Supersuperleeds
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- Leicester
Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]
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Mickthemove
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- Tatton Park, Rostherne
Am i allowed to say i only brought my Boardman team carbon Ltd Edition due to its prettiness firstly and then some decent reviews and a bit of a discount! i have no doubt i would be just as slow on the Triban3 i thunked about in the first place!
Right, just off to polish my little beauty !
Right, just off to polish my little beauty !
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Yes, a lot of snobbish silly-ness is spouted on many specialist forums. It's very easy to lose sight of what things are about sometimes.
My other passions are climbing, watches and my hifi (or audio system to use today's language) and you should hear some of the nonsense posted on the relevant forums.
I agree that some people see £'s spent on bikes as some sort of passport to instant speed and mega-mileages which is patently not the case.
The marketing people are to blame to an extent - they sell things in terms people can understand eg lightness = more speed = more happiness blah blah blah. Works too! Bit like pixels on cameras as you know - if it's got 16Mpx instead of 5Mpx it must be a better camera! Fact of the matter is that to take a good picture you need the right person using the camera. I have a niece who does not have a lot of money and is a dead keen photographer. She does a lot of portrait and candid work mainly on a little Lumix compact and a battered old DSLR someone gave her. She is really good and last year she got three small commissions which really gave her a boost. This year she has half a dozen jobs booked in and she is chuffed to bits!
boybiker
Guru
I've been trying to get my mileage up for this silly strava challenge so I've taken a longer trip to and from work to boost my mileage. I'm finding some new ways to and from work which is good too as they are on country lanes compared to the busy A road I have been communing on. My average speed has really dropped off because of the increased mileage and hills 
hopefully it will come back soon!
http://app.strava.com/activities/65869299
hopefully it will come back soon!http://app.strava.com/activities/65869299
Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
It's not just me then. I have noticed my speed tailing off too but, like you, I have been doing more miles with more climbing and it has been incredibly warm too so a bit energy sapping.I've been trying to get my mileage up for this silly strava challenge so I've taken a longer trip to and from work to boost my mileage. I'm finding some new ways to and from work which is good too as they are on country lanes compared to the busy A road I have been communing on. My average speed has really dropped off because of the increased mileage and hills
http://app.strava.com/activities/65869299
.........and I just got of these "Oh, oh you have lost your QOM by 5 seconds" emails. Now I am going to have to go and try and get it back at some point
boybiker
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.........and I just got of these "Oh, oh you have lost your QOM by 5 seconds" emails. Now I am going to have to go and try and get it back at some point
I wouldn't mind having a few to loose
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Supersuperleeds
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- Leicester
I've been trying to get my mileage up for this silly strava challenge so I've taken a longer trip to and from work to boost my mileage. I'm finding some new ways to and from work which is good too as they are on country lanes compared to the busy A road I have been communing on. My average speed has really dropped off because of the increased mileage and hills
http://app.strava.com/activities/65869299
It's not just me then. I have noticed my speed tailing off too but, like you, I have been doing more miles with more climbing and it has been incredibly warm too so a bit energy sapping.
.........and I just got of these "Oh, oh you have lost your QOM by 5 seconds" emails. Now I am going to have to go and try and get it back at some point
Me as well, I've commuted just shy of 124 miles these last two days. I only live 5 miles from work, I think I need a new map.
AndyPeace
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- Worcestershire
You guys are quick! Before I even managed to make my comute private, already a couple of kudos 
The KOM on the ride was false, corupt elevation from weather/time created a cat 4 climb next to the local school. Would be a little leathal as a strava segment,being a shared use path running next to a school, nursery, 2 children's parks, a pub and a community centre, so I flagged the segment. Saw my first tandem in the wild today too. I was quite sursrised by the size difference between the riders ( Dad and son, maybe 8/9yrs old) but they were belting along with beaming smiles.
The KOM on the ride was false, corupt elevation from weather/time created a cat 4 climb next to the local school. Would be a little leathal as a strava segment,being a shared use path running next to a school, nursery, 2 children's parks, a pub and a community centre, so I flagged the segment. Saw my first tandem in the wild today too. I was quite sursrised by the size difference between the riders ( Dad and son, maybe 8/9yrs old) but they were belting along with beaming smiles.
