The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

[Ray P]

Had the day off yesterday and headed out for an afternoon ride with some lads from work, first group ride for quite a while. Great spring weather, apart from a stiff westerly...

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[Dave the bass]

....apart from a stiff westerly...

Stop it! You're just encouraging me

[IslandPink]

Hey, what happened to my posting from 3 hours ago ?
Have you stolen it, TheBass ?

[pre65]

Hey, what happened to my posting from 3 hours ago ?
Have you stolen it, TheBass ?

Man from Dirtford, enough said ?

[IslandPink]

Hmm yes.
Right, so anyway, as I said, I did my first 2hrs+ ride today, about 30 miles.
2hrs07 to be exact. two 1-in-6 hills around half way.
Weather was perfect, landscape glorious.
All this and a sun-tan too !

[Ray P]

One for DtB, I just watched a GCN documentary about a Fixie, the Hope HB.T to be precise.

Really interesting design concept, all about reducing the drag of the combined bike/rider package...

You can have one to Mr. B, if you save your pennies.

https://www.hopetech.com/news/hbt/

There's a trailer available

[Nick]

There's a trailer available

That would certainly increase the drag.

[Ray P]

That would certainly increase the drag.

Yeah, but he'll need it for his cheese & piccalilli sarnies.

Hope have some impressive engineering capabilities - they're just up the road from you.

[jack]

More on the bike:

[Ray P]

More on the bike:

Good video. The GCN one I watched had a lot of content about the design theory, the wide front forks and rear seat stays are all about reducing the drag of the riders legs for example - the numbers from the wind tunnel measurements show a non-trivial improvement, IIRC something like 2-3 bike lengths over a 200metre sprint.

[Dave the bass]

....but....but... all that assumes you want to go faster.

Supposing you didn't, suppose you just wanted to ride again and look at the views n stuff.

And anyway, my legs are fatter than those forks. Actually, everything of mine is currently fatter than those forks

[IslandPink]

....but....but... all that assumes you want to go faster.

It's a good point you make there, young fella.

[Ray P]

Supposing you didn't, suppose you just wanted to ride again and look at the views n stuff.

I refer the gentleman to Nick's earlier comment...

[Ray P]

Good racing in yesterday's Giro stage and a brave defence of the maglia rosa.

[pre65]

....but....but... all that assumes you want to go faster.

Supposing you didn't, suppose you just wanted to ride again and look at the views n stuff.

In that case you get more MPS. (miles per sarnie).