Or wait till next year for BoostMax™

Big one is designed to be ultra-thin and fast, but n TL-Easy the sealant should do its job. Obviously check you’ve got clearance for a 2.35.

Marathon supreme should be perfect for the job.

As another alternative i’d consider a race king 2.2 protection.

@tentsmuir.
Not been myself recently, but i hear they’ve made a botched job of resurfacing the main track and it’s not nice for cycling at the moment.
FC are aware its no good and intending to bring in finer grade gravel to rectify, but not sure when that work is due to take place.

Old model with child size wheels. No wonder it needs a hefty discount.

Losing it is a bit careless MrB. Better to bottle it and sell on the black market. Bet you could fetch a good price for .5W/kg

Oh good, this thread again 😀

Buy a fan and man up

To be honest, the rapid robs are fairly rapid, but wear very quickly.
I’d leave them on and use them to get an idea of what you’d like to change for the next set.

Not a move, but the rolling windbreak has resigned at Sky:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/domestique-christian-knees-re-signs-with-team-sky-for-two-more-years/
Guess he’s got an almost guaranteed TDF spot next year seeing as Rowe decided snapping his leg in half would be fun.

no claims on anything in 15+ years

Or alternatively, by the law of averages they think you are going to claim EVERYTHING for the next 15 years

Nice bike.
Sadly he’s now restricted to only riding it with dad as none of his mates will want to be seen near a front mech. 😛

Very handy that it fits you – that must be a dad thing, as mine keeps ‘borrowing’ one of my bikes too!

That’s interesting adsh. You’re lighter and can produce more power so on the face of it you should be faster?

Actually, he’s lighter and can produce less power.
As has been discussed on several occasions, for most UK riding outright W trumps W/Kg.

Edit: Beaten to it, thats what I get for opening a bunch of threads in new tabs!

Day 1: 8 x 5 mins tempo, ideally uphill
Day 2: 8 x 5 mins SS/Threshold, uphill
Day 3: 8 x 5 mins 120%, uphill

Hard to judge,Tbh, not that hard to judge at all. All of them give quite obvious physical indicators in terms of breathing, muscular strain, pressure on the pedals etc.
Obviously power is better (or is it if it was calculated based off a 8/20min test indoors?), but listening to your body is a valuable skill.

Tempo 5
SS 6
LT 7
VO2Max 8

Slightly off topic
Surely 8×5 @ 120% has to be a misprint? Lots of riders with flatter power curves will struggle to even do 1×5 at 120%.
I’m sure you already know this, but coggan’s VO2Max zone is 106-120% and is equated to 3-8min efforts, so 8×5 min repeats seems wildly off the mark.

Brakes are overfilled and need a bleed.

Loch Leven Heritage trail sounds like roughly what you are after:
http://www.lochlevenheritagetrail.co.uk/LLHT_map.pdf

It is definitely interesting.
I know i can get a lot more out on a climb on a warm day than i can on the flat on a cold day.
Would be an interesting (but probably not that useful) experiment to see what happened to indoor power with front wheel propped up higher to mimic a climb.

‘only able to talk in short gasps’ sounds a bit beyond SS to me, more like LT.

Filter coffee can **** off but that scone looks good

Even worse, by the look of it, its contaminated too!

Edit:

I tend to be time short so, whether I have an hour of 8 hours spare, if that time i allocated to bike riding then it will all be used.

What do you do for water resupplies. I find that on a 4+hr ride then a cafe stop makes sense as I can get some real food, a caffeine hit and get my bottles filled all in one go.

+1 @nobeer.

If people only raced to win, there’d be a lot of very lonely races on the calendar as only 5 people would turn up.

@gray.
It depends a bit on the tyre and the roller. Some combinations are fine, others not so much.
Hard compound training tyres seem just fine (a lot in common with a dedicated trainer tyre).
Soft compound racing tyres on the other hand can be eaten by some rollers and end up spraying tiny rubber fragments over half the room.
I’ve even heard of a gp4000 generating so much heat it burst the inner tube!
And pro4 endurance used on an elite elastogel roller morph into a shiney hard compound that works fine on the turbo, but you’d never want to use outdoors again.

Anywhere between £2.20 and £10.
If the stop is somewhere around lunchtime and its an easy ride then i’ll have a bit more to eat.
Saturday was £8.90 i think for macaroni cheese, garlic bread and a coffee.

Yeah, maybe i should. Certainly wouldn’t be against trying one at a demo day.
Can’t help getting the feeling that any time i’d be hitting something hard enough to need more than 100mm travel up front, then i probably want something to soak up the hit at the back too.

as the Germans just don’t get trail HTs normally

Not just the Germans, I don’t get them either!

