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Right hive mind. I'm trying to decide if I should have mudguards on my bike when I do the Transatlantic Way race in Ireland this summer. It rains on average 20 days in June and keeping myself dry and the drivetrain clean will be good. But will it slow me down due to the aerodynamic drag?

I'm in the market for a pair of Di2 bar end tt shifters. Let me know what you have got!

I have a Trp Spyre flat mount caliper and 160/140 mount for the front, depending on what fork you get.

1600m of climbing in 400km is basically down hill. It appears that most of the climbing is in Essex which is where I ride if I’m feeling lazy.

It's easy as long as there are spaces on the train. I assume that there will be quite a few other groups planning on leaving York around the same time. I had to be quite flexible when travelling up to Newcastle when the nationals were on.

It appears that places on the team arrow are pretty popular and there is now a chance that I will not be able to make it, so I think it's best if I give my place up for someone else. Happy to be considered as a reserve and if I can step in I will.

Re the trains. I think the hardest thing will be getting a bike space as I think most trains from York to London will be LNER which requires bookings.

I'm originally from Edinburgh and in the past, to guarantee a place, I have phoned up and reserved a bike space before actually booking my train. Otherwise you can have a non refundable ticket but find there are no bike spaces.

Yeah, Euston/KX does make more sense if we are heading NE.

Does it start on the Friday? If so, then it def make more sense to start further NE to avoid sitting in traffic and commuters across London.

I know the roads out to Dunmow pretty well if you want me to help, or route the first bit.

Victoria is fine by me, I’m in Hackney, but in the grand scheme of things it’s not very far.

Also, do I need to actually join AUK? Not a problem, but I’m not currently a member.

In! although I don't really understand any of the last few pages.

1) hippy (400km lead out man)
2) j_a_m_e_s (route)
3) mustardbeak (captain)
4) Super_ted
5) cjr

TR created a ramp test for you to estimate your ftp for use in TR. It's maybe not a 'true' ramp test, but they and most TR users seem pretty happy with it (including me).

From what I can work out, it starts at a low level that is based on your current ftp and goes up in set increments that are a percentage of your ftp. This means that everyone generally does the same length of time before reaching their current ftp and then carries on as long as possible.

Makes sense to me considering the wide range of users they cater to.

Lucky they didn't work with my frame and I had to return them. For the record, SBC recommended I just get Spyres as they have had plenty of trouble with HY RD brakes.

Juin Tech F1 are pretty small. They are designed specifically for 160mm rotors so mount straight onto the frame without an adaptor. They could work, although only available in pairs.

I have one too many TRP Spyre flat mount calipers, thought I would check if anyone on here wanted one before I sell it on ebay? It comes with the 140/160mm adaptor to use on the front. Looking for £25 posted which is less than I paid for it.

North Midlands apparently.

@colinrossphoto - I will post most of the pics on there over the next few weeks.

£56K according to GQ. I just added it up and there was £1 million worth of watches over two days. But that was mainly down to a Richard Mille RM69 Tourbillion Erotic that was £692K.

And it was not to my taste.

They wanted it on the left wrist. Shot it on the wrong way round as well but they preferred it shot naturally.

The GQ watch supplement is out in this month's issue, with the cover and 13 pages shot by me. Only a few month's ago I was asking to borrow watches!

You are looking at getting it in March next year, or even later depending on colour and size.

It's not what come with the groupset, so extra cost and I also like the idea of having a really minimal clean setup. However I don't want to compromise performance/reliability for the sake of it.

Is there any downside to wiring everything in one long line in Di2?

BB junction > left Shifter>Right Shifter> 3 port junction box.

I'm looking at having a TT shifters that are easily taken on and off the bike, so I'm hoping the above setup would leave 2 free ports on the junction box for the TT shifters to be added into.

I guess is means if one wire is disconnected or broken the whole system is useless which is not ideal.

Thanks, we can all go back to discussing the Rapha sale on Wiggle now.

Lightest most minimal / efficient sleeping setup for ultra cycling in Ireland in June. On a budget! Will prob do some nights in hotel/B and B but want the option to push on and sleep in a barn or ditch somewhere.