/drt/ - Daily Ride Thread

>riding to the top of a mountain just to practice breakdancing

Dumb.

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Its still warm enough to just wear shorts and a short sleeve jersey

60 km ride in the city today since it was windy. The gusts were nearly 70 km/h so I had to stay on the streets instead of the MUP which has nothing to block the wind.

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As the title says, my first 100km ride! :D

Granted, slow as a turtle and I fucked up by not bringing enough drinks/food so by the end I was completely knackered.
But still feels good to have actually done this distance :3

5 days left and 2km elevation left, we're all gonna make it

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Grandma Canyon.

>>1010847
bullshit, post strava

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farthest so far

>>1010864
Good shit dude, hit that 180km!

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>>1010850
I don't strava, always forget to turn it on and it just eats my battery anyway.

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10.8 miles
1:01:48
Sunday ride boyz

>>1010864
What the fuck? Are you riding 60 km straight road, making couple of turns and riding dead straight another 60 km? God damn America.

>>1011165
That's Canada, doofus

inb4 "well, I meant NORTH America--not UNITED STATES of America"

>>1010864
>>1011165
what's more sickening is that he did 60km and it doesn't even look like he left the metropolitan area.

Here i'm doing 20km and I'm in bumfuck nowhere for the rest of my ride.

>>1011165
That's canada.

>>1011182
in the pic, the top of the H in richmond hill is where grassland and farms starts to appear.

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>>1011182
I wish my metropolitan area looked like this.

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>riding at my local spot
>it's wet-ish out from rain overnight
>dirt is primo, roots are sketchy
>hit the ravine
>go down the switchback to the wooden footbridge
>wait...
>WOOD
>slip out on the bridge
>eat shit and knife my inner thigh on my bar end
>skid on my right kneepad off to the bank
fuck that smarts. good thing i had pads on or my knee would be fucked right out.

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>>1011197
i wish i lived in BFE

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GIMME A Y
GIMME AN O
GIMME A U

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These are the leaders of a 100mt long, 23% incline segment. Guess I won't be getting any KOMs soon.

>>1011580
KOM's measured without power data or heart rate analyses, especially on non-dedicated cycling paths or greenways, should be instantly disregarded. It upsets my autist tendencies when some douche gets a top mark solely because they used their GPS unit while in a car, I really hope that Strava is working on a away of weeding out these cheat times.

>>1011582
I used to report whenever someone's recording was obviously done from a motorized vehicle, but as you can see this shit has gotten out of hand, so I give up.

Went for a ride this evening about 15 minutes before sunset. The weather was very nice ... too nice. After doing a few loops of an industrial park, I rode back into town. Since it was dark I figured the MUP would be a better choice for getting home. Nope.

Stealth pedestrians everywhere enjoying the warm evening. No close calls but I had to dial back my speed a lot. I'd get to a T intersection in the path and have to listen for any bikes without lights. So I abandoned the path and got back on the road.

A light on the bars just doesn't cut it for riding the MUP in the dark. Changes in grade and turns have the light frequently pointed in the wrong spot. Next time I'm going to put a second light on my helmet.

Riding at night is pretty fun though. I seem faster in the dark.

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>>1010794
didn't ride but built a bike over the weekend.
6 hours start to finish

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>DRT
>Screenshots of ride data
>Stravas


Does photographic evidence not count?

>>1011612
On a fat bike forum some people occasionally post ride videos that include on bike footage, along with footage where the camera was placed on the ground. Watching the videos I can't help ponder the logistics of them.
>ride over something you think might look neat
>stop
>setup camera
>ride back up the trail far enough to be out of frame
>ride past camera
>go back and get the camera
>repeat

Some of them have so many camera positions, I'd swear they spent twice as much time placing the camera as they did riding.

>>1011607
Post the final result

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>>1011623
kinda a shit photo
will take a better photo once i wrap thebars

>>1011627
6 FUCKING HOURS AND YOU DIDN'T WRAP THE BARS

I am seeing improvement on how fast I can climb steep hills. Feels good man.

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Picked up a cheater bike on Monday evening.

Haven't used much of the motor yet 'cause my daily commute doesn't have any significant inclines where it's actually needed.

Will hopefully be taking a good long trip on Saturday to put it through its paces.

>>1011661
Gtfo out of here!

>>1011666
If you were gonna bring salt you should've warned me so I could bring fries.

>>1011667
>>1011666

I can only imagine how much angst it would cause to go on the routes of lycra-peloton training rides in a hoodie on a 1500W BMX and pass them over and over and over again while smoking a blunt

>>1011670

I already had some bitchbaby Strava cunt cry at me yesterday evening when I whizzed passed him on my way home.
Said my bike was "cheating" like cycling is some kind of competitive game. Bitch I just wanna go places.

>>1011661
>>1011671
what speed is it limited at? The normal ebikes here are limited at 25-28kph so with a roadbike you are significantly faster than them. Theres no reason to get them unless you are 80 years old, and I get a bit sad if I see a <50 year old using one of them. These 25kph limited ones are literally swarming the streets.

For the actual commuters there are 45kph ones too but they have a number plate and have to obey moped rules, like obligatory helmets and speed limits, and you rarely see them.

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>cadence: 58

Jesus Christ

>>1011627
>full time student
>parties erry night
Not gonna get it done until the weekend.

Finished the climbing challenge, feels good man
Though I remember last year I'd finish them in a week, man have I gotten lazy

>>1011800

Limit is 15.5mph I believe however that's just how far the motor will help you, after that your own leg work kicks in.

>>1012009
why even bother then, unless you live in a veeery hilly area. Does it have enough power to drag your fat ass up the hills at least? The ebikes here often have only 250watts of power which with the heavy bike and heavy rider is only enough to make them crawl up the hills.

>>1011627

lel, that's a tiny ass head tube.

>>1012020

Hills is basically the entire purpose for me getting it. I live in Northern Ireland and am quite keen on my photography but my weak bitch knees suffer if I try to cycle up the likes of Cave Hill or all the way to the Mourne mountains which are idyllic locations for photos. So I splashed out and got this thing to take the edge off.
It handles most climbs well enough, even with steeper inclines I find myself being able to get up them far quicker than I ever could on my usual mountain bike.
I usually only use the e-assist shite when I need to get up to speed quickly, after which I can switch it off, or going up inclines. The bike is grand to use without the motor and even provides a better workout in some cases cause IT'S SO FUCKING HEAVY.

I'll be heading out for a decently long trip this Saturday to put it through its paces. I'll report back here with pics and details.

>>1012028
cant you combine sport and photography then and get in shape so you can climb the hills like a true champ? Are your weak bitch knees from being out of shape or actually chronically shit?

>>1012049

Why are you so weirdly obsessed with my cycling performance?
I regularly jog and have my own free weights at home, I'm in decent shape. I just prefer getting around on my mode of transport without wrecking myself man. Chill out.

