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

[Stonechat]

Did my ride today, was started at Chessington, and a loop round Box Hill a d Polesden Lacey

There was a high attrition rate due to the weather many dropped out before the start, and as soon as the heavens opened near the start. Ride was not too hard, but nonetheless we had two offs, but no lasting damage
Fuller details later, but 30 miles done at a modest pace.. Fuller details later when able to upload.

Did not go from home due to circa, on the way there saew another off from cyclist whose wheels strayed onto a very rough section at the verge

Weather was bad but I suppose could've been worse

 

[Boon 51]

@Boon 51 on the page that shows your ride click on the spanner tab (actions) create segment use the the sliders on the top to set the rough length then the forward/backward (start and end) buttons to refine it.
This is using a computer, phones ect may be different.

Thanks I will give that a try..

 

[lanternerouge]

Pretty bike SN!

 

[Middleton Mouse]

My fiance and me did 31 miles along the canal towpath from Edinburgh-Falkirk today and I didn't throw any hissy fits, throw up or anything like that. I've decided to uninstall Mapmyride as it's just too unreliable on a windows phone, all my workout info was completely lost (did take photos so I have evidence).

We averaged about 8mph I think (or we had by the time we got 20.5 miles in and we didn't dip much in the last 10 miles or so). I won't ever make the mistake of doing a big ride with a new saddle again or completely neglecting to bring suncream. All in all we were 4.5 hours which included two food stops and various photo/juice stops along the way. We also had to walk across three aquaducts and through a 0.6 mile tunnel so I don't think we did too badly.

Had one wee wobbly bit where I felt a bit ill and sore after our big food stop about 20.5 miles in but think it was more just me struggling to get started again after a stop.

Really need to invest in a pair of padded shorts but it gives me hope that the 55 mile charity ride I'm doing in the summer isn't totally beyond me.

My 17 yo Trek

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Middleton Mouse on longer rides its better to eat little but often.
Well done on your ride.

Got out for a wee spin, gears are finally sorted, and what a difference it makes, I didn't think i had worked as hard as did but the wind out of the N.E.@ 16mph (according to garmin) might explain some of it.
Steady 15.5 miles @ 15.5 mph.

http://www.strava.com/activities/132343830

 

[Boon 51]

Well I made a right pigs ear of that and I cant delete the 3 segments either... pants springs to mind..

 

[Nigelnaturist]

The only way I can now improve the bike is to try and lose some weight off it (not really viable) or to take it to a 10sp which really would cost to much for the level this bike is, I have currently the option of dropping the 16th rear sprocket and putting a 28th on when things below are more stable for when I do some more hills than I have currently been doing, so going down a 10sp route really isn't a good option. So apart from tyres brakes ect.... I guess I can now (after I get an edge 705) start saving for a new bike (some time next year probably).

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Well I made a right pigs ear of that and I cant delete the 3 segments either... pants springs to mind..

Yes you can go to the full leader board, under actions delete, if you didn't create it you wont have the option to delete.

 

[Boon 51]

Yes you can go to the full leader board, under actions delete, if you didn't create it you wont have the option to delete.

Thanks Nigelnaturist but I've just deleted the ride even though it was my best time, so I will just have too ride a bit faster next time..
PS its still on Garmin.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Current set is 52-42-30 front and 25-23-21-19-17-16-15-14-13 rear giving a range of 105.2" to 31.56" which is a lot closer grouping, than the 52-42-30 and 26-23-21-19-17-15-13 when I got it, it will take sometime to get used to how subtle some of the gear changes are, but I can say this, it really helps where wind is involved as the single tooth changes etween 13-17 give plenty of options I can for example use the 30x15 giving the same gear as 42x21 the 30th ring also means that I have three gears between 50" and 40" (49.31", 46.41" and 41.53") oppose to the two on the 42th front of 48.03" (23th rear) and 44.18" (25th) and three gears between 40" and 30"
Looking at some tables I could rig a 10sp compact double much the same , but the draw back would around 15-17-19 on the back, which would mean most of my riding on 34x13-14-15 or 50x19-21-23.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Thanks Nigelnaturist but I've just deleted the ride even though it was my best time, so I will just have too ride a bit faster next time..
PS its still on Garmin.

Download it from garmin as a tcx and upload that to strava, it should also still be on your unit.
What I do is down load all my rides to my computer and back them up, then up load the saved file to whatever site I am using as tcx files this way all sites have exactly the same data. When I had the rider 35 this was quite a palaver but doable, the new bryton bridge is better as you can download direct to your computer, but still not as good as garmin which the computer sees as an external device, and its easy to drag and drop from the folder on the unit to a folder on your computer, and like wise if you create a tcx course this can be dropped into the new folder, which the garmin unit then converts to a course file (crs) which can be seen in the course file on the garmin unit (you can create crs files in software).
However the Bryton site will only upload tcx files that have been exported from a bryton unit (I did sort this out, but it is complex, and not something I would do normally), but the tcx the Bryton exports, can be uploaded to all sites I have tried.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

This is todays ride on bryton
http://www.brytonsport.com/mapTrackView/2?id=5451984
garmin
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/483677478
rwgps
http://ridewithgps.com/trips/2512004
strava
http://www.strava.com/activities/132343830

the track is a little off at the start.

 

[DavidD]

Current set is 52-42-30 front and 25-23-21-19-17-16-15-14-13 rear giving a range of 105.2" to 31.56" which is a lot closer grouping, than the 52-42-30 and 26-23-21-19-17-15-13 when I got it, it will take sometime to get used to how subtle some of the gear changes are, but I can say this, it really helps where wind is involved as the single tooth changes etween 13-17 give plenty of options I can for example use the 30x15 giving the same gear as 42x21 the 30th ring also means that I have three gears between 50" and 40" (49.31", 46.41" and 41.53") oppose to the two on the 42th front of 48.03" (23th rear) and 44.18" (25th) and three gears between 40" and 30"
Looking at some tables I could rig a 10sp compact double much the same , but the draw back would around 15-17-19 on the back, which would mean most of my riding on 34x13-14-15 or 50x19-21-23.

You seem overly obsessed with numbers and data nigel

 

[Nigelnaturist]

You seem overly obsessed with numbers and data nigel

Not really I also ride.
You wouldn't for example expect to freeze a fast moving object in photography without know how shutter speeds work for example where you could freeze something using 1/1000's you couldn't at 1/60's, and how this then effects aperture, knowing how something works helps you to understand it better.

You want to see my database, far better for data than strava, for example ft/mile, effort, wind speeds ect.... get the idea

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@DavidD for example I actually worked harder today than Friday in terms of H.R. even though the gearing on avg was lower at 63.31" compared with 66.18" about 1/2 a gear, and cadence was down from 84 to 82 indicating something was actually more difficult, as it turns out the wind was stronger though for most of my ride today it was more in my favour than against me, also the terrain was a touch steeper at 33.38ft/mile compared with 28.53ft/mile on Friday (ft/mile taken from rwgps, as I have used this from the beginning and use it as a standard from ride to ride, this differs somewhat to strava)

Some do say I have O.C.B.

Edit
Also two other things what I try and show with the gearing thing is one a compact is not always better than a triple, and that the inner ring should not be referred to as a granny ring as my set up shows it can actually be higher geared than some compacts, for example a 34x28 is 31.94" my 30x25 is 31.56" less than 1/2" you put a 30 or a 32 on the rear of a compact and it lower than mine.