My thoughts on the Strava saga for what they are worth. I think Strava have done some analysis comparing exported data volumes compared to the number of subscribers and realised that people without subscriptions are exporting data to 3rd parties for analysis, rather than subscribing and using Strava analytics. By restricting the use of user data for 3rd party analysis, Strava are hoping it forces more subscriptions so people can analyse their data. So all to do with money and nothing to do with user privacy. Especially as users have to give permission and link accounts to allow 3rd parties to extract data from Strava in the first place.
The user gives permission to send the data to the 3rd party app, but Strava don’t then have control over what the 3rd party does with your data. If the 3rd party then gave away everyone’s data without permission, Strava would get in trouble from their users for linking with a dodgy 3rd party. As much as I agree that money is always a key driver, there is definitely still a data/privacy side to this.
It probably is about the money, but I don't understand how you could hold it against them if free accounts are doing most of tye exporting. Maybe they should of made being able to export the data a premium account thing
They should just make the export/share with 3rd party apps a Strava prem feature. You’re still getting paid and letting them do what they want. This issue is the non paying Strava members “taking advantage” which I get.
I wonder how much of the data is generated on strava in the first place, I would assume most of the data is imported from third party like garmin, wahoo, hammerhead, etc. I find it odd that Strava is fine getting data to analyze but then not provide it for analysis
@bradfortner1684 not when you think about it. Your data is coming from a device you paid for. Going to strava. What is most likely the issue is. People are then using a free strava account to feed a 3rd party app that they are paying for. And that 3rd part app has been built lazy and cheaply by relying on strava
Watching this on Thanksgiving day here in the States. In the spirit of the holiday, I'm seriously thankful for you all and the amazing content you consistently provide. Always appreciate the quality, comfortability, and relatability of your discussions.
The Strava API issue impacts me. I use Trainerroad. My Zwift and outdoor rides (phone recorded) are currently synced to Trainerroad through Strava. Judging from the amount of noise around this, I assume more people than just me are using Strava this way.
Yeah I am the same with intervals. icu. Once they build the code for Zwift and other means of recording data to import directly to intervals, I don't really have any use for Strava anymore.
OK Jimmy, I think you should do a comparison video of your ability to ride a cyclocross course with a cyclocross bike vs a gravel bike. I ride a cyclocross bike and it’s noticeably more nimble than my previous bikes. I absolutely love it! Love the show, keep on rockin’!👊🏼
Jimmy saying anything about anybody else's fashion choices while looking like he's about to move to the south of France and cut his ear off is very rich😂❤
I'm a pretty casual rider, so I don't focus on gains, but when I take my commuter e-bike with flats and my gravel with clipless I still feel more comfortable with the clipless and feel more efficient and can lay down power better. I am still recovering from an incredibly nasty broken leg from 2023, so the clipless pedals also seem to help me keep symmetrical.
The trick to flats is using properly sized mountain bike pedals with pins - and shoes with grippy flat soles - ideally fairly stiff ones. If you do that there is essentially no difference except for sprinting. The loss of form that comes from madly mashing pedals in a sprint does not go well with flats.
I use my battery leaf blower to dry my bike, it's great! It blows the drips out of all the little spaces in the drive-chain, bottle cages, shifters etc.
30:25 releasing a frame with a UDH hanger is still a nice move for customers, even if they're never going to use anything else than campag. If you bend the existing one, you won't need to go to specialised website to order the correct one, and can just pop in any bike shop to get a replacement.
Totally,that idea is long gone In fact several good studies have shown little difference between flat and clipless in real world cycling I use clipless for road and flat off road
Shimano makes casual SPD shoes that are just _perfect_ for non-competitive riding. Proper clipped-in pedaling, comfortable, look just like regular shoes.
Jimmy, "Receivership" is an entirely normal and universal business rescue procedure. The term is routinely used in the UK; in fact, it originated here. A third-party receiver is appointed to try and rescue the business, protecting employees, customers, etc.
Confused by Nicks comment on the UDH. Wasn't the original reason for UDH ( at least what they told us) was for easy universal replacement? Example you're out of town and bike falls over and hanger is bent you can go to any bike shop or Amazon and grab one without worrying if it's the right one regardless of groupset or manufacture.
I watched Nics bike build yesterday.....the algorithm works. It's beautiful to watch a master of their craft. A work of art. Bravo Nic. Love the podcast too of course.
Sorry Nick, but riding clipless is not the only way to achieve a proper pedal stroke (and pulling up on the upstroke is more inefficient). Repeated testing has shown us otherwise. Clipless' advantage is mainly in sprinting, and maybe for really steep climbs but outside of these instances, efficiency differences are negligible.
