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Nigel Garrage wrote:

being ridden with politeness and studious courtesy.

By The Invisible Man?

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It’s a three second gap on

It’s a three second gap on stages ‘likely to finish in a bunch sprint’ these days anyway, so it would be even harder for the challenger to create that within the last 3km of the final stage

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This one looks quite neat as

This one looks quite neat as well:

https://alpkit.com/products/goucho

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I’d flip too if I’d done that

I’d flip too if I’d done that to our car.

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Yes – but that’s just the

Yes – but that’s just the visitor’s drawing room.

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I take a scotch egg on my

I take a scotch egg on my long rides. Which is fine, until your ride coincides with a heatwave and 32°+ for much of it. Went hungry on that one. 

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I’ve found a very effective

I’ve found a very effective measure to prevent speed wobble is not going very fast.

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Neighther.

Neighther.

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andy james wrote:

Be practical. Its the cyclist who gets killed or injured regardless of who you consider to be at fault what they’re wearing. Shouldn’t they the people not paying attention at least try to reduce the risk?

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“Pictures of your cake”

“Pictures of your cake” definitely deserves its own thread.

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bobrayner wrote:

We’re all infuenced by things that broke in the past – so we go out with tools and spares to fix the last fault, not the next one

I once had a crank arm shear off mid-ride, but I’ve never gone as far as carrying a spare one. 

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So ‘flats’ don’t actually

So ‘flats’ don’t actually exist then? Given that nothing is ever exactly 0%.

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Welsh boy wrote:

Drinfinity wrote:

…plenty of hills and usually as much downhill as uphill…

That made me smile.  If you start and finish your ride from home then there will be exactly the same amount od downhill as uphill (unless your house is built on a glacier or some other form of landslide).

Depends what you class as ‘uphill’ and ‘downhill’. You could have many miles of ‘false flat’, followed by a quick ‘downhill’ to get back to the starting point.

Also depends on how you measure how much of it there is – are you going by ascent/descent, by distance, or by time?

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TheBillder wrote:

TheBillder wrote:

The bike is aerobatic. Next question?

Presumably 3.7% more aerobatic than the previous model?

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But on the figures given, the

But on the figures given, the measured altitude was 20m down at the start and 50m down at the end, so it’s drifted down 30m compared to the map altitude, so they ought to be adding 30m on, not subtracting it.

What I meant by the variation being in the middle of the ride is that you could have 20m variance at the beginning, and 20m variance at the end, but 50m variance in the middle. On jaysa’s reckoning, you don’t need to apply any correction. But imagine that your ride is uphill to the middle point, and then downhill to the finish. In that case, you’ve lost 30m of your climb. Conversely, if it’s downhill to the middle, and then uphill to the finish, it will have measured you descending 30m more than you did, and then climbing an extra 30m in the second half.

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