Mine too. I guess I've been pretty lazy lately so it was a bit of a shock to the system to get back out there. Turbo training resumes this week so hopefully I can shift some of the blubber I've acquired in my 2-3 week break from decent exercise and diet :/
Anyone got any recommendations for decent cheapish race fit jerseys and bibs. Usually get castelli stuff. But need to stock up before I go on training camp.
7 riders including Froome and Contador finished with the same time?! I've not seen it yet... What channel was it on for catchup? I've got NowTV which was quite good for some bits of the TDF and ToB but not much other cycling... I actually have to hunt down torrents for some of the other sport I watch (Rugby Union) as there's no way I'm paying for a Sky sub. Really bugs me
Tom's ride is pretty damn impressive when you factor in the gradual uphill and the having to start/stop a lot at the beginning and end *requests to follow*
CRC often have the various P4 options in stock when Wiggle don't. I prefer to use Wiggle where I can but I do find that it's rare that Wiggle is cheaper, even factoring in the platinum discount malarky.
Tom's is insane when you think that theres a large missing section in the middle which is further screwing the average down!
Have to admit CRC I don't check very often, there's too many sites! Wiggle and PX are the only 2 I probably check daily... Wheelies, Tredz and Evans' less regularly, will try and include CRC in that group
Terrible photo alert. Picked up the Pinnacle today, lovely looking bike, colour is different from pictures, more pale than I thought it would be, but I like it.
Looks good, I don't mind the blue in that picture, when I didn't like the shade of it from the pictures on the website! Still not quite Sky blue though mate, maybe just Sky influenced slightly?
I think I was breathing faster than my heart was beating at points. (I think that confirms my MHR as 178bpm. Never the less I made it up it even if I did stop twice, one of which christened my first fall
Some lovely views over that way though and lots of hills for me to face plant in the future
Although I see the leaderboard the top guys doing 20mph+ up there so it must only be short, with enough power and a good run up to it?! Although 0.5 miles at 14% grade average has gotta hurt regardless of your fitness!
Nothing to report on this mornings commute in, legs felt ok after a lazy day yesterday. Cool (2 degrees) but not cold, bit of wind but nothing serious, still took it easy
Quite impressed with my average speeds creeping up on my commutes, even those when I'm 'taking it easy'
Anyone got any recommendations for decent cheapish race fit jerseys and bibs. Usually get castelli stuff. But need to stock up before I go to On training camp.
I always go for DHB stuff, but that's probably because I'm a cheapskate and I know for the money the quality is hard to beat. Even at twice the money (Sportful etc) the DHB quality is hard to beat!
Think there might be some funny business going on there. I was averaging about 21mph for a 20mile section in the middle before my Garmin went haywire. Think my power meter battery was running low, so I reset to get a power reading back, but it must have screwed it up. Probably would come out somewhere around 18mph when you factor in the traffic, and the mayhem that was RP this weekend.
7 riders including Froome and Contador finished with the same time?! I've not seen it yet... What channel was it on for catchup? I've got NowTV which was quite good for some bits of the TDF and ToB but not much other cycling... I actually have to hunt down torrents for some of the other sport I watch (Rugby Union) as there's no way I'm paying for a Sky sub. Really bugs me
Impressive quality again, it's very similar to my Garmin outfront with just an extra section on the bottom (as expected). It's very chunky and solid made - I won't even need to remove the existing clamp from my bars, just swap the bottom bit!
It was a bit of a sketchy run in to the finish so the only riders who really raced it were the ones who couldnt afford to lose any time (Froome + Contador) and some sprinters going for the stage win.
That's why there was such a small group on the same time, not Contador+Froome in a break or anything.
edit: i'll put that in a spoiler just incase, but I guess it's not much of a spoiler considering you already know the positions and time gaps
Another good weekend on the bike. Managed 60 miles over the two days. I'm trying to get to a level where I can bang out two 50 mile rides back to back. I managed to add another 10 miles from last week, so slowly getting there.
Saturday, I took a meaty cat4 hill climb towards the end of the ride, which was a mistake. First time I've been defeated by a hill since May last year :/ Still, it was particularly windy, and headwinds, so those are my excuses. It's given me a lot of motivation to get back out and conquer it soon!
