From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 29 00:16:14 2025
Today was a little unusual for a Saturday ride. They were riding like hell but the overall distance was shorter than normal. There was almost completely dead air, so no wind. There was only about 245 feet of climbing and it was only about 6%.
But my average speed was 12.2 mph which included the short climb in both directions.
My heart rate monitor stopped working and nothing could coax it to go again. Even a new battery which was only 3 weeks newer than the older one. So I ordered a new heart rate monitor and of course that means that the original heart rate monitor worked
better than it ever had before.
One of the differences this time was that I drank 12 ounces of water at the coffee stop. Besides a small cup of coffee.
So I had no dehydration effects.
Using the moving speed only demonstrated that I had found the proper button to push to turn the moving speed only on. While the moving average is low. On the flats I was riding mostly at 14 mph but the differebce between 12.2 and 14 mph in power is
almost nothing - I think 62 vs 82 watts. Of course that is with the totalo frontal area that they use in the example. If you add the actual frontal area and consequential increased coeffecient of drag, it turns out that I was mostly riding while
developing about 100 watts. That is remarkably lower than I was doing until January of this year. I was killing the climbs doing 6 mph up 11.5% That was close to 400 watts for 2 hours at a stretch.
When I got my concussion, I was doing 18 to 20 mph into headwinds all of the time. And with very high rolling resistance as well since 25% of that ride was on gravel.Deep gravel. And sometime I would take a longer round with an extra 4 miles of gravel.
So now I am barely moving. But barely moving is better than stopped. I finally found the model of my Time since it has so many labels on it I didn't know what it was. It is a VXR5. While there is enough room for wider tires, they wouldn't fit between the
rim brakes and I would prefer not to be walking home again.
I wish that bikes were selling like they were two years ago when I was selling them within two weeks. Then I could keep the Time VXR5 and the DeRosa Idol and the Basso Loto. And buy another Look 788 hydraulic disc bike which would complete my library. 4
bikes are much better than 13. I suspect that the Ridley Di2 has the lower downtube junction pulled out and that is why the levers aren't working from that wire.
I'm in no hurry to get around to that because I have to pull the cranks and cups out to get too it.