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Comfort was the main issues for me when I switched from 23mm's, the roads and bike lanes here aren't always that smooth here so every little thing helps. Last two years I've had Schwalbe Durano plus'es, Pretty OK tyres, I think I've had only one puncture in 2000km's riding. Not as fast as the Schwalbe Ultemo's I had before, but seem to be more durable, and that is more important when commuting to work.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Fully agree with you on that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by janneppi
On a long ride, and I usually do 3 hours+, comfort has a higher importance over the couple of seconds difference in speed.
And if you aren't racing what does it matter anyway...
Pffff I happen to think my Schwalbe Ultremo pinks look pretty damn cool. :p My road bike is currently out of action. It's awaiting a new tool to arrive so my bottom bracket can be removed and my new ultegra chainring fitted. :D
Your button bracket needs a special new tool?! Hmm...
Haha Ioan you got there too soon, I went and had a roast chicken dinner before editing. Needs must and all that.
You live in the same place as me then? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Sounds like excellent cycling territory to me, you'll be fit as ;)
I've lived in two places, current one at the bottom of hills so you have to climb at the start of every ride, used to live at the top of the hill so you had to climb at the end of the ride. Much better where I am now, as a climb at the start gets you warmed up nicely, unlike a steep climb at the end when you're already tired.
I know what you mean :) . I guess I'm just not used to it really, pretty much everything around me is gradient of varying degree. There's very little totally flat.
You moved to Scottland?!Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Surely that's a contradiction.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I'm slowly getting back to cycling, today I rode 30 minutes on the trainer watching men's world cup biathlon event. Excellent program for the job. 7 minutes of steady pace and 15 seconds of hard effort while the leading athlete was shooting.
Thank gods Russian's Shipulin is a fast shooter, I was getting knackered by the fourth shooting. :D
Haven't been able to get out because of the snow and likely won't. While I might be able to make it the last thing I want is to fall off and break something!
+1000, I remember a cycling accident I had and broke a bone in my foot, was more or less house ridden for 6 weeks and couldn't bike ride for at least 2 months! I was fed up beyond words, and by the time I got back on my bike I'd lost all my form and gained a spare tyre!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
So yeah, you're definitely better off missing out a couple of weeks than risking an accident and missing a couple of months!
First proper bike ride this year, I reviewed the local trails and they are sh***. At best it was 5 minutes of fun technical riding, at worst I was pushing the bike uphill a 25cm wide trail for 5 minutes cursing the slack head angel of the bike, too narrow path, and most of all, my bad VOmax capabilitity.
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Looks a nice bike janneppi :)
I have got rid of my exercise bike, my brother visited a few weeks ago and got addicted to it, so I said he could have it as he needs the exercise even more than me! I'll get a treadmill in return shortly which I think will be easier to spend more time on.
This morning was my first commuting ride for about 12 years, starting light, 7km to the first station on the trainline. I also have a bike shed access at another station 16km from home and I hope to eventually go all the way to the office on occasions, which is 33km. I figure 14km a day most days should be a good start
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I was tempted to do the 2 miles to the inlaws house on my bike yesterday. But I decided against it and went by car instead. Looks like no end in sight for the chilly spell just yet. So I fear I might not get out next weekend either.
I've translated your post into English
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Originally Posted by Robinho
To be honest Mark, I wouldn't have bothered riding your bike in this weather as its a hybrid. You wouldn't want to go out without a set if chunky offroad tyres.
P.S. Robinho's post was in perfect English. All exercise must be recorded in KM's in my world. Your the old school freak, you need to get with the times. :p
While on most things I come down squarely on the metric side of the debate, in the UK we measure road distances and speed in miles. Therefore if you're riding your bike on the road in the UK, you should be using miles ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by GridGirl
Mark, if you use km then it sounds like you've gone further and faster ;) Down with miles!!
Going to wait until the snow is gone before I go out again. The roads are in a terrible state at the moment, potholes all over the place!
21 miles today but boy that was hard. Cold and windy but it felt like my legs were made of stone :(
Falling onto my arse due to ice didn't help either :D
Ibby reckons it's because I have been walking too much (62 miles in January) where I thought it would help?!
First rides after a break are always hard. Your legs just aren't ready to pedal., but I don't think walking has hurt your cycling. At worst, you've gotten fresh air. :)
Exactly, walking will not hurt your cycling in any way.
