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

[madferret]

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.

You're not supposed to be on the bike.......

 

[RWright]

I have a stand very similar to Brian's. I just wrap a small towel around the top tube and clamp it there. I am too lazy to remove and put back the saddle bag and pepper spray on the seat post every time I put the bike on the stand. I just don't press the brake lever.

Just saw max's comment, about removing heavy forks and such. Working on heavier bikes I do make sure things are very tight. On my drop bar bikes I don't have much trouble with things shifting.

 

[RWright]

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.

I happened to notice a different bike on that ride. How was it?

 

[BrianEvesham]

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.

Glad I went to Lidl then.

This is a beast of a bike but it still held it rock steady. It did just hold on the top tube but I wasn't happy so went for the seat post.

 

[madferret]

Chains a bit slack.......

 

[BrianEvesham]

Chains a bit slack.......

That's the least of its problems, it weighs a ton, well not literally but almost.

 

[Mo1959]

I happened to notice a different bike on that ride. How was it?

It takes more of the buzz out of the roads but still haven't changed the saddle so was getting a bit uncomfortable in the nether regions!

 

[NickJ95GB]

15.4 miles including a 16% hill lasting 1/3 of a mile, followed by a series of quite small hills, and a 3.5 mile sprint at the end in 54 minutes, average nearly 17. Quite happy with it. Probably shouldn't be on considering my elbow was fractured nearly 4 weeks ago!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

There's nothing to stop a eg dustbin being placed under the front wheel to take the weight off the seat tube etc if the job in hand does not require the front wheel to be spun.

 

[SWSteve]

re: Lidl stands, when clamping on the top tube, how do you get anywhere near cables? Don't all of your rearward cables run along the downtube?

 

[SWSteve]

Lots of great progress again, I think @Mo1959 should be locked up for a bit so we can try and match her daily progress over a week.
Below are last 3 rides, one spin from last night...and then both ways to work after some idiot watched his train leave the station from the platform...
http://app.strava.com/activities/66165764
http://app.strava.com/activities/66270766
http://app.strava.com/activities/66339560

 

[Mo1959]

re: Lidl stands, when clamping on the top tube, how do you get anywhere near cables? Don't all of your rearward cables run along the downtube?

Both my road bikes, the rear brake cable runs under the top tube so last time I used my stand I clamped on the seat post.

 

[SWSteve]

Both my road bikes, the rear brake cable runs under the top tube so last time I used my stand I clamped on the seat post.

I'm going to look at mine now, maybe I'm going mad

edit: until now I had never noticed this cable. What a plonker

 

[Mo1959]

I'm going to look at mine now, maybe I'm going mad

edit: until now I had never noticed this cable. What a plonker

Ah well, what with missing the train that's twice today you've been a plonker then Must be the heat!

 

[SWSteve]

Ah well, what with missing the train that's twice today you've been a plonker then Must be the heat!

I only missed the train because my mum hadn't ironed me a shirt so I needed to do it...to be honest I think I might cycle in again, it wasn't that bad after all.