Road Cycling

madindehead · 13 Mar 2016 at 19:43

Bear said:
Haha, just had a look and you are just up the road Added you on Strava, hope you don't mind, you too madindehead.

Not a problem

Will add you back.

How was the eTap?

ShiWarrior · 13 Mar 2016 at 19:45

nice to see some more local people than those Northerners

and yes im bucks too

Bear · 13 Mar 2016 at 19:50

madindehead said:
Not a problem Will add you back.

How was the eTap?

Good thanks, nice and smooth. No mis-shifts or misaligned clickey noises so it's all setup nicely. It's nice not accidentally mashing the wrong button with full fingered gloves on like I did last week on my di2 bike, although I prefer the more snappy changes of di2

Bear · 13 Mar 2016 at 19:53

ShiWarrior said:
nice to see some more local people than those Northerners
and yes im bucks too

I know, I remember you popped round for a spin in my 200Sx in Chesham a long time ago now.

ShiWarrior · 13 Mar 2016 at 19:58

yeah, was it Chesham ? I dint think it was there

I liked that 200sx, although I liked mine too

BennyC · 13 Mar 2016 at 19:59

madindehead said:
Seeing PRs pop up is definitely nice

Was more to do with being 10 mins off the pace overall from last year, the wind, first ride outside and back side of a cold wasn't expecting much.

Bear said:
Haha, just had a look and you are just up the road Added you on Strava, hope you don't mind, you too madindehead.

No problem

Definitely plenty of climbs locally to keep us busy

Jimbeam3678 · 13 Mar 2016 at 20:04

Is Dale Finnegan from OCUK? He just give me a kudos on one of my rides just wondered who it was.

oli collett · 13 Mar 2016 at 20:07

Jon33 said:
Does anyone have any thoughts on speedplay pedals? I upgraded to SPD SL from regular SPD pedals and didn't really feel confident in them.

By far the best pedal system you can get. I gave up on SPD-SL after a few 100km of using them, horrible things

FrenchTart · 13 Mar 2016 at 20:19

BennyC said:
Finally off the turbo and outside again for the first time since October

Not far behind where I l eft off with quite a bit of gold and a few PR's too been shaking a cold recently too so should be a good season of riding.

https://www.strava.com/activities/516089096

You need to get a PM on there so you can compare efforts against your turbo power bests

BennyC · 13 Mar 2016 at 20:28

FrenchTart said:
You need to get a PM on there so you can compare efforts against your turbo power bests

soon

Groupset will be done this year at some point so no better time :cool:

Strangely sentimental about my battered old boardman

Will need to look at frames too. *Sigh*. I think this happened last time, I just couldn't decide, got confused and decided to stick with what I have

Saytan · 13 Mar 2016 at 20:48

BennyC said:
soon

Groupset will be done this year at some point so no better time

Strangely sentimental about my battered old boardman

Will need to look at frames too. *Sigh*. I think this happened last time, I just couldn't decide, got confused and decided to stick with what I have

Don't change for change's sake alone....

DaleTheWhale · 13 Mar 2016 at 20:55

Jimbeam3678 said:
Is Dale Finnegan from OCUK? He just give me a kudos on one of my rides just wondered who it was.

Hello.

randomshenans · 13 Mar 2016 at 22:04

Took my boy out on an ride today, but on the mtb, as that's all he has. I had to go slow enough as it was, I'd ruin him on the road bike.

Now I want to get him a road bike so we can go out

Dangerous...

Lethal` · 13 Mar 2016 at 22:08

randomshenans said:
Took my boy out on an ride today, but on the mtb, as that's all he has. I had to go slow enough as it was, I'd ruin him on the road bike.

Now I want to get him a road bike so we can go out

Dangerous...

I heard that Canyon make some nice bikes

randomshenans · 13 Mar 2016 at 22:10

Apparently... don't know where I heard that...

There's a nice endurace

ShiWarrior · 13 Mar 2016 at 22:44

you could always upgrade your bike, and give your son yours ..

randomshenans · 13 Mar 2016 at 23:02

Haha he's 11, frame would be too big... not sure where I'd go from what I have either

Jon33 · 14 Mar 2016 at 00:00

Thanks for the replies about the pedals all.

FrenchTart said:
Go back to SPDs...

I would but I often get numb feet whilst riding and a couple of people have mentioned (opinion here I haven't had chance to test it) that it could be because of the SPD style pedals and their small area.

uv · 14 Mar 2016 at 00:06

Jon33 said:
I would but I often get numb feet whilst riding and a couple of people have mentioned (opinion here I haven't had chance to test it) that it could be because of the SPD style pedals and their small area.

More likely it's your shoes - stiffer soles mean less pain. I've ridden a 200 mile ride with SPDs and no foot pain.

FrenchTart · 14 Mar 2016 at 08:05

Jon33 said:
I would but I often get numb feet whilst riding and a couple of people have mentioned (opinion here I haven't had chance to test it) that it could be because of the SPD style pedals and their small area.

Yup. Lots of people are quite uninformed. You'll get hotspots (which may or may not be the cause of your numb feet) if you have super flexy shoes. Get some that are decently stiff and the hotspots magically go away. People often go from super flexy SPD shoes to much more roady/performance SPD-SLs and then attribute the differences to the cleat rather than the shoe.

I'm not saying SPD-SLs are complete snake oil as there are some key differences but the hotspot one that people come out with a lot is completely wrong.