Getting Ready For The Commute!

[BliarOut]

Carbon? drool.... I'm stuck with an ali MTB as I do four miles on the roughest boneshaking track known to man. That said, I can do wheelies and stoppies on it

[louiebaby]

JAYB, will you be coming to DD's in lycra this week then?



You need to let the bike nerds around here what you got!

[Justayellowbadge]

Ribble Deda Nero Corsa with Campag kit. (Pic in the show off thread)

It was that or the Boardman Team and the choice of voucher scheme made the choice for me.

At £40 a month if I use it once a week it's effectively free.

[louiebaby]

That looks pretty tasty to me...

I'm still trying to find something to fit me with the kit I want...

[Justayellowbadge]

okgo said:

Justayellowbadge said:

okgo said:

Was the 14 miles one way JAYB?

Yep.

Perversely, I'm looking forward to the ride back.

If you're not bike fit at the minute doing that even a few times a week will make huge differences. Soon your legs won't ache, mine ached at first and I was only doing 4 miles!!!. And probably spunking £2k on something carbon

Can you define this 'soon' you speak of?

Since that first ride on Friday I've done approx 30 miles every day and though I am loving it, there hasn't been much reduction ache wise..

[BliarOut]

You'll be fine by Christmas...

[louiebaby]

Justayellowbadge said:

Can you define this 'soon' you speak of?

Since that first ride on Friday I've done approx 30 miles every day and though I am loving it, there hasn't been much reduction ache wise.

You're old. It'll take longer for you!

[okgo]

Justayellowbadge said:

okgo said:

Justayellowbadge said:

okgo said:

Was the 14 miles one way JAYB?

Yep.

Perversely, I'm looking forward to the ride back.

If you're not bike fit at the minute doing that even a few times a week will make huge differences. Soon your legs won't ache, mine ached at first and I was only doing 4 miles!!!. And probably spunking £2k on something carbon

Can you define this 'soon' you speak of?

Since that first ride on Friday I've done approx 30 miles every day and though I am loving it, there hasn't been much reduction ache wise..

Jokes aside, I don't know how old you are, but it took me aboue 6 weeks for it to be effortless.

Last night I went for it hugley and on every bit of road I was going between 26-30 mph and ten mins later at home they were fine.

30 miles a day will be doing huge things for your fitness and bodyfat I would guess too!

[Justayellowbadge]

Reasonably huge amount of work to be done...

LB, brave words.

[okgo]

Justayellowbadge said:

Reasonably huge amount of work to be done...

LB, brave words.

True, but think of the money you're saving, and all this cycling means you can forget about the gym or any other excersise (unless you're into building muscle up top) and you'll have the legs of an athlete by the end of summer

And remember it took my 6 weeks probably because I only have 4 miles to go each way, I would think that you might be even faster than that. but odds on I'm also much younger so I guess its 6 and two 3's.

Edited by okgo on Tuesday 27th April 16:42

[ticmon]

anonymous said:

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Does that stuff work?

Does anybody use it? No shower at my work!

Edited by ticmon on Tuesday 27th April 21:36

[Justayellowbadge]

I had to concede defeat thhis evening.

Since Friday, the first time I've been on a bike in years, I've covered circa 120 miles.

I simply could not get on the bike tonight, my legs would not work. I am ashamed.

I think I was a tad ambitious. Am going to try 3 days a week rather than 5 untill I'm a bit fitter.

[okgo]

Not a bad effort though

[itsnotarace]

Yep you need rest days to recover

[okgo]

itsnotarace said:

Yep you need rest days to recover

They're called the weekend.

[Rolls]

I personally much prefer riding into work 3, or 4 times a week.
Means you can go out and actually enjoy the weekend ride, and gives you a little time to recover too !

[tommobot]

Hell yes. After last weeks epic fail of 2 punctures I finnaly made it, and up'ing the total route to 17 miles (approx) to avoid the puncture area shortcut. Took about 1.40 which I am pretty happy with. Looking forwards to the return leg.

[louiebaby]

Justayellowbadge said:

I had to concede defeat this evening.

Since Friday, the first time I've been on a bike in years, I've covered circa 120 miles.

A valiant effort old boy...

[okgo]

tommobot said:

Hell yes. After last weeks epic fail of 2 punctures I finnaly made it, and up'ing the total route to 17 miles (approx) to avoid the puncture area shortcut. Took about 1.40 which I am pretty happy with. Looking forwards to the return leg.

I hope that was off road...

[BigotOut]

okgo said:

tommobot said:

Hell yes. After last weeks epic fail of 2 punctures I finnaly made it, and up'ing the total route to 17 miles (approx) to avoid the puncture area shortcut. Took about 1.40 which I am pretty happy with. Looking forwards to the return leg.

I hope that was off road...

And up hill


You'll crack that in an hour before too long.