Remove foot from the clips: Push it to the outside (right leg - right, left leg - left). It's recommended to do it ahead of every cross for example or when it's likely that you have to stop.
It takes about one or two rides until the clipping and more importantly unclipping works in your sleep and you basically never really unlearn it. In this sense, it's much like riding a bike. You should try to get the hang of it, it saves you energy and is especially comfortable on long rides, since you can push and drag. That is of course, you need the propers shoes for it.
If you mean how to remove pedals, here's a video, 5 second search...
If you can't do it, ou should go to a small bike shop and ask one of their mechanics.
Edited by Shonak on 10-06-2014 21:27
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
People often look at me as the only weirdo around who clips by pushing to the inside. I must say it works fine, no dude there (I figure that's a new word for 'problem' in the Queen's English ?).
I try the outside too, when I remember to.
Laurent Pichon just stole 4 of my KOM, all of them along a cat. 4 (or 3 ?) climb.
Those pros are raping my KOM list (I always knew I'd lose them at some point).
Well at least you are losing them to pros - means you are only one place behind Pichon!
I had that annoying thing where you get a KOM but because it only equaled the time of the holder you don't get it in your KOM list...ok that really shouldn't be important to anyone with any sense of perspective...but to me, it is!
The home Cup race were held in a 12 km route that in an impressive way managed to be both extremely boring and extremely dangerous, with many difficult corners and bad roads. The huge amount of 225 riders at the start line, where some of them rode their first cycling race ever, did even more to make the race dangerous. Ended up just behind a mass crash after only 3 kilometres, and had to show my cx abilities to keep the peloton. More crashes followed, but I ended up without damages.
I felt quite bad throughout the race, but luckily the pace were held moderate in the slopes. Got through 8 of the 14 laps (96 out of 164 kms), and I think I ended up within the top 90-100 (the full results isn't updated yet). NC starts next sunday with the U-23 race, and I hope to do better with fewer riders and fewer of the strongest riders. Todays race looked promising in that way. I am more pessimistic about the TT though, as I now ride faster on the road bike than on the tt bike.
The race ended up with some riders attacking the field in the last hill about 3 km from the finish, and Filip Eidsheim from FixIt.no got the victory. 60 riders reached the finish line. After the race, there have been quite a bit of discussion regarding a splitting of the peloton in Norwegian races into A and B races, after the big amount of crashes and the big amount of riders without experience in peloton racing. Will be interesting to see the conclusion of the cycling federation.
I think I have lost my Garmin, so I can't show you the strava file.
@aidan: I'm 19 (or turning 19 in november), so am riding my first seinor season this year.
Edited by nils erik on 15-06-2014 22:23
Knocked down Leith Hill, White Down and managed to take in Box Hill for a second time afterwards, with a slightly improved time. All in all a nice ride through the Surrey Hills but felt all in by the end of the day having ridden 150km to get out there and back.
Great cycling book though - the only trouble is I only have 1 more of the books climbs within ride range
Knocked down Leith Hill, White Down and managed to take in Box Hill for a second time afterwards, with a slightly improved time. All in all a nice ride through the Surrey Hills but felt all in by the end of the day having ridden 150km to get out there and back.
Great cycling book though - the only trouble is I only have 1 more of the books climbs within ride range
Knocked down Leith Hill, White Down and managed to take in Box Hill for a second time afterwards, with a slightly improved time. All in all a nice ride through the Surrey Hills but felt all in by the end of the day having ridden 150km to get out there and back.
Great cycling book though - the only trouble is I only have 1 more of the books climbs within ride range
Yes, thanks, a really good idea The points are on a percentage basis now rather than just the top 100 which is a nice change - the only slight problem is when you first update it seems to inflate your score on the local boards by a few hundred before getting put right. Minor point, it's basically great!
All in all Veloviewer is by far my favourite website.
Aquarius wrote:
Laurent Pichon just stole 4 of my KOM, all of them along a cat. 4 (or 3 ?) climb.
Those pros are raping my KOM list (I always knew I'd lose them at some point).
Haha! Yeah those damn pro's!
I have been attempting to steal one around the corner from my place held by Koen de Kort.... I don't like my chances
Hells 500 Crew and 6 x Everester
Don Rd Launching Place
Melbourne Hill Rd Warrandyte
Colby Drive Belgrave South
William Rd The Patch
David Hill Rd Monbulk
Lakeside Drive Emerald https://www.everesting.cc/hall-of-fame/
Just came home from riding the Sella Ronda Bike Day (traffic jam on the way home, yeah).
It's a route that leads around Passo Sella and three more Passos, and the route is closed for cars that day. There was not a single flat part I think in the entire route, only up and down and up & down.
