Recent content by 2wheelsgood

I might be in the market for new tyres in the new year as for sure the bike shop will suggest my I need to replace my Pathfinder Pro 2Bliss 700x42 due to wear. Now my riding has definitely changed in the last year and I am pretty much solely on the road these days I am wondering if I should look...

Well they put a watch on the tyres in the summer so they will probably convince me that they need replacing, if they are only lasting 18 months then I might have to move on from the Pathfinders. If there is rattle in the chain ring hub area then that sounds expensive as well.

Trouble is they recommend a service every 6 months. so they will surely say I will have to book it in as I had the last one done in summer. So that would be me down £300+ down at Christmas which is not ideal :rolleyes:

The rattles are starting to get me down now. There appears to be 2 different types of noises, I think one of them is chain ring area as when the bike is stationary and i wiggle the chain ring back and forth gently this definitely causes a rattle. The other one seems to be front of frame area...

I did not know the Diverge came in flat bar as well as drops. That is interesting, although it does seem expensive looking at the spec you get for the money. I still think my ideal unassisted all-round bike would be a Trek FX Sport 6 SL, carbon everything, electric shifting, 9 KG and the 42mm...

This is kind of what I did Put hooks in the wall and draped a thermal reflective survival blanket around the bike and installed a thermostat controlled 80W tubular heater 6 inches from the floor. It only kicks in when it gets about -1 deg Seemed to work well last winter.

I remember when i first got the Vado SL and I mentioned on here that I could not help turning off the motor and going hell for leather over a short stretch near my house. I had forgotten that my Apple Watch recorded those attempts and when I switched Strava back on it reloaded all the data. I...

I am using Strava at the moment, I used it a few years ago but did not really get much use out of it. I am giving it another go and trialling the subscription. I have it communicating with iPhone and Apple Watch and the plan is to use it on the Vado SL for navigation etc and then just use the...

As I am over 60 and riding on some pretty rough roads it seems to be perfect for the kind of speed workouts I want to do. It has been upgraded with Zipp 303 Firecrest wheels, S-Works Aero bars and a more aggressive Zipp Sprint SL stem. I put some SPD-SL pedals on it now but haven't ridden it for...

Bit dark for photos as it is nearly evening here but here it is.

I could not resist this week and did something I thought I would never do - I bought a second bike. I do a lot of fitness rides where I switch off the motor and go for it and of course my data for those rides are hampered by a combination of flat bar aero, flat pedals and ~16kg weight. I found...

I seem to have developed some annoying rattles. One of the things I liked about this bike from the start was that it felt well built and all of a piece. Now it is quite noisy when I ride over a drain cover or rough ground. Trouble is I am terrible at locating noises, I spent 5mins looking...

Does everybody regularly charge to 80%? I am not really a reader of manuals so I have to admit to not doing this and have been charging to max each time.

Ah thanks Stefan, informative as always. Is 35/35 the most quiet setting? or is there a tweak here I can do?

So I did what I said and changed it to 30/10, 60/10, 100/10. At least I think it was 10 I cannot remember, it was the lowest it would go anyway, I lasted 100 yards, it was horrible, my mechanical sympathy kicked in immediately on hearing the awful noise the belt was making. i stopped the bike...