>>1012051
>Why are you so weirdly obsessed with my cycling performance?
not him, but it's probably because it's supposedly the reason you got a motorized bike.

I developed a nasty case of vertigo shortly after finishing a ride yesterday. I felt like crap rest of the day and had trouble walking in a straight line. Turning my head while walking was definitely something to be avoided.

Seems to be mostly gone this morning. Probably an ear thing as I had a perforated ear drum that never seems to fully heal and can be reaggravated during allergy season when I blow my nose.

Oh man i'm seeing these super long rides and i'm baffled, i went on a ride today that totalled 30km and I'm fucking dead in my feet right now from how tired i am. Granted I am seriously out of shape
Hopefully i can reach these levels at some point in the future.
I'm looking to get a Road bike to replace my mountain one but im still on the fence about it.
how do you guys orient yourselves over those long distances and going to places you dont know? I did the 15k to one side and i was feeling really lost and just came back

>>1012083
just to clarify this was my first serious bike ride outside of commuting to and from work which takes less than 10 minutes

>>1012083
I use HERE maps on my phone, you download a map of your whole country so you can access it even if you don't have a data plan. And don't worry, you'll be making long trips soon enough, when you first get into cycling your stamina improves surprisingly fast.
Also get slick tires for your bike if you haven't already. Have fun.

>>1012087
Why slick tires if i may ask? and how wide for that matter, i have quite wide normal tires

>>1012051
hey man im just wondering why a young lad like yourself feels the need to get an ebike

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>>1012083
>>how do you guys orient yourselves over those long distances and going to places you dont know?

I used to do the same little laps all the time because I didnt know the roads too well. Then I decided to get a GPS headunit. By plotting routes beforehand I have explored the area and gone on huge rides without ever needing to worry about getting lost, or slowing down to check where im going. I also now know the area very well and can do long rides without needing the directions. It costs a fair bit but its one of the best things I have bought.

Routebuilding has become a thing I enjoy now. I spend lots of time trying to figure out routes with as few as possible lights or crossings, and I check out roads and crossing on streetview to see if I could race through there without too much of a holdup. Feels so good when you nail a 100km ride without having to stop or slow down once because of the route. Ive got a ton of roads and bike paths available to me in the neverlands it allows me to do this kind of shit, in a murrikan grid you probably wont have much of a choice where you go.

Its all about how much you want to spend I guess, but if you have the money I would strongly recommend.

regarding Strava, do i need a data plan to have it work when im out on a ride?
I dont have any sort of data plan on my phone so i would only have internet at home and then i'd be flying solo, does the app work anyway or should i find an offline map app?

>>1012101
Because they give a smoother, faster and more comfortable ride, provided you're riding on pavement only. Wideness is up to personal preference, I usually go for 2"

>>1012114
No, the app can work with GPS only. You then arrive home, connect to your wifi or whatever, and upload the ride.

>>1012118
thank you very much for the info, will hop by the local bike shop and see if they have some to sell me, will i need to change inner tubes as well?

>>1012120
No, as long as your current tires and the new ones are of similar width.

>>1012119
>[Strava...]can work with GPS only.

Yes.
The Strava app can record a ride without a cellular-data connection. When you finish a ride it will periodically check for an internet connection (e.g. WiFi) to upload the ride.

>>1012114
>[another...] offline map app?

RideWithGPS has offline turn-by-turn navigation. you need a subscription to create your own routes, but many features (e.g. printing maps and route sheets) are unlocked if you use rides created by a club administrator.

>>1012119
>the app can work with GPS only

But does it have offline maps?

Late supper so another late ride that was half in the dark. Since I was already late getting going I didn't bother trying to track down the helmet mount for my light. Instead of my Ixon IQ Premium, I opted for the brute force of my 3 emitter 1000 lumen light at 50%. The brighter light was pretty decent on the MUP since it throws light everywhere. The Ixon is underpowered and focused too narrow for twisting paths.

Nice thing about an evening ride is that its shorter so I don't have to pace myself and push a lot harder.

>>1012183
No

>>1012183
>>1012297
It does but I dont know exactly how it works. My phone has no data access and I still get a map if I check. Maybe it saves from a certain radius from where you last had internet or something?

going through the middle of a town in rush hour traffic wasnt too pleasant but the result is worth it

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>>1012508
fugged up the image

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Am I good yet? I should note that less than 48 hours ago I had a one hour group ride at an NP of 284W, so I didn't even have fresh legs for this one

The forecast shows a few below freezing overnight lows next week. But today its going up to 24 °C with light wind, so I'll get my 10th Strava Gran Fondo of the year out of the way early.

>>1012621
One day people will realise Watts mean *absolutely fuck all* and will actually post W/kg.
Apparently that is not today.

If you're a fat cunt then you're shit. If you're 55kg then you're doing well.

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>>1012811
Should have elaborated, I am 5'9, and 129 lbs (58.2 kg)

>>1012813
you must fly on the trails. me jelly. 5'9 ~160 here.

>>1012813
KIMO

>>1012826
About the same here. Just can't drop below 160 even though I could easily another 15 - 20 without being underweight. At least I'm not 190 anymore.

>>1012813
spooky. your sides are literally somewhere in orbit.

>>1012621
is this strava or something else? im 60 pages in the 4th edition training bible.

>>1012510
Kek

>>1012806
I wonder if they let the interns do weekend forecasts, because the 10 km/h wind ended up being 20 km/h when I left the house, and 30 gusting to 40 a few hours later.

Had a slow leak and had to top off one of my tires twice. Found a metal ammo box on the side of the road, which turned out to be a geocache. It was actually on the road so someone probably moved it from where it was meant to located. Several more inches of rain Monday Tuesday followed by low temperatures, so tomorrow will be the last gravel opportunity for most of the week.

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So i just did my first ride with my road bike, i usually rode a commuter just to go to work and back and this made a gigantic difference i'd say.
I could probably have gone further but it was extremely dark out and i didn't bring my front light so i just did around 20k.
For reference i weight 87kg and am 1,70 so yeah i'm a fat manlet.
Bike is a Triban 520
Also i dont really understand what some of these numbers mean, i was using strava more as a map than anything.
Any tips for you experts? I'm in it mostly to lose weight

>>1012947
Oh and i was scared shitless on the super fast descents I did but the bike remained true through them so it gave me a bit more confidence

>>1012947
Break a sweat and keep riding longer, faster, or both.

[spoiler]a penha é uma bela merda de sítio

>>1012947
for me losing weight was more about diet than anything. I was lifting and riding and desu I was only sleeping 3-4 hours a night at that time. I lost about 10 lbs a month for 4 months solid before it slowed down. Just ride and enjoy exploring new areas on your bike. oh and check out my fitness pal to count calories, its a nice tool to get you to a lower body fat percentage.

>>1011613
i dont see anything wrong with picking a session spot and filming for a while. helps you hammer out your technique and feels good if you film something rad.

