5 Things Pro Cyclists Do That YOU DON'T | Rider Support
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- In todays episode of Riders Support Anthony and Sarah talk about the Decathlon road bike and how it is upending the bike industry. How can you treat a saddle sore, when you should ditch indoor training and 5 things pro’s do that amateurs don’t.
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I think a lot of cyclists (particularly when riding solo) will ride very close to the edge of the road in an effort to not hold traffic up, especially on busy roads. The thing is, most car drivers will automatically try to get passed a cyclist, and by riding so close to the edge, you maybe showing them a gap that doesn’t really exist. I find that riding about a meter away makes the cars pause and consider before trying to pass. It also reduces risks of puncturing or other damage to your bike.
This is the safest way to ride solo in my opinion.
The thing I learned from the guy who took me to my first race is race day prep. He said „see these guys, half of them have already made a mistake on the start line. Gears not working, saddle at the wrong height, loose bolts on the bottle cages…“ He came from motorsports where this matters even more but the advice was spot on. The idea of having a „race day box“ always packed and ready to go with all the tools and spares, not necessarily because you will need them but to have that out of your mind is still very valuable to me.
Love that. Another 25% don’t want to race, they’re just there to tell people they raced at the weekend
@@TheRoadmanPodcastif you're an amateur you're likely paying to race so why on earth would you be there if not to race?
In my 35 years of racing, I've learned that half the pack are there just to be there, not to actually make the race. Less than half are actually interested in racing and winning
Saddle sores. I kept getting a saddle sore in the same spot on my right side and it turns out because of an old foot issue I unconsciously favoured one leg over the other, so wasn't sitting straight on the saddle. I had no idea! But was off to one side putting more weight and pressure on that side causing the issue. So another thing to check.
I go straight into the shower after a ride with my kit on . Get a good rinse and take it off in the shower. Do a little soap n water on it and hang dry. Seems to work for me.
Did she just say you can buy the exact replica van rysel except the retail ones are heavier 🤔. Guess what that isn’t an exact replica
My bad!!
Re saddle sores: bike fit bike fit bike fit-and think more about left to right as well as just front to back distance and angle . As someone else has said on here favouring one side which can come from feet, leg length, strength imbalance as well as saddle being slightly too high (as little as mm) can make saddle actually collapse on one side and perpetuate the issue. Especially if you’re using a slightly softer saddle. The other thing is if your actual floor isn’t flat and you’re riding indoors a lot. Just a thought based on bad experience. Good luck. Please don’t sell your bike!
Your phrase "motivation follows action" is on the nose. I'm a professional musician who likes to ride his bike. I practice guitar for at least three hours every morning. I don't always feel like practicing, but it's a habit, like brushing my teeth. I just start playing scales whether I feel like it or not. Once I've started, I'm fine. I rarely feel like stopping until my practice time is done. I approach cycling the same way. Unless I'm sick, I hop on the bike right after practicing guitar and ride for 1-2 hours, depending on when my first lesson of the day begins. Even on those days when I don't initially feel like riding, once I'm in motion, I almost always have a pleasant ride.
In a somewhat bored period of my life I bought an accoustic gutiar with the ambition of playing a few John Fahey tunes from that famous show he did in Germany. It wasn't really happening, then I heard him say in an interview that he practiced a long time for that show, 8 hours a day every day. I didn't even know that was a thing with guitarists. I readjusted my expectations.
@@tysonkampbjj I had a young student who was unconvinced that guitar players practiced because he never saw them practicing in the videos!
Wide cars because everyone has a wide arse nowadays (well nearly everyone). Its really about protection, side airbags and crash protection
I never thought about close passes in that viewpoint and honestly I think you are actually right. I often encounter closes passes from people who just don't give a F... about cyclist and take us just as annoyance, but at least they see us.
I switch to a cheap hybrid during the worst of the winter (slow as hell but keeps the legs working and I get some fun off-roading in), and the switch between bike positions always gives me saddle sores. Using shammy cream helps, but not always. My go to is sudacrem which works well for me.
I did a century once that near the end had an odd deviation a few blocks out and back. It wouldn’t have been so bad except that the road surface was crap. That obsession was horrible.
Thanks for answering my question!! Cheers! More century rides this summer! Flat midwest!
