Yeah, it's a deep section carbon rim with 23 spokes left in it. Seems fine tbh. Only 1.5 miles from the station so will ride back. Cheers for the tip 
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Weight is used when measuring watts per kg - hence the two things often being talked about at the same time.
Personally I prefer to carry a decent sized pump (Morph Mountain in my case). However, I do (or did 
) a lot of long distance and multi-day riding. I found mini-pumps too irritating.
) a lot of long distance and multi-day riding. I found mini-pumps too irritating.
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Equally, mini-pumps are fine for the purposes of just getting you home and such
Having a hose on the pump makes them massively easier to use. If I were to go mini-pump again this would be a prerequisite.
You shouldn't need to wash it very regularly at all, unless you're super sweaty and don't where any kind of base layer.
*cough* Elemnt *cough*
We just need eTap brakes too really 
Can't say I've been impressed with my Northwaves. The fit is awful and they've fallen apart under light use in a very short amount of time. Sidi have been pretty rock solid (I've got wide feet) and even my old midrange Shimano shoes have held up better.
Sacrilege. #elemntsneverdie
Is it just me or does Strava now tick "Share to Facebook" by default? How annoying!
Don't use Facebook for login, job done
Yeah, it wasn't the most helpful post, sorry
I imagine if it's super annoying someone will create a Chrome extension to automatically untick it soon enough (or perhaps a generic version of such a thing already exists?)
Weather at the moment is actually better than our summer. Tru fax.
What is this summer bike/ winter bike?
Not sure you can judge. It wasn't that long ago you had a different bike for every day of the week, wasn't it?
noooo my Edge 1000 has broken
Looking at models, the 820 is basically a 1000 but in a smaller shell I believe? Don't want to move away from Garmin as I have so many mounts that would need replacing.
As others have said/hinted at, I'd move to the Elemnt (Bolt) personally. I moved from the 810 to it and despite the black and white display it is an upgrade in many ways. So much more reliable too. The 820 I've seen in action was similarly unimpressive.
I'd agree with you. Kop is steeper and does progress linearly but overall it's slightly shorter. Whiteleaf undulates between 15-17% so getting any sort of rhythm is difficult. Visually it's also quite a bit more intimidating I found in the past.
Wiggans Lane, the full climb starts on the B4009, Lower Icknield Way. Mostly shallow grades, as a short fast descent and then a bit of a kick at the topWatched @Steedie suffer on it earlier in the year.
We'll get something on the calendar in 2018, @FrenchTart owes me a visit
I might even have recovered my fitness by then too
Sounds good
Getting the excuses in nice and early?
Pretty much
Though hoping to do an everest in May/June next year so I really won't have much of an excuse for being off form unless it's the day after or something That was my experience of the mk2s too. I've heard from a few people that the mk3s are like night and day in terms of how much better they are though. Have you tried them?
Yeah, also same here. I use big boy mudguards these days.
However, if they actually live up to expectations I might try some on a more racey bike in future. I'd prefer to let other people be guinea pigs though...
It's only like 1.2 everests... might as well while you're there
Actually, yeah...I miscalculated the distance. To be honest I was hoping to get a few extra reps in anyhow...