Road Cycling
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None of mine is commuting. I have a job, I don't have a family
Every weekend, I aim for 100k on Saturday and then club ride of 40 to 50 miles on Sunday. I just checked, I've done over 100 40+ mile rides in each of the last two years and 301 x 40+ mile rides in the last three years! I almost didn't believe that one myself at first.
None of mine is commuting. I have a job, I don't have a family
You looking to take on some responsibility? I have one going spare at the moment.
Ended the year with 7500 miles or so. Chunk down on previous years with fewer long weekend rides, really struggled for first few months of the year after getting covid in December 2022. Still not back to where I was before I got it for racing but aiming to build it back slowly over the course of this year.
I just don't like people so i ride instead.
I wouldn't say my boys are really people at the moment. Do you like animals? They are definitely more animal that human from what I can tell
I dont commute or have any kids so i can usually try and get 4-5 sessions a week in. During the summer my weekday rides would only be 40 mins but then id do a 3-4 hour ride on the saturday. Currently using TrainerRoad and im doing 3 weekday hour sessions, one at 90 mins and then a 2 hour session on a Saturday.
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Plenty of hours but hoping to do more outdoor rides in 2024.
What was the monster 48.8 hour, 1,230km ride!?
Happy with my mileage, proving yet again what I keep saying (since my son was born in 2017) - "without Zwift, I'd be nowhere!". It would've been nice to get closer to 6k miles / 9.5km but with several illness and weather interruptions the end of the year was rubbish for me, had some amazingly good form/consistency the first half, then just fighting since then to try and get back to it (and failing). But have finished the year pushing good numbers - new FTP end of ZRL from a 49 minute TTT effort. Then did the Alpe TTT after it, same numbers for 56 mins with feeling there was more in the tank. Then an iTT this Tuesday in FRR for 64 mins the same number. 255W FTP I'm pleased with - although it's not an accurate measure for the way I ride (I don't train, I generally just race) as I'm getting stronger and will continue to do so on the shorter efforts even without pushing the FTP value up...
Not always the case... I started that way, got terrible saddle sores, went to hard/narrower/long and eventually settled on the Fizik Arione... Thought I'd found my goldilocks saddle, then after a few years (lost a bunch of weight/size) started suffering again, through various saddles and ended up going wider/cutout/shorter and on the Specialized Power...
Measure your sitbones easily to determine your width, 'sit on the stairs on a piece of paper' (or foil) - allows you to lean forwards and bring your knees up slightly into near a riding position. You should be able to see the indents from your sit bones, then measure between them. Less than 100mm is narrow, 100-130 is average, over 130 is wide. Saddles are measured side to side (edge to edge) with 143mm considered pretty normal/average, so you'll find lots of saddles in that width. Then a couple either side (usually 130, 135 & 148 or even 155).
Yeah although I've never had a serious go at it, would be fairly easy on Zwift. Good big busy pace groups this season with 100-200 riders on Coco (2.6w/kg) and the group zooming faster than usual (40-45kph). I helped a Zwift friend do a charity ride, he did 940km in 24 hours so kept going to nearly 25 and 1001km. He's powerful (A+), but majority of that was with the Coco group on Fuego - https://www.strava.com/activities/10457756345
I've always said F500 is a good challenge for most, but doing it on Zwift should be a 'warmup' or a build towards doing it Outdoors. That is the real challenge - which tends to be different weather every time in the UK! So the challenge is really 'kitting up and heading out every day regardless of the weather)!
Totally agree!
It has been miserable hasn't it! Managed to get out for a Mince Pie ride and that was it for me. Lucked out with the weather for it too! Was almost too hot in my santa hat & pj's...
You can! The components fit the same way and the same tools as their mechanical counterparts, with the Di2 cables measured/designed to fit through housing holes.
You're still racking up the miles mate and know you do it all outdoors, good work! You've come a long way!None of mine is commuting. I have a job, I don't have a family
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Are there any co s that make brightly coloured tyres that still perform well despite their gimmicky appearance ? 
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Need new ones and thought it would be fun to jazz it up ha ha
Some good mileage (km-age?) totals for last year
First time I've cracked 7000km in a year (6291km for 2022 so a decent jump). Highlights being We Ride Flanders (even if it did rain pretty much all day but was delighted to clean all the cobbled climbs which were horribly wet and muddy) and a week in France. Sunshine and mountains are just the best.
I haven't even serviced my winter / hack bike for this winter yet. I don't mind getting a bit wet (see Flanders!) and/or cold but the state of the roads with lots of flooded sections makes it no fun. We were out walking on New Year's Day and wadded through a flooded section down a country lane. Hidden in the middle was a massive crater that even at slow speed probably would have had you off your bike.
First time I've cracked 7000km in a year (6291km for 2022 so a decent jump). Highlights being We Ride Flanders (even if it did rain pretty much all day but was delighted to clean all the cobbled climbs which were horribly wet and muddy) and a week in France. Sunshine and mountains are just the best.
I haven't even serviced my winter / hack bike for this winter yet. I don't mind getting a bit wet (see Flanders!) and/or cold but the state of the roads with lots of flooded sections makes it no fun. We were out walking on New Year's Day and wadded through a flooded section down a country lane. Hidden in the middle was a massive crater that even at slow speed probably would have had you off your bike.
I don't need more encouragement!
I'm actually now not in a rush to get Di2. Well, as soon as my work do a cyclescheme solution in place I'll probably get one. But until then I'm actually fine with what I got, not like it's limiting my ability in any way!
That part is irrelevant
I need to work on the big squishy bit of flesh that rides it first
My bike is dangerously close to becoming an Aliexpress bike. After being really happy with my carbon saddle I'm tempted to replace my bottle cages with carbon ones. They're only £14 for 2 delivered that weigh 13g each.
How bad can it be!?
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I need to work on the big squishy bit of flesh that rides it first
I reckon installing DI2 must be worth 500kcal, so really it'll help. It'd certainly make the wallet lighter