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Things That Make Winter Riding Almost Worth It...
Well, we sometimes spend too much time dwelling on the downsides of riding in truly "Flandrian" weather... so I thought I'd Start a more Positive thread... What are the Upsides of going out in Miserable cold / wet / otherwise horrible conditions... I'll start with a couple... 1) The pleasurable pain of circulation…
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Fitness / Freshness Tweaks...
One for the Premium guys I guess here, Strava have updated the basis that their "Fitness/Freshness" charting is based on. Previously, it was purely a metric for the power meter (or pseudo powermeter like the Cycleops Powercal belt) user, but after a bit of analysis, it seems that they've managed to crunch out a way of…
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NEW MEMBERS - READ THIS
Just a quick reminder - if you want to join the GS-MyFitnessPal "Club" on Strava, please send me a PM on MyFitnessPal stating the name you're registered on Strava With. THE STRAVA CLUB IS ENTRY ON APPLICATION - APPLY TO ENTER, SEND ME A PM WITH YOUR STRAVA NAME AND I'LL OPEN THE DOOR - IF YOU DON'T CONTACT ME, DON'T BE…
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2013 Targets...
Yep - it's that time of year again - time to start working out where we are, where we're looking to get to in the coming year, and how we're going to achieve it. For me, I know i'm pretty much time constrained, and unlikely to be able to spend much more time on the bike than I have this year, so my emphasis is going to be…
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MFP Cycling Classics Challenge 2013
The MFP Classics Challenge - Ride Logging and Results Thread. Dates for the Diary... One Day / Classics Races ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 02.03.2013 Strade Bianchi 17.03.2013 Milano-Sanremo 24.03.2013 Gent - Wevelgem 31.03.2013 Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres 07.04.2013 Paris - Roubaix 14.04.2013 Amstel Gold Race…
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MFP Cycling Challenges for 2013
Following the relatively positive feedback from last years TdF and Vuelta themed challenges, I thought I'd do the same again, plus expanding a little to include my own favourite major tour, the Giro d'Italia. Basically, they'll be run on a similar basis to last year. Links to the relevant threads are here…
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MFP Grand Tour Cycling Challenge - Discussion/Signup Thread
For those of you who didn't join in with last years challenge, what I propose is that as a team of 9 riders we try and ride between us a distance each day equal to or greater than the distance of that day’s stage in the Grand Tours (The Giro d'Italia, Tour De France and La Vuelta Espana). The person in the team who rides…
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MFP Giro d'Italia Grand Tour Challenge - Results
Results for the First section of the Grand Tour Challenge (Giro d'Italia) are as Follows: first of all the Maglia Rosa overall competition... - Rider #321 - Dahamac nosed ahead in the last weekend with 2 Double Centurys Back to back for a total distance of 1,436.00km - Rider #301 - FatDadSlim and another incredible 4 digit…
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2014 MFP Giro d'Italia Challenge - Rides Only Thread
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the 2014 MyFitnessPal Giro d'Italia Grand Tour Challenge. This thread is solely for entering ride details into. Please keep all questions, discussions or general banter and inter-team trash talking in the discussion thread (…
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2014 MFP Classics Challenge - Entries Thread
Welcome to the The 2014 MFP Classics Challenge - Ride Logging and Results Thread. Dates for the Diary... Slightly expanded calendar this year... 08/03/2014 - Strade Bianchi 09/03/2014 - Roma Maxima 23/03/2014 - Milan Sanremo 30/03/2014 - Gent Wevelghem 06/04/2014 - Ronde Van Vlaanderen 13/04/2014 - Paris Roubaix 20/04/2014…
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2014 MFP Classics Challenge - Discussion
Dates for the Diary... Slightly expanded calendar this year... 08/03/2014 - Strade Bianchi 09/03/2014 - Roma Maxima 23/03/2014 - Milan Sanremo 30/03/2014 - Gent Wevelghem 06/04/2014 - Ronde Van Vlaanderen 13/04/2014 - Paris Roubaix 20/04/2014 - Amstel Gold 23/04/2014 - Fleche Wallonne 27/04/2014 - Liege Bastogne Liege…
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New Forums, New Look for the Group...
