How was your cycle commute?

[Orang Utan]

Do u even aero?

What's that?

 

[pissflaps]

What's that?

the future.

 

[Crispy]

Aero bars on what appears to be a folder

 

[Orang Utan]

Aero bars on what appears to be a folder

?

 

[gentlegreen]

So are all the Strava segments uphill ?

 

[Mrak]

Do u even aero?

Whoa - you've done a lot more work than just replace the drive train!

 

[DownwardDog]

I saw a guy commuting on a Cervelo P3 (with plastic BMX pedals) dressed like he was going to work in a bank.

 

[Orang Utan]

What are the pads and the fishing net for?

 

[Crispy]

?

Google it yourself

 

[Orang Utan]

I have, in still curious about those other attachments though

 

[DownwardDog]

So are all the Strava segments uphill ?

No. You get CR not KoM (or QoM) for flat ones.

 

[gentlegreen]

I suppose in an urban environment, uphill ones are going to be more practical ...

 

[plurker]

No. You get CR not KoM (or QoM) for flat ones.

Voice of experience?

 

[gentlegreen]

No. You get CR not KoM (or QoM) for flat ones.

What's going on here then :- ?

http://www.strava.com/segments/4257943

Set a Goal for this Segment

This segment is ineligible for a segment goal because it has an average downhill grade of less than -0.25%.

 

[gentlegreen]

Strava really hates my phone.
It crashed again so I've moved it to off the SD card and uninstalled yet another app.
Mind you I foolishly answered a cold call from my old electricity supplier yesterday and had to make them hang up to get back control of my phone.
And it really ate my batteries.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

All this talk of Strava on commutes - sounds a lot like Cat 6 racing to me.

 

[Orang Utan]

It seems an utterly pointless activity really.
All you need is a stopwatch

 

[gentlegreen]

I reckon we might have a "Lance Armstrong" candidate on one segment I found I ride through on the way home :-

36.7mi/h - 708W - 1:09

29.5mi/h - 307W - 1:26
29.1mi/h - 316W - 1:27
28.8mi/h - ------- - 1:28
28.5mi/h - 339W - 1:29

http://www.strava.com/segments/3809931

 

[DownwardDog]

I reckon we might have a "Lance Armstrong" candidate on one segment I found I ride through on the way home :-

36.7mi/h - 708W - 1:09

29.5mi/h - 307W - 1:26
29.1mi/h - 316W - 1:27
28.8mi/h - ------- - 1:28
28.5mi/h - 339W - 1:29

http://www.strava.com/segments/3809931

If he weighs 100kg that output would make him a word class track sprinter so he was probably doing it in a car for the lolz.

 

[kropotkin]

I just started a new job in bath this week and am suffering from the new commute. I live in south bristol and have to do the first half on the A4, which really doesn't feel safe - at least it won't be in the winter. I'm knackered today.

Blew my tube on Thursday coming down a very steep hill to the river Avon trail. Swapped tubes and reinflated with my co2 pump from the saddle bag. Over inflated. Blew second tube after 200m. No real pump to use to make a repair with a kit. Walked 4.5 miles home in cycling shoes. Missed bathing the kids and they were asleep when I got in. A bad commute.

 

[gentlegreen]

I just started a new job in bath this week and am suffering from the new commute. I live in south bristol and have to do the first half on the A4, which really doesn't feel safe - at least it won't be in the winter.

Too much further to use the railway path ?

http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/37628563/

That's a challenging Sunday ride for most people.

 

[Dogsauce]

Blew my tube on Thursday coming down a very steep hill to the river Avon trail. Swapped tubes and reinflated with my co2 pump from the saddle bag. Over inflated. Blew second tube after 200m. No real pump to use to make a repair with a kit. Walked 4.5 miles home in cycling shoes. Missed bathing the kids and they were asleep when I got in. A bad commute.

