Went out on the cyclocross bike with a large bunch of MTBers. Lots of exclamations of surprise, good to show them how it's done! They did keep getting in the way though!
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Went out on the cyclocross bike with a large bunch of MTBers. Lots of exclamations of surprise, good to show them how it's done! They did keep getting in the way though!
Dom, I have considered this option BUT:-Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
1. With Mini 'V' s having arms of only 80 or 85 mm long, the brake cable would be lower than the seat stay bridge (90mm above brake pivots ) and the fork crown (100mm above brake pivots) on my old 531 fillet brazed Islabike - it has huge mud clearance and there is little point in reducing it .
2. With 'standard V's having arms of 110 or 115 mm long, that extra leverage should translate into better braking; and I've got to an age where you just can't have too much braking!!
I have got serious track hack and achey legs! Went to the early morning open session... Bliddy hell, had forgotten how hard coach Bryan works us! :eek:
EXCELLENT session though and he had me practising standing starts out of that box thing, as I am now most likely doing the European Masters...
starts and position are very important on a track bikeQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Tom Simpson found that out when he started
Anyway Ive won the spin bike competition
I did 33miles very quickly getting up to 54.6mph. So Ive got a nice shiny trophy to keep for a month.
Oh and Hann Ive finally got my windmill pictures out of my camera. I will post a picture.
If you have achey legs you need a massage
well done MrQuote:
Originally Posted by Toffer
Yeah, my position is good... and the standing start needs some work, but I made a start at learning how to do it :) 't is much hader than you think, and I don't even have a big gear on that bike: 50/15... just been looking at a 51 chainring, for racing...Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Well done on the spinning! Can we see a pic of the trophy? :D
I'd like a massage, but don't know when to get one...
did 28.43 on the Milnthorpe course last night which is a 10 sec improvement on this course but with coniston on Saturday and Wray on Monday dont think i was fully recovered.
no fell races for a while so can concentrate on the bike for a while now
Saga tonight
Routine check of my bike revealed a loose spoke on my cosmic carbon rear wheel
Removed tube and tyre and rim tape. The bloody nylock nut that you tighten is soooo bloddy small its unreal.
First problem ive had with them. I aint got a socket that small. arrrrgh
You need some of those screwdrivers from a cracker!
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Originally Posted by daz h
Ive never pulled a cracker in my lifeQuote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
well maybe one
I hope it wasn't a duff one that didn't go BANG?!
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Originally Posted by daz h
Daz, I have a dilemma...
I normally race my Ti bike with the deep section carbon wheels and tubs.
Tomorrow is my first road race of the season and the weather forecast is for wind and rain... Same as today, so I put the Mavic Ksyriums SL wheels (clnchers and not deep section) from my training bike on my race bike... but... the block is 9 speed and the bike is 10 speed...
It sort of works, but there is some erratic changing going on at times, far from ideal in a race... I have a chainwip and a nut thing so I could potentially change the block, but have never done this before...
I also have an older Shimano rear wheel with a 10 speed casette on that I usually put in the neutral car as a spare... so do I: attempt to change the blocks tonight, ride the psare wheel and put the Mavic in the neutral car as a spare, or ride the mavic and just put up with the erratic changing????
Change the block. If you have the tool it is easy. Strong winds with a deep section front are not good.
I have never changed the block though :S
You have the tools Han - it really is easy, even I have done it and I usually just take it into the shop but someone lent me the same tools one time for a new cass I had and it was easy peasy!!
Sheldon Brown makes it look easy too...
Think I will give it a go...
But... what if it doesnt work and I end up with no useable wheels because I can't get the casette back on or something else goes wrong...?
In reality how much of a difference is the Shimano wheel vs the Mavic wheel going to make??Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Hann dont fret. You can use the deep rims if push comes to shoveQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Have a go at changing the block. be carefull not to wrack your knuckles if it slips. Sometimes a bit of pre race pressure helps. Give it a go
Hann the hardest part is taking the block offQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Putting it back is easy
Other than that if your reallyreally worried. Take the lot tommorow and ASK someone to do it. There will be plenty of riders there only to wlling to help
Good Luck
Report pleeeease
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Oek25xKJ0&feature=fvw
Hann I found this
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I had a decent ride-out around FerryBridge, Brotherton, & Sherburn-in-Elmet this afternoon, with a nice little 'side-trip' incorporated, & one planned for later that didn't happen
A friend who has a 'Private Pilots Licence' had told me that the BBMF AVRoe Lancaster was due to perform a 'fly-past' at Sherburn Aero Club (where he's a member), whilst on its flight to Elvington Air Museum
http://www.sherburn-aero-club.org.uk/
http://www.yorkshireairmuseum.co.uk/
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/theaircraft/index.cfm
http://thumb12.webshots.net/t/46/47/...2Ggjwfx_th.jpg
So off I headed (on the Dyna-Tech, leaving the Ridley in the house)
Despite a heck of a head-wind for practically the entire trip there, & stopped at 'Squires' for a pot of tea en-route (otherwise I'd have been too early), there's usually a few nice bikes to look at at the cafe too, plus 'ladies in tight leather'
http://www.squires-cafe.co.uk/
On my subsequent arrival at the Aero-Club, I was informed by the chaps on the gate that the flight was delayed & it would be a further 3/4 hours before it was due
Plus, it was the Hurricane, & not the Lancaster.
So sadly I turned around, heading partway back down the FerryBridge/Tadcaster 'turnpike' (A162) before turning off at its intersection with the A63 at Monk Fryston to head, via Fairburn, over to Castleford & hence home.
