Road Cycling Essentials

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VeNT said:
nice, how much did that cost to respray?
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Urgh. Sore point - personally.

So I know of a powdercoater up in Derby or something who have done a few frames on Retrobike and they come out immaculate. £30 for blasting and coating in a single solid colour which is a great price. I was going to get it done there but I had a bit of paint to use up and when I added postage both ways I thought I'd do it myself. Well I should have known better because I've painted a few frames and it's always a ballache and you always use way more paint than you think. Which I did. So it's got 3 coats of black and 3 coats of clear on top and a LOT of my time :D

Though to be fair, the local powdercoaters are over double that and I haven't seen their coating, plus with powdercoat I'd not be able to do the stripes because you can't lacquer powdercoat.
 
Anyone suggest a 3-4 day road bike ride roughly 60 miles a day ? We were meant to be doing London to Paris but for various reasons we have opted against it.

I'm based in York but could travel to a start point. Obvious one is C2C but one of us has done this already.
 
246 miles this week. I really thought I was going to hit 250 but I ran out of time to finish things off today. Gah :/

My target was only 200 so I'm still doing okay but it would have been nice to hit 250 :)
 
Womble said:
Seemed like a good idea this morning but not so much when I was halfway out. Was hoping that I would get more of a tailwind but seemed like the wind kept following me around everywhere :(

Still, at least I got another outing on the new bike - should really clean it now but way too knackered

http://www.strava.com/activities/115472232
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Looks like a good route. You'll have to take me out that way some time.
 
FrenchTart said:
246 miles this week. I really thought I was going to hit 250 but I ran out of time to finish things off today. Gah :/

My target was only 200 so I'm still doing okay but it would have been nice to hit 250 :)
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Impressive effort!

I'm thinking of trying one of the Manchester wheelers café rides, next decent day we get.
 
FrenchTart said:
246 miles this week. I really thought I was going to hit 250 but I ran out of time to finish things off today. Gah :/

My target was only 200 so I'm still doing okay but it would have been nice to hit 250 :)
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Well done. Is 200 miles a week a long term target? I was tempted to go out yesterday and try to hit 400 but took the day off instead.
 
daveski said:
Well done. Is 200 miles a week a long term target? I was tempted to go out yesterday and try to hit 400 but took the day off instead.
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I'm not sure what my long-term target will be to be honest. I'd quite like for it to be 200 but that might not be possible to fit in around everything else. I definitely want to be over 150 each and every week - and when I get weekends free for riding I'd prefer to be closer to 250.
 
Is anyone here doing the Prudential RideLondon this year? I've been accepted but I don't know whether I can afford it really, travel and sleeping arrangements make it tricky.
 
Done to death no doubt but I need some bib shorts for the better weather. Got Castelli Velocissimo Bib Tights for the now/colder weather and very happy with them.

Any pointers for some bib shorts - most of the bib shorts from Castelli seem over £100 minimum.

dhb Aeron Pro Cycling Bib Short seem to get great reviews at reasonable price (£67)

Thoughts?
 
Bought some dhb Aeron Pro last week and wore them on Saturday.

Didn't think they had anything over and above the other, cheaper, shorts I have when I first put them on but they were still comfy 150 miles later.
 
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