https://www.strava.com/activities/1003951625
I'm away friday till monday (Lillé) so quite conscious of not hitting my mileage target for the week (100) again and losing some of the form I'm starting to rediscover. In mind of this I did a big
10m TT effort on monday and followed it last night with a loop I've been meaning to do for a while. There's a
long segment for it and after the first time I rode it (social group ride) I'd set what I thought was a realistic 1 hour 10 minute target, maybe pushing on below that to give me the KOM. Pushing on last night I achieved
1 hour 13, setting a PR but missing my goal. My first (group) time was
1 hour 15 and I rode it twice last year only getting below
1 hour 20 on one occasion. Glad I beat my PR for the effort I put in, I can only think of a couple of places I can make that time up, depending on wind conditions. I think I was still tired from mondays effort so did start to fade for the latter half. Good fun but my legs are feeling it today! But 4 rest days incoming!
TLDR; I'm getting quicker!
Tried to push myself most of the way round
https://www.strava.com/activities/1003789422
Generally a good 1.5mph above my normal average and 230W weighted power.
Good work!
Did very similar, utterly abused myself on a
local loop/segment I'd set a pretty unrealistic goal on - always good for digging deep!
Leaving work yesterday I found a business card attached to my stem with an elastic band. It had a note saying I'd won the monthly cycle pod prize draw. It's news to me that there even is a prize draw. I went to the business park manager's office today to collect my prize - a £5 voucher for the restaurant. I'm rich!
Hope you also bought a lottery ticket!
Hello, does physichull still frequent this forum. I know he is very involved with a local cycling club and was hoping for more information.
Might be easiest/quickest to
Strava-stalk him, he's not posted in here for ~10 days. Although there's a couple of NCC's frequent here so I'm sure they could provide some info?
It seems to occur twice per pedal revolution. One fairly pronounced feel as the crank is at 270 degrees then a more subtle when it reaches 90 degrees. I don't have a spare chainring to test unfortunately! Is it likely to be the chainring though based on that? Strange that the old chain had no issue with it though perhaps it wore to deal with it?
Bottom bracket bearings or pedal spindle lack of grease/needs cleaning as has grit between it and the bearings. Now you've described the noise that's my bet!