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33 miles, 3,400ft. Climbed Montebello until the pavement ended than then kept on climbing the fire road over the top of Black Mountain, then descended Page Mill.

If you get into cycling from having done practically no exercise, expect your weight to not drop much for a few months. Muscle weight gain can match fat loss at the start, so weight won't be the best indicator of progress.

>>1013001
Are you from here as well?
I cant find anyone to ride with around here that i know.
And yes it is shit everytime i leave home i pass the gypsies and they ogle me weirdly

>>1013002
I count my calories and i eat 2000 or less everyday its just i had a super inactive lifestyle of just gaming and lazing doing nothing so i put on weight over time.
Im sure ill be able to lose weight

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muh piece of shit
Also rode into a bee or it flew into my neck, deflected itself into my open jersey and fucked around. Wobbled all over to get it the fuck out.

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Rode off a new summit yesterday. getting pretty wintery high up!

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Lucky to have such views here.

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Went on a little ride out of work, and as soon as I was on the bike I felt like a god. Usually my FTP would be something around 260 and it would be quite tough to hold that for a prolonged time, that shits gets me going at 175bpm usually. Today I was doing 300 watts for long stretches at only 170bpm and feeling quite okay. And when I got home I still felt good.

Feels good to have a good day I guess, now I want to figure out how to make more days good days, because this was a fluke.

What exercises do i need to do to improve my flexibility to ride my bike slammed??

i mean, i can touch my toes and whatnot.

>>1013974
my guess would be just ride alot, you dont actually need to be very flexible at all, just need to be able to hold that position comfortably which is more of a muscle thing than a flexibility thing.

>>1013700
the patterns the snow and wind make on the rock ledges is incredible! nice ride.

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>>1011200
>still recovering from this fall
>massive bruise halfway subsided
>still have stabbing pain doing anything moderate impact or higher
>chest wall pain still strong
>feels like my pec is going to tear right off if i try to manual or bunny
>spinning base miles on the local rail trail
>veer off into a park i never go to
>hard pack singletrack hiking trails
>smooth sailing
>back half is 99% 3-5 inch roots covered in moss
>super fun
>meet a hiker and her doggo
>come home
>posting this
>look down
>hornet crawling out of my flannel
>terminated with extreme prejudice
fucken close one boyz

>>1013700
whats the angle on that headtube?

>>1013974
core work tends to be more important, do some planks or buy an ab roller plus doing a standing pike.

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>>1013942
dam, how do i get as fast as you?

>>1014050
ride alot I guess. I am dutch so I have been riding beater bikes everywhere since I was a little shit, then as soon as I got a roadbike a year ago I already averaged 30+kph.

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Underbiking

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>>1014050
>attempt at dick art
kek

>>1014190
this made me vomit

>>1014567
it just made me really angry

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Short sloppy windy ride on my fat bike today. We got snow yesterday and last night but it is wet and slushy on the roads. It was nice riding on the grass where the snow was the deepest, but my legs are going to need to readjust to that bike. The forecast has revised the temperature for the next week down to no higher than 6 C.

I've been seeing a lot of blue herons over the past month outside the city, but they always fly away before I can get a picture. This one in a park managed to stay put.

Ontario fall biking...is there any greater thing?

>>1010864
>Warden
Try McCowan, goes from commuter hell to near empty almost instantaneously north of Hwy 7

>>1015008
such a magnificent bastard

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I did some laps around the local steep hill. I did not even go that hard and took it very easy on all the non hilly parts, and still I am absolutely destroyed.

Short steep hills are just fucking murderous, no chance to get into a rhythm and I automatically put down a ton of power because I automatically try to maintain speed.

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Conditions before i left home today
Didnt expect it to be icy at all but it was. The bridges were fully frozen. First snowfall and its cold enough to ice over already....

0 °C very damp and a bit windy. Rode for about an hour, I couldn't have gone much longer because my toes were starting to go numb. I should have wore my winter clipless boots instead. My saddle needs to be a little more than 1/4 " higher when using those boots and I didn't feel like making the adjustment before going for a ride.

>>1015405
>>1015403
Where the fuck do yall live where its already winter

>>1015417
I'm optimistic daytime highs will return to around 12 °C until the end of October after the current weather system passes. Most of the snow we got should be gone by the end of today. It already melted from the paths / roads yesterday, and those will dry out today if there isn't any more rain.

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>>1015417
Canada.
I also bought a fake leather jacket for casual use but used it for biking today to university and it's warmer than my goretex. Also costs a third of the price of gore. Is it just a meme?

>>1015455
I'm in southern ON and it's like 25 out

>>1015455
Goretex is waterproof not necessarily warm.

>>1015459
Its been over a month since it was 25 in Alberta.

>>1015460
But fake leather is both windproof and waterproof
Only downside is that it weighs a ton i guess

I recently got castelli nanoflex shorts. They are 100 euros but goddamn are they good, nice fleeces layer and even though they are not officially windtight they are pretty windtight

if you combine those with leg warmers its fucking perfect

>>1013980
Yeah! Kinda dreading that winter in the alpine here began weeks ago, but snow does create it's own type of beauty.

>>1013990
Why? ~67.5°

>>1015403
>>1015405
>>1015455
these are true feels. C A L G A R Y here and rode a bit before races this weekend and fuck it was cold

Over 2.5 hours today with the temp between 1 and 3 °C with a light wind. I was a little cool but not uncomfortable. It takes a while to adjust to the cooler temperatures. All the way up to double digits tomorrow.

Not sure how to dress for tomorrows ride. Weather's just starting to turn here so too warm for the full on cold weather gear and too cold for shorts and a jersey.

Forecast says 1-2°C when I leave warming to 10-12°C, light northerly wind. Guess it'll be arm and knee warmers and maybe a softshell jacket or baselayer. Don't think it's time to bust out the full length bibs yet.

>>1012510
cutfags.jpg

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>>1015896
Went with Jersey, shorts, long sleeve baselayer and summer gloves. Pretty much spot on tempwise: chilly when I set out but warmed up on the first hill 1-2km in. Didn't realise I spent so long on my coffee stop, got caught chatting to the barista. Usually 15 mins in and out. Few spots of rain in the last 2km but it was sunny all the way round. 10/10 sunday ride.

>>1016099
Damn you fast.

>>1016099
>68km/h
I think I'd be too much of a pussy to go that fast

>>1016138
Once you go over 55 miles per hour it starts to get a bit scary, especially when you're in a peloton.

>>1016138
It was on a well paved straight main road and i'm on 28's so it's not too bad. The singletrack country lanes at 30-40km/h are way scarier since you can't see far ahead and there's random gravel and earth along the centre of the road so keeping a good line is tricky.

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So I did my Brevet yesterday.
Great ride. Reckon my stats aren't too shabby either.

