Newbie Road user

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If you want some straightforward advice about adjusting your bike to make it comfortable, this YouTube clip from Christopher will get you 80% of the way there. Have fun.
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[steveo269]

I would avoid tracking your ride with your phone GPS if riding solo. The last thing you want is to be stuck with a mechanical fault, or at worse be knocked off on a hit and run, with a flat battery as the GPS of MapMyRide/Strava has run your battery flat.

You should be ok,I use my none too new Sony (similar to op's but older),run Strava and MMR,take the odd pic,upload said pics to Facebook and Instagram and check progress occasionally and it will still only get down to about 40% at the very worst on a 3-4 hour ride,just make sure it's fully charged before you go out,switch off mobile data and don't leave the screen on

 

[iamRayRay]

Longest ride i did this week was 10 miles each way commute , 6 day week and about 65 hours work in total, i had intended to ride today and it was meh cant be assed tbh .

Keep plugging away CyberKnight!

I have a 40 miler planned early doors Saturday this weekend. Next weekend I am taking on London > Brighton.
Furthest I've been is 68 miles before with a friend.

Try to get out with a few mates, best way to do it. Then you don't have to fight the headwind all the way there on your own.

 

[craig kennedy]

I firmly believe being with others does make you work a little harder than you would when on your own (no one to keep up with so to speak)
I do hope at some stage to be capable of cycling from Maidstone to Woodchurch and back home again, that is around 50 miles. (friends in woodchurch to refill etc)

 

[craig kennedy]

oh and dont have any mates that cycle at all, most of my mates are either heavy, or heavy smokers and either cant/wont cycle.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

oh and dont have any mates that cycle at all, most of my mates are either heavy, or heavy smokers and either cant/wont cycle.

Heavy doesn't stop you, and I don't think there are many that smoke as much as me.

 

[cyberknight]

Keep plugging away CyberKnight!

I have a 40 miler planned early doors Saturday this weekend. Next weekend I am taking on London > Brighton.
Furthest I've been is 68 miles before with a friend.

Try to get out with a few mates, best way to do it. Then you don't have to fight the headwind all the way there on your own.

I will do , atm work is a night mare , 55 hours overtime last month , i do try to do club runs every other weekend and average around 60 miles , furthest solo so far was the midland monster sportive a couple of years ago which was 74 miles .

 

[iamRayRay]

I firmly believe being with others does make you work a little harder than you would when on your own (no one to keep up with so to speak)
I do hope at some stage to be capable of cycling from Maidstone to Woodchurch and back home again, that is around 50 miles. (friends in woodchurch to refill etc)

Maidstone in Kent? That's my neck of the woods growing up!

Shame I'm not around till possibly tail end of July - unless you are planning then?! Any excuse to go out on the Machine!

 

[craig kennedy]

By then my daughter will be on her summer holidays so I will be able to cycle a bit more than normal. I have a few trips for work planned around the end of July, Qatar for one, but July and Aug I plan on doing a good deal of cycling

 

[craig kennedy]

I don't know if the name gives it away, I'm from Coldstream in the Scottish borders. Lived in Kent about 22 years.

 

[craig kennedy]

Tell you what Qatar would be an Awesome place to cycle, the roads are silky smooth, sadly its also 40C here, high humidity and 90% of the people here are the most terrible drivers.