How does strava work out its suffer score these days? Is it still doing that ridiculous guessed wattage readout?
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It's based on heart rate.
TarpitCarnivore
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Little bit cooler here (29.6C when I left for my ride) but it was a good 10C cooler in the shade of the woods. The exposed journey home was like riding into the sun.
Nay! Celcius is awesome. We know what ice feels like (0C) and we know what boiling water feels like (100C). Everything else is a nice sliding scale in between those two easy frames of reference. Fahrenheit is just... random.
i think you might be confusing freshness and fitness with suffer score
i'm fairly certain suffer score only takes into account your heart rate, which would make the most sense
and speaking of which, i wanted to do some mid day training to acclimate to the extreme heat. despite going at a very modest pace for 4 hours, my suffer score came out to around 264. the high was around 97f (36c) with not a single cloud in sight and not much to shield me from being cooked alive on the country roads.
of course i had an exhaustion/allergy headache of some sort near the end, partly my fault for taking a detour to climb a very steep mountain near the end at nearly full effort. i typically always pound a 24oz bottle of water/sportsmix an hour regardless of intensity but i'm thinking i'll need to drink at least 80oz every 2 hours in the extreme heat.
of course i had an exhaustion/allergy headache of some sort near the end, partly my fault for taking a detour to climb a very steep mountain near the end at nearly full effort. i typically always pound a 24oz bottle of water/sportsmix an hour regardless of intensity but i'm thinking i'll need to drink at least 80oz every 2 hours in the extreme heat.
Psychotext
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Related, was just reading an article on the subject:
http://www.bikeradar.com/road/gear/...-staying-cool-when-cycling-in-the-heat-47563/
http://www.bikeradar.com/road/gear/...-staying-cool-when-cycling-in-the-heat-47563/
I drank two litres of water in the hour before tonight's ride and had two litres of SIS Go in my Camelbak, and still ran out of fluids five miles from home..!
TarpitCarnivore
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On really hot days I found getting a cold bottle and pour on your neck / head helps bring you back down when you're temp is up. Just get a quick cool off.
They hand out cold wet sponges in long hot time trials, they are very refreshing!
Is there much demand? It's uncommon to witness a roadie running a 1x transmission, or expressing interest in losing a chainring.
Front shifting on Shimano's road groupsets is pretty good. Many roadies are picky about tight gear spacing, and with a 1x setup you can either choose to have poor spacing, or be stuck with an overall range size comparable to a lot of vintage 2x setups, which IMO feels kind of limiting (I like my '83 Miyata 710, but if it was my only road bike, I'd be very hesitant to do road rides in the mountains).
Heck, even with a fairly tightly-spaced cassette, you're left with a prominent weird 1-tooth to 2-tooth transition in the middle of the range. On my modern 2x, I sometimes double-shift to find a staggered ratio to smooth this out. You can't do that on a 1x, and the only "solution" would be to start with a bigger small cog and begin with 2x jumps, which would require that all of your cogs and your chainring be enormous in order to achieve similar top-of-range step sizes.
Wait, what!?
You've never accidentally splashed yourself when making a cup of tea?
In such a way that the splashes were large enough to still be boilingish by the time they reached my skin and remain such for a long enough time to become familiar with the temperature? Not really.
But I also don't drink much tea.
Protip: boiling water is reeeeeaaaallly hot. Like, ouch hot.
Psychotext
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Ice in my camelbak in this weather. If I take bottles I normally start out with half ice / half water (but I've not used bottles in a while).
Psychotext
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I don't like cycling on any tarmac... although, I'll sometimes accept a bit to get me to a top notch offroad descent. 
Psychotext
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Ahh bless.
That must be a bitch to clean off your downtube - it's bad enough getting it off your car wheels.
Luckily enough, mud, soil, gravel and rocks don't melt - especially in the cool, cool shade of God's woodland canopy.
Muck off tar remover works pretty well.
I don't mind cycling to work, for me, its is a bit of a no brainer, the country roads aren't busy, and I get a decent hours worth of cycling each way, it's also a little bit quicker on the bike as I don't have to sit in traffic on the bike.
Plus it saves a bundle of money on fuel........
Do you have showers in work? We have them here but I only live a ten-minute walk away so it's actually quicker and less faff to walk. I only cycle in if I'm going directly out on the bike after work, but to be honest that brings its own set of complications so it's a lot simpler to go home first and get kitted up at my leisure.
Psychotext
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OMG... bike being delivered tomorrow!
superhype
superhype
Yeah, we have a wet room with a shower, I try to cycle all year round, although I do tend to shy off if it's lashing it down, or there is ice on the road, I'm not as hardcore as when I first started riding (before I fell off a couple of times!) I remember cycling to work one morning and the Garmin showing -6C
Funnily enough -6°C was my coldest ride, crack of dawn on New Year's Eve 2014 in the Forest of Dean... and still rockin' shorts like a true mountain biker.
You know I have a photo for everything..!
Funnily enough -6°C was my coldest ride, crack of dawn on New Year's Eve 2014 in the Forest of Dean... and still rockin' shorts like a true mountain biker.
You know I have a photo for everything..!
Me too
How about this, me on the Boxing day 10, -4C, dressed as Santa?, was so cold my beard froze!
Me too
How about this, me on the Boxing day 10, -4C, dressed as Santa?, was so cold my beard froze!
I hope that's padding under the santa suit and not a month's worth of mince pies and eggnog indulgence..!
Psychotext
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That's cute and all, but both of you are doing that then going back to a warm house. Try waking up in that cold, riding all day and then going back to sleep under a tarp when it's still that cold, but now with added rain / sleet.
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I love it... honestly.
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I love it... honestly.
I hope that's padding under the santa suit and not a month's worth of mince pies and eggnog indulgence..!
It's just the way the santa suit was hanging, honest guv.
That's probably an undiscovered condition - you should rent your brain out to psychology students.
Psychotext
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I've never said this before, but I'm half tempted to grab my road bike and go out for a pootle... is really nice out there.
Would involve sticking flats on it though as my SPDs aren't set up right now.
Would involve sticking flats on it though as my SPDs aren't set up right now.
Heathen.
Heathen.
TarpitCarnivore
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Who are you and what did you do with psycho
Psychotext
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lol
jakonovski
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You haven't done winter cycling until it's -20C outside. When your FTP means Freezing Threshold Power, as in your lungs start hurting from the cold if you breathe too fast (and then you get pneumonia).
Psychotext
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It's fine, it just means you can only do ascents... and never go home again.
More like going out for a puddle where I'm at. Pouring down today. Feels like october
Psychotext
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Just ordered a mountain bike for my nephew. He's got a BMX but it'll be his first introduction to proper cycling. Another into the fold.
jakonovski
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It's a niche for sure. But I like it as I use that bike for trail riding and cyclocross, where I usually fail to shift properly in the front. It also works well for gravel grinding because there's one less mechanism to get covered in grime.
Just ordered a mountain bike for my nephew. He's got a BMX but it'll be his first introduction to proper cycling. Another into the fold.
What bike?
Psychotext
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13 Incline Alpha 27.5
Looks basically perfect for a starter bike.
Wheel size.
The "29" refers to the overall diameter, in inches, of the wheel when the tire is inflated. It's a rough estimate, as the actual diameter will vary by tire. 29er wheels use rims that have a 622mm inside rim diameter, the same as 700C.
Are there more common uses for each size, similar in the way different road bike geometries have different uses?
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