What do you calibrate the Powertap with ?

I used the line (in private) ‘Sorry to tell you, mate but your deodorant isn’t working as well as you hoped.’

In that case it worked fine. your case may be different.

Doesn’t matter if physio, chiropractor or osteo

IMO it does matter.

Chiro = pseudo science.
Osteo similar but less damaging.
Physio 5 years degree + work in NHS hospitals.

I chickened out of surgery for ACL tear & meniscus tear. 2 years on, finally running again and now pleased I waited.

Put the guitars down, boys, sadly it’s all so been done before. Early Killing Joke anyone ?

There was a CTC article about the Hope front hubs cracking many years back.

Thought was that they corroded, and that the rears didn’t because of the general amount of oil floating around.

Suggestion was to give a squirt of teflon lube every so often, which I have done ever since.

I have 2 hubs from that era still in constant use.

The power reading on a Flow isn’t precise within a session

Mine’s 11 years old and I find that. However, the way it fluctuates is reasonably predictable, and hasn’t changed over the years, so if you factor that in it’s not too bad.

But, if you do a ‘coast down test’ at the start of the session on your current trainer, set it to be the same every time, and use speed as proxy for power, you get the same result. You have to do a ‘calibration’ every time you use a Flow, which is just a coast down test where it counts the seconds for you…

I doubt it is accurate enough for a pro

I’d bet that powertaps etc are nothing like as accurate as folk think. There’s a difference between resolution and accuracy that fools people too often. I’ve done 30+ years in Test Equipment and it still amazes me how people believe what they read on a screen without thinking about just how that number was generated.

Physio. They’re the real thing.

We bought one of these 2 weeks ago. The manual says use 6mm. You won’t get 10mm into the connector in the back of the cooker, it’s optimised for 6mm.

Bacuase of the decorative state of the house, I can still touch the cables. Not even warm with everything flat-out.

But, still get a sparky in.

If you live somewhere as bike friendly as Milton Keynes it’s very easy. Or was, until they moved my work to Luton 🙁

I just got some rollers. They are very challenging ! After about 15 mins I got both hands on the bars for about a nano-second. Not had a second go yet. Determined to persist…

Nine Barrows is the classic, IIRC,

Road shoes / pedals are for road racing. You wouldn’t put slick tyres on your car, don’t use road pedals unless you are racing.
Riding your road bike on a sunday isn’t racing. Even with Strava running.

No way. MBA folk have ruined this country. Go and do something useful instead.

MBA = Masters of Bugger All.

This only makes sense if you’re training for cyclo-cross single-speed. Surely not…

and your training objective was ??? Can’t imagine any decent result to this.

My wife’s 1.9 turbo diesel golf has one helluva crisper response than my normally aspirated diesel 3 litre Merc. But then it weighs half what the Merc does. Think there’s more to it than just the turbo, as garage-dweller says…

University -> defence industry + Terrortorials. Works for several guys I know. I’ve been in defence for 30 years, it’s interesting, varied and challenging.

Says the man that has probably not driven a decent non-turbo engine as a comparison – or a fast motorbike for something with instant acceleration at any revs.

I used to have an FZR1000 Yamaha. I find the response of a turbo diesel acceptable. It strikes me as unreasonable to expect a 1.9 Golf to go like an eXup, so I can’t really understand your point.

I’ll drink to that. never met him but enjoyed his posts no end. delighted that there will be more…

As trail rat says. I have loads on our house but not worried. I’ll get flamed for this, but clearly if you were working with the stuff day in day out it was deadly, but undisturbed and stabilised on a house is pretty safe.

in the early 90s some frames just had a cable for a downtube…

52, and still riding the original (and best) hooligan bike, a red GT Zaskar from ’96. Done everything from SDW to PPDS.

our Westie does this. No problems though.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered.

I grind Costco’s Starbuck’s Espresso, much more to my taste than Lavazza, and affordable at the quantities I drink…

I was only moving the washing machine and I got through a pack and a half of elbows.

I’ve moved it quite a way though…

But how long does the rubber last in those push fit joints ? I don’t want to touch this ever again, and I hope to be in this house for at least another 50 years. Once an olive is sealed, it’s in for the long haul, isn’t it ?

*admission. I had to use a push fit under what’s now a floating floor last year. Couldn’t reach to get a spanner on it. I’m still waking up in cold sweats…

who was that undercover agent woman who died recently, saying her only regret was not killing more Nazis ? Top.

Team unpacks into a group…

The checklist is filling:

Cut hands – check
Floor covered in water – check
Hacksaw blade break in inaccessible space (which is why I wasn’t using a pipe-cutter) – check
Pipes ending up too close to clip so thin insulation keeping them in place – check
Bought far too much at B & Q – check

Shows Northampton in its best light…

Wasn’t the original Fireblade problem head-angle related ? Ah, that was the last fad, wasn’t it…

My 95 M-Trax has the rear hub and crud catchers remaining.

Am I missing something Al? Your link recommends 105/125psi for a 100kg rider…

That seems right to me. It’s what I use.

Certainly the bottles I’ve used it in taste of it forever.

And they are useless…

Hmm, largest size is tiny. Bars would still be too low.

Yes, the bars are higher than the saddle! My back says it likes.

4DSL and 1NET near here. Don’t know if it is related, but we got FOTP in our area quite a while ago…

Thanks. Being a larger gentleman, I do like their selection of huge clothing 😉