The Fretboard Cycling Club

thermionic

vanlooy1 said:

Well, if we’re showing our bikes off……

Summer ^^^^^^

Autumn/spring/occasionally winter ^^^^^

Love that Mercian. I might get one some day…

Jaycee

Good to see you guys getting out.

I have a Garnin 130 on my road bike, and a igpsport on my gravel which I use in the winter.  The cold weather drains the battery in the Garmin so quickly, the igpsport has a claimed battery life of 40 hours, i have got  at least 20 hours out of it over a 2 week period. 

Mellish

I had a Pinarello. It had a Campag groupset but I really can't remember which.

It came from Gibbons Cycles in Spalding. That was where I'd go for all my cycle bits and bobs, even though my home town of Grantham had Don Ray Cycles. 

You'd find me out in all weather's. In winter on an old but reliable bike with fixed wheel. 
Often I'd be riding along with clubmates, often 15-20 of us.

The good old days. 

 

Cranky

Cranky is jelly.  I want a new bike now.

What’s the fastest you all have done on a bicycle?  I got up to around 100k/hour once (on a road bike), it was pretty terrifying, I was actually kinda riding the brakes going downhill.

m_c

I've hit 52mph on the road bike, but I'm more concerned that the speed didn't concern me, than the fact I was going that fast

thermionic

Mellish said:

I had a Pinarello. It had a Campag groupset but I really can't remember which.

It came from Gibbons Cycles in Spalding. That was where I'd go for all my cycle bits and bobs, even though my home town of Grantham had Don Ray Cycles. 

You'd find me out in all weather's. In winter on an old but reliable bike with fixed wheel. 
Often I'd be riding along with clubmates, often 15-20 of us.

The good old days. 

 

I’ve had two Pinarellos, steel winter frames with mudguards and Campagnolo Veloce groupsets. I wrote the first one off when I rode into a submerged pothole and ended up with 20 stitches in my face. The replacement rusted through from the inside of the chainstays. I have an aluminium De Rosa now for the winter and a rather old Colnago C50 for the summer, which I’ve been planning to replace for a while but can’t decide what to get. I also have a steel Colnago Master which I bought way back in 1999 and gets taken out on nice days when I know we’re not heading for some serious climbs (39x25 lowest gear.)

thermionic

Cranky said:

Cranky is jelly.  I want a new bike now.

What’s the fastest you all have done on a bicycle?  I got up to around 100k/hour once (on a road bike), it was pretty terrifying, I was actually kinda riding the brakes going downhill.

Hitting 50mph used to be the thing. My first club had a route which included “The 49er”, so called because nobody had got over 49mph on it. I did hit 50mph a couple of times later when I was fearless and in my twenties, glad I got that out of my system!

Sometimes Carlton Kirby (Eurosport) will ask his co-commentator Sean Kelly about his fastest descent in the Alps during the Tour de France and Sean will modestly admit to hitting 124 km/h.

Mellish

@thermionic ; did you find the Pinarello's a bit twitchy? They're very responsive.

 

Cranky

thermionic said:

Cranky said:

Cranky is jelly.  I want a new bike now.

What’s the fastest you all have done on a bicycle?  I got up to around 100k/hour once (on a road bike), it was pretty terrifying, I was actually kinda riding the brakes going downhill.

Hitting 50mph used to be the thing. My first club had a route which included “The 49er”, so called because nobody had got over 49mph on it. I did hit 50mph a couple of times later when I was fearless and in my twenties, glad I got that out of my system!

Sometimes Carlton Kirby (Eurosport) will ask his co-commentator Sean Kelly about his fastest descent in the Alps during the Tour de France and Sean will modestly admit to hitting 124 km/h.

All I could think about was how I probably didn’t mount the front wheel properly.  Skis, bikes, whatever, I don’t like going too fast.

vanlooy1

thermionic said:

vanlooy1 said:

Well, if we’re showing our bikes off……

Summer ^^^^^^

Autumn/spring/occasionally winter ^^^^^

Love that Mercian. I might get one some day…

Thanks, it’s a pro lugless, custom built a few years ago now, just as quick as my carbon bike!

BRISTOL86

Cranky said:

Cranky is jelly.  I want a new bike now.

What’s the fastest you all have done on a bicycle?  I got up to around 100k/hour once (on a road bike), it was pretty terrifying, I was actually kinda riding the brakes going downhill.

Yesterday’s 40mph was a new high for me. Not something I pursued, just something I noticed. 

Though oddly Strava shows my high on the same ride as 44.4mph even though the Wahoo shows 40.0 and it’s the Wahoo that writes the workout to Strava. Odd. 

I have noticed some oddities in the integration between Wahoo/Strava/Apple Fitness as since I got the GPS my phone is writing ‘steps’ to Apple Health when I’m on a bike ride which is really weird/annoying as I have to go in and delete them after for the time period I was riding. Never happened before I had the GPS and I’ve turned off permission for the Wahoo app to write to Health, but they still appear. 

Cranky

BRISTOL86 said:

Cranky said:

Cranky is jelly.  I want a new bike now.

What’s the fastest you all have done on a bicycle?  I got up to around 100k/hour once (on a road bike), it was pretty terrifying, I was actually kinda riding the brakes going downhill.

