JuhaL
Guru
Knowing how popular Zwift is and how many riders are at a same time on Zwift it would be interesting vision to see for example 200-300 riders or even more at a same time on velodrome.
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Knowing how popular Zwift is and how many riders are at a same time on Zwift it would be interesting vision to see for example 200-300 riders or even more at a same time on velodrome.
Brusgaard
Über Guru
- Location
- Skive, Denmark
Tried 100+ on the BKOOL velodrome - absolutely bonkers! Can’t imagine Zwift will be any different.
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Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
Went down to Cambridge yesterday for a posh black tie shindig to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Cambridge University Cycling Club. Met up with three of my old friends, whom I hadn’t seen in 15-20 years, in Thetford Forest for a bit of brilliant MTBing in the afternoon. Lovely dinner at Newnham College, convivial reminiscences and much alcohol, toddled back to B&B in the wee hours, awesome Full English this morning (bizarrely, with Stephen Hawking’s ex-wife for company), and back home for lunch. 👍
(I'm towards the very back on the left; guest speakers Ned Boulting and Michael Hutchinson on the right, Alex Dowsett couldn't make it because his wife was giving birth...)
(I'm towards the very back on the left; guest speakers Ned Boulting and Michael Hutchinson on the right, Alex Dowsett couldn't make it because his wife was giving birth...)
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mjd1988
Guru
If you did it in a big group ride draft will make a little difference even on the alpe.
Yeah I'm assuming they'll cap numbers/event only for the velodrome. Or hopefully use it for wtrl where fields are max 60-80....but even then that's too many. Hopefully some sort of elimination race, and that's if it gets out of beta
I think you boys are looking back fondly through your rose tinted Oakleys. I only remember waiting and waiting for others to join then when almost got the right number of others someone would drop out and it would be back to square one 🤔. But when the racing did get going yep it was a blast 😀
Nice! Is that the Endurace? I have the Ultimate (in the same stealth black) and I love it
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
It is indeed - Endurace SLX 7.
I took one for a test ride late last year and absolutely fell head over heels for it, but they didn't have my preferred colour (officially named Space Blue, but looked more like deep purple) in anything other than XL or XS, so I put my name down on a waitlist at the start of this year. During this time unfortunately my Trek then developed problems that would have cost an arm and a leg to fix, so I decided that Stealth Black was the next best option (and certainly better than no bike at all) and took the plunge.
That's sent me looking at the Canyon website, and blimey it's fair to say prices have gone up a bit in the 5 and a half years since I bought mine
That's sent me looking at the Canyon website, and blimey it's fair to say prices have gone up a bit in the 5 and a half years since I bought mine
Didn't you have a specialized when we rode around IoW, or am I imagining things? I do remember it being a stealth black bike, we'd met for the first time and you let a total stranger look after your bike whilst you went looking for the others!
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Prices have got a little ridiculous across the board the last few years it seems, though Canyon are still one of the cheaper major brands, mainly because of their online / mail order sales model. To get a similar spec to what I bought would have been a further £500 with Giant and over £1000 more for Specialized for instance.That's sent me looking at the Canyon website, and blimey it's fair to say prices have gone up a bit in the 5 and a half years since I bought mine
My Trek Domane was 10 years old and cost me slightly over two grand at the time and was considered a mid-range bike of theirs back then (was from their second cheapest carbon fibre category and had a mixture of 105 and Ultegra parts). Now for the same price you can't even get a carbon bike in the Domane range - those start at £2,750, with the alloy ones going for up to £2,100.
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No that was my Canyon Ultimate - I hadn't had it long when we did that. And yeah, thanks for not chucking it in the back of your van and driving off never to be seen or heard of again!!
I've got a carbon Ultimate from the SLX carbon range (which wasn't the cheapest SLX option at the time), and now the cheapest Ultimate SLX is over double what I paid - £3,200 more
Might not be the smartest move on my part, just having had an early tea
Will decide in 30 mins if my tea has gone down👍
JuhaL
Guru
I bought earlier this year Bianchi Sprint 105 Di2 12-speed which was cost £3400,00. Geometry fits much better for me than my previous pain cave bike Cervelo S3.
