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Literally my first ride with this chain. I'm pretty sure y'all are just lying when you say you can keep them clean. Or maybe it's just the cycling gods just punishing me for not being arsed to shave my legs. Hmm...
 
platypus said:
Top end Castelli is the best stuff I own. Better than Asos/Rapha/DHB, all of which I have several items.
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Have to agree with this. I have top end castelli stuff (mainly rosso corsa) and its leagues a head of any DHB stuff i've tried and currently own. But it is double the price so i would assume it would be.
 
One More Solo said:
The Aeron Speed are really good quality shorts, you shouldn't discount them just because they have dhb written on them. Minimal brand tax so you get very high quality materials and chamois for the price.
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I work on as do most consumers a 2 strike and you're out policy. I've tried DHB gear twice and both times its been poor. Where as Extendo gear and Castelli gear has been roughly the same price and is superb.

Obviously everyone has different opinions but I'm certainly in the anti DHB gang.

To counter the above I find the Planet X over shoes the best and they are cheap. Mainly based on the fact they have velcro backs and not stupid zips which always break!
 
PermaBanned said:
!horrific picture!

Literally my first ride with this chain. I'm pretty sure y'all are just lying when you say you can keep them clean. Or maybe it's just the cycling gods just punishing me for not being arsed to shave my legs. Hmm...
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I am in all manners of rage now.
Why don't your bottles match? Were you training for more than 3 hours? Your bottle cages do not even match FFS!!! :mad:

Shave your legs you monster.

No wonder your chain is crying out to you.
 
xdcx said:
Been here a lot with proper structured training lately.
Training with power and HR then utilising a PMC is very worthwhile if you don't. RPE is a waste of time for gauging where you are at and how you should be performing as I've seen me feel awful before a session and then on the bike I perform amazingly, then other days feel buzzing for my session only to get on the bike and feel totally flat.

Acute and Chronic fatigue is a hard one to master but worthwhile trying. Along with diet, previous few days sleep, stuff going on in your life off the bike etc. Heart Rate is a great first brief and quick look analysis (sometimes). If it is high in the morning or higher than normal when you are warming up this is a sign that you are under heavier fatigue and rightfully won't perform at your best, BUT, I have recently had a bout of low HR and being unable to raise it and was feeling fla/underperforming, so even that can go both ways.

Basically, power alone, HR alone or RPE is not the answer to gauging your body/performance/fatigue. Combinbing all, using a PMC to track and forecast and pulling it all together is as best as you are going to get to nailling it, but even then it won't be 100% :cool: The joys of the human body!
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I'll just take a rest day & get on it again tomorrow.

Legs didn't feel terrible on the mtb into work.
 
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