House insurance up for renewal. AXA. Last year £340 with 3 bikes, this year they want £360 without the bikes covered! They won't do the Tarmac (although we added it on in April for '£45 for 12 months or until renewal) and even the other 3 they've covered for several years (valued at £2500+550+500) they won't go below £450. Literally +105 at renewal and less covered. But how is this for crazy - they've said that even if I cover the Tarmac with a different insurer, as it'll be in the garage they insure they won't cover the garage+contents with it these. It's too high risk due to the value of the bike even if someone else insures the bike itself they say they're still liable for it if someone breaks/forces the garage to get to it.
Shopped around, looks like LV offering £465 with all 3 bikes (£304 without) including things like home emergency and accidental damage. 50k contents cover and less excess than AXA. 20k garage cover, not including the bike value.
Anyone wanna buy a set of R470 DB disc brake wheels? Have the originals (new+unused) with tubes and Specialized Turbo 26x700 tyres. Will have another set soon when the new bike arrives. They seem to sell used £100-200 and unused £200-300 but ebay is pretty full of them (lots of off the shelf bikes come with them and get replaced when new). Got 1 club guy interested in a set but think he's after more of an upgrade over his Giant ones.
I've got some Zwift friends who ride from Stourbridge to Aberystwyth (just over 100 miles) once a year then catch the train back. It's turned into an epic summer ride for their group of friends (to have fish&chips on the seaside) and a few times they've stayed over, doing a night on the town then very hungover caught the train back the next morning
Good to hear Wahoo covering RMA even after the 5th - they still replacing them after your original over 2 years old? Fairly sure they have 2 year warranty (was quite surprised to see over 12 months). My v1 lasted 5-6 years, the v2 was 18 months old before it had some ingress and refused to wake up. The RMA replacement is 10 months ago and still going...
Was a nice weekend though, only a couple of rain showers and did take my jumper off for a few hours both days!
Still consider the TICKR v1 for £41 and then the v2 for £39.99 and I had 9 years & 10 months out of them... What's that, around 70p a month, 15-16p a week. Maybe an extra couple of pence as the CR2032 last for 6-8 months. Consumable!
Lucky I wasn't more injured from a financial perspective (while also still being able to work), it sounds much harder to claim over 10k total from a driver with most insurers, without lots more legal advice & having a solicitor to do it for you.
Don't bother with the chamois butter 'euro style'. I tried it as an alternative to my usual Assos and in the hot weather it caused rashes & itching. Was ok in the cold. Back on Assos and probably won't change again, used it for many years & can easily recommend it - https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Assos/Chamois-Cream-200ml/B6
Shopped around, looks like LV offering £465 with all 3 bikes (£304 without) including things like home emergency and accidental damage. 50k contents cover and less excess than AXA. 20k garage cover, not including the bike value.
Anyone wanna buy a set of R470 DB disc brake wheels? Have the originals (new+unused) with tubes and Specialized Turbo 26x700 tyres. Will have another set soon when the new bike arrives. They seem to sell used £100-200 and unused £200-300 but ebay is pretty full of them (lots of off the shelf bikes come with them and get replaced when new). Got 1 club guy interested in a set but think he's after more of an upgrade over his Giant ones.
Certainly the reasons you're doing it for - do some loops as boring as that may be - as you're 'crossing it off' on the way to building towards longer hilly-mountain sportive type etape challenges. So to get the ride done, the distance under your belt, do some loops but make them interesting. Either roads you know well and ride them regularly still enjoying them (just be aware it might ruin them!), or something with a 'target' along the way. A nice cafe stop ~30-40 miles away (and stop there twice) or similar. Or figure out a place you can ride to, then catch a train/bus easily back from which you can take your bike on...My goal was to get an Imperial Century in by the end of July. Debated getting it done tomorrow so went to use Strava to create a route. Set distance to 100m and Elevation to "flat"
Not a single route under 2000m of ascent. The "easiest" one had an 800m climb around 30 miles in! Might need to spend some time myself!
I've got some Zwift friends who ride from Stourbridge to Aberystwyth (just over 100 miles) once a year then catch the train back. It's turned into an epic summer ride for their group of friends (to have fish&chips on the seaside) and a few times they've stayed over, doing a night on the town then very hungover caught the train back the next morning
Try bicep/wrist mounting it? No idea how accurate it might be...Anyone got any recomendations for HR monitors that isnt a Wahoo Tickr as i have just RMA'd my 5th Tickr v2 they only seem to last me 6-12 months? I am guessing that Wahoo will stop replacing it eventually. I did see GP Lamas video on the new rechargable one and he looks like he dosn't much luck with them and showed a lot of failed ones.
Good to hear Wahoo covering RMA even after the 5th - they still replacing them after your original over 2 years old? Fairly sure they have 2 year warranty (was quite surprised to see over 12 months). My v1 lasted 5-6 years, the v2 was 18 months old before it had some ingress and refused to wake up. The RMA replacement is 10 months ago and still going...
I'm in Cyprus next week. The way the weather has been here feel it's the only summer I think I'll actually see... 12 degrees and raining here again.Not sure i'm going to get the sympathy i'm after here, but it's now starting to get so warm that even the pool is up to 29C and so not refreshing to jump into after a ride anymore
Was a nice weekend though, only a couple of rain showers and did take my jumper off for a few hours both days!
Best way is to consider them as a consumable!I’m using a cheap Amazon HR monitor ~£25. It has been faultless so far in 3 months. My previous tickR lasted 2.5 years. I think my sweating makes HR monitors a consumable item so I trying to go cheap and replace than pay massive amounts.
Still consider the TICKR v1 for £41 and then the v2 for £39.99 and I had 9 years & 10 months out of them... What's that, around 70p a month, 15-16p a week. Maybe an extra couple of pence as the CR2032 last for 6-8 months. Consumable!
Won't be spending 7k on a bike... 'Only' spent 3.5 on the one which was trashed (excluding upgrades & wheels). Putting me back to the same position (I'm getting same again - with new wheels) will bring it up to 4.5k. Considering the personal injury is going to be years/months to sort and them only paying out up to 3k for it (as reading the small print total combined claim can't be above 10k) I'm considering some of that 7k as personal injury.Amazing news about the insurance!!!
7k can get a really nice new bike those days
Lucky I wasn't more injured from a financial perspective (while also still being able to work), it sounds much harder to claim over 10k total from a driver with most insurers, without lots more legal advice & having a solicitor to do it for you.
Got hit by a driver - cut across in front of me, rode into his wing @20-25mph in front of a military police unit. Somehow escaped with lots of scrapes, bruises and a fractured fingertip! Frame/forks/bars/front wheel/shifters all complete write offs but no problems with liability, just the hassle of sorting everything out with claim & wearing a plastic splint on my finger (which I hopefully get to take off tomorrow as 3 week checkup!)Completely missed this what happened to the old one? Also depending on how you get the money you may not wish to spend it all!
Result!Been getting a bit of discomfort and conscious it’s the start of a rash/saddle sores. Would make sense given some hotter longer rides recently.
Ordered some Muc Off chamois cream from Amazon. Cried a little that it was €25 for a 250ml pot. However they’ve ballsed up and send me a box of 8 tube
Don't bother with the chamois butter 'euro style'. I tried it as an alternative to my usual Assos and in the hot weather it caused rashes & itching. Was ok in the cold. Back on Assos and probably won't change again, used it for many years & can easily recommend it - https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Assos/Chamois-Cream-200ml/B6