Managed to snap my front brake cable on Saturday's ride. Which meant I had to duck out of the group ride. I was going to attend with just the back brake, but I had visions of that failing whilst coming downhill, so thought I had better give it a miss. Went down to Halford's Sunday morning, I was going to purchase some brake cable and carry out the repairs myself. Halfords offered to it for £6, so I thought why not. To be fair, they didn't a pretty good job, unusual for Halfords
Almost had a little mishap this morning, somebody decided he wasn't going to wait for me on a roundabout. I had a sneaky suspicion that he was going to pull out, so I slowed right down and luckily he missed me. I shook my head in disapprovement as he went by.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9O8m9tJDTI
Impressive quality again, it's very similar to my Garmin outfront with just an extra section on the bottom (as expected). It's very chunky and solid made - I won't even need to remove the existing clamp from my bars, just swap the bottom bit!
Impressive quality again, it's very similar to my Garmin outfront with just an extra section on the bottom (as expected). It's very chunky and solid made - I won't even need to remove the existing clamp from my bars, just swap the bottom bit!
Managed to snap my front brake cable on Saturday's ride. Which meant I had to duck out of the group ride. I was going to attend with just the back brake, but I had visions of that failing whilst coming downhill, so thought I had better give it a miss.
I missed that picture the first time, brilliant! Fair play for attempting that climb, although I see part of it reaches 69.6%?!
Love the Strava disclaimer too:
Although I see the leaderboard the top guys doing 20mph+ up there so it must only be short, with enough power and a good run up to it?! Although 0.5 miles at 14% grade average has gotta hurt regardless of your fitness!
I feel your pain, however after spending most of my time on my rides on Friday in the drops to make it easier against the wind, I am well and truly paying for it now as my lower back is killing me all weekend and still hurts today.
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Wondering if it's cold related, my legs were agony yesterday after a not all that taxing ride. I guess it's hard to keep your muscles warm and relaxed when it's cold out.
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Wondering if it's cold related, my legs were agony yesterday after a not all that taxing ride. I guess it's hard to keep your muscles warm and relaxed when it's cold out.
I've no doubt that my back pain has come from excessively cycling in the drops. Albeit that shouldn't really lead to back pain, but when you don't ride in the drops much you aren't properly accustomed to it.
Hence, my back is knackered! Going to try cycling tomorrow but only on the hoods.
Not much chance of that with the alloy they use, it's light but feels very dense. Think my bars would bend before it would!
Although the weakest part is probably where the mount fits onto the bar clamp bit. It holds on with a metal lug (attached to the clamp) that fits into a channel on the mount. A 4mm hex bolt holds it in place so whatever stresses a 4mm hex bolt is tolerant of??? I have my infront mounted from the bottom of the clamp, I'll probably swap it so it comes from the top to give my VIRB a higher angle. This should give the mount point a bit more strength too as it won't be fighting against the weight of the VIRB & 810 so much.
Superstar sent a little catalogue/product guide thing with this mount, they're designed and manufactured in Lincoln (East-Midlands) and do pretty much everything else including custom hubs, wheels, rims, wheel-building using their own stuff, DT Swiss, Stans, Pacenti, Alexrims and Mavic.
Looks like most of their range is geared towards MTB/Trail but they have started a range of Road/Tri stuff too. Prices to me look competitive (hubs £35, rims £30, wheelsets £150), including carbon rim builds (£250 per rim, £600 wheelset).
Service I've had from them so far has been excellent but I've had no reason to contact their support. I'll certainly be looking to them for anything else and may get a turbo wheel from them when the time comes... They don't sell to resellers (or not their own branded stuff) so customers buy direct from them for a saving (like how their Garmin mounts are half the price of others)
It was a bit of a sketchy run in to the finish so the only riders who really raced it were the ones who couldnt afford to lose any time (Froome + Contador) and some sprinters going for the stage win.
That's why there was such a small group on the same time, not Contador+Froome in a break or anything.
edit: i'll put that in a spoiler just incase, but I guess it's not much of a spoiler considering you already know the positions and time gaps
Another good weekend on the bike. Managed 60 miles over the two days. I'm trying to get to a level where I can bang out two 50 mile rides back to back. I managed to add another 10 miles from last week, so slowly getting there.
