You'll need a 'king strong long seatpost! Get really wide bars for it as well. I'm 6'7" with a 40" standover (rather than inside leg) and weigh about 17.5 stone. There is a lot of seatpost out of the frame but it is a great bike – mine was the first batch and it hasn't done anything other than make me smile for 3.5 years.
iDave – a coach last week demonstrated – using live case studies – the improvements in fat breakdown ability through the use of proper training zones and lower HR intensity. This was along with other improvements but it was there to aid recovery during the ride, especially after bursts of high intensity – it brought the ability to recover into the higher HR zones. His aim was to improve the ability to use fat as the energy source longer, thus improving performance overall – not weight loss or fat burning per se. It all seemed reasonable.
leaving sunday at the same time as we would leave for flights
Erm………….leave earlier? This isn't Plan A – this is Plan B – the fall back because Plan A, flying, isn't an option. Get TOIL, get overtime, get whatever salesmen get for a couple of hours on a Sunday. It could be done in sensible time by departing earlier.
surely you mean less efficiently? if you burnt it more efficiently you wouldn't use up so much… not that the number of calories per gramme of fat is in any way adjustable.
No. I know what I meant – read the nice like provided by the nice man. You want to burn fat and not glycogen. You can train your body to burn more fat for longer ie closer to your anaerobic threshold. This enables you to sustain your rides for longer at a higher pace and recover from the hills etc at a higher heart rate than if you don't do this lower level training. It is why long base level rides are so important for elite cyclists – it stops them bonking 2/3 of the way round a race.
I'm sure that unless you live in the middle of nowhere, there's a good coffee place near you. Just because Starbucks and Costa are pretty easily spotted it does not mean they're your only options.
Just because you don't like their ubiquity doesn't mean they don't have a good product.
A HRM is pointless IMO for weight-loss, they're useful for training at higher intensities not to make sure you're in a mythical fat-burning zone when walking/bimbling along.
However, if you train in the right zones for long enough, you will enable your body to burn fat more efficiently. This has the double advantage of ensuring you burn more fat and you have more stamina towards the end of your rides. They seem worthy.
Not alone. Had 2 x gear hangers in an envelope not delivered and it was the same – the Royal Mail tracking system was updated at 0645 saying they had attempted a delivery and the card was through my door. At 1030 the posty pushed the card through my door.
Idle, lying, workshy monkeys who don't provide the service they are supposed to.
when you can ride somewhere in near silence without the hassle of constantly fiddling to find the 'right ratio'
I guess some people are just a bit more challenged in life than others. I find changing gear to maintain a comfortable cadence second nature. Tell me – are you baffled by the technology they call 'spd' as well? Do horseless carriages upset you with their magical propulsion?
I don't get why you'd go carbon – a light but stiffer frame. Get a Scandal – compliant enough but light and responsive – a great racing bike (Twinkly Dave seemed to do well enough with one).
Look at the road tax side of things – if our X Trail was a year younger we'd pay £400 a year road tax! It has a good 4wd but isn't that big inside if you want space.
watch sales amongst 'teh kidz' have dropped off in recent years – they do reckon it is down to them using their mobile phones.
Those of us born before mobile phones (and I don't include bliddy iphone users here) can get away without touching them all the time and prefer a watch. A watch is one of the only items of bling acceptable on a man!
Utter bargain and have made my commuter a pleasure – the wheels are great now and the Conti tyres with a wee bit more width than before make for much more comfort and less chance of dinging the rims.
