BrianEvesham
Mask is gone!
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- South Littleton, Evesham.
And here I'm afraid. Been hammering down all day.Rain predicted all weekend where I am.
Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]
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Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
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- Leicester
Not the only one, crap weather in Leicester today.
Well after weeks of drooling over bikes online I've come across a Giant TCR 3 composite 2013 at £750 reduced from 1250 so couldn't resist. Last one in Stock too. Also grabbed a set of mavic ksyrium elite wheels on offer too.
So n+1 it is lol. Now just need to find somewhere to put it haha
So n+1 it is lol. Now just need to find somewhere to put it haha
Nigelnaturist
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So does that mean only 50 miles today
Nigelnaturist
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I got n+2 so there, but one still waiting a coat or two of paint, the other will never get ridden and slight rear wheel problem and a really s*** paint job (not mine), though it all works now, it just feels so wrong compared with a road bike.
Hope you enjoy your new stead Reece.
Supersuperleeds
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So does that mean only 50 miles today
None today, but I have done just over 300 since Monday
Nigelnaturist
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Just wait till I am betterNone today, but I have done just over 300 since Monday
@Reece I have only ever ridden road bikes (apart from when a kid). My cousin got me one to ride to London in 2008, but it wasn't up to the job, so she got me the Viking I have now, I got it the day i set off, like about three hours before, boy was that a steep learning curve, and whilst I did it apart from some hills namley one near Lincoln and a few other, broke a spoke on the way back (sort of set a trend with those wheels), and curtailed the last 40-50 miles home I did it, wish I had known what I do now.
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
just walked in like a drowned rat. 
was told to deal with my bike (wash & lube) and then strip at the front door!
Poured just over 250ml of rain water out of my boots & socks all of which had run down my legs and into the boots from the top! Suspect if I wrung out my leggings I could have made it to 300ml!
Has been a while since I have walked in that wet!
And I knew exactly how bad the weather was because the drivers were taking extra precautions when overtaking - always a bad sign!
New bike well and truly christened!
Strangely only saw 1 other cyclist and it looked like he has just set out, he was dry!
was told to deal with my bike (wash & lube) and then strip at the front door!
Poured just over 250ml of rain water out of my boots & socks all of which had run down my legs and into the boots from the top! Suspect if I wrung out my leggings I could have made it to 300ml!
Has been a while since I have walked in that wet! And I knew exactly how bad the weather was because the drivers were taking extra precautions when overtaking - always a bad sign!
New bike well and truly christened!
Strangely only saw 1 other cyclist and it looked like he has just set out, he was dry!
Mo1959
Legendary Member
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- Perthshire,Scotland
@SatNavSaysStraightOn Sounds pretty awful It's due to be similar here tomorrow morning. Escaped this morning with just one of these steady, really fine drizzles that you can barely see but still seems to soak you. If I wake up to heavy rain and wind in the morning I think I may well be tempted just to feed the cat and dog and crawl back under the covers for another hour or so.
It's due to be similar here tomorrow morning. Escaped this morning with just one of these steady, really fine drizzles that you can barely see but still seems to soak you. If I wake up to heavy rain and wind in the morning I think I may well be tempted just to feed the cat and dog and crawl back under the covers for another hour or so.
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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It's just very wet out, not windy thankfully- though it would have been a really helpful tailwind if it had been... but clothes dry, my boots are now on the radiator in the sitting room which is on to continue to dry the sitting room out after last Saturday's bathroom problems (toilet decided to leak everywhere almost bringing the ceiling down and soaking everything in the process)... and I may just be bullied into considering having yet another attempt at finding a new waterproof. So far everything has gone back as not suitable but my existing one has literally failed at the seams and everywhere else as well to be honest. Its only purpose today was its colour!
Tomorrow is a 'traditional' day off from cycling anyhow, and we will see what Sunday brings - I may decided on a muddy mtb ride instead of a road bike ride. We will see... already at 250km for this week and that is more than enough for my health each and every week...
Tomorrow is a 'traditional' day off from cycling anyhow, and we will see what Sunday brings - I may decided on a muddy mtb ride instead of a road bike ride. We will see... already at 250km for this week and that is more than enough for my health each and every week...
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Nigelnaturist
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@SatNavSaysStraightOn how you finding the new bike. I guess it wasn't me you saw then, mind you i did manage to avoid the worst of the rain, just a bit of drizzle like @Mo1959 and only in it for 8 or 9 miles.
A new battery and re-linking the unit to the sensor cured that, only for the H.R. to read low for the last 15 miles or so, this is the only draw back to the R20 only 3 fields at any one time, and I need to keep an eye on the mileage, needed a minimum to have a chance with the challenge, so I will replace the battery in that as well. Then just brake blocks and a rear tyre, though that isn't urgent and i should be set for the summer well to August anyway. So I might be able to save a little toward a new bike next year, all depends on the Carleton, it needs wheels (though it has a set, rear freewheel) seat post had to destroy the old one to get it out, change the centre pull brakes so an option to upgrade the brakes on the Viking at some point, BB I have the old touring chainset that can go on it, I have either the Sora RD which if coupled up to that chainset 26 or 28/38/48 and and 8sp cassette 12-13-14-15-17-19-21-23 with the 26th front and 48th would give me a range of 29.73" to 105.2" compared with viking of 31.56" to 105.2" so almost the same.
