Road Cycling
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Bit lax on replies here - sorry, but have a good long weekend all!
Glorious afternoon here so getting an early finish... With no plans other than walking the dog! Club social tomorrow morning is looking promising, may not even need my knee warmers on!
Glorious afternoon here so getting an early finish... With no plans other than walking the dog! Club social tomorrow morning is looking promising, may not even need my knee warmers on!
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And like that I was out in shorts and Jersey today. Glorious here down south.
I hate bikes.
My new freehub wasn’t spinning. Took it to a local bike shop who were dumbfounded and mentioned the wheel spun fine but not when the hub was tightened.
Tried so many things including various washers etc.
Then showed me the issue. At this point I kept quiet.
Turns out at some point when putting the XDR hub onto the new wheel I’d used the old end cap. Not sure what the term is, but the thing the axle screws into on the other side.
This had been used on my old wheel without issue.
Took it off. Put it onto the new wheel and bingo. Everything worked. It could’ve only been about 1mm in difference.
So ******* annoying!
Other than that. I’ve not been out much recently. Have bought a Jeep Wrangler taking up lots of my time and any bike rides have been with the wife. She managed 22 miles last week which was a best for her and so enjoyable even if slow on side paths.
My new freehub wasn’t spinning. Took it to a local bike shop who were dumbfounded and mentioned the wheel spun fine but not when the hub was tightened.
Tried so many things including various washers etc.
Then showed me the issue. At this point I kept quiet.
Turns out at some point when putting the XDR hub onto the new wheel I’d used the old end cap. Not sure what the term is, but the thing the axle screws into on the other side.
This had been used on my old wheel without issue.
Took it off. Put it onto the new wheel and bingo. Everything worked. It could’ve only been about 1mm in difference.
So ******* annoying!
Other than that. I’ve not been out much recently. Have bought a Jeep Wrangler taking up lots of my time and any bike rides have been with the wife. She managed 22 miles last week which was a best for her and so enjoyable even if slow on side paths.
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Corrected distance and elevation (if using a barometer equipped GPS) on Strava?60 miles done this morning at a 18mph average pace (Garmin). Strava? That will be 59.99miles at a 17.9mph pace.
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Road cycling continues to reaffirm itself as a sport that embraces unfair performance advantages by allowing men to compete in female events.
As if test is all that matters.
As if test is all that matters.
I think I could feel your pain when you found out about the 1mm difference...
Once I was riding a bicycle, and my front tire blew out.. Luckily, it happened close to home.
Bicycles require attention and it can be annoying, but still I really like to ride
It's an odd upgrade with addresses and order history gone. I presume CRC is the same as well.
Had my first proper crash last night. Guy in front touched a wheel and brought down me and 1 other. He broke his pelvis in 2 places and needed stitches above his eye. He other guy needed stitches in his knee. Thankfully I’m relatively unscathed - just battered and bruised and the bike is fine.
rain cape needs some tlc.
rain cape needs some tlc.
Yeah its generally gone down like a lead balloon.
People always whinge about a new site especially going from a super dull but functional to more modern website but they really have dropped the ball on this one. Sounds like they have used it as an excuse to raise prices as well. I immediately got annoyed that they have removed some of the filtering abilities on products.
Seems to be a visual upgrade and a functionality downgrade.
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Probably, but never forget gravel bikes are very much not made to be light. Same could be said for cheap carbon open mould frames compared to quality aluminium - the alu will quite often be lighter. Think Cannondale Caad vs Planet X. Well worth weighing the Fulcrums you have, the Racing 7's on my hook are very heavy, even compared to other cheap alloy wheels.
My Diverge is quite early along the 'gravel' side of things, was not even marketed as such as it wasn't a 'thing' back then in 2015/16. Also it came with road gearing, just had clearance for off road capability so I bought it as more of a 'do everything' Endurance road bike, as that's really what 'gravel' was at that stage... Still is now in the UK... Sssh don't tell anyone!
As for the difference in frame materials, quality (but not light) carbon vs alu is quite substantial. Plenty of info around online about the benefits, but especially as carbon is very much 'layed up' and built by the manufacturor they are able to totally tailor every part of the frame to what it's designed to do - stiff in the right places, flexible compliance in others, even directionally different through the same parts of carbon. Alu there's more constraints as much of the tubing is pre-fabricated. Less laying up and building thickness changes into the tubing, just into the joins themselves, while also very few options for adding flex to it. It's quite a 'fixed' material, very stiff at nearly all times with alu being quite a brittle metal they tend to build it for strength not flex so you become more reliant on the way the frame is engineered and designed to compensate for that harshness.
For OEM nothing would surprise me! Just think with all the shortages they've been pushing their factories and supply chains to get things out the door. Possible some places getting OEM products in place of Retail etc...If it's genuine I'm fine but it does make me wonder when it's cable tied together - surely Shimano don't provide them like that
Same for me on Saturday! Quite a cool start, started in warmers and even a 'Fiandre' light jacket as we had a chance of showers in the afternoon. Glad I didn't take overshoes too as even the arm warmers where off by the end! Unusual for me!
