mac11irl
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a decent sunrise sets you up for the day, esp after a 45min uphill pedal to see it..
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terrible shaky tired arm photo, but.. my first cycle that the street lights were still on in town when i got to the top... i even had to put the torch on the bike leaving the house..
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yesterday got wrote off.. i was too knackered to get up. today was a heavy morning... but i made it out first morning ive needed to put the torch on the bike in months too! and first time needing it heading up the hilly roads. and i turns out i set a new best on one the hill climb sections... i didnt expect that!
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would it nit be better to transplant the ecu and the loom aswell? i dont know if the sdi ecu will accept tdi information, given they are quite different setups
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finally! despite the sleep deprivation and being knackered i got up, and got out today. tackled long hill, but the northern extension again. its a 13km trip, with more climb than going to "the top" of the hill, so its just as tough on the legs. no records set, not even close, but i didnt care, i just wanted to get out
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well, the overnight antics put paid to my cycle this morning.. which is fairly irritating. i want to get out, and yet i cant.. anyway, fingers crossed ill get to do something productive later!
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im feeling a depressed right now.. (millennial depressed... sad... ) i got out Monday morning and it was a slog, legs heavy, struggled on climbs, ended up dismounting twice losing traction... it was just a meh ride up Long Hill. ended up in a bush on the way back down.. yesterday was to be better.. but.. i woke up burstin to wee 3 times during the night!! slept horrendously. 610am alarm went off and i was conked again in under 30seconds. woke up at 650 when swmbo's alarm went off. too f'in late to go anywhere. ill make up for it today. i woke up at 602am... spud jr woke up at 603am, with a nappy so full of wee it burst its banks all over his pjs 😞 so after a full strip and redress, he went asleep again at 622, plenty time.. except he woke as i slipped out his door, so had to go back, and lie on the floor until 715... too bloody late to go anywhere again 😡 ragin... and the killing part was the forecast was for the weather to be crap at that hour, but it was fine! wouldve been a beautiful morning, i may have even sneaked a sunrise photo, but alas nothing. and now im torn, as ive to work tomorrow night, do i get up go pedal, do the breakfast routine and then try and try to sleep when my mother brings jr out for a while??? or is it worth the risk of not getting my head back down before work...
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were there any snakes living in a log pile housssssse?
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Sunday, we got out as a family for a short walk up in an area swmbo used to hang out with her family as a child. then in the afternoon i went out on the Blue way again with Sr, and got him as far as Ferryhouse Bridge and back again. logged it from home and it was 9.3km, we walked the bit from the house to the blueway, as the paths aren wide enough for him to cycle and theres no way hes road cycli g as people travel way too fast along the stretch with terrible sightlines. he done well so he did though im now being given out to that hes cycling too fast... because even a couple of neighbours have said it to swmbo 🤷♂️
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given its a camera on ab android.. im happy with this.. sitting on the wheel of me bike in the shed last week, i was gonna give the chain gear a quick clean and oil but left this lad to it instead and this guy out being a busy bee (literally) the next day on Spud sr's Cosmos
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@FUBAR has a decent one in his mk3, cant see it being too incompatible with a mk2
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moderators are very kind and helpful folk around here, when you ask politely
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So, i was able to get up and out on Saturday morning, and tackled long hill again, but.. i took a ledt at the top and spun out the Northern, lower bit that i can see from my house. it was a nice little detour, longer than i expected, and from the total climb stat more extra incline than i thought to get back up to the peak to head for home. my house is down there... somewhere the detour is from the top of the hill to the right where the teail winds up, out the start of the big gradient to the left. that hill poking out dead centre from the shed then, my MIL arrived and said she wanted to bring Spud sr for a walk , but he could cycle, in the woods on "a trail thats very flat" so i went too, and brought Jr in the ergobaby carrier, as i didnt want nanny struggling with Sr on his bike solo, if he was too fast or whatever. it was not flat! i logged the way back out, spud struggled to hold the brakes on the downhills, and had to push his single gear bike back up most of it... i was melted carrying jr to the point of needing fresh jocks when i got home... never again
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missing a couple of updates... so, Wed was a normal rest day, nothing but... swmbo had another medical consultation appointment on Tuesday about some of the ongoing longer term fall out from spud jr pregnancy... 19months later, and still suffering bull****. outcome of that was being put on the cancellation list for a procedure to hopefully sort a couple of them out. she got home at 4pm, and got a call at 430 - slot available thurday morning, but she had to go for Pre-Op assessment on Wednesday.. i said do it.. dont put it off, itll be grand. she has already put this off a couole of times to try other solutions as she out of the blue developed a random phobia of the gen anaesthetic, convinced herself shed go to sleep and wouldnt wake up, she'd just be dead. so after a stressful couple of days involving much convincing that sge wasnt going to die on the table, my Thur and fri morning cycles were cancelled, as she had to be gone before 7am on wed and thur. procedure was fine, shes still tired and sore after it but gone to work today 🤞but i stayed home friday morning too to make sure she was alright which want easy.. shes the worlds worst patient and geumpy when not 100%
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Hi Pat i cant help with your questions, but fair play to you for keeping the auld donkey alive a mod will help though, by moving the thread to the mk1 octy section... wont you, @john999boy?
