When I had the first 2 panels replaced under warranty the guy turned up on his own with a little scaffold tower and replaced them in the afternoon so shouldn’t be too much trouble.

https://www.plotaroute.com/ has OS maps and more

@robbo1234biking sorry a bit late (as always) ‘Ogg GG STW’ 88kg ftp 250ish

+-3% accuracy on most PMs so 240 watt equals somewhere between 232.8 and 247.2 so seeing a 10 watt difference between PMs sounds fairly plausible (without taking into account the +-1% on the Neo too)

I presume you’ve updated the firmware on all the PMs?

AZ on Sunday.
Monday – felt brain dead, headache and lifeless – like flu with out the illness?
Tuesday – felt OK
Wednesday – legs were sore went out did very gentle 1 hour ride and that was enough.
Thursday – slept badly, more sore muscles back stiff
Friday – feel fine today

All rather odd, flu jab gives me no effects so I really wasn’t expecting anything

I rebuilt my old Redline Monocog back up as a drop bar bike and it was horrible – stem need to be so short to be comfortable the bike was incredibly twitchy

My recent build of a singular swift is much better though – but I bought a smaller frame to cope with the change in bars

Managed to bruise 90% of my arm after being hit by a BMW – there was a big gory hole in the other side of it..

Ogg is great at hiding

Yeah – I was struggling to do anything last night kept thinking “this is too slow” going off the front of the group I was with for a few seconds and then going “nope maybe not”! just getting over a cold so was very much at 75% of my normal power -tried to have a pop at the sprint but missed top 5 by .02 I think, gave up after messing up 3rd sprint and ambled through the last 5km.
Annoying as that course would normally have suited me quite well but just didn’t have enough oomph to keep up.

@robbo1234biking cheers for organising again – count me in 86kg 259w

I wasn’t really in the mood for ripping my legs off so after I missed the start group I swore at the screen for a bit then decided to throw in the towel. Cya next week 😄

Depends on how far you want to ride but you can take the NCN 13 into thetford and then pick up the “Thetford cycle loop” to get you into the forest – follow it all the way round and you’ll be near Thorpe at the end

So 4iiii over Stages then?

In the family bike collection we’ve 4iiii on 4 bikes and Stages on 1 and the Stages has stopped working twice in 6 months of use and the 4iiii have been 100% reliable in 18 months use

Yeah both 4iiii PMs I’ve used have been 100% reliable I only ended up with the Stages G3 as it was the only one available for the Cannondale chainset…

Good race all – I managed to knock 7 minutes off my pr up the climb, really shouldn’t have gone for the sprint though 🤢.
Upped my power curve over 42-52 minutes.

Gah turning it off and on again seems to have fixed it for the moment (whipped the battery out)

Looking at my power curve for that one I don’t think I could have done much better

Yep that was a good one, got dropped at the aquaduct and was in noman’s land till DrP caught me about 3k from finish – I was happy to a get a bit of a draft for a few hundred metres!

@robbo1234biking – I’ve not got an invite either ‘Ogg GG STW’

I’m in, 86.5kg FTP 259 from a Zwift ramp test (Strava thinks it’s 236 though…)

@mrhoppy there was an invite – but it’s gone now?

@weeksy 😄 unfortunately it was my s/o and it was my fault they couldn’t get in !

Well I did my first crit city in C last night, I hung on to the front group for first couple of laps, then was doing ok with the second group when I had to answer the bloody door at which point I was doomed to be last place (well 25th out of 27)

I averaged 2.63w/kg I can do more but I found the ‘lumpy bit’ hard to pace

@Poopscoop nice job sounds like you had fun!?

I’ve zwifted with my wahoo kickr+tickr hr strap on an old iPad (air 2? I think) it was fine worked no problem. Also on android phone, PC, Mac and Apple TV…

Beconase and saline nasal irrigation for me – especially post ride to wash all the cack out.

@poopscoop we rode it yesterday, joined Peddars way at Brettenham and followed the obvious route.
Water/food wise without going off route there’s nothing other than Castle Acre shop+chip shop and a BP garage/mcdonalds at Swaffham A47.
This weeks rain had firmed up a lot of the sand so it was fairly fast flowing mixed with big old puddles what isn’t single/double track offroad is really quiet rural roads.
We took 3.5 hours to ride to Ringstead including 30 minutes of stops – but that’s going North so we had a mild tailwind
Saw a few people out on the trail but not enough to be annoying – fit a bell if you don’t have one though there’s quite a few blind corners.

Strava route

@weeksy I’ve got an 2004 Trek 1200 laying around in the shed you can have, 58cm 9 speed tiagra ali frame, carbon wrap fork – missing a couple of bits (seat clamp, qr and rear brake iirc) but was my turbo bike up until 3 years ago and has done nothing since… If you are interested I can send a few photos and check the mice haven’t eaten it :)

For road stuff I use Strava, for off road I’ll either use https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk export as gpx then import into komoot to get all the navigation points or Strava followed by Komoot so I can see how many footpaths Strava has sent me down! (and to see if I’ve got Veloviewer squares…)

Both Strava+Komoot sync to my Wahoo gps which saves another step.

https://www.plotaroute.com/ has some nice features (Google streetview as you plot a route is pretty good)

I use to use bikehike a lot but it doesn’t do off road routing.

Our provisional route https://www.komoot.com/tour/r202795952?ref=atd

We’re riding it Sunday (from Cambridge to Thetford first), it will be very sandy in places finding water may be a struggle there’s a Bp garage as you cross over the a47 at swaffham but not much else on route by the looks of it!

Is there a group ride tonight?
‘Ogg GG STW’ on Zwift if someone wants to invite me 👍

I was questioning wtf I was doing riding that on the warmest day of the year so far!
228w avg for me for the hour which is pretty close to my max – bloody good pace though great work on keeping the group together – now where’s the mop…

Yeah that was good, managed to increase my power curve in the 5 to 35 minute range by a few Watts.
My legs and focus had gone by the time you caught me @stumpy01 !

It was good to make it to the end without blowing up this time – you guys must have been taking it easy :)

Cheers @Robbo1234biking
Clearly 2pm ain’t the most popular time for a ride! :)
35.32km
Power avg 195W max 937W
Calories:670
Earnt myself a slice of cake I reckon.

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So did the original meetup get deleted or have I pressed the wrong button?

@weeksy my invite has vanished, can you re-invite me?

o.smith stw

@Weeksy – just followed you from “O.Smith” feel free to add me in to the ride invites :)

Yeah I’m a bit gutted – had put lots of effort into getting fit enough to do the 200k and was really looking forward to it – but it’s the right thing to do and saves us having to make our own judgment calls.