@Zissou where does Stayer source their “Stayer” hoops? Comments? Always looking for something different…
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Yeah it’s the Volt Green, pic was edited a bit so could explain the different appearance. The colour is a bit more yellow in real life.
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That blue is fantastic. What cassette is that? with what RD?
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My primary ride
2017 BMC Track Machine 02 (at the top of Mandeville Canyon Rd in LA), 6048 miles on it in 2018 - currently going to paint for a new look for 2019
The trainer bike
China Carbon frame (essentially a 2016 Cervelo R5), 3 seasons in and 8000+ miles and no issues.
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I have the same bike, same paint scheme, and just ordered the same wheels! How do you like the Jet 6s, and what size tires are you running?
@KorbenDallas Believe they are Taiwan, much like everyone else. They are higher grade carbon than the cheap carbon wheels. They are awesome- very light and quick. I’m quite light so don’t put them under too much stress but think they’d struggle with more powerful/heavier riders maybe.
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Apologies for the non-drive side photo, but there’s a wall there! Been loving this bike, it’s way faster than I am.
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its beautiful. As a total newb - what is it (I see its a BMC but wonder about the model, etc).
Thanks deepakvrao ! The cassette is the ultegra 11-34 CS-8000 and the RD is ultegra RD-8000 long cage, non-clutch.
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It’s a 2015 BMC TM01 TimeMachine with some aluminum brake track Zipp 404/808. Not sure about their year because I bought the whole package on EBay for like 2800 bucks from a guy who used it maybe 10 times. You can save a lot of money by going used.
I’ve resisted looking on Ebay for the fear of finding something as awesome as that for a price as awesome as that. Thanks for the details. Have you raced on it yet?
Yeah I did a triathlon on it last year. I went way faster than I deserved based on my power output. I was shocked.
Flippin’ love the HED jet 6s (plus version with standard spoke count).
Can not fault these wheels. Fast on the flats and climbs of 5-6% where you’d still be doing 30ish km/h, for me they lose their aero advantage when the going gets much steeper than that but still light enough to not hold you back.
I run 23mm gp 4000s as HED say it’s the fastest tyre on these wheels, it actually measures 25mm.
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What TrainerRoad plans did you follow for the event? I am considering doing it in 2020.
What TrainerRoad plans did you follow for the event? I am considering doing it in 2020
So I basically had two peaks for 2018.
The first was early May - I did the London to Paris 24 hour sportive (300km in 24 hours - https://www.londontoparissportive.com/) on the first weekend of May, then London Revolution (300km over 2 days) the next weekend. Ahead of this I had done SSB 1 and 2 and sustained power build.
After that, I took a bit of a break and then mostly did base work again (i didn’t follow the plans religiously) on the turbo, in addition to a lot of riding outdoors.
Most of my training outdoors was working on my climbing (lots of hill repeats), some long sportives, the odd long training ride (including a 250km London Brighton London ride) and then trying to ride lots of consecutive days.
I can’t recommend enough doing lots of actual hill work. Similar intensity on the turbo just isn’t the same (the pressures on your body are totally different and the way in which you exert power is different due to the lack of intertia).
The first two days are constantly up and down, with a lot of very steep hills, on day 5 you go over Shap Fell which is pretty substantial, day 7 you go up to the Glenshee ski station at the top of the Cairnwell (pretty massive for a UK climb) followed by a couple more big caringorm climbs, and day 8 starts with one of the hardest climbs of the whole 9 days (The Lecht, which starts off so steep that most were forced to walk the first section). Get to love hard climbing and the rest will be a doddle.
GIven it’s nine days in a row of very big days in the saddle doing as as many blocks of consecutive days as possible is really beneficial. I very rarely had time to do multpile days of long road rides so would try and build weekends where I would do a hard hour long turbo session of the friday night, a short hard ride on the saturday (e.g. a couple of hours of hill repeats), a longer ride on the sunday (e.g. a 100mile long sportive, although more often it was 100 solo training) at a strong but not hard pace (but easier than you would plan to ride on RAB), then a turbo session on the monday (an hour of sweet spot intervals).
Unless you have really really low gears the nature of many of the climbs will mean that you simply can’t keep the power low (too steep), so in terms of plans SSB2 and general build are a really good match. They pepper in lots of threshold and above threshold work along with a spine of sweet spot. I’m not sure I would bother with the specialty plans.