Cycling

[GingerMagician]

@Giles:

Mucho respect Chris Froome…..

^ Backed - stage was tailor made for the way Sky race though…

[Snowy]

Stayed up until 1am to watch that. That was pure joy to watch. Seeing the Yellow Attack as apposed to Defend, wow. Been years since I've seen a tour as good as this!

[Finn666]

@Snowy:

Been years since I've seen a tour as good as this!

@Snowy:

… god I hope they're not doping ...

…let's wait for the results mate

[BloodnThunder]

Anyone watch the tour this year?  Probably one of the most exciting years in quite some time.  Outside of stage 20 being a bit of a let down there was some really great racing in what felt like a more wide open GC than past years.

[kkibbey23]

With the knee issues I've been working through, I started riding my bike again. Today was the 3rd time in ten years all 3 have been in the last 2 weeks. So its been a while.

Although so far only on the trainer,  im excited to maybe get back on the roads too.

[BloodnThunder]

If you can stomach the trainer, you're going to really fall back in love with the bike when you hit the roads.

COVID helped nudge me over to Zwift and it's been a nice addition to indoor training.  With the racing season cancelled for awhile Zwift races have been about the next best thing.

[profdbrk]

I've ridden rollers in winter for 40+ years but now concede to a trainer (the LeMond works well, others are better than they used to be, which isn't saying much).  If you don't think of the Peloton as a bicycle, because it's not, it prepares you to ride because it can sufficiently kick your ass.

There are bicycle makers much like Iron Heart, if you are interested in boutique steel.  In America that would be the likes of Richard Sachs or Mr Nagasawa who makes keiran bikes.  The most IH of all the road bike makers are Toei and Osamu Fukuda.  I have bikes from all of these Japanese builders–-I've been at it with Japanese handmade for many years now.  Check out this video of Fukuda:

https://gizmodo.com/its-a-treat-to-watch-this-legendary-bike-builder-at-wor-1677539311

[SamD]

First “long way around” door to door commute done. That’s the time to beat @AdamC ;-p

[AdamC]

@SamD well done mate a hot one as well, but if this is a challenge you know I can’t turn one down was it windy or not too bad? Considering I cycle pretty much every day and havnt done this in 5 years it’s probably the kick up the arse I need!

[SamD]

@AdamC nah, the wind was fine, but the cycle lanes/traffic lights around Fareham and Cosham were a bit of a nightmare. Can probably knock at least 5 mins off that time if I can find a quicker way through those sections.

Ps. Not saying that @Alex or @AdamJ have suggested that you’re competitive or anything, but I was also wearing a 21oz type III and UHR bottoms.

[Alex]

Good time on your bike, @SamD

I did this on my now stolen Cinelli road bike before I moved to London

[SamD]

@Alex looks like I’m gonna have to up my pace and run a few of those red lights then!

[Alex]

What red lights?

[SamD]

Spoken like a true cyclist ;-p

[AdamC]

We’ve got IH fight club, could this be the birth of IH cycle club

[Nik]

I’ll throw another time in. The Sunday morning of the 20th Anniversary party I rode to the cooperage, paused the computer to hang out for a bit and buy a couple things, then caught the ferry back.

[Nocturama]

I’m always up for a bit of willy waving…

[Nik]

That's a long ride

[Nocturama]

I’d recently done Ride London, so was in (relatively) good shape considering it was a few months before my 50th birthday…

For the record, my Garmin time was 5h 51m!

[SamD]

Following what we were saying this afternoon @Alex, this was this evening’s run. Think I’ve found the most efficient route and was relatively lucky with traffic lights/junctions. Shaved 5 mins off of last night’s time, probably about as quick as I’m gonna get!