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Thread: Today's Bike Ride

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    Quote Originally Posted by molehill View Post
    I am trying to imagine driving a car down a hill at 60mph and having a kamikaze rider on a pushbike pass you with ease. Obviously in a country without speed limits.
    Btw on youtube there are GCN interviews with around 20 World Tour riders (including Mark Cavendish) and an explanation of the physics of terminal velocity on a road bike. The venue of choice seems to be the Tour of Switzerland and TV seems to be around 130K (say 81mph).
    "...as dry as the Atacama desert".

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    I once hit 50.4 mph on the steep A53 down past the Roaches (I remember because it is a 50 mph zone). I had similar thoughts about "what happens if..." and decided I shouldn't go that fast again. It wasn't so much about the polystyrene helmet, it was something I'd heard about motorcyclists crashing. I forget the numbers but it was something like, unless you're wearing the right kit, you lose Xcms of skin/flesh for every metre you slide.

    Better cyclists must be much more inured to speed than I ever was. These days 30mph feels fast, and on the tandem I have a built-in safety system that tells me to slow down if we're going anywhere near fast.

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    I have one of those

    So much so that I had to disconnect the rear drum brake that was controlled by the stoker...


    Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
    on the tandem I have a built-in safety system that tells me to slow down if we're going anywhere near fast.

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    Hot, heavy cloud and humid, but planned a toddle up the hill. Which I managed with much sweat, stopped, turned around and did the classic novice with new clipless pedals mistake. Couldn't get my left foot in, stalled, wobbled and toppled over. Nobody watching 👍.
    Very bent rear ultegra, that lasted 3 rides before I bust it!!
    Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.

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    We have all done it I'm sure. I fell over at the bottom of my road, waiting at the junction to cross over and come home. Having to give way to a stream of cars, this initiated an attempted track stand which rapidly went pear shaped. A kind lady passer by helped me pick my bike and broken pride up off the tarmac and I scurried off home to lick my wounds.

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    I once fell over with my feet clipped in, and fell onto another cyclist while we were all waiting at a traffic lights on a sportive (!!). He was very nice about it, but of course I kept seeing him again and again for the next four hours of riding. Lesson learned that day: unclip early!

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    First ride on the road bike in ages last night. 21km, 439m ascent, 53'45".

    I got 17 PBs on Strava! Which shows how little cycling I've done in recent years.

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    Today took it apart and learnt all about bent rear mech hangers - could be a lot worse!
    Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.

  10. #7510
    Of the three hills out of Settle, Simon Warren chooses to feature the one from Langcliffe Scar so this is the one I have done but my son has also done Albert Hill - one of the steep country roads out to Malham - so naturally.

    I chose to start the ride from near Malham Tarn (Street Gate) which provided a route down Langcliffe Scar to Settle (during which I passed a nervous car driver) and then the longer of the climbs to the North out of Malham up to the Tarn. It was a hot day and was surprisingly busy for a working day Thursday.

    Just a short gentle pootle round gorgeous North Yorkshire: 2180 feet of climb in 20 miles, maximum speed 39 mph, maximum pulse 143bpm.

    Earlier I had noticed a (parked) WF Holdsworth steel bike, fixed wheel, just the one Weinmann brake, Brooks saddle to cut one in half, a huge saddle bag, Bluemels pump with the three coloured bands...it must have been 60 years old and, for the avoidance of doubt, I did not encounter this historical relic on any of the (allegedly) 20% climbs today.
    Last edited by Graham Breeze; 17-06-2021 at 08:40 PM.
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