[cdamian]

I recently saw someone in a

I recently saw someone in a bikelane here in Barcelona doing 35km/h on one of these e-unicycles.

I am not sure how I feel about it, except that was slipsteaming him.

Personally I wouldn’t ride that fast on one myself.

[cdamian]

kil0ran wrote:

kil0ran wrote:

Might be worth looking at the Komoot app – that offers crowd-sourced routes optimised for different cycling styles. 

Planning routes with Strava is also pretty good.
Instead of streetview you can also try Google Earth, which is sometimes nearly as good.

I think B roads can be ok, they differ quite a bit.

German drivers are generally not the most friendly to cyclists, though the UK night be worse.

[cdamian]

I replaced my 800 with a 1000
I replaced my 800 with a 1000 and it works pretty well. I mainly got it for the Bluetooth. It has most of the features of the 1030. It is more reliable for me than the 800 and battery lasts a bit longer too.
At the time the 820 didn’t exist, otherwise I would have gotten that one for the smaller size.

The Wahoo stuff sounds good too, maybe I have a look at the next generation.

[cdamian]

I have the Racing Quattro DB

I have the Racing Quattro DB and quite like them.

10000km so far and just replaced two bearings myself.

[cdamian]

I would suggest Sportful,

I would suggest Sportful, they come from the same factory as Castelli but are usually not as expensive.

I have a mix of Sportful, Castelli and DHB shorts.

I pretty much stopped buying DHB shorts, as the pads don’t tend to be that good.

My favourites are Sportful Bodyfit Pro, Sportful Norain (for when it is cold or wet) and Super Total Comfort (for very long rides).

Castelli Inferno are also nice for hot days, but they don’t last very long as they rip very easy.

[cdamian]

I tried and got in for the

I tried and got in for the first time.

I am going through the overseas ballot though, which is probably another type of random.

Looking forward to cycle in London again, the last time was for Dunwich Dynamo 2013.

I hope the weather is kind.

[cdamian]

Simon E wrote:

And people wonder why newspapers are increasingly irrelevant? When they punt out uninformed piles of sh*t like this then their demise can’t happen soon enough IMHO.

 

Well, The Independent is no longer availabe in print. It is now a news site like any other requiring articles that create big flame wars in the comment section to push the number of page views.

Expect this only to get worse.

[cdamian]

Sadly I am working also in

Sadly I am working also in the Webbusiness and have to put these kind of features on our site (slideins, modal windows, ads, these sill headlines in the middle of articles…)

The problem with these is that if you measure the success by number of times they are clicked, the bounce rate (coming and directly leaving), the number of pages people look at, then they are reasonably successful. The cons of them you can’t easily measure. It takes a while until people are annoyed enough to visit the site or bother to click on articles.

Or people like me who install an adblocker which allows removing individual elements like these from the page to have a nice reading experience again. This obviously also blocks all other real ads on the site, which I guess is the main income of road.cc. (previously I had them enabled on this site).

road.cc is still my favourite road cycling site, even if they make it more more difficult to use it 🙂

And I am all for the new design btw.

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