Okay folks, get your creative Heads on... Time for a new Icon/Logo for the Group I think. (I've never been 100% on the current one, as I think it may be ripped off from somewhere...) You may also have noticed that there's a new banner. What I'd LIKE to do is run a monthly competition where you can get YOUR cycling photo as…
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You've all seen "Road BIke Party"...
where Martin Ashton does silly things on a Carbon Pinarello Dogma, and Road Bike Party 2, where Martyn Ashton, Danny MacAskill and Chris Akrigg do much the same on a Disc Braked Colnago C59... Well - apparently it's not exactly necessary to have a bike budget of around £10,000 to do one of these shoots... I give you Old…
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2014 MFP LaVuelta Challenge - Results Thread
Results for the Third section of the Grand Tour Challenge (La Vuelta Espana) are as Follows: first of all the Red Jersey overall competition... First - Rider #331 - Veloman21 - with a frankly astounding distance of 1832.3km. And just to put this ride in perspective - Alberto won the race in an overall ride time of…
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Strava Calorie Calculations
One or two people may have noticed that the Calorie consumption figures for a given bike ride may well be different to the figures that are calculated using your Garmin or other Logging devices... I noticed this a while ago, and being the kind of numerically obsessed geek that I am, I decided to look into it further. It is…
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The First Rule of KoM Club....
...is ?? Actually, it's nothing about having a schitziod breakdown and wishing you looked like Brad Pitt. It's actually a nice easy way to find the "secret" challenges that occasionally happen on Strava... Things like the "Sufferlanjdrian National Day", "Shimano Summer Challenge" or the "BBC 6 Music Challenge" Have a look…
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MFP LaVuelta Signup/Discussion Thread
...thread continued from the Original here - http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1334496-2014-mfp-letour-signup-discussion-thread Yes folks once again, its time to start signing up and pinning on the Dossards for the third and final of this years Grand Tour Challenges - La Vuelta Espana. Anyway - time for a few details…
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2014 MFP LaVuelta Challenge - Rides Only Thread
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the 2014 MyFitnessPal LaVuetal Espana Grand Tour Challenge. This thread is solely for entering ride details into. Please keep all questions, discussions or general banter and inter-team trash talking in the discussion thread (…
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MFP World Championships Cycling Challenges - Discussion
And, it's time for yet another Cycling Challenge. This time it's themed around the UCI Worlds Championships. The Challenges fall into 2 categories - Road and Time Trials. Road Race This is basically, much the same as the on-going "Classics Challenge" - i.e. it's a simple distance based challenge. Within the date range of…
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2014 MFP LaVuelta Challenge - Graham Watson Thread
After the success of the Graham Watson Thread for the Giro and LeTour, I guess it would be a shame not to do the same again for La Vuelta. For those of you who don't recognise the name, Graham is pretty much the top dog when it comes to racing cycling photography - if you have spent any time whatsoever looking at bike race…
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Just took Delivery of one of those Apple Watches...
Think it needs setting - time's wrong...
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Describe Your Love Life...
... using only film titles (shamelessly stolen from another forum, but I thought it might be a laugh to try it here...) Suppose I'd better start.. How I'd Like it to be perceived... Raging Bull Man of Steel How It really Is... Hancock Home Alone
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Kit Modifications...
I can't be the only person who gets stuff, then thinks "that'd be even better if they just...." Case in point - around here, we have lots of shared use routes - which cyclists are recommended/obliged to use "an audible warning device" to warn other users of their presence. In short, this generally means some sort of…
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Considering Tubeless Clinchers on my CaadX...
(shamelessly cross-posted from the Cyclocross Group...) Bought a nice CaadX 105 Disc last winter, which has been great, but the stock tyres are Wire-Beaded Sammy Slicks which weigh almost as much as the entire wheel on my road-bike. Good news is they’ll be worn out before too long, so it gives me a chance to do a little…
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Help needed re: Bike Storage
My situation is this... I have a small room between the back door and the kitchen which is pretty much my bike workshop and place to park the bikes that are in "active use" (so, currently the Dolan, CaadX and the Little Red Inbred. To keep 3 bikes in there, pretty much means that one of them has to be hung from a…
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Mapping La Vuelta 2014
I couldn't find a resource anywhere that actually had the Altitude climbed on the Vuelta Route... Plenty of Elevation graphics, plenty of maps, but no actual routes done in mapping software, so that there were the "proper" ascent/descent figures. Well - I enjoyed the ascent bit of the LeTour challenge - mainly while…
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2014 MFP LeTour Signup/Discussion Thread
...thread continued from the Original here - http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1274938-2014-mfp-grand-tour-challenge-signup-discussion-thread Yes folks its that time of the year again - time to start signing up and pinning on the Dossards. LeTour starts on the 5th of July in God's Own County - Yorkshire, barely 10…
