@Ron

Nice stuff Ron.

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

VSP PICKS:

1. sagan
2. van avermaet
3. degenkolb
4. vanmarke
5. terpstra

VSP PICKS:

1. Sagan

VSP PICKS:

1. Gaviria
2. viviani
3. kristoff
4. degenkolb
5. kwiatkowski

@KogaLover

Ya – good question. I used yellow for a long time and then had a pair of blue ones lying about so I threw them on and honestly didn’t notice a lot of difference so I’ve stuck with them. I have observed that my pedal stroke is fairly linear up and down without a lot of wandering knee or ankle movement. I expect that I’d be fine with…

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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 noticed…

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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

There most definitely is a certain amount of cool reflected in the posting of EPIC rides with the default name. One of my riding mates completed a 325 km slog on one of the hottest days of the year a few weeks back and there it was on Strava – “Morning Ride”…

“That fucker”, I thought to myself.

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@brett

Oh – I suppose I did miss the point of the conversation. Brett, you have my sincerest apologies.

I suppose that makes me the daft prick – fair enough. On the actual point of the conversation….Froome abusing the Yellow Jersey….I am in full accord with your comments.

Carry on gentlemen. I have some hill repeats to attend to…

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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

Well then, get the fuck out.

@frank

Well I certainly wasn’t going to let the fat bastard drop me…just took a little longer to reel him in and slide past him before the top of the hill. I was however appreciative of the effort and was happy to provide him with a larger than normal draft so that he could get his shit together once over the hill.

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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!

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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…

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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 11/25 that…

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