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30.37 mi (11.68 mi uphill, 13.67 mi downhill, 4.39 mi flat)
4068 ft total ascent (4268 ft descent) - 7.7 % uphill grade, 6.3 % downhill grade
7:31:40 total time (5:21:41 moving, 2:09:59 stopped)
0:10:34 pace (5.7 mph average speed, 43.6 mph max speed)
22.160 difficulty, 64.462 effort

Julie John and myself decided to do a local run, set of from Thornton at 9:30 using the back roads towards Cullingworth using the Great Northern trail, than to Harden to St Ives and back.

Weather was brilliant can beleive it’s mid October

Anyway, here’s the map and stats

Matthew

What is the bike bus?

It’s not really a bus, it’s bicycles! BUT like a bus we have a set route and a timetable, so cyclists can jump on and off the bus along the route.

You can find more information about the bike bus on there website

Joined the bikeBus to travel to work this morning, here’s the results for the journey

Airevalley Bikebus

link to map

11.09 mi (3.96 mi uphill, 3.85 mi downhill, 3.28 mi flat)
604 ft total ascent (512 ft descent) - 3.0 %  uphill grade, 2.5 %  downhill grade
1:00:07 total time (1:00:07 moving, No time data stopped)
0:05:25 pace (11.1 mph average speed, 35.9 mph max speed)
2.464 difficulty, 10.553 effort

I have decided to rewrite the current site to something new. The current plan is try and create a community driven site where anyone is free to sign up and add content. What I am after from you the community is to tell me what you would like to see in this “New Site”. What kind of content would you like to see,What sort of things would you like the new site to do. I.E create a site for your own local bike club(http://LocalClubName.bradfordbiking.co.uk). How often would you like to see the site updated.

So please feel free to go mad with ideas.

To let me know of these crazy ideas please leave a message on the forum link below.

http://www.bradfordbiking.co.uk/forum

Currently we do not have map of the route we take around Ogden Reservoir, but this will change soon enough. I am planning to redo the route as soon as it has dried up as it gets very muddy to the point its un-ridable. I will be taking my GPS device and map the route out and put it on the website like the rest.

Any one looking for a map of the route we take around Ogden Reservoir do come back again and see if its been uploaded.

Been using the device now for a few rides:

http://www.bradfordbiking.co.uk/2008/09/silsden-night-run/

http://www.bradfordbiking.co.uk/2008/08/austwick-north-yorkshire-route/

http://www.bradfordbiking.co.uk/2008/08/bank-holiday-ride/

http://www.bradfordbiking.co.uk/2008/07/good-map-test/

Not had any problems with it as of yet, and I can say from personal experience, it is waterproof. I managed to drop it in deep puddle last night it got totally submerged with water (had to fish it out).

As the software goes I can’t say much about it. As it originally did not give me the elevation data that I needed , I ended up using topofusion. The i-gotu team have released a new version called @trip which is 100% compatible with i-gotu device and this does give you the elevation data. But I will continue to use topfusion. 

With topofusion I can keep a log of all my rides and also have the ability to profile a ride  , along with a lot of other features the i-gotu software does not give.

As I have not really used @trip I can’t say much about the features as I only use it was a way to export the data off the i-gotu device

Starting at Haworth, then moving down Walshaw following the bridleway back to Haworth just clocking up over 12 miles. To be honest I do think we went around the wrong way.

And as you may guess i have yet again damaged my bike. I really don’t know how I do it. This time been the rim on the back wheel. To top it off i went over the handle bars twice and not been used to my new pedals i was unable to unclip.

Below you can see the google map of the route we took using the I-Gotu device. Sorry people but the last part looks to be missing as I some how turned it off.
Some of you may question the speed chart and i said, we should of gone the other way and some of it was un-ridable

Click Here To View The Map

12.33 mi (5.58 mi uphill, 5.35 mi downhill, 1.35 mi flat)
2145 ft total ascent (2007 ft descent) - 9.6 % uphill grade, 7.8 % downhill grade
3:52:44 total time (3:03:31 moving, 0:49:13 stopped)
0:14:53 pace (4.0 mph average speed, 28.2 mph max speed)
11.389 difficulty, 27.767 effort

Got my back yesterday. Rear tire replaced and middle chain ring replaced along with all my bearings greased, gears nicely indexed, two new spokes, brakes bled and wheels re-trued.

Fitted my new pedals when I got home, first thing I did. There are a little harder to clip out of then my last pair, but am sure with enough time there will loosen up, and before any one asks I have changed tension screw as far as it will go.

But over all the bikes running nicely now lets see how long it lasts till I break something again,

Definitely looking forward to getting back on the trails.

As I mentioned in my previous post I managed to break my old pedals (Shimano M520). Today was the day I found time to drop my bike off to the shop, to get fixed plus a full service (inc getting my wheels re-trued.)

While I was there I decided to get a replacement set of Shimano M545. At first glance there do feel a dam site heaver then the M520’s but do look and feel a lot more solid. When I get my bike back which should be some time next week, I will try out the pedals and give you my thoughts on them.

M545

M520