Gnash Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 14 hours ago, Shotgun said: I'm not sure if this is the best thread for this. It's more of a PTTGOYN, although from a certain perspective, it could even be a RTBC. Anyway. All set for a mountain bike ride this morning, only to find a flat back tyre. Not a big deal in itself except a) I know it was fine yesterday and hasn't been out of the shed since and b) Getting the tyres off the rims of this particular bike is a you-know-what. 30 minutes and lots of bad language later, I finally had the thing off and...couldn't find a puncture anywhere. Put it all back together and as of now, 5 hours later, it still has the same pressure I pumped it up to. Nothing wrong with it. If I was a less trusting husband I would suspect sabotage from a certain dweller-of-this-house who wanted me to fix a leaky tap in the bathroom. Hopefully you have already come to this conclusion, but in future attempt to pump the tyre up before you take everything apart. A 30 second check that could save you 5 hours! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 I haven’t been out cycling since Fri as it’s been so windy/rainy and I’m a fair weather cyclist! I’ve missed it! On the subject of trackers, I use Map My Ride and chose the road cycling option as I stick to roads, there’s also a mountain bike option but whilst I use a mountain bike I go nowhere near hills/rough terrain. Just wondered if my stats will be recording correctly? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 11 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said: I haven’t been out cycling since Fri as it’s been so windy/rainy and I’m a fair weather cyclist! I’ve missed it! On the subject of trackers, I use Map My Ride and chose the road cycling option as I stick to roads, there’s also a mountain bike option but whilst I use a mountain bike I go nowhere near hills/rough terrain. Just wondered if my stats will be recording correctly? No reason why stats wouldn't record properly - its the app on your phone that is recording movement - nothing to do with the bike you are on. Which is why you often see a KOM on Strava suggesting the "rider" covered a segment at an average of 73mph - when they have obviously left the app running whilst travelling at speed in their car. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 16 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said: No reason why stats wouldn't record properly - its the app on your phone that is recording movement - nothing to do with the bike you are on. Which is why you often see a KOM on Strava suggesting the "rider" covered a segment at an average of 73mph - when they have obviously left the app running whilst travelling at speed in their car. Yeah i thought that. I knew the mileage would be correct but I wasn’t sure if the calories burned would be accurate! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
die hard doonhamer Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 (edited) Another longest effort for me this morning. Went out with my mum, dad and brother (my mum has an e-bike, the rest of us on gravel bikes), 20 miles in an hour and a half with segment PBs on every segment I'd done before other than one. Much easier to go a bit quicker when riding in a group. Edited June 22, 2020 by die hard doonhamer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Gnash said: Hopefully you have already come to this conclusion, but in future attempt to pump the tyre up before you take everything apart. A 30 second check that could save you 5 hours! I hear you, and it's possible my brain simply took me to the worst possible scenario. (It does that.) I've just never experienced a tyre going from fine to flat overnight without it either having been a puncture or someone letting my tyres down. Despite intense interrogation, the Light of my Life still denies any involvement so I'm now thinking it was the dog. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky Nosejob Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Thereisalight.. said: Yeah i thought that. I knew the mileage would be correct but I wasn’t sure if the calories burned would be accurate! Bear in mind that apps tend not to take bike weight into account. Doing the same ride in the same time on a properly set up 7.5kg road bike will burn fewer calories than doing it on a properly set up 15kg mountain bike. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pettigrew Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Did the 75 route from Glasgow at the weekend and got hopelessly lost when I got to Carmyle. Anyone done that and could have any sense of where I might have gone wrong? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unleash The Nade Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 21 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said: One thing I would say about that 320 mile ride is that the total calories are surely nonsense. Unless he’s 25 stone and did it on a penny farthing. Strava calorie count is always very inaccurate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnash Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 15 hours ago, Shotgun said: I hear you, and it's possible my brain simply took me to the worst possible scenario. (It does that.) I've just never experienced a tyre going from fine to flat overnight without it either having been a puncture or someone letting my tyres down. Despite intense interrogation, the Light of my Life still denies any involvement so I'm now thinking it was the dog. Slow puncture? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 18 hours ago, Shotgun said: I hear you, and it's possible my brain simply took me to the worst possible scenario. (It does that.) I've just never experienced a tyre going from fine to flat overnight without it either having been a puncture or someone letting my tyres down. Despite intense interrogation, the Light of my Life still denies any involvement so I'm now thinking it was the dog. A dodgy valve? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Etap Loch Ness is not happening in September, back as usual in April 2021 they hope. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Etap Loch Ness is not happening in September, back as usual in April 2021 they hope.I didn't bother entering this years (fortunately), probably will next year. It's a cracking event and about the only one I'd pay good money for now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bernardblack Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 My bike is arriving on Friday so just working on some kit etc. Is there a best way to track distances travelled etc? Or is it just best to use an app? If you use an app do you have to attach your phone to your bike or can you have it in your pocket? Rookie questions I know... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM. Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 52 minutes ago, bernardblack said: My bike is arriving on Friday so just working on some kit etc. Is there a best way to track distances travelled etc? Or is it just best to use an app? If you use an app do you have to attach your phone to your bike or can you have it in your pocket? Rookie questions I know... Most phone apps will work with your phone locked and in your pocket. I use the quite basic MapMyRide where all you need to do is click a button when you start and finish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bernardblack Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Most phone apps will work with your phone locked and in your pocket. I use the quite basic MapMyRide where all you need to do is click a button when you start and finish.Brilliant, thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 Would use strava ahead of map my run. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 5 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said: Would use strava ahead of map my run. I use Strava on my phone too. One thing which bugs me about it though is that it doesn't have any way to differentiate between mountain and road biking. You can log a virtual ride, a velomobile ride, handcycle or e-Bike ride but mountain and road, which I would have thought would be the most popular, have to be lumped together. It seems to me this would be a simple fix but online discussions show people have been complaining about it for years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 On 22/06/2020 at 23:52, Gnash said: Slow puncture? On 23/06/2020 at 03:03, bennett said: A dodgy valve? Nope, I checked for both of those. I've now ridden it for 5 miles on both the last couple of days and it's still fine. At this point I'm pretty sure it was sabotage by either Mrs Shotgun or the dog. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Shotgun said: I use Strava on my phone too. One thing which bugs me about it though is that it doesn't have any way to differentiate between mountain and road biking. You can log a virtual ride, a velomobile ride, handcycle or e-Bike ride but mountain and road, which I would have thought would be the most popular, have to be lumped together. It seems to me this would be a simple fix but online discussions show people have been complaining about it for years. you can indicate which bike it was done on though 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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