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Speedplay sucked, but not a surprise. Might get some pavés, though @fredtc had the right idea.

Set up WKO4 tonight not having used TP or WKO before. Mind blown - it's like Bloomberg for training metrics. Was freaked out by some parts of the power curve showing as 'recreational' before realising this was just for the selected ride.

Float - now in 3D

and cycling is simply not seen as 'cool' in most areas when kids are that age

Huh?

Or much, much later.

Woodford may have a London postcode these days...

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, a Brompton appears.

'Dropped' as in 'Landed'

Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good

Fixed in Parsons Green today doing skids in Oxford brogues...

It rules out my suggestion. So many matches:

• Age
  
• Height
  
• Beard
  
• Slightly gormless pout
  
• Small round ears
  

Is it a red Genesis?

Rain + headwind on way home (late). Heavily caffeinated = didn't care.

8/10 would pasta + coffee again.

When was that taken?

Laurens Ten Dam. I guess the bike and kit haven't arrived from Giant-Alpecin...!

Green fixed aero brakeless, very clean, Avanti? Canary Wharf / Narrow St around 10pm, we were going uphill so you just got a wave. Sweet bike.

White and pink Concorde this morning, Putney high st -> CS8.

I rented Ridge Racer from a video shop for a weekend. Helpfully Namco loaded the whole game into memory so that you could play CDs instead of BGM. Managed to keep playing it for a fortnight before it got unplugged for hoovering.

Yes. Leather is nice, good zips, solid construction, good size for a weekend's worth of stuff. Quite smart so nice for formal things e.g. took a present to a wedding. Gym. Blah blah it's a medium sized nice but pricey bag for Operating Thetan Level V Raphites.

Agree, the 4-arm design is not pretty. I've learnt to like the flattened crank but still prefer pre-2015 chainsets.

Some ERG mode hate:

I get annoyed when if you slow down, the resistance goes up, and vice versa. It's unnatural and the opposite of what happens on the road. It's also slightly laggy and the steps can be too big, e.g. if you're following a down curve of target power on TrainerRoad it will reduce the resistance in big chunks, so perfectly smooth cadence doesn't yield perfect precision vs target, on which you are judged per interval and overall. It also hits you when you're down, struggling to make target power.

Yes you should just settle into a target cadence and let ERG do its thing, but that is where mood comes in. If I'm feeling good and relaxed it's fine, but if I'm tired / grumpy I fight the machine, going up and down the gears to maintain target closely, or surging to get out of the treacle.

Next time I hop on the trainer all tetchy I should just switch ERG mode off and find something else to project my anger on. No traffic, so it's a bit tough but I'll find something.

A few pints in, waiting at work for food. Safety food. Lucky rapha.cc is blocked, otherwise there'd be another shopping spree.

Previous drunk purchases include:

• Entire collection of The Great Climbs of...
  
• Leather Race Bag
  
• Data Print + Coral goodness
  

Yes, for best results try PMing him for pics of upcoming products.

Savings have been made in various ways. In the shorts, one type of stitching rather than three has been used, with a two-panel construction as opposed to the multiple panels its shorts are usually constructed from.

Makes sense, Assos have been selling various grades like this for years.

Jersey looks thin and semi-transparent based on email picture of blue one.

Speedplay-specific cleat-based cheapo power-meter anyone?

There's a good shot of what might have been, on this page (though not cleat-based, nor likely to have been cheapo):

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tech-news-garmin-acquires-metrigear

Speedplay Zero V.2 Cleats that are mounted against 3-hole curved shoe
soles with a radius that is too large or too small will bow the Cleat
either inward or outward and the Cleat will not function properly.

Nah, that'll be fine, it's only a small bend...