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rich ignore all the h8ters your my hero ! Can you send me personally signed print out of all your KOMs from Stava ?

Thanks your no1. fan ! :)

That it wasn’t

“…the Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we”

but in fact

“…the Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we”

Duh

I thought that was the point of the lyric that it could be read either way. Also as they went around picking up litter there was some kinda eco/socialist/common thing about them.

It only really dawned on me recently that imperial measurements are all about dividing things up physically – in the way that a shopkeeper would have a block of something and cut it up into portions. Doing that in metric makes the numbers go all ugly.

Also alot of them are in base 12 which divides by 2,3,4 and 6.

Where as 10 only divides by 2 and 5.

This may make them easier to work with when doing mental arithmetic.

Or driving games the rally ones are good.

fifa is probably the best value game. As you can just keep playing and trying to get better.

steep learning curve now adays

yeah not really bothered about him bigging up his own products it putting down others really that was the issue.

I thought the problem with Fruit was when SS was starting up he was signing onto singletrack with different names and disparaging competitors products, while bigging up the superstar ones.

Did nt some one track all the usernames to the same IP or something ?

Does anyone remember that or am I remembering it wrong ?

Not really good behaviour.

Use the middle ring and Big ring shifter positions on the shifter.

Lose the small ring click.

I was having problems getting this to shifter correctly and someone said to do this and its worked much better since.

I’ve gone for a 26-39 * 11-34 on my Full suss and 42-28 * 11-32 on my rigid 29er.

Really I just want a 11-32 on my full suss (to lose weight) but I need to get a little tougher before I do that as I’ve found my self using the 34 tooth cassette cog quite a bit.

I’d be annoyed at BikePark wales this is meant to have a bit of DH slant but at Swinley the trails have previously been 2 way and often u do find joggers etc on them.

age categories should be dropped. There should just be ability categories. Just cos people are older doesnt make them slower quite the opposite at sport/open level normally.

why would nt this be in July some time

If you really wanted you could miss out the western arm of the red. The section with seagull etc in is probably the weakest part of the trail.

Ie go straight from tank traps past the gully to the reservoir.

Personally I think you should do it all for fitness !!!

[/quote]If Strava did anything useful they should write an algorithm that takes account sampling rates for different devices. It is strange how a lot of the fastest people (but not all) use smart phones to record their rides. Not saying this is a deliberate ploy to get KOM but it does seem to crop up quite a lot.

I can see this might affect short segments but surely anything over a couple of minutes it should nt make any difference and anyhow depending on the terrain and the time sampled it may hinder rather than help.

You get home and find out that Strava hasn’t recognised any segments. So you create a new one to find out what your time actually was. I’ve done this a few times but I always make the segment private or just delete it. I guess other people just create duplicate segments

This is me, my guess is if it doesnt pick it up for me it might not pick it up for some one else.

This is particularly true if you going fast as the GPX may look alot straighter than someone going slowly.

Surprised quite alot of people here seem to want a reduction in the number of segments.

I like having alot lets you compare yourself to other riders in more detail. Must admit it get silly when segments are very short as the GPS devices wont be accurate enough to measure them correctly.

you can set up the sections where ever you want. if you think from the top to the bottom is the most important section then look at that.

Round my area I have set up alot of off-road sections. I tend to set up a up section and down section, an up and down section and then maybe some up and down extended sections if they seem to run onto other things nicely.

Also I have notice on road climbs/segments I am average to say the least, but off road I am top 1/4 most of the time. Is it just that roadies are fitter?

Fairly unsurprising if your riding a mtb and your a mtber rather than a roady.

Also is it not all irrelevant?? I can say that it may be helpful for seeing if my own personal fitness improves, but you have no way of knowing if the person who set the KOM turned up and just road that section, or if they had done it off the back of a 50 mile ride…

if you go to the KOM page, click on the date of other people ride. Then click back to ride above the map you can see their whole rides so you do know this.

But thats not the point the point is who has done that section quickest however they have managed it.

I have 39/26 x 11-34 on my general FS bike
and
I have 42/28 x 11-32 on my rigid 29er

On mountain mayhem I managed to get right down to 26-34 on a normal ride I would be very unlikely to use the 34 tooth cassette.

I did find with the 42/28 on the general purpose bike I kinda wanted some lower gears for when things got really hard.

I would like to have 40/26 as it would just give a slightly higher top speed and would be the same 14 tooth step as 42/28.

PS all 9 speed

I agree with the comment above depending on your power and the trail ie certain hills it might feel like your always in the wrong ring and that actually what you want a 32/34T middle ring, this leads to u swapping the front shifter much more than you might have previously.

Still going still looking for people managed to get a couple of names from this already :)

Still going still looking for people managed to get a couple of names from this already :)

I’ll lend you a rigid one if you think you can win on that.

