Cycle Drivel

erik

Matt I’ve seen that before, bloody mental.

erik

Annoying squeaks are invariably one of 3 things, the saddle isnt clamped tight enough of the rails. Stand and pedal, if it still squeaks it isn’t that.

Plus check your BB and your pedals. The cages round the spds on my harddtail squeak there isn’t a bunch I can do to stop it.

benson

Loads of issues with a dodgy rear mech hanger and my thru-axle recently. On another bike my seatpost is seized into the frame. Basically give everything a loosen, shake and tighten every 6-12 months.

Along_the_Wire

benson This is age advice. I went to change a saddle on my commuter bike and one of the bolts snapped inside the clamp. New seat post for £129 - took me a while and some effort to get the knackered seatpost out.

Hank_Solo

Parked up the car on Dartmoor and walked about 2 miles to the 3rd King of Mountain finish line yesterday. Plenty of other people there too, it was baking hot, no shade. One old dear needed parademics. Saw 2 lizards.

Love Dartmoor, it can be ruthless all year round.

Smallman1

One for this thread -

Along_the_Wire

43 hours and 25 minutes? Fucking hell!

When I retire, I’m gonna do a solo 6 day attempt

benson

Along_the_Wire 1 hour 20 or something off the bike. Mental.

Got the 312 coming up. That was beyond difficult. 200 miles and 6 × 10 mins breaks. Mentally really tough.

I couldn’t think by about km 230. Couldn;t work out the arithmatic as to how many to go. Nearly folded at one point and tried to call my mrs but no reception.

These ultra endurance nuts are crazy. Liej the Berkley marathons and the america coast to coast stuff where they wear frames to hold their heads up. Huge respect for that kind of mental fortitude

LT42

The Tour of Britain has been fun so far. Its always good to watch Cavendish doing his thing.

Along_the_Wire

benson I know my limits - 160k and / or 3,000m climbing - beyond those I struggle massively. I’ll still do the odd Etape. My problem is that I push too hard generally - I don’t like long days in the saddle - after 6 hours my shoulders, back and neck start killing me.

Did a 151km ride to Brighton yesterday - went hard once we got out of London. Quite fucked at the end

Unbroken1

…watched the ToB come through my town yesterday, loved it.

My mate’s place is on the steep descent into the town and right next to one of those electronic signs that gives a readout of your speed as you pass… most entertaining. The blast of wind as the peloton came past was incredible.

LT42

Unbroken1 I’d love to see that.

ScottBailey

The cheek of it! 😂 Reckon this lad had beans on toast for breakfast 🚴‍♂️💨

Hursty

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/mark-cavendish-spotted-cycling-in-central-london

Along_the_Wire

Anyone watching the world championship? Van Aert for me, but Evenepoel’s just attacked - probably against team orders an all. No team radios make the race so much more exciting

Along_the_Wire

Some fucking race that.

Hursty

Missed it, was doing the local 10k race severely hungover

Sounds like it was an epic finish

LT42

Alaphilippe is some rider, love watching him, the atmosphere for the last few miles was outstanding

Along_the_Wire

The state of Paris-Roubaix!

LT42

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