Road Cycling Essentials

khodos · 16 Jun 2014 at 17:43

Thanks mate. I saw some apps on google play but they all have in app purchases, so I don't know how "usable" they are without paying. Exporting your rides, for example.

I edited my previous post while you replied.

Extra question for Londoners. How much is an average rate by the hour for servicing? I would like to fix my rear caliper brake. Despite all my efforts, it sometimes moves making one pad to touch the wheel, slowing me down, making noise, etc. My bike is rubbish (bought it just for casual rides during summer) so I would like to avoid replacing parts if possible. The brake itself works fine, but I can't attach/fix it to the frame completely so it won't move.

arknor · 16 Jun 2014 at 19:05

hi guys, quick question: What's your favourite app to "record" your rides? I just need something that tracks me and able to export it to google maps or similar. Don't need to save altitude data, etc.

download the strava app
ocuk have a club on there too http://www.strava.com/clubs/ocuk-overclockers-uk-12099

Jimbeam3678 · 16 Jun 2014 at 19:13

Looking at buying a new winter bike , what kinesis bikes like? What's the price bracket for these with say Tiagra groupset ?

[DOD]Asprilla · 16 Jun 2014 at 19:30

Kinesis are great bikes.

The Crosslight Pro6 is an excellent bike and looks amazing in snot green.

Saytan · 16 Jun 2014 at 19:55

I've got a kinesis T2. It's a brilliant bike. Tiagra build is around £1k with a carbon fork, but you can probably put it together yourself for less than that - I built mine for around £700 with campag veloce, although that was a few s/h parts and I built my own wheels

they are quite racy feeling, but will take a 28c tyre and full mudguard no problems

mine wears a rack too, and I've even done as 4 day credit-card tour on it

Womble · 16 Jun 2014 at 20:12

Shamrock said:
I did a 5:32 up it today.

Strangely only captured by 3 out of the 10 or so segments all covering the same bit.

Looks like I have competition on hills ... 5:42 yesterday but there must be at least 10s due to L2B crowds/weaving

[DOD]Asprilla · 16 Jun 2014 at 20:28

Womble said:
Looks like I have competition on hills ... 5:42 yesterday but there must be at least 10s due to L2B crowds/weaving

I take it you weigh less than a Big Mac as well?

I'm stuck in the middle zone; wishing I weighed less than Nairo Quintana on the way up and wishing I could give Thor Hushovd a lesson in pies on the way back down.

daveski · 16 Jun 2014 at 20:47

Back from my little trip to the Lakes with some friends.

Fantastic weekend cycling, some great routes. Massive climbs, breathtaking views and scary descents. 250 miles and 25000ft (my Garmin data, my friends all did more) over the 4 days.

(I've taken some of these pics from Instagram)

Lakeland · 16 Jun 2014 at 20:55

Thought I recognised the pics, nice

iMacMart · 16 Jun 2014 at 20:57

ShiWarrior said:
yep

I was the one that linked to the 540's

Saytan · 16 Jun 2014 at 20:58

[DOD]Asprilla;26466246 said:
I take it you weigh less than a Big Mac as well?

I'm stuck in the middle zone; wishing I weighed less than Nairo Quintana on the way up and wishing I could give Thor Hushovd a lesson in pies on the way back down.

Just get your soigneur to stand at the top and hand you a couple of lead-filled bidons like robic...

gpuerrilla · 16 Jun 2014 at 21:10

Love the raleigh colours!

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Vonhelmet · 16 Jun 2014 at 22:09

physichull and I got out for a ride this evening. 35 miles for me. Quite a few PRs, so I'm happy with that. It was fairly windy on the way out, and then on the way back we were going into the sun, which was really low so visibility was dire. We went over a narrow humpback bridge pretty much blind, which was quite scary in hindsight, but fortunately no one was coming the other way. It stayed warm at least, which is a good job: I'd stuck my arm warmers in my back pocket, just in case, but when I got home I found out that what I'd thought was two arm warmers was in fact one leg warmer. Whoops.

Shamrock · 16 Jun 2014 at 22:49

Womble said:
Looks like I have competition on hills ... 5:42 yesterday but there must be at least 10s due to L2B crowds/weaving

Uh-oh. We must go out riding now!

physichull · 16 Jun 2014 at 23:10

Vonhelmet said:
physichull and I got out for a ride this evening. 35 miles for me. Quite a few PRs, so I'm happy with that. It was fairly windy on the way out, and then on the way back we were going into the sun, which was really low so visibility was dire. We went over a narrow humpback bridge pretty much blind, which was quite scary in hindsight, but fortunately no one was coming the other way. It stayed warm at least, which is a good job: I'd stuck my arm warmers in my back pocket, just in case, but when I got home I found out that what I'd thought was two arm warmers was in fact one leg warmer. Whoops.

Haha! That humpback bridge was totally stupid! Wasn't thinking at all and just went straight over it into the blinding sun! Lesson learned.

My Garmin actually said I did my fastest ever 40km which was strange as I didn't think it was that fast but I did notice that all my PRs came along that first stretch of road to Culcheth when you just shot off like a rocket and caught me by surprise!

Nice run out tonight and got a little bit chilly once we split, the sun was fading fast by then, but you have to take me to the Arctic in winter for me to feel the cold.

Phantom Shadow · 17 Jun 2014 at 00:23

Womble said:
Looks like I have competition on hills ... 5:42 yesterday but there must be at least 10s due to L2B crowds/weaving

lol I managed 12:32, which was also around the same pace as everyone else on the hill so didn't get held up too much really.

Knowing how long the hill actually is I could probably do it in around 10 mins if I pushed harder, but I'm more of a descender than a climber

physichull · 17 Jun 2014 at 08:16

Argghhghgh!!! HAYFEVER!!! GRRRR!!!!

Rode to work this morning and my nose was streaming the whole way and my eyes are now ridiculously bloodshot! Never been this bad before.

I hate pollen.

FrenchTart · 17 Jun 2014 at 08:54

physichull said:
Argghhghgh!!! HAYFEVER!!! GRRRR!!!!

Rode to work this morning and my nose was streaming the whole way and my eyes are now ridiculously bloodshot! Never been this bad before.

I hate pollen.

This year seems particularly bad. I felt like death all last week until I started taking some tablets. Yesterday I had to double-dose too. So tedious.

[DOD]Asprilla · 17 Jun 2014 at 10:09

I did my second 5km run in two years on Sunday. Quads do not like this headwind in the bike.