Yesterday’s 40mph was a new high for me. Not something I pursued, just something I noticed. 

Though oddly Strava shows my high on the same ride as 44.4mph even though the Wahoo shows 40.0 and it’s the Wahoo that writes the workout to Strava. Odd. 

I have noticed some oddities in the integration between Wahoo/Strava/Apple Fitness as since I got the GPS my phone is writing ‘steps’ to Apple Health when I’m on a bike ride which is really weird/annoying as I have to go in and delete them after for the time period I was riding. Never happened before I had the GPS and I’ve turned off permission for the Wahoo app to write to Health, but they still appear. 

As in literal steps?  Running 40 mph? Lol.

That is annoying.

I don’t have anything like that for tracking.  I used to have a device zip tied to my road bike for a while that used a magnet/sensor on the rear wheel to track speed, kWh, etc.  I only got up to 60 mph because of a long hill (I live in mountains at around 5k feet).  Nowadays the Peloton is my road bike and then I MTB if I wanna have actual fun, but I’m always a chicken about speed, jumps and stuff.

thermionic

Mellish said:

@thermionic ; did you find the Pinarello's a bit twitchy? They're very responsive.

 

I thought it was great, had a longish top tube like the Colnagos I’ve had (suits my body shape, short legs for my height so I like to be stretched out). It didn’t have any toeclip overlap, even with mudguards - which is often a problem with small (51cm centre-centre) frames.

Mellish

@thermionic ; tell you who else can make a great frameset: Raleigh. I never owned one but I tried 'em. Their 753 could compete with any others around at the time. 

 

BRISTOL86

Cranky said:

BRISTOL86 said:

Cranky said:

Cranky is jelly.  I want a new bike now.

What’s the fastest you all have done on a bicycle?  I got up to around 100k/hour once (on a road bike), it was pretty terrifying, I was actually kinda riding the brakes going downhill.

Yesterday’s 40mph was a new high for me. Not something I pursued, just something I noticed. 

Though oddly Strava shows my high on the same ride as 44.4mph even though the Wahoo shows 40.0 and it’s the Wahoo that writes the workout to Strava. Odd. 

I have noticed some oddities in the integration between Wahoo/Strava/Apple Fitness as since I got the GPS my phone is writing ‘steps’ to Apple Health when I’m on a bike ride which is really weird/annoying as I have to go in and delete them after for the time period I was riding. Never happened before I had the GPS and I’ve turned off permission for the Wahoo app to write to Health, but they still appear. 

As in literal steps?  Running 40 mph? Lol.

That is annoying.

I don’t have anything like that for tracking.  I used to have a device zip tied to my road bike for a while that used a magnet/sensor on the rear wheel to track speed, kWh, etc.  I only got up to 60 mph because of a long hill (I live in mountains at around 5k feet).  Nowadays the Peloton is my road bike and then I MTB if I wanna have actual fun, but I’m always a chicken about speed, jumps and stuff.

Yeah the phone is writing steps to my overall step count even though I’m recording a cycle on my watch. The phone and watch are linked so in my head, there should be no steps recorded during the time that the cycling workout is active. 

The Apple Fitness app tells you the source of the recorded steps so you can differentiate between steps being written by the watch or the phone, and these phantom steps are definitely coming from the phone. Quite why it’s doing it I’m not sure, but it’s really annoying having to delete them out manually every time I go out on the bike!

I made a false equivalency in assuming it was because of the Wahoo - the reason the two are linked is because since I got the Wahoo, I started taking my phone with me on a bike ride, whereas before I would be using my old phone mounted to the bike.

Cranky

Got out for my first ride of the season, was going to share a couple pics but I have no way of doing so.  Image URLs don’t show and I don’t have an option to upload an image in either the mobile or desktop version of the site.

LastMantra

m_c said:

LastMantra said:

That seat looks hella high for a mountain bike? 

I'm 6'4" so every seat looks high when up!

Just meant it almost looks dangerous. 
The saddle is usually right down out of the way as you're standing up most of the time. 

MagicPigDetective

LastMantra said:

m_c said:

LastMantra said:

That seat looks hella high for a mountain bike? 

I'm 6'4" so every seat looks high when up!

Just meant it almost looks dangerous. 
The saddle is usually right down out of the way as you're standing up most of the time. 

The bike has a dropper post for that. I’m just getting to know the dropper post on my new mtb.. I’d not heard of them till recently… a great invention. 

LastMantra

MagicPigDetective said:

LastMantra said:

m_c said:

LastMantra said:

That seat looks hella high for a mountain bike? 

I'm 6'4" so every seat looks high when up!

Just meant it almost looks dangerous. 
The saddle is usually right down out of the way as you're standing up most of the time. 

The bike has a dropper post for that. I’m just getting to know the dropper post on my new mtb.. I’d not heard of them till recently… a great invention. 

Ah right cool, just looked a bit concerning. 

MagicPigDetective

Cranky said:

Got out for my first ride of the season, was going to share a couple pics but I have no way of doing so.  Image URLs don’t show and I don’t have an option to upload an image in either the mobile or desktop version of the site.

Paste the image Url into the drop down above the text box, (a rectangle with a folded corner), and press SPACE.
That should work. It'd be good to see your pics.