>>1016163
meh I am an alcoholic and I average 4.5 w/kg on a 1 hour ride

I went for a 3 hour wander around town. It was damp and cloudy but fairly pleasant. With the recent rain and snow the roads in older areas are covered with a leaf puree.

While going across a bridge where the road narrows I stepped on it a bit getting up to 32 km/h. When I checked my mirror for cars I saw a mountain bike coming up from behind me very fast. As it went by I saw it was an e-bike with a big mid-drive motor.

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that dumb hurricane gave me crazy headwinds to deal with ;_;

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This is the furthest I've ever gone before ;_;

>>1016201
>riding along the beach
How comfy is the view

>>1010817
lol, i am from recife.

good job on your first 100km, mtb or road?

>>1016210
Hahah no shit! and yeah I have a road bike.

You wanna ride sometime?

>>1016206
No need to be sad, everybody starts somewhere. 28 miles already is more than most people ride in a year and a 15mph average speed isn't bad at all for a beginner.

>>1016220
He rode in a loop, maybe he means that's the furthest he's gone from his house or something.

>>1016206
Don't ride loops bro, go out and explore.

>>1016223
I'm too paranoid of getting a flat 10 miles out and I don't have a repair kit

>>1016229
M8, just watch the road and don't ride over things. You're just stressing/creating excuses to not ride out of your comfort zone.

>>1016207
pretty comfy, but I can't really see the ocean for the majority of the ride, it's blocked by woods/houses

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>>1016207
>>1016388

>>1016390
looks comfy

>>1011670

that shit is hilarious

How much did you guys ride and what was your average speed when you started?
I started about a week ago and rides of 20 to 30km at around 20~22km/h average.
I'm mainly riding to lose weight since im almost 90 kilos, any tips?
I have changed my diet so as not to consume so much garbage and eat healthier food

>>1016424
there are 3 things you need to do in order to get 'fit' nutrition, exercise, and SLEEP. aim for 8 hours.

>>1016424
Been at it for almost 3 months now, when I first started a 20-30km ride was like "holy hell, how am I gonna do those distances".
But I kept upping my distance and pushing myself and you'll be surprised just how much you can do. I went from 10 -> 20 -> 35 -> 60 -> 100km all rides on sundays with shorter rides during the week.

I deff notice that I'm riding faster than when I started but headwind always makes my averages drop from like 25kph to 22-23.

>>1016426
Its extremely windy where i live since i live right next to the ocean but when i do get to a sheltered road i just feel myself going faster and not having to work so hard.
>>1016425
My problems here is that the only exercise i dont abhor doing is cycling so its what im doing currently, hopefully ill get a bit leaner.
For the nutrition part i mostly just mimic recipes i find online because i can't cook worth shit

>>1016427
>Its extremely windy where i live since i live right next to the ocean but when i do get to a sheltered road i just feel myself going faster and not having to work so hard.
Well yeah, cause there isn't wind pushing you back. learn to love headwind, you'll get faster against it and even faster with no wind.

Also losing weight with cycling is p hard to do, maybe you'll get the odd kg lost but after that it's down to nutrition and extra stuff you do off the bike.

>>1016424
I have recently started riding a bit more frequently than I used to. However my daily distances osculate around the 20-30km mark. But my average speed ranges from 13-18 km. I'm sure I could make it bigger easily, but the road conditions near me don't really allow me to break the limit of 50 km/h (excluding two "bike roads" that actually let me break that magical limit). Thus I'm forced to take the rides in the woods or through the small villages and micro towns around me, but then I can't really accelerate myself there to the point that I would be satisfied with myself.

As for the details, I'm a fat beginner, 95kg 178cm. There are mainly forests around me and the bike roads in my town aren't all that common, sure, there are quite a few of them, though it's still not enough for me to ride on them seriously. I'm lucky enough that there aren't any steep slopes around me so these kind of things don't really slow me down. But I just feel kinda pathetic not being able to ride with the speed I like in my town or near it without using the streets outside of the city. I'm mostly riding casually, twice or so a week, lately for 20km distances, though I'm a fat faggot so even that distance makes me sweat like crazy.

Anyways, I just wanted to write that I'm honestly amazed with your average speed, I wanna know how you do it.

>>1016436
I share the sweating problem i'm 87kg 170cm, im a fat manlet beginner.
I don't know how i get these average speeds, my legs are pretty big but its just the speed i feel comfortable going at, i've maxed 50 something but i mostly say at 25 tops.
I've been pushing my max distance everytime i go out, 20km isn't much but when i get close to 30 my stamina starts to go, the downside of having been a games with no social life all my life i suppose.

I only have 1 bike road here and it's absolutely atrocious and is always filled with people jogging who won't let me through

>>1016424
I started riding again almost exactly a year ago after 10 years of smoking and no exercise. First time out I did 10km at 17-18km/h and thought I was actually going to die. Just kept at it trying to do a bit more each week and now I'm doing 120-150km a week with a long ride like >>1016099 on the weekends. My aerobic fitness is still my weakness since I still smoke but it's improved a lot in the last year.

>>1016441
Ride on the road not the MUP if you want to go fast. I pretty much never bother with bike lanes since they're full of pedestrians and you have to stop and give way at each junction here.

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Some snowy fun yesterday, with a cool inversion that led to witnessing a Brocken spectre!

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>>1016424
This is what I did when I first started and I was a little heavier than you and manlet tier (5' 7). Also these are all burger units. You can do it anon, the hardest part for me was making a habit of it.

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Went out for 2.5 hour with temperature between -2 to 0 °C. I'm starting to get used to the cooler temperatures, but I would like to see some more warm dry days. 2-4 cm of snow forecast for today, which just started towards the end of my ride.

I road around an industrial area near a steel mill. There is always all kinds of interesting scrap strewn around. Plenty of old rail cars used as storage sheds.

>>1012826
holy shit, I must be light then. I'm 6'2 and 160

>>1016466
Is that a cloud behind you?

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Nothing better than mountain biking in the fall.

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anyone have problems with strava lately? the blue is what i also did but it missed all that.

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>>1015527
>Why?
just curious.

>>1016502
second

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Fresh tracks today!

Lots of powder but not enough traffic from the fat bikes or snow shoes. Climbs were pretty much all done on foot but the descents were very fun and technical. Fingers crossed this early snow gets a chance to pack and freeze so that more productive rides can be had.

>>1016570
That dog looks confused as fuck

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Overshoes rule

Fuckin snow and ice. Keep my commuter bike outside and the front derailleur cable is frozen where it contacts the bb from the snow melting and refreezing.

Went out for another couple hours of 0 °C riding. The roads were all wet from yesterday's snow and it was very damp. Rode over to an area with a lot of long roads and paved alleys so I could loop around for a long time without repeating the same roads. Its going to get cold enough tonight that ice will be an issue tomorrow morning.

