Ah, Rose tinted spectacles mate! We found plenty to moan about back in those days - remember the controversies about the old on-off technique for example? And tyres and tyre pressures etc etc?
Love those Meilenstein wheels - are they the same ones you had at the Double Devil? They looked gorgeous on your bike.
Love those Meilenstein wheels - are they the same ones you had at the Double Devil? They looked gorgeous on your bike.
Ultegra cassette? Upgrading to Dura Ace for a bit more weight loss surely? Or is that waiting for the next instalment.
P.S. Nearly half a kilo saved there - very good! I take it you're not doing a £££ per kilo calculation?! I don't really want to know that to be honest, it will spoil the fun
Wow that Sram red cassette is really light - lighter than the published weight of the Dura Ace 11-30. It's almost like you know what you're doing!Yes one pair is definitely enough!
Actually these are the wheels I crashed on in the alps last summer. The rear one got trashed so technically new (luckily I was insured).
Good point I meant to do the cassettes but forgot... I bought myself sram red 11-32 cassette a couple of summers back. They’re pricey but I only use it on the bike trips so it’ll last as long as I’m using 11 speed gears hopefully.
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Ultegra 11-28 speed cassette 246g
apparently all the pro teams use these instead of the dura ace one because they’re a lot cheaper and also mechanically much more sound. The dura ace cassette has a lightweight carbon(?) parts which begin to make a rattle noice over time. I guess also they have to stick to 6.8kg uci limit don’t don’t mind the extra weight.
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Sram red 11-32 cassette 194g
That’s quite a weight difference! Especially when you think about the larger 32 sprocket. It’s made using one piece rather than multiple sprockets which keeps the weight down.
Total weight loss... 52grams!
No I won’t be doing a £ per g saved equation! Like you say it kind of takes the fun out of it for me too. The money side of it isn’t very interesting really. You can try and work it out but I got some good contacts and some very good deals along the way so it’s not near rrp on most things.
Wow that Sram red cassette is really light - lighter than the published weight of the Dura Ace 11-30. It's almost like you know what you're doing!
It is very comforting knowing I'm going to have a very solid excuse for you going up Mont Ventoux way quicker than me
(Not that its a race etc etc)
Yes good point - I will be channelling my inner Nairo and floating up that mountain like a 59kg superhuman Colombian 💪
Just tried it (on android) and it seems to be working fine for me
Probably iOS issue. I try both wifi and mobile broadband, no difference.
I went back to the tried and tested, go out controlled, work through the early stragglers, find a group pulling hard then hang on. I was on a wheel at one point, and he/she dropped power and lost the wheel of quite a large group. I geared up to chase, but then decided to be sensible and not get myself in trouble overheating. Thankfully there were enough other riders to work with and I still got a decent time.I watched your ride today and thought it was very similar to mine yesterday on the flats.
I can see where I lost time yesterday on the climbs. I said my power was well down on the climbs and that's where the difference between us was.
I lost 1.26 to you on the combined 3 climbs Strava segments and came in 1.25 behind you. Pretty much the reverse of our rides in Innsbruck.
I think I was spinning too much in a lower gear trying to conserve energy on the climbs but that backfired!
Great ride by you, especially considering you had no fan!
Will likely do a zone 2 ride later (sorry Tommy), rest day tomorrow (first day in new job 
) then get ready for the final stage. If memory serves well,the Yorkshire course will be similar to Richmond;rolling roads with a few lumps that can be tempo'd over 