Someone trained to ride clipless pedals will be more efficient than someone trained to ride flats. Not sure what testing you are referring to, but clipless pedaling recruits more muscles which gives the rider a higher maximum muscular input throughout the whole pedal stroke.
@@DelTacobueno Not trying to be argumentative, but not necessarily. Clipless has an efficiency & power advantage in sprinting and out-of-saddle climbing, but the advantage outside of these specific instances is likely insignificant. Controlled testing has been reported in many published studies. If the goal is optimizing efficiency, a rider would want to recruit the least muscle as possible for the most power and speed. This is one reason why pulling up on the backstroke is a less efficient pedaling technique. Decades of industry claims and riders passing these claims along to other riders makes it harder to accept when conventional wisdom is wrong.
I totally forgot people actually care about groupsets, I just combine bits that I like from different groupsets. For Example on my neo-retro road bike I have SRAM Rival fully mechanical 11 speed levers and rear derailleur, Shimano 600 tricolor crankset with a TA single chainring and Shimano 105 BR-1055 brakes. It's a combination of my favourite bits of each within my budget. I don't think I'll ever buy a full groupset, I like SRAM shifting but prefer Shimano brakes and Shimano aluminium cranks.
1:04:23 Chemist here. Be VERY careful with putting alcohol in spray bottles. Rubbing alcohol might be fine, but don't use most chemical grade ethanol because it tends to be denatured with compounds that make it extremely toxic to ingest. Spraying will just release them into the air and allow you to breathe them relatively easily. If you want a spray bottle of ethanol, make sure it's not denatured or high in methanol. I'd also dilute it with 30% distilled water to prevent it from evaporating super quickly (we used this in my last job for cleaning lab benches). The denaturing is for tax and (ironically) safety reasons because you can't drink it, so it's cheaper and college students will be less likely to steal it because it's incredibly unsafe to drink.
I am a clipless user and it is not always a popular option for MTBing. I have a few friends a lot more skillfull then me and on flatties they have some skills! It depends generally on disipline but i would say they are not unpopular in the MTB world! Road and gravel yes maybe but MTB its pretty acceptable. Great podcast guys! Great to see Nic again! Just signed up to his channel. 👍
There are enough studies now that clipless pedals are not more efficient than flat pedals. And something like a perfect "proper" pedal stroke does not exist. Not one pro is actually pulling up his pedal. You don't even need studies for this. It's just 101 physics. Even if you do pull up the pedal, this does come at a cost of energy, done by a small muscle that is not very efficient. Just go through it yourself. if you don't come to the same conclusion you are not a rational person and you let feeling decide over what is true. @Nick >If the industry finds out a way to monetize pedal stroke Funny you say this because you believing all this made up nonsense about proper pedal stroke and pulling up, is the industry monetizing pedal stroke lol You literally fell for it
Another fine podcast. I am with with Jimmie on the pedals. After 30 years riding clipless pedals, I switched to flats. Since I don't race or "pull up" on the up stroke, no need. I also have very stiff flat shoes that grip and combo pedals Shimano M324 (flat on one side and clip on the other). Ride what suits you best.😊 Took me a minute, when Jimmie said " Nik" it was the British way of pronouncing Nike ( Nai-kee). I live a few miles from their HQ here in Oregon. Just say'n😅
I think several studies showed that even pro riders don't pull on the up stroke, but it's one of those myths that refuses to go. What shoes do you use? Some type of MTB ones?
I use an electric air duster to dry my bike and it works great for all the hard to reach places (cassette, derailleurs, etc.). Just blast them with air and they'll dry in literally seconds. And when you're done you can use it to blow the dust out your keyboard and off your plants. Absolute game changer for me.
Cyclocross rules! We have a weekly series (14 weeks Aug-Nov) here in the central US. The key is make it cheap but not free (you need stakes tape and post-ride food) and have a kids race. It should be non-competitive i.e. don't keep score. Alert when passing to be safe with all riding skill levels. People will still "race" but this keeps it relatively safe. Then talk it up to anybody who rides a bike.
For drying your bike chain, I use something called a Compucleaner, I have one for my gaming PC anyway to blow the dust out of the heatsinks etc to help keep temps down, It's basically a hairdryer but stronger. Works a treat. Had it 9 years too and hasn't failed yet so worth the money for me, but there's various different brands & types on amazon from £15 & up.
Jimmy is a stubborn guy, we know this, but a CX bike isn't a gravel bike, or vice versa - especially in 2024 when the geometry of "the gravel bike" has changed so much over the past 7+ years that we now differentiate between a gravel bike, a gravel race bike and an adventure/bikepacking bike (which in itself is divided into stiff or suspended versions). Geometry aside, you ain't getting off the start line with a Specialized Diverge or a Ridley Kanzo (because of the UCI).
