Show us your.......newbie progress!
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SatNavSaysStraightOn
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- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
I wasn't suggesting you thought they did....
it took me a while to explain it to my OH as to why my imperial Eddington number was 53 with 4 more rides to 54 and metric was 81 with 8 more rides to do before it gets to 82...
none of which is helped by my commute being 70km!
Supersuperleeds
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SatNavSaysStraightOn
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but one advantage of being a moderator is that I can see what you wrote in the first place (now I have bothered to look that is!)...You must have seen my post after I edited it
(I will point out that I rarely bother doing this.... there really is enough to deal with as it is...and I am currently trying to write my Spanish homework and put bluntly what we covered in the lesson on Tuesday for holidays and the past tense, does not even vaguely cover my last holiday and guess what we have to write about and give a presentation on.... so a 750 mile mostly off road bicycle tour where I camped every night... about the only thing that really applies is the stuff we covered on weather - only it didn't rain for the 2 weeks we were out on tour.... so all that stuff about hotels and apartments and how to complain that they haven't got an ensuite bathroom really doesn't apply.... google translate is getting a lot of use)
Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
Well done..........some days I get about 40 worse placings!
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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been watching those happen as well, all those obscure ones that I did on tour, I am now going down the rankings for and they mean nothing to me... luckily! but my VW score is amazingly high (for me that is) at the moment... 82.47 or something like that!Well done..........some days I get about 40 worse placings!
Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
Better than me. I am only 80.48.
Bloomin cat has just expelled some lovely wind and she is sitting about 18 inches from my nose!
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Ouch......my legs are hurting.
23.8 miles @ 13.6 mph av' with 2171' ascent inc' one blooming big hill - at least it was for me.
Max gradient 10.8% ( for <50m)- which I think would be my most ever but I won't ever know as I didn't have RWGPS for last two years.
I know people climb much steeper than this but tbh I am on my limit - at least with 34x28 even over such a short distance.
No ride tomorrow as I have to do some work (bugger!) and then it is Crystal Palace vs Us and we need revenge for last year's against the odds defeat.
Here's to a happy riding weekend!
23.8 miles @ 13.6 mph av' with 2171' ascent inc' one blooming big hill - at least it was for me.
Max gradient 10.8% ( for <50m)- which I think would be my most ever but I won't ever know as I didn't have RWGPS for last two years.
I know people climb much steeper than this but tbh I am on my limit - at least with 34x28 even over such a short distance.
No ride tomorrow as I have to do some work (bugger!) and then it is Crystal Palace vs Us and we need revenge for last year's against the odds defeat.
Here's to a happy riding weekend!
Big_Dave
The unlikely Cyclist
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- Alfreton, Derbyshire
My ride last night, about 9c and still in shorts and no wind woohoooo, not that my av speed was any good
Sorry did I hear someone say where's the stats?? oh go on then if you insist
Averaged 70.65ft per mile with two cat 4 climbs
Sorry did I hear someone say where's the stats?? oh go on then if you insist
Averaged 70.65ft per mile with two cat 4 climbs
Stonechat
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- Location
- Staines, Middlesex
Did a ride and promptly went of my troute
PLanned to do 40 miles and when I fiound my route realise I was about 10 miles short
So when I got to Chobham put on an extra loop through Windlesham and Lightwater m and one or two wiggles but still only made 39.95 miles!
15.7 mph with 942 feet of climbing
Intermittent drizzle but never made to be actual proper rain.
As usual sitting here at computer with post ride drink and doggy licking my legs!
http://www.strava.com/activities/208360063
PLanned to do 40 miles and when I fiound my route realise I was about 10 miles short
So when I got to Chobham put on an extra loop through Windlesham and Lightwater m and one or two wiggles but still only made 39.95 miles!
15.7 mph with 942 feet of climbing
Intermittent drizzle but never made to be actual proper rain.
As usual sitting here at computer with post ride drink and doggy licking my legs!
http://www.strava.com/activities/208360063
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Stonechat
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- Staines, Middlesex
Yes I was in shorts today
Hit traffic a few times took ave speed down
Hit traffic a few times took ave speed down
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Nigelnaturist
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- Pontefract
I can have a lower gear than that even with a 12-23 cassetteOuch......my legs are hurting.
23.8 miles @ 13.6 mph av' with 2171' ascent inc' one blooming big hill - at least it was for me.
Max gradient 10.8% ( for <50m)- which I think would be my most ever but I won't ever know as I didn't have RWGPS for last two years.
I know people climb much steeper than this but tbh I am on my limit - at least with 34x28 even over such a short distance.
No ride tomorrow as I have to do some work (bugger!) and then it is Crystal Palace vs Us and we need revenge for last year's against the odds defeat.
Here's to a happy riding weekend!
26x23=29.7" 34x28=31.9" and the joys of 12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-21-23 
problem is I dont have one 
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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just bought my OH a new bike... 11 speed compact... 11-32 and 34/50 should be interesting from his triple 8 speed 30/39/50 12-25... gone from shimano 2300 gear set to 105 all round... he won't know what has hit him really...I can have a lower gear than that even with a 12-23 cassette
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Nigelnaturist
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@SatNavSaysStraightOn He will love the shifters, mind you my rear brake (left) is a little stiff, I think its a cable issue certainly feels like it i.e. stiffer first thing then eases a little once pulled (that sounds a bit rude), but never as easy as the front which has full outer sheath (this is getting worse), and is as easy as the day I installed them.
