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Grumpwagon posted:A very reasonable question. In addition to the main reason I use it -- mapping routes -- it has Strava-light functionality, so I use it like how normal people use Strava to record rides/mileage so I have some idea how much I ride per month/year/etc. Strava is free for basic stuff. I also do all ride editing, importing and perusal in ride with gps or komoot, but everything syncs from garmin up to Strava & everywhere else, I don’t really feel like I’m missing anything.
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gamera009 posted:This goddamned refurb/rebuild of an 80s Rockhopper comp is burning through my wallet. i warned you about bikes bro!!! i told you dog!
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wooger posted:Strava is free for basic stuff. I also do all ride editing, importing and perusal in ride with gps or komoot, but everything syncs from garmin up to Strava & everywhere else, I don’t really feel like I’m missing anything. Yeah, but (until now) Strava didn't add anything to my experience that I didn't already get from RWGPS.
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Devastated to realize that the more expensive Rapha bibs are actually noticeably more comfortable than the cheaper ones on long rides.
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Grumpwagon posted:Yeah, but (until now) Strava didn't add anything to my experience that I didn't already get from RWGPS. I like when Strava tries to charge me to see my own data
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Your trainer ride distance will most likely not look any different on Strava; it’ll generally just accept what the file received says because there’s not much else to go on
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I was perusing the police auction in my area and came across this bike   . While it is probably too small for me, and the front wheel might be messed up (certainly doesn't have a disc) it has piqued my interest. I can't tell the brand, and I'm not sure if its a rattle can job on the back, but the components and zipp wheel sure are something. I was trying to figure it out myself, but I can't for the life of me remember what that type of rear triangle is called. Any help would be appreciated.
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kimbo305 posted:i warned you about bikes bro!!! I didn’t believe bruv.  Now I def trust bruv. Belief! Out $32 for a goddamned adjustable stop for the rear canti hanger.
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gamera009 posted:I didn’t believe bruv. 
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Mr. Toodles posted:I was perusing the police auction in my area and came across this bike You linked to the album, not to the image 
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MrL_JaKiri posted:You linked to the album, not to the image Looks like spray paint at the back, and that's a wishbone stay I think? The bike makes me sad though, it looks like a quite nice custom CX bike that's been stolen and done dirty.
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Steve French posted:Your trainer ride distance will most likely not look any different on Strava; it’ll generally just accept what the file received says because there’s not much else to go on Trainerroad and all the other trainer apps use a physics model to compute give reasonable numbers for how far/fast you’ve gone based on power, Grumpwagon is sidestepping that and feeding something in parallel direct into a garmin head unit-> his other app, so may be wildly different, and also variable with other things than power. There is no file, just what trainer road syncs to them.
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Jan 18, 2024 11:14
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wooger posted:Trainerroad and all the other trainer apps use a physics model to compute give reasonable numbers for how far/fast you’ve gone based on power, Grumpwagon is sidestepping that and feeding something in parallel direct into a garmin head unit-> his other app, so may be wildly different, and also variable with other things than power. TrainerRoad uses flywheel speed, so if you do a workout in 54x11 at 90rpm, you will rack up 35 miles in an hour.
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TobinHatesYou posted:TrainerRoad uses flywheel speed, so if you do a workout in 54x11 at 90rpm, you will rack up 35 miles in an hour. Gonna goose my stats by telling it that I have a thirty‐six‐inch rear wheel.
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TobinHatesYou posted:TrainerRoad uses flywheel speed, so if you do a workout in 54x11 at 90rpm, you will rack up 35 miles in an hour. Hmm, not consistent with their website. trainerroad posted:Does a speed sensor override Virtual Speed and Distance?
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Heliosicle posted:Looks like spray paint at the back, and that's a wishbone stay I think? From a 2011 MTBR thread discussing their merits, quote:You guys are seriously smoking crack if you think that a wishbone stay has any advantage in reducing brake flex. It's just not true. In fact, they are typically worse. How can you all not see this? The ability of a triangulated stay configuration to support the loads of the system are far far superior. I love bike forum discourse.
