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Cycling Crew - It's 2023! Let's play bikes...
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Holy fuck, the wind the past month or so has been a bitch. Three times I've set out and the garmin told me there was a wind advisory...I'm like "well fuck, already changed and locked the house up, might as well go on out" but then I regret it about an hour in when it feels like I'm towing a brick wall behind me.
Wow what an adventure of a ride on the gravel bike yesterday. First 15 mins my power meter wont stay paired with my gps.
The power meter issue is fixed by removing the battery. So I stopped, leaned my bike against a road sign, and had my back to the river. I thought I’d rather see a car coming. But I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and it was some fucking homeless roach sneaking up on me.
I looked straight at him and he stopped moving, stood up straight, and started looking around trying to look inconspicuous. I stood up and said what the FUCK are you doing? He just tucked tail and ran off into the bushes.
Then 20 mins later I dropped into a trail system and it was the fucking river. The river is so high and wide the trails are underwater and I almost rode right into the river. It was a ways before it got deep or had any real current so no real danger besides getting wet.
Then 10 mins later I snag my handlebars on a vine and went over the handlebars. I wasn’t going very fast so it was mostly just like a really clumsy dismount off the bike
And then radar was wrong so I got drenched by rain
The power meter issue is fixed by removing the battery. So I stopped, leaned my bike against a road sign, and had my back to the river. I thought I’d rather see a car coming. But I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and it was some fucking homeless roach sneaking up on me.
I looked straight at him and he stopped moving, stood up straight, and started looking around trying to look inconspicuous. I stood up and said what the FUCK are you doing? He just tucked tail and ran off into the bushes.
Then 20 mins later I dropped into a trail system and it was the fucking river. The river is so high and wide the trails are underwater and I almost rode right into the river. It was a ways before it got deep or had any real current so no real danger besides getting wet.
Then 10 mins later I snag my handlebars on a vine and went over the handlebars. I wasn’t going very fast so it was mostly just like a really clumsy dismount off the bike
And then radar was wrong so I got drenched by rain
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So I'm looking at my future bike and lets say it's based off the new 2023 Evo geometries. Do I get the 51 which comes with a 170mm crank, the right total reach with the stem and bars that come with it, but with a colossal amount of drop? Stack is fucked for me, my current CAAD12 has the crown thingy that makes 20mm of extra stack height; I'd need 3-4 spacers on the new 54, a shocking 7 spacers on the 51, lolol.
chrislehr
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Finally got a ride in. After a hellish couple work weeks, a disney trip, and then in laws in town, I needed that.
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black jesus
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The frame is right, the rest of the stuff isn't and I don't think there are any bikes out there for me that come with a 170 crank, 40mm short reach bars, in size 54.
chrislehr
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I am quite proud of my incremental progress on this level 4 climb here locally. It's an option I don't take that often (the loop it begins usually adds 10 miles and 1500 feet. But over time, I certainly have felt this one get easier and easier. The early 2022 time is the one that made me go "I can get better at this" last year.
Who buys a bike based on crank length?
Don’t deal with a shop that won’t swap that shit for you
i run 44 but i've never really tried anything else. feels comfortable enough.
black jesus
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We do it with everything
Why half ass a 6k bike you want them to buy the next one from you too
New record for me... cooked a chain in 196 miles. I'm usually conservative and replace when I get the .5 end of the Park Tool gauge in with a little nudge. This just fell into place. After 196 miles 
Every ride has been wet or actively raining and I just checked and the cassette is worn too so that likely contributed.
Every ride has been wet or actively raining and I just checked and the cassette is worn too so that likely contributed.
what kinda chain? did you lube it at all? road or trail?New record for me... cooked a chain in 196 miles. I'm usually conservative and replace when I get the .5 end of the Park Tool gauge in with a little nudge. This just fell into place. After 196 miles
Every ride has been wet or actively raining and I just checked and the cassette is worn too so that likely contributed.
Ever since I put the last chain on my road bike the shifting has been dogshit and I can NOT get it adjusted to work right on all sprockets (which you can do on Di2 while riding so I've tried for weeks). I'm starting to think I just got a bad chain or something because it's been perfect until now. The only other thing I changed was the bottom bracket/crank bearings.
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My new aero bike has fucking 46cm bars. I'm considering finding a 40 option, everything is integrated so big $ and can't find anything about expected watt savings. I would imagine that it's a pretty decent number of watts going from 46 to 40cm.
These guys test bars and positions among other things. Not super scientific but will give you an idea. Since you're a giant, I bet your numbers will be better
Ultegra chain & cassette. Mix of pavement/gravel/dirt.
I replaced both at 2,427 miles. Another chain at 3,201, 3,988, 4,899, 5,576, and 6,308 miles and at 6,504 the latest chain is toast. It's been so wet and nasty lately I've re-lubed every ride. But with the cassette being toast already (expected after how many chains its had) + two 3-4 hour rides where the lube was probably gone by hour 1, it got wrecked fast.