davidtinker

Thanks for remembering that! I am hard at work adding all kinds of neat weather stuff for people who ride outdoors! https://forum.intervals.icu/t/historical-weather-on-activities-in-progress/76622

No such luck. My wife just called them and they do not have an open date yet. Tx.

Hi all. Anyone know if these are open? Going away for the weekend in the area. Tx. https://www.vanloveren.co.za/post/famous-bike-trails-in-robertson

Thanks very much. We went to visit Avron and luckily he had a nice bike in her size. Cost more than what we will get from the insurance but it's a decent upgrade.

If I can buy one when I am there and sell my Argon 18 I will do so .. but there is never any stock:

Fantastic to me but my old bike is an Argon 18 Gallium rim brake. So not aero and a bit old. The Van Rysel is noticeably stiffer and much longer (for same "size"). I could have one hand in a drop and the other fishing sweets out of my back pocket, no problem. Not a good idea with the Argon 18. Aero wise it is drastically faster. Z2 200w got me 35km/h easy in the drops. And it climbs really well. Approx same weight as the Argon 18 (7.4kg) but just feels faster uphill. Maybe because it is so stiff?

I am insured but I can't buy the Van Rysel here. Bought it online in the UK and my sister brought it over for me. We will have to try find a bike for my wife in the next week. She is 164cm and 50kg so it's not that easy. I still have my old bike so will have to use that.

Thanks. Vredehoek (City Bowl), Cape Town. I have updated the post.

Tx. Ground anchor sounds like a plan for future. I still have my old bike for the trip. Risk is that my wife is tiny (164cm, 50kg) so not so easy to find a bike and then is the setup ok etc.? Might have to do that if we can't find one here in time.

The trip to France and Italy in a week isn't going well. My bike (with cracked wheel) and my wife's Orbea just stolen out of our garage. No idea how they managed to get it open.

People broke into my garage in Vredehoek (City Bowl), Cape Town, approx 22h30 Thursday May 30 and stole these bikes. The Van Rysel has a cracked front wheel. My wife and I are supposed to by going to France and Italy next Sunday for a cycling holiday so this isn't helpful If anyone sees these anywhere please let me know. 0827745306. Thanks. I am offering a reward of R20k for the Van Rysel and R10k for the Orbea. There can't be many Van Rysel's in South Africa. The Van Rysel has Ultegra Di2 12spd (52/36, 11-30 cassette) dual Favero Assioma power meter pedals and a Stages left arm power meter. The thief does not have the Di2 charging cable or the magnetic chargers for the pedals. There was also a Wahoo ROAM V1 cycle computer on the bike. Shimano C36 wheelset. Front and rear lights. The Orbea has Ultegra mechanical 11spd with compact crank and 11-34 cassette. The rear wheel is carbon with brand new conti GP5000. Front wheel is American Classic aluminium. Garmin Edge 130+ cycle computer. The Orbea: Another Van Rysel pic:

Tx all. The wheel is Shimano Ultegra C36. Came on my bike. I have sent the photo to BMC to see if they can fix it. Otherwise hopefully I can get a replacement rim. Also buying another wheelset I found here. Need a spare set of wheels anyway.

I have no idea how this happened. Don't recall any big impacts and tire doesn't show any damage. Maybe in transport in back of my car with my wife's bike on top (blankets in between etc.)? Can it be fixed? Tx.

Do you mind posting a link to that activity and I can have a look. Tx.

Selling a product with almost the same name as another product but much smaller sizing is good service? Thats almost guaranteed to trigger returns at R220 cost to customer each. I didn't keep the bag because it didn't occur to me that the bib would be much smaller.

Read the post and decide for yourself what you think of their service ... I am just telling the sad story because I am somewhat annoyed and maybe I can save some people some money and trouble .. On the 16th of August I ordered "CASTELLI Free Aero Race 4 Men's 2021 Bibshort" Large for R2770 all in. Bib arrived, fits well, all good. On the 25th of September I ordered "CASTELLI Free Aero Race 4 Bibshort Team" Large and some other stuff for R3837. Stuff arrived, I checked the product and size and tossed it in the cupboard. A few days later I decided to wear the new bib. Way too small in-spite of also being a "Large" and also "Free Aero Race 4 Bibshort". Thats annoying as I thought I was getting the same bib. I emailed them and paid R220 to send the bib back for a credit. Paying R220 for a return is little annoying but it is in the T&C's so ok. They said they would have more of the original bib I ordered in Nov. Popped the bib with all tags attached into a ziplock back and gave it to the courier. Response: "I am sorry but we will unfortunately not be able to accept the return if you don’t have the original packaging, as per our terms and my original email. We will courier the return back to you tomorrow." It seems if you don't keep the original plastic bag you can't do a return. Thats also in the T&C's but really? Radically different sizing for "Large" of the "same" product and they reject the return on a technicality? I queried this, response: "Again thanks for the reply. No we do not have Castelli bags lying around as each Castelli bag has a bar code and label specific to the model and size of the particular item." They have offered to refund my R220 but thats it. Now I need to find somewhere else to buy cycling clothing online and am stuck with an expensive bib I can't use.

"To me the power looks unlikely i.e. something up with his PM." .. thats not an accusation, reasonable question looking at such amazing numbers!!

Only that the power seemed high and maybe there was an issue with his PM. But John just cleared that up! Amazing stuff!

Matt Beers posted power data on Strava so I created a fake account for him on Intervals.icu. To me the power looks unlikely i.e. something up with his PM. https://forum.intervals.icu/t/matt-beers-fake-account/5080

just implemented GPX upload and of course I had to go pull in MVDP’s insane SB effort! Even for him that was a monster ride. Look how many times his HR was close to his max and his W’bal chart. He is running a massive deficit for the last 1h30. And you can see where he almost popped with approx 1h to race.

The Strava rate limit is global and not per-user. They used to grant increases based on (among other things) how many users your app had. For probably at least the last year they haven’t been giving any increases at all, first ignoring the mail and then an automated message saying “no rate limit bumps”. I think they have decided that Strava apps don’t fit into their strategy and not granting any rate limit increases is a way to kill them without a lot of bad publicity (e.g. if they killed the API).

You can register on Intervals.icu without a Strava or Garmin account.

Yes you can. You can sync with Garmin Connect or manually upload .fit files.

Share plans and workouts with groups Create groups for your riding buddies, team or club. Drag and drop folders and plans from your library to share with the group. Anyone in the group will be able to drag the folders, plans and individual workouts into their own library for use! https://forum.intervals.icu/t/share-training-plans-and-workouts-with-groups/3308

Vetplant has it about right. Is how much energy you can expend above FTP. You can get an estimate from the /power page (tick say the 90d box). It isn't applied to rides automatically yet. If you fill it in and turn on the W'bal chart you can see it go close to zero if you do a flat out effort. It recovers when you spend time under FTP, quicker the lower the power. If you get below zero then maybe your FTP has gone up or your W' is higher than you think. This is very similar to MPA in Xert. Technically it is meant to be above CP (critical power) but Intervals.icu computes it relative to FTP when using the eFTP power model since that what most people use.