Show us your.......newbie progress!

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

another ride, and I have made it to an average of 7mph!. managed 9.4 miles! this slowbie is getting a touch faster now!
https://www.strava.com/activities/272123972

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Beautiful day - a tad cold but lovely nonetheless.

20.25 miles @ 13.7 mph av' and 1037' ascent.

Took it nice and easy due to iffy back and just span away so was a bit surprised my average was up from rides of late. Combination of slowly shaking off winter sloth and the fact that the route was relatively flat I guess.

Stay safe all & happy riding.

 

[Mo1959]

another ride, and I have made it to an average of 7mph!. managed 9.4 miles! this slowbie is getting a touch faster now!
https://www.strava.com/activities/272123972

You'll be catching me up before long at the rate I am slowing down. Lol. Well done. Keep it going Emma

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

You'll be catching me up before long at the rate I am slowing down. Lol. Well done. Keep it going Emma

today has completely exhausted me... but it is really good to know that I can get down the slope, up the slope and that the barriers at the bottom are negotiable by trike! I am hoping to make it to 10 miles for the end of (next) week so that I can pick some wild garlic or at least watch my husband pick me some wild garlic. I rather like wild garlic pesto and want some for this year! that's the target anyhow...

 

[Stonechat]

Rode in a different direct to usual

I had found a hill climb that is sometimes used for competitions and thought I would have a go
Windsor Hill is not near Windsor but near Wooburn in Bucks
It start about 4% and slowly ramps up to 14+%. Fortunately it is not too long

Duly completed it (slowly) without too much bother
Nice and sunny but still cold
45.1 mi at 15.5 mph
1211 feet climbed
https://www.strava.com/activities/272234531

 

[spooks]

Did my first ride in Wales today. Went out with the CTC since I don't know any routes. Did my longest ride since october by a good 20 miles (only 5th ride since then too!). Nice to know I can still do a good distance even if it was slow and not hilly. I was surprised (and very happy) to find that there are some flat (ish) routes around south wales.
Edit: Forgot to say that I managed to fall off outside Caerphilly castle because I wasn't concentrating going through a set of bars. Got laughed at by a man on a park bench. Luckily nothing dented other than pride.
https://www.strava.com/activities/272394501

 

[Tankengine]

Sounds like people had fun today

I managed to ride my first 100 miles. Down from london to ide hill, loop round to frant, over to turners hill, back up to london. Didn't get off and walk on any hills . I love having a bike with gears.....so much!

Fun ride, esp along "the ridge" near colemans hatch, great view.

Can't wait for the 6am commute........!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Sounds like people had fun today

I managed to ride my first 100 miles. Down from london to ide hill, loop round to frant, over to turners hill, back up to london. Didn't get off and walk on any hills . I love having a bike with gears.....so much!

Fun ride, esp along "the ridge" near colemans hatch, great view.

Can't wait for the 6am commute........!

@Tankengine

Very good effort!

 

[ChrisEyles]

Sounds like people had fun today

I managed to ride my first 100 miles. Down from london to ide hill, loop round to frant, over to turners hill, back up to london. Didn't get off and walk on any hills . I love having a bike with gears.....so much!

Fun ride, esp along "the ridge" near colemans hatch, great view.

Can't wait for the 6am commute........!

Congrats on the first century!!!

 

[Nomadski]

Did my first ride in Wales today. Went out with the CTC since I don't know any routes. Did my longest ride since october by a good 20 miles (only 5th ride since then too!). Nice to know I can still do a good distance even if it was slow and not hilly. I was surprised (and very happy) to find that there are some flat (ish) routes around south wales.
Edit: Forgot to say that I managed to fall off outside Caerphilly castle because I wasn't concentrating going through a set of bars. Got laughed at by a man on a park bench. Luckily nothing dented other than pride.
https://www.strava.com/activities/272394501

47 miles and 2.5k ft of climbing I wouldn't call 'not hilly'! I suppose it's all relative though. Going to be heading past Caerphilly Castle as we loop round to do the hill there at the back end of Velothon Wales. Should be interesting after 100kms of riding, including The Tumble in Abergavenny...

Good ride though, well done!

Sounds like people had fun today

I managed to ride my first 100 miles. Down from london to ide hill, loop round to frant, over to turners hill, back up to london. Didn't get off and walk on any hills . I love having a bike with gears.....so much!

Fun ride, esp along "the ridge" near colemans hatch, great view.

Can't wait for the 6am commute........!

Congrats on the 100 sir.

 

[spooks]

47 miles and 2.5k ft of climbing I wouldn't call 'not hilly'! I suppose it's all relative though. Going to be heading past Caerphilly Castle as we loop round to do the hill there at the back end of Velothon Wales. Should be interesting after 100kms of riding, including The Tumble in Abergavenny...

Not flat by any means but definitely less hilly than I'd imagined all routes would inevitably be. In my head I was having to climb the tumble every time I went out on the bike. A couple of people in the ctc are doing the velothon too so we are going to do a practice ride or two before the big day. Caerphilly mountain is going to be a killer at the stage of the ride it's at that's for sure.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Tankengine nice one.

 

[Eribiste]

@Tankengine 100 miles! Bonzer

 

[Nomadski]

So I've dismantled most of the bike and successfully removed the cassette and got it pretty much cleaned up. All no bother really.

Only thing that I'm scratching my head over is every video or description I've seen about shimano cassettes is there is the lock piece, 5 or 6 cogs of varying sizes with mostly washers between them, and the last part consisting of the biggest 3 cogs as one unit.

Well my cassette has the lock piece, a small cog, then two more slightly larger ones THEN a single washer, then a 7 piece final part. Not seen this anywhere. Wonder if cannon dale do weird things with their cassettes like their bottom brackets? Hey ho, makes it a bit more difficult to clean properly but had them soaked in degreaser for 10 mins so see how it goes.

Cassette pieces

• Nomadski
• 23 Mar 2015

Not as many as I expected

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Nomadski its a tiagra cassette
http://si.shimano.com/php/download.php?file=pdf/ev/EV-CS-4600-3143.pdf