Tales from today's commute....

[Frood42]

@Frood42 that looks vaguely familiar.

Looks fun

 

[Andrew_P]

A combination of loss of fitness and riding the lardy Boardman CX average for December is 15mph, October 17.3mph

I think I might sort out the Roubaix over the Christmas no obvious frame damage just needs new rear wheel and bar tape, and get shot of those gawd awful Michelin Pro SC

 

[jagman.2003]

Ultima Can-Am with a 'vette Z06 V8

Very nice.

 

[Frood42]

A combination of loss of fitness and riding the lardy Boardman CX average for December is 15mph, October 17.3mph

I think I might sort out the Roubaix over the Christmas no obvious frame damage just needs new rear wheel and bar tape, and get shot of those gawd awful Michelin Pro SC

I am currently averaging 10-11mph over my 20 mile commute (40 round trip) on the hybrid.
Would love to get anywhere near 15mph, but 15-16mph was my best during the height of the nice weather...

Good reason for N+1 me thinks
Or I could just get fitter...
.

 

[Andrew_P]

I am currently averaging 10-11mph over my 20 mile commute (40 round trip) on the hybrid.
Would love to get anywhere near 15mph, but 15-16mph was my best during the height of the nice weather...

Good reason for N+1 me thinks
Or I could just get fitter...
.

It has to be the bike, cannot have lost 2.5 years of fitness in 7 weeks, well I hope not lol.

I do have the advantage of not riding in heavy traffic, and it stops the clock at traffic lights etc.

 

[HLaB]

I must admit i stopped including my average for commutes last year, decided I'd rather be concentrating on arriving safe than maintaining a good average.

 

[Andrew_P]

I must admit i stopped including my average for commutes last year, decided I'd rather be concentrating on arriving safe than maintaining a good average.

That's why I switched 18 months ago to auto stop, I use it as a measure of progress or in this case of going backwards!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

A combination of loss of fitness and riding the lardy Boardman CX average for December is 15mph, October 17.3mph

I think I might sort out the Roubaix over the Christmas no obvious frame damage just needs new rear wheel and bar tape, and get shot of those gawd awful Michelin Pro SC

I'm at 15.06mph for the year, that .06 is very important! I tend to look at my average speed so I know roughly how far I can go before I would be late for work.

 

[jagman.2003]

I am currently averaging 10-11mph over my 20 mile commute (40 round trip) on the hybrid.
Would love to get anywhere near 15mph, but 15-16mph was my best during the height of the nice weather...

Good reason for N+1 me thinks
Or I could just get fitter...
.

Bit of both for me. Winter mountain bike is harder to ride, so I should be fitter. But the way it soaks up energy it can be tempting to cruise.
The hybrid I use for the rest of the year is easier to ride, but does reward the extra effort with extra speed. So potentially I'm fitter.

 

[Andrew_P]

The worst thing about it is I look down at the Garmin and it 51 minutes, I know that I should be almost turning in to work but now I still have 10 minutes to go and I really should have got out of bed 10 minutes earlier, that's the frustration!

 

[jagman.2003]

The worst thing about it is I look down at the Garmin and it 51 minutes, I know that I should be almost turning in to work but now I still have 10 minutes to go and I really should have got out of bed 10 minutes earlier, that's the frustration!

If it's any consolation I have a similar run time. And a similar mechanical delay in winter. But I'm hoping I am gaining lots of power in the legs..!

 

[MisterStan]

OK, it's very flat here, but if I take much more than an hour for my 18 mile trip, i'm not very happy!

 

[Hacienda71]

I had my Xmas lunch yesterday as not on the bike. I saw the forecast and was cursing my luck as I would have taken a detour to pick up that tailwind along the bypass! Looks like next year for a 31mph+ ride along there for me.

Was cold this morning with a light frost and a touch of ice. My nerves were jangled when another cyclist shouted "ice" at me just as I was taking a corner! When the new bike comes, I'll get the ice tyres on - it's not a nice feeling when you get the gentle, audible crunch of frost followed by the scary silence of black ice.

You could do a very fast one down there, but it would involve foregoing beer tomorrow night and going out in the rain at about 8pm to catch the 25 mph forecast wind. That would appear to some as bordering on OCD though.......

 

[GrasB]

Looks fun

My OH wanted a more practical second car... so I bought this! ...

Seriously, it's quite a practical car compared to the Exige it replaced. It's very docile at low speeds & rpm which makes it easier to drive especially around town, less noise & drone when cruising on the motorway (not so much when you press on the loud pedal... then it is loud!), better ride quality, gives you far more parking options* & can swallow a shopping trolleys worth of food without cooking it on the way home.

Right now the fun is currently in restricted mode as the engine has been freshly rebuilt & in its running in stage.

* the narrowness of the parking space is limited by how small a gap you can squeeze through to get to the door as the door opens up almost entirely within the chassis footprint

 

[potsy]

Gloomy coming home today, had to put my lights on and that was at 2pm

1 more commute to go before the Christmas break