Recent content by KnockloftyNomad

I’m certainly no expert on this but I’m led to believe from a few medical research acquaintances that DEHP can enter the body through a number of other sources other than blood bags. I’m sure AC’s expert will be able to shed more light on this but in my mind its currently not adding much weight...

As you have no baseline data about yourself to compare to, I’d say you just have a low maximum heart rate. Various books etc have way of doing a maximal test, but at this stage it may just be prudent to say 165 is your maximum and work with that until the fitness improves. Alternatively your...

Slow reply but you just had a simple power system over voltage event. Common causes are lightning, power system protection failures and possible incompetence of the person who did the protection design and/or settings at the substation which feeds your suburb.

In my mind to “crush” a field as a minimum you need to come across the line in first place ;)

In my experience the perception of quality relating to “Made in China” can be very dependent on the industry you work in. In some cases highly engineered components made in China are among the best in the world, in other they are among the worst. Similarly the Made in USA tag goes on some high...

Looking back at the last 30 or so years I wouldn’t say that the 80s were any cleaner than any other recent time. In many respects I’d almost say it was “dirtier”. Science and technology in many sports (cycling included) came along leaps and bounds in the late 80s early 90s and I think this is...

Why single one company out for lifestyle marketing though? You could have easily chosen McDoggles and their sales pitch to get you to drop in on them and purchase a thing they call coffee, a piece of toast and an apple. The cycling world is filled with lifestyle marketing, Rapha is no better or...

I agree some of their product is rather optimistically priced and well beyond what I’m prepared to pay, but other items are pretty reasonable. I, like you, have Castelli and Nalini but have found the extra (a lot less than 100GBP btw) well worth it. That could be simply due to things like body...

Fair point, but by the same token Sora is perfectly acceptable for 99.86% of all training rides and a Kia Rio is a great automobile for a trip to the local shops. For the product itself Rapha isn’t all that expensive, in fact it’s more like the BMW 3 series of the cycling clothing world. ;)

While the marketing may have a little too much fromage for the sensitive palate, the simple colours, pump sleeve and security of a zip pocket do tick a few boxes for me when selecting jerseys…

Reading through this thread at my leisure over the last few days has been quite entertaining to say the least and I’d firstly like to say thank you to those well balanced individuals with a bucket of chips on each shoulder – apologies to those forum members who due to geographical limitations...