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| Numpty IM Bike Thread Bike ponces only welcome if they don't speak in tongues | |
Popsider - thanks for your recommendations. I can't imagine wearing glasses at night (cue Corey Hart) Do you get much benefit out of them?
Kanga - Thank you for all that. Somehow I didn't think guards were going to be easy. Off to an LBS I go  | ||||
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 Little N wrote (see) Popsider - thanks for your recommendations. I can't imagine wearing glasses at night (cue Corey Hart) Do you get much benefit out of them?no idea about corey hart, but glasses at night, or any time of day is more about protecting your eyes from stones & bugs than the sun. i also found in the days i bothered to go cycling in the rain that yellow lenses improved my mood. | ||||
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 yep - glasses are still useful at night and when the sun's clouded as they will keep all the debris out. interchangeable lenses help here so you can stick clear ones in for the darker periods
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 Always wear glasses, clear in the winter with light enhancing lenses if its overcast. Feel naked on the bike without them.
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 The worst combination is glasses, darkness and driving drizzle. Then I can't see with them on or with them off. | ||||
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 Little N wrote (see) Popsider - thanks for your recommendations. I can't imagine wearing glasses at night (cue Corey Hart) Do you get much benefit out of them? Went past one guy on the way to work today who's seat stays went up the heavens, leaving about an inch of seat post to attach the m/g to. M/g didnt have an adjustable 'arm' bit to lower it down, so the m/g was sitting 6-8 inches above the back wheel, admittedly at a very rakish angle, doing precisely feck all good. Looked more like a rear spoiler than a mud guard. You might have a bog standard no worries mate frame, or the LBS may only sell plastic oragami models, but buyer beware ! | ||||
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 Am looking forward to hearing what people say about Aliard's bike fitting questions. Ali - FWIW, my LBS has set me up for IM ie we're trying to find the position I'm going to use for The Race and get used to it. Obviously it'll need tweaking over the next few months to get it right, but it's a start. Something else to consider is the computer/measuring set up they use. I had one done last year (a disaster as it turns out) - think it was Bike Fit? - and all my measurements needed to go into the computer. The programme needed to know what sport I did... and it didn't include IM. It had road, touring, TT, tri, MTB etc but nothing that suited IM. So it all had to be bodged anyway. The computer drawing might be a good starting point, but I believe a really good experienced LBS person who understands what you need is even better. Kanga posted a really useful bike fitting link recently which I'll try to find for you. One of the things that that said that stuck in my mind was that even if you have two people with identical heights, proportions, leg/arm length etc doing the same sort of cycling, they might still need slightly different set ups depending on flexibility, experience, muscle fibre types, fitness etc etc. | ||||
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AH - if you dig around on the 1st page, there's a separate thread about Ali's fit question....
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 There are some really cheap sunglasses with interchangeable lenses on the PBK website. | ||||
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