That sounds crappy, hope it's not a discouragement. We all get days like that occasionally, I had a blow out (probably down to overinflation) on a weekend ride about a month ago, I had to clack for four miles along country roads to a bike shop for a new inner tube, on one of the hottest days of the year, with a big swarm of bitey insects in pursuit of me most of the way. I'd got complacent with my good tyres and just had a lightweight puncture kit, no spare tube. No matter what you prepare for you'll get caught out very occasionally.

Having learnt my lesson and having added an inner to my kit for my cycle tour a week later I then broke an axle. Shit happens.

For a long time I kept a spare bike in the shed at work as a contingency in case my tyre went down during the day or I suffered some other issue that I couldn't fix/couldn't be arsed fixing.

 

[gentlegreen]

For a long time I kept a spare bike in the shed at work

 

[a_chap]

For along time I carried a spare tyre, spare inner tubes, puncture repair kit, tyre boot, pump & a CO2 inflator.

 

[gentlegreen]

I was on a group ride a couple of years back and someone turned up - and got 15 miles along the way - with a threadbare 700x28 tyre that popped when someone else fixed an inevitable puncture.
I was amazed when someone produced a folded tyre ...skinny bikes and non-standard size wheels ..

My chunky hybrid tyre must have gone for a hundred miles before I noticed the great gash in it - I noticed it when something sharp poked in and got the inner tube.

Spotted elsewhere :-



http://anerleybc.org/a-thorny-problem-and-winter-woes/

 

[stavros]

A good ride with steady hill near the end which I timetrialed, just for kicks. I was going a bit slower before that in preparation and got overtaken by a couple of MAMILs, the second of whom I think said to me "Keep going" as he passed me, which I thought was a bit patronising, although I didn't say anything. I just kept going at my steady warm-up speed and seemed to keep them pegged at about 10-15 seconds, catching up a bit on the hills before they took a different turning to me. I could've possibly retaken them with a sneer, but as I said I was saving myself a bit.

 

[gentlegreen]

Got out for a 25 mile ride - fairly relaxed trundle down the railway path to Bath, a bit of a sit down and my usual gradually accelerating ride back home.

I harvested a lot of interesting Strava segments and mused on why anyone would think it's OK to cycle the whole length of the path at 30MPH-plus - except perhaps at an ungodly hour. I won't be keeping it on my phone much longer - I far prefer runkeeper - but my back of envelope calculation is that if I lost 5 stone, I could probably increase my speed by 5MPH at the same level of effort.

I was left wanting more - as in getting out into the country proper and tackling some proper hills - but I don't have the heart at the moment.
The new saddle was getting a bit uncomfortable at the front as I got near to home.

 

[kropotkin]

That sounds crappy, hope it's not a discouragement. We all get days like that occasionally, I had a blow out (probably down to overinflation) on a weekend ride about a month ago, I had to clack for four miles along country roads to a bike shop for a new inner tube, on one of the hottest days of the year, with a big swarm of bitey insects in pursuit of me most of the way. I'd got complacent with my good tyres and just had a lightweight puncture kit, no spare tube. No matter what you prepare for you'll get caught out very occasionally.

Having learnt my lesson and having added an inner to my kit for my cycle tour a week later I then broke an axle. Shit happens.

For a long time I kept a spare bike in the shed at work as a contingency in case my tyre went down during the day or I suffered some other issue that I couldn't fix/couldn't be arsed fixing.

Yeah, it hasn't put me off. It has taught me to carry a pump though! I always have a spare tube in my saddle bag luckily..

 

[gentlegreen]

I just created a new Strava segment at one of the hairiest parts of the Bristol to Bath railway path.

http://app.strava.com/segments/5091141

Of course there's no way of knowing what time of day it was that these people shot around a blind bend at 25MPH ...

Doubtless someone will close it down soon ...

 

[Dogsauce]

I'm only 759th / 2033 on that segment, a pathetic 17.9mph. It must have been a slow patch on my ride, I did most of the last third at about 20, had a road bike on my tail most of the way.