London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

Outstanding day. Good to meet some of you again, and many of you for the first time.

Note to self - next time bring a 22 for the Becon.

that looked amazing.
Hope it was half as fun as it looked. I'm quite jealous.

Great vid, lovely looking weather!

At around the 1 minute mark it looks like a proper TdF vid with the old motorbike rider zooming up to the front of the peleton. Were you on a Vespa or something?? :0)

You are only the second person in history to call me that :0)

Getting a trailer for the boy is an option definitely in mind for this summer, but I don't think he'd enjoy being in it for 4-5 hours!

Oof! Sounds nasty, Scarlett. Hope it clears up soon, but could it wait until after the Rapha race? ;0)

Vid looks awesome Rob. I see you are perfecting the 'one hand on the bars, hold the camera, look backwards, hope I don't hit anything' move.

"You are only the second person in history to call me that :0)"

Damn! Usually I'm so original! I'm a trendsetter damnit!!! Hmmph! ;)

Get him a trailer and a xanax.. he won't be bothered with a 5hr ride ;)

What a ride!
I can't believe how fast we got there.
Really nice ride with perfect weather.
Nice meeting some new folks too.
Nice video Slamm.

As promised to MA3K.. some Powertap stats..

Duration: 7:41:40 (9:35:11)
Work: 4922 kJ
TSS: 708.4 (intensity factor 0.974)
Norm Power: 238
VI: 1.3
Pw:HR: 2.21%
Pa:HR: 11.4%
Distance: 200.3 km

Min Max Avg
Power: 0 1016 183 watts
Heart Rate: 102 187 145 bpm
Cadence: 29 244 85 rpm
Speed: 0 68.9 26.8 kph
Pace 0:52 0:00 2:14 min/km
Hub Torque: 0 59.3 9.6 N-m
Crank Torque: 0 155.6 21.6 N-m

L2B: 4:00, 2539kj, 389.1(.999), 244W, 110k
B2L: 3:41, 2383kj, 318.5(.945), 231W, 90k

That was epic - wish I coulda stayed and had a few more pints guys but the ride itself was amazing. Moments of despair halfway up some of the longer hills and terror halfway down the other side.

Nice to meet you all and will definitely be coming on some more in the future (will have my feet in some way attached to the pedals next time...) Slamm excellent vid!

So woke up in Brighton this morning to a good few inches of snow - needless to say I hadn't packed my studded tyres so the slither back to the station was a bit hairy. Nice one though see you all soon.

@ hippy - 244rpm on the road? You racing on Monday night... (gulp)

That was epic - wish I coulda stayed and had a few more pints guys but the ride itself was amazing. Moments of despair halfway up some of the longer hills and terror halfway down the other side.

Nice to meet you all and will definitely be coming on some more in the future (will have my feet in some way attached to the pedals next time...) Slamm excellent vid!

So woke up in Brighton this morning to a good few inches of snow - needless to say I hadn't packed my studded tyres so the slither back to the station was a bit hairy. Nice one though see you all soon.

I have attached a couple of pics from the ride. Hey 57 Miles in under 4 Hours I think we kick ass.
Stu

hahaha I wish. No, I don't run the Powertap's cadence wire so it 'guesses' at cadence by counting pedaling 'pulses'.

Can those pics be made bigger mini cooper?

I was advised to keep them small, I don't undertand all the computer stuff so just do what I am told.
I could just put the url link to my flickr page I guess I'll give that a try.
BTW Hippy fcuk your fast on that bike.

I don't know how else to do this so if you cut n paste the URL below into a new browser it (fingers crossed) should direct you to my Brighton set.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/2497590...7604406696584/

Stu

Ha, or you could just click the link!
Smarter than your average bear.

Getting back on topic...... good to meet a few people and a cracking ride. Looking forward to the next.

Anyone from the beach - did you pick up a grey waterproof? I took it off at the bar to change my top, got to London in the pissing rain and realised it wasn't in my bag and instead in Brighton.

Cornelius has it Joe. He started a separate thread…

Cheers mate

Much better !!!!!

Keep them large. Attaching them makes thumbnails automatically on the server so that when people click the thumbnails they get the large image. Upload the large image.

Is the 4th graph your moralometer? :0p

Yes, I have terrible morals ;)

I assume you mean second-last which is peak power graph and would accurately measure my mood for the day, save for the slight peak when I arrived at Caterham station and then the short buzz riding Victoria to Ealing. :)

Looks like you had a good day and a good turnout.
Well done all!

Top vid Slamm.

I'd send you a cheque for that comment but I don't know who you are.
Not allowed to be sociable when *cough* "training" you see? :)

Shit, was it really under four hours? I thought it was a bit longer than that.

Bastards.
Anyone up for a brighton ride in June?
I'm also planning Coventry in May and Bristol later in May.

The riding part was.

We were probably travelling around 25-27 KMph on average.

Ditchling Beacon..



Cunt..

when did you grow whiskers hippo?

I get bored with my appearance and whisker up as a form of entertainment. I think it was when Sean Eadie was mentioned and I thought "hmm I haven't had a goatee for a while..".

Peak power of over 1000W?

I think the key is to ignore the min/max numbers and follow the averages. They're always the best indicators anyway.

That's not hard. Plus, have you seen the size of his legs?

Really disappointed to have missed out on this one. Looks like you had a cracking time, good stats hippy.

just to say thoroughly enjoyed the ride l's and g's. good to put that curse to bed (okay hippy b2l may be cursed but that is something else). big thanks from the wilkinson exchequer to cornelius for getting that slowy on the down to the sea. great vid slamm, big respect for some pretty high speed one-handed shooting.

under four hours ride time is pretty respectable and showed there was a couple of fast intervals in there.

and good to see a lot of new faces and some real nice bikes. brilliant turnout. catch you all soon. perhaps even on the way to southend on saturday.

Yeah. Seriously, most people on here could get over 1000W peak.
Well, it's easy for me, you skinny legged Lunduners might have to try harder :)

As Veeb says, it's more about averages. E.g. Threshold Power is what power output you can hold for an hour. This is quite important value for TT's and road races. Things like 1min peak power is important for bridging gaps or breaking away. Essentially, you collect as much data as possible and you will get a spread of power for different durations.
Higher power for shorter duration, obviously. The aim is to make these as high as possible and particularly to focus on the ones specific to your event. For me, threshold power is much more important than peak power (which would be much more useful for a match sprinter).

Coach and I are both new to all this stuff so I'm still really only collecting data at this point, not using it to train with yet..

when I first checked the bike puta in Brighton I commented that it took 4hrs 19 mins but forgot to subtract the 30mins it took for me to ride from Richmond to Hyde Park Corner , so yeah about 3hrs 50min I guess.

yeah great ride on saturday.

and slamm fantastic video. well done mate.

how about a brighton to london ride.....?

or maybe i should just get an early train upto london nextime and ride back!

so when's the next one???

Did that already ;)

Bit late but here's my ride report/whinge from L2B2L2.