Fast enough to keep the heart pumping yet slow enough to avoid a heart attack.I know the feeling, this overweight, middle aged lump cruises at around 12mph and normally I do about 20 mile a day (unless on the Downs Link) coz it's hilly round here
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Good enough to cover over 2,200 miles last year, and over 450 so far this year
Last year it worked wonders on the weight, this year is proving harder after the usual Christmas munching :bang:
Here's the blog of my rides, you can see the speeds and hills I ride
http://blog.wanderlustonline.com/
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Must admit the road bike in town scares the crap out of me brakes and tyre grip are pish if you need to stop quick Would rather be on my Mountain bike with decent disc brakes solid wheels and nice grippy rubber
On the subject got my self these on Sunday...
For a bargain price only look to have been used once the sole is unmarked bar the heel bit looks like a Mountain biker virgin to SPD bought the wrong shoes
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According to Endomono the GPS tracked my fastest speed at 33.7mph and my average speed at 14.3mph.
I don't think I was doing more than 30mph when I fell off due to braking but I'd bet I was in access of 25mph when my ass hit the asphalt.
I enjoy the odd Adrenalin rush as much as anyone else but that fall has put me off messing about, we were lucky there were no vehicles following us.
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Just a heads up for everyone ..
Cyclists who use mobile phone apps and websites to plan, track and share their rides are being targeted by thieves using the technology to pinpoint their homes and steal their high-performance bikes.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/...n-staffordshire-as-thieves-use-gps-technology
Cyclists who use mobile phone apps and websites to plan, track and share their rides are being targeted by thieves using the technology to pinpoint their homes and steal their high-performance bikes.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/...n-staffordshire-as-thieves-use-gps-technology
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My x-wife is old bill and she recommended this site(https://www.bikeregister.com), said the old bill use the database a lot.
Whether your planning to buy a secondhand one or already own one, this site is useful. Just regitered all our bikes.
Whether your planning to buy a secondhand one or already own one, this site is useful. Just regitered all our bikes.
Speed wise I'm no too dis-similar. Average around 10-12 with a max of 23-25. My only disappointment is that I've only managed around 100 miles this year due to weather and shifts.Here's the blog of my rides, you can see the speeds and hills I ride
http://blog.wanderlustonline.com/
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I was hoping to be commuting by now but as it's around 15 miles each way I don't feel up to that yet.....I'd have to leave home too early. If I did that I'd probably be pretty useless for a few hours after I got there. There are a couple of guys I work with who also cycle but one only rides about 4 miles and the other 9, and he's an accomplished Triathlete.
Think I'll try and get out for a couple of hours tomorrow if possible, but being a tight git all my gear is summer stuff. I'll buy the winter gear in July.:devil:
I've got a Bianchi and they have their own register but I'm not sure who has access to it.
If you've had your bike nicked and someone is stop/accounted in the same force area riding it, which they usually are, it should be on the Local System. But it's amazing how many people think of bicycles as having little or no value. In comparison with most cars that's true but that's possibly why so few are recovered and returned to their owners.
I've had to deal with a few bikes of late and none of them seem to have been reported as stolen. Conversely, a young woman came to me a couple of weeks ago to say that hers had been stolen from outside the local Aldi, despite being secured with a cable lock to a post. Obviously not a very good lock. But, as she'd got off the bus coming to work one day she'd seen it, locked up outside the station, albeit with a flat tyre. We've since recovered it with the help of a pair of bolt croppers and put a new inner tube in it and she should be getting it back at the weekend.
The thing is, because the Aldi didn't have CCTV coverage she didn't bother reporting it, despite the fact that there was one a couple of hundred yards away.
I know what you mean about the weather, it's prevented several rides
My winter gear is quite simple, a couple of Hi Viz workmans jackets, a set of golfing trousers to wear over my cargo trousers and some thinsulate gloves.
I now need to get a cheap thin hi viz jacket for warmer days (when they can be bothered to arrive)
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I don't think the majority of people pay much for their bikes so when it is lost its not really worth the hassle of trying to recover it.
On the other hand a select few spend a small fortune on their rides. I've spent around £3000 in total on my bikes but friends have spent much more. If your bike does put a large hole in your wallet they're worth the effort to look after them, install GPS trackers, get the correct type of insurance etc.
This is an amazing device and an absolute must IMO for anyone who spent a small furtune on a bike.
http://www.integratedtrackers.com/GPSTrack/Spybike.jsp
Thanks Shadey. That's a good'un. Mine didn't cost me a small fortune, but it's on the Ride to Work Scheme thingy so I'm going to have to keep paying for it until at least September. Mind you, £810 is not exactly small change.
I've saved that to my favourites so I'll have a look at that in the near future. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough, but I didn't see any sign of a subscription.
I've saved that to my favourites so I'll have a look at that in the near future. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough, but I didn't see any sign of a subscription.
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Free Online Tracking Service
Should your bicycle be stolen, this vibration activated tracker will begin uploading its coordinates to our free online service. You can log into the WhereIsIt page and see where your bicycle was taken
Cheap to run
Install a pay-as-you-go SIM from your country. We do not charge for our tracking service. It is free to use.
The tracker does not send an SMS each time it uploads. Tracking is very cheap with only a small amount of data being sent during tracking
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Your tracker requires a SIM card. Since it will use very little credit it is usually most cost effective to buy a pay-as-you-go SIM and just top it up occasionally
As far as I can tell once you have brought it they provide the tracking service for free. But the data is sent via the mobile phone network so a Pay As You Go sim is used to send small packets of data to them. They then display that data online for you to see for free. So the only addition cost is the Pay As You Go sim and lets say a £10 top with a good data package which would only be used if the bike was stolen and the device activated. Brilliant idea IMO.
I'm using one of these(http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bicycle-Bike-Motion-Sensor-Anti-Theft-Security-Alarm-Warning-Annunciator-Lock-/280938623847) at the moment, my bikes are locked in my garage which is connected into my house alarm. I only use it if I'm out on my mountain bike and stop at a shop or pub. I lock up my bike then activate it, if something moves my bike it lets out a 110db sound. I'm never more than 20 - 30 feet away from it so if it goes off I'm there in seconds to politely ask why they're messing with my bike.
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