First of all cycling is pretty much about a good endurance and walking did help keep you heart fitness better then if you would have done nothing at all.
Secondly when walking you are using many more muscle groups then when you are cycling, which again can only help and will not hurt your cycling performance.
As mentioned by janneppi, it is normal that the first session after a pause is a bit of a struggle, you'll see that the second outing will be much better.
Cool. I will keep up the walking miles then :D
In which case I largely agree with you, as seeing as I've moved to Australia, I reckon I can record my acheivements in KM's now instead of miles ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I've fuly converted to a cycling obsessive within a couple of weeks, this week I managed the 32km round trip to the station 3 times, plus a 12.5km round trip, all in for the week about 110km's, which from virtually nothing a few weeks ago is a pretty good start to cycling life, got my average speeds up, had a puncture (so i'm officially in the club) and spend an unhealthy amount of time on Wiggle, Cycling express and Cell websites looking at bikes I want to upgrade too, even though I've only had my 2nd hand road bike for about a month.
This weeks acheivements include an average 29km/h ride for 16km's and hitting a top speed in excess of 50km/h
Show us your bike then!
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This is my hardly used mountain bike (apparently I can only post 1 attachement per post and I've re-sized to the point where its tiny, is there a better way of attaching a decent sized file?)
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This is my hardly used mountain bike, that I will eventually use when the family are out for a ride
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And this is my daily road bike, a 2nd hand 2008 Ridley Eos with Shimano Tiagra and 105 pedals, running 23 width continental gatorskins
Very nice :D (can't see the pics but it sounds good!)
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This is my hardly used mountain bike, that I will eventually use when the family are out for a ride
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And this is my daily road bike, a 2nd hand 2008 Ridley Eos with Shimano Tiagra and 105 pedals, running 23 width continental gatorskins - forgot to mention before its an Aluminium frame with carbon forks - got my eye on a full carbon bike with Shimano 105 groupset, or maybe ultegra if i'm feeling rich
hopefully this should work this time, had no end of trouble, never bothered with photos on here and never used my dropbox account that was free with my phone, so had to go through a quick learning curve
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Originally Posted by Mark
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The weather has been perfect, (nice and cool) and have been getting out 2-3 times a week over the last couple of months.
Pih.
I figured despite all the snow coming down I could cycle back from work on plowed bike lanes on my mtb without breaking a sweat, I figured wrong. :D
It took 65 minutes to get back home, in summer time I've done the same 11 km ride in 24 minutes on a road bike with roughly the same effort. Still, from an exercise point of view it's all good.
Oooohh I want to post a picture of my bikes. It was a boring black 2010 Specialized Dolce Sport but my other half has pretty much rebuilt it and blinged it up over the last few months. My new shimano 105 shifters arrived yesterday, once they get fitted next week it will mean the only original parts left are the frame, wheels and seat as everything else has been upgraded. It now has 105 brakes, front and rear derailleurs with a ultegra chain ring, carbon bars with a supercool black and purple colour theme. Well I like the new colour scheme anyway. Would like to get a new set of wheels but its had far too much money spent on it lately to justify spending more money. Might have to wait until next winter.
Going out for a 50km ride tomorrow and hopefully it will be the last time I have any shimano sora on my bike.
Nice to see some picture of your rides!
Mine is still in many separate parts at this time, hope to have it put together by the end of this month, I will post a picture when it is done.
having spent a lot of time and money to get all the parts that I need for my bike I feel I can give one good advice to those looking to improve their bikes. Unless you are buying the parts during closeout sales you better go for a full bike with better specs, it will be cheaper because buying upgrade parts at regular prices is way too expensive.
I have two bikes that I really should use more. First of all there's the newer one. It's an Ocset Special.
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Then if I'm feeling nostalgic, I'll wheel out the Townsend for a ride.
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I'd love to use them more, but my legs need working on. Have no stamina at all and anything more than a slight incline is a hard task! Have been asked to go cycling round a windfarm on Sunday, but I think the weather is going to put a stop to it. Love walking, could walk for miles. Just can't seem to transfer that onto a bike. Did a lot of cycling around 15-18, but that stopped when I learned to drive and started working.
The Townsend brings back memories for me. I had an Apollo from halfords as a kid but many of my friends had Townsend and Peugeot bikes :)