Would love to him more from Nick on UDH future use. Always enjoy listening to Nick's detailed thoughts/opinions. Nick's own podcast? Discuss topics while building a bike?
at 49:30 yes, we do this procedure on motorcycles, too. Never brake to full stop before the pads are bedded. You may get them to vitrify and they will never work properly.
I prefer to be clipped in because it puts my feet in the same place and I don't get joint pain on long rides. Flats kill me every time I go over an hour on a ride.
On drying a bike, I’ve been using a high pressure blower that is used for cleaning IT equipment like keyboards. Will dry the drive train in under a minute. The device I got is called Compu Cleaner by the brand IT Dusters. Got off Amazon for about £30.
Ditto, I buy multipacks of compressed air canisters from Amazon every so often. Can direct it into chains, bearings, etc quite accurately and catch the droplets with a towel on the other side.
For a very light rider like me, I kinda need clipless pedals. With normal flat pedals, I always tend to bounce off the pedals from slight bumps in the road, especially during gravel riding.
I prefer the mountain bike spd pedals and cleats - it's what I've been using since the late 90s on my mountain bike, and currently on my road bike, too. To me, it makes a difference on hills. And I'm not elite by any means!
I appreciate that Backyard Bikes is a great bike shop BUT not all of us can afford their level and not all us are blessed with decent local bike shop. Our local shop is grim (happy to sell you a very expensive eBike but have almost no gravel bikes in stock) and then there is Halfords :-( But it's worth travelling for a decent bike shop
For drying the bikes these days I use the pet dryer that our dog now has no share. It is effectively an overdimensioned hair dryer with a hose and a nozzle and works perfectly. 😉
By far the most serious rookie error one can make when purchasing a velocipede is not buying a second-hand specimen, ideally one that has not been criminally removed from its original owner.
Most of the issues I've had with bike fitment are the stores have nothing in stock to try and sitting someone on a machine isn't the answer (I want see and try)...I called my fairly local supplier of Colnago and they had nothing apart from the C68 and suggested they wouldn't be getting anything because of Colnago's export model.
Straps were used with toe-clips. Pedal, toe-clip, strap. It was a system that also included a shoe cleat that had a slot that hooked onto the pedal. The toe-clip and strap, when cinched tight, prevented the cleat from coming off the pedal. To be extra sure, Alfredo Binda straps are preferred. So, when the current system was introduced by LOOK in ‘83-‘84, the toe-clip/strap system slowly started to be replaced by this new-fangled clip-less system. (Unless your name was Sean Kelly)
KMC EPT chains ... genuinely rustproof. Also there are flats and there are flats. Big MTB pedals with studs and grippy, stiff shoes are not the same as slippery rubber flats and a pair of flipflops. Clipless are a pain in the arse around town.
Missing out the fact that for example trainer road can't analyse the data from Strava for their machine learning as they have no sync between wahoo and trainerroad
Regarding the sync clap: one of the podcasts I listen to counts together from 1 to 10. All the hosts there are calling in and it's easier for them to sync 3 or 4 different audio files
Never had an issue with rusty chains. Just a quick wipe down after a ride. The wax should protect from rust. Or take it off and dry it if you don't want a little surface rust build up
Re spoke nipples for winter protection, my LBS mechanic recommends vaseline, safer than WD40 for not getting everywhere. Saves on the salt gritted streets corrosion.
Regarding drying bike. I usually leave my bike in the kitchen with a cheap desk fan on the floor. Go and watch something on tv and it's usually dry when I come back. I have been ridiculed for this..but with 12 speed stuff I'd rather be mocked than pay money for new parts.
Regarding buying a bike. Many people will be tempted to buy online as the savings are potentially really high right now and you can punch above your budget. I get this fit first buy later thing but let’s face it, it’s for rich people. Geometry Geeks probably has your current bike on there. I recommend to spend some time there and analyze the differences to your new bike options then go deep on the variations. Also pay attention to what is integrated and how much money it will cost to swap a stem or bar. That’s how I buy my bikes anyway . Granted I move a lot for work so I never have a permanent local bike shop i go to.
I run an analytics consultancy that deals with AI. I've realised the number one business problem that AI is trying to fix is that Directors want it on their CV. Strava's ridiculous Athlete AI is a perfect example of this.
I'm with jimmy about strava, it wont affect many people really. however I've cancelled my strava as the cost keeps going up and I'm getting less use from it, particularly the fact that you cant make segments them being silly long now which sucks for mountain biking, so many new "off piste" trails now start on bridleways or finish at a road which is a safety issues.
Clipless pedals help me to have my feet always in the same position towards the center of the pedals. With flats, even worse with pins I always struggled to have the right position on the pedal.
