Heard back finally from Insurers, payout agreed at around £7k so can finally get replacement ordered...!
You don't need to be riding £80 'best' rubber in the winter, if anything that's a big no-no as a complete waste of money. Use a cheaper 40-50 quid if you do want a 'nice' tyre for winter.
Yup, certainly with Shimano lots of people use Ultegra/105 cassettes as they're far harder wearing in bad weather than Dura-Ace.
Very good price for very light wheels! Still not sure how I feel about carbon spokes... Hadn't heard of that brand before.
Great work! Well done!First attempt of cycling hill reps today. Around 70m over 1.5km so nothing too steep, but enough to feel like a decent effort, and quick enough to fly down to the bottom to restart again.
Looking at splits though (the hill is conviniently a Strava Segment) i was progressively slower with each rep so probably need to try and work on pacing better to push harder rather than taking it easy.
As Martyn says - change your tyres, especially as it sounds like being a fair weather commuter you're now looking at commuting in 'worse' (winter) weather then consider switching out tyres (maybe even wheels!) to something more specific to grip and winter riding.I'm normally a fair weather (commuter) cyclist, but opportunities this year have been slim.
Therefore I'm considering taking my road bike out in the rain when our brief summer comes to an end, this will be a real shock for my bike as it's never seen the rain before!
What bothers me is that part of my commute is a cycle path through a nature reserve which can get quite leafy and muddy.
Before COVID I used to boss through that kind of terrain on my e-mountain bike, but my road bike is a very difficult animal - is there much that can be done to increase confidence, or is it just a case of slowing to crawling pace and sucking it up?
You don't need to be riding £80 'best' rubber in the winter, if anything that's a big no-no as a complete waste of money. Use a cheaper 40-50 quid if you do want a 'nice' tyre for winter.
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