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Rule of thumb, when you tell your GF you'll be half an hour doing some bike maintenance you may as well write off the entire evening.

Am I the only one who has to relearn how to fix their bike each time they need to do a job?
 
Going to Cali said:
Rule of thumb, when you tell your GF you'll be half an hour doing some bike maintenance you may as well write off the entire evening.

Am I the only one who has to relearn how to fix their bike each time they need to do a job?
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Never ever give them a time frame. They will hold you to it by the second. This of course after they have moaned at you for allocating any time to doing anything they haven't told you to do in the first place anyway.

I've been waiting to fit my new chain for a week, it's not worth the female hassle.
 
FrenchTart said:
Paging Roady. Paging Roady.
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Lol I missed this before my previous post...! Nice to know you missed me!

Had wanted to jump on the turbo yesterday but was kidding myself. You wouldn't have liked me posting in here yesterday.

Yesterday was mostly spent moaning. Left Gatwick @7am after an 8 hour flight. Left Jamaica at around 6pm Jamaican time (GMT-5) and was awake at 7am for breakfast... So with the nice 5+ hour drive home (slow motorways!) it was already fartoolongawake(.com). Unpacked a few things and then jumped in the shower... Noticed the shower/bath was wet after we hadn't been there all week. Great. A leak in the damn roof from an overflow pipe that looks like it'd frozen solid and perished! So after stopping that and mopping it up I wasn't in the best of moods! Super^moaning! ;)
merlin said:
Net result is that bike is borderline comfortable and feeling like its close to being my new best friend.

Managed a KOM on a little sprint on way home. Good omen!
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Lesson learnt - check everything before heading out! ;)

Glad you're enjoying it and congrats on the sprint! First of many! :D
Dunks said:
Noticed my rear wheel looked a bit out of true when putting some lube on the chain this morning, gave the spokes a quick grab to see what the tension was like where the wheel was pulling to one side and then the spoke fell out with some of the rim still attached!

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Second problem I've had with my Planet X, first one resulted in the frame being sent back and a 4 week wait, I'm going to try and get a new wheel sent out prior to then receiving this one.. not happy!
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Scary! Looks like metal fatigue with those edges, wouldn't be too overly concerned over the shape of it. What brand of rim are they? (so I can avoid!) ;)
grudas said:
clearly needs to keep pushing :)
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BennyC said:
A 1KG fluctuation in bodyweight really is negligible. I bounce around that whilst maintaining on a weekly basis.
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Oh I know, only using it as a bit of a training impetus! ;)

Love the 'awaken the dragon' comment! :D
 
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Going to Cali said:
Rule of thumb, when you tell your GF you'll be half an hour doing some bike maintenance you may as well write off the entire evening.

Am I the only one who has to relearn how to fix their bike each time they need to do a job?
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I always do this, oh just need to redo my bartape, 2 hours later, just finishing off a work of art akin to the Mona Lisa. :D

xdcx said:
Never ever give them a time frame. They will hold you to it by the second. This of course after they have moaned at you for allocating any time to doing anything they haven't told you to do in the first place anyway.

I've been waiting to fit my new chain for a week, it's not worth the female hassle.
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Need a new one, I'm trying to find one that'll be my pit "female dog" for CX :D Surprisingly they've not been forthcoming so far :P
 
When using a power metre for pacing, is it better to ride to %FTP, or power zones?

I'm using %FTP at the moment (bear in mind I've only ridden with one twice now!), but that jumps about quite a lot (and I dont know my FTP fully yet).

The zones seem a bit broader and seem like they would be more stable.
 
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Reckon they'll see me?

-8c out there this morning, positively penis shrinking.
 
Shadowness said:
When using a power metre for pacing, is it better to ride to %FTP, or power zones?

I'm using %FTP at the moment (bear in mind I've only ridden with one twice now!), but that jumps about quite a lot (and I dont know my FTP fully yet).

The zones seem a bit broader and seem like they would be more stable.
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When I'm doing training on zwift, it's at %FTP. It jumps around but you keep it as steady as you can. I get to know what gear I'm in, and what cadence and what that will ultimately tell me my power I'm likely to be putting out.
e.g. If I'm aiming for 72% of FTP, it's about 240w, so pick a gear that has me spinning at ~90rpm, which I prefer as well as putting that power out and then just try and stick to that rhythm spinning.
 
Shadowness said:
When using a power metre for pacing, is it better to ride to %FTP, or power zones?

I'm using %FTP at the moment (bear in mind I've only ridden with one twice now!), but that jumps about quite a lot (and I dont know my FTP fully yet).

The zones seem a bit broader and seem like they would be more stable.
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I wouldn't use it for pacing just yet. Ride with it some more and just look at the figures to get an idea of what certain power outputs "feel" like.
 
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