Nice, what event is it? I've still to fill my calendar for this year but in June I'm doing a sportive 102 miles climbing 2000 meters. Should be a laugh.
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Nice, what event is it? I've still to fill my calendar for this year but in June I'm doing a sportive 102 miles climbing 2000 meters. Should be a laugh.
The race is called "Race 2 Rhodes" which is the first 6 stages of the Race Across South Africa (RASA) which is held concurrently.
Riders start in batches over a 2 week period from a town called Pietermaritzburg and must finish the RASA within 26 days in a town called Wellington, some 2300km away.
The R2R is 500km and riders are given a maximum of 8 days to complete.
Both races are self-supporting and no GPS's are allowed. One navigates with a 1:50 000 map, compass and narratives.
That sounds amazing! Reminds me of a shirt I saw earlier.
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Nothing actually for Christmas but I am fixing up an old mountain bike to take camping. So will treat myself to the parts. I put new gear shifters on last week but the indexing is still not right so I might have to get the alignment of the hanger checked and maybe replace the chain, cassette and jockey wheels or even the whole derailieur.
I wanted to fit friction shifters but they don't seem readily available. That would probably have solved it too. However I am stuck with what I have. I found the bike at the tip so even if I throw $100 at it it will still only be the same as a new crappy bike but I should have better components. I am at work until the 6th of Jan so nothing will happen until then. I will have a couple of days to sort it out before I come back to work, then I will be using it on my camping trip so it better be an easy fix.
Good luck
I don't know if anyone has heard the term or knows what "Everesting" is?
It's climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest (8 848m) in one bike ride. A cyclist who attempts it normally chooses a steepish climb and then goes up and down continuously until he/she has climbed more than 8 848m
Well, I had 2 mates that completed this feat this morning on a hill around the corner from me.
They started last night at 19:15 and after almost 15 hours in the saddle and cycling almost 256km over a period of 19 hours, their total cumulative ascent was 9 852m.
Anyone ever try the Carmichael Training System videos for indoor trainers? I've been using the 4 free ones on Strava to keep me entertained while on the indoor trainer.
Thinking about dropping the $100 for all 16 videos.
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I was going to buy a proper bike repair stand but it seems that my woodworking vice is just about perfect :)
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I love my local trails
Hi everybody.
I'm in your club:)
Can't say that I cycle as much as I want, but still managed to have 4-5 outstanding trips last season
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When I first started riding, I went thru no less than a dozen high end saddles trying to find the right fit.
Nothing more questions one's own manhood than a bleeding, raw to the touch, broken taint. I finally settled on an Adamo saddle, and a bought by the case—dznuts chamois cream.
That stuff works like a champ.
Specialized Fat Boy w/Ridley carbon fiber post, Eaton 35mm stem, Whisky carbon fiber forks, Raceface 800mm l, 35mm od handle bars, Ergon GP5 grips, depending on where I'm riding, I'll either use the flats that came with the bike, or some Crankbothers egg beaters.
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Have anybody used brooks saddle? I put one this season, haven't tried more than few hundred kilometers but I loved them. They are heavy but comfortable
I had to find out the hard way SRAM sometimes manufactures brand specific groupsets. That if you break or have to replace any one part—you'll be stuck with having to get a higher end part. Now I have a super high end front shifter putting in work on an average ho-hum derailleur that only works half the time.
The irony, I'm thinking about replacing the whole groupset to a single crank. It just doesn't get any more painful.
I did, they're nice and all and I like the clip in bag accessory—but a Brooks saddle was one of the fist saddles to chafe my taint. I think of them more like they're angry rapists than comfortable saddles. I ought to revisit the Brooks though. I say that, but then I think of all the hurt and . . . .
I think for the price—and the weight, Fi'zi k's Kurve Bull, as far as universal mountain biking saddles go, is the most bang for your buck, billy bad ass saddle—especially because of its rails—and it also has a clip in bag accessory. On the other hand, the most taint friendly saddle to date that I've found, Adamo's Peak—it takes the taint out of the equation all together—has been my go to downhill saddle.
One more thing, because I'll often ride in lieu of going out to lunch, I put a clock on the stem—because it doesn't take much to lose track of time.
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I rode them for a long time. In the 1970s if you bought a high end road bike it had a Brooks Professional saddle. That with the small rivets, then the Team Professional with the big copper rivets. Beautiful. I road a Brooks Swallow for quite awhile.
Jobst Brandt ( google him) Called them "ass hatchets" and hated them. I finally came to his way of thinking and ride synthetic saddles with the cut away in the center. Much friendlier. The Brooks aren't bad once broken in, but breaking them in is a contest between the saddle and your sit bones, which will give in first. Then, as Jobst says, if you're in the rain and saddle gets wet ....... tragedy. Anyway, that is IME.
