Road Cycling
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[Damien];27924369 said:
Thanks & good info, I think I'm already at the stage where I can pace myself to do the miles, these 30 miles @ 17/18mph fast/high intensity efforts have only been fuelled by 'Wiggle' haribo packets, isotonic drinks (Wiggle tabs) and the occasional flapjack. With no stop! I try and fuel myself slightly the night before by eating meat (usually chicken) and pasta although more often than not my friday night meal is pizza and chips (friday night treat!). These harder LBS shop social rides are generally saturday morning. I eat nuts and dried fruit most evenings and the morning of these rides I eat museli or porridge alongside my usual coffee and toast with marg.
The couple of longer distance leisure rides I've done solo are much easier efforts (~35 miles @ 15 mph) and I usually stop once or twice to admire the view/eat my haribo and enjoy the weather! My fuelling is similar (fruit/nuts/museli/porridge/haribo) and I'm fairly sure I can continue that fueling (with the lower intensity) across to the larger rides no problem. The last couple of easy 30's I've done on Sundays have barely even affected my commuting the next day.
Hey mate, nice name
3 weeks off is quite a break which is probably why you're suffering. You'll recover well though but I imagine it'll take a couple of rides to get your body back 'into the swing of things'.
I'm carrying The Park Tools vp1 patch kit, a set of Park Tools TL1c levers (after I broke some of my cheapy ones, currently carrying 5 levers!) along with 1 innertube and a frame mounted pump. Ideally I'd change tube in the case of a puncture, in the case of a double I'd have to repair one of them at the roadside. I've only had 3 punctures in ~2000 commuting miles, 1 caused by me (ie not actually out on the road). I also carry some latex gloves (stops dirty fingers!) and electrical tape (can be like an extra pair of hands when refitting a stubbon tyre) along with many tools (probably more than required but for what it takes I'd rather have them!). If my saddlebag was larger I'd carry the same but with 2 tubes!
Grudas if you're lurking do you (or someone else) have a link to the pads you're using from Amazon? Gonna grab me some!
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Thanks Von, Much easier than I thought and while I was doing it noticed how to adjust the reach on the lever at the same time, much nicer grab on the brakes now.
Hey mate, nice name
3 weeks off is quite a break which is probably why you're suffering. You'll recover well though but I imagine it'll take a couple of rides to get your body back 'into the swing of things'.
I'm carrying The Park Tools vp1 patch kit, a set of Park Tools TL1c levers (after I broke some of my cheapy ones, currently carrying 5 levers!) along with 1 innertube and a frame mounted pump. Ideally I'd change tube in the case of a puncture, in the case of a double I'd have to repair one of them at the roadside. I've only had 3 punctures in ~2000 commuting miles, 1 caused by me (ie not actually out on the road). I also carry some latex gloves (stops dirty fingers!) and electrical tape (can be like an extra pair of hands when refitting a stubbon tyre) along with many tools (probably more than required but for what it takes I'd rather have them!). If my saddlebag was larger I'd carry the same but with 2 tubes!
Grudas if you're lurking do you (or someone else) have a link to the pads you're using from Amazon? Gonna grab me some!
I also have a very similar kit as Roady above - only had one puncture (without any kit on me) in about 900km so far though. Just for ease (and laziness) I generally carry one of those aerosol cans that fill/inflate punctured inner tubes in a few seconds in my saddle bag at all times, ride home and replace it (I stocked up on an inner tube deal, so have a few backups!). Haven't had to use them so far, but for much longer rides I generally just carry a bog standard repair kit, but making sure to have the better levers with me.
In my saddle bag =
2x inner tubes.
1x CO2 inflator with canister fitted.
1x spare CO2 canister.
1x puncture repair kit (park tools self adhesive pads, park tools tyre levers x3, £10 note)
1x 14 piece multi tool.
My phone.
Out on very long rides, someone else tends to have a mini pump, I'd like to imagine I would never get through 2 spare tubes and have to do a punture repair but it's a possibility and I am covered for peace of mind.
2x inner tubes.
1x CO2 inflator with canister fitted.
1x spare CO2 canister.
1x puncture repair kit (park tools self adhesive pads, park tools tyre levers x3, £10 note)
1x 14 piece multi tool.
