Riding a Different Bike - it is PlanetX Pro Carbon Time - and it is Raining!
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Hi Paul, good point about wide tyres and confidence, but also before when you may have been riding 25mm rims when holding a camera and recording YT videos in the wet.. Its the little things that we forget and what we ask ourselves and add, when coming back to something we haven't done in ages. Great points raised I really enjoyed the retrospective view.👍
Cheers, holding the camera is a valid point, but riding the skinner tyres generally doesn't inspire the same confidence. I was thinking.... Road surfaces continue to get worse too, so that will also be a fact as well as larger tyres having generally lower pressure. I can see another video coming!
The days of finding an open tea or coffee shop post pandemic is problematic. Our country is not as it was. This is having a major impact on bike riding where I live.
The Bath to Bristol old railway line bike ride is a fantastic link between cities! But unfortunately the bandits have caught on to the vulnerability of the area. Meaning it’s a great place to ambush oncoming commuters & younger cyclists!
Nice video brother. Stay frosty 🤜🤛
Thank you !
Totally agree with you Paul - I have the black version of the Pro Carbon - bought April 2012 and still going strong. Like you went on it the other day after months on the gravel, felt I was flying and yes the only drawback to the Pro - is the 25mm tyre clearance !!
Cheers Paul!
I so hear you Paul. My go to bike is, like yours, a Trek Checkpoint ARL5, …so, so comfortable, reasonably quick and go anywhere. However, I also have my 2013 Giant Defy 3 road bike which these days I rarely ride because the Trek is so much more comfortable and fun. However, last night I took the Giant out for a 2hour blast with my very quick and much fitter, triathlon training son, on a mix of country roads, urban riding and cycle paths. I had forgotten how responsive and fast the Defy is - noticeably so much more twitchy and sprightly than the Checkpoint gravel bike, and actually I really enjoyed riding it. But…..like the Planet X, the rear cassette is tiny, so climbing hills of any gradient is really hard work, country road surfaces here in Kent can be pretty rough and gravelly, my hands and wrists yesterday felt every painful bump and - OMG!….Today, my backside is so sore!!
👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 If it is any consolation it isn't just Kent road surfaces! Speakng of which.... I will actually be riding in Kent in October so i can verify lol 👍👍
Good to see you out again Paul. I ride a Trek Domane with mudguards most of the time due to wet weather! I don't like dirty bikes. On high days and sunshine I ride a Specialized Roubaix with fast tyres - it flyers and makes me feel fit. It also goes up hills easier. Good to have a heavy bike so it makes you feel really good when on the lightweight 😁
Cheers Martin.... Love a Trek Domane!
Jubilee Ride with you was when we last saw your Planet X. Looking fit and well Mr G. Good to see you 👍🚴♀️🚴♂️
Thank you kindly... Getting there!
Nice looking bike. Barrie always had issues in the winter with clearance on his Look bike with getting leaves stuck in the brakes and we always had to stop and find a stick to clear it with.
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I find it does always take a few miles to get used to a different bike, as it does. Mine are all 25mm tyres apart from the old steel winter bike which is on 23mm tyres. You have got bags of clearance on the PlanetX. Same as most of mine. Mind you, the old winter bike is probably a 2004 vintage. My favourite TCR is a 2016 and the same groupset, just with a different cassette on for up here.
If it's wet I will grab a bike with mudguards. If there is salt on the roads it's a winter bike. That's about it really.
I am fine in the wet with rim brakes, and that's even off Newlands pass with the 20%. No different for me on hydraulic disc brakes. However that could be down to an interesting thing I saw the other day.....hand strength. Could it be, that due to my occupation I have good hand strength so can put plenty of pressure on my rim braked bike. So the limiting factor is tyre contact. And that Is what I have always maintained, I can make the tyre skid just as easy on a rim brake in the wet as a disc. Who knows.
You have valid points there Duncan!
Needs to be wall-to-wall blue sky before my Carbon Cube summer bike comes out. Obviously it doesn't get out much😂. Tis nice when it does though.
Yes. I'm with h you! I didn't check the forecast this time lol
Nice bike Paul. I also notice the difference between my Pinnacle and Orro bikes. Have been out on the Orro recently and loving it. Had to change back to the Pinnacle after nasty weather (Orro is not for dirty roads 😂) and found it hard going! Stu said I have spoiled myself on the Orro 😂😂
Hi James. Sorry for are definitely very nice bikes!
Definitely comfort for me. I'm sold on endurance/gravel geometry but prefer carbon to alloy. When I rode last year in Europe, I had a Dogma F which was a stallion of a bike but not great for long distances. The saddle is also important in moving from bike to bike. I bought my saddle and Canyon Flexi seat post to the UK last year and it made it feel very familiar which was good. I'm certainly glad that the craze of riding on ultra-thin wheels has passed and their advantage has been disproven. Many a cyclist will be happy for that. Just a shame that frame clearances were made for thin as well.
Yes..... I'm with you on the small clearances... It removes the choice options on tyres! Flexing seat posts get a big tick!
I agree with everything you say about riding a older bike, I got a old specialized Tarmac SL2 with rim brakes and love riding that when the weather is being kind. Being a fair bit lighter than my modern bikes it feels so much faster but not has comfortable on 25mm tyres with our disgusting roads but I would never get rid of it. It really is a joy to ride on hills ever with smaller gears.
Yes deffo...... I might fit a bigger rear cassette at some point... But not desperate to! Cheers
This was my first carbon road bike and loved it. Now ride my aluminium gravel bike for commuting, gravel and winter riding. Carbon road bike for summer months only
Yes.... Same for us both!
Your fitness is coming back Paul, good to see 🚴♂️👏
Yes Chris.... Getting there!
Looked like a nice ride, overall, even with the rain and without your coffee. 😊
Unfortunately I've never been in the position of being able to choose one bike over another. I've always been a one bike at a time woman. And my current ride isn't even a bike, being a tricycle. It has rim brakes and I don't ride in the rain. 😌
It was good to hear your health is holding. Keep pedaling. 🚴♂️👍
I really enjoyed riding recumbent, never ridden a trike properly though.... Just around a car park.... Sure they must be fun though!
@@PaulGreenVlog -- My trike isn't a recumbent, just a regular big, heavy, slow upright trike. Even slow it's still fun for me to ride. 🙂 I figure moving slow is still moving. 😉