Road Cycling

[Lethal`]

Hahaha, good 'race face'! Thought you enjoyed it?

Extra kudos for kit & bike colour coordination, aero position and riding everyone off your wheel.

Yeah I think it was a "yawn. What. Finish line already?" face

Also, that's far from aero!


Just been out for a short ride. Almost an hour on the way back heading into that NE 20mph wind with gusts was brutal! Definitely should have picked a different route.

 

[booyaka]

I think my pedals are the Shimano 105 ones - so they're pretty good, I don't have spare pedals.

I was just weighing up £13 for shimano cleats (mine look a bit rough but will probably be ok for a few more months yet) or £4 for Chinese shimano compatible cleats.

May be a good idea there - cheaper just buying basic R540's, keep the cleats & sell the pedals.

wiggle's own brand - seem to review ok -

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/lifeline-road-pedal-cleats-shimano-spd-sl-compatible/

 

[booyaka]

https://www.strava.com/activities/971908409

Tough day out in that wind - was brutal on the way home, probably the hardest and longest run home in a headwind. Sitting here completely shot!

saying that - a lot worse places to spend a Friday morning!!

 

[iBSOD]

I've got MTB spd pedals and shoes, would they be good for my road bike too? Haven't tried them out yet

 

[#Chri5#]

I've got MTB spd pedals and shoes, would they be good for my road bike too? Haven't tried them out yet

I have 520 SPDs on my road bike so I can use my cycling shoes on any bike - all good

MTB shoes make you less Pingu like at cafe stops too.

 

[Lethal`]

https://www.strava.com/activities/971908409

Tough day out in that wind - was brutal on the way home, probably the hardest and longest run home in a headwind. Sitting here completely shot!

saying that - a lot worse places to spend a Friday morning!!

Spoiler

That road looks great!

I've got MTB spd pedals and shoes, would they be good for my road bike too? Haven't tried them out yet

They'll be fine. I used them for 10000+ miles on the same pair of cleats. Only recently moved over to SPD-SL on the road bike.

 

[Roady]

I was just weighing up £13 for shimano cleats (mine look a bit rough but will probably be ok for a few more months yet) or £4 for Chinese shimano compatible cleats.

The fact you're looking and asking I'd say to try it out - buy some cheapy chinese ones, some lifelines and some shimano. Ride 1 set for a couple of weeks and then swap them. Decide for yourself! The Wiggle/Lifeline ones sound ok, but there's several reviews about the 'clip' not being as firm as shimano as well as the mounting screws being too long for some sets of shoes. If you're aware of these when riding them (ie don't have a problem) then they sound good. Very few reviews mention wearing out/breaking/lack of durability.

Also, that's far from aero!

I like to think you'd raised for the corner and were transitioning back into more-aero for the finish!

https://www.strava.com/activities/971908409

Brutal conditions, suffer score says it all!

Beautiful sunshine here & warm. Fingers crossed for the latter tomorrow, with less of the former!

I actually drove in today so I'm fresh for tomorrow, had an easy week of only commuting so legs are feeling pretty good!

Anyone notice Google doodle is a 100th Giro celebration?

I really need to stop looking at fast TT's... One of the problems with following fast guys on Strava!

I've got MTB spd pedals and shoes, would they be good for my road bike too? Haven't tried them out yet

They're fine.

Same as others here, I commuted on SPD's for several years on a road bike. Was even tempted to go back to them a couple of times... Think FT and Von still ride them most of the time?

 

[Roady]

Have a good weekend all! May the sunshine linger and these winds be always at your back!

 

[FrenchTart]

SPDs fo lyfe yo.

For road bikes however I'd suggest buying SPD-compatible road style shoes. i.e. stiff/carbon soles. Much more comfortable than flexy MTB/touring shoes.

 

[booyaka]

That road looks great!

Top of the Nic O the Balloch - most popular/famous climb around here.

 

[Jonny ///M]

Good work and, as someone who has spent far too much time at the vet recently, I hope everything is OK on that front.

Cheers, it was the younger one this time. The Mrs took him on the bus to our usual vet today who was very mad that I didn't phone him since I've dropped bikes at his house etc.

He thinks he's fallen out of a tree and hurt his spine but he seems buzzing on the pain killers £12 visit today dwarfs last nights.

Came out of work today to one of my car tyres at 9psi.....it better be bloody repairable.

Spoiler: Edit

should be repairable.

https://www.strava.com/activities/971908409

Tough day out in that wind - was brutal on the way home, probably the hardest and longest run home in a headwind. Sitting here completely shot!

saying that - a lot worse places to spend a Friday morning!!

Hear all about these climbs from the Davie Bell race. Haven't managed to get down there as it's a bit of a jaunt to ride to.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Remember when it wasn't windy? Those were good times.

 

[merlin]

Remember when it wasn't windy? Those were good times.

I was genuinely scared riding home this afternoon.

 

[Vonhelmet]

I was genuinely scared riding home this afternoon.

I was genuinely slow riding home this afternoon.

 

[Jonny ///M]

Remember when it wasn't windy? Those were good times.

Back in the day way back when?

I would really enjoy a pedal on a nice still day or god forbid a tailwind!

 

[Vonhelmet]

I got a puncture on the way home, as if the wind wasn't fun enough. I wasn't too surprised when I saw which tube it was - it was one that I'd got a pinch flat on from a brutal pothole collision a while back, and had optimistically patched. The patch had given way. Bin bin bin.

 

[BennyC]

For the sake of £3 it is not worth my time to patch and have the inconvenience of something like the above happening on a ride Tempting as it is and as frugal as I like to be sometimes too I just bin them straight away.

If I got punctures more regularly than a couple a year I'd probably approach things differently! 1 so far this year in 2,600 miles and no more than 3 or 4 last year in 5,000 miles. If I commuted I expect that would change...

 

[Saytan]

I slung a tube recently rather than put a seventh patch on it....

 

[merlin]

I'll patch my kids inners tubes forever but on my own bike I'm 100% puncture intolerant. I carry a patch kit but I've no idea why because i always have two tubes and two co2s wherever I go.

 

[WuMyster]

Where exactly is the max supposed to be? Wanting to move saddle forward by quite a bit. Pink lines are the outlines of the clamp, hard to see without the drawing.