Will do. Been struggling with my ankle so have only managed a few rides so far this year. Fitness has taken a bit of a hit.You need to get yourself up my way for some Cwmcarn fun. I've been here three months now and I've still not managed to get to my "local" trail centre. lol
Doesn't look too bad, I doubt you'll get scarring from that unless it's worse than it looks or you're a bit on the old side.So, I had a very hard fall today. The impact wasn't particularly fact, but I skid for a fair distance...
That's going to leave scars, won't it?
We'll be shit together buddy. I've only done four rides all year.Will do. Been struggling with my ankle so have only managed a few rides so far this year. Fitness has taken a bit of a hit.
So I've been planning to do a gravel ride on Sunday - it's 2 hrs away and now they are predicting thunderstorms. Argh.
Putting in 30 miles a month on a road bike and it feels so good.
My feet keep sliding off the pedals and I cannot figure out how to fix this issue. Is it the pedals or the shoes?
What's good cycling gear for rain/cold temperatures?
Could be both, what kind of pedals are they and what kind of shoes are you using?
Rain/Cold is entirely person dependent, and in some cases situation or location. Rain in Oregon will be different from rain NYC or the UK
I'm unsure about the pedals but they're really small, look rugged, and lack space to clip on shoes.
I wear water resistant hiking shoes and my feet slip off the pedals constantly.
Just like buying a car you should ride a few bikes to find one you are comfortable with, a store will help you with sizing, and give you the chance to try different styles, though for a campus id imagine a hybrid with flat bars is the called for bike
D lock, gold rated
Bought myself an Elemnt Bolt the other day. It's a fun little piece of kit, and seems pretty capable, but my god the manual/documentation is terrible! Also, whoever decided that it was a good idea not to be able to turn off the super loud beeping that it makes when switches off, for example, was an idiot :D
I also wish you had a little bit more control over the data fields - it's great that you can pick and choose them via the app, but I'd like better control over the size of each field, and the ability to remove the labels from the fields too. Plus the ability to turn off those beeps when you're not actually on a ride.
I need two weeks between rides to let the tenderness in my sit bones recover, especially with the ground so hard at the moment. I need to toughen up, asswise. Saddle soreness sucks.We'll be shit together buddy. I've only done four rides all year.
Sounds like a new saddle might help there a bit. I do get some serious soreness after long gaps, but nothing like that.I need two weeks between rides to let the tenderness in my sit bones recover, especially with the ground so hard at the moment. I need to toughen up, asswise. Saddle soreness sucks.
I've never really understood how you get hardened to the soreness as riding frequency increases. You'd think it'd get worse, not better. Like whacking your thumb with a hammer and then repeating it every day.
Hi all, what's the consensus (is there?) on child bike attachments? Seats, trailers, etc. Is one better than the other? Safer? Cheaper?
These would be for my 17 month old and go on my wife's bike for now (Specialized Roll).
Yeah, what I'd like is a couple of items at the biggest size, plus maybe another one or two at the smaller size. I don't tend to have more than four items to a page, maybe five max.I think because of how the pages can grow & shrink they need to limit that flexibility, though I don't know why anyone would want more than 6 pages top per page. It's just too small of screen for more data points than that.
Good points, thanks for the reply. I'm not a huge fan of chairs or trailers either but my wife seems to have her mind fixed on one.I thought about this when my kids were smaller but didn't end up getting anything. I couldn't find something I was comfortable with. I saw it as two options, a chair you attach somewhere on your bike or a trailer you pull with your bike.
A chair on the bike puts the child right by you, but also fairly high. If you somehow were knocked off, the kid is falling quite a long way onto the side of their head.
If you put them in a trailer you risk other traffic not seeing them and if that's a car it's going to be horrific.
Basically I thought I could only go for the trailer option, but would restrict it to using it off roads, away from traffic. So I would have to stick to other and parks, bumping up and down curbs, or I'd have to drive somewhere with everything in / on the car, set it all up, then go ride for as long as a young child can manage until they are bored or hungry or cold or shit themselves or whatever.
Instead I got the fitted for helmets regularly and got them scooters, then balance bikes, then proper bikes and let them learn to do it themselves. They outgrow everything really quickly from 2-6 so just bought second hand or got hand me downs from friends and family. Now both of them (4 and 8) can come for little rides to school or round the neighbourhood safely and happily.