I have heard it said (welsh accent now)...... that Welshie has a lovely back box.
The Retirement Thread
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numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
The news so far - 1/2 a chocolate cake made and a 14 miles trike ride done 
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Which half?The news so far - 1/2 a chocolate cake made and a 14 miles trike ride done
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
My poor rhodadendrons and azaleas have taken a bashing with the frost along with the potatoes.
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Our garden is quite sheltered and our rhodawhatsits are doing well, as is the climbing rose.My poor rhodadendrons and azaleas have taken a bashing with the frost along with the potatoes.
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GM
Legendary Member
- Location
- North of the river
G'day all. Busy morning, a bit of housework, dog walked over the park, and been for a ride up to Ally Pally. Now for some gardening!.....
Gardening done for the day.Look you. Nobody is interested in Devon and your bl**dy sunshine. Stick your sunshine where the sun don't shine.
Personally I prefer our cold and rain.
No jealousy here Dirk
Lunch and a couple of beers partaken of.
Had to come indoors for a nap as it's too warm outside.
GM
Legendary Member
- Location
- North of the river
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Anyone being getting phone calls saying they are from Amazon Prime and press button 1, etc? Just googled it and it is a scam.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Hello Boldon lad.
Hardware:
We have an " Elite Novo Smart" trainer. Elite are a well known trainer manufacturer who are based in Italy which is also where they manufacture them. The Model we have is exclusive to Halfords. The blurb on the website emphasises the fact that they are manufactured on exactly the same production line and to the same high standards as their other trainers, and a forum comment by a chap who is the smart trainer buyer for Halfords tends to bear this out.
The Smart trainer broadcasts its digital identity as an " Elite Qubo Smart" so it is essentially a rebadged one of those.
It is a " Wheel On " trainer in that the rear wheel of your bike sits on a roller which provides rotational resistance to the bicycle wheel. This being a "Smart" trainer the resistance varies automatically with the route or course you are following.
We paid £180 for the Novo, there are numerous trainers out there at a range of prices and features, we just wanted something that we could use during Lockdown, without breaking the bank.
Software:
Mrs Tenkay and I tried several of the training apps, I think they all offer a free one or two week trial so you can check them out before you sign up to a subscription. We eventually settled on Rouvy, it has a "Family" subscription so Mrs Tenkay and I can share a membership and not have to take out individual ones.
Within the "Rouvy AR" app there are numerous options. You can follow a route with " Virtual " riders, or ride a real world route, where you follow a video of an actual course ( I rode parts of the Tour de France opening stages in Yorkshire. It looks like the courses were filmed from a motor bike. Your speed through the rout varies with your speed on the trainer as the video slows down / speeds up )
You can design a route in one of the many online route creation apps and import it into Rouvy, or follow a route that someone else has uploaded.
This is what Mrs Tenkay and I are doing. we found both a Lejog and a JoGle route that someone had ridden in real life and uploaded to Rouvy.
The underlying map detail isn't great as the uploaded route is superimposed on a Google Earth Satellite view, which due to the scale of the route is a bit blurry.
( I contacted Rouvy and suggested that Open Cycle Map might make a better route background and they have passed the request to their app developers)
What was an unexpected bonus was that when our two week trial expired I contacted Rouvy to enquire about the monthly fee. They responded by saying that as the " Rouvy AR " app is still in "Beta", then it was free, and would remain so until the app comes out of development.
Hope this helps, there is a sub forum here where they discuss various App platforms. If you have any questions then I would be happy to offer what help I can, perhaps PM might be the better option so as not to clog up our little retirement thread
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PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
I always think, its just a pity they don't last longer.
Many years ago we used to have spring holidays near Porth Madog. The road from Bedd Gellert was full of flowering Rhodadendrums. But sadly they didn't last long.