>>1016549
are you using phone? There's your issue

Just under 3.5 hours today with the temperature around 3 °C. Felt fairly cold with a wind 25 gusting to 40 km/h. I could feel myself running out of energy around the 3 hour mark.

The forecast keeps getting revised downward. Nothing in the double digits until Sunday. Yet more rain tomorrow night. Lots of standing water and unpaved roads just aren't drying out.

7th rigid mtb ride in a row. With all the shit weather I haven't taken my touring bike out since the 1st. The CylcoX King tires I have on it seems to dissolve on asphalt so I'm saving them for gravel, but the gravel roads have been too wet.

I've been mostly riding around town with my Edge 800 on map display and going down random roads, paths and alleys. I made a very convoluted route file for today, so the garmin was constantly beeping at me. It was also acting a bit goofy giving turn notifications 200 meters out which meant occasionally having to pass 2 roads before reaching the one it wanted me to turn on.

It took 2 years but I rode 30 miles for the first time today. Feelstiredman.

>>1017410
wtf? why did it take you 2 years to do a measly 30 mile?

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>>1015026
Colorado fall biking

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You're riding your bike, when all of a sudden this guy jumps in front of you.
What do you do?

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Went up the "mountain" for the first time since June. Four months. My fitness has all but disappeared and it was by far the slowest time ever up it. Hurt like hell.

Some notes:
-got passed by what I assume was a regular commuter on a >flat bar road bike with a rack and panniers and maybe a backpack too. Hardman,
-definitely need to go back to the stock saddle for this bike, need the cutout. Tried various angles on the arione and my perineum does not appreciate any of them
-need a compact chainset, probably. Was over 200W (I'm weak, I know) at many sections with less than 60 cadence. Not cool.

>>1017495

Man I'm so glad I've never even seen these where I live, I only know them from /n/s horror stories.

What the fuck are they even supposed to be, are they like nuts from a tree? Why are they so spikey? How do they taste?

>>1017550
they're a dried out seed pod from a vine type weed, probably not tasty.

How do you not get bored on 2 hour+ rides

>>1017495
>It has been reported that the seeds or nutlets have been used in homicidal weapons smeared with the juice of Acokanthera venenata in southern Africa.[

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Went on a nice nature-y loop after work, was sick all week so it was nice to finally get out again.

Also I nearly got viciously murdered by some cunt parked in his car on the cycling path who swung his door open just as I passed, there was a high kerb on the side of the path and I only just squeezed through. If he was just a tiny bit further in his move of opening the door he would have caught me. Fucking cunts not paying attention, looking behind before opening the door is literally the first thing you learn when you become a cager. I hope he realised just how close that was and it taught him a lesson. I have that kind of faith in people, even dumb cunts like this one.

>>1017532
thats a big mountain

>>1017578
if you get bored then cycling is not for you. I tend to just look around me at birds and whatever there is to see, I dont ever get bored. It definitely not action packed but its got some kind of serenity, all while working your ass off.

13 °C, I think I almost got heat exhaustion. Definitely too warm for my winter boots, but I didn't want to adjust the saddle height again just for today.

>>1017578

Now this must be boring. This woman is doing a single year mileage record attempt. Doing 360 km a day worth of laps in same location every day. She's gone 54,000 km more than me this year and I have 2,000 meters more elevation gain. And looking at the ride data most of the elevation gain is just from temperature fluctuation.

https://www.strava.com/athletes/10033054

Strava is gay and takes the fun out of riding your bike

Fuck it

>>1016486
yes

>>1017758
Only if you let it do so. I enjoy looking at the data of my rides.. PR's, distance, elevation gain, avg speed etc. It's a good way to gauge progression, yearly stats, and you can check in on your buddies' rides too.

>>1017607
Where is this extended stats, move ratio, training impulse etc thing from?
Never seen this on PC or mobile Strava and I have premium.

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>>1017768
StravistiX

>>1017767
except garmin connect tracks progress better than strava does.

>>1017805
Garmin Connect VASTLY underestimates caloric expenditures, whereas Strava actually gets it right. In my rides at or exceeding 50-60miles, the difference between the two often amounts to between 1,000 to 2,500 calories, and I have plenty of evidence to prove it

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>>1017785
this is pretty dope, thanks anon!

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>>1017860
Noice. I think we are the two strava cunts in these threads all the time lel. I am jelly of your bike and your hills.

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The last few years I've been using Strava to find new places to ride (looking where other people like to ride) and keeping track of where I haven't been yet (empty spots on heatmap).

A few years back using the heatmap and my Edge 800 map display I set out to ride the entire city a chunk at a time. And since last year I've expanded my exploring to the multitude of unpaved roads surrounding the city.

Made the video with this: http://renderfast.com/runparticles/ and Cam Studio screen recorder from about 80 rides covering 4,000 km.

>>1017880
Pretty neat

It's also amusing to think you rode through miles and miles of grid blocks in the city just to go see a landfill

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>>1017885
I've been down the road near the landfill many times this year. There is a recently paved road up that way that lets me bypass the city when heading east.

For the roads outside the city I've covered just about all I can. It takes a ride of 4 hours or more to cover new territory. The small rectangles are 1 mile by 2 miles.

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Starting to get cold outside, which is nice because theres fewer people in the streets.
Had a long trip to almost as far out the company I'm in covers with bikes as my first of the day, I liked the adventure it gave me.

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fug

>>1017917
Can you post that wojack you have for a profile pic lad?

>>1017987
This

>>1012813
why is your ftp set at 285 watts?

>>1012813
Weird.
Same weight as me, same height as me, but you look way skinnier.

>>1017860
>>1017870
What app is this?

>>1018080
Because it is 285 Watts?

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Bay Area got rain (finally!) but it meant today's fire road climb turned into a mud slog.

>>1017880
That's really cool, must've taken you a long time to do that.

I went for an early 50 km ride to beat the forecast rain. Had to fill a slow leak in rear tire twice before it ended up going completely flat. Rear tire on my Troll is little annoying to change. Horizontal dropouts make getting the wheel in and out tricky, particularly getting it back in. Also the tire I got from the discount bin at the LBS is tubeless ready, hence a really tight fit on the rim. I have to make sure the bead is pushed into the center of the rim all the way around just get enough slack to get the last bit over the rim even with a tire lever. Got home just as the rain was starting. Grabbed a 2nd and 3rd overall on two segments on the way home, though the first one was out of 7 riders. I was more impressed with the second one since I reached the start point just after a left turn instead of having 3 blocks to gradually buildup speed before the segment starts.

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Rode in the rain for the first time, it was comfy

>>1018150
why are you ruining the trails for everyone else?

>>1018150

Whoa is that retroshift?

What's your opinion on it? I really want to do either a retroshift or a suntour command build for my next bike, but I can't find any firsthand enduser experience on retroshift.

>>1018432
I said fire road, not singletrack. There's no trail to "ruin", and they're already washboarded to shit by the forest service trucks anyway.

