Road Cycling

[fez]

EDIT: WTF just lost a Strava KOM. I've only got about 4! Cheeky woman. Now to check if she's on an ebike so I can flag it

I think we can fairly safely say that she didn't rinse you on her pinarello putting out 5w/kg. Perhaps I am judging a book by its cover...and stats.

 

[grudas]

Yeah, i've been giving my wife similar advice as she's been focusing on hers since getting an Oura ring.

When i say low i mean ~45 for myself when my normal range is 70-90 and it's flagging as red in the app. As you say it's likely due to lack of training. My foot is definitely getting better and i went out last week, just seem to have that demotivation which kicks in when you do nothing for ages!

my wife is all over the place on her garmin, 20-30 most days which is her balanced by often drops out of it.

I'm very rarely out of it, actually been out once when I was ill/tired after some silly early morning sessions at work.

mostly sit in 60-70 mark. But number it self is sorta-meaningless, the "in balance" is more important metric.

 

[labbby]

lol she is smashing out those KOM's in the last 5 days, not bad considering she has only manged 4.7km this year

get on the comments and name and shame

 

[grudas]

lol she is smashing out those KOM's in the last 5 days, not bad considering she has only manged 4.7km this year

get on the comments and name and shame

Probably unintentional and unaware of the e bike option

 

[Roady]

e bike for sure.. one of these https://www.halfords.com/bikes/seco...tric-mountain-bike---s-m-l-frames-806870.html

Figured out who she is. I'll have words - I know her mum! She must be mid-teens so I should have a couple of years before she can steal that without an assist!

When i say low i mean ~45 for myself when my normal range is 70-90 and it's flagging as red in the app. As you say it's likely due to lack of training. My foot is definitely getting better and i went out last week, just seem to have that demotivation which kicks in when you do nothing for ages!

Really it's something to not take too seriously in isolation... Mine yesterday after that bad sleep, some weekend strain but no hard riding since Thursday... HRV was 96 and '88% recovery' (average is 77). Today after sleeping better, no real extra strain, most of the aches from the weekend gone, HRV is 63 which is '46% recovery' and 17% below my usual range. WUT - I'm feeling better than yesterday! Racing on Zwift later regardless, so should see a high HRV tomorrow post-strain!

I think we can fairly safely say that she didn't rinse you on her pinarello putting out 5w/kg. Perhaps I am judging a book by its cover...and stats.

Harsh but fair. Know the family well - farm neighbours of my grandparents place. Lets just say none of them are 'very aero' body types, I know her mum has an eMTB as had mentioned it when I saw her a few years back and had spotted her on Strava. She's logged as e-bike before so will flag as just a friendly reminder of course

All this is doing is reminding me to get back there... Can't believe I still had some KOMs there from 2016 - think they where some of my first rides on my Diverge - we moved house and ended up staying with my parents for 3 weeks between and I got the bike the same time!

 

[UTmaniac]

I was surprised at how low the bar was to get top 10s on hill segments around Longleat Center Parcs on ebike rides, two weeks ago.

I was on a hire Specialized Tero, with "turbo" mode set to 100% on the app (so matching my ~250W max effort to get ~500W estimate? with me and ebike weighing ~125Kg total), four proper efforts got four top 5s. Did three of them in one 2hr ride, long duration ride for me over the past 2.5 years and at most I've done one 7min hill effort in a single ride, boy have I paid for it since with fatigue!

Got a £1249 GT eGrade Bolt ordered from Paul's Cycles, to make 2-3 hour rides to around Old Winchester Hill more feasible.

 

[Shadowness]

New Wahoo rear radar looks intriguing. Whilst I'm sat here waiting for a USB-C Varia radar, Wahoo might get my money at this rate!

 

[One More Solo]

Has anyone bought a carbon seat post from AliExpress? Latest service shows there's an issue with mine on the Canyon. I don't fancy £170 for the official one...

**EDIT** A search suggests Elita One are a reasonable brand to go with.

Did it start wearing away inside the seat tube? That happened on my Canyon too.

 

[fez]

New Wahoo rear radar looks intriguing. Whilst I'm sat here waiting for a USB-C Varia radar, Wahoo might get my money at this rate!

Make sure you wait a while for some independent reviews. GPLlama will do one no doubt. There are quite a few radars on the market now and there are still very few that are actually safe. If its not almost perfect, I would suggest its worse than nothing honestly.

 

[grudas]

New Wahoo rear radar looks intriguing. Whilst I'm sat here waiting for a USB-C Varia radar, Wahoo might get my money at this rate!

does look interesting and i'd love to ditch the microusb..

main cons for me with my 515 are :

micro usb
battery life
shape/size - just can't get it to look right, it's always a bit meh on the bike. The wahoo one won't fix that, ugly little thing too.

 

[Shadowness]

The Garmin one seems to be pretty bullet proof from what I've read and watched. The one where GPLama compared the others, including the Trek one, was shocking!

I'm in no rush. Can see benefits nearer winter time anyway.

 

[grudas]

The Garmin one seems to be pretty bullet proof from what I've read and watched. The one where GPLama compared the others, including the Trek one, was shocking!

I'm in no rush. Can see benefits nearer winter time anyway.

it's a useful tool but I'm 50/50 on how important it is for riding I do for example, mostly in quiet-ish country lanes with few cars around...

majority of drivers are really well behaved too, you get the odd idiot but the radar won't change that.