just not a nice feeling doing it.
You missed the joke (will admit it was a bit of a ***** one)...
But removing bearings from a bb without removing the bb from a carbon frame would use a press. Safer on a carbon frame, especially if intending to reuse the bb. But it is much easier and better to replace the whole BB, certainly PF as was being discussed. Obviously the current trend (Shimano/SRAM) make them partly of plastic, you don't want to be smacking that with a hammer if you're going to reuse it (not that shops do...)
I'm more impressed by the laptop wallpaper!
The table cover was the first bit which caught my eye!
We went to the Alps on our honeymoon in 2012 for the first time since I was a kid. We didn’t get in till the very early hours and woke up at about 11am the next morning, seeing the mountains in the sunlight that first day was honestly one of the best moments in my life. Will remember it forever.
Apologies for the random interlude. Normal service will resume shortly.
Had similar our first time in Bulgaria, horrendous long coach transfer up into the mountains at night on rough roads. Stumbled into the hotel at 1am.
Woke up to this view. But roads there where horrible, think the only place we've been to up in the mountains I'd want to ride is Andorra. Just glorious smooth roads, really quiet for traffic and just switchbacks or wide open main roads through tunnels everywhere - much of it like Andy's picture below!
Amazing pictures mate, enjoy your trip! Very jealous!
Anything specific to look for in Cycling sunglasses?
I wouldn't mind some with changeable lenses or the photochromic style to allow me to use them on night rides too. Mainly for protecting my eyes after getting a few big chunks of grit/bugs in them last week!
I was looking last week and kept getting scope creep, before deciding i didn't need to spend £70 and got some cheap ones from Halfords for £12 which seem rubbish and will be going straight back. There seem to be a huge range of options. How good are some of the Amazon specials or should i stick to the likes of DHB/Tifosi which seem to sit around the £50 mark?
I had several pairs of the DHB Triple lens, they're really good for the money. Tended to replace them the last few years when using knockoff Oakleys (Foakleys!) as I prefer the bigger lens size of Jawbreakers. Cheap glasses with a clear lens for winter/spring riding (and usually commuting). But did move back to an old pair of the triple this winter after I broke a frame.
Got a fresh pair of Foakleys coming shortly... Will report back once I've received and worn them. First thing I'll do is switch a genuine lens into them to check sizings, bending the frames around a bit and checking all the mechanisms as will get an idea how much abuse they can take.
I believe some of the Shimano pedals have weights which generally hold the pedal in the right position which would be good.
Only downside was i adjusted the tension on the first pedal i fitted, but then forgot to do it on the other side, so getting into the office this morning i couldn't twist out. Had to take the shoe off and then use my hands to really force the twist!
Shimano SPD-SL ('road cleats') and Look Keo tend to be weighted the same, so generally the 'same' trick to get into them. It's just the pedals 'sit' with the rear mechanism pointing to the floor as it's heaviest part of the pedal.
Tension is certainly something worth keeping 'loose' until you're very confident using them. I have mine about 50% after many years of riding, I do have them wound up tighter on my Zwift setup - but don't fall off there if I can't unclip!
Yeah my partner has the MTB pedals on her bike and she's really not getting along with them. Her shoes support both 3 and 2 bolt cleats so will probably move her over to the shimano road ones. I have the ultegra pedals (I believe they're all the same) and they seem to be weighted at the back so clipping in is really, really easy once you get used to the pedal/cleat position. I used to have the old entry level SPD pedals years ago and I think they did the same but I'm not 100%
Entry level SPD, or entry level SPD-SL? They have not really changed the last 10+ years
Yesterday as we came back to camp, someone swung out in front of us, so we all latched on behind, as we came off the last roundabout he tried to drop us... unsuccessfully. I noticed it was a segment (the only one I'd done both days) and we were quite high (600ish of 126,000) so today for a giggle we had a go at improving that...
We're just not organised enough to make the top 10
You need a longer leadout and as a group to get up-to speed more. Looking on Strava the section you're riding is really short, extend it so people can ride more smoothly up-to full power before they blow/peel off. The massive surge to get up-to speed from stationary hurts everyone, so spend longer doing it, less of a spike, less of a blow up and more strong 'emptying the tank' type efforts will add more speed to the group.