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#1486 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Another early start for a shorter, flatter run out today. I pushed a bit harder...

Departed: Jun 17, '18, 07:26AM
Starts in: Taunton Deane, England, GB
Distance: 20.5 mi
Elevation: + 825 / - 839 ft
Max Grade: 7.8 %
VAM: 363 Vm/h
Moving Time: 01:15:14
Calories: 851
Avg. Watts: 189
Max Speed: 30.6 mph
Avg. Speed: 16.3 mph
Moving Pace: 00:03:41
Max Heartrate: 142 bpm
Min Heartrate: 63 bpm
Avg. Heartrate: 116.0 bpm
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#1487 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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<hands Audio-Talk Cycling team 'Gonzalez' badge to our-RayP>

I'm not riding today, my legs and lungs have done enough this weekend. I shall spend my day learning the intricacies of slide cutaways on a Mk1 Amal Concentric.
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#1488 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Dave the bass wrote: Sun Jun 17, 2018 9:27 am <hands Audio-Talk Cycling team 'Gonzalez' badge to our-RayP>

I'm not riding today, my legs and lungs have done enough this weekend. I shall spend my day learning the intricacies of slide cutaways on a Mk1 Amal Concentric.
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#1489 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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George Clooney’s yer man when it comes to Amals, I believe.
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#1490 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Snork !

Meanwhile, Michael Broadwith got the End-to-end record. 43:25:13 . Turned into an epic with the heavy rain in Scotland, then his neck giving out, he had to ride the last few hours including some big hills on the coast road ( at night) with his head resting on the tri-bars. Average speed for that is 19.3mph !!
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#1491 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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IslandPink wrote: Sun Jun 17, 2018 12:06 pm Average speed for that is 19.3mph !!
Yep, everything is relative; when I was out this morning I was feeling good pushing it along on a couple of mile stretch that only just qualifies as downhill (with my cycle computer showing a speed of more than 22mph) when a couple of guys who were obviously time trial training, riding 'full works' TT bikes, went by as if I were standing still. I would have passed on the 'Gonzalez' badge but...
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#1492 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Just noticed that this thread has reached 100 pages.
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#1493 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Let's celebrate with some footage of the 1953 Tour of Britain.
I haven't watched all of this yet, but the riders struggling up Holme Moss out of the saddle on eg. 46x23 tickled me !
Nice footage of Scarborough too.

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#1494 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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56mins at 134 bpm average yesterday. Not great but the pulse was more sensible than last week.
I should get in another 2 rides this week ( and some walking ) while I'm off. Weather couldn't be better :D
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#1495 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Blummen luvverly out there innits.

I did a nice London Loopy pleasure ride yesterday.
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Departed: Jun 23, '18, 11:07AM
Starts in: Dartford, England, GB
Distance: 41.3 mi
Elevation: + 2270 / - 2281 ft
Max Grade
15.4 %
Avg. Grade
-0.2 %
VAM 413 Vm/h
Ascent time 01:40:31
Descent time 01:28:53
Total Duration: 04:08:16
Moving Time: 03:09:24
Stopped Time: 00:58:52
Max Speed: 22.2 mph
Avg. Speed: 13.1 mph
Pace: 00:06:01
Moving Pace: 00:04:35

Scobswell likes this bit of genuine Brutalist Concrete, its a viewing platform that has a good view across the Thames to Barking Creek barrier, to the right is the area where early Handley Page aircraft were built.
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Crossed the Thames at Woolwich then back south using Tower Bridge, busy as always but its great to cycle over...
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A new section Thames Path cycleway has opened up finally, whahey...
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...which takes you right past a bit of almost floating music history.
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That ship was one of the 'Fish n Chip' boats that lived Liverpool for years, the Beatles gigged on it a long with a few of the other Mersey Beat acts apparently. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... sh-7589688
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#1496 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Went out yesterday . Still blooming luvverly although on the upper limit of temps for comfort.
I did 1:13 with 140bpm average. Still a bit of a struggle , but mustn't grumble. More later in the week , but tomorrow I might go for a walk somewhere , maybe with a camera.

Today is scorchio already.
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#1497 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Addendum to Saturday's London Loopy.

I forgot the all-important sarnie pics...
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Cheese n Marmite says hello to the O2 arena...
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IslandPink wrote: Tue Jun 26, 2018 1:47 pm Today is scorchio already.
Still proper scorchio innits.

Just did a local loopy, not bad.
Departed: Jun 27, '18, 04:50PM
Distance: 13.8 mi
Elevation: + 639 / - 640 ft
Max Grade
8.9 %
Avg. Grade
0.2 %
VAM 385 Vm/h
Ascent time 00:30:23
Descent time 00:24:56
Total Duration: 00:58:08
Moving Time: 00:55:19
Stopped Time: 00:02:49
Max Speed: 29.1 mph
Avg. Speed: 15.0 mph
Pace: 00:04:12
Moving Pace: 00:04:00
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#1498 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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I'll let you off the Cheese & marmite. Could be worse.
Talk about scorchio, I did a walk today around Llyn Crafnant and Llyn Geirionydd ( near Llanwrst )
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=27 ... ant,+Conwy+[Lake/Loch]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf
.. which almost saw me off - the heat, man, the heat !!
I could barely put one leg in front of the other, on the last half mile back to the car. Sorely under-estimate the amount of drink I needed. Been quaffing loads since I got back.
The roads are melting in various places. I drove through Llangernyw on the way back and there was this weird roaring noise as the tyres stuck to the road then peeled off. The main road over the moors from Denbigh to the A5 has been temporarily closed.

( ps. not sure that link is all there. Just put 'Llyn Crafnant' into Streetmap.co.uk )
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#1499 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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I'm reading a book,at present, called The cyclist who went out in the cold. It is a thunderingly good read. I'm about half way through it. I will never moan ever again about anything that ever happens to me, adversely, while cycling full stop. The author has a great sense of humour that never seemed to desert him, a wonderful way of telling a great story with bucket loads of important and mundane history and where he's been, that I've been, I agree, he is exactly right. Well, I would wouldn't I. But I've never felt a fraction of the potential and actual hell, misery and joy that he is surviving. I could come close to it on the Czechoslovak/West German border once... but I was in a car, not a small wheeled shopping bike from the GDR, with two years!!!! and it was only scary for me.

A MUST read.
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#1500 Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

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Written by Tim Moore
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