My phone.
Out on very long rides, someone else tends to have a mini pump, I'd like to imagine I would never get through 2 spare tubes and have to do a punture repair but it's a possibility and I am covered for peace of mind.
£499 power meter.
Not sure if it's any good or not but even if it's garbage it'll still help drive prices down from other manufacturers! £500 is something I can almost justify to myself...
Not sure if it's any good or not but even if it's garbage it'll still help drive prices down from other manufacturers! £500 is something I can almost justify to myself...
Soldato
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/triban-300-road-bike-white-id_8239800.html
£250 for a great starter bike.
£250 for a great starter bike.
Soldato
Sure it will be decent if the rest of Rotor stuff is anything to go by. Will possibly look to get one of these in the not to distant future so I can leave power on TT/Road bikes rather than swapping between the two.
I beleive £500 is only a left arm only though, so most without an existing rotor crankset will be paying more than that.
Caporegime
Yep, it's £700 for one that does both legs.
Soldato
Its not that it does both legs, I beleive it still only measures the left. Its just that the £500 version is literally a left crank arm and shaft only. So you remove your existing one and replace (if you own the respective rotor crank). £800 buys you the PM (in left arm assembly) and the right arm with spider.
Interesting the Garmin launched the Vector 2 today as well. Would have expected them to do away with those stupid pods but they've retained them.
Man of Honour
I've read a lot of mixed arguments about the whole two leg vs one leg measurement for PMs. The general belief seemed to be that most people don't have such bad muscle imbalances that measuring both legs isn't really required and for the average person it's probably worth saving the extra cash.
Those with PMs, any thoughts?
Those with PMs, any thoughts?
Anyone know if the Canyon Ultimate CF SLX frames are different for mechanical and electronics groupsets?
Ordered the 8.0 but I've just read that you can't upgrade to electronic if you want so might just fork out the extra £600 for the Di2 version.
Ordered the 8.0 but I've just read that you can't upgrade to electronic if you want so might just fork out the extra £600 for the Di2 version.
Soldato
I would still probably use one with the exception of Stages, just because of the other issues they have.
For me, as long as the PM works and is consistent then it doesn't really matter, its still going to get you to the end result. Sure comparison to other riders is nice, but its not what I have a PM for. Its much the same as trainer road and a turbo, sure the actual power figure is likely a fair bit off, but as long as its consistently off then you're fine to be able to track progress with it. It's still going to give you your training zones, and allow you to train specifically, while allowing you to track improvements.
As an aside I've always carried a bit of an imbalance in that my usual L/R balance is something like 48/52 anyway.
I find that when out for a casual ride, my left side is stronger but any TT riding I'm almost 50/50 bang on, I believe this is down to me playing football in my younger years, and being predominantly right footed, meaning my left leg done all the standing power. (or so my bikefit bloke told me)
The extra stats of the vectors certainly help as you can focus on where your muscle power is coming down on the pedal stroke, where your foot is putting the power down in the pedal etc, which in theory should help me ever so finely tune my cleats so they're in the most optimum position and work on that based upon this data.
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/748311538
Garmin trace with full stats.
Man of Honour
Yeah, that's a fair point. I think I'd be happy with a single arm PM as long as I could then use it for training - same as Trainer Road, as you say. I could potentially always add the extra arm at a later date if I really wanted too and at the very least I'd have spread the cost a little.
Definitely interesting to see the stats. How do you interpret the extra bits and use them to improve your riding?
The Garmin peddles aren't an option for me as I'm sticking with SPDs for the foreseeable future. Still interesting though.
How many punctures have you had recently? lol
I tend to carry 1 and have 2+ spares at home... If I were carrying 2 I'd probably look to have 5 or so at home!
Saw this in the racing thread:
Cleats & shoe heels gone!
And a bit of tyre burn...
Crazy! Scary!
Fair play to you Berger, bet you're glad to walk away from that one!
Man of Honour
Wootz. My blingy super lightweight SPD peddles have finally arrived.
Soldato
Well L/R balance is fairly easy to interpret, then you have some other stuff, but as the Garmin website has just died I can't tell you off the top of my head
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