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Do 2X20min at 85% FTP 2x/week (Trainerroad has this workout in their plans) Do 6X3min hill repeats Not enough cooling on the trainer will limit your output power. Edit: I totally misunderstood your question. I thought you were asking for what kind of workouts. Yes, what Anita Handle said is spot on.

That's a huge difference in cost vs just buying a rim. I'm also shopping for a rim, my problem is I need a braking surface so my choices are severely limited. I'm looking at a good ol' SunRingle CR-18. I also have a Hope Hub (bulb). If I can re-use some spokes I'll be in at $30 plus shipping. If I have to buy spokes, that's another $30 extra. I'll be freeing up a Mavic XM317 rim if you're interested.

I have several stems of the longer variety, like 100-110mm. I'm looking for a 26" rim brake (only the rim, but will take a complete wheel too).

Yeah, Walnut was hero dirt tonight. Ride over those ruts to flatten them out! Tomorrow they'll be hard and back to dust.

Ladera Norte/Far West repeats are brutal!

OTOH, in Mojo some of these threads disappeared very quickly from the first page, especially when some people started a bunch of new threads.

I ride down Adirondack but have never done it up. I ride up Spicewood. I'll have to try going up Adirondack.

Too much front brake? Texting while riding and hitting a curb? Would make a nice table, or a noise maker for cyclocross races by using the fork to bang on the kinked frame.

This is the OG of smart trainers. It is very well designed. The load cell is only a couple of years old and used sparingly. I paid $350 for it. I have the USB adapter in addition to the db9 rs232 plug. It comes with an ear clip hr monitor and a Velcro strap cadence sensor. I’m throwing in a shimano wheel with vittoria trainer tire, two new cycle ops trainer tires, and the homemade roller platform (if you want it). If you’ve used a direct mount kickr tackx or cycle-ops, this is definitely a step down from those, but a big step up from a regular mag or fluid trainer. I’ve used it with Trainerroad and the Computrainer software but never with Zwift. send me a PM with questions or to tell me you want it.

Pun? 🙂 Hope it gets better soon!

Congrats! I have a computrainer (which I'm selling cheap btw for anyone wanting in on the smart trainer world) and upgraded to a CycleOps Hammer. I've never used Zwift, but I've used the Computrainer software and Trainerroad. The two modes are called slope mode and erg mode. The slope mode is what you want for ride emulation and you'll need gears unless you want to pretend you're a single-speeder, but many of these trainers don't like high power and low RPMs. There's even a way you can make your own ride profiles but I've never gotten into it. The main reason I went with the Hammer is because it folds up nicely vertically, and I don't have to deal with the tire interface, etc. I wanted to ride indoors instead of in the garage (sucks in the summer even with two massive fans). Having said that, you need some good fans (yep, plural) if you tend to sweat. If you do a hard 1-3hr ride, you will finish drenched from head to toes. It's good to use your old shoes for this, and I highly recommend the PEET shoe dryer. In fact, I'm going to buy a second one that has the gloves attachment. If you have kids and everyone gets muddy shoes, it's a must (unless you like that musty smell in your laundry room or mud room)....but I digress. I had one fan pointing at my torso and head, the other at my legs. Indoors I only have a small fan pointed at my head, and the ceiling fan right above. I feel like I need another fan at my legs, wrist bands, head band, and maybe some kind of ankle sweat bands. What kind of fan do you have there? I need a quiet indoor fan.

I saw you rode it on your own on Sunday. It's a nice route. It's the perfect thing to do when the trails are wet. Next time do the 100k, and get a taste of some sand. 🙂

Crazyt, you nailed it with the Stranger Things analogy. I have a buddy at work that goes to Dragon's lair. I've seen the games. It looks pretty involved and fun. The coolest thing is that both my kids have re-discovered their bikes as a mean to ride to their friends' house in the neighborhood. We have not been able to ride trails, but they are using the bikes almost daily. Chongo, I was most definitely that kid that needed a kick out the door and strict enforcement. I thank my dad for that. Not all kids are the same. We adopted our kids 4 years ago and we're in our 40's but they were already 7 and 9. So we had to deal with an adjustment period and a whole lot of stuff that zero-day parents probably get slowly used to (we got to skip the poopy diapers and the loss of sleep though!) Talk about drinking out of a fire hose! Our oldest can totally handle boundaries. He can stop a game when he has to, follow the rules, etc. The youngest is a completely different story. The oldest can do OK with 6-8 hours of sleep. The youngest is a handful if he gets less than 8. Shinerider, I think we will be the same here once we get a console. We don't have TV for the most part during the week. I can't see how you can do screens + outdoor time and get all the homework and studying done during the week.

crazyt, did you ever do D&D? I skipped that and went straight to MUDs, but it has me curious.

