Thanks Tom and Z1ppy.

Scotroutes, Footflaps. Thanks to you both for the thoughts.

Scotroutes: let’s assume an old 1.2 euros to the pound. 100 euros was 80 pounds. It’s slipping towards 1:1 so 100 euros will be worth 100 pounds. Or, effectively a 20% pay rise. I think. That’s more than paying currency exchange fees twice. One of the options is a Euro account, but does it make sense is the question.

Thank you everyone. Will have a play with these ideas today.

Bump

Oh hello Lee! It’s been a while – hope you are well! And, thanks for the recommendation.

I used to work for / with the guys at RST – they are a good bunch.

I have my own coaching business now. I know “advertising” is frowned upon so email me if you want to know more about it. Brief overview: I am an ex-elite MTB racer, phd in exercise physiology, look after some really good riders – I have two young riders in the top 20 on GC at the Tour of Britain at the moment for example.

Jon

I coach one of the Madison Genesis riders, Alex Peters, and he has always said that the Volare is a decent race bike. The frames are a bit heavier than carbon but ride nicely, and with minimum weight limit the overall bike is the same weight as carbon team bikes. Alex won the Tour of the Reservoir on the steel frame, podiums at Tour series criteriums, and came second on GC at the Ras in Ireland. It’s not all about the bike!*

*they do have a new carbon bike for the Tour of Britain though.

Bertie will go bat shit crazy early in a stage with lots of climbs, bit like today, but not today, in the second / third week. Just watch. For reference look at the 2012 Vuelta, think it was stage 15. Ambushed Rodriguez et al to take the race! It’s a better race without the snooze train.

Thanks everyone!

bigG, I may well have a word with mate Neil.

I have some lightly used saints that I am thinking of selling. If you are interested, drop me an email (in profile).

WD40 and a clean tea towel. Trust me. Magic will happen. Magic.

How about an alternative, rent abroad where it is cheap. Put the savings you get from not renting in the uk into a deposit for a house in the uk later?

I am presently renting two similar properties, one in the UK, one in Spain. Losing the one in the uk would save about 10K a year! Very much considering it as I migrate to Spain for 4-6 months every winter anyway. Might as well just stay here year round.

Thanks Smokey, I have installed wordfence as a first port of call.

allthepies, I will look into your comments today.

Hey loco – thanks for the post. Would you mind commenting on the ride difference please?

Bump for the morning shift

Ska-49 – care to elaborate, please…?

Thinking about the BB height some more – there is a 1.5 inch, or ~38 mm difference in wheel size, halve that and you have a 19 mm difference in BB height. 19 mm doesn’t sound much to me. The height of tyres varies quite a bit and so with a “taller” tyre some of that difference could be accounted for. On top of that, using new or only slightly worn tyres will help to maintain the height, as tread depth is likely 5-10 mm., a worn tyre further lowers the BB height. I normally run 180 mm cranks on my other single speed, but this time I am going to 175 mm as per all my other bikes. I am now doubting how big a problem the lower BB height may be now – as I really can’t recall having many pedal strikes – apart from when I ride in silly gullies – which could be avoided.

Thanks – will give Loco a shout.

Gee – any update on how they are going? Interesting in getting some of these. Thanks!

Rapha pro-teams, or pro-team thermals if it is cold.

Thank you all for the responses, as always, very helpful.

So, WordPress or similar is the easy option, but learning HTML/CSS might be a better long term solution as the final website will have a commercial aspect and google rankings may be important. Also, I like learning new things.

The University where I work is running a free (to me) five day course on HTML/Dreamweaver and this prompted my question. Mainly as a colleague suggested that CSS was more useful. But, it sounds like a bit of both will be useful.

poly, that’s done it! I was trying to be to clever – that’s a nice simple solution. Thanks.

njee20 – are you talking about the “find and replace” function in the toolbar? Is there a formula that would do that?

Scaredypants, they do have a value of “zero” but I want them to behave as if they are “blank”.

Very nice. Tempted by these as Enve rims are so expensive. Be interested to hear more about how they ride.

Poiu – I am not the OP, but I would be really keen to speak to you about this investment business. If you see this, would you mind sending me an email please? I promise not to take up too much of your time, i just have a few questions. Thanks, Jon

StumpyJon – that works great. Seems to have roughly halfed the run time.

Rob Hilton – to turn it back on I need “application.screenupdating = true”?

Lerk – I keep getting an error/debug window, are you sure that is correct as it looks like there is a “P” missing? I have also tried:

Sheet1.Range(“P21:P25”)=Sheet1.Range(“P13:P17”) – and that also returns an error?

Again, thanks everyone for your input.

Nice ideas there – thanks all. I will have a play with those now.

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Edit: I need to work more!

Scaled – thank you!

Trying to drive smoothly will be a nice little challenge and will keep me occupied during the day.

That’s cool – I will confirm everything with them and get to work on my left arm tan/burn lines. Thanks everyone, much appreciated.

b r – thank you. They have offered 160 euros per day, which kinda fits as we charge 100 euros per day as “bike guides” so that rate is pretty similar. But, I don’t get to ride and work on my tan lines.

trail_rat and AlexSimon – thank you.

It will have some reasonable inclines – we are out in Southern Spain at the moment. Usually, I am a riding guide but this group want a car instead in case any of them start to flag and need a lift up a big climb or even all the way home. The rides will be ~140-160 km and 4-5000 m of climbing and these guys (and girls) are not pros, hence the need for a “safety net”.

Hey Jam bo,

I am there to carry clothes, food, bottles and spares and so I will need to be close by *most* of the time. It is a bit like a team car in a race – riders will want to drop off and collect stuff as they ride.

Obree’s book is an interesting read, but in places you need to take it with a pinch of salt, and others are just plain wrong. Obree is a bit of an eccentric, but he is entertaining. Good luck to him in his record attempt.

you mean like this…

http://www.brimbrothers.com/

Power > RPE > HR
Wow, really? I would have thought that training in HR zones with a well calculated LT would be much better than going on perceived exertion (which is what I do all the time as I don’t have a HR monitor)

Yep, RPE is better than HR.

The physiological response above the below the ‘LT’ (this is not technically correct – but that is another discussion) is very different.

Below the ‘LT’ – hold a steady power and the HR is (reasonably) stable.

At and/or above the ‘LT’ – hold a steady power and HR increases as a function of time. Hold a steady HR and power drops as a result.

To ride ‘fast’ you will pace yourself around the LT – so the observations above raise their ugly head.

Someone pacing purely on RPE *tends* to do a better job/go faster than someone pacing *purely* on HR. But of course, there are always exceptions – which tend to come with their experience level and/or the duration of exercise.

Just waiting for the price of a Pedal based Power Meter to become affordable.

I think you will be waiting for a while for one that works / is ANT+ / is affordable.

Well, if I am honest, HR training isn’t as good as other measures of effort (as mentioned earlier in this thread)

Power > RPE > HR

Are they cheaper than a power meter ?

Nope, about 100 times as expensive. But, maybe ~10-20% of the cost of a power meter to use one for a while. And, you can then use the data and provide accurate HR based ‘zones’ as well as getting loads of clever sounding ‘stuff’.

ps. the one in the photo is ‘mine’*.

*by ‘mine’, I mean the University I work at owns it, and I get to play with it.