yes well that should be okay then. If it comes undone again buy some light duty threadlock. Locktite do some.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toffer
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yes well that should be okay then. If it comes undone again buy some light duty threadlock. Locktite do some.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toffer
a few cycling bits and pieces in Lidl stores from today
tops
mitts
socks
track pump
Well im sat in the pub. Just done 60odd miles in the peak district. Some nice climbs including black rocks. Crap weather and very windy all the way round. First ride for ages with my cape on. Finally just about tweaked and marked the set up on the mercian. 1st guiness just going down a treat
wow can you talk to us while you are in the real pub?
i think the weather has been worse the further south you are today - its been cloudy today in yorks - but in cumbria - reports were nice sun shine
Always does when you've earned it mate;)Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
HORRIBLE weather here tnight. Been raining all day, roads covered in puddles and general surface water, visibility bad due to low clouds, rain and spray, only 8 degrees centigrade, strong wind and lashing rain... I turned the car back after 5 miles on my way to my last 10m TT of the season... Could not face it and thought it unsafe too. Too many testers got killed already this season, I don't want to be one of them!
Got home and decided to get the iMagic out... only ever used it once, and do a ramp test. After much faffage setting it up I satrted with too short a warmup of 10 minutes at 200 watts... then had set 1 minutes ramps of 10 watts... so I rode to fail at 340 watts... apparently that isnt half bad and gives me quite a good power to weight ration. Obviously, provided the thing is calibrated accurately. God knows, it may be way out but... if I keep using it at regular intervals at the same settings, we should be able to get some progress stats of that :)
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yes its on my i phone:D
the wonders of modern technology haha.
The weather was bad on the bike for sure and the bike will need a good clean tonight to get the grime off.
Work in my fastest time. Av speed 17 mph and thats with 2 town centres and 1000 ft climb.
HAPPY:thumbup:
And you should be , well done Trevor thats a good speedQuote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
Nice one Trev!Quote:
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errr no biking for me although have been spinning and err errr broke 2 spin bikes in a week! :o:o
was they carbonQuote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
Over the moon with the morning performance so I took a hilly detour on the way home:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
40 mile 3500 ft ascent.
Keighley to oxenhope then cock hill, down to HB then up cragg vale, down to Ripponden then up to windy hill (j22 M62) down to denshaw then up to buckstones and home.
Legs sore and head will be soon as now on Blue Ts
Crossed 3 classic long south pennine fell routes.
Yorkshireman
Wadsworth trog
Good Shepard
Views were great must have passed many a square mile of excellent country side.
Glad to be alive:)
60 mile today:thumbup:
8" and 1/16th exactly...............to change or not to change.......Quote:
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Oh, just 30 today, good tromp apart from a puncture, first one for ages and ages......tyres......
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8" and 1/16th exactly...............to change or not to change.......
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Working on what Daz quoted I would sorce another chain and put it on after about another 1000 to 1500 miles.
He said eight and one eighth was the must change length.
Great stuff Trev. You've made me home-sick with mention of local races mind ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
Shap and back TT tomorrow morning. 28 miles and 1400'.
i have been handicapped to finish in 1hr 30 mins...... 2 hours more like it.
just praying for a tailwind up the hill
Good riding going on here!
Good luck Man from Delmonte, sounds like a TOUGH TT you are in for!
Emm, don't know anything about spinning but how do you break a spinning bike???? LOL!
No racing this weekend, as I am on work duty... This is odd for me, as I have been racing all but two weekends all season!
Did a good hard ride this am though, keeping the HR at zone 4 for about an hour, on top of whic Ib had warmup and down... Legs nicely glowing now :)
Caning it around the Gisburn mtb tracks on one of my crossers pushing it hard on the climbs with some good running up the top end on the greasy switchbacks and to the top of the rock garden at Welpstone crag
It was more fun than a box of frogs watching some lads on a full sussers trying there hardest to fend me off on the climbs:w00t:
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No it will be okay for now, trev is about right but keep checking it toffer. No ride for me today as I was on race organisation duty but I got up early and stripped a road bike down in 35 minutes. Cleaned out the bottom bracket , cleaned all the parts, re built in about an hour. No bike shop bills. Lbshops are becoming increasingly expensive nowadays and and a friend of mine has been quoted over a hundred quid to swap over a bike.
I've been seriously thinking about becoming qualified and setting up. The bike inn do great courses.
did 1hr 39mins for shap and back today. 28 miles of hell in this wind. a lot of years since i have climbed a hill like that. legs are totally trashed. i could hardly get out of the car when I got home. so just watched the grand prix. good win for Hamilton and settle down to watch Liverpool soon.
