Anyone on here MTB?? Thought I start a thread, and ask a few Questions.What are you currently riding?To Cleat or Not to Cleat?Best Trails?Do you have a Gopro, do you have any good footage?To answer my own Q's..Giant Trance 1Use Cleats, love 'emThis is my favourite Trail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lur2tfOL6KQGopro... yep, wouldn't ride without it...
Maybe we can move this to Sports Arena and change the thread title to 'The Cycling Thread' and include roadies as well as downhillers, MTBers and commuters?Shall I ask a mod?Cheers pauliewalnuts.
I took up road cycling after a long absence about 3 years ago, I ride all year, in all weathers and currently training for an Ironman race in September. 2 road bikes, 1 for the winter, Felt Z6, 1 for summer and racing on Specialized S-Works Venge, thinking about getting a TT/Tri bike, hence why I went with 808s. Doing my first ever 10 mile TT on Saturday.FeltS-Works
The Venge is way more rigid than the Felt Dan, its not really a triathlon bike, its a fast aero road bike, I chose to ride it on Ironman Wales because its so hilly you don't get that much of an advantage with a TT or Triathlon bike. It's not the lightest of bikes, but it's certainly one of if not the stiffest road bike out there today, all hand built as well. You notice how stiff it is on climbs, I climb in higher gears on the Venge than the Felt & my heart rate is lower, same on the flat, turn a bigger gear on the Venge and it holds its speed much easier as well.All up it was a very lot of money that could have paid for a nice family hatchback, it's all part of my mid life crisis and if my wife knew how much it did cost, she'd cut my testicles off and feed them to the cat.Edit to add the Venge has also got Di2 electronic gears as well, they're epic and I want to marry them.