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Roady said:
Forgot to say just how damn good that looks! Older Madone - those aero rim brakes and frame with the iso at the seatube, or is it something else? Decals almost look 3T but don't recall they did a rim brake frame. 404 rim firecrests as well from that era looking superb! Quite miss those loud white decals, considering how sleepy my newer ones look on my similar coloured SL7. Maybe I'll stick some white ones on it! The lack of 'loud' decals or colour on mine is the only thing which bugs me... But I know being an ex/retired raver my taste is pretty awful compared to most people! :cry: ;)

Actually did take some pics of mine after the dirty ride a few weeks back... Then also one of the Diverge clean as isn't something which happens much anymore (clean, or having it's pic taken) :D

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Thanks a lot, she's actually the first bike I built up myself from a frameset. I love how the rim brakes are set into the frame, also the first time using Q rings which I love.

She's getting on a bit now but my plan is to run those 404's into a grave, they've done so many thousands of km's but there is still life in them. She is a total dream to ride to be honest.

Love the black on yoiur specialized. I've been looking into new madones but I'm not a fan of the shape if I'm honest.
 
DJMK4 said:
Those look nice

Id love to build a bike from the frame onwards
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This how i have had all my bikes for the past two decades. Its immensely satisfying and means you are the best person to know how to fix it when issues come up. Ive even painted a couple of framesets with that spraybike stuff, but thats a whole other kettle of fish.
 
baritonejohann said:
This how i have had all my bikes for the past two decades. Its immensely satisfying and means you are the best person to know how to fix it when issues come up. Ive even painted a couple of framesets with that spraybike stuff, but thats a whole other kettle of fish.
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I may do it some day, i have seen some frames , I think id be fine with cabling, im not so comfortable with derlailures, fitting hubs and cassettes etc

I would like to learn how to do spray repairs or jobs too;
 
Talk to me about tyre widths. I'm looking at going tubeless and can't really decide between 25 or 28mm. I think the bike I'm fixing up can actually accomodate up to 32mm but it'll be for "racing".
 
Depends somewhat on your wheel width. However, broadly speaking, if you are cycling on poor roads, you are unlikely to be slower on 32s. If they feel too big, why not try 30s?
 
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DJMK4 said:
Id love to build a bike from the frame onwards
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DJMK4 said:
I may do it some day, i have seen some frames , I think id be fine with cabling, im not so comfortable with derlailures, fitting hubs and cassettes etc
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See, once you've done those through your own maintenance then a full build is only the next step. I've never done one - but I've stripped 3 bikes back to frames, while also changed mechanical to di2 (old style with all cables). Done my own bottom brackets. All bearings. Balanced wheels.

To be fair no real interest in buying a bare frame and then building up a bike - know I can do it and have done all the bits individually, most multiple times. Probably do it soon with my Diverge as have some flex/click/alignment I just can't sort, partly thinking frame is cracked/flexing somewhere. But she's been through a lot and 34,000 km in the last 9 years.

Probably more interested in learning how to build a wheel up. Have most the tools, but seems an absolute black art. The few times I've taken buckles out of a wheel or sorted alignment/broken or loose spokes... I can never get the wheel 'perfect'. They're passable and 'ok', but the harder I try the worse they get rather than better.

platypus said:
Talk to me about tyre widths. I'm looking at going tubeless and can't really decide between 25 or 28mm. I think the bike I'm fixing up can actually accomodate up to 32mm but it'll be for "racing".
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I'd always say 28mm, But does depend on your rim width a bit and maybe the frame to be sure of clearances...

Most modern bikes and wheels these days actually aimed towards 28mm so are most aero/faster!
 
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Roady said:
I'd always say 28mm, But does depend on your rim width a bit and maybe the frame to be sure of clearances...

Most modern bikes and wheels these days actually aimed towards 28mm so are most aero/faster!
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It'll be for a set of Hunt 50 UDs, 28mm middle of the spec should suit just fine.
 
Had a ride in this morning, my gearing is skipping like mad still :( i swear its skipping 3 cogs within a space of a few pedals
 
You may remember 3 weeks back I rode 80 miles and I'm convinced it weakened my body and I got ill for a week. Fever, nausea, headaches. Well, last weekend I went to Mallroca, rode 290 miles over mountains in 4 days and all seemed fine. Yesterday I woke with a slightly stuffy nose, but felt okay, so rode 64 miles... and I've come down ill again. (Sneexy, runny nose etc). I generally don't get ill, so I'm wondering what's going on. Has anyone experienced this sort of thing before? I'm a little concerned with the 312 in 4 weeks, this isn't the run in I was hoping for!
 