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Well done Adrian, good effort . Mega windy down here as well. Your doing well. Even though the years have gone by your still out there this morning doing it. Thats good. If your legs are trashed you will have to give yourself a massage.
Keep it up my friend
cheers Daz, know any good masseuses then?Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
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Originally Posted by Man from Del Monte
Well, not nowadays mate.
I used to have a good massage from a lady in bees ton. Strictly professional u understand. She used to just close her eyes and crack on. You def need a massage after a tough ride like that.
I've become a bit sceptical as to how many masseurs there are nowadays. Some good but some just total crap.
You will have to do it yourself mate
Get some oil but make sure your legs are shaved. Good luck
Couple of hours from the Village up the steep climb on to Longridge fell a ride around the muddy forrest tails to Kemple end and back to the Village with a detour via little bowland
legs a bit wooden due to yesterdays thrashing around Gisburn forrest:rolleyes:
I understand Daz. :wink:
Sounds like an excellent idea Daz!
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Ive allways built/rebuilt my own bikes from scratch ,got a old Alan up on the stand at the moment im rebuilding for the peaks,
If your skint and cant afford you learn how to do , simple:)
Last year when I bought my PX CX bike you could get it for £100 cheaper if you bought it unbuilt. I spent the £100 on a few tools which means that I'd probably be able to do most repairs myself now. I still need a few tools, but I reckon I've got most bits now.
Just under 60miles in the peak again . Did loads of climbs around Matlock. The traffic into Matlock Bath was unreal. Bank Holiday Mondays and they all go to Matlock for Fish and Chips and the slots. Quite a few bikies out today. Biked back down the A6 and there must have been 500 motorbikes come past me. Matlock is the UK bike mecca.
The Stockinholes climbs are bloody hard
47 mile in great weather this afternoon.
5000 ft of climbs and averaged 13.6 mph.
Sweat a bit on the A635 out of Saddleworth.
Great to be out:thumbup:
Holidays with nice weather are the business:)
picked up the new ribble 7005 last week after 11 months injury enforced break from cycling and another good ride today.
Hebden bridge via rochdale, tod and back via cragg vale, milnrow, royton, middleton. 54 in total. some decent weather at last as we go into september. avoided rochdale coming back as the roads there are awful - not one that looks like it's been resurfaced in years - this added a good few miles on.
pleased to go for the compact - 50/34 and 12/25. even enjoyed cragg vale today with the bottom 2 gears not needed. my last bike was 39/53 and i had a 27 on the last ring bought. enjoyed blackstone edge too.
the compact just makes life easier to spin and I'm not missing the big 53/12!
where's big Al F - are you still out on your ribble or toying with that off road stuff?
I am indeed.......I was out on it both monday and tuesday actually....although I was going from A to B, B to A each time rather than an actual bike ride...but it was still good all the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by pauljonesforengland
My shiney new MTB arrives tomorrow!
What MTB did you get Al? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Fowler
looking for a winter bike now about £500 as not taking the cannondale out again now the season is over
Be out on my CAAD9 tomorrow. Its cracking the flags here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Man from Del Monte
i am running at the moment so will be a couple of weeks at least before I start cycling and then on holiday to Turkey for 2 weeks so may be mid October before i get going on the bike and the super six is definitely not going out then lol
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I generally put mine away around that time as well. I have my Mercian now so that will be used all winter. Previous years vie ridden my bianchi or Raleigh bikes.
Will you strip the cannon dale down and service it . I usually take the whole bike to pieces and check the frame over. Clean and re grease everything then build it back up
Another 50 miles, I finished work early, mind I started at 5 am. Not so many climbs tonight though but still hilly enough. Got a bit of hunger knock near the end as I only had soup for lunch. Lovely nite and had a good twenty minute through and off with a well known local. Now eating stefs recipe.
Thoroughly Italian weather down here so the Pinarello is not hibernating for a few weeks yet......in fact 60+ miles today with lots of climbing, Brynna, Bwlch and Rhigos taken in a classic loop, topped off with a much needed ice cream 99 as I sat at the top and basked in the sun, the full vista of the Beacons spread out in front of me. Glorious.:D:D:D
It was a glosrious warm noght here tonight, wasn't it Toff? And a great way to spend it on the bike... :)
I am a bit race and ride tired after a hard season, so have been ordered off the bike now until I feel like riding again, then wait another day and ride... both physiaclly and mentally tired... so will most likely bin all my September races (Welsh track champs, wellsh 25m tt champs amnd welsh women's RR champs) apart from Three Peaks CX... I have had a succesful first season, you can only do so much, don't want to start hating the bike having gotten a bit stale and tired...
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