Today's Bike Ride

[Hanneke]

OKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.

Bib short sizing?


Im 5"11 ish, with a 31" waist.


Small waist but size small would be too short. Surely I cant get large because even though I know lyrca is stretchy but come on!


And I cant try them on, because theya re coming from germany!

Al, I would wear small, so you will be fine with a medium...

Bit deluvian here last night, for my 10m TT! Windy too... was wondering if the Ark was going to come and fetch me at some stage, when my lovely carbon wheels were budied axel deep in a HUGE puddle, no, correction, a small lake

Still managed a 3 second pb, to my great surprise. Could have been due to the fact that I could not see out of my steamed up and rained on glasses, so no clue as to HR or speed, just kept pedalling as hard as I could for the duration!

Track this morning, and on last nights pb legs, I still managed a 500m TT pb as well... all that turbo training is definitely paying off

[The devil's own]

12 miles, 95% off road with just under 1000ft ascent/descent on an out and back. Just easing back in as I still feel pretty unfit from having shingles. Came off twice, first time slow on overgrown tight single track front wheel washed out i went over bars and luckily stopped by a tree as the track was on the edge of a gully. Big hole in the front of my shoes, nice c shaped cut to big toe. Shoe's unfortunately ruined Second crash was totally my own fault for being stupid, hammering back on a well rutted track pushed my hardtail farther than i should off and got pinged over the bars. Didn't manage to unclip this time so me and the bike landed against a fence a fair way from the trail. Thankfully just a few scratches, really glad I was wearing my lid. Despite the bins it was a good ride, and great weather which came as a surprise. Quite a bit of mud plugging in places as it was impossible to do anything else due to the recent downpours, and flooding of parts of the trail. And at least I now know just how far I can push my bike before it gives in. Not happy about the shoes though as I haven't had them long. Knew I should have bought sidi!

[Stagger]

OOOOh crap.

Just been out for a tempo hour on the bike. I took the old one. Halford Carrera instead of the New Cannondale because it had just stopped raining.

I have just compared the two and here we go.

Bars better on Cannon
Seat better on Cannon
Brakes better on Cannon

Gearing better on Carrera
Gear change better on Carrera
Ride better on Carrera

What do I need to do to make the Grand bike as nice as the couple hundred quid bike?

[The devil's own]

Gearing better on Carrera
Gear change better on Carrera
Ride better on Carrera

What do I need to do to make the Grand bike as nice as the couple hundred quid bike?

Depends on what you mean by the above. The gear change may just be something as simple as the cables are nicely worn in on the carrera where as they aren't yet on the dale.
What do you mean by gearing and ride?

[daz h]

OOOOh crap.

Just been out for a tempo hour on the bike. I took the old one. Halford Carrera instead of the New Cannondale because it had just stopped raining.

I have just compared the two and here we go.

Bars better on Cannon
Seat better on Cannon
Brakes better on Cannon

Gearing better on Carrera
Gear change better on Carrera
Ride better on Carrera

What do I need to do to make the Grand bike as nice as the couple hundred quid bike?

lets deal with Alex first Trev
AL if your a 31" waist im surprised. Im a 30" and can sometimes get in a 28". You will be a medium
Yes you can get in a small bibshort but they may be tight on your legs a bit. Get a medium and 35miles in your ride you wont be riding no hands trying to re adjust your meat and two veg. There sorted.

trevor whats happening with your gears
and why is the ride better my friend. dont worry these things are easily sorted.

[Ady In Accy]

Set up/position
Saddle
Tyres/tyre pressure

(To Staggers question)

[daz h]

a steady 40 miles for me tonight and its strange trevor noting about his ride problems
only my third ride on my mercian and I kept stopping every 5 miles to tweak things. Saddle, bars. All sorted. Finally fittin my new cleats as well.

OH AND AL, before I went out my legs got shaved , AGain. Thats twice this week already

[emmilou]

You need a man wot can Trev, hard to find but can be handy when eventually located!

Lots of turbo-ing for me since monday, over 4 hours racked up.....sadly the deluge we've been having that far from warrant a hosepipe ban have led to indoor cycling only

OOOOh crap.

Just been out for a tempo hour on the bike. I took the old one. Halford Carrera instead of the New Cannondale because it had just stopped raining.

I have just compared the two and here we go.

Bars better on Cannon
Seat better on Cannon
Brakes better on Cannon

Gearing better on Carrera
Gear change better on Carrera
Ride better on Carrera

What do I need to do to make the Grand bike as nice as the couple hundred quid bike?

[Al Fowler]

lets deal with Alex first Trev
AL if your a 31" waist im surprised. Im a 30" and can sometimes get in a 28". You will be a medium
Yes you can get in a small bibshort but they may be tight on your legs a bit. Get a medium and 35miles in your ride you wont be riding no hands trying to re adjust your meat and two veg. There sorted.

trevor whats happening with your gears
and why is the ride better my friend. dont worry these things are easily sorted.

Medium it is then, ta daz'ing-tom.

Bibshorts arent half expensive though....£71.99 for the AG2R team shorts, and another £54 for the jersey.

But...unless I ditch it and rip them to shreds, should get my moneys worth.

OH AND AL, before I went out my legs got shaved , AGain. Thats twice this week already

Daz, bib shorts is a big step for me.....shaving my legs. I think my dad would dis-own me.

[Al Fowler]

sadly the deluge we've been having that far from warrant a hosepipe ban have led to indoor cycling only

Tell me about it. Im dying to get out on my ribble for a blast but the heavens have opened since I started looking for some new lycra.


Em, if your ever free on a sunday, give us a shout and you can show me these flat roads you mention!