Road Cycling

Off skiing next week, hoping my knee is sufficiently recovered. I'll be taking it easy, as usual at present :(.

Then when I'm back I need to up the mileage slowly. May feels ages away but it will be upon us before I realise it.
 
Foreign Sportive medical certificate, anyone know what the medical should contain, asked my gp and they said tell us what you need done. Think few people have done L'etape before.
 
"Got back up on that horse" at the ridiculous time of ~1740 yesterday, after losing the front end on a regular mini-roundabout I use on Tuesday's dry ride, bit of a mystery what happened but I guess my random increase in the tyre pressures (to near maximum) was a contributory factor. Strava recording messed up, but I thought I approached at roughly the same speed (~15mph), went to turn right but the front wheel wanted to carry straight ahead! Bike got a few scratches (right bar end, pedal, rear derailleur), my right palm base took almost all of my impact, was really sore Tuesday night. Applied ice, but didn't bother with painkillers, tried to keep hand raised above heart to reduce swelling.

Amazingly, woke up Wednesday with hand feeling a lot happier than I expected, but the daylight's rain put me off going out. However, the rain stopped late afternoon, so as it was going dark I decided to slay my going out demons and also see if the bike was ok after the wipeout...

About an hour later of gentle-moderate pace on my doorstep ~0.6 mile loop, taking the four junction corners very conservatively after Tuesday's events, I grabbed the tablet out of my jacket to stop the Strava recording. 20-odd loops, ~14.5 miles, what the heck?!?! :eek:
 
booyaka said:
Crash protection mode?? Have you disconnected battery and reconnected it again?
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Prior to this I had everything showing on the screen, went to update all the firmwares as it was the first time it had all been plugged in to a laptop, said that an update to battery had failed so it will retry when I came back to the laptop, then just lost everything, so disconnected everything and now nothing will even charge etc and that was what was showing last time. got it all apart now, so will plug in bits one by one tonight as have left everything disconnected overnight.
 
SoliD said:
Prior to this I had everything showing on the screen, went to update all the firmwares as it was the first time it had all been plugged in to a laptop, said that an update to battery had failed so it will retry when I came back to the laptop, then just lost everything, so disconnected everything and now nothing will even charge etc and that was what was showing last time. got it all apart now, so will plug in bits one by one tonight as have left everything disconnected overnight.
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damn - that's a pain indeed. I recently updated the firmware on the Rear Derailleur and it was fine. Only single issue I ever had was out on a ride and it got a bump and went into crash protection mode. Had to disconnect the battery and then wait 5 mins or so for it to reset itself. Other than that 3k miles without a hitch.
 
SoliD said:
Foreign Sportive medical certificate, anyone know what the medical should contain, asked my gp and they said tell us what you need done. Think few people have done L'etape before.
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Most of the sportives have the same template for the medical certificate. The one for l'etape is here: http://www.letapedutour.com/us/race/to-do-list
Think the important thing is to get some form of official stamp on the form. The french doctors have a stamp that shows the address, the doctor name, date and then they sign it. I took a letter from my GP I had before I moved out here (I live in France now) and for some of the other sportives I had to be persuasive with my limited french. This year I'll be getting the french medical certificate.
 
Shadowness said:
All these over complicated Di2 systems.......never had any trouble with my eTap system. Join the 21st century, cable free ;)
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If they didn't have such terrible TT based systems I would have, that and the fact I've got a full TT set up for less than 2/3rds the cost of basic eTap too. Was all fine until I started messing around with it.
 
