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The velcro holding strap and a sealing washer have broken on my Lezyne micro drive floor pump. I contacted Lezyne and they pointed me towards this: https://www.lezynestore.com/pump-parts/vervangingsartikelen-2540.html Well, tbh, its a bit of a bargain and would look good in Alan Weaver's man cave, b...

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Just fitted 28 mm tyres to my Van Nicholas Yukon. Total no brainer for the roads here.

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I'm out. Neither the legs or the time, unfortunately.
Enjoy.

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Anyone know where B ride will cafe tomorrow? Usual Riverside cafe? I might meet you there and ride back with the group.
Ta

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On today's somewhat lumpy A Run to Ludlow were: Nick Shenton (Leading) Nice to see Barry back from Oz Thanks, Nick. It was great to see and ride with beacon again. But it was a baptism of fire for me. I was really struggling from Clee hill onwards when the paracetamol I took at Ludlow started to we...

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LeonieB wrote:Hi Nick, how far is the A run tomorrow?

yep, need to know and expected return time?

err, whats the pace like on A runs these days?

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yes, its the INNER wheel rim width which is important. No good trying to stuff a wide tyre in to a thin inner rim. I have 28 mm tyres (bontranger and GP4000s) on bontranger wheels with a 19.5 inner rim width and they handle on winding descents like nothing else I have ridden. I've smashed all my dow...

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Planning a c. 3 week tour from Rotterdam to Copenhagen in June with a friend. Anyone got a ladies bike (to fit c. 5.2 ft), suitable for touring in the flatlands (i.e. doesn't have to be high spec/light) I could borrow for 3 weeks in June? If it doesn't have a rear rack I'll fit one and service the b...

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Planning a c. 3 week tour from Rotterdam to Copenhagen in June with a friend. Anyone got a ladies bike (to fit c. 5.2 ft), suitable for touring in the flatlands (i.e. doesn't have to be high spec/light) I could borrow for 3 weeks in June? If it doesn't have a rear rack I'll fit one and service the b...

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I am arriving at Heathrow Thurs 4 May at 1855 from the other side of the World with usual luggage and a bike box , so not too keen to wait around for the next National Express boos at 2100, only to be dumped in wonderful Digbeth at midnight and then find a 30 min taxi home to Romsley by 0030 if I'm ...

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Nice one Gazza. As is often the case, Aussies are woefully ignorant about such things here, believing that they don't have a problem. Diesel is subsidised and every other vehicle is a flippin great 4 WD urban off-roader. 3 tonnes to go pick up 30 kg children from school. Like other vehicles, they ar...

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One for you techie people. I would like to convert my pommie bike (2013 Van Nicholas Yukon c/w 11 spd Ultegra 6800 groupset, compact 34-50 / 11-28) to take my new 2016 (Dura Ace 9000) sub compact 36-52 chain ring (which has a dual sided 4iiii power meter fitted). Easy, just swap the chain rings (and...

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Of course avoid doing this over Christmas as I don't want to make it an obsession. OMG. You're killing me Dave. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I guess I am one of the 'lucky' ones. Filled my face with cakes all my life and never had to worry..... until recently. I am the same weight as I was when I was 21...

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Gavin, you read my mind! Was wondering where to do a on-road FTP test in the Brum area this summer. My figs are from Australia, where we ride upside down which kills your performance :D Laurence, if that course is the best there is, no wonder its hard to keep it up! All those ups and downs are no go...

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flag me as a possible

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https://www.schwalbe.com/en/catalogesfl ... 015_GB.pdf

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Andy, I have emailed you.

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Strava have told me its a known bug and they are working on it.

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I've had mine for 3 months now and am still trying to decipher FTP, NP, CP, IF, TSS, W' etc etc Coggan is the defacto authority, but it gets confusing sometimes as others use slightly different metrics expressed in various ways. And here is one thing that I learnt quickly from the literature. If you...

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Hi Nic
I guessed as much. But what am I doing on it? I never applied, and it does not appear in my list of club memberships, but somehow appears in drop down lists. I've only ever recorded one Red Lion ride on Strava a long time a go.
Puzzled DownUnder

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When I open a ride in Strava and look at the segment list, if I use the drop down top 10 list on the right side of the screen I get the usual list of by all time/male/weight/age etc and clubs. This includes a club called 'Red Lion', but I am not a member of any such club and it does not appear in se...

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Starting to turn the pedals in earnest now that manflu is abating (turned out to be infected sinus). Early look at data suggests that balance degrades from c. 48:52 (L:R) to 46:54 when I increase the average power (effort) for a ride. I suspect it will get more unbalanced when I get back to full wee...

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Thx for great comments. Yes, Dave, being right footed/sided, it was probably always thus. I guess I was a bit paranoid because after my back ops my L leg became very weak; couldn't even stand on it alone. So perhaps, after 9 months of intense yoga/pilates/swimming rehab it has recovered better than ...

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Took delivery of my new 4iiii dual sided crank mounted power meters last week. Just as I went down with man-flu :( Just 2 x 10 g (incl batteries), on a new DA crank, means that I have actually saved weight :) Connected with ipBike android app (via ant+) I've got more data than I can poke a stick at....

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The guy is supposedly kosher, saying he raced in the 90s (so what!), except he admitted to being in the wrong weight category.... weight doping!

And now some other fat old man has posted a time another 30 sec faster!

