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I see what you mean about people walking down some of the climbs. Did a recce of the start of the Fred Whitton then rode up the steepest hill I could see. Came down slower than I went up, didn't help it was wet and a bit slippy. Garmin was showing between 25-32% :eek:

e: ah it was this climb:
http://www.strava.com/segments/2989361
 
arknor said:
yea
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ignore BMI index tosh.. it never counts your muscle mass.. im over-weight on the chart..

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cousin wanted to borrow my bike.. i said no.. got shouted by the rest of the family for being a greedy nob.. :o well if only he learned to treat things nicely i wouldn't mind.. but when i get stuff scratched, broken or generally a mess in return no way is he getting it :o
 
I know it's a bit early to be thinking about such things, but I decided not to leave it until the last minute, and got my winter training solution dealt with. I was sorely tempted to get a refurbished Proform "Le Tour De France" bike as a cheaper alternative to a wattbike, but the reviews put me off it in the end. I had a look at various spin bikes but I couldn't settle on one. I had a look on eBay and found a Kettler Giro GT for £300, so I bought it. It's a heavy bit of kit, weighing in at just over 50kg, or the same as grudas's Triban. I have ordered a pair of M520s to go on it, but it's not too bad with the toe straps:

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It's quite a lot longer than the York C202 upright bike it replaced, and due to the huge amount of weight it's actually possible to get out of the saddle, which is good.

Hopefully it'll help me stave off the usual piling on of excess weight this winter!
 
arknor said:
are any of them sold as water proof or water resistant?

the sensors on mine look like they are air tight pretty much and the head unit doesn't really look like any water would get in from rain although I doubt you could submerge it in water but it's not sold as water resistant AFAIK
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OK, I meant water resistant. Just so long as I can take it out in the rain and it will be fine.
 
Saundie said:
It's quite a lot longer than the York C202 upright bike it replaced, and due to the huge amount of weight it's actually possible to get out of the saddle, which is good.

Hopefully it'll help me stave off the usual piling on of excess weight this winter!
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Bit late now but wouldn't a turbo have been a cheaper and potentially nicer to use option?
 
Did the Glasgow 100 sportive today. V windy but the rain held off:

http://app.strava.com/activities/73888304

Definitely my toughest day in the saddle. 100 miles and 2200m of climbing. Ouch.

On a slightly irritating point, i've been wondering for a while why my elevation data always seems a bit off when i load a file to Strava. Apparently they don't support Bryton devices with barometric altimeters, only Garmin - they basically ignore the data on the Bryton and do some weird inaccurate calculation based on the GPS data. It's out by about 400m on Strava compared to the device reading and what i get on the Bryton website. Quite annoying - i know there's some other Bryton users on the forums that maybe don't realise. I had no idea.
 
bided on a Tacx Sirrius on ebay
put £52 on it, and guess what

I got beaten by £1 !!!!!
gutted!
think that would have made a brilliant cheap training tool !
 
Saundie said:
I know it's a bit early to be thinking about such things, but I decided not to leave it until the last minute, and got my winter training solution dealt with. I was sorely tempted to get a refurbished Proform "Le Tour De France" bike as a cheaper alternative to a wattbike, but the reviews put me off it in the end. I had a look at various spin bikes but I couldn't settle on one. I had a look on eBay and found a Kettler Giro GT for £300, so I bought it. It's a heavy bit of kit, weighing in at just over 50kg, or the same as grudas's Triban. I have ordered a pair of M520s to go on it, but it's not too bad with the toe straps:



It's quite a lot longer than the York C202 upright bike it replaced, and due to the huge amount of weight it's actually possible to get out of the saddle, which is good.

Hopefully it'll help me stave off the usual piling on of excess weight this winter!
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thought it was lighter.. ah well :D still faster than you ;)
 
grudas said:
thought it was lighter.. ah well :D still faster than you ;)
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It was lighter, until you applied 30kg of paint. As for being faster than me; I'm built for comfort, not speed ;) :D

One More Solo said:
Bit late now but wouldn't a turbo have been a cheaper and potentially nicer to use option?
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Potentially, but it'd also be a lot less convenient. A turbo would be louder (I still live with my parents, so unfortunately this is actually quite important) and take up more space. I'd have to either leave a bike attached to it, or go to the effort of going out to the garage and bringing a bike in to hook up to it every time I want to use it. That is made more awkward by the fact that my room is upstairs. I just can't see myself doing it very often. At least with the indoor bike, I can leave it ready to go with my MP3 player strapped to it, so I can just hop on and ride.
 
tedmaul said:
Did the Glasgow 100 sportive today. V windy but the rain held off:

http://app.strava.com/activities/73888304

Definitely my toughest day in the saddle. 100 miles and 2200m of climbing. Ouch.

On a slightly irritating point, i've been wondering for a while why my elevation data always seems a bit off when i load a file to Strava. Apparently they don't support Bryton devices with barometric altimeters, only Garmin - they basically ignore the data on the Bryton and do some weird inaccurate calculation based on the GPS data. It's out by about 400m on Strava compared to the device reading and what i get on the Bryton website. Quite annoying - i know there's some other Bryton users on the forums that maybe don't realise. I had no idea.
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Elevation data is a whole pile of balls regardless of what device you use. It's all just a finger in the air. I've done identical rides with people using a wide assortment of devices and everyone gets different results.
 
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