Edinburgh yesterday

Clearly photoshopped, everyone knows the sky is grey and your clever blue filter isn’t fooling anyone! 😀

They should be offering him food not water

Nah, still carrying a bit of early season weight at Paris-Roubaix, need to slim down a bit more for the tour!
Excellent photo though that shows what >6W/kg looks like.

alternatively – if she wants to kill the Hound, knowing she can beat the person who beat him is probably helpful?

Not going to happen.
A) She crossed him off the list after leaving him to die.
B) The Hound needs to kill the Mountain for her.

Disappeared legs work pretty well for some people:

I am a shade under 5 10′ but in all honesty i dont want to lose anymore as i would look too skinny.

I see this posted quite often – is looking skinny actually a bad thing?

Don’t get me wrong, being skinny has quite a number of disadvantages, but what it looks like isn’t really one of them.

I’m just getting over a bug, so don’t want to knock myself back by doing my normal ‘all or nothing’ rides.

If it were me I’d go hard for a couple of weeks,

🙄

just under 4 weeks time

I’m wondering if it’s too late to get any benefit from some longer rides with slow and steady climbs

Almost certainly too late

I like my Spectral with the exception of a couple of minor niggles (top tube is a bit short for pedally bit – but feels right when hanging off the back), and could do with a bit more anti squat.

I can see why a lot of people bought Strives instead, as (imo) the whole trail bike market is borderline not fit for purpose (too heavy and inefficient), and if you’re going to have a heavy inefficient bike you may as well have the extra 20mm travel which in many cases seems to have no drawback over a 140mm bike.

140mm is more than enough for me, and if I was buying again i’d be looking for something shorter travel with a full lockout. To me a trail bike should be light and fast like an XC bike, but with a little more travel and a slightly slacker HA. 11kg, lockable 120mm, 67° HA would be perfect, but not sure anyone is actually making such a thing yet. Probably the new Scott Spark (not RC) is about as close as you can get.

Saw this last night.
Very surprised an athlete with a professional contract isn’t banned from doing that sort of thing. And a bit of a stupid risk to take for such a talented rider.

Hope he can heal up and make a comeback.

I’ve got a Vango ‘self’ inflating pillow.
Find it best if ever so slightly under inflated.
It’s the one ‘luxury’ item in my bike-packing kit as I cant sleep at all if my head is the wrong height.

Bit of a weird one the whole NK situation.

Personally I don’t think you can blame any country for wanting a nuclear deterrent whilst other countries have one.

The question is, are they nutty enough to use one as something other than a deterrent? If the answer to that is deemed to be yes then i’ve also no objection to flattening NK with conventional weapons preemptively.

The the biggest problem I see (and probably why NK hasn’t been flattened already) is that other countries will end up in the crossfire.

I did look into the Tacx but I’ve been put off somewhat by the reports of poor reliability.

Dad came to the same conclusion when looking for a trainer. So many reports of poor reliability from Tacx he blacklisted them regardless of if the trainer had features he wanted.

jimjam – Member

Original Range Rovers were hardly SUV’s, they were proper 4×4’s that just happened to be nice inside.

This on the other hand doesn’t have the ground clearance to qualify as a proper 4×4 and serves no purpose other than inflating its owners ego:

Edit: Go look at the tyres on the next 10 range rovers you see, then come back and tell me how many may have got where the one in your photo did without a helicopter

Just remember if you go for a self inflating mat, then that ‘self’ is you!
I actually find the most important thing for me is having something the right height to use as a pillow.

SUV’s were invented in America where in some situations the extra ground clearance actually makes sense. In the UK however, its generally pretty pointless and inferior to estate cars in almost every way.

I’d even go as far as saying i’d consider banning them. There’s plenty of 4×4’s on the market for people that actually need that sort of thing.

This West coast of Scotland weather news was brought to you by…

I’m about as far east as its possible to get, and that’s also been my interpretation of the ‘summer’.
Overall, its not been too wet, but grey has described most days since the middle of May.

Renault compulsory battery lease is insane, no idea how they sell any like that. Looked at one in the showroom last time i was picking my car up from its MOT, and can’t see why anyone would ever buy one. Similar sized petrol car is much cheaper to buy and factoring in battery lease, cheaper to run too i’d gamble.

Shin pads for sure.

Had some ‘proper’ carbonara in corsica that used wild boar instead of pancetta, it was undoubtedly the best thing ever.

Anticipated lunch stop was closed, and unusually for me, i’d got my feeding a bit wrong and was 95% bonked. So bit of a surprise to the upmarket restaurant when 20 starving cyclists rocked up and pretty much decimated their menu availability by eating everything.

But omg. Right place, right time, amazing.