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Felt like crap on Sunday after the heat beating I took on Saturday, but I still did 10 to keep the legs loose. Got the new Magped pedals in today and installed. Gave them a quick 2 min spin while I was on lunch, hopefully the wife will find these much easier to deal with and not taking 5 mins to clip in each foot. I will have to get used to the feel and adjust the little plate around to get my foot position correct. Looks like a cool system though and pedals are incredibly light. Once she is done riding this afternoon, I will take a spin on them as well.
30 miles and 1900’. Hit a lemon aid stand to support the young entrepreneurs.
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Did a gravel ride today, 4 hours, almost 52 miles, 5300' of gain, and 1 tire puncture. The tire puncture was a real PITA too...happened on first gravel descent, the plug kept working its way back out during the ride. I had to push it back in and pump it up on 3 more occasions.
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They been around a few years, there are a couple of different brands, but most of them are flats pedals, and since we both have gravel\xc shoes, I opted for the gravel version of the pedals. You don't clip in directly to the pedal, they have a very strong magnet that keeps your shoe attached. I went with the Magped Gravel
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Interesting concept, I've never seen those before. I'm a dyed in the wool SPD and SPD SL guy, but I could see the benefit of that system for certain riders and/or certain disciplines. Even for my enduro/all mountain riding, I'm running caged Shimano XT spd pedals, but there are times that you have to unclip and the terrain makes getting clipped back in very difficult.
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Did a gravel ride today, 4 hours, almost 52 miles, 5300' of gain, and 1 tire puncture. The tire puncture was a real PITA too...happened on first gravel descent, the plug kept working its way back out during the ride. I had to push it back in and pump it up on 3 more occasions.
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Got in 25 with 1K feet of ascent. Legs felt really good today, unlike the wasteland of yesterday,
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I know of what you speak, a real PITA. You may want to consider going from bacon to this Dyna Plug
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Similar to the Dyna plug, my order of Stan's darts showed up in the mail this afternoon. Just to give it a shot, I inserted one in the hole...didn't seal at all. I've heard the Dyna plugs work much better than the Darts, so I'll still give them a shot. The hole/gash ended up being a little larger than it originally looked like, I finally ended up taking the tire off and patching it from the inside once I got home.
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Conventional patch. Not necessarily the small bike-specific patches, but some larger/thicker patches...glued on with rubber cement of course. This is my go-to permanent fix on most tubeless bike tires, I haven't had a repeat failure yet with this set up...although I've only been riding gravel for a couple of months. My previous tubeless experience is with mtb tires. The lightweight XC tires usually seal themselves, my DH tires almost always seal themselves.
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42 miles today. Left around 10:30am so that I could be back before it got to warm in the afternoon.
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20 virtual (fake) miles with 1200’ . Some how managed to get the polka dot jersey on the UCI course.
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66 miles round trip. 33 miles one way. In total, it took about 5 hours leisurely ride on a fixie. The ride was mostly flat.
Inspired by this thread 👇, but I don't think I can do it five days a week. Nevertheless, great workout.
https://www.bikeforums.net/commuting...ute-crazy.html
Inspired by this thread 👇, but I don't think I can do it five days a week. Nevertheless, great workout.
https://www.bikeforums.net/commuting...ute-crazy.html
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19 miles, before priorities needed to get done.
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Around here, it's been getting quite warm starting about 10 AM. I have pretty good heat tolerance, I just have to remind myself to hydrate. My wife hates the heat. She usually won't ride if temps are above ~82 degrees. Therefore, if I want her to go with me, I have to agree to leave by 6 or 7 AM.
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Not all the scenery is beautiful as with this 26 miler yesterday. But I did meet two very friendly mutts during a coffee break.
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104 miles, pre Woodward dream cruise.
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This is like your warm up period for you isn't it?