>>1018433
They're ok at best. You can shift from the hoods, but not really from the drops. I'd prefer regular bar end shifters, but on an off-road bike, they get bashed into things a lot out there (including my knees). Retroshift (now re-branded Gevenalle) is definitely a compromise, but they're reliable in the muck and you can fall back to friction shifting if necessary, unlike brifters.

I tried a set of Suntour Command shifters once. The ergonomics are pretty terrible. T shifter lever may block the hooks, the hoods, or the ramps from your grip, so you have to modify where you're gripping the bars based on what gear you are in.

>tfw time of year where temperature keeps dropping in the morning until 9:00 am
So many times I've left the house early assuming it won't get colder than the current temp. A few times I've had the temp drop over 5 °C in 45 mins it took to get to university.

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>>1018644
>doing the same thing over and over expecting different results

>>1018651
Isn't that what practice is?

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>>1017987
>>1018020

Yet another cool damp day. 3 °C with 93% humidity from yesterday's rain, with a 20 kph wind thrown in for good measure. Two more cold days then maybe up to 10 again. Rode around town for 2 hours.

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I had fun

>>1018695
>wish I was on Schwale™ Wojak professional bike tyres

>>1018695
Thanks lad, much appreciated

>>1018432
>ruining muh trails
you probably don't even show up to any dig days, dude.

2.5 hours at 0 °C with a 35 kph wind. I was expecting to keep the ride short when I left the house but it didn't feel too bad when I got going. HR was up and slow to recover so I think its time for a rest day after 13 straight days of riding. I've been steadily losing weight all fall and have dropped below 160 lbs for the first time in probably 15 years. One thing that seems to be helping is replacing lunch with a large salad which has all but eliminated fast food from my diet. More importantly the fiber helps move things along quicker in the morning routine before heading out for a ride.

>>1019073
>riding at freezing into a 35kph headwind

u gonna fuk ur lungs up boiiiiiii

>>1019087
I don't usually feel it in the lungs until below -15 °C. At that point I usually wear a paint respirator without cartridges to keep my glasses from fogging, which also helps pre-warm the air.

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I'm slowly getting faster while riding a bit further than previously, feels fucking great. Especially when keeping a consistent speed against headwind.

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did a quick after work dash through the cold and windy fields, proud as fuck to maintain 300 watts all the way, with my legs screaming from 5 minutes in. They went a bit numb for the last couple of minutes.

Now I see my powermeter has tons of drop outs all the time, fml.

>>1019355
>Average 35kph

Fug, why even live.

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>tfw you're too burnt out from finals and stress to go outside so you spend a couple days getting high and working on your bikes

>>1019448
>mfw 1000+ daily caloric surpluses for the past three days because of exam stress

Have to do a century to burn it all off now

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>>1019347
I was "crushing" it today until a taxi decided to make a right turn with no indicators or braking. Shoulder bumped the taxi but thankfully it wasn't that hard and I didn't fall off my bike.
Still pulled a calf muscle which ruined my 25.xkph average that I had :( but at least I'm seeing an improvement in my endurance and speed.

we're all gonna make it brah

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Its been some slow days at work this week meaning less kilometers than I want to do, so today we had nice weather (not raining) so I went for another ride after 70 km on my cargo bike.

It was pretty good, but it got dark outside fast and I was in black kit on a black bike with no lights...

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>KOMS and shit

tfw I have never had a KOM because every segment here has 10k+ attempts, and most popular ones are locked out by a pro peloton going 50kph.

>>1019691
meant to reply to
>>1019680

>>1019691
I used to have KOMs but it looks like everyone where I live is driving around with Strava on nowadays.

Took my touring bike out for the first time since Oct 1st. My legs felt ok but my HR was mid 160+ the entire ride. Nice to be able to go fast again. I was planning on doing some gravel so I ignored the fact my tires felt under inflated and squirmy. Turns out they were 30 rear 25 front which is a bit low for 700x32s. Was a pretty nice 8 °C but the wind was stronger than they were forecasting.

>>1019680
How's the aeroad? Is it true that aero bikes are really uncomfortable?

>>1019700
I like it a lot, but I'm also pretty flexible so the aggressive geometry suits me well.
For comfort I don't really have lot to compare with, but it seems comfortable enough, like they said in some review; it's no Trek Domane but it's comfortable for an aero bike.

>>1019704
I don't get aggressive,endurance geometry for me, it's a fucking meme, just play around with the headset. The BMC team machine is made for endurance but pros go a frame down with an 140 mm stem slammed and now it just became an aggressive bike. I dun get it

>60 mi/96.5km ride Saturday
>25 mph winds predicted
>30+mph gusts

Fuck. Finally averaging 16+mph pace after starting biking 6 weeks ago

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>>1010864
legit question, have you ever had dogs chase you? I've wanted to take a trip to that part of Ontario for a long time.

t. has never taken a ride 50km away from Toronto

>>1019762
lol, where did you hear that? no there are no stray dogs. where you at? maybe we could ride together, are you that devinci anon?

>>1019708
Easier to make a smaller bike a bit bigger and have a more twitchy steering and acceleration. A minuscule amount of weight loss as well.

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I once had a dog race me, was pretty neat. Suddenly heard a guy yelling and the sound of dogfeet next to me and there he was. I had to go 40kph+ for a while to finally get rid of him. I dont think the owner was too happy about his dog being hundreds of meters up the road lel.

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Went out for ride in the pouring rain, forgot quite how nice that feels when riding, even on a cold day for some reason. Only downside is with all the leaves, dirt and roadmarkings everywhere, I am forced to corner like a grandma on my full slicks.

Had a nice gravel ride planned for today, then it poured overnight. Going to go for an evening ride instead since the wind is supposed to die down. Shitiest October since I started riding year round. Even if September is wet October is usually awesome, but 14 days of rain and temperatures well below normal, insufficient to quickly dry out gravel roads this year. And tomorrow another cold saturating rain, but I should be able to sneak in an early ride.

Anyone gone on a ride the day after giving blood? Not sure if I should go out tomorrow or just stay in.

>>1019973
I did that a few days ago. You have to keep it very, very slow and, in any case, the arm where the needle punctured will hurt significantly and get some dark areas around the needle hole.
That is to say: better to rest for one day and then just resume normally.

how do i gofast

>>1020002
pedal hard

>>1019918
Are you in australia too? The weather this year has been fucking garbage.

>>1020036
Western Canada. September was great, but most of my rides in October the temperature has been between -3 and +6 °C, maybe 2 days over 10.

If all the moisture this fall translates into a super snowy winter I'll be happy. I only got out snow shoeing twice last winter and neither time was very good.

Temperature dropped fast this evening when I went out. Riding around the MUP in the dark I kept flushing out rabbits. There are so many of them in the city. Once the creek freezes over coyotes start coming into the city parks to hunt them. I've come across random rabbit parts on many winter rides.

