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[Stonechat]

Well done Bob, good ride there. Was it shockingly windy on the open sections? Some beautiful scenery that way, hope there weren't too many nutty NIMBYs with tacks this time.

Went out with my cycling bud after having a week with man flu, and still coughing a little. Like a true mate took it easy on me picking a slightly flatter route towards Leatherhead, and then onto Esher where we had cake and tea and cake (!) in a superb cycling cafe that has now become my favourite place in the world while riding a bike.

Was VERY gusty at times, intermittently at first, then after cake and tea and cake was pretty bad. Also didnt bring out arm or leg warmers so got a little cold until I rewarmed myself.

Quite happy with the ride, considering my not very consistent riding pattern of late.

http://www.strava.com/activities/206518965

Do let me know where the cycling cafe is

 

[Stonechat]

Just a bit more about my Sportive
I decided against more clothing, forecast said it would warm up a bit
I wanted to use best bib shorts as the padding was best, so used the leg warmers.wore a gklet so I could remove that. Howevrr temperature was cold with a north wind, and nothing was removed.
First main stretch was across the Avon valley towards Burley, had to pedal hard to keep warm. Ride the turning north into the wind. Yhispart was otherwise OK an the to feed stations at 32 and 55 miles where well stocked, an I felt good. There had been a few hills and these then increased. None of the hills is too bad, but the cumulative effect was tiring. One was over 7%, but managed to keep grinding on. On one of these hills, chain came off when chaning down chainring. Seemed a long way to the last fees station at 77 miles. Bike mechanic ther tweaked the gears.At this point only to hills and a straight run mostly with the wind.
Chain came off twice more, one with only 5 miles to go.
G
Fingers very greasy, and had nicked a finger so looked very messy.

Official ride time 7 h 48, but actual cycling was under 7 hr

Not too tired though

 

[Trevor_P]

Just a bit more about my Sportive
I decided against more clothing, forecast said it would warm up a bit
I wanted to use best bib shorts as the padding was best, so used the leg warmers.wore a gklet so I could remove that. Howevrr temperature was cold with a north wind, and nothing was removed.
First main stretch was across the Avon valley towards Burley, had to pedal hard to keep warm. Ride the turning north into the wind. Yhispart was otherwise OK an the to feed stations at 32 and 55 miles where well stocked, an I felt good. There had been a few hills and these then increased. None of the hills is too bad, but the cumulative effect was tiring. One was over 7%, but managed to keep grinding on. On one of these hills, chain came off when chaning down chainring. Seemed a long way to the last fees station at 77 miles. Bike mechanic ther tweaked the gears.At this point only to hills and a straight run mostly with the wind.
Chain came off twice more, one with only 5 miles to go.
G
Fingers very greasy, and had nicked a finger so looked very messy.

Official ride time 7 h 48, but actual cycling was under 7 hr

Not too tired though

Strange, I had a chain off incident just after the second feed station on Saturday. Kept it on the small ring until the 77 mile station where the mechanic adjusted the high low setting for me. It was fine after that. Also like @Jhey My garmin wouldn't find Satellites at the start, so I lost a mile or so there. Were there many punctures on Sunday?

 

[Stonechat]

Strange, I had a chain off incident just after the second feed station on Saturday. Kept it on the small ring until the 77 mile station where the mechanic adjusted the high low setting for me. It was fine after that. Also like @Jhey My garmin wouldn't find Satellites at the start, so I lost a mile or so there. Were there many punctures on Sunday?

Saw a few , but just randomly throughout, did not see any incidents

 

[Stonechat]

I done the New Forest 100 yesterday, Loved it apart from the 14% gradient climb, I wasn't expecting that lol, I thought I done it in a decent time tbh, I felt bad seeing how many people had punctures along the way, the last 10 miles tho I did find hard, my speed dropped to about 15.5 mph, tho I did get a Silver timing for finnishing in 6 hours & 55 mins, I did it with a mate but it shows I did it with two others but no Idea who they are lol. My Garmin didn't want to connect at the start either, I lost 3 miles on my GPS due to that, it took like 20 mins to connect, never had this issue before.

