[Closed] Darkside - its clicked/I get it

Next week.

FS: Road Bike had little use.

😀

On a more serious note I tried a road ride a few years back after knocking it for years and now too enjoy it, just being out on the bike is great and form my door I'm spoilt for choice. Still don't own one though.

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This is on a 26yr old road bike too. So when I get a carbon-thing, how much better will it be? 😯 8)

I started riding a 32 mile round commute (Saddleworth to Salford Quays) about this time last year but I gave up after a few months as I wasn't enjoying it. Started again in January based on the annual 'I'm going to get fit regime....'.

Three months in and I love it, even in the wind and rain. Something just clicked. I've even been tempted to ride road at the weekend, but I usually end up messing about out on the mountain bike.

At the moment I'm using a Cotic X but have found myself ogling a few road bikes.

[i]Darkside - its clicked/I get it[/i]

No you don't. If you did then you wouldn't use a silly word for road riding. It's all cycling you know, its no big deal.

Its all riding- just different sorts of riding. They all compliment each other. It did click though- before yesterday I wondered where was the steady cadence/day-dreaming feeling was that I used to have when I rode ALOT in my teens. It appeared yesterday.

aazlad- I was thinking, to get from Manchester to Huddersfield would be alot of big hills going there wouldn't it?

Go through Staly, Greenfields, Meltham. Comeback via train.

I guess those sort of rides are for when I have a compact chainset. Currently 28x39 on the smallest ring at the front.

28:39?

Edit: ah, I thought you meant those were the chainset rings

Hang on- I think my rear cassette is 25T on the biggest. 39T is the smallest ring on the double-front.

Thanks god for that, hope you enjoy road.cc bye

Took a few rides but yesterday, I decided not to set off for a off road ride due to the forecasted rain,

Crying off from a bit of mud is not the same thing at all.
but hey it's better than sitting on the couch, so well done.

I love mud, I love two wheel slides, I love frying my brain with having to change lines.

When its dry and dusty do you really think I'll be on a road bike? Road bike is for post-work rides or weekends when we are away and/or I need to get out for 2hours max from the door of the hotel or need to go away somewhere.

For instance I'm off to France/Germany this summer- NO trails anywhere onroute, so a road bike is going in the car 😀

legspin - Member
Thanks god for that, hope you enjoy road.cc bye

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[i]but hey it's better than sitting on the couch, so well done.[/i]

Everybody always says this but I really quite enjoy sitting on my couch

And around the country, anyone selling a road bike on the classifieds section of a cycling forum, collectively held up their arms to the gods and gave praise that the worlds most [s]gullible, indecisive, half-wit[/s] discerning perfectionist had focussed his affections on Tarmac. Praise be to the great god Ker-ching

But in a sort of 'for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction' way, around the warranty departments of companies making road bike parts, moods darkened, and there was a great collective wailing and gnashing of teeth….

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I quite like Darkside, a band I really want to see play live this summer.

I also enjoy riding a road bike.

When its dry and dusty do you really think I'll be on a road bike?

hora - Member

I love mud, I love two wheel slides, [b]I love frying my brain with having to change lines[/b].

Ah, you see - here we have it. You're just not a very good MTB'er, so road riding seems the natural choice. Good MTB'ers change lines instinctively, without frying their brains 😉

So when I get a carbon-thing, how much better will it be?

After riding a steel Ciocc single speed at the weekend, my Alu/Carbon Road bike is going to feel very harsh.

Keep the Old Bike and Put some new kit on it.

Oh you don't do that do you Hora?

give yourself a random day off work and you could do there and back, you could even go via glossop then along the main road for a bit and towards holfirth and do the holme moss climb which is a bit of the Tour de france route - you'll be fine on the bike you have to do this, lunch in Huddersfield, jobs a goodun

Duggan - Member

but hey it's better than sitting on the couch, so well done.

