Road Cycling Essentials

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A baselayer and windproof jacket does the job for me in the very lowest of temperatures the UK can manage. A fleece was only ever necessary on brief morning rides because my core temperature tends to plummet overnight and takes a while to pick up.

If it's so cold you need a fleece for a long ride then the roads are probably going to be lethal.
 
I dont think it will be too cold tommorow
so i'll be wearing shorts with leg warmers, a ss jersey with a long sleeve base layer on, and arm warmers over the top, mitts and wind proof gloves over the top, and i'll probabally take my wind proof hat incase
 
Berger said:
Mark Renshaw has signed up to Strava, hes taken the KOM around the racetrack here.

The bloke who has most of the local KOM is over a minute slower than Mark on the climb to the top of the track and he thrashes me on pretty much all of them. Huge difference between an average rider and a pro! It's a 2km climb, average gradient of 7.6% so that time difference is huge.
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And he's sprinter lol does bring it home as you said. People bag on Cavendish for being a crap climber but compared to the average rider he would trash them.
 
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Sportive in the morning, only a 34 miler but it'll be the longest ride I've ever done! Need to be at the start for 7:30 at the latest, which is about 5 miles away so need to leave the house by 7:10 so I don't have to race there - early starts suck at the weekend :(

Hope the rain keeps off and the wind dies down a little, we have zero protection from the wind in Guernsey!
 
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That's no excuse. Rinse/wipe down your bike after every ride, and run your chain through an old towel (designate it as your chain towel) or something to clean it. I do that every ride and my bike stays clean despite doing 27m 5x/week, plus weekend rides. Don't relube it after every clean though, just do it every so often. Lube on the outside of the links is wasted lube and just attracts dirt.
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Mudguards? ;)

Why people do a commute without them is odd to me. Rider and bike is drenched and covered in **** and the bike drive train isnt protected.
 
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Well, we've all got to start somewhere! The first serious ride I did was a whopping 25 miles with about 400ft of climbing. I've come a long way in the 5 months since then.
 
oh totally, I can't really talk, I do about 25 miles a week and do a few 30-40 mile rides about once/twice a month MAX
but when someone says sportive I think 100km
 
well done guys :)

Wasent too bad today for a ride, the B roads were flooded though, didnt realise until i got home that my trainers were all wet, sun came out a bit later and it actually felt quite warm untill we stopped becuase one of the guys had a puncture.


brings me onto a question
what shoe covers? might just pick some as im hopeing to get out again on wednesday morning!

and which mudgaurds to fit my bike? crud racer MK2's or SK race ones?
only to keep it cleaner of course :D
 
i can only recommend the crud road racers.. :) haven't tried others - you can see in my pics my "nose" peace for the wrong wont fit! because the mudguard touches the brake caliper which means that it moves while i brake and touches the tyre.. which is a bit annoying! but then again fitment on the front for my triban 3 is really tight
 
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