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What do you wish you knew?

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  • November 10, 2014 at 1:10 pm #22708
    Poptart242

    So, my first year of being a road cyclist is drawing to a close, and it’s been a pretty fun learning curve over a couple of thousand miles.

    Plenty of that has been the expected knowledge – how to ride in a group, nutrition, tyre pressures, maintenance, training, that you should spin up big hills instead of grinding – but every newbie learns these things along the way.

    So, what are the silly little things you wish someone told you about before you started?

    For me, I wish I knew not to have white cables and a silver groupset – keeping them clean annoys me!

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  • November 10, 2014 at 5:01 pm #820395
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    Kapelmuur

    That road running would
    That road running would knacker my joints so I would have started cycling 30 years ago instead of 3.

    November 10, 2014 at 4:58 pm #820393
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    AWP

    You can never have too many
    You can never have too many valve-core removal tools.

    November 10, 2014 at 4:54 pm #820391
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    Anonymous

    That you should have a
    That you should have a dedicated crap weather bike with clearance for ‘proper’ mudguards.

    November 10, 2014 at 3:16 pm #820389
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    crikey

    That what bikes are made of
    That what bikes are made of doesn’t matter.
    That what groupset you have doesn’t matter.
    That you can actually get used to a range of different positions on a single bike, and much of bikefitting is not that much use.
    That the difference between climbing wheels, aero wheels, light wheels and heavy wheels is not actually very much.
    That the difference between a heavy bike and a light bike is not actually very much.

    Which all makes me sound like a luddite, but having been there and got the T shirt for all the above, I still like the technical development side of cycling. I’m just much better at spotting the bullshit these days.

    I also wish I knew I’d break a spoke today…

    November 10, 2014 at 3:08 pm #820387
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    Poptart242

    therevokid wrote:that i

    therevokid wrote:
    that i should have gone campagnolo at the start.

    Scoob_84 wrote:
    Carbon frames are not all that.

    Aaaaand there’s me back at square one again – about to go carbon with a Campag option….but I like the Shimano better. Argh, decisions! ~X(

    November 10, 2014 at 2:44 pm #820385
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    therevokid

    that i should have gone
    that i should have gone campagnolo at the start.

    November 10, 2014 at 2:00 pm #820383
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    Super Domestique

    How much it would cost me
    How much it would cost me đŸ˜‰

    November 10, 2014 at 1:57 pm #820381
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    Scoob_84

    Carbon frames are not all
    Carbon frames are not all that.

    November 10, 2014 at 1:39 pm #820379
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    notfastenough

    That I should have bought alu
    That I should have bought alu for my first bike, then carbon for my second, rather than cheap carbon, then good carbon, then replacing the cheap carbon with alu.

    That when I bought my good carbon bike, the matt plastic paint finish is a pig to clean, compared to a ‘normal’ gloss paint job.

    That Mavics flex.

    Not to sell on my self-built Reynolds 653 with Campag.

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