which bike to the club run

[S-Express]

Last spin before flying out to Majorca for a three-month training camp, is my guess.

 

[T4tomo]

Probably a bit late, but whichever one you feel like riding. I only have a Shimano Claris groupset and I can keep up with the group I normally ride with (we have upwards of 100+ people on our normal Saturday morning club run so we split off into sub-groups). Most of them are running Ultegras or 105s. Our average speed is normally between 14-15mph over a 30 mile, hilly-ish route. So not incredibly fast, but a decent pace.

Groupset does not effect the speed you ride at. It has a very very marginal effect on efficiency of gear changing.

 

[mustang1]

I agree with everyone who says cervelo.

 

[lutonloony]

still keeping us in th dark @jamma

 

[screenman]

I agree with everyone who says cervelo.

Even if you were sitting behind him at 25 mph on wet roads I know no pain no gain and it saves on having a shower when you get home.

 

[jamma]

I have retired it for summer and races only and using the bh for training

 

[vickster]

Why?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

I have retired it for summer and races only and using the bh for training

For the little use it gets do you need a training bike?

 

[mattobrien]

To be fair to @jamma I have now retired my summer bike until the spring. The gritters have been out in force round here and I won't use my summer bike now until probably March at the earliest, I am ideally looking for some periods of heavy rain followed by sun, to wash away all the salt. It has carbon rims so I'd rather not get the braking track too grimy / wear them more than I need to. The winter bikes have discs.

That now just leaves me with my winter bike and my wet weather bit to choose from for the next few months. There are almost too many bikes to choose from, so I have to have different ones for different occasions.

It will be even worse next year when the new stead arrives, I think that the current summer bike will be come my Sunday club ride bike and the new one will be short and fast / chain gang.

I never thought I'd say it, but once the next bike arrived I will have the correct number and won't need anymore (for a while). It would appear that the correct number of bikes for me to own is not N+1, but 7. A sad day indeed, feeling you have enough bikes...

 

[S-Express]

Why?

It's not unusual to do that, to be fair.

 

[biggs682]

My answer would be........

 

[smutchin]

Even if you were sitting behind him at 25 mph on wet roads

Does the BH have mudguards? @jamma hasn't mentioned* that it does, only the number of gears. If the BH does have mudguards then it stands to reason that he should choose that bike for winter group rides.


*not in this thread, anyway, and ICBA to trawl the forum to see if he's mentioned it elsewhere