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wooger posted:This sort of thing is why trainer mileage / speed shouldn’t be allowed on Strava and shouldn’t count towards any of the Strava challenges like festive 500. who cares... sure, zwift's w/kg calculation results in generous km/hr averages, but it's not as if time on the trainer is not time spent riding
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wooger posted:Hmm, not consistent with their website. Virtual Speed/Distance is not enabled by default and you have to really dive into the UX to turn it on. https://support.trainerroad.com/hc/en-us/articles/7246322901019-How-to-Enable-Virtual-Speed-and-Distance-for-Strava
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Lex Neville posted:who cares... sure, zwift's w/kg calculation results in generous km/hr averages, but it's not as if time on the trainer is not time spent riding Drafting Coco’s group is worse than a real-world group ride or race. In a crit I can sit in the middle of the pack and do 29mph at 215W. With Coco on Tempus Fugit I’m doing 25mph at 175W.
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The skew is obviously pretty big, and because I ride my trainer a lot I personally go by time spent rather than distance when calculating yearly totals, weekly averages etc (and admittedly I only do workouts without drafting Yumi or Jacques or whomever to keep the numbers from going too crazy), but I feel like for most participants things like the festive 500 are primarily an incentive to ride more than they otherwise would during those 8 days. From that perspective, I don't see why the nature of those rides should matter. In fact, some who'd otherwise "only" ride for 6 or 8 hours in those 8 days might do 16 with Coco to achieve the festive 500, and I'd rather that than if they wouldn't have even gone for it if they had to ride in the real world.  but I like that trainer rides and pace partners help make such challenges a sort of adjustable feat. Others can make it a goal to do it all outdoors or even in one go, like dema, but it all "counts" imo
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Heliosicle posted:Looks like spray paint at the back, and that's a wishbone stay I think? Reminds me of something from Squid Bikes. Maybe an older version of this frame: https://www.squidbikes.com/cdn/shop/products/ProductSquidcrossV5_09_920x.png
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The shifter cable going along the top tube is distinctive to say the least
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Shifter cables across the top tube was pretty standard for CX bikes before internal routing. That housing is absurdly long tho
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Yeah, the whole bike looks like a spray.bike home job. Note that the rear wheel is a Zipp 30 aluminum job, not a fancy carbon wheel.
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Shifter cables across the top tube was pretty standard for CX bikes before internal routing. That housing is absurdly long tho You will need a new front wheel, and probably a fork. Looks like the crackhead put a QR wheel on the bike (notice the lack of brake rotor) and probably just crushed the QR on the thru -axel tabs.
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I wonder how many of my own mechanical efforts have been called the work of a crack head by bike mechanics.
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wooger posted:Trainerroad and all the other trainer apps use a physics model to compute give reasonable numbers for how far/fast you’ve gone based on power, Grumpwagon is sidestepping that and feeding something in parallel direct into a garmin head unit-> his other app, so may be wildly different, and also variable with other things than power. "what trainer road syncs to them" is a file
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Lex Neville posted:From that perspective, I don't see why the nature of those rides should matter. In fact, some who'd otherwise "only" ride for 6 or 8 hours in those 8 days might do 16 with Coco to achieve the festive 500, and I'd rather that than if they wouldn't have even gone for it if they had to ride in the real world. It’s a challenge from a Northern European country with rain and generally poo poo cycling weather during the week it’s run, the whole point is to defy the elements and get out there in reality and do a hard thing. Counting indoor rides at all is only a covid accommodation. * it’s of course mainly a marketing exercise by an overpriced apparel brand, I don’t care much either way. Steve French posted:"what trainer road syncs to them" is a file It’s calling APIs and sending data, but it’s not uploading a file that exists somewhere. It’s all an abstraction anyway, all I mean to get across is that there isn’t a gpx with the distance and speed saved in it at the end of a session as though it’s a real ride, it’s just something computed on the fly when syncing. TobinHatesYou posted:Virtual Speed/Distance is not enabled by default and you have to really dive into the UX to turn it on. quote:Will Virtual Speed Automatically be enabled in my TrainerRoad account? We’re both right. Confusing situation, there are obviously valid reasons for people to want to keep syncing their inaccurate wildly over/under exaggerated made up distances to Strava. Right?
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Salt Fish posted:I wonder how many of my own mechanical efforts have been called the work of a crack head by bike mechanics. Depends upon how classist they are. “Poor person used a bike for transportation and didn’t maintain it like a millionaire dentist? Must be a piece of poo poo crackhead!” 
