Current Projects chat and miscellany

Not that much maintenance Aches and Pains. I intentionally went for the 6500 cranks because my caad 3 uses the same group. It will get the worn chainrings, cassettes and chains. Maybe someday a flite and a new seatpost. I am quite envious of Rik van Loys FRM bargain. Needs the odd 26.8 ...

Pooface that Corrado is the tits!

Bianchi.

Has the downtube always looked like that? Well dodge.

Something a bit different just finished .... Andy Powell Overbury's of Bristol road frame

Looks great!

It's come a long way over the course of the thread but it's ended up in a very very good place.

Has the downtube always looked like that? Well dodge.

Kept too close to the radiator.

Not that much maintenance Aches and Pains. I intentionally went for the 6500 cranks because my caad 3 uses the same group. It will get the worn chainrings, cassettes and chains. Maybe someday a flite and a new seatpost. I am quite envious of Rik van Loys FRM bargain. Needs the odd 26.8 ...

Well i work nights and rarely see my bike in the day time, so i don't really get around to doing much more than pumping the tyres up now n then.

you must work on your flexibility

That too.

this, there is limited point in spending money on a fit if you could do some conditioning exercise which will change your flexibility and thus many of the related parameters

iirc there is a signficant waiting list for a fit with scherrit, in which case use the time beforehand to work on your flexibility. if you joined http://www.sohotbikramyoga.co.uk/ you can get 6 weeks nearly unlimited classes for £135 (£35 for a two week trial, followed by £100 for the subsequent month). If you do 3-4 classes a week you would start to notice some signficant change in your range of movement.

given the cost of a fit, and the cost of a bike it is a nominal investment of time and money to produce some significant gains

Would that give you enough knowlege to then continue by yourself?

Just do some research and put together a set of stretches to do regularly (hamstings, glutes, lower back, achilles, calves, quads, hips) combined with some core building stuff like plank variations... Do it twice a week and you will see a big improvement. No need to spend 100's of pounds on sauna yoga.

^^probably not, but 6 weeks of 3-4 classes would give a significant change in your flexibility

bikram is a hot yoga, done in a studio at 41 degrees

normal yoga will also give similar results, but you would need to do beginners classes. the bikram teaching style is slightly different, so there are no beginners introductory classes

like many physical disciplines once you have learned some basics it is still a good idea to get continued training, your own perspective is often very limited and an external obeserver/coach will be able to give corrective/improvement advice

i am also a lazy fucker who needs the structure of classes to ensure i do something (because I pay for yoga classes I have been trying to attend once a day at least recently)

^Dan, i get your point, but a good instructor makes a huge difference to postural alignment, which will then have a significant impact on core strength and deeper flexibility

you can just flop into a forward bend or fold properly, both may look similar to a casual observer, but there is a major difference in the outcome, hence why instruction makes a lot of sense

Hipster yoga >>>>>>
Heads! Shoulders knees and toes (knees and toes!). <<<<<<

Not disputing that yoga can be really beneficial- but I find the whole forum stock response of "you need an expensive bike fitting and yoga classes" a bit prescriptive - when you could achieve good results on your own with a consistent stretching regime and gradual trial and error with bike fit.

I don't really see much point in paying for a fit at your most inflexible, if you're going to then radically improve flexibility through stretching and need / want to change your position on the bike as a result...

its not the whole forum's response, its dj's who is a middle aged (i.e. with steady income) snob.
a really nice guy irl, but a bit of a snob on the interwebs.

most people will not spend an hour doing stretches if they do a little routine at home. i have also seen people try to do stretches when they are self taught that are positively dangerous or do next to nothing to actually help them, hence again why i would suggest some proper training. going and doing a class under good instruction will give much greater results than just watching a couple of youtube tutorials and thinking you know how to do it.

given jake browns fucking expensive trial and error approach to bike fit (buys frame of wrong size, claims it will fit and then realises it doesn't) I'd suggest a professional fit would save him a lot of time and money

but before he does that he could at least do something that will improve his flexibility

^^^ I have to agree with Dan here. Apply your brain to the problem before your wallet.

jake can't apply his brain to bike fitting, so i would worry about him damaging himself stretching

I have always gone for the online bike fit [sup]tm[/sup]
it's very extensive, you just post a photo of your bike on an internet forum and you'll get a plethora of things to adjust from saddle angle and stem height o bar shape and tyre colour.
and best of all. it's free!

and best of all. it's free!

we are working on it.

I have always gone for the online bike fit

Hmm, where do I begin...?

saddle angle?

and bar angle.

cleat position?

Bar angle. Tilt those buggers down.

saddle angle?

bar angle.

Camera angle.