Yes, this is the same "So cheap, so I should spend another £500 for a full bike" logical thought process I keep going through.
That's the one! Really clever metric, still fries my brain on how 'accurate' it realistically could be. On a 'good' day, it would be too conservative, on a 'bad' day it would overestimate! Although a man like you has a large battery and never seems to have bad days...
Only having 3s power on chaingang would make me surge! The few I've done average/current speed would be more useful to measure against the gang and keep things as smooth as possible when coming through. I would find 5s/10s more accurate to measure those type of 'controlled' surges?
No advice or expereince on tyres that wide! Although if you can find something SKS that's the route I'd go...
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Pedals are great if you're swapping around, but they do wear a little. Many of the current are plagued with problems/quirks (not even Garmin can get a pedal right...) along with wearing a little or breaking external pods if you go for older... You do pay a bit of a premium for the convenience of pedals too, over something like a crankarm. I went with crankarm (from rings) and was glad I did. Saved some cash and longer term cost. But realise that only suits me so well as I have 1 bike. I could have course easily remove and swap between bikes/take on holiday with me, but am limited to Shimano 105/Ultegra (no bad thing, but it is still a limiting factor).
If you surge you get shouted at! Power really is largely irrelevant tbf. Its a useful indicator of how good you're feeling compared to HR.
Haha that's what I meant - 3s would be too short an interval for me to really judge a turn with, if using power at all I'd have to use 5s. The average speed is probably a better judge - as we all generally know a chaingang tends to aim for overall speed rather than fluxuating speed from efforts/recovery/hill sprints... At least until the ramp-up you get towards the 'finish'! Quite often here there's even a finish sprint! Nutters. I'm usually on my knees before then!
Haha that's what I meant - 3s would be too short an interval for me to really judge a turn with, if using power at all I'd have to use 5s. The average speed is probably a better judge - as we all generally know a chaingang tends to aim for overall speed rather than fluxuating speed from efforts/recovery/hill sprints... At least until the ramp-up you get towards the 'finish'! Quite often here there's even a finish sprint! Nutters. I'm usually on my knees before then!
Nice TSS for a cafe ride!
My social on Saturday came in around 150 TSS in 3 hours, more than I expected. Although I spent much of it towing a slower rider, the second half of the ride into headwinds. Still those where <230W efforts as she would drop off on anything more! Good social kinda averages, but I found it one of those annoying club 'social' rides - 7 riders out, pace is hot, first couple of ramps are 400W with many poker faces. 4 riders dropped (inc me as still warming up) without much let up in pace. Regroup and pace asked to ease, that lasts maybe 2 miles before the run into the first main climb only 4-5 miles after the start. At that point 1 guy (dropped for the 3rd time already) turns for home and another turns back to find him. Climb is a mixtures of efforts as we discuss WTF is going on and I chase down a friend off the front. We sit and wait at the top expecting the second guy to reappear, then someone says he muttered 'so much for an easy ride, I'm going home' before turning back...! Down to 5 riders then, one of which keeps getting dropped. I draw the short straw saying I'll help her and that soon turns into a theme for the rest of the ride... 3 up front having a social ride, 1 chasing the 10s gap while another tries to tow her up and keep losing her...
Still some standing water around and even some rain on the run back in meant I got a good testing ride done in my Spatz. Calves where quite warm at the start (around town sheltered from most of the winds), but perfect later on. I even hunted down some standing water on multiple occasions (riding through puddles I could've avoided) and my feet remained 100% dry. Perfect!
Then 74 TSS yesterday evening as the Tour of Zwift started with a 'Leith Hill Afterparty' route. Brutal.
I've only done over 300 TSS in a week once in the last 6 weeks, most of them being 150 TSS for the whole week (commuting & a zwift ride or two) so to do over 200 TSS in 2 days is quite a shock to the system!
That's the one! Really clever metric, still fries my brain on how 'accurate' it realistically could be. On a 'good' day, it would be too conservative, on a 'bad' day it would overestimate! Although a man like you has a large battery and never seems to have bad days...
Interesting... May have to revisit. Although last time I used it, it utterly killed Chrome performance on my home laptop and then bugged several things on my work PC (same profile/many open tabs) so I had to disable it. Have they tweaked/fixed the performance? I do also run several other extensions so it could have been that.
Thanks. OK looking frame, although colours/designs are pretty bland. I'd end up going the Stealth Matt Black and that's really unlike me. A flat mount disc frame for that money is insanely good although those pictures are not of the frame (lol) as they're QR and it's listed as TA and pictures have no disc mounts. So who knows for sure what the actual design is or what colours you'll end up getting...!
Haha yeah where you are you really can't avoid doing much climbing... Not really any sprints on our social rides, the only non social bits will be pre-arranged by the leader in advance like 'efforts up this climb for those who want to, regroup at top' or an occasional through-and-off on certain bits of road which are good for it. Although the Race clubs social rides tend to do more of that.sounds a lot like ours. we have a hill climb around 25 mins in. Then a number of sprints to various road signs. People laugh when they hear that our average speed is only 20mph but soon stop when they learn that there’s about 3000ft of climbing in that
I got absolutely drenched yesterday. Was squeezing my gloves every 10 mins to try and get rid of the water. Don’t ask me about my boots! They were full. And I was freezing!
Me too, efforts & recovery then going again seems to suit me. Great for things like Zwift racing and short commuting like I do. Less so for things like TT/fast group rides.
Ooosh, how the mighty have fallen! Although that's only really a short gap, you'll not have lost too much so can gain it back.
Ooosh, how the mighty have fallen! Although that's only really a short gap, you'll not have lost too much so can gain it back.
Guessing the other half and work have taken priority? That's no bad thing, we all need to find balance!
