Had a good ride out on saturday. Amazing sunshine, but freezing cold strong wind from the east (unusual direction) made it quite interesting! Normal guys I ride with, 5 of us turned up (normally quite a good turnout!) but we'd had some discussions to ride with one of the other clubs (ELY) as the route was quite boring/plain. Being a race club their rides are a few mph quicker than our usual but also have enough riders for 'fast' and 'slow' groups. With almost 30 riders out it made our slow group a real good group experience with 18/19 of us. Such huge varied ability, rider types and the conditions it was just lots of wheel holding and surging. Combined with the different kind of route (a rough figure of 8) really did mix things up, but also featured some of the worst roads around (christ knows why, there's far better surfaced quiet roads!).
https://www.strava.com/activities/2286431951
Still great fun, did end up on the front a number of times, usually the climbs so didn't really experience the winds affect
until this stint here where we had a mini pace-line start.
Less than probably 2 minutes I was blown and pretty much dropped, from the front handful to right out the back. Really struggled to recover then as the slight drag, junction and corners really made it seem like surges. I did get a bit of a rest at a junction followed by a downhill - as the bunch was split by both, then also by an idiotic car driver who squeezed
in between me and another rider before then brake checking me. Idiot. Stopping at the junction at the bottom right behind him, he did the same again which I almost fell for. Thankfully was pretty much stationary so in anger I gave him a 'friendly' nudge on his bumper probably harder than I should've done. Really made a bang and thought I'd damaged something. Thankfully (lol) he just drove away. Quick feel of my wheel (and my feet not covered in sealant) no damage my side. Did a
good pull then into the headwind (adrenaline!) to try and close the gap to the front (4-5 of us behind) but they where long gone.
Really pleased how well my legs held up, it was only a few of the end kicks where I really hadn't got much left, until that stint in the wind on the front. With being unable to get out very often for club rides, I probably need to do more of these faster rides.
Have a Sportive coming up I'd totally forgotten about, they still have tickets available and the 'full pint' route is only 53 miles. Won't really need any training for that, but really down to if I can stomach paying £30 to ride 53 miles on open roads. Haha!
Dethroned on the Sa Calobra segment!
Perfect excuse to go back?!
Pfft I’m 5kg lighter than when I last went to Mallorca, that’s going down next time.
Shots fired!
I'm sick of being sick this year, think it's ~8 weeks of the 16 so far!
/signed.
A few rides later and the knocking once per rev is back!
Check bearings... Especially if they've been changed.
I found the cause of my chain rub I couldn't quite solve over the last few weeks... Replacement bearings I ordered, although technically the right size, the one on the NDS was missing an additional 'lip' on the inner race. So the bearing cover that side had been crushed/compressed inwards so the whole spindle then would move 2-3mm towards the drive side. FFS!
Damn Praxis/Specialized. Selling it as a 'PF30' replacement. Branded M30 by Praxis. With the drive side being a 30mm bearing and the NDS being a 28mm. Glad I caught that, but then the damn bearings having the same damn model numbers on them so I totally missed the fact there's more of a difference than the size (additional lip). WTF!?
All done 500k mostly into a headwind. Made a nice £4k for charity
Mega riding, fantastic stuff! Gonna do a writeup of the experience?
anyone have any experience with bb30 to hollowtech adapters?
was looking at the praxis M30 converter
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Not experience of a hollowtech adaptor but I'm running a Praxis M30 in the OSBB of my Specialized Diverge.
Fairly good experience, although many known issues with them which if you do your own servicing of I think you'd be happy with. It's 'easy' to solve most by stripping and cleaning the Praxis collet occasionally (which takes a special Praxis tool to undo - but only cost £15). According to my LBS Specialized fit them dry so there are loads of complaints of creaking BB's. So many they remove them & refit with grease. With them dry moisture and grit can more easily get inbetween the interfaces causing noises. Easy to remove, clean & refit. Just did mine again when changing bearings as found it loads easier (& quieter) to remove BB bearings with it removed.
Although I did have a bit of a 'gotchya' where the NDS bearing (see above) is a slightly different size AND has an additional lip. Unsure if you'd have the same problem with HT. I know Praxis do various adaptor kits for the M30, so possibly (same bearing, same problem when replacing).
