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Try not to think about it too
Try not to think about it too much..
Mason Definition, £3000
Pedals, £70
Mudguards, £35
New helmet, £150
Gloves & sunglasses, £80
Bibs and jersey, £180
Tyres, wheel tape, valves, £100
Strava, £50 (!)
LVRC Membership, £14
Entry to ToC and Rawlingson Bracket, £90
Gels, bars, £30
Plus all the petrol, food and the odd hotel all based around cycling.. I’m sure there’s loads more I’ve spent… Bike rental on the family holiday, £60…
I have a tick…. check for:
I have a tick…. check for: unaligned chain catching (but as this is easier to find I suspect you’ll have ruled this out already)… maybe a notched chainring …however if it’s consistant on a certain ‘stroke’… then mr dear watson, I ‘d suspect it’s either your pedals or your bottom bracket.
The issue with ‘keeping wind
The issue with ‘keeping wind out’ is linked intrinsically with ‘letting you breathe through it’.
I’ve collected a few buffs
I’ve collected a few buffs along the way, they aren’t something I spend much time thinking about, they get quite a bit of abuse, being pushed and pulled about and dribbled on when riding… However I do have one buff in particular which is my go to buff when it’s cold. A galibier buff – http://galibier.cc/product-tag/buff/ there’s something a little thicker and softer about it, over the ‘Buff’ branded one (or two I have), or the multitude of other freebie ones I’ve gathered.
It doesn’t meet your very particular specifications, but it’s my best buff.
Just got a set of Hunt Aero
Just got a set of Hunt Aero Light Disc V2 Wheels on my bike at the mo and I’m more impressed than I thought I’d be with them.
Mavic Quote 1490grams
Hunt Aero 1498grams
Zonda quote 1675grams
Fulcrum 1690grams
All have 17mm internal width.
The DT Swiss ones mentioned above are 1470grams and have an 18mm internal width.
I think my money would go with the DTSwiss.
@Johnnyvee I have a bank of
@Johnnyvee I have a bank of roller sessions which I print off and follow, if you’re interested I can send them to you. There’s plenty online, the BC website has some good resources. Mine are mainly edited versions, shorter versions of what’s found online or leftover sessions from our old club coach.
At home when I can’t be bothered to do a structured session, I just watch the last hour of bike races on yourtube.. my efforts just follow the attacks on screen..
Yep all good stuff written
Yep all good stuff written above which I echo..
I’m also time poor (and not a morning person and I’m lazy) but I am fortunate that most of the rides/sessions I do are HIIT or training style rides.
With that in mind, personally, my own pin the tail on a donkey fitness guide is that, two sessions a week I’m maintaining fitness, three sessions a week and I’m gaining fitness and I can do just one session a week now and again and not loose out too much.
Sessions I do indoors are, HR based and done on rollers, they last normally between 45mins and 1 hour – quality not quantity.
As I understand it.. the
As I understand it.. the ridley has a BB86 fit. You can buy SRAM cranks with either BB30 or their GXP fit (which is I think the BB86 fit). Can’t imagine one of particualry ‘better’ than the other.. they’re all press fit aren’t they?
It’s a minefield…I’d suggest that this is a job for your ‘LBS mechanic’ !
It may be a Frankenbike but I don’t see a problem comparing it to the Grade Tiagra Peted76, depending on the condition of the bike obviously.The wheels and discs are probably about the same quality, the seatpost and stem a slight upgrade, not sure how the rival drivetrain compares to tiagra, probably not much in it.
The 2017 GT Grade AL is where I’d compare, one is new at £750 and the other is second hand. The AL has 11 speed 105 whereas the second hand is a carbon frame.
Very much depends on what you want to use it for, condition and size – or if you could drop it another £100 then it’s a bit of a steal…
I agree with alan, although you’d have different shifters, it’s not a ‘bad spec’ per se..
Wow.
Wow.
I think you’ve nailed this with your first sentence. It’s a ‘Frankenbike’.
This ‘bike’ as you see it is functional yes, but it’s a million miles away from a spec that anyone would buy.
Someone’s had all the bits off this frame and put them elsewhere.. they have then begged, borrowed and fudged the rest of it with cheap bits to make it into a ‘functional’ bike. You can buy a carbon GT Grade with Tiagra and matching bits for £999 – I bet the frame is the same.
Also the bars are higher than the saddle, so it’s not been done by someone who knows anything about road bikes.
The difference in how it
The difference in how it feels to ride a mtb with big knobbly tyres up a steep hill and a road bike is ‘muchly’.
However it’s quite possible that that’s mainly because you’re in a ‘different position’ on each.. wide arms upright position on a mtb, narrower arms lower position on a road bike.
Either way, at the top you’ll still be chewing your handlebars either way, becuase.. well this fella summed it up.. “It never gets easier, you just get faster” – Greg LeMond.
Borrow a bike offa someone and have a go, or nip to a shop for a test ride to find out for yourself.
If you’re concerned have you
If you’re concerned have you tried ringing them?
I’ve only heard good things about Lusso so wouldn’t rouse the mob just yet.
Warwickshire.. locally there
Warwickshire.. locally there’s the double of Edge Hill and Sunrising which are within a couple of miles of each other, both are about a mile and average 7 or 8% but the gradient rises and falls all the way up both making them quite testing.. there’s a local race which goes three times up Edge Hill.. ouchy! Also there’s a nice pub/castle at the top of the hill which has a great view of Warks from it’s balcony. https://www.strava.com/segments/641401 https://www.strava.com/segments/848918
A little further south and there’s Larkstoke which is always fun to take someone ‘new’ up.. it’s a hard steep ramp at the base maxing at 25%, then evens out to a false flat goes round a corner and you find out there’s about a mile of climbing to go.. average 5% all told but unless you measure the effort on that first part it’ll be a tough second half.. https://www.strava.com/segments/7004510
Then there’s Lady Elizabeth, while not seemingly as testing as any of the above I’ve thrown in just because I quite like her, 1.2miles quite an even climb allowing a rhythm to tapped out but gradually getting steeper maxing out at about 13% before it evens out. https://www.strava.com/segments/1012141
Just ask your local shop if
Just ask your local shop if they’ll do the bike at that price.. if they can they will.
It’s all very well
It’s all very well hypothesising, do I begrudge your self employed mate racing bikes and sponsoring himself? Not really, he’s probably just a pixel in the scheme of things.. the 1%’ers will have us all obsessing about each other doing harm when it’s only really the 1%’ers who are 99% of the problem.
Capitalism at the ugly end, taking off the many for the benefit of the few.
For balance, I’ll add that unless I was in a situation where ‘dodging some tax’ was an option I don’t think it’d be honest of me to sit on a high horse about it. I’d morally know the right thing to do, but I’d probably still run with the loophole and blame the system to justify it. Fixing that is a ‘interpretation of the law issue’ which means you need to ‘spell all the rules out’, cross the t’s and dot the i’s… or it doesn’t count = loophole.