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Loucks posted:Depends upon how classist they are. “Poor person used a bike for transportation and didn’t maintain it like a millionaire dentist? Must be a piece of poo poo crackhead!” I think on principle bike mechanics much prefer troubleshooting “crackhead jobs” than assembling and tuning an internet-bought bike out of a cardboard box for some jabroni too cheap to shop from them, like
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trilobite terror posted:I think on principle bike mechanics much prefer troubleshooting “crackhead jobs” than assembling and tuning an internet-bought bike out of a cardboard box for some jabroni too cheap to shop from them, like I don't entirely blame them for that stance, I kind of feel like if you want to buy DTC then you should be able to turn your own wrench and do final assembly/tuning On the other hand, labor money is labor money and that customer would hopefully come back for more if they aren't doing their own maintenance so idk Bike shop culture can be weird
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Guinness posted:I don't entirely blame them for that stance, I kind of feel like if you want to buy DTC then you should be able to turn your own wrench and do final assembly/tuning if they put all of the reflectors that came in the box on the bike, including the wheel ones, then they do not respect you
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trilobite terror posted:if they put all of the reflectors that came in the box on the bike, including the wheel ones, then they do not respect you  it's a show of dominance
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wooger posted:It’s calling APIs and sending data, but it’s not uploading a file that exists somewhere. It’s all an abstraction anyway, all I mean to get across is that there isn’t a gpx with the distance and speed saved in it at the end of a session as though it’s a real ride, it’s just something computed on the fly when syncing. It is calling APIs and sending data in the form of a file: any activity that makes it onto Strava with time-series data got there via a file, either FIT, GPX, or TCX. In TrainerRoad's case, it's TCX, with e.g. time, power, cadence, heart rate, speed, distance. Whether that exists stored somewhere in the form of a file on TrainerRoad's end or they generate it on the fly, I don't know and it's not terribly relevant to my point either, which is that Strava is generally not going to change the distance data it receives in a file from TrainerRoad, it's just going to honor what the file says.
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my trainer is in the garage and sometimes i have the window open and can hear rain so that counts as being in the elements
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My bike shipped I ended up going for the dynamo lighting because why not 
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trilobite terror posted:I think on principle bike mechanics much prefer troubleshooting “crackhead jobs” than assembling and tuning an internet-bought bike out of a cardboard box for some jabroni too cheap to shop from them, like Guinness posted:I don't entirely blame them for that stance, I kind of feel like if you want to buy DTC then you should be able to turn your own wrench and do final assembly/tuning Not exactly what you're talking about, but the two State bikes I bought were assembled by the LBS because if I didn't take it there to have them do it, I wouldn't get to activate the warranty on the frame. And that sucks, but I get why State does that, because in my decades on this planet, I've seen lots of stuff that was broken by people who were trying to assemble something that was objectively easy to put together. So, it's not always that someone can't turn a wrench. Sometimes, they just don't want to eat the cost of a manufacturer's defect. Besides, I took it to that LBS in particular because they're the ones I bought my first big-boy bike from. If they sold steel-framed bikes, I'd have considered buying from the store directly.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:You linked to the album, not to the image I am an idiot when it comes to imgur and I have no idea why. Thank you! Heliosicle posted:Looks like spray paint at the back, and that's a wishbone stay I think? Wishbone! That was bugging the hell out of me. I agree. Sometimes the bikes that pop up on here are such a bummer. Beat to poo poo walmart bikes with DUI bars are whatever, but one like this one and the ton of really nice mtn bikes up right now I feel bad for the original owner. dema posted:Reminds me of something from Squid Bikes. Maybe an older version of this frame: That looks exactly the same. Great find and thank you very much. bicievino posted:Yeah, the whole bike looks like a spray.bike home job. Good to know. I saw zipp and I got excited. I would be great (not really) advertising for them if there wheels can stand up to rigor of whatever a methhead put it through. Seriously, thank you all.
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Shifter cables across the top tube was pretty standard for CX bikes before internal routing. That housing is absurdly long tho Yeah it’s a thing so that you can shoulder the bike without trouble.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:My bike shipped My thoughts and prays for you to make sure it gets to you ok!
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