- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Well done - nice symmetrical ride profile too!
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- Thread starter Nigelnaturist
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Well done - nice symmetrical ride profile too!
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
It was lovely actually. Nice and sunny and not too windy at all. Good ride despite a visit from the puncture fairy.
http://www.strava.com/activities/209215105
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
nice tally of PR's there!
it made life interesting here... but it was warm and dry, just rather windy! some of the gusts were tugging quite hard at the front wheel but I have ridden in much worse and will probably be riding in much worse on Tuesday if the current forecast is anything to go by! getting to college shouldn't be a problem (providing I don't sail straight passed it...) getting home again may take a while!
sadly it is too far for my bad leg to walk, so bike or no college... and I have already missed 1 lesson this half term after my rear gear cable broke on me mid way to college and both my OH and my parent's were away from home so it was a walk home job before I got too far for my bad leg to be able to walk home...
Stonechat
Guru
- Location
- Staines, Middlesex
Couldn't have been cold as I was in shorts and short sleeved jersey!
Stonechat
Guru
- Location
- Staines, Middlesex
Well done
Eribiste
Careful with that axle Eugene
- Location
- Eckington, Worcestershire
As you all say, it weren't 'alf windy today. I clocked up >100 klicks today but on a segment I normally see 30 or more kmh on, I was down to 22 kmh. Never mind, what a pleasure to be out in short sleeves and short shorts, in the sun, in mid October. Not many years we'll be able to do that!
moo
Veteran
- Location
- North London
Decided to give Box Hill a go today. 35 miles through Central London heading into the SW wind just to get there. The traffic as expected was dire in both directions.
Anyway, Box Hill itself is brilliant. The gradient is a reasonably fixed 6-7% all the way up with a nice smooth road. I liked it so much I went up 3 times
http://www.strava.com/activities/209370179/
Anyway, Box Hill itself is brilliant. The gradient is a reasonably fixed 6-7% all the way up with a nice smooth road. I liked it so much I went up 3 times
http://www.strava.com/activities/209370179/
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rd83
Senior Member
- Location
- Pevensey Bay, East Sussex
1st decent ride today since getting the road bike. Done a few set up rides on it previous to this. Didn't really want to go out on the wet roads, but couldn't spend another weekend looking at the bike. Anyway, 30 miles in 2:28, but plenty of hills, over 1750ft of climb, and some muddy wet roads! Went from Hailsham - Hankham - Eastbourne Seafront - Beachy Head - Birling Gap - East Dean - Jevington - Polegate and back to Hailsham.
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Nigelnaturist
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Feel like i have been around since the age of the dinosaurs sometimesor the fact we are still leaving the last ice age! but I suspect your stats don't go that far back
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
I'm currently feeling like one... can't for the life of me suss the indexing (rear) on my road bike. am reaching the conclusion that something else could be at play.... have all the lower gears (large teeth) working just fine, 1 click = 1 change... but the higher gears are another matter entirely... all I have managed to do is change where the problem occurs... instead of being in the middle of the cassette it is now on the last 3 top gears... then it is hit and miss... 2 clicks=1 gear change, 1 click=2 gear changes and yet everything seems to be lined up fine and hanger is not bent. life in clean and the spring good... going out for another ride now, but don't think I have sussed it.... the best guy locally will charge me £15 to do it... and I will have to arrange with him to do a certain time, whilst I wait in the local supermarket café... otherwise I need to get my bike to Warrington or Frodsham.... ahhhhh I feel like it is almost there, but ....Feel like i have been around since the age of the dinosaurs sometimes
At least I have managed to shut the front derailleur up - it was rattling too much on the larger chain ring... quick tweak sorted that one out...
(PS - the you tube video doesn't help me for some reason, I simply can't get my head around it... I can see what needs to be done, but achieving it is not happening... think this is the bit where growing up without a father has not helped matters!)
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Nigelnaturist
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@SatNavSaysStraightOn I find most indexing problems tend to be in the cabling, as you know I have just fitted 105 shifters and while this is a (was) a brake problem pretty similar, for some reason the rear brake lever had become quite stiff on operation, usually first thing, though it did persist, so I decided to clean the cable and a light lube, seems fine now nice and light compared with what it was, though still to road test it, trouble is it never happened in six years on the sora's, on the 105's just about 3 months and 1,600 miles, mind you I also changed the rear outer cable though not sure if this was the problem
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
the bike had a new rear cable about 3 weeks ago - I was assuming that cable stretch had come into play with it being a higher quality, softer and more flexible cable...
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Nigelnaturist
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Check its not got kinked some where, I know not likely, I put a kink in my rear cable when I first installed the shifters (trying to figure out how the cable ran through the shifters) it did seem to work perfectly though, but I soon changed it.
BrianEvesham
Mask is gone!
- Location
- South Littleton, Evesham.
Spent all day waiting for plumber to ring back, he has now rung and says he can't do anything till end of November.Great!
Went out for a quick spin
http://www.strava.com/activities/209627812
And now feel calmer, right where's the yellow pages?
Went out for a quick spin
http://www.strava.com/activities/209627812
And now feel calmer, right where's the yellow pages?
