Yes, you'd think so wouldn't you.
The idea is to be highly visible, although around here it doesn't seem to be as effective as you'd expect it to be. Mind you, I've only had 'contact' with a car once, and that was 35+ years ago, when I was nudged by the wing mirror of a learner on their test! So maybe it does work after all
Certainly I'd wear lighter fell shoes for 50 grams difference.
Although shoes make more of a difference because you lift your feet every step - more akin to rolling resistance on bikes.
Actually Grove Road (which is LS29 in Ilkley) is only the garden entrance. The grand entrance is on the parallel King's Road and the house and grounds stretch between the two.
Opposite the garden entrance, so on the opposite side of Grove Road to the house, used to be the kitchen garden but practically out of sight of the main house without a telescope. This has now gone and in place are 11 very decent sized detached houses.
At the entrance to the cul-de-sac are two 10 feet tall stone pillars surmounted by a globe that formed the entrance to the kitchen garden. You can see why Lutyens went on to design New Delhi.
The cul-de-sac is named Heath Park.
Last edited by Graham Breeze; 21-01-2022 at 01:14 PM.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
Someone passed me today. Black kit on a black bike. I let him go - you can't fight 50 grams.
Anyway I was cooling down after 29 miles (2400 feet). Also my Boardman rear wheel was clanking like an old steam 2-8-0 WD after war service in Europe so I assume my bearings have gone (after 2050 miles).
My mother had asked me to run an errand 10+ miles away so to save the planet I did the journey on my Boardman. Although I think I've saved the planet by now so is Mars in trouble? Venus?
Last edited by Graham Breeze; 20-01-2022 at 10:51 PM.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
The clanking is common now, even on very expensive bikes. I don't know why they do it, but nowadays manufacturers seem keen on using smaller ball bearings, in bearing cages, rather than the loose bearings that Campagnolo and all other good manufacturers used to use.
I recently opened up the hubs of my 2004 Campagnolo Proton wheels, and re-greased them for the first time with Castrol LM grease (the experts say it doesn't matter within reason what you use, as long as you do it). They weren't clanking, or dry, before, and there not now.
From what you said, I think the rear wheel probably just needs greasing and re-adjusting