Found it so hard to sleep night before, I had an hour and a halfs sleep and had been awake since 1.30 am, I think it was all the excitement.

http://www.strava.com/activities/206097177

Edit: I forgot to add I now need new v-brake pads for my Hybrid bike after this ride, by the end of it there wasn't much left to them.

Well done

 

[Trevor_P]

Saw a few , but just randomly throughout, did not see any incidents

There were plenty of randoms throughout on Saturday. But they were interspersed with groups of punctures, maybe half a dozen or so people within the space of a few hundred yards. Don't know the cause though.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SpokeyDokey I use elevation gain (in meters)/ascent time to work out and overall V.A.M. not sure it actually means anything.
Brytons site has an uphill distance, but like I said the R20 is naff at elevation and I don't think the Bryton is any better than strava for correcting it (well there isn't an option), just had a look at the segment to my mates house fro yesterday and one I did on the 500 last year, rwgps corrected is still more 50ft+, -30ft+ its a negative incline. over about 8.5 miles.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Trevor_P I am not going to say owt, though I sympathise with those that did have punctures.

 

[Big_Dave]

Road tested the wheel last night that I rebuilt on Saturday, I rechecked it this morning, just a little tweak here and there after the spokes bedded in on the ride, took a pic of my make shift feelers on the frame (I should have took pics of the wheel build really but forgot lol, basically did it the same way but without the tyre on) lined up with the wear indicator on the rim made pieces of gear cables and duct tape, a bit crude maybe, but didn't need a truing stand.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

From the last 129 rides
Max, Avg & min temps,
Avg headwind, tailwind, and the overall avg h-t (2nd column from the right) wind for a ride

From this it shows a slightly higher tail wind from the max averages, but a very slight overall avg headwind on a ride.
The temps include wind chill.

Hope its clear enough, I still have a long way to go inputting the data, and making it usable in my reports, queries.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

From the last 129 rides
Max, Avg & min temps,
Avg headwind, tailwind, and the overall avg h-t (2nd column from the right) wind for a ride
View attachment 58984
From this it shows a slightly higher tail wind from the max averages, but a very slight overall avg headwind on a ride.
The temps include wind chill.

Hope its clear enough, I still have a long way to go inputting the data, and making it usable in my reports, queries.

There's going to be the mother of all headwinds on my way home tonight! 22 miles of a very stiff northerly and at least 2/3rd of that is directly into it! 16 mph northerly and rain! Yuck

 

[Nigelnaturist]

This is the worst from current data

27/8/2014 at least it didn't rain.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Finally got off my backside yesterday and went for a good ride. A bit on the foggy side, but I did see the sun once!

I had a go at using the course feature on the Edge 200 too. It's a route I know, but I wanted to see how the device does it's guidance thing. I tried a couple of 'missed turns' to see how that bit works and it works very well, only allowing me to stray about thirty yards before bleating a warning. What a smashing little instrument for a modest price!

http://www.strava.com/activities/206577315

Only had mine a couple of months and it is a bonkers good value thing.

Locks on to satellites very very fast and is just so easy to use.

I am using Garmin Connect which is ok although I wish it had a more customisable approach to displaying stats. It looks a bit half-hearted tbh.

Not used the course feature tbh as I live in The Lakes and you would have to be a complete twonk to get lost up here.

 

[Rustybucket]

Just put an order in for this delivery due in 2nd week of November excited much..

http://www.cannondale.com/nam_en/2015/bikes/road/endurance-road/synapse-carbon/synapse-carbon-5-105

Just got my cycling plus delivered and I think they review this bike, gave it 5/5!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

There's going to be the mother of all headwinds on my way home tonight! 22 miles of a very stiff northerly and at least 2/3rd of that is directly into it! 16 mph northerly and rain! Yuck

I had a good headwind this morning, was my slowest commute for absolutely ages