Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[BrianEvesham]

Did manage a slow ten mile loop with Max complete with the obligatory stop at the village park;

But 10 miles on the old pink apollo feels like 30 on the Triban, it's way to small for me and heavy.

 

[Mo1959]

Did manage a slow ten mile loop with Max complete with the obligatory stop at the village park;

Excellent Brian. Glad you got out. Did you have a go on the swings?

 

[BrianEvesham]

But of course

 

[MaxInc]

But 10 miles on the old pink apollo feels like 30 on the Triban, it's way to small for me and heavy.

I took the MTB on the off road tyres on a short trip to grocery store ... It felt like riding a tractor ... fun in a different way but so much harder to get up to speed ...

 

[User28924]

Wait till you see them in the winter.
How you finding the 5A

Yeah, it's been really good thanks, especially with new tyres. Obviously I now crave a more expensive bike, but it might be a fair while before that becomes possible. Maybe in a year or two. :P

 

[spooks]

New furthest ride today. 41.6 miles from Southampton to Romsey, Stockbridge then Winchester and back. My legs were definitely tired by the end. Now I'm going to sit the entire afternoon and recover. A month to go until the London to Brighton. Once that's over I'll find something longer to aim for in the autumn, maybe a 100 miler. From 0 to 41 miles in 20 months isn't a bad improvement considering that I only get to go out twice a week, occasionally 3 times.
http://app.strava.com/activities/53767558

 

[Billy Adam]

Nice ride today although did forget to switch strava on until about a mile in. Doh! https://www.strava.com/activities/53751697

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

New furthest ride today. 41.6 miles from Southampton to Romsey, Stockbridge then Winchester and back. My legs were definitely tired by the end. Now I'm going to sit the entire afternoon and recover. A month to go until the London to Brighton. Once that's over I'll find something longer to aim for in the autumn, maybe a 100 miler. From 0 to 41 miles in 20 months isn't a bad improvement considering that I only get to go out twice a week, occasionally 3 times.
http://app.strava.com/activities/53767558

Well done

 

[Nomadski]

New furthest ride today. 41.6 miles from Southampton to Romsey, Stockbridge then Winchester and back. My legs were definitely tired by the end. Now I'm going to sit the entire afternoon and recover. A month to go until the London to Brighton. Once that's over I'll find something longer to aim for in the autumn, maybe a 100 miler. From 0 to 41 miles in 20 months isn't a bad improvement considering that I only get to go out twice a week, occasionally 3 times.
http://app.strava.com/activities/53767558

Great stuff

 

[Nigelnaturist]

New furthest ride today. 41.6 miles from Southampton to Romsey, Stockbridge then Winchester and back. My legs were definitely tired by the end. Now I'm going to sit the entire afternoon and recover. A month to go until the London to Brighton. Once that's over I'll find something longer to aim for in the autumn, maybe a 100 miler. From 0 to 41 miles in 20 months isn't a bad improvement considering that I only get to go out twice a week, occasionally 3 times.
http://app.strava.com/activities/53767558

As Mo and Phoenix both said well done.

Nice ride today although did forget to switch strava on until about a mile in. Doh! https://www.strava.com/activities/53751697

Great distance Billy well done.

 

[Billy Adam]

As Mo and Phoenix both said well done.

Great distance Billy well done.

Trying to catch you up Nigel.

 

[BrianEvesham]

Nice ride today although did forget to switch strava on until about a mile in. Doh! https://www.strava.com/activities/53751697

Kudos sent.
Making me feel very lazy Billy.

 

[Billy Adam]

New furthest ride today. 41.6 miles from Southampton to Romsey, Stockbridge then Winchester and back. My legs were definitely tired by the end. Now I'm going to sit the entire afternoon and recover. A month to go until the London to Brighton. Once that's over I'll find something longer to aim for in the autumn, maybe a 100 miler. From 0 to 41 miles in 20 months isn't a bad improvement considering that I only get to go out twice a week, occasionally 3 times.
http://app.strava.com/activities/53767558

Well done spooks

 

[philinmerthyr]

The increased mileage and conditions finally caught up with me this morning. I still got in 20 miles. That's over 150 miles in the last 8 days. I'll take a day off tomorrow then plan a couple of hill climbing sessions during the week so I'll have another hard week. 12 weeks today and I'll be riding the London 100.

I passed Evans in Cardiff towards the end of my ride so called in and treated myself to a leather Brooks saddle. I now need to do the 1,000 they say it takes to break it in before the 100 mile ride.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Well I have found out why my rear gears arn't dropping down, the cable isn't moving down through the upper outer cable another trip to Evans in the morning.