The difference between a cyclocross and a gravel bike is quite simple and comparable to the differences between a timetrail and a Triathlon bike. One is regulated by the UCI and the other is Not. Maybe i am wrong about the Regulation of Triathlon bikes…
I depends on what shoes and what pedals. If you’ll use soft Temu shoes on small platform pedal, you’ll be faster and more efficient on a good flat pedal. Or wearing a hard carbon shoe on a big platform pedal.
The tracking feature on Whoop is for your journal, which then gives you Insights after enough time collecting data. For instance, I know that wearing blue light blocking glasses after sunset has a +10% effect on my recovery the next day. All Whoop is doing is letting people track what effects them, not sure whats controversial. I wish they would add a hot chocolate before bed effectiveness button 😂
Jimmy, if it's hard to imagine why Strava's move is a dick move, just imagine if Garmin did this. Let's say they stopped allowing you to export any data from their app to coaches or any other use cases. And also imagine once you're locked in, they start charging a subscription to be able to access all the features they offer. It's the same as reddit locking down API access, and so on, just about exploiting users for more money so their share price goes up. This is why open platforms and preferably decentralised is important.
What does make being clipped in more efficient, is that your foot is always in the optimal position (assuming you have them set up correctly), even if you can recreate that position with flats
Yes - check the source of your information: I nearly bought a Bowman on strength of David Arthur review. Only the long lead put me off - a lucky escape.
Could you please elaborate on the wd-40 on the spoke nipples and other places? Is this common practice? I live in a wet climate and Ive never heared of doing stuff like that to my bike, but maybe its something I should do?
Colnago designed the bike and it’s made in Italy from all Italian parts. It’s more Colnago than the VR series, made in Asia, just like pretty much any other bike brand.
I use Pro Bike Garage to track the mileage and service intervals on components, and it works through Strava. If it weren't for that I'd drop Strava like a hot potato.
I support the unpopular opinion on flat pedals person, though i do it using a half-toe clip (the Zefal one). I've been riding more seriously for over a decade and keep meaning to try clipless but honestly my setup (never with the straps!) feels pretty dialed in and still getting fast times on KOMs if you care about that kind of thing (for my sins i do). I will try clipless when i have some spare money, but it's so expensive, you have to chose a pedal, and then a shoe and even then i might find i don't like that setup. Plus i will probably have to alter my technique a little? However, whenever i ride on pedals that are just flats and no hoop, such as the London hire bikes, i almost always find my foot slips off.
Unfortunately the conclusion about the Strava saga, that this is just the 3rd parties being slow to get direct integration. The problem is that there are a great many different devices and other data sources that needed to be integrated with--this isn't just about being slow to set up a connection with Wahoo, it's not being able to spend the time coding to connect to a multitude of different devices--many of the apps being affected are passion projects, not companies. Moreover, some of those devices/other data sources don't let just anyone use their APIs, so without getting special permission from the makers of devices, they are not able to directly connect. Practically speaking, I've been thinking about getting a new smart watch. There are brands I have to eliminate from consideration, because while they connect with strava, they don't have easy connections elsewhere.
54:05 im agreeing with this from the off , never had clippies ,have rode in slrap ons (lol) a long time ago , cant be arsed to try clipless got some great flatties on my cannondale 😅
My thoughts on the Strava saga for what they are worth.
I think Strava have done some analysis comparing exported data volumes compared to the number of subscribers and realised that people without subscriptions are exporting data to 3rd parties for analysis, rather than subscribing and using Strava analytics. By restricting the use of user data for 3rd party analysis, Strava are hoping it forces more subscriptions so people can analyse their data.
So all to do with money and nothing to do with user privacy. Especially as users have to give permission and link accounts to allow 3rd parties to extract data from Strava in the first place.
The user gives permission to send the data to the 3rd party app, but Strava don’t then have control over what the 3rd party does with your data. If the 3rd party then gave away everyone’s data without permission, Strava would get in trouble from their users for linking with a dodgy 3rd party. As much as I agree that money is always a key driver, there is definitely still a data/privacy side to this.
It probably is about the money, but I don't understand how you could hold it against them if free accounts are doing most of tye exporting.
Maybe they should of made being able to export the data a premium account thing
They should just make the export/share with 3rd party apps a Strava prem feature. You’re still getting paid and letting them do what they want.
This issue is the non paying Strava members “taking advantage” which I get.
I wonder how much of the data is generated on strava in the first place, I would assume most of the data is imported from third party like garmin, wahoo, hammerhead, etc. I find it odd that Strava is fine getting data to analyze but then not provide it for analysis
@bradfortner1684 not when you think about it. Your data is coming from a device you paid for. Going to strava. What is most likely the issue is. People are then using a free strava account to feed a 3rd party app that they are paying for. And that 3rd part app has been built lazy and cheaply by relying on strava
Did Jimmys' eyebrows fly south for the winter?🤔
He's a mess
He has a London look.