So
BB, brakes, wheels & tyres, seat post (have a saddle but....) FD, chain and cassette and paint, bar tape £200 should well do it I think
A new battery and re-linking the unit to the sensor cured that, only for the H.R. to read low for the last 15 miles or so, this is the only draw back to the R20 only 3 fields at any one time, and I need to keep an eye on the mileage, needed a minimum to have a chance with the challenge, so I will replace the battery in that as well. Then just brake blocks and a rear tyre, though that isn't urgent and i should be set for the summer well to August anyway. So I might be able to save a little toward a new bike next year, all depends on the Carleton, it needs wheels (though it has a set, rear freewheel) seat post had to destroy the old one to get it out, change the centre pull brakes so an option to upgrade the brakes on the Viking at some point, BB I have the old touring chainset that can go on it, I have either the Sora RD which if coupled up to that chainset 26 or 28/38/48 and and 8sp cassette 12-13-14-15-17-19-21-23 with the 26th front and 48th would give me a range of 29.73" to 105.2" compared with viking of 31.56" to 105.2" so almost the same.
So
BB, brakes, wheels & tyres, seat post (have a saddle but....) FD, chain and cassette and paint, bar tape £200 should well do it I think
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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@Nigelnaturist it was heart breaking having to put the pannier rack on her yesterday... need some nylon washers to protect the frame from the rack... at the moment I have cut it bits on inner tube to act as a 'saviour'... shall have to remember to add them to the shopping list tomorrow.
Really liking the new bike and the gears are much better. the compact 10 speed just seems to have a better range of gears and sometimes I don't even notice that it has changed gear even with the pedal stroke... cadence is the only giveaway. But I need to work on saddle position - not sure if it is marginally too high or just the wrong position but I noticed tonight that my left leg is still having issues (the knee action is not smooth) but actually think this is an ankle issue, which is why I am thinking the saddle may be 1mm to high for something daft like that. Its either that or I have an injury I don't know about (don't sense acute pain properly anymore - partly the paralysis and but mostly something else). I will try dropping the saddle very slightly and see if that helps with the knee action. I was having issues with the T3 just before I got rid of it as well, so it is not something new, I just hadn't got the saddle height spot on after our holidays back in March (saddle & seat post had to be removed from the bikes to get them on the bike rack - something I hate having to do!)....
Ironically the PR2 on Strava includes a section where I was almost free wheeling/coasting having decided that I mustn't push myself because I still had the journey home to take into account and because it was a back-to-back commute as well... so guess the bike and I are well suited - though the bar tape will be changed this weekend for the Spech Phat tape I had previously. Much prefer it.... right as early as this is, time for bed... I'm knackered.
@Mo1959 I don't know how you manage all those miles for the challenges, I really don't!
Really liking the new bike and the gears are much better. the compact 10 speed just seems to have a better range of gears and sometimes I don't even notice that it has changed gear even with the pedal stroke... cadence is the only giveaway. But I need to work on saddle position - not sure if it is marginally too high or just the wrong position but I noticed tonight that my left leg is still having issues (the knee action is not smooth) but actually think this is an ankle issue, which is why I am thinking the saddle may be 1mm to high for something daft like that. Its either that or I have an injury I don't know about (don't sense acute pain properly anymore - partly the paralysis and but mostly something else). I will try dropping the saddle very slightly and see if that helps with the knee action. I was having issues with the T3 just before I got rid of it as well, so it is not something new, I just hadn't got the saddle height spot on after our holidays back in March (saddle & seat post had to be removed from the bikes to get them on the bike rack - something I hate having to do!)....
Ironically the PR2 on Strava includes a section where I was almost free wheeling/coasting having decided that I mustn't push myself because I still had the journey home to take into account and because it was a back-to-back commute as well... so guess the bike and I are well suited - though the bar tape will be changed this weekend for the Spech Phat tape I had previously. Much prefer it.... right as early as this is, time for bed... I'm knackered.
@Mo1959 I don't know how you manage all those miles for the challenges, I really don't!
NorvernRob
Veteran
- Location
- Sheffield
Went out last night for an evening ride on a 20 mile loop I've done a few times before - did it on my own this time, managed 19 PB strava segments and a time of 1hr 8m though my Garmin said 1hr 6m. I had to stop at one point to sort my pockets out so I think the Garmin auto stopped and strava carried on running on my phone whilst I was stationary.
I'd like to do it in under an hour before the end of summer, but there's over 1000ft of climbing on it with some draggy hills that really pull my average speed down so it will be tricky. I did knock about 7 minutes off my previous best yesterday though!
https://www.strava.com/activities/133761072
I'd like to do it in under an hour before the end of summer, but there's over 1000ft of climbing on it with some draggy hills that really pull my average speed down so it will be tricky. I did knock about 7 minutes off my previous best yesterday though!
https://www.strava.com/activities/133761072
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