MOI
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- Douglas, Isle of Man
Sorry if I have insulted a few people about me calling my Viking Fixi a BSO, well of today she is no longer a BSO, her SPD pedals arrived and she will now be called a bumb number (until her Charge Spoon arrives), only managed a tad over 6 miles today as my backside was still hurting from yesterday so in my great (or not so) wisdom I decide to walk a half marathon, as this is a cycling forum I won't bore you of the 10 mile stop at a local watering hole 
, surffice to say 3 Magners in this hot weather does hinder ones progress 
. Still tomorrows another day and what with being on the late shift I will get out on one of my bikes and do a few miles..
T
, surffice to say 3 Magners in this hot weather does hinder ones progress . Still tomorrows another day and what with being on the late shift I will get out on one of my bikes and do a few miles..T
stevey
Guru
- Location
- sutton coldfield
You wanna tell that to some peeps around here, Majority of cyclists here have full pro race kit top end pro bikes (upwards of 5,000) and still they go no faster than me on my liittle ol raleigh
.But then there are some that are super fast, but most are not.
DaveyM
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- Northumberland
Don't do it
especially the night before...wait are we talking about the same thing here 
I started something a different today since I just finished reading another cycling book 
I thought I'd try to see how hard intervals can be by following one of the plans put in place by some famous coach 
(never heard of him personally but my sport culture is pretty limited TBH) ... Well as I found out, they're not hard as I though, they are bloody painful 
but ... enjoyable in a weird masochistic way.
Basically I did 15m in Z2 followed by 10m in Z3 with by 5 minute rest followed by 3 x 5m in Z4 with 5m rest between intervals. Since pedalling this hard tends to get too fast for dealing with traffic in a safe and responsible manner
, I went for a small hill which I've done some time ago in 12:18 minutes.
Now this is where it gets interesting, 1st Z4 interval I managed to about half way through, 2nd I did it in 7:02 and the last interval was down to 6:20 and PR. To be honest I would have expected the performance to decrease as I got more and more tired after each interval but the opposite has happened which is very interesting to say the least. Second point was that I don't feel exhausted or hungry at all, if anything a bit more energised.
Will see how I feel tomorrow but I'm looking forward to trying some more of these.
Just in case you might be interesting, this is the book, very easy read in plain english, aimed at beginners. Covers bike training, nutrition, indoor training and weights. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1605294063
I thought I'd try to see how hard intervals can be by following one of the plans put in place by some famous coach (never heard of him personally but my sport culture is pretty limited TBH) ... Well as I found out, they're not hard as I though, they are bloody painful but ... enjoyable in a weird masochistic way.Basically I did 15m in Z2 followed by 10m in Z3 with by 5 minute rest followed by 3 x 5m in Z4 with 5m rest between intervals. Since pedalling this hard tends to get too fast for dealing with traffic in a safe and responsible manner
, I went for a small hill which I've done some time ago in 12:18 minutes.Now this is where it gets interesting, 1st Z4 interval I managed to about half way through, 2nd I did it in 7:02 and the last interval was down to 6:20 and PR. To be honest I would have expected the performance to decrease as I got more and more tired after each interval but the opposite has happened which is very interesting to say the least. Second point was that I don't feel exhausted or hungry at all, if anything a bit more energised.
Will see how I feel tomorrow but I'm looking forward to trying some more of these.
Just in case you might be interesting, this is the book, very easy read in plain english, aimed at beginners. Covers bike training, nutrition, indoor training and weights. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1605294063
Mo1959
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- Perthshire,Scotland
Well, I dusted off my old Raleigh tourer a couple of months ago and started getting some healthy exercise riding round a local reservoir. Very popular area with cyclists and I was impressed by them all. Being 65 and recently retired with some time on my hands I have persevered and now feel a lot fitter and can 'push on' a bit more.
Today I got a little trip computer and the result of my big effort: 17 miles at an average of 13.7mph. I weighed my bike and it is 15kg - if I invested in a more suitable road bike at say 10 or 11kg does anyone know what effect that would have on my times?
Cheers Paul
Today I got a little trip computer and the result of my big effort: 17 miles at an average of 13.7mph. I weighed my bike and it is 15kg - if I invested in a more suitable road bike at say 10 or 11kg does anyone know what effect that would have on my times?
Cheers Paul
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