Yup, it can get like that! such tight tolerances on many of these things, especially when you consider how many moving parts are around a hub, freehub and cassette all crammed into that space. Lesson learned! Have to laugh about some of these things - especially if taking it to a shop to see - they'll have seen it before and you certainly won't be the last!
Haha Strava 'Tax'! A friend did a 99.97 mile ride on the weekend - after doing an extra loop at home to make sure he got his 100. Still ribbing him about it now!60 miles done this morning at a 18mph average pace (Garmin). Strava? That will be 59.99miles at a 17.9mph pace.
Fun of you to come in here and like to blast road cycling, first post in here? Take the time to read around the general feeling of the majority of riders and participants. Nearly everyone is in opposition to the UCI's crap rules (even British Cycling themselves).Road cycling continues to reaffirm itself as a sport that embraces unfair performance advantages by allowing men to compete in female events.
As if test is all that matters.
So on a personal opinion level I have to say I totally agree with you and many will here. It's an utter disgrace and really I hope this is the wake up call the UCI needs before it happens somewhere more obvious and important - like the Olympics!
Even on Zwift, the ladies (born female and still female!) in my team are moaning about a rider listed as female in the race series we're doing and she used to be a man so it's very unfair. Even quoting her (lower than required) testosterone level on her Strava profile.
Agreed, it's horrible. Filtering is slow and quite often doesn't even work. They should've just worked on the last one, that's 2 revamps now in maybe 3-4 years? Each one worse than the last for actual useful functionality. There's just another reason I hardly use them for anything these days...!
Ouch! Glad you got away with things so much better than they did, hope they heal up well - broken pelvis is pretty brutal! You'll be stiff today after sleeping on things, take stock and get anything checked out you need to.
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Road cycling continues to reaffirm itself as a sport that embraces unfair performance advantages by allowing men to compete in female events.
As if test is all that matters.
The ridiculous part is that the UCI is suggesting that they are "following the science". They are doing the complete opposite. The science backs up everyones views who has ever competed at any level in sport. Men and women in almost every sports are worlds apart in performance and trans athletes that have gone through puberty as a male have a big advantage over those who haven't.
Started competing in 2019 and is now absolutely world class. Seems fair....
Everytime i've been on it so far, it's down for maintenance!
LOL I went to halfords to buy a lezyne 1300xxl light for £69 according to their website.
in store the price was 90.... I asked a member of staff if they can price match their own website and he said he didnt know and he clearly couldn't be bothered to find out....
LOLfords running a paraistic business model in 2023
just use amazon or wherever in future, absolute CLOWNS who don't even know their own stores policies and can't be bothered if you ask them anytyhing.
I would have been spending probably 150-200+ in their store and instead walked out with nothing, no wonder the high street is dead
in store the price was 90.... I asked a member of staff if they can price match their own website and he said he didnt know and he clearly couldn't be bothered to find out....
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LOLfords running a paraistic business model in 2023
just use amazon or wherever in future, absolute CLOWNS who don't even know their own stores policies and can't be bothered if you ask them anytyhing.
I would have been spending probably 150-200+ in their store and instead walked out with nothing, no wonder the high street is dead
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Did what has become our (me and two friends) annual 100 mile ride yesterday, well 106 miles in all. It was an interesting exercise in pacing and managing others, as they are both lighter and faster than me. On the whole, it wasn't too bad, but I made the mistake out of the first cafe stop at 32 miles, I let myself chase their pace for 5 to 10 minutes, pushing up around 300W on average. When I kind of twigged what I was pushing, I said to the one I was with that I had to drop it down, he was happy to do so, but I think some damage had been done.
We stopped again just after 54 miles and then the next 10 miles were rather tough, now feeling it in my legs, but this time I took my own pace and warmed back into it. The next stop was at 84 miles and tbh I didn't feel too bad the 15 miles or so leading into that.
The final 22 miles though... Wahoo had identified 11 'climbs' (So generally quite flat for the distance, I finished with just over 4,000 ft of elevation) but the final 9 miles had 4 of the climbs in... and my legs weren't happy about this. The power just wasn't there. Still, overall I didn't feel too bad when we made it back to the car. 431 RE was the 5th biggest I've ever had and I was shattered all evening and had an early night. Also got a little sunburnt, as the weather was close to perfect starting at around 7°C and finishing around 14°C with plenty of sun included.
6:22 moving time
16.7 mph
255W Normalised
We stopped again just after 54 miles and then the next 10 miles were rather tough, now feeling it in my legs, but this time I took my own pace and warmed back into it. The next stop was at 84 miles and tbh I didn't feel too bad the 15 miles or so leading into that.
The final 22 miles though... Wahoo had identified 11 'climbs' (So generally quite flat for the distance, I finished with just over 4,000 ft of elevation) but the final 9 miles had 4 of the climbs in... and my legs weren't happy about this. The power just wasn't there. Still, overall I didn't feel too bad when we made it back to the car. 431 RE was the 5th biggest I've ever had and I was shattered all evening and had an early night. Also got a little sunburnt, as the weather was close to perfect starting at around 7°C and finishing around 14°C with plenty of sun included.
6:22 moving time
16.7 mph
255W Normalised