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^ check out the replacement cost (and availability!) of jockey wheels for a more realistic view.

King Ti are great cages, they grip the bottle well enough for XC and hold up well to mud and grit unlike gloss carbon which looks shit after using your bottle after just one wet gritty ride. This is a 4 season/all road bike no?

Aero bars, sportive......

i'm not completely sure about what counts as more fun

Less suited to covering ground efficiently with the minimum of fuss. ie smaller wheels to be more lively/less comfortable (delete dependant on viewpoint), geometry designed to make descending faster and less nervous (whut we just designed the wheels to make it more nervous)/climbing more floppy and front wheel more likely to want to go over your ears etc

Possibly best summed up as if you go on a group ride and everyone stops at the top of a climb to rest/descend/session/talk, do you:-

a) get pissed off - get a Spark/Scale

b) fire up the go pro and don your knee pads - get a fun bike

I'm at z) - I don't stop which is why I have no friends

At last MTB PM for WW. I'd better start saving

Race Face Cinch Power Meter

“We took the heart of the lightest, most versatile production cranksets on the planet, and gave it power. The CINCH Power Meter gives you the tool to train for the Enduro and XC glory you truly deserve. Protected in your BB Shell, the CINCH Power Meter not only gives you the advantage you need to gauge your training and push your boundaries, but it does it with the compatibility and performance you have come to expect from CINCH. Thanks to the adaptable spindle, you can pick your poison from NEXT SL G4 to our Turbine R cranks, and with our CINCH App and both ANT+ and Bluetooth, you can hook it up to your favourite head unit and be on your way to the wattage cottage in no time” – Race Face.
◾Power Accuracy +/- 2%
◾Cadence & pedal effciency data
◾Dual BLE / ANT+ for head unit compatibility
◾Battery life over 400h & USB rechargeable
◾Utilizing CINCH for 1x or 2x configurations
◾Cinch Power Meter App for iPhone or Android
◾Just 65g more than standard 134mm mountain spindle
◾CINCH crank system compatible with these cranks: Next SL G4, Next G3, Next R, Turbine

I am out of date on furumites bikes and events

What FS and what Sunday Echappee thingy?

FWIW I'd view crotch grabbing while racing as extremely dodgy. The one place I wanted a dropper was Wasing and the run up to the drops was tight single track where full concentration was needed before chickening out to the B or C line!

Can't do much midweek MTB racing this year as Beastway clashes with family commitments. Would like to do something competitive to keep an edge.

One option is a mid week TT series at Weston on the Green. Never TTd before, don't have a road bike. Advert states MTB/hybrid welcome - does anyone?

They're pretty good. Wide range of abilities, competitive, fun etc. Make sure you can handle getting lapped by a 13year old.
Although not technical the surface can be bumpy enough in a dried mud ruts way that a full suss is an advantage in getting power down.

Looks a lot of fun

I'm pretty flexible, well hydrated etc. Probably just the level of fatigue.

It's your body telling you that recovery weeks are for losers

Way I feel atm it might be a recovery year.

Why do I cramp so badly in my recovery week esp in bed? I'm literally an inadvertent fold of the legs away from really bad cramp - ham string, inner thigh, calves etc.

What sort of intervals were you doing to put yourself in that sort of pain?

Clock - flat out hard as 15s, 30s, 1min, 2min, 3min, 2 min, 1min, 30s, 15s - minute recovery between each, repeat x3 with 5minutes recovery between sets.

Criss cross - 5minutes at 105% threshold, 5 minutes at 93% threshold repeat x 3 no recovery

You got it right first time.

How tall are you?

End of 3 week block with some savage intervals. Can barely climb stairs. Will have to reset as important events now 4 months away. Has the last 2 months of speed work been wasted now I'm planning on 6hr races July/August?

Thinking Scalpel, Epic or Lux

Not sure how many XXL FS XC frames there are?

I haz an Epic - light S works build - very good, faster than my HT on XC courses. Also recommend Salsa Spearfish if you like doing miles.

am thinking of trying to do it first thing, so straight out of bed, coffee and onto the turbo. I've never used energy drinks before but am thinking I should if I want to do longer sweetspot or ftp intervals. Can anyone recommend something to try?

I too am a morning person but this is really hard. I can do Z2 base straight out of bed but anything more seems much harder than a couple of hours later even.

Tried 30:18 on a recent steep hilly event because I had a NW 30T and no 19T. Worked out a tiny bit under 32:19 which was good.
Riding a single speed is all about coping with unbearable pain.

I'm just amazed by how low a gearing you need to keep it all manageable

Yeah it does get a bit spinney. Bit like being a contractor - the only time the effort is right is is when you're headed for too much or too little

I ran a Simple with horizontals and found no issues with caliper alignment when I replaced the wheel after a puncture. If you run a tug you'll need to adjust that but that also was easy enough.
I've not run an EBB but I'd love a Swift if I didn't have my Superfly.

SSMTB is highly addictive (and painful). You will be amazed what you can get up if you keep on going until you fall over.

Currently sleep deprived - amazed how badly it's affecting my ability to train. Motivation also low as just about every event I had hoped to enter is either cancelled, miles away or clashes with family stuff. No darling I won't be opening Easter Eggs on Sunday with the kids I'm taking the day to myself to do 90minutes of XC....

Grinding a heavy singlespeed gear wont get your pulse high for 3 hours, but toll ur legz much

Tall bar is threshold. Much fatigue still

Getting quite a bit of DOMs at night from intervals. Incipient cramp only an inadvertent leg fold away. Any tips for coping/reducing?

TSB currently way wrong - 2 interval sessions last week and a 3hr single speed race yesterday have me in bits - like aching all over. Apparently I should be fresh as a daisy.

Was looking at the U.P yesterday prior to this and wondering why it was so much heavier than the MTB frame. Always wanted the MTB frame were it not for the stupid HA

Glad we cleared that up then. :P

Yeah - still can't face an hours time trial mind

Unless when you say 20min FTP you don't mean FTP at all?

Probably this. I ride them on resistance rollers at the power I can just do all 6 at with some risk of failure on the last one.