I swear, I have never ever seen so god damn many cyclists in my life. The couple of hundred riders back at that race I participated in was compared to this today nothing at all.
Well, so the weather was great and it wasn't too hot. I must admit, the landscape and view around Passo Sella and Alto Adige (South Tyrol) is just gorgeous. If you ever have the slightest chance to spend some quality cycling time in South Tyrol, take it. It's unbelievably beautiful to gaze at and to ride. It really is just stunning from start to finish.
The climbs were all fantastic to ride and a joy to downhill too (No Cars Go!). First three climbs were no problem. On the last I should have eaten a powerbar before. Gave my banana to my dad at the start because he forgot his. So in turn, on the last climb I was missing a bit the punch and preferred to take it real easy & slow. In turn I "lost" quite some time on that climb. On the brightside, I mostly rode through the whole parcour, whilst the largest part of people made numerous stops I suspect. At least people I encountered and remembered.
According to Garmin people on strava the route was around 70 kilometers and over 2000 elevation. Of course, my stupid GPS phone/strava added some hundred meters additionaly but it's not so really that much in comparison to the overall elevation, "just" a couple of hundred. I guess we're used to that by now. https://www.strava.../156773577
By the way, strava "reconnected" me with a guy whom I was riding with a lot, and who was italian and hardly spoke english. So you gotta say that strava really does that thing right.
Love those car-free days already. Next No Cars Go-day will be probably Passo Stelvio in August. Can I hear a "Damn you Shonak"?
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
Rode the U23 NC today - a race where the crosswind were the biggest threat. Were caught behind a crash on the top of the only hill in the route on the third out of 6 laps, and never managed to get back in the peloton, were about 10 seconds back when the route switched to headwind and then there were no chance for me to get up. Ended the race after 4 laps, slightly disappointed. Gets 2 new chances later though, with the tt on thursday and the Elite rr on sunday. Have no big expectations for the two, but everything is possible...
Strava file (found my garmin yesterday, so can continue to upload races now):
The results will be up at procyclingstats in some hours. Sondre Holst Enger won the bunch sprint ahead of team mate Andreas Erland and Frederik Galta. Erland, Galta and Eiking were in a breakaway, and Enger started a massive 500 metres sprint in crosswind, and just managed to beat a frustrated teammate...
Edited by nils erik on 22-06-2014 20:41
Selwink wrote:
Do you have medicines for it? If not, I can recommend desloratadine, which has worked for me for the last few years.
yeah, I have medicine. I have one called Kestine, I guess it´s something similiar to desloratadine. But this years been much worse then all previous years and the medicine haven´t worked as well as Before.
viking90 wrote:
Finally could take a ride again, first time for over a month.
I f'cking hate grass allergy...
Yes, really annoying. We had conversation about it in Pedro, so check it (basically half of that page), some of these medicaments may help you.
Injury-update: slightly recovering from my kneecap injury and I am now having some short town-rides that are not longer than 5 kilometers. Doctor said that I am surprisingly recovering fast and that I'll be able to take some >50km rides very soon! At the moment, I am excited about it, but then I just think that I have grass (pollen) and dust/dirt allergy and I just lose my desire for cycling and life generally. Allergy season is coming to its end (at least where I live), so let's hope that these two things will coincide perfectly and that I'll be able to ride soon! Edited by admirschleck on 25-06-2014 21:47
Selwink wrote:
Do you have medicines for it? If not, I can recommend desloratadine, which has worked for me for the last few years.
yeah, I have medicine. I have one called Kestine, I guess it´s something similiar to desloratadine. But this years been much worse then all previous years and the medicine haven´t worked as well as Before.
The explanation might be that your body has adapted to the medicine you use. Over the time it requires more and more of a specific substance/drug to keep you from feeling the grass pollen. It's the same with drugs like coke, heroine, ectascy you name it. To get the next kick you need a higher dose, because your body "gets used to the drug". You should talk with your doctor about this, might be useful to change the medicine sometime.
I haven't really been doing much outdoor because of the same reason as you, grass pollen. I am allergic to lactose aswell, and often in pills against pollen they use some kind of milk protein or something like that. This means there are not many different products and these are quite expensive. My medicine really doesn't work that well anymore either, but just gotta cope with it. At least you can change.
Hopefully it will soon start to rain a lot, so all the pollen will get out of the air. Really want to take my bike for another ride....
Present:
Tinkoff-Saxo - AG2R - Colombian riders
Past:
Francisco Mancebo - Illes balears - Carlos Sastre - Kelme - Robbie McEwen
I must say it works fine, no dude there (I figure that's a new word for 'problem' in the Queen's English ?).
