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#1996 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Son did London to Brighton in 4 hours. He's chuffed as it's tricky to go at a decent pace as there are so many other riders...

Swmbo and I did a short 15 miler yesterday - her first outing since bad flu and my first on the bike after it's been serviced.
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#1997 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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A friend has given me a Campag Zonda wheelset for the Holdsworth. Unfortunately the rear wheel has an 8 speed cassette and my bike is set up with Shimano 7 at the moment. The lever is indexed on the frame so it definitely wants a 7 speed cassette.

Anybody know if I can get a Campag 7 cassette to a: fit the wheel and b: match my Shimano indexing...

Hark at me talking about all this TDF winning stuff when I would probably fail to get 10 miles in 40 minutes......sometimes it's good to dream.
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#1998 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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See if this page helps - if not, look elsewhere on the site - it's a very good resource.
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/drivetrain-mixing.shtml
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#1999 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Ed, when we spoke about this at Owston I said I would ask my bike mechanic friend - he's currently away so I've not had an opportunity to follow up - sorry, should have mentioned earlier.
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#2000 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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I have a day off today and headed out for a recce of the forthcoming Tour of Somerset charity ride - I rode the first half, which takes in West Somerset where it's rather lumpy. It was a hard ride but I'm pleased with how I did;

Starts in: Taunton Deane, England, GB
Distance: 61.5 mi
Elevation: + 5740 ft
Max Grade: 13.0 %
VAM: 592 Vm/h
Moving Time: 04:37:03
Calories: 2897
Avg. Watts: 174
Max Speed: 39.7 mph
Avg. Speed: 13.4 mph
Moving Pace: 00:04:29
Max Heartrate: 164 bpm
Min Heartrate: 61 bpm
Avg. Heartrate: 109.6 bpm
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Good riding Mr P, well done Sir.
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#2002 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Another spin through the lanes just now, featuring Llangynhafal and a lady riding a bike uphill around the inside of a left hand bend I was descending. Just missed her, thankfully. Is common sense unfashionable these days ?
Lovely evening, anyway, almost cloudless and just the right temperature.
1 hour 17min @ 139 , some steepish (although short) hills on this route.
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#2003 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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IslandPink wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:05 pm Another spin through the lanes just now, featuring Llangynhafal and a lady riding a bike uphill around the inside of a left hand bend I was descending. Just missed her, thankfully.

Is common sense unfashionable these days ?
She was on the LHS of a LH bend? Thats the right place innit?

BTW, riding a bike uphill is knackering, I try and avoid that all the time :)
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#2004 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Dave the bass wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 9:08 pm She was on the LHS of a LH bend? Thats the right place innit?
BTW, riding a bike uphill is knackering, I try and avoid that all the time :)
Yer gettin yer left and right mixed up again ( D'oh ! )

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#2005 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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IslandPink wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:10 pm
Dave the bass wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 9:08 pm She was on the LHS of a LH bend? Thats the right place innit?
BTW, riding a bike uphill is knackering, I try and avoid that all the time :)
Yer gettin yer left and right mixed up again ( D'oh ! )

Less knackering if you don't use fixed, my boy ha ha :)
It doesn't work unless you specify whether it was your left hand or her left hand....I think...mmmm
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#2006 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Cycling's all about the legs - not the hands !
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#2007 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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IslandPink wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:46 pm Cycling's all about the legs - not the hands !
Not if you're Chris Froom...
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#2008 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Back on the bike today after a month's break... You can see where we got lost a bit about half way round ...
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#2009 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Good effort . I couldn't do that sort of thing after a month's break - not these days.

Talking of hands though, left and right - just been down for my second visit to the new Bodfari 'training facility'.
I wanted to find somewhere to do some very basic bouldering (climbing) training, away from the gaze of other humans.
I had a hunch the old, now dismantled, railway bridge near Pontruffydd Farm would have some good limestone blocks to clamber around on. Proved to be so, see the footpath along the river just east of the farm. This time I took my proper shoes.
Very good training for lifting amplifiers.
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#2010 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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I rode a bike today all the way up to Parliament Square.
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Departed: Jun 22, '19, 10:06AM
Distance: 20.1 mi
Elevation: + 542 / - 647 ft
Max Grade
4.9 %
Avg. Grade
-0.1 %
VAM 208 Vm/h
Ascent time 00:47:36
Descent time 00:47:11
Total Duration: 01:49:38
Moving Time: 01:34:47
Stopped Time: 00:14:51
Max Speed: 23.0 mph
Avg. Speed: 12.7 mph
Pace: 00:05:28
Moving Pace: 00:04:43

Today I met up with Jonnee Starbux (my step son, he's recently got into cycling). He's bought a very nice and sensible hybrid bike by Giant.
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He's also into really good music and has fettled-on to it (I'm so proud of him) a class D amp and speaker combo so he can listen to music whilst commuting across London, I don't know where he gets these ideas from.

The journey back home....
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Departed: Jun 22, '19, 12:07PM
Starts in: London, England, GB
Distance: 20.7 mi
Elevation: + 742 / - 637 ft
Max Grade
8.3 %
Avg. Grade
0.2 %
VAM 264 Vm/h
Ascent time 00:51:27
Descent time 00:49:22
Total Duration: 02:46:24
Moving Time: 01:40:49
Stopped Time: 01:05:35
Max Speed: 26.2 mph
Avg. Speed: 12.3 mph
Pace: 00:08:02
Moving Pace: 00:04:52

... was fueled by a King Tubby dub compilation all the way back home :) Awethumne fun TBH. Ringing bike bells in rub-a-dub-stylee is a giggle.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/li890nqi3uyko ... 7.mp4?dl=0
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