Thanks for taking the time to write in
Manufacturers are making physically larger cars as they can get away with then being rated to have less fuel economy/efficiency. Lots of other reasons but that’s a big one.
oh wow! I did not know this!
The 5 things....excellent! Thanks so much for sharing those.
I find it easier to use time on the bike rather than distance. Topography, wind and weather change everything while time is a constant in effort without outside forces.
I think the close pass issue is about the decline in respect/consideration for fellow citizens. If you look at many social settings where strangers congregate, there seems to be less comradery and respect for others space/feelings. In other words, it's all about me.
This, I believe, translates into drivers not caring about other road users, unless those other road users present a threat to their own space(larger vehicles/trucks).
So the real question would be: why is their less "community" or respect for other in today's society? Perhaps we no longer view others as part of our extended family?
Totally agree with you. I experience close passes on the bike but also loads more aggressive driving whilst in the car too.
Now compared to when? If you’re comparing with your youth it’s probably nostalgia and ageing and how that impacts you psychologically. If you’re comparing now with 1000 years ago yes there are probably big differences.
@@HkFinn83 I ride in both the US and the Philippines. That's my comparison, today in the US vs today in the Philippines.
Regarding the point of road safety, for some reason, it seems cool in English-speaking countries to sh*t on cyclists. Not saying it doesn't happen in Belgium or the Netherlands, but cycling is just so much part of the culture and growing up that there is much more understanding from the motorists for cyclists.
What I also notice is that traffic rules enforcement in Ireland is next to non-existant, which is good for me when driving a car I have admittedly a "heavy right foot". In Belgium you have speed cameras pretty much everywhere, also in cities at traffic lights. It's annoying as a motorist but it sure does keep you on your toes to avoid hefty fines and keeps the roads safer.
It even goes down to pedestrians, here in Ireland nobody seems to care about traffic lights, even if a guard is standing in front of you. After living here for 8 years, I've also lost some of that discipline and it was blatantly obvious last time when I was in Belgium and jaywalked, people all around me looked at me as if I just killed a baby... oh and I got a 50 euro fine from the police as a cherry on top.
I think the garda have to become much stricter in enforcing the rules. It will be annoying but it will save lives.
It's funny, but sometimes I used to look at my Strava when I got home and think 'if only I had of ridden to the top of my street and back at the end of my ride, I'd have done a perfect 100km', or whatever perfect distance I was close enough to. .Now that I'm older, I just don't think that way because it really doesn't matter and doesn't change a thing. Just like you say 😂
But it still feels good to round up your rides haha. Maybe it's me. Got to 342 and had to do a few laps to finish off at 350.
Not always...but also not never
The distracted driver thing is horrible! I live in Los Angeles & drive a tiny car when not on the bike. It always feels like they're all out to get me!
It's a horrible feeling. I've been struggling with it more and more recently
Stupid 200 miles attempts..
For a laugh I decided to do the Welsh 12hr tt on a 1960s Moulton Mk1..
1st attempt 199.6 miles... the organisers asked if I would be trying for 200 next year.
2nd attempt 185 miles , packed due to sore hip..
3rd attempt 202 miles, never again. 😂
Thanks! I flushed my toilet today and took 5 seconds off my PR.
Have used my partner 's anti fungal trush cream Canesten, works extremely well for me,
very interesting!! I mean it makes sense doesn't it!
You must know the history of Pogi. Even as a junior, he was two classes ahead of his peers. He won in various categories, even though he was smaller by a head and a few years younger. Do you think he was doped even then?
Back when i was racing u23 i got a boil that would not go away. For weeks i was trying to pop it. My wife who was gf at the time looked down at it and said your not gonna be able to pop it. Right after she said that it exploed like a rocket and hit her right in the face. 10 years later we still laugh about that
Wooden .. easily the best Coach to grace this planet
One big question I have is regarding the 80% lower intensity riding, is this regarding number of sessions per week or hours per week?
might cover this in an episode of Rider Support if that helps!
@@sarahannegan4605 that would be great thanks
It's a percentage of time. If you're riding 10hrs a week for example, only 2hrs total should be above LT1.
