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what's (watts?) with the big disparity in the 'power' column on the strava thing?

do the maximum rates drop off with wear, dirt and so forth in the bearings?

okay so i'm safe, bearings wise, to really bomb downhill on the work bike on the way home today?

unusually for me this year i saw a little of yesterday's vuelta stage. late on in the day the riders were hurtling down a long slope and reaching a speed of 100kph as shown by a motorbike outrider's speedo. this got me thinking (unusually again) is there a maximum rate of spin for typical wheel bear...

there is a 300 metre or so stretch of my commute where i have to choose between riding in the door zone of a line of parked cars or bounce over a left hand tram track and ride along the middle of that. never a good time is had. have had a few cars slow up in that area and try to park as there is a n...

Jamesh wrote:As a student I carried a 30ft yacht mast on my bike for 10 miles
8x4 sheets of plywood too.
Walking obviously!

Cheers James

at the same time? that handlebar bag must have been stuffed

i have done this the 'other' way around i.e a wider rim on the front. i did it on a fixed commuter that hammered the braking surfaces of lightweight front rims. changed it many years ago to one of the old mavic touring rims....were they all 'T' something.....with fairly thick braking surfaces. 28c t...

but your perception of things doesn't stay in those categories as time passes by. they change.

ah...twig...yeah. but you need a 9 speed twig if your bike is thusly equipped and so forth. ain't so many 12 speed trees around these days. global warming etc

used to be anything named 'pro' fit

whilst studying a front rim last night (the evenings fly by) i realised that the tyre thereon had been in use since 2007. a vittoria green pave job 24c are they? you know the one. a quick bit of reckoning up and i'd estimate it has done 28,000 miles on either A road commuting or pennine hills.all on...

continental gp 4 seasons

being known as the bloke who rides to work everyday i was once presented with a similar looking machine that a colleague has bought one summer to have a go at cycle commuting. she said she'd had some problems with it on the maiden voyage and could i have a look at it at lunchtime. i soon found that ...

... i saw two riders together inching up. they had lights but they weren't great ones. ahead of them another lady rider on her own with better lights but clearly struggling in the conditions. no rider was easy to see.... So lets get this straight. You claim to have had difficulty seeing them at all...