Road Cycling Essentials

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okay, im looking for a cycling background for my iphone (3gs). Just to keep me motivated/happy at work. Have had a look around the interwebs and i cant seem to find any. Can anyone help?
 
Well finally there's proof out there that travelling on the Croydon Tramlink is as bad as I've made it out to be and shows why I'd rather get freezing cold/soaked/risk life etc instead of using it. Big shock horror tbh. I would see this sort of thing at least once a week.

Streeteh said:
How exactly do people go about turning when road cycling exactly? What i do is signal for a few seconds, then brake, then turn. It seems i must be doing something wrong because not one but two cars have honked their horns at me as i brake. What do they expect me to do? Take a sharp corner at 20mph?

Honest question, that's a fairly reasonable way to go about cornering isn't it? As i keep saying in this thread, still quite new to road cycling.
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But don't you know, as soon as you stop signalling you're clearly not turning any more :confused:

Happens all the time and there's not much you can do about people like that unfortunately. Just keep an eye out in case they do anything stupid and keep enough space to get yourself out of any trouble. If you're sitting waiting to turn right, as soon as you drop your right arm you might get a car try and overtake on the right. Just be aware that as ridiculously absurd and impossible you think the situation is, it will probably happen. And just when you think you've seen it all, someone will come along and do something even more ridiculously stupid :D
 
:p. Yes, one of my energy drinks uses chia seeds. Iskiate, tastes bloody lovely, and an amazing energy boost, and unlike most energy related victuals, its awfully good for you.
 
Really want to take my road cycling to the next stage, so I just splashed out on a Garmin Edge 500 computer.

I was really tempted by the 800, but from what I've read, the 800 is just the 500 with mapping capabilities, which I wouldn't do justice.

Hope it arrive tomorrow! Whoop!
 
Am I the only one still wearing shorts and a thin summer jersey? I got some funny looks this morning from people who seemed to be prepared for an arctic apocalypse.

That said, it was dry this morning. Tis raining out now and I haven't fitted my guards yet and have only brought my overshoes lol. Gonna be a wet ride home! :)
 
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