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>>1019763
Yup I'm the Devinci guy. Have midterms coming up so no time to ride atm. I just read a lot of stories about people getting chased by dogs on country roads on reddit

>>1020077
what school you go to? im at centennial.

>>1019963
looks comfy

Going to go for a long ride tommorow. Issue is that in the morning it will be 0C, and from 12-17 it will be 10C with beaming sun. Due to the planned length of the ride I have to go at around 10:30 in the morning when it is still about 3C, which is full on winter clothing temperature, but by far the majority of the ride will be with the sunny 10C. How do I do that? I dont want to haul all that shit with me. Do I just endure the cold for the first hour or will that ruin me for the rest of the ride?

>>1020204
packable layers

Got out just before sunrise for 3 hours to finish before a sure to be miserable rain starts. Started out at -1 °C and got up to 3 by the end. I must be getting used to the cool temperatures because 3 felt pretty nice.

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>10 miles out
>Tire goes flat
>No repair kit on me

>>1020302
>riding further than a few kms without a patch kit
Serves you right

Nice and sunny when I left the house, then 30 minutes a heavy fog set in. Thick enough that it was leaving a mist on my glasses that needed frequent wiping.

How much should I be increasing?

>>1020699
about 50%

New wheels and bars after a crash, I still need to cut the steerer and get some bar tape on there but otherwise it's pretty much better than when I bought it

>>1020699
Yes

I was slow today, not sure if it was the wind as it didn't give me a huge boost on the return trip, but the direction shifted a bit. Days like these I'd love to have a power meter so I could non-subjectively know whether it was me or the conditions that sucked. Despite its limitations I like the features of the powerpod, like being able to give you the effective headwind. It would be great if the manufacturer worked with the ANT+ group to get those incorporated into the spec.

Saw some nice halloween displays, I'll have to take the time to get pictures of them tomorrow.

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Had a lovel ride on sunday. I made a new route beforehand and checked it out going by gps, discovered a bunch of great dirt and gravel roads I'd never used before because I was always on a road bike lookin for asphalt.

Didn't bring enough food and rode longer than expected, as usual, an bonked somewhat on the way back. Still a great ride apart from cleaning the sheep shit off the bike afterwards

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Strong wind today. I was just as slow as yesterday but my legs felt better. My hi-vis windstopper jacket can be a bit of a hindrance on cloudy days like today. Most of the time I find it better if cross traffic doesn't even know you are there. Drivers kept randomly slowing or stopping while I was waiting at stop signs, bogging down traffic and fucking up the gaps in vehicles I was planning to use to cross. No idiot, you don't have some magical power to control the vehicles in all 4 lanes!

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>>1020302
i did this the other day BUT i had
>spare tube
>multitool
>hand pump

unfortunately i did not have
>presta converter for hand pump

i normally keep that fixed to the hand pump with a wrap of gaffer's tape but apparently things just go missing sometimes and there isn't shit you can do about it.

>walk of shame 5 miles out of the woods and 10 miles back home

>>1021241
You should just carry the adapter on one of your valves

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>tfw

Anyone else starting off winter training with some mountain climbs? I'm in North Washington and a buddy and I have been trying to do one high elevation ride a week. Just did Mount Baker and Mount Erie with Mount Constitution coming up.

>>1021394
Uh, no? It's the only small time of the year I can bulk on weight and muscle for next season.

>>1021337
ride safe eskimo man

>>1021421
>tfw constantly shitting pants while riding on the first few snow days
Every fucking year.

I can't help but ride overly cautiously and still feel like I'm gonna wreck it constantly when the first snow comes down. Even with the front studs, Schwalbe btw, it just feels wrong. Combine that with riding clipless and I've got absolutely no confidence in my riding. The memeskin I've still got on my rear tire certainly isn't helping and it is legitimately the absolute worst traction of any tire I've tried on snow/ice. Just need to get used to riding in snow again to regain that confidence.

I'll probably be doing donuts with the memeskin on the ice rink come new year.

>>1021581
Just ride with like half pressure, it helps a ton. Of course you're gonna be a slug but you're a slug already from the sound of it.

I feel you tho, I'm not very confident in my cornering either, actually slipped out in one last year and ate dirt and it wasn't even snowy or anything. I'm even more of a coward in corners now.

>>1021583
It isn't a problem with pressure or traction, other than on the rear tire but that's not really a problem when riding.

It's about not being used to snow/ice after riding the summer on asphalt and riding too carefully because it feels wrong as you know it's more slippery than dry or even wet asphalt but aren't really used to how you can take corners. Takes me few weeks every single year to get used to riding on snowy/icy roads without feeling like I'm about to slide out all the time.

>>1021581
Why the fuck would someone ride clipless in snow and ice?

>>1021581
The wheels can slip out sideways very easily when its slick. So you pretty much have to corner with the bike as upright as possible which feels weird and you have to turn slower.

You also have to be really careful anywhere a path has a significant sideways slope to it as you tend to get pulled to the low side and risk wiping out if you fight it.

The absolute worst is a little bit of snow on top of ice. It raises your tires just enough that studs are useless.

>>1021599
Because it really isn't a problem in normal snow and ice. And they're set up to pretty easy release so I can get foot down when necessary. It becomes a problem when there is sludge that melted during the day and then refreezes into all kinds of shapes that make riding in a straight line impossible. But I change to flats for the spring for that reason.

Normal ice has pretty good traction with studs, especially if it has any sand on it. Packed snow is even better. As anon said the worst times are when it's fresh snow on top of ice or when partly melted snow refreezes.

>>1021614
Yeah it takes some time to get used to cornering again.

My mtb had a flat when I was geared up for a ride this morning, so I just pumped it up and hoped for the best. Ended up lasting over 2.5 hours before it started getting noticeably soft and made it the whole 3 hours. After repeated difficulty crossing this one intersection all week I figured out a better way to deal with it. I turn left down the alley just before it and pop out through a parking lot which lets me get into a left turn lane so I can wait for traffic to clear one side at a time instead of needing it clear in both directions.

My fucking ATHSMA FUCK

>>1021725
get some medicine and win the Tour desu

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>>1021337
Spoopy!,, those would, tearmy fingers off,, then suck, my hand intothe frame.,
>>1021581
Driftbaby!

,,,rain freshair,, gentle wafting ofragrant flowersoyummy!,, cage passs , smell of, cheapoil , frayed fan belt fabric overtight,, battery acid corosion ,leaky exhaust burning theunderbody ,, overich mixture ,bad timing,,with a hint of cigurets and air freshener., freshair!

I've been riding my rigid mtb all month due to weather. I think my legs have finally adjusted to it, since my avg HR dropped below 140 for the first time in a while.

I'm not sure if that adjustment is inherent in the switch between geometries, or if the fit on one bike is just wrong. Or the mtb having a 7 speed cassette forces me to work more and shift less. Or urban riding with lots of turns, stops, accelerating instead of rural cruising with few stop.