Roady said:
I turned those off, don't want an alert every time someone posts in here. Left the alerts on for people quoting my posts as that is a better way of keeping track. Would be nice to have some alerts for some posts (less busy ones!), and the option of switching them off for busy ones... (adding that to suggestions!).
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Mine will all be from you then. Roady Multiquote Master
 
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High5 Box of 20 x Energy Gel: Orange Plus
High5 Box of 25 x IsoGel: Citrus Plus
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All for £35 delivered. Horary for Canyon special deals.
A single box of the High5 gels was £3.95.
 
platypus said:
Off skiing next week, hoping my knee is sufficiently recovered. I'll be taking it easy, as usual at present :(.
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Slow and steady wins the race mate! Enjoy skiing but listen to your body, skiing is damn hard on your knees! I switched to boarding 5-6 years ago and found it puts a lot less stress on my knees, just loads more on hips & shins!
Shadowness said:
If I don't go, I'm seriously considering doing this: http://pages.rapha.cc/m2l

Rapha Manchester to London ride.

I still need to crack 200 miles, and I've read this is meant to be a good event. Anyone heard anything about it?
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A few here have done similar mileage (ask FT!) but unsure if any have done that particular ride (OMS? SoliD?), several local guys I know have done it and all enjoyed it but I recall them being lucky with weather and started from Manchester. Who won it last year? Heard it's a beast when London is the start and not the finish (so all the hills are at the end!).
UTmaniac said:
"Got back up on that horse" at the ridiculous time of ~1740 yesterday, after losing the front end on a regular mini-roundabout I use on Tuesday's dry ride, bit of a mystery what happened but I guess my random increase in the tyre pressures (to near maximum) was a contributory factor. Strava recording messed up, but I thought I approached at roughly the same speed (~15mph), went to turn right but the front wheel wanted to carry straight ahead! Bike got a few scratches (right bar end, pedal, rear derailleur), my right palm base took almost all of my impact, was really sore Tuesday night. Applied ice, but didn't bother with painkillers, tried to keep hand raised above heart to reduce swelling.

Amazingly, woke up Wednesday with hand feeling a lot happier than I expected, but the daylight's rain put me off going out. However, the rain stopped late afternoon, so as it was going dark I decided to slay my going out demons and also see if the bike was ok after the wipeout...

About an hour later of gentle-moderate pace on my doorstep ~0.6 mile loop, taking the four junction corners very conservatively after Tuesday's events, I grabbed the tablet out of my jacket to stop the Strava recording. 20-odd loops, ~14.5 miles, what the heck?!?! :eek:
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Got a link to the activity? Check some of the GPS 'tracking' on the map overlay and you may find some of it out. There's a way you can edit .fit files to fix the GPS data on them (if it's really a problem). Particularly if you were using a tablet/phone rather than a dedicated GPS head unit, the signals/tracking just isn't as active and/or accurate.

Sorry to hear about your off, glad nothing too damaged/injured! Wet roads? How are the tyres looking, worn/new? What size tyres and what PSI? My guess is just slick tyres at high pressure causing a smaller contact patch on the road, combined with some greasy tarmac.
 
Roady said:
A few here have done similar mileage (ask FT!) but unsure if any have done that particular ride (OMS? SoliD?), several local guys I know have done it and all enjoyed it but I recall them being lucky with weather and started from Manchester. Who won it last year? Heard it's a beast when London is the start and not the finish (so all the hills are at the end!).
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It sounds like a good event, but there's a lot of hassle in getting to Manchester, staying the night, then getting back from London (if you dont stay the night there too) And I doubt my misses will want to drive up to Manchester, come back and meet me in London too.
 
Trains are about the only way of doing it without a lift, although might be worth messaging Rapha as I heard a rumour that some years people had hired mini-buses to get back to Manchester from London.
randomshenans said:
Mine will all be from you then. Roady Multiquote Master
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@randomshenans @randomshenans @randomshenans ? :D :D :D
kiteloopy said:
All for £35 delivered. Horary for Canyon special deals.
A single box of the High5 gels was £3.95.
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Damn that's good, got a link? Loads better than my Wiggle e'ay 'deal' ffs!
touch said:
Ahh, I didn't spot the powerbars!
I got a mtb helmet for £11 and some High5 gels.
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All from Canyon? Which helmet?
 
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