Did my first hour on the turbo last night, and have a turbo specific tyre on a spare rim. Should I be running it at the same pressure as my normal tyre?
Also, do you use a fan when you are riding? I found I got quite hot quickly (not helped by positioning my head 6 inches from a light bulb) and basically stripped down and used my t-shirt as a sweat rag
Fan is a must without question! Hell, I can't even imagine being on the turbo inside with the temperatures over 10 degrees!
My turbo work tends to be in the morning or night in the winter with temperatures at 5 degrees max and I'll still have a 14" desk fan blasting at me. I'd need a big floor fan and need to be outside in much warmer temperatures. But I'm a bit of a sweater!
Turbo tyre pressure is a hard one, you need a constant whichever pressure you're using. For me (as I now don't have a dedicated turbo bike and have to setup/dismantle it all every time), pumping my turbo tyre up to 95/100 PSI before every session (and then following the same technique to tighten onto the trainer) was the only way to get fairly consistent results.
Any amount of variability (even with a turbo setup which doesn't change, the tyre will leak air over time) will make your estimated power levels inaccurate and can vary your FTP (virtually not physically). Meaning any power/sweetspot efforts will then be too hard/easy, unless you have a power meter.
I didn't see the pedestrian until I reviewed the footage...! I hope something can be done, highly doubt it thought because no video of his face.
Yeah I doubt they'll do anything with your report, I expect it'd be different if the pedestrian reported it but then he's highly unlikely to have the registration to do so (and no footage).
I love the fact your GoPro is helmet mounted so we see all of the head shakes, arm gestures etc! Don't get that on my bar mounted VIRB!
Can I just chime in a few comments into the riding nutrition discussion? The type of riding you're doing, not to mention what your body gets used to doing will really determine what you can stomach.
My body is very used to commuting (20 mins @80% effort) and after work rides (an hour @90/100% effort) with only minimal fueling. I'll occasionally have a museli bar before an after work ride and have been known to take a gel (if it's at the end of a long week) but won't eat while riding.
For me having a good breakfast, even loading slightly (bowl of porridge & a bowl of museli) has worked very well for my longer (50+ mile) rides, but I usually find the first 15 miles I'm quite unsettled on the bike. I will then try and eat something every hour but have to wash it down, an hour and a half is much easier but invariably I'm quite empty by the end either way. It's not something I've done enough of, but anything over 3-4 hours I'd make sure I had a banana, 2-3 generic museli/granola bars (or 1-2 cliff bars), couple of gels (try to save these for later in the ride as too many don't agree with me) and expect to get through 3 tabbed drinks. Warmer weather I'd probably get through more drinks (and eating less) so should look at adding something to them.