Everybody always says this but I really quite enjoy sitting on my couch

60 miles into my second ever century on Saturday with ever-dwindling energy reserves I wished I was sitting on my couch!

Keep the Old Bike and Put some new kit on it.

Oh you don't do that do you Hora?

No no no! The kit is pristine, in fantastic condition and bloody nice- it'd be sacrilege to do that or turn it into a singlespeed.

hora
Cruising round the flatlands of South Manchester on your roadbike is the equivalent of riding your MTB along a canal towpath.You need to try some real hills and descents.

For instance I'm off to France/Germany this summer- NO trails anywhere onroute ...

That seems unlikely.

mogrim probably but then I'd have to veer of course, drive from where I'm staying etc etc. Plus should they sit in the car waiting for me to comeback when I could pedal straight out of the door when everyones in bed? No!

Nick1962 - hence riding over to Hudds, different chainset when I get a carbon etc. So far I've only ridden 33miles round Macclesfield and 27 around Dunhelm Massey/Lymm.

mogrim probably but then I'd have to veer of course, drive from where I'm staying etc etc. Plus should they sit in the car waiting for me to comeback when I could pedal straight out of the door when everyones in bed? No!

I suppose so, but decent road riding is usually in hilly areas, just the same as the off-road stuff...

Take it easy, don't burn yourself out. Build some stamina and then head north into the hills. That's when it gets exciting. 8)

but you still need local knowledge for the trails. I could blindly hit the Surrey Hills on a road bike and have a good ride. Whereas if I was on my mountain bike I wouldn't even scratch the surface on decent trails....

decent road riding is usually in hilly areas

Rubbish, decent road riding is on quiet windy lanes, with nice scenery and preferably with still and sunny weather. Doesn't matter if the road is flat, or lumpy or mountainous.

[i]No no no! The kit is pristine, in fantastic condition and bloody nice- it'd be sacrilege to do that or turn it into a singlespeed. [/i]

Um did you not post last week in one of your daily 'I've ridden a road bike' posts that you wanted to put new forks and groupset on it?

Yes and what was the conclusion? Don't. Ride and contrast. Gary M you need to have a coffee and chill. All cycling is good fun, that is unless you have been riding a singlespeed under leaden grey skies to work and back every day. Then it becomes transport.

Dunno I got bored and what do you mean 'ride and contrast'?

[i]Gary M you need to have a coffee and chill.[/i]

Insightful, but slightly odd answer to a perfectly reasonable question. Are you asking me on a date?

hora - Member
riding a singlespeed under leaden grey skies to work and back every day. Then it becomes transport.

I still find it fun. 🙂

Rubbish, decent road riding is on quiet windy lanes, with nice scenery and preferably with still and sunny weather. Doesn't matter if the road is flat, or lumpy or mountainous.

Nope, it needs hills, flat is boring. You're right about the rest of it though.

IMO of course 🙂

Flat, steep, hills, its all ****ing ace with road bikes 🙂

On a mountain bike flat would be dull.

riding a singlespeed under leaden grey skies to work and back every day. Then it becomes transport.

Hora - I start a couple of miles from greenfield. There are a few routes to manchester. Off-road along the canal which I save for dry periods; this is pretty flat. Secondly the A635 (through Bottom Mossley, Stalybridge and Ashton). My preferred route is A670 (Greenfield, Top Mossley, Ashton, Manchester). The climb to the summit of the A670 between Mossley and Ashton (by the tower on Hearsthead Pike) is not as bad as it looks. I'm consistently riding this in about an hour each way.

To continue to Huddersfield there would be several big hills and another hour on the time I reckon.

To continue to Huddersfield there would be several big hills and another hour on the time I reckon.

I'll save this for when I have a compact chainset-bike..

If Hora is giving up riding his Patriot with Reba forks, does this mean Chase Trails can stop the trail smoothing improvements at Cannock? 🙂

Reba? Nice troll 😆

Smooth? Put some bloody rocks in!