Road Cycling

Excellent Ride Roady. I rode to Hay on Friday and the winds were brutal on the open roads. Gospel pass looks excellent and I am hoping to arrange a ride over it in the next 1-2 months. How was the descent given the single track roads? Did you have to stop to let cars pass?
 
Roady said:
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Gospel Pass done! Has nicely increased my 'Biggest Climb' on Strava from 969ft to 1500 ft! Supposedly the longest continuous climb in England and Wales outside of the Lake District so doubt it'll change anytime soon! :D
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Good work but now... where's your Tumble ride? :)

Looks like a really nice climb. Nice to actually get a view at the end of it. Speaking of which...

Highlands locals - can you suggest some scenic nice routes, nothing too taxing I can try at the weekend before the Etape Loch Ness on Sunday. I have Saturday free and thinking 40-60 miles will work fine. I may go for a short 30 miler in the evening on Friday if I have time.
 
Liefrich said:
Excellent Ride Roady. I rode to Hay on Friday and the winds were brutal on the open roads. Gospel pass looks excellent and I am hoping to arrange a ride over it in the next 1-2 months. How was the descent given the single track roads? Did you have to stop to let cars pass?
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I had to stop 4-5 times on the way up for oncoming and once to let some cars behind past. Around 7-8 passing me without me having to stop, (just pulling over and riding slow in the passing places to let them pass).

I had to slow/stop around 15 times on the way down for oncoming. Once down from the top, the route down towards Capel-y-ffin has some rough parts where water/gravel is washed over the road, it has many tight corners where you can't see well enough to carry any real speed to descend much quicker than I did without really risking things. Once you're through Llantony the road is generally wide enough you don't need to stop/start all the time. I was riding with Discs so knew I could brake hard & later, although I've done that descent before (faster!) with rim brakes I did cook them once or twice then (less oncoming traffic).

SDK^ said:
Get on a bike with off- road ability and go up Snowdon - 3,560 ft :)
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Maybe one day! Just as I came to the summit of Gospel there's a track/trail which reaches the top of 'Lord Herefords Knob' (wonder if the swear checker lets that through... Woo!). I've seen some of the MTB boys descend it on Strava so maybe one day (when the place isn't full of picnic-ers and hikers) I'll see if I can get my Diverge up there! ;)

Lethal` said:
Good work but now... where's your Tumble ride? :)

Looks like a really nice climb. Nice to actually get a view at the end of it. Speaking of which...
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Haha, Tumble will come in time don't worry, it will be this year! Need to put an effort into it to beat all you Velothonerers! ;)
 
Roady said:
Maybe one day! Just as I came to the summit of Gospel there's a track/trail which reaches the top of 'Lord Herefords Knob' (wonder if the swear checker lets that through... Woo!). I've seen some of the MTB boys descend it on Strava so maybe one day (when the place isn't full of picnic-ers and hikers) I'll see if I can get my Diverge up there! ;)
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Found it! Probably need knobblies fitted for it at least. 20% and dirt/mud/gravel.

Here's the Snowdon one.
 
Great weekend of riding, had a couple of weekends away and a lot of racing recently so not done many big rides.

Firstly raced Friday morning in a local 10, had dreadful legs and positioned awfully, so punished myself by cycling up to Sussex, good 65mile route nice tailwind all the way up, weather was good with arms and legs out the whole way up over the south Downs. Glad the wind was behind me, really struggled up some of the hills, but nice to be out on the road bike with its Ultegra snappy shifting!

https://www.strava.com/activities/941926204

Saturday I did that dirty running activity and legs seemed to be back to normal, so suspect I may have been a bit tired from overdoing it, then rode back on Sunday, headwind all the way but once again only arm warmers needed for first 20 miles whilst it warmed up. Pushed a good speed considering the wind and managed 210w for the 3:45 which I was happy with.

https://www.strava.com/activities/944618925

Then finally built back up my CX bike and took that for a bit of a test yesterday smashing it up the local railway line and back. Shame there were so many walkers out and about, having to slow down and speed up so much.

https://www.strava.com/activities/946418574

Hopefully Summer is now here to stay....
 
Brake cable acquired whilst i was in college today at Harry Hall Cycles in Manchester. Had a lovely Madone with 30% off.

Hopefully sort out my cable tonight and my bike will be back on the road.
 
Roady said:
Haha, Tumble will come in time don't worry, it will be this year! Need to put an effort into it to beat all you Velothonerers! ;)
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My effort up there was severely limited because of all the people that didn't move left / sheer number of people trying to fit up a narrow road. I'm just glad really I didn't have to put a foot down because of it and managed to keep some momentum. Though there was a scary moment as my rear wheel slipped on the wet cattle grid before just gaining traction in time :)
 
Lethal` said:
My effort up there was severely limited because of all the people that didn't move left / sheer number of people trying to fit up a narrow road. I'm just glad really I didn't have to put a foot down because of it and managed to keep some momentum. Though there was a scary moment as my rear wheel slipped on the wet cattle grid before just gaining traction in time :)
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Yours is quite a good effort mate, you're in amongst some of the more powerful CAT3 guys and good climbers I know when I only show those I'm following (you're 34th out of 62). Was going to say you'd set a time for me to beat but I don't think I can beat that very easily! Was going to set myself a 25 minute goal but as I underestimated myself on Gospel pass I might revise it to 24 minutes...
 
Lethal` said:
I am half tempted. Though I really didn't enjoy my Triathlon bike effort during the event aha... What are the rules for road bike? No clip on aero bars? Can you phantom aero bar position instead?
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The distinctions are a bit iffy IMO.

Deep rims on a road bike somehow puts you in TT category whether you have clip-ons or not.:confused: Phantoms are fine as long as you don't crash I guess!:D
 
Shamrock said:
The distinctions are a bit iffy IMO.

Deep rims on a road bike somehow puts you in TT category whether you have clip-ons or not.:confused: Phantoms are fine as long as you don't crash I guess!:D
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Is there a list of the rules somewhere? Didn't see anything on the riderhq site, just going by comments a mate made a while back.

What is 'deep' ? My zondas are max of 30mm I think.
 
Zondas wouldn't class as deep.

As it's London the rules are fairly flexible as they probably recommend you wear Rapha, have a man-bun and ride a fixie, yet in reality everyone is too precious to conform to something mundane like 'rules'. Equal rights for yuppies and all that.

;)
 
Puke Major? Oh you mean the one where Paul is faster than Dani King and Graham Briggs?

Maybe one day... That doesn't count anyway - as it's a holiday and not in the UK lol ;) :P

Anyone know much about the Cervelo range? I know they don't change their frames much (if at all) but do they revise their colours some years? I think my future is an S3 Disc but I don't like either of the colour schemes it's shown as available in on the Cervelo site...
 
Thought I'd drop in for a quick catch up. Hope everyone's doing well :)

Completed my first sportive (and longest distance ride), just over a week ago now. Have clearly caught the bug, as I've signed up for another 6 this year :O Plan is to get my first century ride nailed by September.

Anyone doing any of the Southern Wiggle/UKCE sportives this year?
 
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