I confess...

My GF now does Strava. Thinking of buying her some orange Strava-branded kit so her bike-specific clothes aren't all 100% black.

I ride off road in Rapha kit.

Well I wear lycra off-road. I'm also a handbag XC douchebag.

Watch out, it's a slippery slope. I just bought a cadence sensor and am upgrading my Strava account to premium...

Sounds like you need a powermeter..........

^ I was actually discussing getting one last night...

I took my bike to Scotland on a week's holiday and I've ridden it precisely once.

Fuck Livingston :(

That's what the cab drivers said.

That's what Stanley said.

^ I was actually discussing getting one last night...

Try a powercal. Not much more than a HRM belt, and give you rough power figures to play withs. You can then get into all the finer nerdism of power training. Before splashing out on a proper powermeter.

I've now gone and looked at all the local KOM targets sections :-(

That's depressing up here.

Some of the speeds look a bit dubious.

Strava is just waiting to judge me now.

the eternal debate: clip on mudguards or waterproofed bib tights? roughly the same price :(

Mudguards. And that's not even a confession!

any questions answered thread>>>>>>>>>>>

Try a powercal. Not much more than a HRM belt, and give you rough power figures to play withs. You can then get into all the finer nerdism of power training. Before splashing out on a proper powermeter.

Sssssh you!

I fell off my Brompton this morning, right outside work, while travelling at walking pace.

I fell off my Brompton this morning, right outside work, while travelling at walking pace.

Last year I managed to fall off my Plug as I was walking out of the gates of school, just rolling out the path and all of a sudden I was flat out and smashed my head off the ground.

I just bought a Garmin.

And opened a Strava account :-/

wtf?!
It was bound to happen eventually. My condolences.

It's a slippery slope though - next you'll be weighing your bike parts and swapping them for crabon...

Last winter I ended up with the right side of my face all swollen and a dislocated shoulder when my rear wheel slipped out from underneath me.** I was rolling along slower than walking pace.**

There's your problem. Riding slowly is worse than leaning. You don't lean in the wet, do you?

I don't really have a clue who Miley Cyrus is

I ruined three inner tubes trying to repair my first puncture by doing up the valve nut too tight.

I don't understand icloud

I've just spent 60 quid on titanium bolts, washers and nyloc nuts.

I'm moving house end of Sept.
I've started stashing my precious collection of bikes at the hopefully secure bike park at work....
Using the "one-way-ride" days (where the weather in the morning is fine to ride in, but potentially pissing down at night).

Our son has started doing that at school... Except we're not moving.

ha! is he just working through the family's collection of bikes then?

i just bought bib tights for the first time ever