IM on a shoestring. - Page 6 - Triathlon

TheEngineer pirate

pirate

12/10/2010 at 16:59

Guess who swam with the Brownlee brothers today??!

Bionic Ironwolf pirate

pirate

12/10/2010 at 21:25

Did you keep up????

TheEngineer pirate

pirate

13/10/2010 at 08:53

Yeah!!.....

...for about 5m.

They were in the same pool as me, but there was a gulf in class!

Madlot

13/10/2010 at 09:45

5 mile, not bad!!!

Cake

pirate

13/10/2010 at 12:39

SlowEngineer wrote (see)

Guess who swam with the Brownlee brothers today??!

Local lads and all that.

TheEngineer pirate

pirate

14/10/2010 at 11:25

Aye. They were doing a Leeds Gryphons session at my pool. I nearly tried out recently as the trial was a swim/run time trial. My running is fine, but my wimmin ain't up to scratch yet!

Madlot

14/10/2010 at 14:41

she looks pretty enough to me

Schmunkee - The List Fairy

14/10/2010 at 19:16

SE - The item was posted on Tues, first class. Hope it arrives soon

TheEngineer pirate

pirate

14/10/2010 at 22:40

I got it today actually! My housemate just gave it to me. I'm going to be a typical student and reuse your packaging when I can work out how to make my computer work...

TheEngineer pirate

pirate

16/10/2010 at 10:30

Off to the LBS (get me - I can use acronyms!) today to get sized up properly.

M...eldy

pirate

16/10/2010 at 10:46

Oooh .. let me know how you get on

TheEngineer pirate

pirate

16/10/2010 at 23:55

Well that was odd. I went in with a plan. Get in, get size confirmed, have a nosey round, get out. Instead I appeared to have haemorraged money and now have a bike worth twice my car.

Madlot

17/10/2010 at 07:54

Ha Ha, dangerous places!!!
I did something similar, popped into UK Tri on the way home from holiday in Devon just to look at wet suits.
First Tri shop I'd ever been in, I left feeling a bit sick!!!
Love it now though

Little Ninja

17/10/2010 at 10:32

So what did you get and most importantly what colour is it?

TheEngineer pirate

pirate

18/10/2010 at 14:37

It's a prettyful Specialized Allez 24 in like a silvery grey colour. It's my baby.

I met my first pirate in person yesterday, too! What a weekend!

TheEngineer pirate

pirate

05/11/2010 at 16:24

I have questions!! Just got a turbo - is using my bike on it going to destroy the tire? Or rather... should I get a special tire for it?

And come race day, will there be lots of people dressed like this?

http://s.wiggle.co.uk/images/assos-wmn-uma-ll-bbtght-09-zoom.jpg

fat buddha

05/11/2010 at 18:07

turbo won't destroy a tyre per se but it will shorten it's life more likely than not as they can get very very hot. turbo tyres run on a special compound that isn't affected by the heat so much

best if you have a separate wheel and cassette to use on the turbo - it's much easier to swap a wheel than a tyre. but many just run it with their standard tyres

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