How thin it is is only apparent now it’s torn… And it wasn’t ridden through brambles but one was overhanging the trail…

Anyway, the hive mind (and tj) has spoken so I guess I’ll go ahead and do a repair on it and stick to the road.

Thanks all

FWIW, it’s a DHB flashlight jacket.

https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/dhb-flashlight-full-beam-jacket/rp-prod163708?gs=1&sku=sku603699&pgrid=60711843298&ptaid=pla-425607331609

I’ll post what jacket it is once I’ve decided whether to push it any further.

Matt – thanks for that. I can see that pov but it seems to me that something suitable for mtbing should be able to cope with some level of rough use. This is incredibly fragile compared to anything else I’ve had. If it had been labeled as for road and it had happened, I’d have just sucked it up

I make my own from Peruvian popping corn kernals, single sourced virgin olive oil and organic beet cane sugar.

And then sprinkle with splenda

Think we were about £850 a month at the worst though of course some of that was covered with childcare vouchers.

Afterschool care is £8.50 per child per day at our school. Breakfast club is £3.50 pcpd. Childcare vouchers also go against that

Of course it’ll vary from family to family but for us it got much cheaper as they moved to school. Though  there are other things to spend money on

Halson of inverted fork fame…

No idea. And that’s maybe a key thing with zwift – I ride it as rides rather than as structured training ( plus races). I’ve been on it a year and only done one structured session. I suspect that a lot of the market are like me though to be fair a lot of people on it are in training sessions so it could be that you don’t have it set right.

Oh and congratulations on the birth of your daughter 😉 It will get easier and you’ll be out on the road

Chainset – I’ve just a mtb chainset on a road spaced frame and it was never quite right though that was a 2x setup so you may be ok with a 1x and playing around with spacing.

I’ll second spyres. I have them on my road and cx bikes and they’ve been highly reliable and work wel.

Another option for shifting is Campag 10s ergos with SRAM 10s mechs – mtb or road. Again I have this on both my cx and road bikes and it works perfectly plus allows for a clutch mech giving a good 1x setup or just great chain retention on a 2x cx.

Plastikote… One can and about 20 minutes. Good, durable finish too.

Bad luck…

When buying the frames is there any information on warranty or on his website, etc? I guess it’s nice to think you’d get over 8 years from a silly expensive frame or a cheaper replacement but I can see why that’s not the case. Presumably the flex / shock absorbing design of the frame means that fatigue life is always going to be finite.

The off hand treatment is not great but then in reality people buy into the bearded man in a shack image so I’m not sure that less than perfect customer relations is such a surprise.

As suggested I think your best bet it getting it repaired in the UK if that can be done in a cost effective way

I’m pretty heavy to say the least but even if I skinnied down to my absolute lightest ever racing weight from when I was training near enough non stop and properly fit/skinny, I’d still only go from my current 2.8 to 3.5 which isn’t exactly going to set races on fire. Training and increasing my ftp really is the key

Ref CVRcade I think they’ll be looking at a roblox type model where users create the content for people to use – that will have huge savings over zwift’s business model – smart move. Obviously the quality of the worlds will be more variable but I reckon there will be some really good creations. Interesting times – it’s about right for someone to come along and challenge zwift even if not an exact match

I’ve had 2.8s on 25mm rims without issue. Now on 35mm and tbh can’t tell a significant difference in the ride

Lots of factors.

Low chain growth design – maybe

Solid Lockout on the shock – yes / maybe

Flat trails – maybe

Etc

For a PC  it’s the graphics capability that is critical.

https://support.zwift.com/en_us/what-are-the-minimum-device-requirements-for-zwift–S1C6I6OB7

Apple tv is cheaper than that iirc and works well by all accounts

Those sort of wattages I wouldn’t be looking at the tacx flow. Some of the intervals I do currently involve holding 580w for 2 mins and the flow tops out at about 520.

Mine doesn’t. Are you sure you had the updated firmware?

It also lags to the point where short intervals are pointless. By the time it gets up to resistance the interval is over.

It does lag – 2 seconds is my reckoning. No good for proper short intervals (<10s) but fine beyond that IME.

I gave mine away as it was useless. I have a neo now and intervals on that feel similar to on the road.

