61 miles for me this morning. Not the most inspiring route in the end. I planned it out on ridewithgps to keep me within the bit of country bordered by the motorways around us (m60, m61, m6, m62) and pretty much picked any roads that made that work. I spent a decent bit of time in a rather grimy bit of Wigan and towards the end got lost on a rubbish country "road" near Chorley. Still, it worked overall. I did it in under 4 hours with no stops, not even for a wee... I ate on the go and just kept going. Quite pleased with that. If it weren't for walking 50 yards on the pothole road of death I wouldn't have unclipped my right foot for the whole ride.
Road Cycling
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I made the mistake today of grabbing a random ride of RideWithGPS from someone local, giving it a brief look over and thinking "Meh, looks alright.. nothing too bad". Little did I know a couple of roads in the route were actually private stone/gravel tracks so I couldn't go down them... ended up making A road detours which wasn't super fun... ~10mph up a hill in a 50.
81 miles, 6700ft in the end. Definitely too hot for that... I kept running out of water despite setting off with 2x750ml. First ice cream van had none left, second had some at £2 per 500ml bottle.. meh paid it, then I ran out again and fortunately a little village pub was kind enough to actually fill my bottle with no issue.
Sussex is just full of loads of rolling climbs... racks up the elevation and slowly kills the legs. I wasn't best pleased to have to tackle this Cat 4 climb at mile 55!
https://www.strava.com/activities/691064378
81 miles, 6700ft in the end. Definitely too hot for that... I kept running out of water despite setting off with 2x750ml. First ice cream van had none left, second had some at £2 per 500ml bottle.. meh paid it, then I ran out again and fortunately a little village pub was kind enough to actually fill my bottle with no issue.
Sussex is just full of loads of rolling climbs... racks up the elevation and slowly kills the legs. I wasn't best pleased to have to tackle this Cat 4 climb at mile 55!
https://www.strava.com/activities/691064378
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That's the trouble with Rides with GPS. As dodgy a the routes that Strava comes out with can be...Rides with GPS is far worse.
I was being really lazy and couldn't even be bothered to make a Strava route 
What I should have done is retrace that route in Strava and see where it suggests other routes. I was quite happy to discover a shared ped/cycle path along the coast that cuts out a nasty A road from this route though!
What I should have done is retrace that route in Strava and see where it suggests other routes. I was quite happy to discover a shared ped/cycle path along the coast that cuts out a nasty A road from this route though!
I bit the bullet and tried the rapha stuff but sadly the club Jersey was delivered and the fit was terrible so its going back. Socks and hat are fine..
Not sure what all the buz is about the rapha stuff its not a patch on the higher end castelli/sportful stuff.
Not sure what all the buz is about the rapha stuff its not a patch on the higher end castelli/sportful stuff.
The Rapha Club jersey is a knit really and a bit 'vintage' in it's fabrication. The Lightweight Climbers & Pro Team Climbers Jerseys I picked up far surpass Castelli.
For what it's worth the Club Jersey and Classic Jersey both fit badly.
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Okay..I just translated his comment and..wow 
How the....
How the....
Out on a ride today and my Garmin 1000 now isn't talking to the SD card - showed up during the ride where it stopped showing the course after I'd turned it back on after a café stop. Would load the course up really quickly instead of doing the usual count-up in % and nothing showed up on the map screen. Once I got home I found it had saved the activity onto the internal memory instead of the SD card despite the setting I have it on. Also the SD card doesn't come up when I connect to a PC - as usual it struggles to connect to the PC at all but following Garmin's instruction how to put it into mass storage mode only brings up the internal memory not the SD card.
Copied all the data over to another SD card but still the same, it lists the courses and rides that are on the SD card but doesn't load them up when selected. Garmin support forum is down at the moment, while I was able to look on there I couldn't find anything.
Any ideas?
Copied all the data over to another SD card but still the same, it lists the courses and rides that are on the SD card but doesn't load them up when selected. Garmin support forum is down at the moment, while I was able to look on there I couldn't find anything.
Any ideas?
Only thing I could think is to factory reset it and try again but sounds like some sort of hardware damage if it doesn't work with another known working SD card either.
Garmin support themselves.. maybe?
or jump on the Elemnt bandwagon like most here
Garmin support themselves.. maybe?
or jump on the Elemnt bandwagon like most here
I've dropped a mail to Garmin support on the back of their last reply giving me the procedure how to force it into mass storage mode. Will see what they come back with. Gave them my feelings on the pathetic touch screen too that seems to have a mind of it's own in the rain or when it gets drops of sweat on it 
May go for a factory reset now I've found out how to save the settings/profiles, before looking at alternative units.
Not a happy bunny with the 1000 it's an endless source of frustration compared to my 800.
May go for a factory reset now I've found out how to save the settings/profiles, before looking at alternative units.
Not a happy bunny with the 1000 it's an endless source of frustration compared to my 800.
Was getting miffed I thought I'd lost today's ride saved on my Garmin but retrieved it in the end
http://https://www.strava.com/activities/692455439
I would say this is classed as a hilly ride!
http://https://www.strava.com/activities/692455439
I would say this is classed as a hilly ride!
Think I've figured out how/why I can hear brake rub despite my pads having sufficient clearance on a full rotation... play in the spokes, so a re-tension is in order.
I can push the carbon hoop against the pad with a little too much ease. No play from the hubs just the spokes. So it makes sense whilst climbing out the saddle or putting down significant power that I could hear a little rubbing occasionally. It's not consistent but just on one section of the rim where it rubs though there is enough play to get them serviced I think
I can push the carbon hoop against the pad with a little too much ease. No play from the hubs just the spokes. So it makes sense whilst climbing out the saddle or putting down significant power that I could hear a little rubbing occasionally. It's not consistent but just on one section of the rim where it rubs though there is enough play to get them serviced I think
Rapha repairs so far are terrible.
Agreed a repair with them very easy.
Posted to them by DHL on a Tuesday, signed for Thursday.
Heard nothing by the following Friday so emailed asking how's it going have you got it.
Had a reply almost straight away saying will let you know when arrived.
Two further weeks later, I get a reply saying your bibs have arrived for repair. Eta is four weeks.
Replied politely saying you've had them for almost four weeks already and now I'm expected to wait another month, can you do it any faster. If I had known 2 months turn around I'd have had them done locally at my own cost.
Agreed a repair with them very easy.
Posted to them by DHL on a Tuesday, signed for Thursday.
Heard nothing by the following Friday so emailed asking how's it going have you got it.
Had a reply almost straight away saying will let you know when arrived.
Two further weeks later, I get a reply saying your bibs have arrived for repair. Eta is four weeks.
Replied politely saying you've had them for almost four weeks already and now I'm expected to wait another month, can you do it any faster. If I had known 2 months turn around I'd have had them done locally at my own cost.
It is too late now (yesterday's amazon deal of the day) but I spent all of yesterday in a should I/shouldn't I battle over getting a Fenix 3 to use for everything including cycling.
Just in case a deal comes up again has anyone used one for cycling? I'd use it on a bike mount rather than on my wrist and hook it up to speed, cadence and a chest hrm.
My Edge 200 is a bit limited for me now and I'd like to ditch my fitbit blaze so two birds with one stone.
Just in case a deal comes up again has anyone used one for cycling? I'd use it on a bike mount rather than on my wrist and hook it up to speed, cadence and a chest hrm.
My Edge 200 is a bit limited for me now and I'd like to ditch my fitbit blaze so two birds with one stone.
Okay..I just translated his comment and..wow
How the....
How the.... did he manage to keep his Garmin powered up for so long?
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