I'm the same as you mate, I just lather it on myself rather than the pad. Have a customer refer to his gooch as his isny as it isny your balls and isny his ********.
I don't shave so do have to keep it in check too or else it's like sandpaper.
Haha I was so cautious about posting that as it's a bit personal but thought sod it. Glad to hear I'm not a weirdo, even though I don't shave my legs, that still doing some 'personal grooming' is expected/required/encouraged. Mine has really been through trial and error though.
BMI of about 22 and early thirties!
No idea what BMI is sorry, quick google says that's a fairly low-average and I understand the term so means you're not carrying much excess. But as with any of these things, the initial curve of muscle building/structure you get when starting out means you trim quite a bit of fat & build muscle without really much change in weight. Get it 'just right' and you can even gain weight while 'losing size'. Think many of us have expereinced that, I see it still now at different parts of the year when volumes and types of riding can change and fluctuate.
To those riding discs (ultegra in particular) how common is it for rubbing to occur if at all. As in, bike is setup as it should be and out of nowhere you can hear a slight rub? Aware of the fixes etc
Common especially in any changes, not even new bits of equipment. As mentioned the wet and dirty weather can cause it, so much so you can get 'immune' to the disk brake 'hoooooon' in the wet winters when coming to a stop, while scaring old neighbours/cats/small children.
I went out for a ride with my mate yesterday. I'm quite the novice and he has been cycling years. Imagine the hate when I beat him on several of his segments
#StravaSegmentsIsAllThatMatter
#Strava4lifebro
Doesn't always work for me, I get a sheet of paper to help look through the caliper and also look up through the bottom to a light on the ceiling. It can look centre's from the top but be miles odd at the bottom.
Just keep one bolt slightly right and push the opposite side of the caliper, nip that up a little and undo the side to slide that. Bit repetitive but works great to make sure both pads touch at the same time.
Not sure I follow the same method (or fully understand that) but one trick I've found, especially with pads a little worn in the wet weather/winter and you're topping up fluid... Use some thick paper (business card) either side of the disc, do the centre caliper and piston trick then a slight bleed and top up with them still in there. It'll put a bit less fluid in and the pads will be wider a miniscule amount more so less noisy and rub less in the wet. Just make sure you have plenty of lever travel so you can still lock them with ease if required... Unsure of the technicalities of this but works for me. I also did it when I replaced my cracked caliper in the spring as the new one was just causing rubbing on my old pads. Did that trick, hey presto quietness returned.
Looking at relatively low levels of fitness (compared to elite athletes) it’s important to not read into body shapes/sizes and “types” too much.
Overall fitness based on how much riding and how structured any training you are doing will make the majority of the difference.
For the most part people will be relatively equal and specialities will only begin to show more at the real top end.
This. But I do slightly disagree with the latter part. Not huge differences, granted, but at least enough to notice on longer/harder/faster rides.
Also 'everyone is different', quite a bit of natural ability to 'suffer', like pain levels and willpower at times can come into it. But I would also say the different physical makeup of us as individuals comes into things, not body shape but more towards the way we rest and recover, some of us are just better at it than others, on and off the bike. You can train lots but some people can just push themselves harder, recover faster, not feel uncomfortable several hours in doing the various things required. Different people stress at different levels too. Some fatiguing more, some less, some active recovering far more while even at high tempo/threshold, while others are not. Throw bodyweight, FTP, fast & slow twitch makeup of muscle fibres, what everyone had for dinner the night before, what amounts of quality sleep they've had over the preceding night/nights and not to mention what other activities they've been doing the previous weeks. It's an impossible 'soup' really of us general populace riders (read: not professional athletes) even with mixtures of trained ability, training levels, fitness and natural ability. Even with riders the same size/type and same 'FTP' measurement (or whatever else you're using to compare), some will 'naturally' be better at riding certain routes/circuits/climbs than others on certain days. We all have good and bad days, but also we have some 'better' and some 'not quite there' days too...
New Trek Emonda out today.
It’s a nice bike, but I’m not 100% on the integrated front end with the bars/stem and routing, looks awkward to service and not sure what you do if you **** up your fit and need a longer stem.
I like the look of it too and I usually am not a fan of the look of Treks... The newer ones are looking better, but then so many of the newer bikes across all brands are looking similar/familiar.
Bar/stem is nice. Supposed to be lots of sizes available and knowing Trek will be easy to get ahold of. A few months back I saw a neat 'combo' type bar/stem with an outfront mount of theirs on a bike in the LBS workshop. Was impressed, but forgot to note it's name/model!
Yeah, it's this bit that I'm finding interesting. When it slides from legs to lungs and how you delay that slide... I think by just getting used to longer rides, I guess your body becomes more efficient at replacing the power/energy.
Legs and lungs I think you're really determining too much into, but also think you're meaning the difference between good cardio/stamina and those using more power to ride. Cadence and riders ability to 'tempo' can be a good judge - high or good constant cadence is generally good cardio - less impact/muscle strain. Souplesse. Lower cadence - more power riders and strain, needs more fuelling else fatigue comes quicker. Grinding.
We're not generally massively built power based TT'ers here so spinning is winning. Get that cadence up, sweetspot is life. Grinding is for noobs.