I am intrgued by this – I got my flow on the recommendation of several people who’d all had them for a while. I’ve been using mine for a year now and my experience just doesn’t seem to match up with yours at all. It really sounds like yours wasn’t working right or didn’t have the updated firmware.

If you have a low ftp the flow would be fine but higher than 300 and look at something else.

311 for me…

I’ve bought a couple of frames at similar price to the OP.

Duty and fees were around £70 – £80 each IIRC though I don’t know what values the seller put on the documents and RM/PF add a fee too. It’s worth noting that I always told them to put the right value on when the sellers asked what value to put on the documentation.

Maybe worth adding too that when one broke and I got a warranty replacement, they stated that on the documents and I had no duty to pay.

Ok thanks, one question – whats meant by Max resistance at 800w?   Because I’m putting out roughly 1100w on sprints, so want to ensure it’ll cope…  and it only goes up to a 6% slope?   So what happens on a Zwift 10% climb?

A 10% climb won’t have any more resistance than a 6% climb basically so you’ll just go slower for the same effort and feel as on a 6% slope. It’s not really a problem but it does mean the steepest climbs aren’t actually harder than shallower ones but then you’ve got gears for that anyway.

The flow will read well over 800w – I’ve been well into the thousands.

Coospo hrm on Amazon for around £20

The elite muin doesn’t do resistance change for hills, I thought.

Pretty sure that all wheel on trainers will have a tension adjuster of some sort or it could never accurately read power.

FWIW I just jump on my Tacx flow most of the time, I check weekly but it seems to stay in calibration pretty well and I rarely actually need to adjust it

EBay oakley fit lenses – I can’t tell the difference between them and my genuine oakley ones EXCEPT  that the eBay ones are thinner

God what a muppet. I really should read the op properly shouldn’t I?

That’s a 3x wheel

The spokes on one side that cross directly will have 2 spoke holes between them at the hub. (For 3x it’s 4, 1x is none).

At the rim it’s always one hole between them.

Spoilers!

It’s fairly straightforward isn’t it? The wife had uncovered police / criminal collusion of some sort  and was murdered for it. Presumably the Brits in the embassy are somehow aware or in on it from the very end of last night’s episode but hasn’t been made clear to what extent yet.

And I’ve had broken face plates.

Seen a few stems go too. Particularly cnc’d ones fatiguing.

Yep. The steerer snapped. They’d swapped the standard for for one from a hybrid iirc as it had more rake and should have been more comfortable…

Shimano m515 pads or equivalent will work

As above the flow is fine with ios. Get a cheap bluetooth hrm from Amazon, etc (search for coospo) and you’re sorted

Singular swift? 120 rather than 140 mind

Explanation of Ferrari’s apparent loss of engine performance:

Here's our extended video on what we've been able to find out about Ferrari's secret power trick, double batteries, FIA sensors and the like https://t.co/qwzldNeUpk@PeterDWindsor

— Craig Scarborough (@ScarbsTech) October 5, 2018

TLDR: Likely some clever way of deploying extra energy within a grey area of the rules and connected to the two battery set up which the FIA has probably clamped down on following more data gathering with extra sensors – as suggested by LH, not cheating but typical F1 practice of playing to the rules and being smart – good work by Ferrari, right process (as set by precendent) by the FIA.

Experts, eh…?

My 09 mondeo was very reliable for the 7 years I had it. Only thing that I had to do other than standard service was the dmf (plus clutch at the same time) though that was fairly expensive.

Given it was soaking, both went off track and none of the contract looked to have intent, I doubt there would be any penalties for that now.

My Garmin 235 is fine for resting hr but crap for active. I’ve done a few rides logging both on the watch and on a bike gps with proper hr chest strap. The watch isn’t close to being accurate. Found similar with other watch hrms but if course a relatively limited sample.

Similar on my bike. I posted a thread about it. Some designs seem to behave that way – presumably highly rising rate towards the end of the travel

Interesting timing. I’ve had a garmin forerunner 235 for a month or two now and, having previously been a long term garmin bike computer user, I’ve remarked how good the software is on the 235 compared to the bike computers. It’s a bit complex to reach some functions (but maybe the limited number of buttons is part of that) but it seems completely consistent and I’ve not had any issues with it.

:(

Absolutely loved his work