The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

[JohnG]

Hi RayP
I am feeling more balanced in mental energy.
I assume due to eating foods that have a different way of releasing energy as they are processed in the body.
On a HiFi note, I dropped the second half of the 845 monoblock housing into the powdercoaters last week, and informed the designer/builder of it to get ready for the last leg of this long haul build.

[andrew Ivimey]

I got out the old Helyet (10 gears! Simplex, Stronglight, Mavic, Mafac etc etc - Eroica like) for a spin on Tuesday once the chores were over at home. 10 quick miles of steel joy but oh my, its like an old track bike and I am not the boy I once was. It felt like I was riding on the handlebars. Modern geometry is so much better; the Helyet also did my back in. I've gone off Eroica.

More chores later but today I cycled to Sandy and back along Highway 51; on the ally Boardman; twas a delight! 18 miles - No back pain at all just that worrying right knee; build up slowly! But I'm afraid I am off on my travels again next week so no opps for biking.

Then I should be back for a while and can start again without going to jail but also not collecting £200 either. Is it me or has the price of nearly everything I need got more expensive!

[IslandPink]

On a HiFi note, I dropped the second half of the 845 monoblock housing into the powdercoaters last week,

Sounds like good exercise !

[Dave the bass]

Scobswell went out with a new mate today, he's now 'besties' with Freddie Falcon.


Remember that work mate I took out for a little ride a few weeks back? Well, he reckoned he was up for another ride this weekend after he's borrowed a bike from his mate that he says is much more comfortable for him, its a Falcon off the peg SS'er. I suggested aiming for Parliament Square cos both of us are Parliament/George Clinton fans, arf.

He did great, we rode this...


...and made it with ease...


Good fun ride out.
Departed: Jul 01, '17, 10:21AM
Starts in: Dartford, England, GB
Distance: 50.4 mi
Elevation: + 1705 / - 1810 ft
Max Grade
8.5 %
Avg. Grade
-0.0 %
VAM 283 Vm/h
Ascent time 01:50:22
Descent time 01:50:51
Total Duration: 06:32:32
Moving Time: 03:41:13
Stopped Time: 02:51:19
Max Speed: 24.4 mph
Avg. Speed: 13.7 mph
Pace: 00:07:47
Moving Pace: 00:04:23

[JohnG]

Hi Dave
Impressive stats, 50 Miles and averages speed of 13.4mph. In your Selfie Image you have a capture of Portcullis house as the building in the rear on the left. At another time in my life I installed many of the Phosphorous Bronze widow frames on that construction project, I was kept on post construction works as a key worker to close out the job and became a escort with a less restricted security pass, I had access to many parts of Parliament and regularly went wandering around.
I have done 28Km this weekend on the Exercise bike, at a resistence of 16, doing 80ish RPM and about 29Km to 31Km.
Also a Km on the cross trainer at a high resistence and a Km on the treadmill at a incline setting of 20 at 3.5Km per hour.
I also did two rowing programmes.
The daily cycle is my main weekday activity with sit ups on the devices I use to aid these.
I am now looking to extend my cycling and have nearly negotiated a purchase price for a Road Bike.

[Dave the bass]

Ta, you'll be doing it soon if you keep it up John.

In other bike news, Bellamys BB felt 'crunchy' when I took him out a couple of times this week on the local 13 mile 'fitness loop'. I didn't notice it on the gruelling 0.9 mile commute...

Oh!


Sorted it this afternoon, smooth as smooth thing now.

I also made Aldous into an art piece, he's going back to nature, the Passion Fruit bush will grow around him and give him a cuddle, a nice end to a wonderful frame (IMO).

[andrew Ivimey]

Yikes! so much can hide in a bottom bracket - Be suspicious!

[JohnG]

Proud new owner of a Rose Pro SL 2000. It'll be my first time on the road in about 20 years.

[Dave the bass]

If the 2000 refers to the number of gears I'll be most unhappy...arf arf arf (etc).

[IslandPink]

Good stuff. Lovely day for a ride today. Did an hour and a half, late this afternoon after some subwoofer varnishing and then a hot struggle on the back porch with a chain & freewheel cleaning. Also scraped about half a pound of dried mud out of the mudguards. Anyway, it was worth it - bike was running sweet as a nut on the ride

[andrew Ivimey]

Just gotten back from a round 20 smiles today. I did not stop for(2nd) breakfast, just kept right on going. It was a marvellous trip but how I wish my body could match the bike that is the very bestest bike in all the world.(Trek Domane SLR6 - with a spiffing choice of 18 gears, of which there may well be 6 useful gear ratios) but it doesn't, it won't, though I can still enjoy the er, journey. I've only got three days this week as I have to go to London boo-hoo, crocodile tears really as there is always something there to swan off to. And last week it was the Lake District; such a hard life eh! 'Ride with GPS' put me right in Ennerdale (the lake that is) while I remained pretty sure that I did not even put one foot in the water...ever and at times was at least 200 yards from the edge. Still, that was only seven miles walking - hardy exercise at all.

By ten o'clock the sun was cruel. Now I'm hoping for a thunderstorm and I can leap around the garden and practice my flamenco style. A couple of weeks back travelling through the fabled city of Salamanca - its brill!!! in the cathedral square there was an old geezer playing the guitar. He gave me the key to this particular highway, turpiscorean muse I mean. You see he was crap. He could play the guitar sure but, and this was the secret he gave to me, if you weep and wail in that flamenco gypsy sort of way and sort of stay in tune most of the time the singing will hide the objective truth that he and I are brothers in not being able to play the guitar very well at all... but we might get away with it.

I gave him five Euros for this truth - Who says the truth cannot be bought? - He looked shocked but then smiled and gave me a knowing fraternal smile and nearly forgot to go on with his wailing.

Tomorrow I head east where I should be able to avoid the bastard hills that seem to preceed me whenever and in whatever direction I am bicycling.

[Dave the bass]

I'm just going out. I had 1 breakfast earlier and just had 2 slices of peenutt (I've just looked up who Molesworth was, I think I've missed out on an awfoole lot) butter on toast.

I need to do ~40 miles today to brake evun.

[Ray P]

After something of a hiatus while I had a couple of weeks off and we were out and about a lot I got back in the saddle over the weekend.

A 20 mile warm up on Saturday; it was a good feeling and reassuring that I averaged 17.5mph and 217Watts.

Yesterday was a bit more intrepid, 32miles with a big climb towards the end. It was going well but about 20miles in I wasn't feeling well but I got around. I was ailing with some sort of stomach bug which took full affect soon after I got home - that's enough detail I think - and I'm still feeling rotten so a day off work today.

Anyway, regarding the ride details, with Photobucket's changes to their terms I haven't sorted out an alternative image hosting service so you'll have to look on RidewithGPS if you want to see the profile etc. Here's a link;

https://ridewithgps.com/trips/15920616

One good thing about being off work is that I've just caught up on the last couple of TdF stages. Good stuff, and I'm surprised that DtB hasn't mentioned that the winner of yesterday's stage only had one gear!

Ray

[Dave the bass]

Ah, I don't follow cycling as a sport, or any other sport FWIW, I just like riding bikes.

But if the person only had 1 gear anyway he's a winner in my book

[ed]

Just gotten back from a round 20 smiles today.

Omib dear heart...I love your posts, as I've mentioned many times in the past......

but I got to one word in the quoted sentence and gave up.....IMO you're better than this, now come on man, toe the line, there are standards. This kind of behaviour leads the children astray.....

Apologise, or name your second, tomorrow at dawn...I'm happy with the green sward on the banks of the ouse by the county hotel...