Thanks for posting your experience on the Canyon bikes. I had actually been looking at several of their bikes. Probably not the mountain bikes but definitely looking into their gravel grinder and road bikes. Do they have a bad reputation for quality in general?

I always wanted a helicopter, and even got the controller for my plane that supported it. I have 1/8th scale onroad full setup with tire truer and spare parts but my kids aren’t too interested. I also have a 40 size plane and a 1/2a I need to get rid of. I’d get back into it if we had a 1/12 indoor track! Now that is a blast and a lot cheaper than the 1/8th nitro.

Any of you guys do RC cars/planes? It seems like that's dying too.

That slow seatpost slide has happened to me on my road bike! It sucks. Took a friend telling me "it looks a bit low" and sure enough, I was 2.5" down!

Did the 100k. I got to meet Jason before the start. The first half, I was thinking "why do they call it the breaker? This is easy!" Then we hit Sand Hill Road in the 2nd half. That was some brutal velcro-like sand. I believe you 50k guys avoided that. I heard a dude say after "never in my life have I been so glad to hit the chip seal!" I'm definitely doing other Spinistry events. It was enjoyable and very low key.

Our school district had an appeal to parents about Fortnight. It is apparently becoming a problem at school. We just did the pledge to wait until 8th grade for smart phones. We have a trac phone for when they have to stay after school or are riding around the neighborhood. https://www.waituntil8th.org/take-the-pledge/ I had a BMX-wannabe bike when I was a kid but I rode it everywhere. I used to get all the BMX magazines and wish there was a race track close to where I live. I never got to race BMX but it was all I could think about through elementary and middle school. We didn't have trees where I grew up, but we made forts in the brush. We seemed to do a lot of digging in dirt and playing in mud too.

Yes. We have 11 and 13 yo boys and we let them ride in the neighborhood and park with their friends. I’m building a pump track in the backyard and a short mtb loop around the house. We just put a basketball hoop and court in the backyard. Computer time and tv time are very restricted. We will be getting a console soon but it will be time limited. My oldest could do stuff indoors 100% of the time if we let him (reading, legos, and Minecraft). The youngest has to go outside. Btw, the youngest absolutely loves riding Peddlers Pass, has no fear and wanted to ride the big gap jumps at Flat Creek Ranch! I am grateful my dad never bought usan Atari. I did Doom and Wolfenstein and MUDding in college and I spent too much time. After realizing it was 6am and I’d spent all night playing a game, I quit.

Yes. I've had just about all the fits in town. The best and most reasonable IMO is now gone. That was Dave at Music City Cycles (that's a totally traditional FIT kit, no need to re-hash your anti-KOPS negative sentiments here). About Gerlich, I'll just say this, the guy believes (just like Steve Hogg) that Specialized puts some kind of metals in their plastics that causes your body propioception to be mis-aligned, and why you may drop a hip more on one side than the other. I mean, it couldn't possibly be a Constanza-fat wallet on one side of my pants, or how you drive in your car, or any other possible logical explanation. There's a guy from Australia that published a really nice manual for fitting. He's selling it for something like $5. Get some goniometers from Amazon, and find some angle measuring software and you're in business.

More powder! and TMI!

Does anyone else feel like flat pedals are like the paleo of mountain biking?😀

I ride with SPDs with my heels down already. It may be as a result of having 30in inseam but riding with 175mm cranks and having sensitive knees. A fitter once told me to ride with my feet level and it took right away and have always done it. I don't even think about unclipping now. I rarely put myself in situations where OTB is a concern and where flats vs. clipless would make a difference, but I have done rear ejection to instant walking the bike. I wish someone had caught in on video (yeah, it would never look as cool as it looks in my head!). My first experience on non-clipless in a long time was at a Livestrong charity ride, where some of us volunteers took pedicabs and rode the sicker kids and their families around the 5k track. I do lift with my back leg and Spinscan data proves it.