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Cannondale Synapse would be
Cannondale Synapse would be excellent for a first road bike. They’re considered to be a “comfort” geometry, but they’re at the more racy end of that category.
I’d agree with guinom8 about the usefullness of a bike fit, but I think it’d be more worthwhile to go for a bikefit after getting a bit more experience. Ideally, you could have a cheap (£50?) basic bike fit with an expert just eyeballing your position and giving you sizing recommendations, but it won’t be that useful as you wouldn’t have settled into your cycling position at that point. If you ride your bike for a month or two until you feel settled, a bike fit would then highlight more detailed changes such as saddle position etc.
With brakes, my preference would be for hydraulic disks first, rim brakes second and cable disks last. I’m a big fan of hydraulic disks and I think they’re absolutely brilliant although can be very squeaky in the rain (as opposed to rim brakes that don’t work in the rain until you get the water off the rim – typically one revolution of the wheel). I haven’t tried cable disk brakes, but they seem to need more adjustment and care.
I agree with Simon E – change the cassette, but the jockeys look fine (although a bit hairy).That is what happens when you park the bike for the winter and you have a indoor cat.
LIttle correction.. my chainrings are 52/38 and not 52/39. And using 11/25 cassette on a short cage Dura Ace rear derailleur..
If I also change the cassette to a 11/28 to rung with my 52/38 in a short cage dura ace rear derailluer… Will the length of the chain increase?
You shouldn’t need to change the chain length for that – it’s only a small change.
The other thing to consider is whether your short cage derailleur has the capacity.
From https://guides.wiggle.co.uk/rear-derailleurs-buying-guide:
Your current capacity is (52-38) + (25-11) = 28
Your new capacity is (52-38) + (28-11) = 31
So, your derailleur wouldn’t have the capacity for that, and you’d also run into problems with the largest rear cog hitting the derailleur as the “Max cassette size” is listed as 27. You’ll need to go for a medium cage derailleur for a 11-28 cassette.
And shave those jockey wheels.
I agree with Simon E – change
I agree with Simon E – change the cassette, but the jockeys look fine (although a bit hairy).
I’ve been using KMC chains ever since I had a Shimano 6701 chain break. I may have installed it incorrectly, but one of the side plates snapped which I’d never encountered before (or since).
Do you have to upload every pedal stroke to Strava?My boss follows me on Strava. Being honest it’s a right pain in arse particularly when you spend many hours ‘working from home’.Heresy!
I hope he lost his pension
I hope he lost his pension benefits etc.
What makes it even worse is
What makes it even worse is that it’s really easy to keep tabs on where your kids are these days. There’s lots of different beacon/tracking apps so you can be alerted if kids travel too far and you can see where they are if they’re late etc.
I’ve backed quite a few
I’ve backed quite a few KickStarters and one thing I’ve learned is that electronic devices seem to be the hardest projects to manage. My policy now is to wait for them to come to market as it’s not worth a 25% discount when there’s only a 5-10% chance of it being successfully delivered.
(I mainly use Kickstarter for boardgames now as making some shaped, printed cardboard is a lot easier and most of them actually deliver – excepting “The Doom That Came to Atlantic City” though).
Quote:
While the focus of Hillman’s thinking for the last quarter-century has been on climate change, he is best known for his work on road safety. He spotted the damaging impact of the car on the freedoms and safety of those without one – most significantly, children – decades ago. Some of his policy prescriptions have become commonplace – such as 20mph speed limits – but we’ve failed to curb the car’s crushing of children’s liberty. In 1971, 80% of British seven- and eight-year-old children went to school on their own; today it’s virtually unthinkable that a seven-year-old would walk to school without an adult. As Hillman has pointed out, we’ve removed children from danger rather than removing danger from children – and filled roads with polluting cars on school runs. He calculated that escorting children took 900m adult hours in 1990, costing the economy £20bn each year. It will be even more expensive today.When will we learn?
Shame there’s not more hard
Shame there’s not more hard stats with that or at least a couple of graphs.
Forgot to say – make a note
Forgot to say – make a note of your current position measurements (if the fitter didn’t provide them) so that you can return to your current setup easily. Measure saddle height, distance to handlebars and saddle tilt, but make a note of how you are measuring them e.g. from nose of saddle to lever hoods. For measuring saddle tilt, there’s some phone apps that’ll work nicely and give you a degree measurement (again, note how you place your phone so that you can replicate it).
Not tilted so far as I can see. Not moved it after initial fit. Its not as h8gh as some I’ve seen.In that case, you could try tilting the nose up a little bit (like StraelGuy does) and see if that works better. Alternatively, moving your saddle backwards may help if you are rotating your pelvis due to being too far over the bottom bracket.
Is your saddle tilted
Is your saddle tilted downwards to the front? I tend to have my saddle at an angle and it takes a bit of trial and error to get it comfortably tilted yet not cause a gradual slide forwards. Numb hands are also a sign that you’re pushing yourself backwards.
The irony of this story is that the cyclist concerned was actually a bus driver returning from a training session dealing with amongst other things driving near cyclists.https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/cyclist-hit-bus-the-phone-1487749
That’s an interesting report from the
cyclisttriathlete. That sounds like a very scary incident indeed (paralyzed?) and I hope he continues his recovery and gets to compete again.
I know this a joke thread title but it probably won’t be too far from reality the way cars are going. Didn’t Mercedes say it’s ‘triage'(for want of a better description) algorithm favoured the driver in a potential accident with multiple casualty choices?I don’t think Mercedes is being entirely honest with that. I suspect that their algorithm just involves trying to stop as quickly as possible rather than targetting big piles of mattresses or fat people. It’d be amusing if they engineered the car to swerve at the last moment to concentrate any impact on the passenger rather than the driver.
@FelixCat – I heartily approve of that article if only for the quote: “They are lively as twenty leprechauns doing a jig on top of a tombstone.”
He wasn’t wearing a helmet,
He wasn’t wearing a helmet, despite car occupants suffering a large percentage of head injuries?