Re: not finishing a 100 mile ride. Yes of course the mile/km conversion wasn't even in your mind. But more and more people ride by time and not mileage/km
I think in America there are more drivers that drive with an attitude of entitlement. As a rider, if you get in their way that's your tough luck. The roads that I ride on here in Arizona, for the most part have a shoulder where I can get off into the gravel and get some space and that's why I ride a mountain bike. Now, I do something that we are not suppose to do, I ride against the traffic. I can see the oncoming and get off the asphalt and get some space. Plan for the worst case.
I was just at Sea Otter and those Van Rysel bikes are really not any cheaper in several of the builds I checked out. The to end race bike was 11k instead of 15k. Anyone paying that kind of money for a race bike does not care about the price difference. The mid 5k bikes builds were no different than any other mainstream brand. Maybe this is different in Europe
Lets put it another way, if you set off to do a 5 hour ride and you get home having done 4 hrs 58 mins would you ride round the block to make it 5?
Not a chance, would you?
@@TheRoadmanPodcast Well I have, but I wouldn't these days. In fact did a 99.98 km ride today
Yep
Was trying to do a 100 mile ride. Got back to the subdivision after 95 miles. Did 5 miles within the neighborhood to complete the century!!!
The previous week I got a flat near home after 95 miles. Just went to the house.
Saddle sores are not to be trifled with. There's a cyclist whose sores became infected w/Flesh Eating Bacteria down in San Diego, CA. He was in La Jolla Hospital in an induced coma and on life support. He's currently in the ICU w/an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator. 1 in 4 people die from this. Clean and disinfect your sores, and clean your kit!
Crikey
And if you think you are buying the exact frames the pros get you need to get off your unicorn 🦄
I wish I had a unicorn! But yeah maybe you are right...just a PR stunt! Definitely worked on a lot of people I guess!
Most drivers are not athletes, with societies(at least in the US) trend for super sized humans, the vehicles they drive need to be bigger for them to be comfortable in 😅
Car width is due to speed, esp german cars, so they can do 150mph on the autobahns
What rubbish.
Time to have a following vehicle to protect you even if you have to hire an Uber to protect your life. Go out in a group and share the cost.
That’s actually a great idea
With regards to dangerous traffic and falling, In my part of the world I think deer are the most dangerous: ua-cam.com/video/wR5XwfEYCdw/v-deo.html I barely ever fall (last time was 16 years before this one) and it normally happens when going slow and it's my own stupid mistake, such as loose gravel, too steep a turn, resulting in some road rash at worst. This accident was not "just riding along" or my own fault and resulted in a femoral neck fracture. I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was quite annoyed. ;-)
Steven, go gravel and never look back!
or in my case, "ride fast"
More profit per vehicle when they are larger. Its all about the money
1. Ride fast
2. Climb fast
3. Weigh little
4. Push the pedals really hard
5. Pass right by the Burger King
Simples!! 🙂
Micro dose
What is your fascination with Cycling Pros, very odd.
I fold my underpants.
PROS: Ride $10 to $20 thousand dollar bikes.....Thier total life is 100% riding including sleep.
Trend to big gas guzzling SUV's started in the 2nd gulf war when they knew there'd soon to be lots of cheap petrol/gas around. They killed the first electric cars in the late '90's in California which people were only allowed to lease(loaded them up in trucks which were followed and got it on film they found they went out and crushed them all in the desert). For the same reason. The Oil lobbyists putting pressure on local govt- cheap oil. This was the time of hummers etc etc- they've disappeared but the SUV's remain. I hate them driving or cycling. Because a normal car you can see over the top of them and around the sides or through the windows to see what's ahead. A SUV etc completely blocks your view.
interesting!!!!
Electric cars aren’t there yet imho. Cost and the recyclability compared to gas. Our electric infrastructure needs to be upgraded 1st because it can’t sustain. And if those that are really altruistic about electric, buy them but don’t make me subsidize your purchase and manufacturer sale(if not mistaken still about $15k per electric car is tax payer subsidized)
Cars are wider because of (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) CAFE standards. Longer wider allows manufactures to meet the CAFE Standards. Marketing creates demand for large SUVs. SUVs kill more people everyday. SUVs are classified as light trucks and don't have to meet the same safety standards as cars.
It was good until she started talking about giving back. White women bro
Steve's question is great. These fat new cars suck and drivers have bad attitudes!