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Anyone else watching the Redbull Rampage? Was live from 8pm. Not road bikes but very awesome:
Try this one if you want road bikes
Anyone else watching the Redbull Rampage? Was live from 8pm. Not road bikes but very awesome:
Try this one if you want road bikes
That's crazy fast! There's an 8.6% DECLINE around near me (0.5 miles) that over 1000 people have done and only ~60 people have clocked over 40mph. You're either insanely fast or everyone down this way is insanely slow!
Best strava segment I've clocked is 26.1 average over 0.5 miles of flat. Haven't ridden that segment for a long while though. I reckon I could up that by 1-2mph after this summer.
As above, 40mph at anything over 5% really would be very, very easy so long as you know the road. On my last ride I clocked 46mph on a 6% and that was in a foreign country on the wrong side of a road I'd never been on before.
This segment is 0.6 miles long and has an average gradient of -3.6%, and about -8% at it's steepest. I've hit 45mph going down there. My mate has the KOM on there with an average speed of 42mph over the segment.
-3.6% ain't -8.6%. Just pointing stuff out. If it really is a 8.6% decline, you could go into that at max speed and fly down in an aero position and for 0.5 miles you'd look at hitting near 50mph.
The more realistic thing is that gradient might be a it out for some folk...
According to veloviewer, I can't even get close to 30mph unless I'm on a fairly decent downhill slope, which is not a big surprise. There's segments where I've averaged high 20s for half a mile or so, but even then it's often with some downhill to it.
I've just cleaned my gear cables and re-indexed my gears. Hopefully the shifting will be a bit more pleasant tomorrow than it has been of late... Something still isn't right, as no matter how much I try there are still times when it will jump two cogs or not at all. I don't know whether part of it isn't down to the spacing on the cassette, or the teeth of the sprockets or something, because it's often the same shifts that cause problems. Maybe the cassette needs replacing. I don't know how many miles it's got on it, but it's at least 4,000 and probably a fair bit more besides.
There's something screwy with the rear axle or freewheel or something as well. If I spin the rear wheel on it's own, it's moving off centre. You can see the cassette "orbiting" it, like the wheel is a bit off centre. I think when I get my new bike I'll take the wheels off it and put them on this bike.
-3.6% ain't -8.6%. Just pointing stuff out. If it really is a 8.6% decline, you could go into that at max speed and fly down in an aero position and for 0.5 miles you'd look at hitting near 50mph.
The more realistic thing is that gradient might be a it out for some folk...
today we got in the new 2014 Look 675 , what a bike in the flesh,
sry for the facebook link...pics on our page
https://www.facebook.com/PedalPowerScotland?ref=hl
Always fancied some brown lycra...
Seriously though, I've done 46mph once, and was ****ing petrified.
Thanks for that! I picked up a Suunto ANT+ stick for use with TrainerRoad; I already have a Garmin HRM so it wasn't a difficult purchase to make. I also got a foot pod to go with my FR210 as I've been wanting to get one for a while. Let us celebrate another victory for consumerist impulses!HEADS UP
IF anyone wants a Polar Soft Strap head to http://www.bhipltd.co.uk/ who are closing down, enter the code BYEBYE for a further 50% off, they have Suunto usb sticks for people wanting to get into trainer road too for some bargain prices.
Only 34 miles this morning. I nearly had an off on a big descent. Coming round a corner I saw a cats eye and just had time to think "I'm going to hit that, and it won't be good" and then I went over it with my front wheel. My front end wobbled all over the show. I braked a bit, at which point my rear wheel lost traction completely and started coming round to my left. I regained traction but by this point I was pointing off the side of the road. I mounted the verge, got my left foot out and slowed up on the dirt footpath and managed to get my foot down and come to a stop.
It would have probably looked totally badass if I hadn't squealed like a girl while it was going on.
Whoa, put that in spoiler tags!