kixsand

@Ron

Nice stuff Ron.

I will try again with a browser not made by Microsoft…

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@KogaLover

@kixsand

Only noticed now, but do you prefer blue cleats? I always use yellow to save my knees (skiing gives them already enough battering and bashing) but I’d be interested in experience whether blue or even red feels better.

Ya – good question.  I used yellow for a long time and then had a pair of blue ones lying about so I th…[Read more]

While on the topic of black shoes…

My new dancing shoes…

Great reading all the reports gentlemen!  Sounds like a solid effort all the way round.

If you will excuse me, I’m off to find some sausage rolls now.

Much less bike traffic on the roads as the temperatures fall.  I must admit to getting some satisfaction from this.

“Wearing long sleeve jerseys and leg warmers signals to us that the fight for peak form is behind us and our rides now have a sense of insouciance about them; it is freeing to embrace the lack of structure to our rides. We ride, once again, simply for the pleasure of riding.”

This sums it up for me – quite nicely I might add.

I’ve really…[Read more]

Oops…that post of mine was supposed to go into the Bikes section of the site. Apologies for the aside and please feel free to delete my post so as to restore the logical flow of responses to Franck’s fantastic article.

#1 is clean…

…few things satisfy like a pristine bike.

@Ben Hunt

Yes. Although I think there’s a bell curve.

If you’re in the left tail – e.g. a mundane ride flagged as a commute, OK to go with the default.

And if it’s in the right tail – e.g. Stage 19 of the 2016 Tour when you gave your bike to your mate and flogged in 6 minutes later – then the default name is fine – Casually Deliberate in…

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@brett

@kixsand

@brett

What the fuck is this? May as well stop the race now, as it seems if you are in yellow then nothing that happens can affect your position.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/07/tour-de-france/froomes-abuse-of-yellow-was-movistars-missed-opportunity_414736

Nonsense. Don’t be so daft ya prick. The correct decision w…

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@brett

What the fuck is this? May as well stop the race now, as it seems if you are in yellow then nothing that happens can affect your position.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/07/tour-de-france/froomes-abuse-of-yellow-was-movistars-missed-opportunity_414736

Nonsense.  Don’t be so daft ya prick.  The correct decision was taken. Let the r…

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@chuckp

glad to see that you’ve taken my post as it was intended – you must not golf that much.

@chuckp

@Bespoke

@chuckp

I think you’re going to take some shit for that golf reference! It’s a blasphemous pursuit around here.

Closest golf gets to a mountain ascent, fanwise.

I know. But I’m not a one-dimensional, cycling-only kind of guy.

Well then, get the fuck out.

@frank

@kixsand

Love it!

There was a big fella on the club ride on Saturday that was a pure marvel – guessing he would go 225lbs or so and he absolutely crushed hills with a cadence usually reserved for track riders and hummingbirds. Looked like he had a 32 on the back and as soon as the roads turned skyward his legs would start to blur and o…

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Love it!

There was a big fella on the club ride on Saturday that was a pure marvel – guessing he would go 225lbs or so and he absolutely crushed hills with a cadence usually reserved for track riders and hummingbirds. Looked like he had a 32 on the back and as soon as the roads turned skyward his legs would start to blur and off he’d go!

I think everyone has a self selected sweet spot for cadence – mine is 93 rpm +/- a couple of spins per minute.

I also think it is a good idea to force yourself to work either side of your sweet spot on a regular basis so that you can adapt to whatever the road may throw at you.  When you turn the pedals slower you’re leaning on leg muscles and…[Read more]

I like to spin but I also like the look of a tidy cassette.

Living in Toronto allows me to get away with a traditional setup on my number one.

#1 has a 53-39 paired with a SRAM 11/26 – an interesting compromise that I don’t think Shimano duplicates.  This bike is 10 speed.

#2 has a 52-36 paired with an 11/28 but I’ve also picked up an…[Read more]