Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[Learnincurve]

Yeah! First proper ride in over 15 years done. I took the wrong GPS with less data than the other one so I can't tell elevation. But I can tell you that I did 8.79 miles, my top speed was 13.4 mph I did it in 1:37 and my average should have been 6.9 mph but then on my way back I hit the bit of the bike path that was fine 3 years ago but completely overgrown now. I would have made it 10 miles but I set off late and I have the school run, tomorrow I'll set off at 9am and aim for 15 miles. I've found the most fun, if a little longer, way to the tow path itself as it's downhill all the way and a nice quiet single lane road, I'm going to have to find a new way back. Started off wobbly and scared of hills, but I think I've got the hang of this steering malarkey now.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

If any treatment, physical or otherwise, helps with mental health it should be helped with via the NHS. That's easy enough for me to say though, I'm not sure how the NHS would go about managing that

Good luck with the spoke!

I dont want to think about this just now its depressing, the spoke is too wide, as in aero, its flatter but wider if that makes sense and doesn't fit the hole in the hub.

 

[GreigM]

Yeah! First proper ride in over 15 years done. I took the wrong GPS with less data than the other one so I can't tell elevation. But I can tell you that I did 8.79 miles, my top speed was 13.4 mph I did it in 1:37 and my average should have been 6.9 mph but then on my way back I hit the bit of the bike path that was fine 3 years ago but completely overgrown now. I would have made it 10 miles but I set off late and I have the school run, tomorrow I'll set off at 9am and aim for 15 miles. I've found the most fun, if a little longer, way to the tow path itself as it's downhill all the way and a nice quiet single lane road, I'm going to have to find a new way back. Started off wobbly and scared of hills, but I think I've got the hang of this steering malarkey now.

Well done

 

[Stonechat]

I meant in terms of funding on prescription, unlike the rehabilitation of physical aliments and funding for gyms and the like. I like to think I am independent but the true is I probably couldn't cope, I am trying to improve certain mental skills the biggest one is the self harm, which the cycling really does help with but only for so, anyway to much depression there, I am off to see about a spoke

In the old days on the Claud Butler touring bike I did have one or two spokes go, but then it didn't have modern lightweight wheels, so could go a couple of weeks beforereplacing it.
Not had to replace one since I came back to cycling, though had to do some minor truing

 

[Nigelnaturist]

In the old days on the Claud Butler touring bike I did have one or two spokes go, but then it didn't have modern lightweight wheels, so could go a couple of weeks beforereplacing it.
Not had to replace one since I came back to cycling, though had to do some minor truing

The previous XR18's were shocking about 8 or 9 in ten months, maybe I am just too heavy or I am naff at maintenance.

Yeah! First proper ride in over 15 years done. I took the wrong GPS with less data than the other one so I can't tell elevation. But I can tell you that I did 8.79 miles, my top speed was 13.4 mph I did it in 1:37 and my average should have been 6.9 mph but then on my way back I hit the bit of the bike path that was fine 3 years ago but completely overgrown now.

Well done, its 1.49 miles than I got done today.

 

[rogdodge52]

More of a scouting mission today as I went searching for new hills in a new neck of the woods. Found one decent one which I'll try incorporate into my midweek climbs but not much else. Did find a very nice coffee shop tho

http://www.strava.com/activities/148072184

have you tried Froghall to Whiston...Froghall to Ipstones Or the Leek road as you go out of Ashbourne all of which will test you

 

[Trevor_P]

Following yesterdays blow out, I went for a short 9.7 mile blast tonight on a regular route and smashed nearly five minutes off my previous best. So I am a little bit chuffed. It's also over eight minutes faster than a month ago which surprised me a lot. Might even get down to that thirty minute target by September at this rate.

http://www.strava.com/activities/148652922

 

[Deleted member 18052]

Quick spin out to see if the pain in my right knee would come back after my first 30miler.

http://app.strava.com/activities/148715283

I could feel it twinging and wanting to come back so took it steady - Any ideas anyone - Pain is back of the right knee area.

 

[Bangers]

Hey there it's been a while but this was yesterday's ride
http://www.strava.com/activities/148135345

Longest and ride I have done fair bit climbing ( for me ) really pleased even if I was getting a touch grumpy up the final climb

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Quick spin out to see if the pain in my right knee would come back after my first 30miler.

http://app.strava.com/activities/148715283

I could feel it twinging and wanting to come back so took it steady - Any ideas anyone - Pain is back of the right knee area.

I suffered a compression injury many years ago, and when I started two years ago I had a lot of pain, but it disappeared over time, though my right thigh always aches more than my left and it feels as over time that the damage you do during exercise to the micro tissue is actually helping to repair a longer term injury as it is felt in different parts one day lower down the next maybe higher up.

 

[GreigM]

Behind the knee pain is probably the saddle height too high or too far back IIRC

 

[fivepence]

have you tried Froghall to Whiston...Froghall to Ipstones Or the Leek road as you go out of Ashbourne all of which will test you

Rogdodge52 Don't frequent Ashbourne often , generally tend to be slightly north of there when in that direction. Last time I was there was home via Ilam / Stanshope so cant comment on doing the full Leek Road from Ashbourne, only know to Waterhouses or so. Got a couple of days off work next week so might try that one out.

Froghall to Ipstones I am familiar with right up to Thorncliffe via Blakelow Road, that with Ash Bank just beforehand , 2017ft of climbing in 17 miles

 

[puffinbilly]

Got out a couple kf times today - an uneventful 20 loop this morning then a 3 mile ride to see my folks and the heavens opened - well and truly soaked. Then set off tonight to do a quick 17 mile while it was dry and still - ended up with two visits, the first in a really rough part of Newcastle, got it sorted before the light went. I wasn't happy as the tyre doesn't sit in the rim all the way round and however much I try it seems to bulge - sure enough after a very cagey 7 miles another visit, just as I was beginning to congratulate myself on getting home. Having used my spare tube and as I was only a mile from home decided to walk rather than repair puncture at the roadside - cue another downpour.


The tyres are Kenda Concept and I've now had four visits in four weeks - have some Continental Super Sports that are brand new may give them a try.

 

[Mo1959]

Rain is due on here any time now so just did shy of 25 miles to get back before it arrives. Put in a bit of effort since I knew I wasn't going far so at least I feel like I've had a reasonable workout even although I was only out for 90 minutes. No doubt I will be dog walking in the rain.

 

[Learnincurve]

....The tyres are Kenda Concept and I've now had four visits in four weeks - have some Continental Super Sports that are brand new may give them a try.

I've been doing some research because I needed another set of hybrid tyres and some of my Canadian road biking friends were telling me to get (cheap) Schwalbe Lugano or the more expensive GP4000s as neither of them are hybrid I didn't but according to America's hats they can handle well over 4000 miles on roads that make ours look nice and are as close to puncture proof as you are going to get.