Thursday Night - Hour of Power

unfortunately, i have a suitably rubbish excuse for not powering it this week.
(picking up some levers from someone)

Get them to the park and all! Last 6pt approved™ session for a while innit.

@ 6pt - I've got some shorty aerobars on order. What a fucking liberty.

@ 6pt - I've got some shorty aerobars on order. What a fucking liberty.

You're a disgrace. You know they're cheating right? Speed without proportional suffering. It's just not on.

(livening up those turbo sessions with somewhere else to stick your hands or actual il legitimate usage?)

Thinking about doing a few TTs next year on the Burls. And maybe a bit of pursuiting/kilo-ing.

Hopefully I'll be able to progress from using them on a turbo, to doing it on the rollers (during the winter). I foresee a weekend of tapemeasures, mirrors, fettling, and mild discomfort, but with astonishing aerodynamic gains… on my static bikes :/

(I've used tribars before, but they were a freebie that were dangerously ill-fitting)

Aerodynamic gains = turning the fan up and still going at the same speed?
Dangerously ill-fitting pretty much sums mine up. Sums the whole bike up. Sounds like a good plan though. I honestly got mine as a weird, unfunny sort of joke, but once you get used to having them there they're pretty handy, and comfortable too so long as you don't have a silly bag on your back throwing your balance off at the same time.

I'm not leaving them on all the time. That would be mental / I'm not a trigeek.

You say that now, but...

… but nothing.

:(

Out tomorrow night then?

i) The aerobars haven't arrived yet.

ii) Supervising the issue desk till 7pm.

iii) Planning some PNF stretching, and nothing more.

It's on

1. 6pt
   
2. Sasmon
   
3. upstart
   
   

Caveat - I'm on 67" this week (haven't changed gear back from the weekend) so will probably collapse after half a lap.

That aside,

Guess I'll be popping back to the family home for the old t-mobile jersey then. Pink ranger ftw.

So where is everybody today then? The weather's good, it's the last assault for a while and currently only 3 names....

i've given an excuse.

and here's another:
my brake pads aren't in decent enough shape to slow down from the velocities this ride reaches.

Bugger. I'm off to Edinburgh (again) on Monday, and as a result I'm currently forcing next week's fiddling into this one.

I'll be circling if I can get finished on time, but there's every chance that I'll not finish on time.

Is it 6.30 at that York Gate place again?

pah....I nearly croaked yesterday. Gentle outer circle warmer uppers for me!

Shit piss arse crap got to head home promptly from work this evening so am out. Rubbish.

Have fun chaps, at least I won't be holding you up :(

@simon yup. you running gears tonight?
@upstart boo!

@simon yup. you running gears tonight?
@upstart boo!

Yeah, gears.

My fixe skidder is on about 72 inches which is too spinny for me to go really fast.

If I cant do about 35 on the downhill bit its just not fun.

Jolly good, that's how I'll play it too then.

cough, TNRC, cough, 69", cough, 36mph, cough

any chance of you getting there a tiny bit earlier than half 6? I'm pretty much free to roll up now so may be there from 6ish.