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Patrick Lefevere stepping down https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/patrick-lefevere-steps-down-as-ceo-of-soudal-quickstep/

4 bigger race wins in 4 yrs, the other TP does that as pre TdF warmup without even trying. Pidcock is expecting a similar salary to TP, WvA, MvP and is not really in the same league on the road. Potential is there, but seems to be either hot or cold on how he wants to play it on the day and not how the leam wants the race ridden. On the road he has one good race/stage, does not work for the team like the others do, and they are even happy to forgo their status to achieve a team result. When MvP & WvA are racing hard in cyclocross, he may mix it up and get the occasional win, but 8 out of 10 times he is 3rd. His only real standout is MTB but only when he picks and chooses races that he believes will suit him. Q36.5 are probably looking to up their status and get more wild card entries to the GT's and will likely leave Pidcock to stage hunt on his own as there won't be a team to support him. Maybe his inclusion will pull in more sponsorship, so that they can build a team, but likely to be a long term thing.... and I doubt the relationship will last that long. Toys may well be thrown well before then. I suspect the palmares will stay heavily weighted to MTB rather than road

1. Have a budget 2. Know your bike size, get some advice on this either from a couple of bike shops or a get a professional bike fit. Depending where you are you can ask for recommendations for who to go to see for a bike fit. 3, Knowing the above 2, choose bikes you like the look of. If you like the way it looks, you will ride it more. 4. A bike won't improve your fitness, riding it and spending time in the saddle will, you can do that on any bike. If you choose a bike because of item 3, you will likely ride it more. 5. Once you have narrowed down to a couple of bikes of choice then look at components and do some online search of reviews of the bike. 6. Then you might want to ask here what peoples views are of 2 or 3 bikes, and not 14 or so. Then you will get better feedback. At the end of the day, any bike can be used for social rides and you can race on it.

UCI have requested it be stopped and requesting WADA to get involved https://www.idlprocycling.com/cycling/uci-concerned-about-carbon-monoxide-use-among-riders-wada-must-also-take-a-position

Shimano of the same speed is cross-compatible, so the guy is giving you bad advice! Dura-ace is lighter and better than 105. You could probably pick up DA front and rear derailleur fairly cheaply if you want to make it all the same. If after a service it does not work as should, then the guy's ability to service a bike is the same as his advice!

Look for a treadmill that has bluetooth connectivity for Zwift. You can also set up this app https://github.com/cagnulein/qdomyos-zwift as a bridge which will control the incline. Look on FB for the QZ group about set-up and intereaction with the developer As for second hand, look on FB marketplace, or maybe a few fitness machine suppliers will have good black Friday deals

Tough, hot and humid and unfortunately, I heard there was a fatality in the car park area after the run, cardiac. Another who almost had a cardiac crossing the line, but they managed to get him into an ambulance. Hopefully he will be ok.

It's more to do with the watches like samsung, amazefit, google etc and then onwards to other platforms via strava rather than the major players of Garmin, Apple, Suunto & Polar that can go directly to the likes of Trainingpeaks etc. Trainingpeaks you can see the list of devices https://www.trainingpeaks.com/upload/

It is a running watch with basic cycling mode, so will pair with a separate speed and cadence sensor, like this https://www.sportsmanswarehouse.co.za/product/garmin-speed-sensor-2-and-cadence-sensor-2/ You can try this, done on other garmin watches that don't have the ability to connect a power meter similar to your F45 https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/05/cycling-power-vivoactive.html. It might work.

It doesn't have the feature to connect a power meter, see the specs https://www.garmin.com/en-ZA/p/641121#specs, it will only do speed and cadence sensors for cycling

There a few other apps like fitnesssyncer https://www.fitnesssyncer.com/about/ or Tapiriik https://tapiriik.com/, else you can set up free accounts on Trainingpeaks, Final Surge or intervals.icu to have all your data as they work with most fitness devices and have the potential to sync to other platforms

Maybe buy a cheap HR strap, Magene one works well

Dumb move really. It is your data being uploaded to strava, so stopping you linking to sync it to alternative platforms is not doing them any favours. It's not as if strava have great analysis backend. They should stick to being the social media platform for people who work out and work on enhancing it rather than throwing spanners in the works that will likely get the major fitness trackers / partners develop their own API's to get your data to other platforms.... which will mean less and less need for strava

They now selling at sportsmans waewhouse https://www.sportsmanswarehouse.co.za/products/?keyword=tailwind

For Info There are often a lot of discount codes floating around the web on forums for TP membership. Reddit often have in their forums. So do some hunting before you look to sign up. Also if you know any coaches on TP, they often get sent codes by TP to use to offer upgrades to Premium for their athletes and it is usually around 20% discount. So if you are thinking of going to Trainingpeaks Membership in March 2025, if and when IV/TPV is no longer free, go looking for discount codes else ask on this thread if anyone has a code and get a discount of the annual, before upgrading to paid.