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Glad the Mio's still working well Steve :) The MioLink is one of the better optical sensors - mainly because it's not a wristwatch/wristband with a display, so there's no temptation to wear it near your wrist-joint. The optical sensors work better on the bike if they're around 3-4" up from the wrist joint - basically, out…

Lets see how September pans out, after a dreadful August, I need to get my backside in gear and get on with riding more... 1.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1811713406 - 36.46km and 340m of ascent. 2.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1814097936 - 42.31km and 340m of ascent. 3.9 - dnr 4.9 -…

Amen to that - i'm one of the "outliers" here... After a bout of pneumonia which caused damage to my heart, I've had a couple of stents fitted, and i'm on Beta blockers. These mean my HrMax is chemically limited to around 154 (that figure was attained in a medical environment - ergometer ramp test with a ECG machine in…

Lets see how September pans out, after a dreadful August, I need to get my backside in gear and get on with riding more... 1.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1811713406 - 36.46km and 340m of ascent. 2.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1814097936 - 42.31km and 340m of ascent. 3.9 - dnr 4.9 -…

yep I've got a power meter on my road and cyclocross bikes. the Calories calculated by my Garmin 520 via heart rate are within +-3% of the total energy expanded as measured by the power meter. Most studies show that the human body is around 18-26% efficient at converting fuel into muscular effort - call it 22% on average.…

Lets see how September pans out, after a dreadful August, I need to get my backside in gear and get on with riding more... 1.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1811713406 - 36.46km and 340m of ascent. 2.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1814097936 - 42.31km and 340m of ascent. 3.9 - dnr 4.9 -…

Lets see how September pans out, after a dreadful August, I need to get my backside in gear and get on with riding more... 1.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1811713406 - 36.46km and 340m of ascent. 2.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1814097936 - 42.31km and 340m of ascent. 3.9 - dnr 4.9 -…

Lets see how September pans out, after a dreadful August, I need to get my backside in gear and get on with riding more... 1.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1811713406 - 36.46km and 340m of ascent. 2.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1814097936 - 42.31km and 340m of ascent. total 78.77km and 680m of vert.

Lets see how September pans out, after a dreadful August, I need to get my backside in gear and get on with riding more... 1.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1811713406 - 36.46km and 340m of ascent.

August Finished up at this... 4/8 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1749193863 - 36.55km 5/8 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1751247485 - 35.94km 8/8 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1758882552 - 4.58km - punctured/ripped tyre, walked home 11/8 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1764772782 - 35.9km 18/8 -…

Relive of yesterdays ride - https://www.relive.cc/view/1780681492 - a bit of dust and grit under the wheels for a change (making the best of it, before it's a mud-fest like the other 10 months of the year...)

this year's been a bit of a nightmare distance wise... August so far... 4/8 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1749193863 - 36.55km 5/8 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1751247485 - 35.94km 8/8 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1758882552 - 4.58km - punctured/ripped tyre, walked home 11/8 -…

this year's been a bit of a nightmare distance wise... August so far... 4/8 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1749193863 - 36.55km 5/8 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1751247485 - 35.94km 8/8 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1758882552 - 4.58km - punctured/ripped tyre, walked home 11/8 -…

So - I guess that as the OP disappeared the day after posting their question, I wasted my time trawling through my riding diary then... great, always nice when you piss time away for nothing.

in my post, the degree of fitness is immaterial... it's plain old physics. same power, same hill, different weight, different speed. Physics.

ok - time to unleash my data-geek... I've had a quick look around my strava feed for reasonable length climbs local to me, and here's probably the best example I could find... my BP on this particular segment: https://www.strava.com/activities/120805619/segments/2692066058 1min45 seconds at an average of 241w - ridden on…

Good Man. Is there a deadline for signing up? I only ask, as I'd love to do it, but i'm awaiting the OK from the quacks to start up riding "properly" again - as opposed to the odd 30-90 minutes of pootling that I'm doing once or twice a week at the moment. As it's a charity thats close to my heart, if I sign up, I'd never…

I have my mechanic deal with that ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBTVU9JDrA (actually, the carbon bike gets a proper wash down once a month or so if I'm riding reasonably regularly, and the 'cross bike pretty much gets washed down after every ride, because I only seem to ride it now when it's raining or i'm riding it…

dunno why that double posted

that's one seriously old old-school frame with a very fresh and modern update on the "oily bits" and hoops... not to my personal taste, i'm afraid - I like to keep things "in period" more or less, but if the alternative is the frame just rusting away, and one less person riding the bike, then fair play and crack on... THIS…

oh boy, that IS an old frame... just looking at those angles you can tell it's from way back... interesting combination with the modern oily bits and wheels - not really my kind of thing if i'm honest - my restorations tend to be more "period in-keeping" than this one - but if the alternative is a frame rotting away or…

and a final "beauty shot" to round things off...

hmm, doesn't look like any "proper" raleigh I can think of unless it was pretty much early 50's or older - fairly sure that Raleigh at nottingham or Ilkeston weren't using bolt-on seatstays and gas-pipe lugs on anything other than the "sit up and beg" bikes that were typical police issue or the kind of thing that the local…

I do love the Focus Cross bikes - they always seem to be (ahem) really focussed on proper race cyclocross - not entirely surprising when the company was formed by Mike Kluge - 2x amateur world champ and pro world champ in 1992... IF i was younger, skinnier, and had an interest in racing, I'd have been on one of their bikes…

okay... here goes... Retro Roadbike by The Big Yin, on Flickr Dynatech Odyssey by The Big Yin, on Flickr Dynatech 701 by The Big Yin, on Flickr IMG_0001 by The Big Yin, on Flickr Inbred 456 by The Big Yin, on Flickr Dolan Tuono SL by The Big Yin, on Flickr CAADX_0-5.jpg by The Big Yin, on Flickr Raleigh, with a side order…

i've just added a post with a few photo's and got a message that it'll appear once it's been approved... WTF is that all about ?? (i'm guessing it didn't like links to flickr, so I've just embedded the photo's instead - dumb really, why insist that people waste your server space when they can just link to external…

bit far for me to get to just for a bike ride i'm afraid...

Snowed out Again for Milan Sanremo... at least this guy didn't post his ride in the entries thread... https://www.strava.com/activities/1457775841 (yep, last years WInner of the Race, Michal Kwiatkowski – love how it's simply posted as "Morning Ride" - perfect bit of understatement :smiley:

well - a few hardy souls got out for Le Samyn this Tuesday. I wasn't one of them - thoroughly snowed off, and looking like that might be the case for this Saturdays "proper" classic... it's the Strade Bianche folks... Remember, in addition to the polar bear points, it's a proper classic, so there's 3 points for a proper…