Cole
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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It's mountain biking you got to expect mud and puddles been watching some videos of it in the wet and it doesn't
Look to bad it seems to drain pretty well
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Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
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The mud doesn't really trouble me much to be honest. Doug says a lot of the route is shut though?
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Russ
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Registered: 14th Mar 04
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i did cannock chase once, was hard work through some of the mud, literally getting off to push
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Cole
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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Only part of the monkey trail at Cannock is closed due to repairs according t their site
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Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
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is parking free?
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Simon
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Registered: 24th Apr 03
Location: Oxfordshire
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not at the main start point. But it is only a few quid which is more than worth it to ride
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Dr Pepper
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Registered: 21st Sep 02
Location: oxford Drives Renault Clio RS200
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quote:
Originally posted by Jamie Walby
Dr. Pepper. Are you aiming to do the 50 miles in one hit without a stop or you gonna allow some breaks?
When I was building up my distances a couple of years ago I would do a distance for first time, say 50miles, on a flat route then once I could do that at a 15mph average I would do the distance with some hills and so on.
I just found it helped me psychologically.
Good luck with it though. If you can do 43, you can do 50 
In one go ... basically im looking to lose the fat again at the moment. Lost like 4 stone a couple of years back cycling 20 miles a day and doing some weights on off days. put a stone and a half of that back on over the last year so need to get back on it. I want to aim to do LeJog next summer and average 80-100 miles a day over the trip. My mate did 1000 miles around France last year which is really interesting me as well because it just looks like road bike heaven over there.
So I got out early this morning .... but only managed 39 miles today, I was aiming for 50 but after getting really cold changing an inner tube(fuck you Oxford council and your shitty roads) after 30 miles I bottled it and didn't do the extra bit I had planned. Could not believe how mild/calm the weather was when I set out ...and then how it changed while I was out... By the time I got back I had to peel myself off the bike.... Come on summer - hurry up!
I did average 14.5 mph over the 39 miles though which im pretty happy with. If it had been warmer I think I had it in me to go on for another hour or two .... kind of dissapointed I bottled the extra section but I did do intervals on the way home to punish myself lol .... its better than not going out at all by a long way.
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Liam
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
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quote:
Originally posted by Cole
It's mountain biking you got to expect mud and puddles been watching some videos of it in the wet and it doesn't
Look to bad it seems to drain pretty well
It drains better now than it has in anytime I can remember, they have done a lot of work on the final section to get rid of the puddles in the berms, the puddles there used to be ridiculous! Hopefully it dries out a little before Tuesday when I go up again.
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Simon
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Registered: 24th Apr 03
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Good ride pepper, Looks like you changed your mind joining the M40 
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Dr Pepper
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Registered: 21st Sep 02
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Originally posted by Simon
Good ride pepper, Looks like you changed your mind joining the M40
lol - yeah I changed my mind at London road roundabout ...was going to go out through barton, islip ect and then back in through Kidlington. Thats a really nice route to be fair, its normally the best part of my ride because it has about a 3 mile down hill bit after the initial uphill slog. Its gonna be a piece of piss cycling in the summer after getting the winter miles in(I hope)
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
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Took the Kalula to Chicksands today. Was cool  although a bit sketchy in the mud.
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Nic Barnes
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saturday 10am cole, doug, kurt. cant wait for coley to teach me the pro skills
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Cole
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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So there will be you 3 on your £1000 bikes and me on my £300 jobbie thibk its going to snap lol
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Nic Barnes
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Mine wasn't £1000 lol
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Cole
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Full price it should of been
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Jamie Walby
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31:12 on my time trial this morn. Was a pretty lumpy course with some nasty short steep inclines and a horrible headwind for first 3 miles! Annoyingly no tailwind at any point on the course!
Anyway, beat the time I set myself of
35 mins and didn't come last plus caught my minute man so pretty happy with it.
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Nic Barnes
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Originally posted by Cole
Full price it should of been
1700 full price
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Cole
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quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
quote:
Originally posted by Cole
Full price it should of been
1700 full price
My point exactly
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Matt L
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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whats the best tracker/recoder thing that I can stick on my bars?
Ideally I would like one to show me current/average speed + distance + also personal bests for sections like strava does (i dont mind entering sections, unsure if it does it live on my phone as its always in my bag).
is there anything out there that does this?
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Cole
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Garmin edge 200/500/800/810 don't think any of them break down tge segments like in strava as thats strava itself working out what segments yoive done not the device used
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Matt L
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ahhh, wonder if you can set them up... either that or just set them in my head and try and remember times
random pointless story about my ride today, had a old bag in a civic peep at me because she had to slow down and go behind me through a keep left barrier as i was going quicker than she thought.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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You can get waterproof iPhone cases which handlebar mount. I think that one of those coupled with your app of choice would be far better than one of those Garmins.
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Cole
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Thing with that is if you crash you have the chance of wrecking your phone
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Dr Pepper
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Registered: 21st Sep 02
Location: oxford Drives Renault Clio RS200
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Originally posted by ed
You can get waterproof iPhone cases which handlebar mount. I think that one of those coupled with your app of choice would be far better than one of those Garmins.
Surely anything over a few hours and your battery will be gone? Strava ect seems to rinse my battery
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Nic Barnes
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I've had endomondo and music on on mine for 3 hours and still well over 50% left.
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