I myself cannot think of a reason why 'ass hatchets' is not an apt enough descriptor for an old school Brooks saddle.
Taint-a-nator—taint-be-gone—the taint executioner—the taint despoiler—or the ass betrayer also all work equally well . . .
For me the bleeding taint experience came from riding with cycling shorts over underwear. I had no idea cycling clothes were designed to go commando.
For me, the quality of the saddle is relatively important, but the conditioning of my butt is more so. Learning to keep my sit bones in the right spot made a huge difference in comfort.
And then El Niño came along this year and I couldn't ride for a month and a half. (The apartment I'm in while the house I bought gets renovated has nowhere I can keep a wet or dirty bike, and also nowhere to clean it) -- my butt almost completely forgot how to be comfortable on the saddle.
It's only taken about 120 miles to remind it.
The other taint destroyer for me is those special times when I think I've clipped in, my foot slips off the pedal and the nose of the seat makes a full-body weight crater.
Managed that one today.
I get it—and if I rode road bikes, I absolutely would free ball cycling shorts. I don't though, but most of my mountain bike shorts are made by Pearl Izumi or Fox. They either have padding or they don't—and if they don't, I'll still wear separate chamois underneath. But never underwear first then chamois—that's a recipe for disaster. If I know I'll have a few hours in the day to ride in between meetings and or appointments, I've been known to wear chamois under my work clothes—keeping it casual on purpose.
I did have to recondition my sit bones switching from a traditional seat, to an Adamo [it's a bit wider and the angle is different]—but the transition happened less than a week's time and all was good.
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The worst—besides an on fire bleeding taint—is the transition between flats and egg beaters. I go to put my foot down, then——BAM! Every single time I laugh because it's beyond me, I'd laugh at someone else if they did the same—I'm not the exception, but that doesn't make it better either.
Last year I hadn't clipped in right, my foot came out the pedal side rather than flipping forward, it tore right into my ankle cutting to bone. I carried on not noticing how bad it was at the time. Riding trails with an open wound was not a good idea, by the time I found out the cut was caked in mud and stuck to what was left of my sock. By the time I cleaned it up I was too late and already had an infection. Didn't stop me going back out the next day though. I now have a massive scar down my ankle.
If ever you're going to slip of the pedal, don't come off the side of it, that's my advice LOL
Yeowch!
Yeah, that's an important safety tip alrighty! Reminds me of the time I tripped on barbed wire that'd been buried behind a barn and got a bit of it stuck hard in my leg. It was sheer, dumb luck that I didn't end up with tetanus. I don't clearly recall. My parents may have taken me for a booster shot. I was a young teen at the time, and that's been... A long time.
Since I picked up the cycling habit again last year, my worst injury has been when I failed to clip out and fell over, whacking my knee real good on the macadam in the process. I was honestly more worried about my bike until I remembered that if I'd injured my knee badly enough to be unable to ride that I was, at that moment 4 miles and 500' downhill on a trail with no exits but the end and beginning (and the end was another 4 miles ahead and a few hundred feet up). Luckily, my knee was mostly okay with riding and I completed my 25 mile circuit.
Thankfully I've always managed to unclip
Morning Gents!
I am a Strava addict, I ride lots, I actively seek out hills, I like to belittle road cyclists with my big knobblies, I have a problem!
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I had similar situation this summer, during downhill ride I had pretty nasty fall. And there was no exit of the track, only thru one more mountain pass.
After aprox 2 hours rest I managed to stay, than I was lucky that I injured hip and despite that I can't walk I managed to ride on a bike with tolerable pain.
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Mountain pass which I have had to overcome
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OUCH!
It sure is a good thing that cycling can be easier than walking, sometimes!
Yeap, different muscle, always have a chance to ride or to walk.
Btw tomorrow I will have shave with W&B which we exchanged
Received the 18 x A3 1:50000 topographical maps that I need to use for my race in June.
Going to be spending the next couple of months studying them in conjunction with Google Maps.
Here's an example..
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Collected this Revelate Pika yesterday. Construction is top notch!
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A gift from a friend's husband to me. A British Eagle Touristique from circa 1981.
I've been wanting a classic road bike for a while now. Thanks to some awesome generosity I now have one. can't wait to put some miles on it.
I recently decided I've gotta do better and get some exercise in my life. So, today I went out for a real bike ride on the roads around town (well real for me). It was 15miles and half of it was very uphill, so I feel very good :)
Here's the bike - an old GT and behind is the bike-shaped-object I have after my Trek was stolen:
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Got this at the weekend. Nothing special, an entry level bike but my journey has begun 😁
Geek
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I really love English 3-speeds. Bought my wife this beautiful Pashley Princess this summer. Not as pretty as my vintage Raleigh Superbe. Then again she did marry a slightly less attractive guy.
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