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Yeah I was, I do know about tubeless but wrongly thought that the rims wouldn't be compatible with clinchers...
Any excuse!
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Yeah I was, I do know about tubeless but wrongly thought that the rims wouldn't be compatible with clinchers...
Any excuse!
Tube to training then cycle to work?
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Yup. Took me 30 minutes on the bus this morning - for a 3.5 mile stretch of road. And this is whilst the roads are quiet as the students are mostly away.
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Even I'm quicker than that!
It actually wasn't substantially quicker than when I walked in :/ If only my feet would man up and stop bleeding/blistering all the time.
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I hate RH. Enjoy
Meh! Not too bad! Thing is that at work we're still sitting on rhel6 but course is for 7 and 7 is quite different! Not a bad thing to cover but I'm still missing my bike lol.
So I'll be changing jobs in the next couple of months, which means my commute will go from 8.5 miles to 2.8 miles
Which is good and bad. I'll have to take up regular weekend cycling, which is easier said than done with small children. Hmmm
Which is good and bad. I'll have to take up regular weekend cycling, which is easier said than done with small children. Hmmm
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Just do the same as the rest of us with short commuting routes - extend the route and/or go out at lunch. I often do 10 miles on the way to work and in the summer I'll sometimes 20-30 on the way home. I also go home at lunch.
If I took the shortest route to work it'd be sub 4 miles.
Yeah I'll have to have a think about what routes I could take to extend it. I extend my current route up to about 12 sometimes but there's no going back on myself, that's point to point.
At the moment I can't think of a route that doesn't mean covering the same ground. (I'd either have to cycle towards Bristol then back, or Bath then back)
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At the moment I can't think of a route that doesn't mean covering the same ground. (I'd either have to cycle towards Bristol then back, or Bath then back)
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If they're that bad it might be something with your footwear, unless you have feet problems?
I don't regularly walk (any more) but can do 3-5 miles (and have done 10-15 miles) on random weekends (dog walks) and my feet are fine, it tends to be my hips (joints) and calves which feel it afterwards.
Lol I thought the only training you did was at the gym!
RH ewww, support Ubuntu here!
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I don't get where your end point is...? If you want to share it I'm sure we can come up with some routes, I love to play around with route builder!
Also have more and more people I see I'm following from Bristol - some from here, a friend from school (runner, not a cyclist) and a friend of a friend, this guy too!
Arrrr. The joys of JIRA
JIRA? Not one I'm familiar with...
Errr yeah I realise this is a road cycling thread but I try to avoid them as much as I can, I've seen drivers over taking cyclists on small country roads and it looks scary!
A phobia I need to tackle
I used to live in a fairly rural place and cyclists was one of the things you just don't see very often, so you don't know how to deal with them! Most country roads should be wide enough to pass with safety, my biggest concern would be drivers not seeing me! I'd ride in the middle of the road - all drivers should be cautious enough on country roads as quite often you get tractors/sheep coming the other way so you have to stop!
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And 2.1% TCB cashback too. A possible £25 saving
I think its the point on the left. Leaves home, goes up and down the train track and then to work.
Errr yeah I realise this is a road cycling thread but I try to avoid them as much as I can, I've seen drivers over taking cyclists on small country roads and it looks scary!
A phobia I need to tackle
Other than going further down the train track I don't know what I can suggest which avoids going on roads. To me it looks like there are some nice roads to the east
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The Felt is a very nice bike but personally I'd go for the Suffolk. Not having to adjust for pad wear is nice if you're as lazy as I am... and does the Felt have mudguard mounts?
I walked about 10 miles yesterday and my feet were already a bit knackered from a 20km walk the other day. I think badly-fitting shoes are the main problem though. I've just been wearing trainers that I could probably make more effort to properly tighten/fit.
Going back to the SPD vs SPD-SL talk from the last page, I currently use SPD with a bottom of the range Shimano SPD show from about 8 years ago which has a bit of bend in it. I was talking a chap at my LBS the other day and I mentioned that I get a lot of pain in the ball of my foot after about an hours riding and he reckons it's because the soles are too soft and flexible. He suggested that I switch to the SPD SL system as the shoes are generally much stiffer than MTB shoes.
Is what he's saying correct or is he just trying to sell me more kit? Could I get away with just buying the stiffest MTB shoes I can find? I do some MTBing as well so if I could just have one shoe for both types of riding that would definitely be a plus!
Is what he's saying correct or is he just trying to sell me more kit? Could I get away with just buying the stiffest MTB shoes I can find? I do some MTBing as well so if I could just have one shoe for both types of riding that would definitely be a plus!
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You can get completely stiff SPD shoes. Your issues are probably down to bike fit, cleat positioning, possibly the stiffness of the soles and whether or not your shoes have the right heel/bridge/etc support for you.
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