Silly commuting racing

asprilla

ketsbaia wrote:

Within a yard of my gate, the chainring broke. Yes, I know. How does that happen?

The awsome power of your quads.

ketsbaia

With both of you saying it, it must be true.

rjsterry

Hang on. The chain ring bent, instead of the chain snapping? Awesome quads or not, that's pretty remarkable given the relative structural properties of a 2-3mm thick bit of alloy and less than 1mm thick chain link plate.

will3

rjsterry wrote:

Hang on. The chain ring bent, instead of the chain snapping? Awesome quads or not, that's pretty remarkable given the relative structural properties of a 2-3mm thick bit of alloy and less than 1mm thick chain link plate.

not really....................

greg66_tri_v2.0

rjsterry wrote:

Hang on. The chain ring bent, instead of the chain snapping? Awesome quads or not, that's pretty remarkable given the relative structural properties of a 2-3mm thick bit of alloy and less than 1mm thick chain link plate.

Can happen though

rjsterry

That's the trouble with this high-end, shave-every-last-gram-off stuff.

Must be some sort of alignment issue for the chain to pull laterally as well (guessing that's what caused the ring to fold over). Maybe if you crossed the chain on big ring-big cog, that might do it, but I'd have thought there'd have to be an underlying weakness or some other alignment issue. Anyway, I got corrected last time I headed into discussing structures, so time for someone else to take over.

davis

You know, if people keep posting any old guff, we'd get to the magic mille quite quickly.

Just saying, s'all.

ketsbaia

rjsterry wrote:

That's the trouble with this high-end, shave-every-last-gram-off stuff.

Heh. If you saw the drivetrain of my commuter hack, that wouldn't be your first thought.

Definitely the quads, I reckon.

It's four years old and has been ridden through rain and shine almost every working day for that time, so something had to give. Might have been caused by the stresses of dropping the chain a few too many times recently. I knew I should have sorted that out earlier. :roll:

rjsterry

ketsbaia wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

That's the trouble with this high-end, shave-every-last-gram-off stuff.

Heh. If you saw the drivetrain of my commuter hack, that wouldn't be your first thought.

Definitely the quads, I reckon.

It's four years old and has been ridden through rain and shine almost every working day for that time, so something had to give. Might have been caused by the stresses of dropping the chain a few too many times recently. I knew I should have sorted that out earlier. :roll:

See, this is a good reason to ride a nice bike for the commute - less likely to let it descend into rusty decrepitude. My current chain rings are a couple of years old, but the ones before that were about 11 years old. Only on my second BB in 13 years as well, and that's on about 150 miles a week at the moment. Of course I'll probably snap a crank on the way home now.

What was that about guff?

ketsbaia

rjsterry wrote:

ketsbaia wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

That's the trouble with this high-end, shave-every-last-gram-off stuff.

Heh. If you saw the drivetrain of my commuter hack, that wouldn't be your first thought.

Definitely the quads, I reckon.

It's four years old and has been ridden through rain and shine almost every working day for that time, so something had to give. Might have been caused by the stresses of dropping the chain a few too many times recently. I knew I should have sorted that out earlier. :roll:

See, this is a good reason to ride a nice bike for the commute - less likely to let it descend into rusty decrepitude. My current chain rings are a couple of years old, but the ones before that were about 11 years old. Only on my second BB in 13 years as well, and that's on about 150 miles a week at the moment. Of course I'll probably snap a crank on the way home now.

What was that about guff?

No rust. Just flimsy, cheap alloy, I think. It's not high-end stuff by any means. It'll prompt me to get a new chain and better crankset, though, so every cloud...

rjsterry

Well now I'm worried that mine'll do the same, as it's fairly cheap - bog standard Shimano 'non-series' rings. Is/was yours a compact? greater distance from the edge of the ring to the fixing bolt, so more leverage (maybe).

ketsbaia

Nah, it's a hub gear system, so it was a single chain ring. Cheap and Shimano, though.

Pufftmw

Oooh - new commuter despatched...

blu3cat

I would like to thank the person on the moped, who, even though they were equipped with mirrors, failed to use them and pulled in front of me causing me to lock my rear wheel and take the rubber down to the punture resistant layer this morning.

That is all.