Transplanted them to his upper lip
@@daniels.2720 🤣
Moved down on his lip
Strava not sharing _their_ ride data ..
- without crowd harvesting users they would have zero data
5:03 Of course Orlando is a sporting legend! Remember him stair-surfing on a shield at Helm's Deep?
He also did some impressive ultra-distance running while following the orcs to the the plains of Rohan
Nics channel, since there wasnt a link in the description:
www.youtube.com/@NicVieriMechanic
Thank you 🫶🏼
Top fella, cheers 👏.
Watching this on Thanksgiving day here in the States. In the spirit of the holiday, I'm seriously thankful for you all and the amazing content you consistently provide. Always appreciate the quality, comfortability, and relatability of your discussions.
Thanks for the support. Happy Thanksgiving
The Strava thing is basically the same enshittification which happens with all tech once its market strength is great enough.
This is the smart take
About right. They make go pro seem almost intelligent. Definitely a press of the “what can we do to piss our community off”.
Jimmy absolutely looks like an inmate… 😂
YES!! Like the 50’s movies portray a thief!😂
That studio is freezing. I lucky have a heated seat. Jimmi isn’t that lucky 🤣
@@NicVieriMechanic So a heated seat for guests only? Pity… Have them start some crowdfunding thing to get some for themselves, I can spare a tenner. 😅
@ haha, I think Francis bought it. Jimmi would
Never waste money on something that sensible 🤣
Jimmy has strong Dexys Midnight Runners vibe
"And the man in the shop, Tadej Pogačar" ... that was a good belly laugh. Well played, Emily.
Same! I actually lol’d!😂
The Strava API issue impacts me.
I use Trainerroad. My Zwift and outdoor rides (phone recorded) are currently synced to Trainerroad through Strava.
Judging from the amount of noise around this, I assume more people than just me are using Strava this way.
Yeah I am the same with intervals. icu. Once they build the code for Zwift and other means of recording data to import directly to intervals, I don't really have any use for Strava anymore.
OK Jimmy, I think you should do a comparison video of your ability to ride a cyclocross course with a cyclocross bike vs a gravel bike. I ride a cyclocross bike and it’s noticeably more nimble than my previous bikes. I absolutely love it!
Love the show, keep on rockin’!👊🏼
Jimmy saying anything about anybody else's fashion choices while looking like he's about to move to the south of France and cut his ear off is very rich😂❤
I'm a pretty casual rider, so I don't focus on gains, but when I take my commuter e-bike with flats and my gravel with clipless I still feel more comfortable with the clipless and feel more efficient and can lay down power better.
I am still recovering from an incredibly nasty broken leg from 2023, so the clipless pedals also seem to help me keep symmetrical.
The trick to flats is using properly sized mountain bike pedals with pins - and shoes with grippy flat soles - ideally fairly stiff ones. If you do that there is essentially no difference except for sprinting. The loss of form that comes from madly mashing pedals in a sprint does not go well with flats.
I use my battery leaf blower to dry my bike, it's great! It blows the drips out of all the little spaces in the drive-chain, bottle cages, shifters etc.
30:25 releasing a frame with a UDH hanger is still a nice move for customers, even if they're never going to use anything else than campag. If you bend the existing one, you won't need to go to specialised website to order the correct one, and can just pop in any bike shop to get a replacement.
I thought scraping the pedal back and pulling up was irrelevant, and currently considered bad advice?
Think it's also been shown that pro riders don't pull on the up stroke either.
Totally,that idea is long gone
In fact several good studies have shown little difference between flat and clipless in real world cycling
I use clipless for road and flat off road
Shimano makes casual SPD shoes that are just _perfect_ for non-competitive riding. Proper clipped-in pedaling, comfortable, look just like regular shoes.
Like their touring shoes?
@@wandering_pete There's even better options than getting shoes from Shimano.
Jimmy, "Receivership" is an entirely normal and universal business rescue procedure. The term is routinely used in the UK; in fact, it originated here.
A third-party receiver is appointed to try and rescue the business, protecting employees, customers, etc.
Confused by Nicks comment on the UDH. Wasn't the original reason for UDH ( at least what they told us) was for easy universal replacement? Example you're out of town and bike falls over and hanger is bent you can go to any bike shop or Amazon and grab one without worrying if it's the right one regardless of groupset or manufacture.
I watched Nics bike build yesterday.....the algorithm works.
It's beautiful to watch a master of their craft.
A work of art. Bravo Nic.
Love the podcast too of course.
Sorry Nick, but riding clipless is not the only way to achieve a proper pedal stroke (and pulling up on the upstroke is more inefficient). Repeated testing has shown us otherwise.
