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well - small setback - having issues with a pain in my ribs, haven't been able to ride for past week, so I've dropped behind on 2016's figures... still way in front of 2015, unsurprisingly, as I was sidelined with Pneumonia and the complications thereafter until around March, and WAY,WAY behind my last "proper" year of…

same as the distance goal - to beat 2016 figures, so - over 8580km distance and 81.4km of elevation. Think there MAY have been an elevation glitch in january 2016 where I did a "everest" one day in 2 laps of watopia so I'll not be too bent out of shape if I come up anything up to 8km short, but i'm still shooting for it.

Another wholehearted :+1 to the CycLeagues challenges - though I guess I probably would say that, seeing as I need CycLeagues to underpin MY big summer challenges based around the three "Grand Tours"... If you join up to CycLeagues for the summer challenge, you'll also be able to keep an eye on what's happening in our Giro…

looks like its one of these... https://www.r-m.de/en-gb/e-cargo/load/

a better view of Bertha... Visiting Tom Simpson.

I've got the Wahoo "rpm" fitted on my old classic steel bike, works well. even managed to hide it, stuck to the back of the "spider" on the old Campag Victory crankset, and it still works fine. the two other regular ride bikes have powermeters, which basically throw out cadence as a "by product" of the power readings, so I…

yeah, it's a bit of a 'gotcha' if you're flying at it blind or at full gas. There's actually quite a few bits that are quite technical on a cross bike with 32mm regulation width tyres, especially when I'm a good 45kg or more above racing weight ;)

It is also possible (but a bit more of a PITA) to actually use the VirbEdit with a normal GoPro (or, as in my case, a cheap-*kitten* clone like the SJCam SJ4000 - about £50 from the bay of fleas) - and with the data from my Garmin 520 headunit and the powermeter etc, you can get something reasonably functional. Problem…

yeah - pretty sure that's why the whole MEF and fatburn data was provided only as a result, not as raw data and the result - though in fairness, that part of the test results comes from wearing the horrible respiration vapour analysis mask and being hooked up to a fancy gizmo that presumably split out the ketones in your…

I think that if you don't have a NewLeaf profile loaded that's very probably the case - however, with my old Garmin 800 head unit, and with a power meter attached at the time, the figures in this data from above certainly show that with a Newleaf Profile, then the Garmin takes that over the powermeter figure for its…

yeah, we try ;)

if anyone fancies a look at the spreadsheet, complete with the XML file it writes, its on Google Sheets here. It's read-only, but it's nothing special, formulae wise, so if anyone fancies a crack at rolling their own version, it could be a starting point... Limitations: there are three "assessments", Treadmill, Bike, and…

actually, i've just looked up my notes on the above spreadsheet, and it's one I was working with my then trainer to "reverse engineer" some of the non-propriatory newleaf stuff so I could re-adjust the "power" figures without having to get re-profiled with the breathing mask on - okay it wouldn't have been as accurate in…

Okay, think I've found the last Data and Spreadsheet I got from my final Lewleaf test... Basically, there's a "stream" of data that's pretty much once a second reading of power output and heart rate. Each of these readings is allocated into a "zone" - the zones being Zone 1 - HR 30-39, Z2 - HR 40-49 and so on, right…

To be honest, without a power meter, then the New Leaf profiled Garmin figures are the best bet. WITH a power meter, and without the New Leaf Profiling, then to be honest, my Garmin 520 pretty much matches the kJoules expended (i.e. the "power generated" figure direct from the powermeter) to it's kCals figure... FOR ME -…

thanks - i think it might have been a bit of a tough read for the OP, they seem to have disappeared after making their initial post!

Here you go>>> bit long-winded, but read through it and you'll understand the way Strava works a bit better... (it's a copy/paste from ages ago when I wrote it!) Hold on Tight, Here Comes the Science Bit... One or two people may have noticed that the Calorie consumption figures for a given bike ride may well be different…

I've got a solution, but some people will not like it... it sort of involves riding without a helmet, much as I did for the first 25 years or so of my riding career (okay, occasionally in competition i was forced to wear something)... and, you know what, even though I fell off occasionally, I managed to avoid becoming a…

Strava for the "social platform" and for all the CycLeagues challenges that @Jakess1971 and I run. Garmin head unit for the recording - 520 at the moment, I bought 2 weeks before the 820 came out and slightly rue my hastiness, but not enough to go spend more money on the 820... 4iiii Precision for the Power recording on…

can't believe this threads been on the go since 2011, I've posted in here half a dozen times, and still never introduced myself... Well, sod it, it's too late now - if you don't already know me from hanging around on here :lol:

I know the older ones were definitely from a car, smart car convertible, but I think they got this rig sometime last summer... I must admit, for the hilly rides, shooting from a car did end up with a bit of a slow frame rate at the speed that I climb... Hopefully if they go up at say 12kph and double up frame rate, then…

ach, needs and wants... it's all splitting hairs, isn't it... considering the bikes, half bikes and bits i've got in the loft, there's no way I can criticise....

yeah, I think you've got a problem ;) (unless of course, you've at least 5 bikes as well, and a rack of computers/wall of big screens and you're hosting Zwift Parties ;) )

I tried it on saturday I think, and got "The Banker" - now, I realise that everybody hates me, so it's probably not far from the truth, but I still think it was a bit unpleasant. Unless of course it was just a Typo...

Well - As @ntnunk says, you're MHR for cycling will likely be between 5 and 10 beats lower than for running - that's just a given. However, just to dig a little deeper re: the trainer Just a short geeky calculation... Hold on, here comes the maths bit... assuming a compact chainset and standard block, 50x11 combination top…

yeah - I'm REALLY noticing that, now instead of being just slow, i'm very slow, and my bloods been thinned to the point of looking like dilute vimto! anything under 10°C and I'm shivering like a shiteing dog...

I must admit, I love my "belgian" wooly hat, but it's just a shade too thick to fit comfortably under either of my helmets now (I was fine under my Specialized Propero II, but that was damaged a month or so ago when I had to take evasive action to save running over a 6 stone 4'7" geriatric dog walker who jumped out in…

it'll work fine with a 80's standard bike - buy a current era shimano 105 crankset (the 5800 series) with a matching 4iiii crank and the standard screw thread shimano BB cups will "just work" no problem whatsoever.

well - here we're very much into needs vs wants, aren't we... I'm realistic enough to know that these days i'm not fit enough, strong enough, light enough and durable enough to NEED any bike sufficiently evolved to be in any way different to the kind of bike I was riding back when I WAS racing, and fit, strong, light and…

well - it looks lovely out there... problem is, my backyard weather station has just registered a gust of 67mph, over sustained winds of 35-40mph. I see Zwift in my near future...