Runexeter
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- Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
Sorry I couldn't find your ride in the live tab, I would have shouted some abuse at you 
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The comments were all unexpectedly positive! Was fully prepared for some sneering! At about 1 hour, I remember thinking to myself, this is going really well, and the fuel tank is still half full. But it wasn't long after that thought that it started to get tough, and at an exponential rate.
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LOL! About bloody time! You've handed me my ass ENOUGH times. So are you going to hit that REVENGE button?
.Tried iPad Air and it was rubbish, old laptop was very bad at 3d so ended up with decent pc and whizzy graphics card on 4k TV and 3d is great at 3840x2160 ultra hd!
Wow, nice!! The only thing holding me back from going that direction has been the question of how do I control the computer while sitting on the bike? Or do you get off the bike and go mess with the computer every time you do a different ride?
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Geoff on Bkool
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- South Somerset
Wireless keyboard and mouse sit on window sill right by the bike, so I can just reach over while pedalling.
One of those wave in the air mice would probably work well!
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Rob H
Eat, Sleep, Climb, Repeat
Yeah its a great little route: heres the Strava Segement: it gets pretty competitive in the summer.. currently in 3rd
https://www.strava.com/segments/1439525
Its too steep for dog walkers generally but we also send a person down first to make sure nothing fallen and warn any wayward walkers, My mate crashed alone on it once, limped to the bottom with a couple of cracked ribs and got his mrs to pick him... it wasnt until he got back from the hospital and uploaded the ride he noticed he'd been sparked out for 10 minutes!
His mrs is on Strava and hes banned from fast desecents now
And that is why we like BKool - worst accident to date, dropped banana on Finestre... cost me vital seconds tho'
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Yeah its a great little route: heres the Strava Segement: it gets pretty competitive in the summer.. currently in 3rd
https://www.strava.com/segments/1439525
Its too steep for dog walkers generally but we also send a person down first to make sure nothing fallen and warn any wayward walkers, My mate crashed alone on it once, limped to the bottom with a couple of cracked ribs and got his mrs to pick him... it wasnt until he got back from the hospital and uploaded the ride he noticed he'd been sparked out for 10 minutes!
His mrs is on Strava and hes banned from fast desecents now
And that is why we like BKool - worst accident to date, dropped banana on Finestre... cost me vital seconds tho'
Sounds like brutally good fun. I take too long to mend these days to be attempting anything that thrilling.
With regards the banana thing, I had a similar incident with my towel! I dropped it, and you have to weigh up the potential gain and loss of leaping off the bike to pick it up, or bore on partially blinded by sweat in the eyes. I imagine you faced a similar decision as you stared at your energy giving sustenance as it grinned its big yellow smile from the floor, just out of reach.
The things we do hey? It's tougher than these ladies think being a man you know!
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I have an almost identical set up Geoff! The wireless mouse was surely invented for the devoted interactive turbo trainer user.
Rob H
Eat, Sleep, Climb, Repeat
Reading up on le Col de Bonette (next Goats Climb)... i noted this comment..
I climbed this col yesterday... Its a beautiful col but i think the profile is not correct.. The last part of the climb is very steep, i think 15-20% and here it says 5.2 %.
Brilliant ......
I climbed this col yesterday... Its a beautiful col but i think the profile is not correct.. The last part of the climb is very steep, i think 15-20% and here it says 5.2 %.
Brilliant ......
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Can't be any worse than that last pig of a run we did. Thinking of involving the European Court of Human Rights.
Cracks me up when I look up and see my wife at the breakfast bar, staring at me, shaking her head and rolling her eyes. She thinks I've gone bloody mad.
Cracks me up when I look up and see my wife at the breakfast bar, staring at me, shaking her head and rolling her eyes. She thinks I've gone bloody mad.
wardy_uk
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239 pages... still only managed to get to 170!!! figured I should say Hi before I get to the end of this - as that likely to be sometime in July...!!
My BKool's still in transit - I suspect delivery from Spain will take less time than reading this thread.. but I'm gradually finding and joining the groups you guys are already in - I'm wardy_uk on BKool as well as here... look forward to catching back up with you all when I finally reach the end of this thread.
Hope I have a better time keeping up with you on rides :s
Nick
My BKool's still in transit - I suspect delivery from Spain will take less time than reading this thread.. but I'm gradually finding and joining the groups you guys are already in - I'm wardy_uk on BKool as well as here... look forward to catching back up with you all when I finally reach the end of this thread.
Hope I have a better time keeping up with you on rides :s
Nick
