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| Ste117 |
Posted on 19-08-2010 17:34
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Is anyone good with knee injuries?
I have a bad knee after riding for a long time with my seat too high and not noticing.
i have been riding for the whole summer with the problem, it stopped after a week off but 2 weeks ago it returned worse and know im getting a heartbeat like thump in my lower knee.
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 19-08-2010 17:35
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Deadpool wrote:
What's the least painful way to commit suicide?
Google is your friend. 
Anyway I haven't really done much cycling lately but September/ October is the best time to buy a bike because its just before the next 'wave' of bikes comes out for the year right? |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 19-08-2010 18:29
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Ste117 wrote:
Is anyone good with knee injuries?
I have a bad knee after riding for a long time with my seat too high and not noticing.
i have been riding for the whole summer with the problem, it stopped after a week off but 2 weeks ago it returned worse and know im getting a heartbeat like thump in my lower knee.
Ste, I have that thump in my knee most of the time, but I have no idea. |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 19-08-2010 18:37
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valverde321 wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
What's the least painful way to commit suicide?
Google is your friend.
Anyway I haven't really done much cycling lately but September/ October is the best time to buy a bike because its just before the next 'wave' of bikes comes out for the year right?
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August is usually the time. |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 20-08-2010 08:16
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Ste117 wrote:
Is anyone good with knee injuries?
I have a bad knee after riding for a long time with my seat too high and not noticing.
i have been riding for the whole summer with the problem, it stopped after a week off but 2 weeks ago it returned worse and know im getting a heartbeat like thump in my lower knee. Tried getting your sattle down a little, rest your knee (and possibly use anti inflammatory cream on it), and try again ? |
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 20-08-2010 10:21
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Deadpool wrote:
valverde321 wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
What's the least painful way to commit suicide?
Google is your friend.
Anyway I haven't really done much cycling lately but September/ October is the best time to buy a bike because its just before the next 'wave' of bikes comes out for the year right?
No
August is usually the time.
Well, it depends. The further you go, the cheaper the old editions get but the less choice remains. So it's a gamble.
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 20-08-2010 14:43
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wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
valverde321 wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
What's the least painful way to commit suicide?
Google is your friend.
Anyway I haven't really done much cycling lately but September/ October is the best time to buy a bike because its just before the next 'wave' of bikes comes out for the year right?
No
August is usually the time.
Well, it depends. The further you go, the cheaper the old editions get but the less choice remains. So it's a gamble.
Buy the bike this year, because next year bikes are supposed to get more expansive
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 20-08-2010 15:19
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Ok so now I'll gamble on either buying one now or gambling and getting one later this year. Also living where I do I don't think that bikes are flying off the shelves but not as many are shipped here either.
Spoiler But first I have to fork over my cash for some new hockey equipment. |
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 20-08-2010 16:27
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felix_29 wrote:
wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
valverde321 wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
What's the least painful way to commit suicide?
Google is your friend.
Anyway I haven't really done much cycling lately but September/ October is the best time to buy a bike because its just before the next 'wave' of bikes comes out for the year right?
No
August is usually the time.
Well, it depends. The further you go, the cheaper the old editions get but the less choice remains. So it's a gamble.
Buy the bike this year, because next year bikes are supposed to get more expansive
OR, just get really good and get a bike sponsor  Hehe
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 20-08-2010 16:30
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hillis91 wrote:
felix_29 wrote:
wackojackohighcliffe wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
valverde321 wrote:
Deadpool wrote:
What's the least painful way to commit suicide?
Google is your friend.
Anyway I haven't really done much cycling lately but September/ October is the best time to buy a bike because its just before the next 'wave' of bikes comes out for the year right?
No
August is usually the time.
Well, it depends. The further you go, the cheaper the old editions get but the less choice remains. So it's a gamble.
Buy the bike this year, because next year bikes are supposed to get more expansive
OR, just get really good and get a bike sponsor Hehe
Not really possible here. I could get sponsored by a club and get 50% off at certain shops but thats it. |
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| hillis91 |
Posted on 20-08-2010 17:45
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And then it's the last solution, steal a bike? 
