Get a bike fit.
That stem looked ridiculously short on the photo you took
Get a bike fit.
That stem looked ridiculously short on the photo you took
Yesterday was a particularly bad example, but something that definitely needs to be worked on. I think I’m alright with food on the bike too, as well as the day before a long ride. Yesterday = porridge before the ride. Put electrolyte tabs in my bottles before I set off. During: bananas, 2 of those Aldi paleo bars, that hideous “meat” snack, avocado on toast, carrot cake, almond slice thing, 2 flat whites, 1 black coffee, Kit Kat Chunky, Lion bar.
So I had an 80mm stem before it got nicked. In Girona I rode a bike with a 60mm stem and it felt much better. I can’t reach the drops with 80mm. So I thought I’d swap. I was probably wrong. I still feel kind of stretched out with the current stem tbh. Everything I’ve read about hand pain = you’re too stretched out, but given I have a very short top tube already I couldn’t even make the bars fit closer to me
Might be your saddle that needs moving fore/aft. Maybe you need a stem with more of a rise on it?
I’d get a fit, you spend too much time on the bike not to. Could end up hurting yourself.
Yeah that’s nowhere near enough fuel, especially in the cold
BLAH
Yeah. Basically winter needs to fuck off so I can eat on the bike (can’t unwrap things wearing full gloves).
I want a handlebar bag like this:
^I’ve got a couple of his bits and I love them, but before I buy one, has anyone got one or could anyone recommend something similar?
And before anyone says OH GOD NOT A BAR BAG: get fucked
one bit of kit I missed on my tour I think. not seen a suitable one and didn’t want to be a full kit ortlieb wanker
what about a top tube bag thing, they are basically for what you describe _ i need to get one for winter eating/ long rides
This sort of thing - although I’m sure there are better/ nicer ones
I have a very nice Radial one (was so cheap but it’s great), unfortunately my knees touch it when I’m out of the saddle. Also, given I run such a short top tube, it makes it quite awkward to get stuff out of, and there’s barely enough room for me stood over the top tube when I have it on! I think I might find it easier to get stuff out of a bar bag. Also looking to longer distance events and I’d like to be properly kitted out.
@Matt_was_taken There are loads on Always Riding, including a beautiful Ornot one:
https://www.alwaysriding.co.uk/ornot-bar-bag.html
But they’re so expensive.
Also this from Road Runner:
https://velotastic.co.uk/product/parts_and_accessories/luggage/roadrunner-burrito-bag/
But really I’d prefer to support someone in the UK who makes their own bags.
Do Alpkit do a stem bag or something like that?
nah that’s where it comes from innit, the little pack rolls that mules would carry
(now muting the thread)
Yeah they do the stem “cell” bags which are something different (and also yr man from Mack Workshop does them too). I’ve got an Alpkit dual-ended drybag for my handlebars for bikepacking but my headtube is too small for it
Ah okay. Have a few friends who have BigxTop backpacks that they rave about, and they do a bar bag?
Hnnnnngh planet x is selling either way this :
https://www.planetx.co.uk/c/q/bikes/cyclocross-bikes/on-one-pickenflick
Or this
https://www.planetx.co.uk/c/q/bikes/cyclocross-bikes/xls
For 1000 and I don’t even want them but I doooo
Quite like the Pickenflick, and would love a ti frame. I’ve told myself I’m going to get a new bike if I get through a Randonneur series this year (a 200, 300, 400 and 600km audax, though really I will get a new bike regardless), so I’ve spent the last couple of days flicking around different beautiful steel bikes wondering which I’d get. I guess I need to work out my budget. Why can’t I get a Vanilla Speedvagen in the UK?
ding ding ding - rapha sale alert!
at sportpursuit, looks like a decent enough discount and lots of sizes in stock
it won’t let me look at anything without signing up
Yeah they do that, nothing untoward about it though
(jerseys on there from 40 quid, 80 for bibs and loads of jackets and gilets and stuff)
Guess it’s last years stock or summat
It’s the stuff the didn’t shift in the recent sale. Weirdly some stiff I bought is on there but more cash.