Clipless' advantage is mainly in sprinting, and maybe for really steep climbs but outside of these instances, efficiency differences are negligible.
Someone trained to ride clipless pedals will be more efficient than someone trained to ride flats. Not sure what testing you are referring to, but clipless pedaling recruits more muscles which gives the rider a higher maximum muscular input throughout the whole pedal stroke.
@@DelTacobueno Not trying to be argumentative, but not necessarily. Clipless has an efficiency & power advantage in sprinting and out-of-saddle climbing, but the advantage outside of these specific instances is likely insignificant. Controlled testing has been reported in many published studies. If the goal is optimizing efficiency, a rider would want to recruit the least muscle as possible for the most power and speed. This is one reason why pulling up on the backstroke is a less efficient pedaling technique. Decades of industry claims and riders passing these claims along to other riders makes it harder to accept when conventional wisdom is wrong.
Jimmy, just because you don’t use/understand the Strava situation doesn’t make it a non issue. Have a lovely holiday season.
Jimmys Statement on gravel bikes are the same as cyclocross bike needs a full video.
Maybe Participate in a race with francis and swap Bikes mid race
Unless it’s a race orientated gravel bike, they can be as different as a road bike and a touring bike
I totally forgot people actually care about groupsets, I just combine bits that I like from different groupsets.
For Example on my neo-retro road bike I have SRAM Rival fully mechanical 11 speed levers and rear derailleur, Shimano 600 tricolor crankset with a TA single chainring and Shimano 105 BR-1055 brakes. It's a combination of my favourite bits of each within my budget.
I don't think I'll ever buy a full groupset, I like SRAM shifting but prefer Shimano brakes and Shimano aluminium cranks.
Dear Lord, what an absolute horror show
I’ll go out on a limb here. Nobody needs to be spending extra money on a groupset, 105 (or equivalent) is utterly fine.
1:04:23 Chemist here. Be VERY careful with putting alcohol in spray bottles. Rubbing alcohol might be fine, but don't use most chemical grade ethanol because it tends to be denatured with compounds that make it extremely toxic to ingest. Spraying will just release them into the air and allow you to breathe them relatively easily. If you want a spray bottle of ethanol, make sure it's not denatured or high in methanol. I'd also dilute it with 30% distilled water to prevent it from evaporating super quickly (we used this in my last job for cleaning lab benches).
The denaturing is for tax and (ironically) safety reasons because you can't drink it, so it's cheaper and college students will be less likely to steal it because it's incredibly unsafe to drink.
I am a clipless user and it is not always a popular option for MTBing.
I have a few friends a lot more skillfull then me and on flatties they have some skills!
It depends generally on disipline but i would say they are not unpopular in the MTB world!
Road and gravel yes maybe but MTB its pretty acceptable.
Great podcast guys!
Great to see Nic again!
Just signed up to his channel.
👍
There are enough studies now that clipless pedals are not more efficient than flat pedals. And something like a perfect "proper" pedal stroke does not exist. Not one pro is actually pulling up his pedal. You don't even need studies for this. It's just 101 physics. Even if you do pull up the pedal, this does come at a cost of energy, done by a small muscle that is not very efficient.
Just go through it yourself. if you don't come to the same conclusion you are not a rational person and you let feeling decide over what is true.
@Nick
>If the industry finds out a way to monetize pedal stroke
Funny you say this because you believing all this made up nonsense about proper pedal stroke and pulling up, is the industry monetizing pedal stroke lol
You literally fell for it
I had forgotten Jimmy was in Dexys Midnight Runners
Oh come on Eileen 😅
Another fine podcast.
I am with with Jimmie on the pedals. After 30 years riding clipless pedals, I switched to flats. Since I don't race or "pull up" on the up stroke, no need. I also have very stiff flat shoes that grip and combo pedals Shimano M324 (flat on one side and clip on the other). Ride what suits you best.😊
Took me a minute, when Jimmie said " Nik" it was the British way of pronouncing Nike ( Nai-kee). I live a few miles from their HQ here in Oregon. Just say'n😅
I think several studies showed that even pro riders don't pull on the up stroke, but it's one of those myths that refuses to go.
What shoes do you use? Some type of MTB ones?
In Britain most people say nike, not nai-kee. Pretty sure ‘nai-kee’ is the correct pronunciation though.
Thanks Nick as always 👍🏻
Sorry when did jimmy become a 2015 British hipster transplant living in Berlin?
He’s showing personality in the way he dresses :) It’s a positive
I like jimmys different outfits
He is living the life aquatic.
I think he looks like a 1930s pimp
Team zissou away kit?
I use an electric air duster to dry my bike and it works great for all the hard to reach places (cassette, derailleurs, etc.). Just blast them with air and they'll dry in literally seconds. And when you're done you can use it to blow the dust out your keyboard and off your plants. Absolute game changer for me.
