Risex4
Dropped by the autobus
- Location
- The Green/Gray Hills Of Debunshire
Again, thanks for the replies.
I'm going to stick it out solo for the time being regardless - I can vary my speed if I blow myself out and alter my route depending on how Im feeling (shorten, increase, find/avoid hills whatever) - and Im still massively enjoying being out there on my own pushing myself. But thats a good indication of what I need to bare in mind for the time I may look to join a CC.
I think tyres is going to be a decent next step to look at. Mine will be needing renewel at somepoint soon, so going narrower seems a logial thing to investigate. I'll pop down the LBS and see what they have to say; they're normally very good at that kind of thing in there.
Strange you should mention 50 miles on a hybrid dellzeqq, because thats literally what I've just come back from (my first 50 miler to boot! Ok 49.82, but whos counting really?). Don't feel too bad at all, considering it was only my 2nd +40m and my 4th +25m since I started cycling again at Xmas. Im now kind of subscribing to the logic that I want to push as far as I can on my 301 hybrid while Im "recovering" my cycling ability so then if I start to find Im reaching the end of what I can range and avg-speed on that, switching then to a proper roadie will hopefully allow me to push on and keep developing. I have no idea if that logic has any weight, but thats what Im going by!
Know what you mean about the shoulders/hand position thing though. I've over come that to a degree by cannabalsing an old-old Halfords Apollo Mountain Bike that was in the back of the garage from when I was a kid and transplanting the - erm I have no idea what they are called - the vertical grip bars that curve up slightly at right angles to the end of the normal flat handle bar (these used to be v. popular when I were growing up, but I did note on my last visit to a bike shop that they don't seem to be particularly fashionable anymore? Could be wrong). I've found that it allows me to widen my grip when I feel like it and change my posture just enough that I don't feel any fatigue in the shoulders/back anymore.
I'm going to stick it out solo for the time being regardless - I can vary my speed if I blow myself out and alter my route depending on how Im feeling (shorten, increase, find/avoid hills whatever) - and Im still massively enjoying being out there on my own pushing myself. But thats a good indication of what I need to bare in mind for the time I may look to join a CC.
I think tyres is going to be a decent next step to look at. Mine will be needing renewel at somepoint soon, so going narrower seems a logial thing to investigate. I'll pop down the LBS and see what they have to say; they're normally very good at that kind of thing in there.
Strange you should mention 50 miles on a hybrid dellzeqq, because thats literally what I've just come back from (my first 50 miler to boot! Ok 49.82, but whos counting really?). Don't feel too bad at all, considering it was only my 2nd +40m and my 4th +25m since I started cycling again at Xmas. Im now kind of subscribing to the logic that I want to push as far as I can on my 301 hybrid while Im "recovering" my cycling ability so then if I start to find Im reaching the end of what I can range and avg-speed on that, switching then to a proper roadie will hopefully allow me to push on and keep developing. I have no idea if that logic has any weight, but thats what Im going by!
Know what you mean about the shoulders/hand position thing though. I've over come that to a degree by cannabalsing an old-old Halfords Apollo Mountain Bike that was in the back of the garage from when I was a kid and transplanting the - erm I have no idea what they are called - the vertical grip bars that curve up slightly at right angles to the end of the normal flat handle bar (these used to be v. popular when I were growing up, but I did note on my last visit to a bike shop that they don't seem to be particularly fashionable anymore? Could be wrong). I've found that it allows me to widen my grip when I feel like it and change my posture just enough that I don't feel any fatigue in the shoulders/back anymore.
