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

[madferret]

If you get on the canal in Manchester and head for Ashton-under-Lyne, you can be up in the hills in no time, I need to get braver and do some proper hills, canals have the advantage of locks rather than large ascents! Its a nice route up to Standedge tunnel in Diggle (few steps in Stalybridge and the canal disappears oddly in Ashton at Asda!).

Metric century is my next target, but will probably do to Chester first, if I feel good that day may just add onto the journey to do it.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

@Mo1959 take a break! 70 miles today! Well done

 

[madferret]

@Mo1959 take a break! 70 miles today! Well done

@Mo1959 beginning to think that the 1959 is your weekly mileage and nothing to do with years

 

[BrianEvesham]

Mechanical newbie progress;

I have a work stand ! Now I can do all those little jobs with ease. It's very sturdy and from Lidl's Cycle sale today.

 

[Mo1959]

@Mo1959 take a break! 70 miles today! Well done

Thanks guys. Not sure I will do that again any time soon. Hills plus distance are kind of hard work! If I go out tomorrow I think it will be half that distance and as flat as I can make it.

 

[hopless500]

Today's progress is not in terms of miles done, but the advent of me + new road bike + new spd shoes finally arrived = me attempting a spin down the road and back practising clipping in and unclipping. All went splendidly well until right at the end when I unclipped the left, but then concentrated so hard on getting the right one unclipped that I nearly went over
For the forseeable future, Mr Hop and myself have decided that my cycle helmet is not optional

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Mechanical newbie progress;

I have a work stand ! Now I can do all those little jobs with ease. It's very sturdy and from Lidl's Cycle sale today.

Same stand as mine. I read somewhere that you should clamp the bike on the seat post and not on the frame? Your grass needs some water on it

 

[boybiker]

Same stand as mine. I read somewhere that you should clamp the bike on the seat post and not on the frame? Your grass needs some water on it

You can clamp via the seat post so you don't foul the rear brake cables. Just be careful if you have a carbon post as you can crack them apparently. I've not had a problem with my carbon post.

 

[Nomadski]

Yes, clamp using the seat post Brian

 

[MaxInc]

Yes, clamp using the seat post Brian

If the stand clamp is similar design to the Aldi one, I don't think they are intend to clamp by the seat post. The Aldi one is pretty soft and bends and flexes when the bike is not perfectly balanced, it may work with a lightweight road bike but it will most certainly break with a heavier MTB.

 

[Nomadski]

If the stand clamp is similar design to the Aldi one, I don't think they are intend to clamp by the seat post. The Aldi one is pretty soft and bends and flexes when the bike is not perfectly balanced, it may work with a lightweight road bike but it will most certainly break with a heavier MTB.

Bit dodgy clamping with the cables there though?

 

[BrianEvesham]

It's a clever layout that doesn't clamp the cables on the TTube, will try out the seat post see how that fares.
Cheers.

 

[MaxInc]

There's a channel to run the cable so it doesn't get squeezed. I've returned mine and got something more solid from Decathlon.

 

[BrianEvesham]

The Aldi one is pretty soft and bends and flexes when the bike is not perfectly balanced, it may work with a lightweight road bike but it will most certainly break with a heavier MTB.

30kg max load for this Lidl stand, so even @Nigelnaturist fully loaded bike should be ok!

 

[MaxInc]

30kg max load for this Lidl stand, so even @Nigelnaturist fully loaded bike should be ok!

Aldi's advertised at 30kg too but when I removed the fork and front wheel from my 15kg MTB, the clamp pried open from the twisting force of the unbalanced frame. Bike was clamped by the top tube just as yours in the pic.