Today's Bike Ride

[jb_pale]

Get a Sticky Vicky thread if you want one.
This is for riding bikes and now't else

Give over Stagger man. C'mon the Vicky

[Antisocial]

Give over Stagger man. C'mon the Vicky

Stagger is right, as a newish forum member you do realise you are in breach of the forum code of conduct, especially as we have minor's reading stuff on here and are liable to be banned given the sexist tripe you post!

[Dr H Tool]

That's weird I had to have one of his posts deleted!!!! Is it 3 strikes and you're out?

Anyway went out on the Bike yesterday morning (I thought that was what this thread was about). It was a real challenge and called upon all my bike handling skills into the wind. I almost overshot a bend at 27mph uphill and had to dodge some fallen trees. I arrived home refreshed, exhilarated and very wet, unlike the others who wimped out. Forget turbos with resistance get out in the strong winds but watch it as the human beings in cars tend not to give you any more room.

[Grouse]

There's miners on here as well, apparently.

[lilactime]

15 miles and very windy ! good training thou . still no sticky vicky thread ?

[stevefoster]

What's sticky vicky? Some new sort of puncture patch

[Al Fowler]

What's sticky vicky? Some new sort of puncture patch

Once got told off for calling a girl that in my class at high school ............she was called vicky and got chewing-gum on her.

It was meant to be a light-hearted laugh but she took it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to seriously and even went to head of year. Head of year liked me though so she let me off lightly.

[lilactime]

think she resides in benidorm

[Hanneke]

Yeah she's great, but i don't understand track cycling at all?

Round and round and round, every day, every hour, on that wooden surface, like a gerbil

How do they do that with-out getting extremely board!

I just couldn't do it.

I ride and race on the track in winter. I admit, it is quite far removed from Three Peaks Cyclocross, but it is a totally different sport! I use it to train for speed for the summer season, as every discipline on the track is short and sharp, even the points and scratch races. Mind you, 10 miles on the track is pretty damn knackering, at the intensity you ride at...

And no, as Bryan says, you don't get bored, it is a different focus. I used to be a speed skater back in the Netherlands and for lack of natural ice used to race and train on an artificial rink, a 400m oval, bit like a velodrome. Again, it is a different thing alltogether...

And on top of it being fun and challengeing, it beats having to sit on a turbo trainer in bad weather any time!

[Stagger]

Just a quick 30 minutes on the turbo this morning before work.

I was spinning the crank at 95-100rpm should I be going faster?