Road Cycling

Roady · 5 Mar 2015 at 10:24

Had a random follow from this guy: https://www.strava.com/athletes/8120305

Any of you guys?

daveski said:
Told you

My legs hate you

Vonhelmet said:
but the second leg has nearly three times the climbing of the first, as expected.

It is called the peak district after all so they should'nt be totally unprepared

FrenchTart · 5 Mar 2015 at 10:26

Vonhelmet said:
I've got the routes for my May charity ride.

Liverpool to Manchester
Manchester to Sheffield

Roughly equal split in terms of distance, but the second leg has nearly three times the climbing of the first, as expected. It looks like 2 cat 3s and two cat 4s, so nothing too tricky. One of the cat 3s gets up to 15% or so, which could be interesting for the less experienced cyclists.

I've ridden quite a lot of the Manchester > Sheffield route. Lots of really nice scenery aside from the bits in Manchester and Sheffield

The climb from Marple to Mellor is quite unrelenting but it's not that steep. Good choices on avoiding the TPT from Liverpool to Manchester and the A6 near Chapel-en-ly-Frith too.

You'll be passing about 2 miles from my house when you go through Heaton Chapel

Still working on my route for Sat. If you're at a loose end you should feel free to join us btw...

FrenchTart · 5 Mar 2015 at 10:27

Roady said:
Had a random follow from this guy: https://www.strava.com/athletes/8120305

Any of you guys?

My legs hate you

Looks dodgy as hell. I'd block him.

Asprilla · 5 Mar 2015 at 10:40

I make sure my profile requires permission to follow.I'd recommend everyone does the same.

daveski · 5 Mar 2015 at 10:59

Roady said:
Had a random follow from this guy: https://www.strava.com/athletes/8120305

Any of you guys?

My legs hate you

Block him, change profile as Asprilla says.

My legs hate me too, yesterday I did a 5 mile run, then cycled to work. After work cycled straight to the pool and did a 45 minute swim fit class, then did the Wednesday night group ride (27 miles @ around 20mph)

Still cycled in this morning.

Shamrock · 5 Mar 2015 at 11:05

daveski said:
Block him, change profile as Asprilla says.

My legs hate me too, yesterday I did a 5 mile run, then cycled to work. After work cycled straight to the pool and did a 45 minute swim fit class, then did the Wednesday night group ride (27 miles @ around 20mph)

Still cycled in this morning.

You are gonna smash it at the Outlaw!

Well impressed/jelly of your 6:00/mi run the other day.

FrenchTart · 5 Mar 2015 at 11:13

Manchester to Leeds route drafted out. Does anyone that has ridden parts of it have any thoughts?

I've not ridden north/east of the Peaks that much.

https://www.strava.com/routes/1522024

Roady · 5 Mar 2015 at 11:35

daveski said:
Block him, change profile as Asprilla says.

My legs hate me too, yesterday I did a 5 mile run, then cycled to work. After work cycled straight to the pool and did a 45 minute swim fit class, then did the Wednesday night group ride (27 miles @ around 20mph)

Still cycled in this morning.

What's the worry with randoms following, I'm not overly concerned if someone wants to Strava stalk me, there's nothing they can do?! (unless I'm missing something)...

Shamrock said:
You are gonna smash it at the Outlaw!

Well impressed/jelly of your 6:00/mi run the other day.

6 minute mile is great pace! Well done Dave! I've a school friend who 6/mi's 10k's and he's a machine! :eek:

(also an ex astrophysics lecturer and judo instructor - one of those annoying people who excels at anything he does! :rolleyes:

)

daveski · 5 Mar 2015 at 11:36

Shamrock said:
You are gonna smash it at the Outlaw!

Well impressed/jelly of your 6:00/mi run the other day.

Yeah so am I, unfortunately there's a massive GPS error and it wasn't anywhere near that pace. The Garmin trace has me running through houses and all sorts.

