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dont think you will even be able to fit a lockring which is a fundamental issue...

given all the other issues, why bother??

It cant be for lightweight purposes as it will have 32 spokes anyway

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nuts.

Was it a dirt track or what?

no, you could say I wasnt trying hard enough on the hour (-10%) but I don't think that is the case.

my 20min test (-5%) is about 10% off my hour power.

20 mins is still a good repeatable test to gauge fitness/power though. I can ride the next day after doing a 20 min test but an hour effort had me in pieces for 3 days .

strange name for a bike??

buy a sportful thread>>>

leith hill is on the 26th

bombproof ≠ fun to ride

worn a bunch of times but still in good nick. Interior wool has bobbled a bit.

£60 posted

lugs were cheaper option I think?

I just googled RAL code + bike to get a general idea of what I was getting

No (Cross) Transfer Jacket either. One of their best pieces IMHO - I wear mine all the time.

Anyone want to buy mine? (standard not cross) size small.

mine is 2011, white decals. I thought 2008 is darker so yours should be darker than mine. Photo looks a bit washed out.

Kind of wish I had gone with 2008 myself but will have to see how it looks in the flesh!

haha, bizzare. Thought that was my frame for a seccond.

He sent me this today. What RAL did you go for?

you need to add bikeCAD to your exceptions list from your Java settings. It uses an old version of java that java no longer deems safe so it blocks it from running.

provisionally sold

In good nick apart from the drawstring waist adjuster snapped so isnt there anymore. This is very thick and got me through most of winter last year with a baselayer, selling as it doesnt fit me and I need to fund other things..

£60 posted

http://road.cc/content/review/139227-rapha-winter-jersey

I do loads of tempo rides though! actually either I do lots of threshold rides or my HR zones need tweaking.

I do plenty of tempo rides/ smash the whole 50miles etc mixed with easy rides but yeah don't do intervals sessions.

Something to do on the turbo, might as well make the turbo useful rather than just horrible

@ewanmac not many hills in essex to test myself on sadly

No real reason as to why I want to get faster, I just want to be a stronger rider.. Sometimes you cant be arsed to go for a ride but force yourself to go out to keep your fitness up, if I didnt care about being fast then I wouldnt bother getting out the door on days like that.

I do also want to enter a hill climb or two this season.

had to wear my PTJ this morn for the first time, summer officially over. It was 7 degrees and I was toasty.

PTJ is definitely nice, I'd buy it again, although I only paid £150 for mine.

ok fair - I didnt think I was trained enough to have reached a point where I needed to make an effort with specific training.

My main weakness is that being lightweight @ 57kg I lack the raw power on the flats. On a 20 min climb I am 3/4 mins quicker than my mates but if I take a turn on the front (on the flat) im straight into threshold.

Im not sure what training would resolve this, other than just getting faster overall, perhaps 5 min efforts which is what I would be doing on the front..

just riding/recording. If this looks normal ^ then fair enough, I will look to plan some structured training in the winter

I guess what I am getting at is that it is hard to quantify fitness improvement- however would you expect these sort of results? they seem very marginal to me. Im talking just general improvements, to be in general a better club rider.

for reference, hours trained:

JAN - 11
FEB - 9
MAR - 17
APR - 32
MAY - 31
JUN - 31
JUL - 30
AUG - 25

chart shows power curve for May and last 6 weeks. Is it possible that I peaked by May and the rest has just been stagnating at the same level due to not increasing training?

last 6 weeks in pale purple (sorry about data spike)