New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...

[fatbikephil]

Thinking about it, pedal strikes only happens to Jones owners....
As you were

[ledburner]

. The shoe will retail for £110

For an indoor shoe..... nuts

spintastic!

[PaulB2]

It’ll go nicely with the £2375 r@pha coffee machine!

[ScotRoutes]

Can I just point out that "indoor" shoes are nothing new?* For instance, Shimano have the IC100.

* slippers.....

[FLV]

Can I just point out that "indoor" shoes are nothing new?* For instance, Shimano have the IC100.

* slippers.....

You're not wrong. Someone at work mainly cycles indoor year round. Has 3 turbos and 3 screens all connected to 3 Apple wotsits (his wife and kid do it too). He has told me before all his kit he uses indoor is specific for that use.
He doesn't like going outdoors as there are too many factors that effect the data so he just wouldn't know how his performance was.
He's been at it for years

Madness in my eyes

[Bearbonesnorm]

I see Strava adverts that only feature indoor 'cycling' with the tag line 'never stop cycling', yet for me, the act largely ceases to be cycling once it's brought inside and it's reduced to simply another form of exercise. Each to their own and all that but a bike is first and foremost a mode of transport and once it becomes static ....

[sean_iow]

I was thinking the same Stu, is it cycling if you don't go anywhere? And you're not actually riding the bike.

If it's indoors it's just pedalling? Unless it's on one of those giant whole-floor treadmills where you just ride a normal bike.

[ledburner]

I was thinking the same Stu, is it cycling if you don't go anywhere? And you're not actually riding the bike.

If it's indoors it's just pedalling? Unless it's on one of those giant whole-floor treadmills where you just ride a normal bike.

let's all take it up as a new indoor sport but on unicycles*. unispinning.. which i i mistyped an autocorrect suggested uninspiring.. apt.

* it has a smaller foot print and I'm sure is more exciting.. w-w-wobble...

[Rob S]

Can I just point out that "indoor" shoes are nothing new?* For instance, Shimano have the IC100.

* slippers.....

You're not wrong. Someone at work mainly cycles indoor year round. Has 3 turbos and 3 screens all connected to 3 Apple wotsits (his wife and kid do it too). He has told me before all his kit he uses indoor is specific for that use.
He doesn't like going outdoors as there are too many factors that effect the data so he just wouldn't know how his performance was.
He's been at it for years

Madness in my eyes

Holy cr@p. Reducing the act to nothing more than numbers and statistics. I would rather go into work for some exercise, at least your mind is stimulated.
Years ago I asked for a trainer for my birthday, I had visions of supreme fitness etc. After 30 minutes I threw it into the back of the garage and it's been there ever since.

[ScotRoutes]

I see Strava adverts that only feature indoor 'cycling' with the tag line 'never stop cycling', yet for me, the act largely ceases to be cycling once it's brought inside and it's reduced to simply another form of exercise. Each to their own and all that but a bike is first and foremost a mode of transport and once it becomes static ....

This.

I have a smart trainer, a zwift subscription and am in the middle of converting our dining room into a gym (pain cave...). However, I don't really see it as cycling, it's just a form of exercise that uses much the same muscles. Of course, that means that it benefits my cycling too. Anyone who has done any weights work to help with climbing will be in much the same boat.



As regards indoor-specific clothing, I can see the attraction as the demands on it aren't quite the same.

[Cheeky Monkey]

Mleh

If they're having fun and staving off early death and obesity I'll leave them to it and not worry about the oddity they've created, even though it is really odd

Similar happens with climbing walls / gyms. In my day they were just where you went when the nights were too dark or the weather too awful to go *proper* climbing outdoors. Now they're a whole thing in themselves.

[GregMay]

As a recovering triathlete who used to watch entire F1 races while on the TT bike on a turbo before going for long, long runs.... it has its moments, but it's not real cycling, it's a poor substitute, but better than not cycling.

[johnnystorm]

As a recovering triathlete who used to watch entire F1 races while on the TT bike on a turbo before going for long, long runs.... it has its moments, but it's not real cycling, it's a poor substitute, but better than not cycling.

As if a long session on the Turbo wasn't bad enough...

[Alpinum]

Mleh

If they're having fun and staving off early death and obesity I'll leave them to it and not worry about the oddity they've created, even though it is really odd

Similar happens with climbing walls / gyms. In my day they were just where you went when the nights were too dark or the weather too awful to go *proper* climbing outdoors. Now they're a whole thing in themselves.

Same here. A bit more bleurgh though. Only thing indoors, next to 'bed sports' is stretching, using the roll etc. just the usual 'maintenance'

But then with climbing (on a high level) it's really, really difficult to train outdoors (even in complete disregard of the risks involved). I once got to a point where the weekends wouldn't be enough to improve in mixed climbing and built a boulder room with a mate for dry tooling.
There was hardly a vertical place and we'd be hanging in figures of four and nine all the time.
We had an old record player and beastie boys lp from '86 constanty running. Was good fun and good training.

I don't see how cycling can be made fun on so little room, no matter how good and fun the trainings software has become, for some that's just not enough (since it's the basic and boring same movement all the time), no matter how shiny the shoes are.
Perhaps when I'm old and still haven't learned to ride rubber side down.
Until then someone will surely come up with new indoor bike gear that makes it all fun.

Someone at work mainly cycles indoor year round. Has 3 turbos and 3 screens all connected to 3 Apple wotsits (his wife and kid do it too). He has told me before all his kit he uses indoor is specific for that use.
He doesn't like going outdoors as there are too many factors that effect the data so he just wouldn't know how his performance was.
He's been at it for years

Madness in my eyes

Yeah, that seems quite crazy.

[techno]

Drop bar nubbins for extra hand positions. https://peng.bike/products/track-hoods

Perfect for riding your drip bar off road fixie

[Bearbonesnorm]

https://peng.bike/products/track-hoods
$10 for a £1 length of threaded bar - bargain

[fatbikephil]

https://peng.bike/products/track-hoods
$10 for a £1 length of threaded bar - bargain

I should be buying those dummy brake hoods though and bunging them on the steamroller in lieu of brakes

[Bearbonesnorm]

Here you go Phil https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/handlebar-t ... amp-black/

[fatbikephil]

£20 is more like it. That said I think I'm going with F&R brakes as it makes riding fixed much easier.....

[techno]

Here you go Phil https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/handlebar-t ... amp-black/

Much betterer

[Boab]

Adidas are really slaying it with their naming, I give you The Strapless Cycling Bib Shorts, featuring unaggressive leg grippers. Whatever next...

[PaulB2]

Strapless Bib Shorts, aka Shorts?

[woodsmith]

, featuring unaggressive leg grippers. Whatever next...

Unaggressive meaning loose judging by the pictures. Maybe they're that way to enable the full "Slav squat"

[techno]

Always lusted after a Brooklyn

Now's your chance stu:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brooklyn-Mac ... 635-2958-0

[Bearbonesnorm]

... but not that much