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Wow! Thanks for the response
Wow! Thanks for the response 5-0, that is as comprehensive as I could imagine! (What’s the 5-0 reference?!) I had thought Shimano 105 would be the most cost effective route but if I can I’d rather stick with Campag. The bike only cost £500 and I would like to upgrade to a Canyon / Cannondale carbon wonder soon so don’t want to spend a lot if I can help it.Wow! Thanks for the response
Wow! Thanks for the response 5-0, that is as comprehensive as I could imagine! (What’s the 5-0 reference?!) I had thought Shimano 105 would be the most cost effective route but if I can I’d rather stick with Campag. The bike only cost £500 and I would like to upgrade to a Canyon / Cannondale carbon wonder soon so don’t want to spend a lot if I can help it.Wow! Thanks for the response
Wow! Thanks for the response 5-0, that is as comprehensive as I could imagine! (What’s the 5-0 reference?!) I had thought Shimano 105 would be the most cost effective route but if I can I’d rather stick with Campag. The bike only cost £500 and I would like to upgrade to a Canyon / Cannondale carbon wonder soon so don’t want to spend a lot if I can help it.Think the Aquila is too new
Think the Aquila is too new to have been reviewed so far but keep your eyes open. There’s also the Canyon Endurace Cannondale Synapse to name just two more.Think the Aquila is too new
Think the Aquila is too new to have been reviewed so far but keep your eyes open. There’s also the Canyon Endurace Cannondale Synapse to name just two more.I got a little one from
I got a little one from Halfords to fix to the top of my helmet that has front and reare cost about 15 quid I think.
Lezyne do a couple called Zemto or something like that that might also do.fitzey50 wrote:I hardly use
I hardly use the 34 on the front chain ring ( only for very steep hills ).
using the 50 on the front and the 32 on the back gives you such a great sit down climbing gear for any hill around 7% you can just tap it out!Fitzey, that’s called cross chaining and is really bad for your chain. I’d drop down the cassette at least one cog maybe two, or use the small ring and stay in the middle of the cassette.
Wish I hadn’t seen this thread. The Mrs just got a tax bill so had convinced myself I could do without the 1500 Cannondale or Canyon a bit longer… 🙁
I’m not sure that the
I’m not sure that the differences in geometry between a race bike and a sportive/endurance bike are that great, or make one more rideable than another for most of us. You’re talking 10-20 mm, or half a degree here or there in a lot of cases. If you have back problems, or you have got a bike the wrong size, then that’s different.
Having said that, I ride an ally bike from the 90’s when there wasn’t a choice, so what do I know!I like the look of that Cannondale too. I’m hoping to spend around £1200 – £1500 on a new bike at some point, and I’m fairly sure the Cannondale is the best value of the ones you can try. If I could I’d pop over to Koblenz and try a Canyon, but that is tricky to do, so it looks like a Cdale for me.
OP, see if you can talk Evans or the other shops into letting you try a couple of bikes out on the road for 10 mins. Some of the bigger retailers let you try for 30 days and then you can change. A mate bought a Cannondale MTB, rode it off road a couple of times and wasn’t keen. Went back to Evans, and ok, he almost doubled his initial spend, but came out with a different bike he was much more happy with. That’s the key at the end of the day, the one you are happiest with is the best, regardless of frameset/geometry/groupset/value for money. If you haven’t been on it for a couple of days and you are itching to get out there, rather than thinking, Meh I’ll not bother to day, pick that one!
Great thread, food for
Great thread, food for thought here.OP, I don’t think you could do much else. Not sure what the scrote crossing the road was trying to do, perhaps they knew the people in the car? I am assuming the passenger and the road crosser were both young?
Report it to the college definitely, would have thought they would have cctv but it may be pointed at the college rather than out at the surroundings.
And report it to the Law, they may do nothing but if they do there is a chance the perps may behave in a more civilised way in future.
I have been riding on the roads for 37 odd years too, and am pretty aggressive, at least with the incident and its immediate aftermath. I yell at the top of my voice so everyone in the vicinity takes notice, which may or may not be a good thing. I also drop the c word a lot, which I’m not proud of and am trying to stop, but I’m so angered by a careless fool trying to kill me it isn’t always easy to contain that rage. I used to punch and slap vehicles, but that will never lessen the conflict.
I don’t let anyone “get away” with bad driving around me, whether it’s a close passes, turning left across my front, blocking my progress, anything crappy.
What happens next varies. I’ve had the hard nuts stop and get out, and try and stop me, I’ve had vehicles alongside me with rabid passengers yelling more expletives, I’ve not yet had a fight. I suspect I’d come off worst in 90% of fights even without the silly shoes and other cycling paraphernalia. I have had a few keystone cop chases with idiots repeatedly turning round and coming back at me, I’ve disappeared up alleys before now. Usually the nutter calms down and drives off.
I would love to be more Teflon, but I can’t. I also think that attitude lets the guilty party off to do it again, they think it is ok. And it isn’t, bad driving is not acceptable. Driving a vehicle in a threatening way should be punishable.
Kinesis do at least one
Kinesis do at least one Titanium frame I believe. Would definitely be on my shortlist.Cyclist
Depends on your age and what you’re used to, also how good you are at gauging how you have recovered. I only ride 3 or 4 days a week and can’t feel any benefit from a recovery ride. And are you disciplined enough to do a recovery ride properly? Can you avoid the temptation for a ten minute sprint or blast up a hill?^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ agreed… But the last line is a great question, you have to be disciplined.
I read somewhere about 6 months ago that most of us amateur cyclists don’t really ever ride in such a way as to benefit. We don’t ride gently enough on a recovery ride to feel it; maybe if you ride 6 days a week very hard, then an hour or two at minimal intensity will help you. And the same article said that when we push ourselves, we aren’t doing it in a structured way , and both of these points applied to me. It also said a recovery ride should be as low intensity as you can, if you come to a hill walk up it. I tried to do a couple of rides in z2 or less, and if I took it easy on the flat I could do it, but the slightest hill would take me into z3.
If I feel tired now (usually in my quads) I won’t go out on the bike, but I try to push myself hard on 3 of the 4 rides a week I do, and make the 4th a longer ride.Depends on your age and what
Depends on your age and what you’re used to, also how good you are at gauging how you have recovered. I only ride 3 or 4 days a week and can’t feel any benefit from a recovery ride. And are you disciplined enough to do a recovery ride properly? Can you avoid the temptation for a ten minute sprint or blast up a hill?Depends on your age and what
Depends on your age and what you’re used to, also how good you are at gauging how you have recovered. I only ride 3 or 4 days a week and can’t feel any benefit from a recovery ride. And are you disciplined enough to do a recovery ride properly? Can you avoid the temptation for a ten minute sprint or blast up a hill?Depends on your age and what
Depends on your age and what you’re used to, also how good you are at gauging how you have recovered. I only ride 3 or 4 days a week and can’t feel any benefit from a recovery ride. And are you disciplined enough to do a recovery ride properly? Can you avoid the temptation for a ten minute sprint or blast up a hill?Depends on your age and what
Depends on your age and what you’re used to, also how good you are at gauging how you have recovered. I only ride 3 or 4 days a week and can’t feel any benefit from a recovery ride. And are you disciplined enough to do a recovery ride properly? Can you avoid the temptation for a ten minute sprint or blast up a hill?