FrenchTart · 5 Mar 2015 at 11:37

Roady said:
What's the worry with randoms following, I'm not overly concerned if someone wants to Strava stalk me, there's nothing they can do?! (unless I'm missing something)...

Track where you are at what times to either break into your house or steal your bike.

GSVBagpuss · 5 Mar 2015 at 11:45

You can hide the last 1 mile of any route even to your followers

AndrewP · 5 Mar 2015 at 11:54

AndrewP said:
Mine got processed but just had an email asking where I got the code from before they'll confirm the order.

I ignored the email and they sent it anyway, but to be fair it was for 2 High5 packs so I only saved about £2.50!

grudas · 5 Mar 2015 at 11:55

so to get a response from PX re the order with the voucher, I had to -;

email - ignored
tell them that their CS sucks on their own facebook - which got them to quickly respond.. :/

status re the CS ticket and order..

Apologies for that, your ticket has been picked and forwarded to my colleague who deals with courier issues. Unfortunately, he is off today but will investigate it further tomorrow. I had a look at your account and it looks like the goods were already picked and should be shipped within the next 24 hours. Sorry for the problems!

ehem... :| ordered sunday! ffs.

touch · 5 Mar 2015 at 11:58

GSVBagpuss said:
You can hide the last 1 mile of any route even to your followers

Yep, set up an 'exclusion zone' around your house so nobody can see exactly where you start or finish your rides.

FrenchTart said:
Track where you are at what times to either break into your house or steal your bike.

This isnt too much of a problem for me. I'm lucky that all of my bikes live securely inside the house. Strava followers might be able to work out what bikes I own and roughly where I live but if anyone did manage to get in without setting off an alarm or waking us up, there's no chance they would get any bikes out without making any noise.
Would be much easier to take my car keys or phone/laptop.

daveski · 5 Mar 2015 at 12:00

grudas said:
ehem... :| ordered sunday! ffs.

Still nothing here! Might give them a call.

Asprilla · 5 Mar 2015 at 12:00

GSVBagpuss said:
You can hide the last 1 mile of any route even to your followers

I do that to. Don't forget an exclusion zone at work if you need it too.

They are probably just scare stories but there have been incidents reported of thieves using Strava to track down high end bikes.

FrenchTart · 5 Mar 2015 at 12:02

touch said:
This isnt too much of a problem for me. I'm lucky that all of my bikes live securely inside the house. Strava followers might be able to work out what bikes I own and roughly where I live but if anyone did manage to get in without setting off an alarm or waking us up, there's no chance they would get any bikes out without making any noise.
Would be much easier to take my car keys or phone/laptop.

To be honest I never used to bother with much in the way of privacy settings as there's only a small amount of time each day that my house is empty and my bike is stored somewhere that whilst not super secure also isn't really easy to steal bikes from. As I got a few more people on there that I don't know that well I moved to a slightly more private set up but I still don't like using the privacy zones as it just irks me seeing bits of my ride missing.

Dunks · 5 Mar 2015 at 12:03

grudas said:
so to get a response from PX re the order with the voucher, I had to -;

email - ignored
tell them that their CS sucks on their own facebook - which got them to quickly respond.. :/

status re the CS ticket and order..

ehem... :| ordered sunday! ffs.

Ordered that Planet X London Road I linked to earlier, taking the gamble with SRAM double-shift, although not that worried as it seems pretty straight forward and the Rival 22 groupset gets great reviews!

Hopefully the order goes smoothly

touch · 5 Mar 2015 at 12:06

FrenchTart said:
I still don't like using the privacy zones as it just irks me seeing bits of my ride missing.

I dont think you see that? (unless I have set mine up wrong?)

It still shows me my full rides but (hopefully) not for other people.

Asprilla · 5 Mar 2015 at 12:06

Double Tap is great. Lots of folks say it's rubbish, but I just think they haven't given it time. I switch between Sram and Shimano without thinking.