Yeah that Rotor Rex 1.1 looks great, what’s the UK price?

David Walsh’s 7 Deadly Sins explains this in more detail

Added to the book reading backlog, thanks.

26er or 29er, as it makes a big difference to gear ratios.

Potentially too small for 26, too big for 29.

A good hit of Xenon gas does it for me.

Yes I think it is dirtyrider.

Monstered myself tonight as my virtual power isn’t quite in line with my where my PowerTap was. Pleasantly destroyed.

Most likely too big

YouTube.

He does not dope in front of his little ones, we never actually see any doping (that I saw anyway as most of the footage was from when it was still “secret”).

He does however perform a blood test via USDA/WADA in front of his family, very different but could be misconstrued the wrong way quite easily.

Yeah the whole UCI angle is indeed fascinating/depressing. However if they can’t even implement the rules they introduced into this season can we expect them to really do anything meaningful about something 5, 10, 15, years ago?

I’m reading The Secret Race, Tyler Hamilton’s book on the era and that has quite a lot of references to Hein Verbruggen/UCI.

Some interesting on bike and in car footage. Nothing really new for those who’ve followed the story closely though.

Still maintains that the time before his cancer was free from dopage, so that includes the World’s in ’93 and his La Flèche Wallonne victory.

Love them.

Have a Trek mtb with a semi integrated and a Ridley road bike with a full ISP.

From an aesthetic view I think they’re great, would avoid if you travel a lot as not too many bike bags are designed for them.

Followed it on Cyclingnews.com text feed. Super freaking happy, brilliant result.

Stunning bike there cheers_drive, OP should pay close attention to that.

So so excited.

MTB season also started today with the prologue of the Cyprus Sunshine Cup.

I use 25mm Schwalbe marathon’s on my CX, excellent winter tryre in my experience.

50 year old whose back hurts on a 26ht on bumpy courses.

I think you are expecting too much from a 29er then. Yes they help, but a FS bike they are most definitely not.

My experience with the Sportful NoRain material, (parent company of Castelli), is that it does not need to be a heavy weight material for the impregnation to work.

My arm and leg warmers have NoRain and are very light weight.

Having said that the published weights of the tights seem in keeping with winter weights.
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/castelli-velocissimo-bib-knicker/
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/castelli-nanoflex-bib-knickers/
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/castelli-sorpasso-bib-knicker/

I’ve run a number of training courses in Trondheim over the last 3 years, so have spent maybe eight weeks there in various hotels.

It’s a nice town conveniently located to the airport and is filled with oil men on business and students. The football club is half decent, Rosenborg, and there is an ok supply of restaurants.

Stunning in the summer, lovely when the snow arrives, slightly depressing in the off season.

The bike shop http://www.e11.no is like a dream for roadies, main dealer for Colnago, Cippolini, AX, lightweight………

Marathon events are even more suited to the advantages that 29ers have, they have loads of high speed rolling on fire/gravel roads, with reduced technical sections.

Digs magazine out of the traditional rack by the toilet.

Text by Matt Page, can we assume that is mtbmatt? I’d hazard a guess yes. You ride for Wiggle?

One Felt six pro, one KHS six fifty 609, and one Felt Nine Team.

All the same weight. Really?

All with PowerTap rear wheels.

It’s not hard to ride a known segment at pretty even pace/ power output, IMO.

Again these results match my experience.

There was a Swedish magazine that re-printed a UK test with power data for the three different wheel sizes done at Cwm rhaeadr.

Summary:
3.3km climb done at 227watts, (+-2)
26 – 13:54
27.5 – 13:41
29 – 13:39

My own testing showed me a 29er was 90 seconds faster per hour than my 26er over the same XC course.

92.71
From 52 of 206 segments.
Maximum possible score: 98.05

Very nice njee20, when you putting a number on it and giving it a real blast?

10 weeks is long time.

Aim to run three times a week if possible, if not twice and one hard bike ride, (nonstop for 40-60 minutes).

One long run, start at your longest run today, say 30 minutes and add 5 minutes per week, 30, 35, 40, drop down to 35, then 40, 45, 50, drop down to 40, then 50, race. Don’t worry about distance! It’s time on your legs that counts.

Run once a week at 5:30/km pace, start at 15 mins and work/down as above.

Run once a week faster, say close to 5:00/km as you can. Warm up well, run for a minute, rest for two, repeat building up to 10 times, then start to reduce to resting time. 10 * 10 off 1 minute is the goal.

Run on grass/soft surface as much as you can. Warm up, warm down gently stretch if needed.

Good luck

Roughly 5-5.5W/kg FTP if you extrapolate using a typical power curve???

Yeah I’d guess so.

