Strava

I hadn't heard of zwift, and looked it up. That must be the wankest thing ever. Good thing is it keep your 10k crabon bike clean I guess. I really wanted the toddler in the intro video to put it's hand in the spokes.

I had one decent KOM

Someone came along on Tuesday and smashed it.

Not with the 40+ mph wind.

Oh no.

He smashed it going against the wind.

*sadface*

I kinda want a Zwift invite though.

It looks like more fun that staring at a brick wall.

Chasing a bus?

I wish. It looks as though he's just a very strong rider.

Damn it, didn't get to 1000 suffer score. Had to cut ride short to get back for work. Tough route.

https://www.strava.com/activities/280302662

I'd be more gutted about being 473ft off Everesting. Nice ride!

Damn it, you're right! Gutted.

I'm gonna try it again in September, my mate carried on and finished it, was 42,000feet total and 330 miles.

That's an insane amount of climbing, hope someone was there to hand him Jelly Tots at the end.

That must have been great.

Perhaps pop back this weekend and polish it off?

I wish I had time/money for the logistics, but I don't.

September I'm gonna do the whole route again.

Good effort though, certainly taking the path(s) less travelled. Very jealous.

I remember one Audax missing the turn for Penmachno and doing a few km further down towards Ffestiniog before realising and having to turn back (and up), utterly gorgeous that whole area.

I need more Wales in my life.

Oh yes, lots of bridleways, lots of hike-a-bike, but the most amazing views. There was a 2 hour push up Pont Scethin (north of Barmouth), that was totally worth it. I'll get the pics up soon.

Gabes how do you keep your Garmin alive for that long?

Dynamo hub, and battery pack. I've also learnt that the garmin 800 crashes and corrupts activities longer than 24 hrs, so I record one activity for the day, and when I sleep, I clear it and start fresh in the morning. Then before I upload to strava I stitch the .fit files together using https://www.fitfiletools.com/

Now that I've heard the term 'Everesting' I feel compelled to face the challenge

I'm just getting to the end of the build of my first road bike (Ritchey Road logic) having only ridden fixed with strava I would normally average between 16/17 MPH on a normal 50 ish mile route.

How much faster do you think I'll be with gears and a freewheel, all things being equal and working on the idea that gears are to make you faster rather than life easier. (if that makes sense)

needs a muting function

No real way of knowing until you get out there. I rode fixed for two years solid and actually found my first few weeks i was slower with gears i guess due to the momentum that riding fixed brings, you should see a good improvement on hills however that is if you are using your gears correctly and spinning for the win, and feel fresher.

On a personal note i would average about 17.2 over a rolling route near me, when on gears my average is 18.5-19 solo but this is obviously very subjective to terrain. Head wind blah blah so i tend not to even worry about average speed as way to many things can factor in.

Probably the same as your fixed, until you starting to get used to the bicycle.

Just discovered velo viewer... Its pretty cool actually, I really like the 3d segment elevation charts. Yet another bike website to waste time on!

Does anyone else use it?

I use it, and even subscribed to the paid "pro" service. I like the year comparisons and custom graphs, don't care so much for the 3d segment charts actually.

Filtering the list of segments you've done is amazeballs.

Any else have issue with achievements on Strava? Rode the London Classic yesterday half the course I've never ridden before but achievements showing, yet my mate who I rode with yesterday is showing loads of achievements. Any ideas?

You achieved nothing?