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genuinely the law of diminishing returns says there is no way the fidelity difference between the 2600 quid cable vs a 50 version is 52 times better...
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so i was out this morning, and had a weird issue. after a nice flat out bit of rough track on my smallest chain ring, i hit the shifter to pop up a couple of rings as i hit the climby bit at the end. it clicked through 3 ratchets then a mild pop, and it never changed up. i went again and it went up a ring on the first ratchet click. went for another and i got the shifter pushing through like it was disconnected. tick,tick,tick, then click and up it went to the next ring. then the whole way up and down the cassette it moved on the first click. but again coming back up the rings from 2nd to 3rd smallest its triple "skipping" then biting on a fourth ratchet click i didnt even know the lever had the range to do, then fine again first click to the biggest ring. im gonna check the warranty details tomorrow as its at most 18months old, and get onto SRAM about it. but, anyone had a similar problem so i can better explain it to them? a google earlier on found some mtb forum threads on similar issues, but they all seemed to lose all shifting, not just a hard shift on one gear. as you can imagine, with a couple of steep hills between me and home when it happened until i sussed out the "4th click" shift i was bricking it, given it looked like i was gonna be pushing the bike up some grades, and be late home... on spud sr's 1st day back in school. i wouldve been sleeping in the shed for a month!
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got another good spin today, through the woods. lost a little time on the return leg, i cayght up with 3 people on horseback on my highspeed downhill tarmac section. i didnt want to spook any of them (ive been on a spooked horse... its not fun..) so out of politeness i backed off and kept a good 50-100m gap until they could move into a nice wide gateway. the other technical hiccup was a weird issue with my shifter, that ill post a thread on to explain properly.
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this morning I headed up the cross as usual, but then headed west for a bit of woodland treking. 2 reasons, 1, i decided to change routes from going up the steep hill every time the last couple of weeks 2, i realised if i didnt do a couple of longer routes i was going to just miss completing the august "favourite way 200km" challenge by about 10k. it was a nice ride out, though there has been a definite temp drop in the morning, it was noticeably cooler on the way up.
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your elevation gain and distance pretty much match my most mornings routes 😅 though tbf, the first couple of kms of mine is on tarmac, so bit less hardship than the gravel, and my average gradients are only about 10-15% looks majestic up there though, i cant wait until little guys are a bit older, and i can make time to take weekend mornings to **** off a bit of a distance and rack up some genuine mountain miles...
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got TWO bonus pedals today. the 5.5k with Spud sr earlier on. which was just good crack. and then, i had ti go collect my car from the mechanic - not a long journey, but just a grand little blast. kept the speed up as much as i could abd it paid off another PR set
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we walked to a safe start point, didnt have the same of time as the last day, so didnt go as far, but had longer playing on the embankment slopes at the park. is this strava art?
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a nearly decent nights sleep.i woke at 5... and struggled to sleep again. up on time though and out early enough to make the full Long Hill Peak route. in under an hr... new best on the route i also set a new personal best on the Long Hill full segment (unnamed road). not on the climb though it all felt like a really good ride out. weather was good, mentally in a good space sayin hello to the sheep. only downer - shout out to the LA crew that tar and chipped the top of the road section yesterday to take out potholes, grand job done, should last a good 6months. wish ye hadnt spread the 15Tonnes of excess 10mm as an uncompacted 6in layer of stone along the trail to the stile for The Cross. tougher pedalling across that flat 80yds of gravel than it was on the steep road bit on the way up!
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yeah, hes so proud of himself. he also thought it was amazing when i popped a couple of wheelies on the way back but he knows hes not allowed tell his mammy, and im not teaching him how to do it until hes older
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