- with its reminders of bygone travel -
http://thumb12.webshots.net/t/57/657...2WxrzXH_th.jpg
It wasn't that I didn't want to see the Hurricane, more that it was damned cold out there, then it started to rain, and I had no rain-jacket with me (I've seen the BBMF Lancaster, Spitfire & Dakota in-flight before)
I'll add here that I've been within 25 feet of a Lancaster as all 4 Merlins are fired up sequentially, & it's a wonderful noise, & you can do the same
-if you want, you can even pay for a 'taxi-ride'
http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/
http://thumb12.webshots.net/s/thumb4...3DtNNir_th.jpg
Picking up a nail in the back tyre as I re-entered Sherburn wasn't good either, but it didn't penetrate properly, as it was still fully inflated when I got back home
As it was, I walked in the house before it was due to sweep along the length of the runway, but with (other, 'steamier') plans for later......................
Last week I'd found out, from having a quick look at 'UK Steam Info', that '60163 Tornado' was on the East Coast Main Line, with a charter from Kings Cross to York.
http://a1steam.com/
http://87.106.232.248/tours/trs10.htm#twk ('The Cathedrals Express')
I had intended nipping over to Great Heck (site of that infamous crash a few years ago), but didn't get there...........
We'd told 'small-child' we'd take her to see 'How To Train Your Dragon', & I was intent on the 19:00 showing, & had suggested that we could combine the 2 activities.
But "no", we ended up at the 17:00 showing, so I was sat in the dark when 'Tornado' passed through
Still, it was a fairly good film though:cool:
Nice hilly 30ish miler with mate over to the Holme Moss fell race organiser's house to enter. Just the tonic i needed, need to start training again now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
did 30 miles round the dales yesterday in 1:48 and did it again in 1:43 today and that was after a load of ale at a party last night!! getting quicker but its hard work. just watching Giro and then going to watch Chelsea beat Wigan and stop United winning the league
30 miles in peak, 2h03 - 2650 feet climb (according to garmin), 2900 feet of climb according to bikehike.
so ave speed 14.7mph (average moving speed given as 16.9mph - but i think it rather generously assumes i've stopped when going dead slow up steep hills so stick to the more easily calculated average)
just need to build up now - eek!
Thanks Daz, I found that too and proceeded to remove my block... initially I wasn't strong enough to get the lockring undone, so called a friend, who could not make it until very early this am (before his race elsewhere) so decided to get the HUGE wrench that I use for uncoupling my gas tank out and with the extra leverage of the much longer handle managed to get it off :)Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
The other block was easier to remove... Bothe were cleaned and put back on the other wheels... so I did use the Mavics after all...
But... It was BLOODY HARD! It was a handicap race, so the 4th cats and women set off first, followed by the 2nd/3rd cats and those followed by the scratch group of really fast riders... 4 lap course... so I get dropped by the 4th cat group by being wrestled off the wheel I was holding and pushed to the side!!! :-O when we go up a hill at the end of lap 1... and I keep riding, as I am planning on jumping on the next group... So they come and I jump in and... the pace of that group is much more even, so I stay with them, bury myself in the bunch. Then when we go over that hill again, I struggle to stay with them and there are I am, dropped again, with another 1 3/4 lap to go :-O
So decision time: do I TT round and see it as good expereince and practice and still finish? There is a women's race within this race, 7 women entered, two are either behind me or stepped off... so if any of the others puncture, crash or drop out, I may just stand a chance LOL... So I continue, on my own... Thing is, I managed to maintain a pace averaging 24 mph, on my own, on an undulating circuit... So although I came in last, I still finished! Others got lapped or stepped off... so they in theory were behind me!
I learnt two things: I need to improve my climbing and I need to work on the surges, change in pace...
I also have just entered a 50m TT, because if I can average abt 24 mph for 45 miles, on a roadbike, on an undulating circuit, I can probably do quite well in a 50m TT :)
Knackered legs now...
Good effort Han and a very good average speed.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
22 miles / 1,000 ft in 75mins. A circular route, but 21 miles of it was into a head wind?? :confused:
At least your out even though the wind was against you well done Dom.Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
Well, putting myself out and work yesterday after my race, as well as working 4 days in a row the last week of this month has paid of! I have now negotiated 27 - 31 July off, so I can participate in the European Masters Track Championships :) This pleases me greatly!
well done on your ride and entry to the mastersQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Thanks Daz... Now I need to work on getting faster and stronger... I have 10 weeks to sharpen myself up for this, defo a main target of the year now, so focussing on track...Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Will still do the road races I have entered, as well as some TT's I have entered, but defo on the track now twice a week at least :)
So are you riding for Holland and If so do you wear the Dutch Jersey or a club jersey ???????????????Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Not quite sure who you will be riding for hann, how does that work
I will be riding for Holland... and will be wearing Welsh club kit :D... I am Dutch and although I have a British racing licence, my UCI number is Dutch, so I cannot compete in GB nationals but can do international stuff and open races in the UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Interestingly, the Welsh Champs are open, so I can race those, but the English Nationals are closed, so can't do those...
http://narrativebranding.files.wordp...06_5_ghki.jpegQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
get some rabobank gear:)
Rabobank sponsors Dutch Cycling as well... waiting to hear if I get a Dutch skinsuit :DQuote:
Originally Posted by daz h
http://www.elsevier.nl/upload/0d4cdc...4_theo-bos.jpg
Current kit has got little tulips on :eek:
http://thefactorys.files.wordpress.c...fweblog-22.jpg
must be from Amsterdam thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
:):):)Quote:
Originally Posted by Man from Del Monte
Nice! ;)
Orange IS the new black! :cool: