Road Cycling

lordrobs said:
EDIT - Oh, and my Aldi "totally the same as the Moon Nebula" light packed up at some point during the ride. I normally run two lights if they are needed but as it was daylight I didn't 'need' a light so just relied on that one. I only had it on low flashing and it had plenty of charge but it seems that the cool weather sucked the life out of it. It has now been relegated to backup light and will be further relegated to the bin when I find what I want to replace it. Why won't someone make a rechargeable light with about 25 Lumens that has flash and steady, that's it? I don't want 10 levels of output, sixteen flashing modes and a super powerful retina destroying setting that kills the battery in 3 minutes. Maybe I should design my own, I'd even throw in a feature where it beeps when it goes on so you can reach around and click it on while on the move and know, even with gloves on, if you've actualy switched the thing on. Quick, to Kickstarter!
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I bought a pair of these:

Bicycle Bike 3 LED 4 Modes Head Front Rear Tail Light Lamp USB Rechargeable

Just over £7 all in for both, and they've been excellent so far. The front is obviously just a "be seen" light, but I have two other powerful lights for dark night riding.



 
The bonus being; my wife just said what are you going to do? You could order a new trainer and if you can get the Vortex to work, I could try and do some pedaling with you on the charity ride...

So, she's just TOLD me to buy a new trainer... how's that!? :D

Bonus #2: The Flux is now up to 794EUR on that same site... nearly 200 more than I paid 4 days ago.

Score.
 
Going to start looking into getting a road bike :D Had a Triban 5 a couple of years ago which i grossly underused. WIll probably look at getting another one, seem relatively cheap on ebay nowadays and from what i remember they had excellent reviews back then.

One thing I'm concerned about, is my ass. I'd like to do rides throughout next year, some of which are upwards of 80 miles or so. I have cycling shorts from decathlon but can people suggest either really good cycling shorts, or really comfortable seats for this sort of period of time :) I know a lot of it will simply be getting your ass accustomed to sitting in the saddle for long periods of time but anything to help would be great :)

Also, am i correct in being told that 700x25 tyres are a good upgrade to make? for comfort/better road handling?
 
25s are better for comfort yes, even better are 28s, but unlikely to be able to get in most normal road frames easily.

Buy decent shorts, one mans comfortable saddle is another mans worst nightmare so it's just trying things out or getting measured sit bones etc. Charge Spoons get a lot of praise and may be a good place to start.
 
Frozen outside so I'm on the bus. The roads look navigable, but there's heavy rain forecast for tonight and I can't really be arsed... Tomorrow looks worse, joy.
 
Thomas. PLease. said:
25s are better for comfort yes, even better are 28s, but unlikely to be able to get in most normal road frames easily.

Buy decent shorts, one mans comfortable saddle is another mans worst nightmare so it's just trying things out or getting measured sit bones etc. Charge Spoons get a lot of praise and may be a good place to start.
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I'd definitely get one decent pair. Makes all the difference. My go to brand at the moment is Endura.
 
NooBish AbbZ said:
One thing I'm concerned about, is my ass. I'd like to do rides throughout next year, some of which are upwards of 80 miles or so. I have cycling shorts from decathlon but can people suggest either really good cycling shorts, or really comfortable seats for this sort of period of time :) I know a lot of it will simply be getting your ass accustomed to sitting in the saddle for long periods of time but anything to help would be great :)
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What's equally important is making moving about on the saddle (and getting out of it when called for) second nature. Regularly restoring blood flow and alleviating pressure goes a long way. As does the correct saddle height and fit to avoid rocking.
 
hornetstinger said:
I don't like disc brakes at all. No modulation basically no braking power then lockup. Find my M615 to be worse than all the other road dual pivot. Have cut down hose, bled and burped them..
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1) you're wrong 2) you're in the wrong thread, M615 are for MTB

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Saddles, I can't recommend the Brooks Cambium C's enough. My C15 is the only saddle that I can comfortably do over a hundred on, and at the end of a 500km charity ride my butt was the only thing that wasn't sore.
 
grudas said:
didn't you have some heated gloves before? :o
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Yes they were ****. The Li batteries were huge lumps on your wrist and they didn't last very long on full power. I don't think battery tech is there yet for heated gloves.
 
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Currently riding a cough Trek MTB cough on holiday and it has Tektro hydraulic disc brakes and am not impressed at all. Braking power isn't all that and modulation is meh but I guess Tektro is pretty crap.
 
Shamrock said:
Yes they were cr@p. The Li batteries were huge lumps on your wrist and they didn't last very long on full power. I don't think battery tech is there yet for heated gloves.
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How much for those gloves, I was looking at some motorcycle heated gloves, which I think are going to be the way to go if you really need to ride and suffer like some of us do. Battery pack can be mounted in the jacket I think or they run off 12v so you could plug into something on the frame if necessary :D
 
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