AndyCr15 said:
You may remember 3 weeks back I rode 80 miles and I'm convinced it weakened my body and I got ill for a week. Fever, nausea, headaches. Well, last weekend I went to Mallroca, rode 290 miles over mountains in 4 days and all seemed fine. Yesterday I woke with a slightly stuffy nose, but felt okay, so rode 64 miles... and I've come down ill again. (Sneexy, runny nose etc). I generally don't get ill, so I'm wondering what's going on. Has anyone experienced this sort of thing before? I'm a little concerned with the 312 in 4 weeks, this isn't the run in I was hoping for!
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odd, you could have something lingering, but I'd have expected it to show up by now. Maybe just overtraining or not supplementing the body with enough juice?
 
I'd recommend focusing on diet and sleep and little less on time on the bike.


Guessing no one here has signed up for a trial of Garmin's AI? I saw it just before going away for the weekend and almost signed up for the trial before asking 'what problem is it trying to solve?' I can say I am still none the wiser based on the internet's trials, perhaps Garmin should have asked the same question before releasing it.
 
Trifid said:
I'd recommend focusing on diet and sleep and little less on time on the bike.


Guessing no one here has signed up for a trial of Garmin's AI? I saw it just before going away for the weekend and almost signed up for the trial before asking 'what problem is it trying to solve?' I can say I am still none the wiser based on the internet's trials, perhaps Garmin should have asked the same question before releasing it.
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Yep. Not really thrown anything useful my way yet. This morning it told me my average sleep stress was lower than the past month or something.
 
I think the problem with all of these "AI" services is that they are almost all not actually AI. If all your training data was in their system and they trained their models on it then perhaps but thats really expensive to do and all of the "AI insights" I have seen from various platforms are super simple and would be achieved by a few if/then/else statements.

AI is the buzzword you need to include to get funding and look cool. Your boss wants it. He doesn't care if it isn't AI in the "proper" sense of the matter, he just wants to be able to stick AI in front of some product name or feature.

I won't be trying Garmin+ because I don't want to encourage super expensive hardware makers to start thinking of us customers as even more of a cash pinata to beat to death.
 
AndyCr15 said:
You may remember 3 weeks back I rode 80 miles and I'm convinced it weakened my body and I got ill for a week. Fever, nausea, headaches. Well, last weekend I went to Mallroca, rode 290 miles over mountains in 4 days and all seemed fine. Yesterday I woke with a slightly stuffy nose, but felt okay, so rode 64 miles... and I've come down ill again. (Sneexy, runny nose etc). I generally don't get ill, so I'm wondering what's going on. Has anyone experienced this sort of thing before? I'm a little concerned with the 312 in 4 weeks, this isn't the run in I was hoping for!
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Can't say i'm in the same boat, but i have noticed a general increase in general fatigue over the last few months. Falling asleep on the sofa around 7pm, taking ages to get going in mornings etc. Also really slow healing. My cat scratched me in December and i still have a scar on my hand where it's not healed, bruises from a blood test taking 3 weeks to go and have noticed a weird lump on my foot which may/may not be a bone spur.

I'm giving myself around 3 months off booze and trying to do more "body nurishment" type stuff to see if i notice any difference. Also have an appointment with a reumatologist in May to try and sort out the calcium deposit in my foot and also seem to have developed one in the palm of my hand.

Hope you manage to find the cause. Must be really annoying.
 
Yeah, i don't really see the benefit of Garmin yet. I think the best thing is Trainer Road where it gives decent cycling coaching, but i've not seen much of that from the Garmin offering yet. Seems to just be the same insights as Strava.


First ride for me since breaking my toe 5 weeks ago. The toe still hurts a lot (see above about me generally not healing well at the moment), but i'm sure a bit of cycling can't hurt it. Surprised at how tired i felt during the ride though given it was only a short effort.
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Junglist said:
....For now :)

I've taken a step back and have realised to stop beating myself up when I can't get on the bike. Life is moving super fast at the moment so riding time is few and far between
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Yeah, i'm a bit sad that i can't do the Iron Gravel event this weekend. I got the refund from insurance, but seems that's separate to the event so i'm technically still on the entry list. Have already spoken to the organiser to pick up my goody bag :D However i was also debating doing the 100km version, but today shows that's probably a bit much and i'll just end up frustrated.

For now i just want to take it easy and get back some consistency.
 
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