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Haha that's quite a leap! I saw a Wahoo Bolt pop up for £65 and am considering that!
Does she find clipping in hard, or just 'finding' the cleat to clip into it? I don't recall SPD being tricky to clip into, fairly sure you can have them very loose. I always found a flatter pedal better when commuting with them, more surface area. Think the double sided pedals I used where an earlier version of these - https://bike.shimano.com/en-EU/product/component/deore-m6000/PD-M530.html@Roady - Yeah I forgot the SPD are the mountain bike ones. She's really not getting along with them though as the cleat is so small. Probably move her to the 3 bolt ones eventually but she she's happy with the shoes.
My Wheels have finally been ordered! Excited to get them at last. I've never built a set of wheels up before. Am I right in thinking the cassette tool I bought for changing the cassette on my Kickr will do the trick when changing over the cassette and disc rotors to the new wheels? One thing I don't have is a torque wrench(?) to tighten it up to 40nm.
Mega considering the distance, time and other factors. Big group? That would've been fun to sit behind! Mega climb in the middle I've never heard of! Devils Beef Tub WTFWent to meet the once a year Bundy 200 today, couldn't face meeting them at 8.30am and I've only started doing 3 your rides the last few weeks so wouldn't last the whole thing.
Old boys are strong AF, I was feeling it even doing 96 miles. It was a bit of who's who of Scottish riders from the past and the last few miles was like a road race.
This boy raised the bar though.
Great pic, but how is it so flat around Sheffield?! Unless that's not Sheff!?Started off looking at the 130 and I ended up buying a 1030
On to saddles.. I popped into my local store and had my sit bones measured, looks like I could benefit from a wider saddle. I understand that it's an individual preference but what brands/styles have worked for those in the saddle for 4+ hours?
Obligatory weekend British countryside pic:
Hah This was further out towards Dinnington/Maltby.Does she find clipping in hard, or just 'finding' the cleat to clip into it? I don't recall SPD being tricky to clip into, fairly sure you can have them very loose. I always found a flatter pedal better when commuting with them, more surface area. Think the double sided pedals I used where an earlier version of these - https://bike.shimano.com/en-EU/product/component/deore-m6000/PD-M530.html
Cassette lockring tool, *should* be the same (if both same brand). Shimano tend to use the same for their centrelock rotors too. Some (all?) SRAM cassette lockrings are a different size to Shimano, so don't think that would fit if you have a SRAM freehub and a Shimano centrelock rotor for example. Campag is different again... I'd say you don't need a torque wrench for cassettes (I never have), nor have I used one for centrelock lockrings... Just done them up as tight as I can (the rotors, not the cassette). But if you do want to get a torquewrench big enough for 40nM they are generally not cheap. If you're less serious about being pinpoint accurate, then I actually got an 'Amazon basics' 20-100nm one when I needed 60nM on a trainer component and it worked great. Although very cheap in comparison to others so hard to recommend if you need accuracy!
Mega considering the distance, time and other factors. Big group? That would've been fun to sit behind! Mega climb in the middle I've never heard of! Devils Beef Tub WTF
Great pic, but how is it so flat around Sheffield?! Unless that's not Sheff!?
Saddles are a very personal thing, it really does boil down to trying as many as you can - or as most of us do - buying several and 'evolving' and you go, generally buying something similar which looks cool/friends rave about/someone on a forum with the same niggles said was good, etc.
I'd always used quite flat and long saddles, settling on the Fizik Arione. Rode them for several years, aways suffered, just less on that than some others. Big quads so thought the flat & narrow helped me. New bike came with a wide nose and a centre cutout, was an absolute revelation and have been through a couple eventually settling on the Specialized Power I'm riding now. It's almost the opposite I was riding at the start, being quite wide, snub nosed, not very flat and a centre cutout...
Mega considering the distance, time and other factors. Big group? That would've been fun to sit behind! Mega climb in the middle I've never heard of! Devils Beef Tub WTF
These and charge scoop seem to have a lot of favourable reviews.I get on with a Fabric Scoop shape (I use the line race shallow which was less than £50). They have a variety of price points so you could pick up the cheapest version they do and see how you get on.
I would just put it as the 'evolution' that started from the Phenom which came on my Diverge, so maybe start elsewhere to see how you get on. I bought another so actually have 2 of them (before both replaced by Powers), happy to dig out and do a deal if you're interested.The guy recommended I try the Specialized Power but they're expensive to keep exploring!
Always good to share around, we're all individual but also likely go through saddles which don't suit us, that others will find perfect... So great idea!Perhaps we should start a saddle club, then we'll have enough in circulation to test lol.
I'm scared to try another saddle. The saddle that came with my Canyon seems really comfortable but it could just be my own ignorance not being sure what to look at!
I'm scared to try another saddle. The saddle that came with my Canyon seems really comfortable but it could just be my own ignorance not being sure what to look at!