Cyclocross rules! We have a weekly series (14 weeks Aug-Nov) here in the central US. The key is make it cheap but not free (you need stakes tape and post-ride food) and have a kids race. It should be non-competitive i.e. don't keep score. Alert when passing to be safe with all riding skill levels. People will still "race" but this keeps it relatively safe. Then talk it up to anybody who rides a bike.
The irony of this video is that you’ve released it after I’ve just bought myself a new bike this morning…
What did you get? 😊
Exactly the same for me haha. Came 2 hours late
Matt Richardson actually competed for GB for the first time just recently. He actually won, beating the Dutch guy that beat him at the Olympics.
For drying your bike chain, I use something called a Compucleaner, I have one for my gaming PC anyway to blow the dust out of the heatsinks etc to help keep temps down, It's basically a hairdryer but stronger. Works a treat. Had it 9 years too and hasn't failed yet so worth the money for me, but there's various different brands & types on amazon from £15 & up.
Jimmy is a stubborn guy, we know this, but a CX bike isn't a gravel bike, or vice versa - especially in 2024 when the geometry of "the gravel bike" has changed so much over the past 7+ years that we now differentiate between a gravel bike, a gravel race bike and an adventure/bikepacking bike (which in itself is divided into stiff or suspended versions).
Geometry aside, you ain't getting off the start line with a Specialized Diverge or a Ridley Kanzo (because of the UCI).
Also not if you put CX rims / tires on them? I thought Van Aert rode some races on the Aspero and not on the R5CX either last year or the year before.
That convo about what Strava has done, blew my mind. I had zero idea what they were on about and for that I am glad. Just ride your bike, FFS!
It requires a special type of arrogance to claim that data I create with your app belongs to you and you can tell me what i can do with it.
Would love to him more from Nick on UDH future use. Always enjoy listening to Nick's detailed thoughts/opinions. Nick's own podcast? Discuss topics while building a bike?
at 49:30 yes, we do this procedure on motorcycles, too. Never brake to full stop before the pads are bedded. You may get them to vitrify and they will never work properly.
I prefer to be clipped in because it puts my feet in the same place and I don't get joint pain on long rides. Flats kill me every time I go over an hour on a ride.
On drying a bike, I’ve been using a high pressure blower that is used for cleaning IT equipment like keyboards. Will dry the drive train in under a minute.
The device I got is called Compu Cleaner by the brand IT Dusters. Got off Amazon for about £30.
Does it dry it with the heat or just blow the water off?
@ no heat, it’s just a powerful, focussed stream of air
Ditto, I buy multipacks of compressed air canisters from Amazon every so often. Can direct it into chains, bearings, etc quite accurately and catch the droplets with a towel on the other side.
Puppy’s back. I’m happy. 10/10
For a very light rider like me, I kinda need clipless pedals. With normal flat pedals, I always tend to bounce off the pedals from slight bumps in the road, especially during gravel riding.
I prefer the mountain bike spd pedals and cleats - it's what I've been using since the late 90s on my mountain bike, and currently on my road bike, too. To me, it makes a difference on hills. And I'm not elite by any means!
I appreciate that Backyard Bikes is a great bike shop BUT not all of us can afford their level and not all us are blessed with decent local bike shop. Our local shop is grim (happy to sell you a very expensive eBike but have almost no gravel bikes in stock) and then there is Halfords :-( But it's worth travelling for a decent bike shop
But then I’ve had 2 really good bikes from Halfords by a) knowing what I want b) buying at the right time of year.
Lubbing your chain... wink wink... and setting up your wahoo...that was the best😆😆
Got to love the arrow with “avoid this” pointing at the very bike I own 😢
For drying the bikes these days I use the pet dryer that our dog now has no share. It is effectively an overdimensioned hair dryer with a hose and a nozzle and works perfectly. 😉
By far the most serious rookie error one can make when purchasing a velocipede is not buying a second-hand specimen, ideally one that has not been criminally removed from its original owner.
Best bike build videos imho are Blue Lug in Japan, Old Shovel in the USA, and Toasty Rides in NZ , in that order.
Most of the issues I've had with bike fitment are the stores have nothing in stock to try and sitting someone on a machine isn't the answer (I want see and try)...I called my fairly local supplier of Colnago and they had nothing apart from the C68 and suggested they wouldn't be getting anything because of Colnago's export model.
Pro Tip: the dirt cheap Wyze "smart watch" give a very generous sleep hours metric compared to any other watch I've owned.
As soon as I glimpsed Jimmy, Home Alone just flashed before my eyes.