Saturday, I took a meaty cat4 hill climb towards the end of the ride, which was a mistake. First time I've been defeated by a hill since May last year :/ Still, it was particularly windy, and headwinds, so those are my excuses. It's given me a lot of motivation to get back out and conquer it soon!
Managed to snap my front brake cable on Saturday's ride. Which meant I had to duck out of the group ride. I was going to attend with just the back brake, but I had visions of that failing whilst coming downhill, so thought I had better give it a miss. Went down to Halford's Sunday morning, I was going to purchase some brake cable and carry out the repairs myself. Halfords offered to it for £6, so I thought why not. To be fair, they didn't a pretty good job, unusual for Halfords
Almost had a little mishap this morning, somebody decided he wasn't going to wait for me on a roundabout. I had a sneaky suspicion that he was going to pull out, so I slowed right down and luckily he missed me. I shook my head in disapprovement as he went by.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9O8m9tJDTI
Good milage and everything I've read says to build it up rather than suddenly shock yourself with a big ride. I'm intending on getting a 25-30 mile done next weekend, a flatter one than my 20 mile last weekend! My legs are not too bad although I'm sure if I had to climb any hills as part of my commute I'd be saying different
Well done with the CAT4, my two beat me too! Although I'm fairly sure with some more 'easy' constant gradients (5-8%) to 'practice'/repeat I'll gain more of an idea on how to pace myself on the harder ones. It's all experience but I found it very hard throwing myself 'in the deep end' to suddenly climb a CAT4! A little too ambitious! There really is little you can train for hills, apart from getting out there and riding them!
Glad Halfords sorted your cable easily, certainly for £6 I'd not even consider the hassle of doing it myself! Than again they probably stung you on the cable price, although not many options on a sunday!
Regarding drivers... Anyone know of some way to report these idiots? All of us are getting more and more footage (I had 1 on friday) but the last thing we wanna do is fill out an incident report for each of them at the local station as it takes too long (say goodbye to 2+ hours - I speak from experience). It has the desired result (driver gets a visit from the police to take his statement) along with a follow-up if we want to press charges (which most of us wouldn't feel the need to unless we were actually knocked off?).
But for the actual problem (Driver awareness) I think it is a little too heavy handed. Ideally I would like to see a way we can report the incident and provide the footage in some easy/quick/simple manor, then local police/council look into it (even if it's just as simple as making a database of the date/reg numbers), then persistent 'offenders' being passed onto the Police (with all the footage) to follow up if they deem required. They could then take statements from cyclists to pursue things with the driver - I'm not meaning prosecute them for dangerous driving - but drivers who are regularly being dangerous to cyclists need to be given some kind of awareness course. At the moment there is none, until an accident happens or a cyclist wishes to pursue things (which takes a lot of time (2+ hours per incident) and a lot of police time/paperwork. The number of incidents would be a waste of valuable Police time).
Do you prefer Tom or Thomas? Your average should've been much higher for the missing section but I'm unsure if Strava uses that to calculate as it knows the data is missing...?
Boo, my Asgard bike box isn't going to be delivered until the 10th of March!! And I'm kinda not allowed to build my single speed bike until I've got it, as that would mean three bikes in the house...
I think I might have to take emergency action and put one of them in the attic or my neighbour's shed until then, as once the last couple of bits arrive this week I'm going to find it very hard to resist building it for a fornight...
Almost had a little mishap this morning, somebody decided he wasn't going to wait for me on a roundabout. I had a sneaky suspicion that he was going to pull out, so I slowed right down and luckily he missed me. I shook my head in disapprovement as he went by.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9O8m9tJDTI
On my ride on Saturday I had some ancient fella overtake me just as an ambulance with blues and twos was coming the other way... He then sailed through a double mini roundabout without any apparent regard for all the other cars on there. It's scary, it really is.
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I've not seen it yet... What channel was it on for catchup? I've got NowTV which was quite good for some bits of the TDF and ToB but not much other cycling... I actually have to hunt down torrents for some of the other sport I watch (Rugby Union) as there's no way I'm paying for a Sky sub. Really bugs me 
