Road Cycling

FrenchTart · 5 Aug 2017 at 10:47

Vonhelmet said:
I do find excessive hand signalling amusing. We're in Britain, let's just assume the roads are terrible. Sure, let me know if we're about to fall into the Grand Canyon, but beyond that everyone just needs to keep their eyes open.

Depends really. If you're drafting properly it can be quite difficult to see what is ahead.

FrenchTart · 7 Aug 2017 at 12:39

One More Solo said:
Good luck, if you get through qualification you should be fine for the real thing. I will post my LEL report in the other thread if you want a taster once my hands start working properly.

Going to be a good few more days for that to happen I reckon

FrenchTart · 7 Aug 2017 at 18:46

Jonny ///M said:
Talk to me when people from your club don't knock their teeth out whilst warming up for a race....

I smashed it home tonight and only got 3 2nd best times.

Cars were overtaking me so I was like, lets see if you fo' real, drafted and undertook at 34mph smashing it like a boss.

Nah, the rest is true though.

@grudas, is that you?

FrenchTart · 8 Aug 2017 at 19:30

D, clearly.

FrenchTart · 8 Aug 2017 at 22:44

Jonny ///M said:
Am I allowed back in here yet?

I smashed it on a the local 10 which is actually a 9.5 TT due to road works at the moment. Hilly course and a bit of wind tonight but happy with 24.06 compared to my previous 26.40 on the full 10 course.

Beat a few guys on TT bikes which is always good, think the fastest of the night was a guy who only does TT on his P2 was a minute faster going by strava.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1123902418

Yeah yeah. Claim it's a TT all you like but clearly you just smashed another social ride

FrenchTart · 11 Aug 2017 at 10:57

That's an awesome idea. I totally should've done that.

FrenchTart · 11 Aug 2017 at 12:27

Thomas. PLease. said:
With di2 you can wire the junction box up under the seat post, if you're smart with the wiring. No experience of EPS though.

EDIT: beaten!

OT: anyone messed around with waxed chains as opposed to oil based lube?

I think @One More Solo has.

FrenchTart · 14 Aug 2017 at 10:34

tedmaul said:
I recommend eating ice cream until you get fat and lose all self respect. Then hopefully at some point you'll look in the mirror and your motivation will suddenly return. Working for me so far, but YMMV.

If it doesn't work, you've eaten lots of ice cream. So, you know...win/win.

Lol. This is essentially what I've been doing the last few months

FrenchTart · 15 Aug 2017 at 10:00

Possibly he's at fault but I think the real injustice is as already mentioned - in a car there's no way he'd have been accused of manslaughter.

FrenchTart · 15 Aug 2017 at 11:50

Sorry Roady, me slacking 3,420.4 mi so far this year

FrenchTart · 15 Aug 2017 at 15:31

Ride data certainly looks a little dodgy - how on earth you can accidentally leave it recording for 4 days I don't really see...

FrenchTart · 15 Aug 2017 at 16:49

touch said:
There's nothing wrong with the data. It's just 2 rides recorded 4 days apart and uploaded as 1 files (ie. without resetting the timer between them), it's not 4 days of continuous recording. It disappears whilst it's flagged but it'll get unflagged by strava mods and you'll lose that KOM again.

In that case the rider deserves to be flagged for being dumb

The rest of the ride looks fine, yeah.

FrenchTart · 16 Aug 2017 at 11:36

tedmaul said:
Very disappointed in the lack of effort some of you guys have put into your slacking.

1,183.6 mi for the year!

And that's without delving into how incredibly slow they've all been.

Nice work

I've gone something like 10k miles, 8k miles, 6k miles for the past three years. Probably on track for 5-6k again this year. You're right - I need to slack more.

FrenchTart · 19 Aug 2017 at 22:55

Draft a lot and take it as easy as possible up any hills. You'll be fine

FrenchTart · 20 Aug 2017 at 14:37

Was awesome meeting you both

I'm actually going to clean my bike this evening. I hope you're both proud of your bike-shaming

FrenchTart · 20 Aug 2017 at 18:09

[[[User was banned for this post]]]

FrenchTart · 20 Aug 2017 at 18:43

Good work on managing it

In theory I'm doing a 140/150 on Tuesday but I'm really not feeling well enough so I can totally sympathise.

FrenchTart · 22 Aug 2017 at 11:16

UTmaniac said:
I swear my quads feel heck of a lot worse today than yesterday, following my 53 and 63 mile pb rides towards the end of last week... I expected to feel like this yesterday!

DOMS tend to hit you much worse at around the 48 hour from exercise point. Try doing a very gentle short ride to loosen things up (and/or stretch and roll).

FrenchTart · 22 Aug 2017 at 12:44

I'd go for SoliD's recommendation. Seems to have served several people well. I ordered from AliExpress and though I've had no issues in future I think I'd go for the above instead

Edit: though I went for 23mm wide clinchers iirc. 50mm deep, novat.ech hubs.

FrenchTart · 22 Aug 2017 at 12:54

My experience has been the hubs have been rock solid. I've had bearings last over 10,000 miles without requiring replacement.

However there are some stories online of people having issues with bearings needing replacing more quickly than you'd hope. It really depends on the quality of bearings used by the place you buy from. Worst case you will need to replace them sooner but if you do you can simply use better quality bearings and not have that problem going forward. Replacements are incredibly cheap, even high quality ones.