Red bikes are good, BTW. I have six bikes, five of which are either red or partially red.
Just get out and enjoy the cycling.
Red for power.👍
£300 set budget for a new bike - suggestions?
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Red for power.👍
Reynard
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infinityleague
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Unrelated to the topic but was asked to drop the bike in for a health check after 2 weeks by the Halford staff which I did duly on Thursday morning at 8:30 AM. Gone to collect it yesterday evening and they haven’t even looked at it when the entire store is empty and the staff been dwindling their thumbs. I have asked for it to be done by this morning but they can only have a good look and return it by Monday noon….thats the earliest they can do. Extremely disappointed as I had planned to do Basildon - Ipswich - Basildon today (would have finished my first 1000+ kms).
Looks a distant dream now with forecasted rain for the entire next week.
Taking my business to Cycle King, Benfleet.
Looks a distant dream now with forecasted rain for the entire next week.
Taking my business to Cycle King, Benfleet.
cyberknight
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thats nowt !
Once i left a bike at the lbs whilst on holiday for 2 weeks and i came back and they hadnt even looked at it .
CentralCommuter
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1000 kilometres????
AndyRM
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I agree, a pretty weak effort, but he's only starting out.
CentralCommuter
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I have consulted Google maps, I now see it was a typo!
infinityleague
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What I meant was to add to the 830 Kms I done this month already.
Basildon - Ipswich - Basildon would have been my first 1000K on the bike.
CentralCommuter
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Oh right, I see.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
I disagree that the Strava power is "meaningless". Like any data it just requires a bit of critical thinking to process it.
For example, you probably wouldn't consider speed to be meaningless. But it too fails to take into account day to day conditions.
Sure, power the output on an idealised algorithm, rather than a simple ratio. But so is moving speed and elevation gained. These aren't discarded as meaningless. But they can't just be used unquestioningly.
The only data you can truly rely on are total time and cadence. Everything else - distance, speed (moving and overall), altitude gain, vam, power, work done etc. is viewed through a veil of algorithms and approximate fudge. It can still be useful tho. Just requires critical thinking
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infinityleague
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Evening, a lot of chocolate and cheese in Michigan so took the below tests to see where I stand after a full weekend’s binge.
Anything worth of note @Dogtrousers ?
1) Wattbike Atom - 20 minute Test
2) The 30 second test.
3) Aerobic efficiency.
4) Box Hill Climb - how sad is 4W 😢 and it says PR - that’s your best power output. 😁 no idea how and why?
5) Also started on this endurance / sportive training plan called - JOBURG 947, a 13 week training plan. Supposedly increases your strength, threshold and endurance with 11% workload increase week on week. Let’s see what it does to me after 13 weeks when it ends on 14 Jan 2026.
Any inputs appreciated. Thanks in advance.
