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Imagine if the AI generated a normal-looking component. The designers would say 'No, no. It has to look freaky... so you can tell'

I like this iteration

Loving this, it's a lot of fun to ride. Will be great once I have the mudguards fitted 100%

I've sorted something temporary so my decision about a fancy laptop has been put off, but for reference, there are two 4k-ish displays available on the XPS13, OLED 400nit and non-OLED 500nit, the first being cheaper. Which would you lot go for? I'm thinking OLED because low-light performance.

I guess that is what ultimately decides it since they're both really nice otherwise - I already use windows on desktop, and I don't want to complicate things by chopping and changing with MacOS

XPS 13 vs. MBP at £1500?

respectively:
i7-1185G7 / m1
16gb ram / 8gb
3456 x 2160 OLED / 2560 x 1600
52w/h / 58 w/h battery
1.27kg / 1.4kg
Thunderbolt 4 / 3

@Stonehedge yes thanks I already had turned on athlete mode

I guess I'll see if the readings are any use to me as I build up more data. The variations that I can see so far (within 0.6%) are correlated to weight (which itself has a flat trend), so probably have more to do with water-levels than fat, if I understand right

Has anyone got the Renpho bodyfat scales? If so, how accurate do you think the fat measurement is?

Mine give me 11.5%, but I just started with a personal trainer at the gym and he said 'your bodyfat must be about 5%'. I'm 193cm, 75kg, and not completely unmuscular so maybe he's right - maybe basic BIA doesn't work at the low end?

I had a Ridley Oval 60cm. Lost in the sands of time...

100ml for £7 or 1000ml for £20!

It seems like you can see the Nile. Anyone know what the straight bits in Central Asia are?

That looks great. Did you fit a wider range cassette when going 1x?

I wish I had 8020 - 7020 is not great for me

I did not like pro-one at all either, I found the grip really poor at any given pressure

To be honest I'm glad to have a cheap crankset with solid alloy arms on the gravelbike because their ends often get bashed and scraped against rocks a.k.a. Pennine gravel

Prashad 'Indian Vegetarian Cooking'

Bowman Weald

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I've gone tubeless on my summer bike. I got the 25mm gumwalls from Veloflex - Corsa Evo TLR. There's also a lighter 'race' version. I'm really impressed. Previously I had Pro-One 28mm on my wet/mudguard bike and didn't get on with them at all, then WTB exposure 30mm - really good, but they don't feel fast.

At first I was worried because the Veloflexes blew up looking smaller than the tubed 25mm tyres I had on before (Vittoria Corsa G+). I wondered whether I should have got the 28mm version, because they would probably fit. But I rode them today at 65psi, and I think they're the best feeling road tyres I've tried. The slight suspension you get at that pressure makes them feel fast, but not sloppy at all.

I know not everyone does a long ride in their week. But if you do, that’s the one to try and spin through I think.

I did a long ride today, and pushed my cadence the whole way. It was good - I found it surprisingly easy to adapt my shifting habits by looking at the cadence readout and aiming for 80 and 90. I felt pretty fresh deep into the ride, more so than I would have if I had ground my way up the hills as per usual.

I wondered whether I would actually benefit from an easier gear (than 36/28), because going up two long and steep climbs on my route I found myself in the granny gear and my cadence dropping below where I wanted it.

You can see from the graph that my cadence really slumped during the steep mid-section on Mam Nick

It turns out I can climb out of the saddle at 80rpm, it's not necessarily fatiguing, just different.

Bonus lfgss rep if you do it fixed on a light gear (it does help).

I would love to have a fixed gear bike again, but I don't know whether I could do much with it it in Yorkshire/Peaks. Maybe with a flip-flop hub and two brakes.

Yeah I think that's worth a go because my cadence tends to continually fall as I sustain power through a steep section

I have 52/36 and 11-28. If I'm climbing, I never feel like I run out of gears in one direction or the other. I always have an easier gear available, but I feel like when I shift into it (to intentionally increase cadence), my form is messed up and my power drops.

Yesterday's intervals were supposed to be max. efforts (what the plan calls power intervals). I achieved my highest cadence (73rpm) in a 4 minute interval @ 407w - 127% FTP.

If I look at a flat intervals I have done in the past:
15 min @ 95% FTP - 81 rpm
5 min @ 114% FTP - 83 rpm

I think I'm going to forget about cadence for the remainder of this plan (the next three weeks), but once it's over. I'll try some drills

Has anyone worked to increase their cadence and benefited from it?

I'm following one of the plans on Strava, and although I take everything on there with a pinch of salt, I noticed that it recommends doing climbing intervals at 85-90rpm and 'power intervals' (max efforts uphill or on the flat) at 95+ rpm. I did my intervals yesterday on an 8% climb, and pedalled as fast as I could while sustaining a 'good' power, but only managed to average at most 73rpm over any interval.

I think I'm naturally a slow cadence climber, and over 80rpm is probably unrealistic for me, but now I'm wondering if cadence drills would be helpful to increase it a bit.

Some valves (like Muc-off) have flat sections on the lock-nut, so one of those with a little spanner might be enough?

I got fizik bib shorts with the security tag still on 🤦