Oh and the reduction of my bike weight by that extra gram, allowed me to leave everyone in my wake on the way home. 8)

dondare

On the way home today I found myself behind some guy on a Specialised single-free. He was keeping up a good pace and if I'd passed him I wouldn't have been able to drop him so I didn't bother. However, I don't like to appear to be a a wheel-sucker so I stayed out of his slipstream which also meant that I wasn't picking up spray from his back wheel, either. As the route became progressively hillier I was expecting that I'd eventually get to pass him but he eventually dropped me on Barnet Hill. Well done that man.

cjcp

JonGinge wrote:

I wanted to go faster so I started to go alongside. He started sprinting. Not just accelerating but eyeballs out sprinting. I couldn't be ar$ed with that sh!t so I let him go. It's hard to keep the speed up when you've split your sides laughing.

Yep, he does this. Makes me chuckle. He absolutely hates being overtaken.

Not much on the way home tonight. Had a decent poolte. Does anyone find that their journeys go by quickly when you're pootling?

tailwindhome

*wonders has anyone else noticed


*are they all looking the wrong way?

cjcp

TailWindHome wrote:

*wonders has anyone else noticed


*are they all looking the wrong way?

Eh?

cjcp

dondare

WOT?

lost_in_thought

Still too early for a break, chaps.

itboffin

lost_in_thought wrote:

Still too early for a break, chaps.

Never

ketsbaia

I'm on the winter trainer tomorrow morning as it'll be a while before the hack's fixed. Cuts my FCN by several points, so I'll have to don non-cycling gear and 'forget' to shave the overgrown stubble to come close to my usual FCN.

Still, the trainer's fairly quick, so it should be interesting.

*moves up outside of peloton*

itboffin

So i opted for the car rather than the monsoon this morning and boy did I make the right choice, however I still took a bike for the London leg of my commute, after all i'm not STUPID enough to take the choob.

On the way back this evening i may have partaken in several very successful skirmish's whilst riding my FGSS.

All good one might think, so I put my bike in the very impressive bike racks at Waterloo and peel off for the now customary podium prize ceremony beer

On my return the front type has been visited by my old friend the PF oh well never mind i'm in the car tonight.

PF = FAIL!!!!!

itboffin

Anyone watching the TdF ATM :roll:

itboffin

I have beer, lots of beer

rjsterry

cjcp wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

I wanted to go faster so I started to go alongside. He started sprinting. Not just accelerating but eyeballs out sprinting. I couldn't be ar$ed with that sh!t so I let him go. It's hard to keep the speed up when you've split your sides laughing.

Yep, he does this. Makes me chuckle. He absolutely hates being overtaken.

Not much on the way home tonight. Had a decent poolte. Does anyone find that their journeys go by quickly when you're pootling?

+1 on Mr Twitchy Legs/Sky Blue Shorts and +1 on the pootling. Sometimes I have got home quicker when pootling than when pushing hard, which is rather dispiriting. Took one of the open top tour buses on Millbank this evening. Was cruising along having to dab the brakes every couple of seconds, but was obviously still catching a bit of a draft even though I was just off his rear right corner, as when I pushed on past, it was a lot harder than I expected. Still, left the chap on the black SS with mudguards and a yellow jacket for dust; and from VB to CB.

But he can track stand way better than me (not hard) - must have been hovering for a good two to three minutes at VB.

lost_in_thought

I have wine and whisky. I win.

Told off some bloke who was drafting me today. I was in no-sweat-super-pootle mode, and slowed down several times, yet he still didn't overtake....

cue: 'do you want to come past me or something?'

him: 'no, just keeping the pace behind you'

me: 'it's really bad form to sit right on someone's wheel etc [explanation].'

To be fair, on the old commuter I used to think I was doing well if I could hang onto someone's wheel. Hopefully he's learned, although no apology was forthcoming.

itboffin

lost_in_thought wrote:

I have wine and whisky. I win.

Told off some bloke who was drafting me today. I was in no-sweat-super-pootle mode, and slowed down several times, yet he still didn't overtake....

cue: 'do you want to come past me or something?'

him: 'no, just keeping the pace behind you'

me: 'it's really bad form to sit right on someone's wheel etc [explanation].'

To be fair, on the old commuter I used to think I was doing well if I could hang onto someone's wheel. Hopefully he's learned, although no apology was forthcoming.

Er don't mix those two it's yucky

N most likely that dude was checking you out, duh! :roll:

tailwindhome

cjcp wrote:

hehehehehe