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Hello Possums, Have any of you ever dobbed someone in on Strava? I was flogging myself senseless on a local climb recently with little effect on my time and consoled myself later by comparing myself to my (new) age group peers on Strava. Blaaah. The (recent) age-group KOM was suspiciously fast. Like...

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Anyone running 28 mm tyres on Shimano DA WH-9000 C35 CL wheels? My understanding is that, although Shimano tech says they are suitable for 23-28 mm tyres, the C35 have a 15 mm inner rim width, which leaves me wondering about the handling when fitted with 28 mm tyres. Would like to upgrade wheels on ...

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Thanks for the helpful replies. Tim, I went to see my (long term) musculoskeletal physio today 2 weeks post op, for the first of many post-op sessions. I'm in good hands. She did her (2nd) masters on post op exercise routines for LBP. Some manual tests by her indicated that I had unsurprisingly suff...

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After 12 months of chronic sciatica, 2 back ops and 4 weeks of being house and bed bound, I am beginning to dream... My left leg has undoubtedly got weaker. I was always right legged and things -I'm guessing- have got much worse recently. So when I rebuild my road bike (currently in bits in a box) I...

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Andy and helen, what groupset do you have?

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Wishing everyone in damp dark Blighty a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year from sunny DownUnder. As you can from the pictures, its been a tough year of pedalling in Brisbane in the 'winter' (at mountain top café with Long Macchiato) and then, now, the summer (at Brisbane river pedestrian bridge coffee ba...

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Umm... confusing. Canvassed mates here DownUnder (by taking the rings down the local café!) and opinion was roughly 50:50! So then I took them to a couple of LBS and whadya know? One said change, the other said fine. Seems to be a bit of a maintenance dark hole exasperated by the pre-cut unequal tee...

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Having been practically born in the Swan at CC and it still being my local, I can assure you that the décor is definitely cleat friendly. Indeed, you may need to check that the bolts on your cleats are tight as they might get ripped out sticking to the carpet! Enjoy the finest ale in the land. Blah,...

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Thanks for comments guys.
I handed it over to the LBS who said, 'nah, she'll be rite, mate. we'll just emery cloth the races and replace (with new) cartridges'
I could have told em that

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The shape of the teeth looked fine until I cleaned them

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Thanks, Pete. My set up does have the cartridge bearings, hence my ham-fisted attempts to prize them out and just spend the $ replacing them. In the process I fear I'm up for the cost of whole headset assembly. (Interestingly the upper bearings is much more degraded than the lower, which from what I...

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OK, I'll bite.... once. Modern Android smartphones with more power than any of us need, can now be had for 100 smackers, e.g. Moto G: http://www.expansys.com/motorola-moto-g-2nd-gen-4g-black-275412/ 101 different handlebar mounts and cradles/cases available. Topeak do some really nice ones. I have a...

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Yes Tim, smartphones are the way to go. You will see plenty of past comments by me wondering why almost every rider these days is carrying a computer in their back pocket that records, navigates, AND makes telephone calls and takes photos, yet they still feel the need to duplicate with a dedicated u...

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It always ends in tears. Hard to believe I come from 3 generations of engineers, including a bicycle maker great grandfather and a award-wining motorcycle and car engineer grandfather. So, I was dismantling my bike, as you do. I don't think the headset has ever been replaced. The bearing were stuck ...

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Apologies upfront to the likes of Mr Weaver, who need to look away from the following photos. Hard to believe I know, but I did clean these bits up before photoing them :P Do I need new chain rings? I'm not sure how many km they have done. Possibly 15 000 +. Its a compact DA 7800. Thanks, and greeti...

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fab shoes. my c. 5 year old ones survived several offs. but I left them in the UK on this trip, so bought some new ones DownUnder 6 months a go. the big kick ass vents on the front are a boom in aussie melt-in-your-wellies heat. we all gafer tape the vent for 'winter' here.

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Already complicated, now even more so as Eurostar will require you to put your bike in a box. CTC (and all other European cycling orgs) are running a campaign to get Eurostar to change their mind. I've just signed. Would be great if others do. You don't have to be a CTC member to sign. Click on the ...

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A member of Beacon RCC on Strava, has popped up in my hood.

Hello Niall Whitehouse. Have we met? Can't send message via Strava it seems?

Please don't steal all my Beacon DownUnder KOMs

Have you got your Beacon kit with you? We can form a pro peloton

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Not sure if it is included elsewhere, but it needs to be explicitly stated, no mid-wheel/half-wheeling, I.e. where some one sticks themselves in the middle of the pair of riders in front and often compounds the issue by half wheeling them too. Endangers all 4 riders (and $%& me off no end!) Useful r...

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Mr Regan going guns I see.

I presume he will be put on the front of all A runs and made to work. Its the price you pay

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A run 100 in 7? I'm feeling homesick

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I never received a reply from Shimano!

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Was doing some reps up my local hill climb here in Brisbane during the week, and was suddenly struck by a place name at the bottom of the climb:

Simpson Falls

20150306_065540 by Slogfester, on Flickr

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Yes, Dave, all just for walkers and cyclists. It used to be tree lined but the floods and erosion swept them away (and part of the floating bikeway further downstream!). so they have installed more man-made shelter. This particular bikeway was a victim of of its own success with occasional bikeway r...

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Now THATS a proper bikeway (and bidon):

Bicentennial Bikeway, Brisbane by Slogfester, on Flickr

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