Do The Right Thing

OK, so I’m now six weeks out from my first half Iron-man race. It’s time to get all those little doubts and niggles about things like bike setup sorted out. My big worry is what handlebar setup to go for on this 58-mile, relatively flat course, and I hope YOU can give me some advice.
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After my experiments last year with strapping my compact digital camera to my handlebars to film what I see when I’m out and about, I finally took the plunge & bought a helmet camera a couple of weeks ago. Really I wanted this for three reasons:

Insurance. What?! Well, if anything happens, I want a record […]

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Amazon.co.uk says not, and heatratemonitor.co.uk says not at the moment, but I should check Garmin’s site. Garmin’s site seems not to have useful stuff like ’systems requirements’ displayed in a nice prominent place where I can find ‘em.
Anyone out there got any experience of this?

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At heart I’m pretty simple, so I like simple things.
I’ve got two cycle computers - one’s a Topeak Comp 140, which is just great - speed, trip distance, cadence, averages, maximums, and an overall odometer. More to the point, it’s all controlled by a SINGLE button. Press to scroll through the functions, press and hold […]

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Every now and then my ISP (originally called Blueyonder - now Virgin Internet) goes AWOL. My routine download speeds of around 4-6Mb/s drops to a 100kb link. And this on a cable connection. Very frustrating, and not conducive to writing long prosy posts.
I used to get worked up about this, and start fiddling with the […]

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Oh, please forgive me - too much time behind the wheel this week.
I’ve had too much to do, and too little time. It’s included two days in my role as a stand-up rabble rouser (7 1/2 hours of briefing a company’s staff in groups of 5-9 on a new initiative kicking off in January), and […]

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I’ve had some more fun with my camera-attached-to-bike. Now, I can show you what plays in my head when I’m cycling:

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Ah, takes me back to those happy days at school. The psychological bullying, physical abuse, and the ever-present threat of being used as a human toast rack for a hot buttered crumpet.
Errr . . . ANYWAY, Joe Friel wrote a recent couple of posts (here, and here) about posture on road bikes.  It’s stuff that […]

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So clukasik posted an interesting question about the kickbike & kicksled, which got me thinking, and noodling around youtube to see if there was anything similar to see in action.
Turns out that these two kickmobiles are only the sensible end of the lunatic fringe of cycling.
First we have the bouncebike:

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So after this morning’s run, I headed out for my loop through Newcastle to the Scotswood bridge & back. I was riding Trixie the Fixie, who is definitely my favourite bike.
I’m not sure if it’s to do with the simple joy of riding fixed, or the fit of the bike, but it all seems to […]

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