I seem to have been building muscle all month since I'm loosing fat but my weight hasn't moved at all. Probably also explains my higher than normal HR.

Throw in the weather, just too damn many variables.

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R8 my ride

>>1022111
Pedal strike/10

>>1022142
That is an issue when doing tight corners
Also i quicly found out i can't ride it like a motorbike

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Finally a relatively dry day so I took my touring bike down a gravel road to a pond where snow geese stop during migration. Lots of them, but not as many as last year.

I need to get a few more rides in on that bike this week. If the weather doesn't suck next Saturday there is a 200 km brevet scheduled.

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65 miles yesterday at 4.15 W/kg, decided to meme hard this morning as I have lost control of my life

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GPS on my new phone is garbage despite having gps+GLONASS compared to my old one which was just GPS. It cut about 10km off the ride and threw my speeds out, the 75% quartile speed seems accurate though. Next purchase is definitely a decent bike computer.

Great ride though. Around 15C and no wind so I was comfortable in my summer shorts and short sleeve jersey. Passed loads of groups out in deep winter gear: thermal knicks and cold weather jackets, they must have been boiling. Did babbys first hill too, 2km at 6% average with 1km of 8-9%. I live in a pan-flat county so this felt like an alpine col. Favourite barista was working too so I got a decent espresso on my stop.

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I was hungover but decided to go for a little ride because weather was good. Felt really energetic and the ride turned into a long high intensity ride with every hill I could find thrown in. Must be all that carboloading from the beer.

I tend to avoid riding hungover because I feel a bit slow in the head but apparently its okay as long as I dont need to use my brain.

>>1011661
don't really understand the appeal myself

if I wanted to go fast I'd get in my car

>>1016502
I wish autumn actually existed where I live

The weather suddenly changes from summer to winter temperatures and the trees keep their leaves all year long

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Did my 11th Strava Gran Fondo of the year today. Got fairly windy a few hours in. Coming back I was doing 40 kph most of the way except for a freshly graded section of gravel. Found another pond with a few snow geese on it.

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Rode down to go watch the salmon spawning yesterday

Was 110% glad I threw on kenda kwickers last week, pretty good for a 32mm tire.

>>1010795
kekkle

>tfw (insert face here) temperature is around 0 celsius and first snow just fell and bike racks at university campus were still already full

>>1023165
Good. I dont understand people not riding their bicycle when there is snow/ice. Just go a bit slower if you cant handle it, its still way faster than walking and probably faster and definitely comfier than taking the bus.

First week of November weather is looking better than anything we had all October. Nice to get a few 4+ hour rides in while I can. Found a 1" crescent wrench embedded in a dirt road today, perfect for using with cassette lockring tool.

Finally a complete absence of precipitation from the forecast so I should be able to cover most of the remaining roads I wanted to add to my heatmap this year.

Went out for 70 km this afternoon. Once I turned south it was immediately apparent the wind was much stronger than the forecast 20 kph. Temperature got up to 17 °C which was a bit much for my winter boots.

I was looking at the HR reading on my Garmin before I left the house since it was nice and low. So I sat down for a bit to see how low I could get it, and saw it go as low as 54. That's 21 bpm lower than what my resting HR was when I first got my HR monitor about 6 years ago.

I sometimes have an incredibly low heartrate, like 30bpm lower than usual when riding tempo, but it only happens like 1/100 rides. I dont feel any different on the bike. When I go for a little sprint or something it does rocket up to normal but as soon as I go back to tempo again it drops massively. Would be interesting to know where that comes from desu.

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>building a route
>checking a crossing on streetview to see how it is
>see this

what do they mean by this?

Did a 200 km brevet today. Temperature started at -2 °C and got up to 18. Pretty slow over all. The guy I rode with wasn't feeling well, going at his pace my HR in the low 120s / high 110s. He thought it was just because he hadn't ridden in a few weeks and that it would pass. Then 100 km in he remembered that he had a flu shot yesterday too. At 115 km he decided to call it quits and slowly roll along until his ride showed up. Right on cue as I broke off to finish on my own the wind picked up, so I was working much harder but not going any faster. Since I was on my own I skipped the usually late lunch, just refilling my bottles when I got my card signed, so the elapsed time ended up being among my better ones.

>>1022997
S A S K A T C H E W A N

>>1024144
And running my 700 x 32 Marathon Supremes at 50 psi made them fell much better than usual.

>>1024144
>>1024156
How long did it take?

>>1024177
10h 39m elapsed, 9h 16m moving time for the 200.

Wasn't sure if I'd be ABLE to do it again this year due to lack of riding/training, but I completed the big local fondo including riding there and back. 216 km all up.

The 60 km coming home from lunch at the finish line may be the hardest riding I've ever done, from a psychological standpoint.

Swapped tires last night for gravel ride today. All ready to go, and the rear tire was flat. Turned out there was a fine metal wire embedded in my slick and it was holding the air in the tube until I swapped tires.

Steel belting from exploded semi tires on the highway is probably the number one cause of flats for me.

Had my highest distance week of the year, 770 km. The kind of weather we usually get in early October finally decided to show up.

>>1024499
Was going to do another 120 km today, but decided on a rest day instead. Had a mini bonk yesterday that I eventually recovered from, but was slow rest of the ride. Today is the least nice day in the forecast for the week, so I won't feel too bad about not riding.

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finished my tubleless conversion by cagelight in the driveway last night and just got back from a quick 20k this afternoon. 28/30psi minions are no joke brehs i got that kung-fu grip.

Hit a HUGE pothole that was masked by a puddle, popped both tubes at once, and only had one spare on me. Luckily this was about 2km from home after a otherwise uneventful 60k training ride before school. Frame and components are otherwise fine, so all things considered, could have been much worse.

>>1024781
kek that same exact thinged happened to a dude riding a few meters in front of me a while ago, only reason I managed to avoid it was because he crashed into it quite spectatucarly. He ended up with both tubes flat and a very wonky rear wheel.

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Today I drove about 80 km to do a hilly 95 km route. But the wind was much much stronger than forecast so I only did half of it. Managed to KOM a segment on the return leg. Once you start hitting 60 kph on dirt, you don't look at your computer very often. The return leg was pretty awesome, a rolling descent and at the apex of the rollers my speed was still over 40 kph.

I got in about two hours of riding trails today, great riding except that my waterbottle bounced out somewhere in the middle of the ride. Hopefully I'll find it in the coming weeks, fortunately I was on trails near my house that I ride fairly often.

>>1024149
>>1025353
I R E P E A T

>>1025353
What kind of bike/tyres were you running?

>>1025468
Trek 520 touring bike with 700 x 35 Continental Cyclo X Kings. I wouldn't recommend those tires as the compound is too soft and they wear very fast.

>>1010803
Copenhagen is so flat, Aarhus so hilly, why didnt i move to CPH.