You have the advantage in that you have the perfect winter bike, you could fit ice tyres on it and go anywhere. The tollerance of the rider to cold is more the issue ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
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You have the advantage in that you have the perfect winter bike, you could fit ice tyres on it and go anywhere. The tollerance of the rider to cold is more the issue ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
This is true. People ask why do you bother having a light bike, if you want to get fit having a heavy bike is better, but a light bike is so much more fun to ride, and that's the important thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by janneppi
I have no tolerance to cold sadly :( Will probably be doing a lot more tennis indoors...
J4MIE, Iain, that event looks like a lot of fun! I wish had something similar in our neck of the woods (pun intended :p: ).
Ran a timed city of Calgary corporate challenge 10km race on Sunday. Bib no. 2208. Quite pleased with my result, especially considering it was my 48th birthday! :D
http://www.startlinetiming.com/races/2013/ccc/oall.txt
Get a heavy road bike. Cyclocross is all the rage in my area and there are a lot of people on slightly beefy road bikes with 32c tires and mountain bike brakes.
Or be a hipster and get a single-speed. With bonus points if it has no freewheel and no brakes.
If I had the cash, and the space in the house (two are connected!) then I'd have a cyclocross bike too; and they don't need to be heavy, you can get a carbon one :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gregor-y
Or I could get an electric bike to deal with the hills :bounce:
Bicycle hipsters don't ride fixies anymore, they ride gravel griding bikes (slightly beefy road bikes with 32c tires and mountain bike brakes). I kid you not :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gregor-y
I'm already speccin up my next bike project. It's time to put the road bike to rest and get a cyclocross bike with disc brakes. I propably could use my current road bike as a donor for lot of parts. It really depends if I find a good price for a On One dirty disco frame.
Did some riding today, I went to my nephew's mtb club ride instead of my brother who had other kid duties. Those 10-13 year old kids ride pretty well, after almost two hours I was pretty tired myself. :)
Got in twenty some miles today, with about 4 offroad on some rooted up single track. Some of the trails were challenging with a lot of ruts and drops. Part was so rooted up that short of a good full suspension bike all you were going to do by trying to go quickly was break something on yourself and/or the bike.
As a side question, does anyone know if Endomondo will "switch on the fly" and properly calculate for different sports or conditions? As example today I biked about 11 miles on roads to the trails, switched Endo to "mountain biking" and when I got back to the bike paths switched back to "sport cycling". Looking at the calories I think it simply calculated based on the last entered sport, so my calorie count was fairly low as the average speed was way down. But I'm not really sure either.... almost.
No it won't. You can switch mid workout but that's only for if you've realised you've selected the wrong sport. eg a walk but you ended up running.