Its pretty light and very quick One Scandal, Crest 29er, 1.9 tubeless Bontranger 29-1 tyres, carbon fork, etc.

Mind its not very comfortable after about 1hr off road.

Result ! Come on !

I agree the course was ridiculous last year. I luckily had brought some MudX 1.8 and managed to ride alot of it but it was nt fun.

I agree they never should of suggested they’d attempted to weather proof the course, as short of building a trail centre they would never had done it.

But I also think its unfair to suggest that the event organisers have a “profit-increasing attitude”. In comparison to many events there are reasonable.

I was actually sliding a bit yesterday on sandy stuff on the fireroads. But I was cycling on a rigid with Bontrager 29-1 pumped to about 35 psi in size 1.9″. Basically to get less grippy you have to move to slicks.

So I would say anything more grippy than bontrager 29-1 1.9″ which is pretty much all other MTB tyres.

This smacks of a mayhem blatant lie – the likely scenario is the organisers will pray for sun because there is zero cost attached to that. With the obvious cost-cutting/profit-increasing attitude of last years mayhem I struggle to believe they’ll be outlaying some cost that is potentially not required if the weather is good a week before the event.

I dunno if you’ve done any other outdoors event recently but this totally is nt the case. The cost for MM is very reasonable, so many Triathlons/Tuff Guys type things now adays and the costs are astronomical.

I would have been keen to pay more for MM in the past if I new the course was going to be improved though.

have u ever considered you might secretly be in love with Zlatan Ibrahimovic ?

Have to say its look pretty similar to Eastnor, but its difficult to tell from the video.

Personally I’d probably prefer MM on man made tracks ie something like Bracknell or Cannock.

surely this all averages out. Sometimes a less accurate GPS will actually give u a faster time some times it wont.

Presumably the speed over the 4 seconds is averaged so it really depends on the shape of the trail.

Personally I like as light a bike as possible. Carrying it over stiles, putting it in the boot, hanging it on the wall in the garage, turning it up side down to fix a puncture all much more pleasant with a light bike.

Like others have said kinda depends on what sort of fitness you want to get. But my advice would basically be to push harder at somepoint get really really out of breath and tired.

Whether that involves intervals or just going out full tilt from the begining is up to you. My personal experiences with both running and mtbing is you dont even need to do that much exercise to improve your fitness but you do need to push yourself so it hurts.

What we have probably happened is you had to push your self to begin with. You just had no choice or you couldnt have completed the rides, hence your fitness improved. But once you get to a certain level of fitness you normally have a choice whether to really push or just ride with in your self, so you fitness level may plateau then.

i have bontrager 29-1 1.9 inch tubeless. Very light an quick on the road. obviously some comprises off road.

I sometimes do an 14 mile commute. Its good but I feel tired.

I would want it to be 10 or less. I reckon 7 miles would be about perfect.

To me it just looks like an inset bite. But it does seem to have developed very quickly for a normal bite.

Normally I get biten it swell up massively esp on my calves, then I pick the centre and it looks just like that. Normally take about 24 hours to look like that though.

yeah i like it. shame cant do it on ten speed.

Seeing as everything else is an option now a days i cant see why they didnt continue making them.

My experience. I’ve worked for over 8 years as a computational chemist before that I did a PhD in computational chemistry if I had got at least a 2:1 in my degree I would have been stuck. Obviously there are alot of different variables.

A-levels didnt work reasonable results.
1st year uni didnt work 2:1 / 1 st border line 0% counted though !
2nd year uni worked 8 hours + 6 hours (Sun) at WH Smiths (to do so had to miss tutorials on Tuesday) very low end 2:2 (might even have been a 3rd) 30% to final degree
3rd year uni high end 2:1 60 %
Total mark just scrapped through on a 2:1 just just just.

The extra couple of thousand I managed to earn really would nt have mattered a jot if I had nt of got a 2:1 I would nt have been able to do PhD and I’d have been screwed working in Comp Chem sector with out a phD I now realise.

Admittedly I could have cut down on socialising at uni but frankly my social skills probably needed working on more than my chemistry and definitely more than my work ethic which I have never found to be a problem in working life at all. Even though I didnt get my first job till a month or two before I was 20 and then quit a year later to concentrate on studying in fact my mum was keen I quit it after the massive deterioration in my grades.

ah good idea john will try that ta.

ok cheers will get back in the garage

ta

maybe I just need to lay with it some more the front mech just doesnt seem to move enough ie the distance between the 2 ring seems greater than on a 3 ring set. is this right or should it be the same distance.

dunno I have 9 seed at the back

a standard 3 x 9 mech and a 3 x 9 shifter

should I be able to get that combo to work with a 2 seed front chhainring

or do I need to change front mech