Be interesting to see Nino Schurter ride the Tour of Switzerland/Romandie this year with the GreenEdge team, we’ll get a nice comparison with roadie pro’s. However looking at Jean-Christophe Perraud’s, (a TDF pro), excellent but not winning rides on the WC circuit, it’s certainly not all about FTP values in MTB

Numbers from Emil Lindgren for his 2012 season.

Pro Giant XC rider, top 15 in WC races, his 5min all in FTP is roughly 6.5W/kg:

Weight: racing 62-63. Offseason about 65-66.
Lenght:173cm
VO2 max/kg/min: 84 (65,5 kg) 5min all in intervall.
VO2 max/min: 5,5
Average Wattage 5min all in: 420
Anaerobic threshold: about 180bpm

I’ve both a 4*4 and a normal front wheel drive car, both have winter tyres on during the darker months of the year.

The advantage of the 4*4 is that it is capable of climbing the very steep hill to my house, whilst the 2wd can’t, other than that both are fine for driving in the snow.

However I’d take the 4*4 everyday if it came down to feeling more secure.

Mines free as I’ve got my own well, however I spend around £200 on filters/chemicals a year on it.

And if the power goes then I’ve no water…

If you’re in any sort of form, ( which you are if you rode 100km last weekend), then you should be fine doing intervals tonight and a short spin tomorrow for a race on Saturday.

10 * 1 minute off 1 minute. Sufferfest Revolver style, but reduce the amount of intervals a little.

The Swedish Chef, out of curiosity, what was the rationale for “Progressively Grey”? Was it as a bridge towards Grey or other LT work/ bridge to VO2 Max stuff?

It was a bridge to the more VO2 Max stuff I’m moving towards now. Things like 5*4 off 2 working on low cadance strength.

Telly is HDMI so what do I do?

You also need to know what output format your laptop has, most likely either HDMI or the classic RGB, (normally blue in colour with three lines of female connectors, the top and bottom lines being longer than the middle).

Buy a suitable cable, (either HDMI to HDMI or RGB to HDMI), and plug the two in, output your laptop screen to the telly, (normally a short cut key like FN and F8), and away you go via the steephill site or the like.

The classics are not owned by the UCI so I doubt they’ll be on their YouTube channel.

Getting your laptop connected is the only sure fire way of getting good coverage.

Ordered a Campy 11speed groupset from them a few weeks ago, they were able to upgrade a few things and remove an item, as requested and invoice me correctly. The package was sent out quickly and arrived in Swedenland promptly.

Overall as it should be, recommended.

Its more to do with the graph scale, the target power output is 133 on the intervals and 107 on the rests, as TrainerRoad uses one scale and places your heart rate on it, then naturally your HR graph will be above the power as you’re working at around 145 BPM.

Watts/kg seems low, but only you can know if you’re working hard enough.

You do know you can also export TCX files with all the power info contained directly from the trainerroad app or from the web site when you view a workout…?

No I didn’t although I never needed to before my PowerTap broke.

Yes I find staring at the head unit easier than the screen, despite streaming various CX/XC races, odd, but there you go.

Do you need to tick any boxes or activate anything new since the installation of the update to get power recorded by a Garmin head unit?

TrainerRoad Software: Devices -> Enable TrainerRelay
Garmin: Settings -> Bike -> then add an ANT+ power meter

Well that was interesting.

Tonight, due to my PowerTap failing, I set up my Garmin cadence/speed sensor and used the virtual power functionality in TrainerRoad.

As an experiment to get a good baseline I repeated a session that I’ve done a couple of times before to see how virtual power matched up against “real” power measurement.

I’m using the Elite Arion rollers with resistance.

I’ve been using the middle resistance level, (1) for all my sessions, so kept that consistent. Having done a little Google research it seemed that for my rollers and weight, (73kg), I needed to increase the wheel measurement on my Garmin from 1025mm to 1416mm , although why this needs to be done on the head unit when TrainerRoad reads directly from the sensor I’m not sure.

Anyway having done my session I can conclude that its pretty close, I guess its over estimating by 5%, which is pretty damn good.

Today’s session with virtual power:
http://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/rides/734226-Progressively-Gray

Same session with PowerTap:
http://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/rides/561172-Progressively-Gray

One thing I will say is that the new feature to transmit the data back to the head unit, (Garmin 500 in my case), is excellent, this way I get all my power data recorded and can then analysis it as before.

Thumbs up 😆

Great that is thread is still alive.

My PowerTap has broken so I’ll be using virtual power tonight so I’ll be interested to see how it compares.

I ride a 58 Ridley road bike and a 56 cross bike. I very much like the look of the x-fire on shop4cross, which is a 56 and would be perfect for me @ 6,2″

Didn’t Adam Craig use a dropper post in the German round of the WC last year? And he’s one the more technically superior riders out there.