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 20-08-2010 18:50
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No No, have heard David Harmon in this years Tour de France on Eurosport, Don't steal other peoples or general bikes lol joke 
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 20-08-2010 20:26
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I laid my hand on an effort test I did in May 2002 earlier tonight. My power at threshold was 4,8 W/kg, my VO2 was 61.
Those were lame figures for me, but were expected, since I didn't train much back then (university was very time-taking and motivation was not always there).
I was happy last Wednesday when I achieved 4,3 W/kg, thinking that was good, but obviously it's still far from my lousy espoir year it seems, and very far from when I had a VO2 of 69 when I was 15-16.
Getting old sucks. Well on the other hand it's reassuring that I'm much weaker now than when I trained a lot, it shows training isn't useless.
I should look for more old effort tests, just for the fun of reading them again, a decade later.
Edited by Aquarius on 20-08-2010 20:27
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 20-08-2010 20:35
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Your actual absolute VO2 max value won't have decreased Just you got fat!
So if you lost that weight, you'd both increase your power-to-weight ratio at threshold, and your relative VO2 max. Which, by the way, isn't a very good way of comparing cyclists side-by-side. (Instead allometric measurements should be compared)
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 20-08-2010 22:08
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I think I weighed like 71 or 72 at the time of the test, whereas I weigh 66 now, with more or less the same share of fat mass.
When I reached a VO2 of 69 I weighed 66 or 67 I think (but I was "only" 1,79m tall - 1,83 nowadays).
Yeah, the max potential VO2 hasn't changed a bit, it's just how much of your potential you fulfil, it was crap in April 2002, it's even worst now (although much better than when I started doing sports again 1,5 years ago), thankfully, for the sake of my ego I'm not competing any more.  |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 21-08-2010 10:20
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For those interested in Watts stuff, effort tests, etc. Here are mines.
After digging through my old stuff at my parents, I managed to lay my hands on the last effort test I did as a junior, late 2000.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find the tests I did through 1998 and 1999 as an U17 (but there are my very first figures from Feb 1998) yet.
Though it's in French, most stuff probably remains very easy to understand.
Don't focus on my other 2000 tests, the first one I was coming back from one week in England with no bike, the second one it was after one month without any competition, and two weeks with no bike (bad crash on my right knee).
Conclusions : I was too fat (74 kg, for God's sake, I'm 66 now despite being 1 cm taller !)
My power was... quite impressive, 5,1 W/kg at threshold, blew up at 442 (almost 6 W/kg). Which with the 70 + 8 kg we use for analyses would mean 356 W at threshold, and blowing up at 418. Of course you can't relate those figures to what they'd be after one long day of climbing mountains, but that more or less means I could have hang on in the grupetto had I started down the last mountain. Yet I was a crappy climber.
On the second page you can see I had very promising figures in early February 1998, especially for somebody who hadn't turned 15 yet. As strong as a junior, but sadly I never really improved afterwards.
Now I feel a bit ashamed that I felt proud of reaching 4,1 W/kg both in 2007 and earlier this Summer. 
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 22-08-2010 00:10
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Ive been told to stay of the bike for 2 weeks aswell as no sport for 2 weeks and put on anti inflamatory tablets, so now im out of the final club TT on this season which im not too happy about, but if i was to ride anyway i could be out for the whole winter and it mess next season up then. If anti inflamotory tablets don't work then its physio, it that doesnt work then its an MRI scan to find the extent of the problem.
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| Levi4life |
Posted on 07-09-2010 03:51
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I don't mean to brag or anything but... I just bought a Mavic Comete Disc wheel, with wheel bag, skewer and Dura Ace cassette, used once, for... $800. Best part is has an aluminum breaking surface, and is clincher, so flats are cheap to fix and I don't need carbon specific breaks.
YAY!
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| BenBarnes |
Posted on 17-09-2010 14:46
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I just signed up for my first race! 20 mile road race, 2 circuits on a 10 mile loop. Got any pre-race advice? |
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| rjc_43 |
Posted on 17-09-2010 21:30
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Avoid the guys with hairy legs.
Don't crash.
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