When buying a bike, avoid characters who look like Jimmi hanging out in dark alleyways
Never understood the term, ‘clipless pedals’. One clips into them 🤷♂️.
Strapless pedals, yes.
Straps were used with toe-clips. Pedal, toe-clip, strap. It was a system that also included a shoe cleat that had a slot that hooked onto the pedal. The toe-clip and strap, when cinched tight, prevented the cleat from coming off the pedal. To be extra sure, Alfredo Binda straps are preferred. So, when the current system was introduced by LOOK in ‘83-‘84, the toe-clip/strap system slowly started to be replaced by this new-fangled clip-less system. (Unless your name was Sean Kelly)
KMC EPT chains ... genuinely rustproof. Also there are flats and there are flats. Big MTB pedals with studs and grippy, stiff shoes are not the same as slippery rubber flats and a pair of flipflops. Clipless are a pain in the arse around town.
Missing out the fact that for example trainer road can't analyse the data from Strava for their machine learning as they have no sync between wahoo and trainerroad
Nic needs to be on here weekly.
I must confess I find Nic a bit "Marmite"
Regarding the sync clap: one of the podcasts I listen to counts together from 1 to 10. All the hosts there are calling in and it's easier for them to sync 3 or 4 different audio files
Happy Thanksgiving my Limey friends
Never had an issue with rusty chains. Just a quick wipe down after a ride. The wax should protect from rust. Or take it off and dry it if you don't want a little surface rust build up
When I bought a new saddle form the LBS, they let me borrow 3 test saddles and then i bought the version i preferred!
Re spoke nipples for winter protection, my LBS mechanic recommends vaseline, safer than WD40 for not getting everywhere. Saves on the salt gritted streets corrosion.
Recommending vaseline on nipples... is this turning into a running podcacst...? But seriously yes.
I like that idea 👌🏽
Regarding drying bike. I usually leave my bike in the kitchen with a cheap desk fan on the floor. Go and watch something on tv and it's usually dry when I come back. I have been ridiculed for this..but with 12 speed stuff I'd rather be mocked than pay money for new parts.
1:01:30 I'm going to use that a my ringtone, wonderful sound Jimmy 😄
Regarding buying a bike. Many people will be tempted to buy online as the savings are potentially really high right now and you can punch above your budget.
I get this fit first buy later thing but let’s face it, it’s for rich people. Geometry Geeks probably has your current bike on there. I recommend to spend some time there and analyze the differences to your new bike options then go deep on the variations. Also pay attention to what is integrated and how much money it will cost to swap a stem or bar. That’s how I buy my bikes anyway . Granted I move a lot for work so I never have a permanent local bike shop i go to.
Dehumidifier... works an absolute treat to dry your bike. Dry after an hour or so.
I run an analytics consultancy that deals with AI. I've realised the number one business problem that AI is trying to fix is that Directors want it on their CV. Strava's ridiculous Athlete AI is a perfect example of this.
Please do Nick. Your mechanic vids would be ace!! Keep up the good work. How does the Battaglin ride? Looked amazing. 🤘👌
Best way to dry bikes after washing is use a blower. Air displaces the water and speeds up the drying.
I'm with jimmy about strava, it wont affect many people really. however I've cancelled my strava as the cost keeps going up and I'm getting less use from it, particularly the fact that you cant make segments them being silly long now which sucks for mountain biking, so many new "off piste" trails now start on bridleways or finish at a road which is a safety issues.
Clipless pedals help me to have my feet always in the same position towards the center of the pedals. With flats, even worse with pins I always struggled to have the right position on the pedal.
Why is Jimmy dressed like a fishing boat captain from Gloucester Mass? 😂
what models of smart watches do you all use and why ?
The difference between a cyclocross and a gravel bike is quite simple and comparable to the differences between a timetrail and a Triathlon bike. One is regulated by the UCI and the other is Not. Maybe i am wrong about the Regulation of Triathlon bikes…
I depends on what shoes and what pedals. If you’ll use soft Temu shoes on small platform pedal, you’ll be faster and more efficient on a good flat pedal. Or wearing a hard carbon shoe on a big platform pedal.
The tracking feature on Whoop is for your journal, which then gives you Insights after enough time collecting data. For instance, I know that wearing blue light blocking glasses after sunset has a +10% effect on my recovery the next day. All Whoop is doing is letting people track what effects them, not sure whats controversial. I wish they would add a hot chocolate before bed effectiveness button 😂
Jimmy, if it's hard to imagine why Strava's move is a dick move, just imagine if Garmin did this. Let's say they stopped allowing you to export any data from their app to coaches or any other use cases. And also imagine once you're locked in, they start charging a subscription to be able to access all the features they offer. It's the same as reddit locking down API access, and so on, just about exploiting users for more money so their share price goes up. This is why open platforms and preferably decentralised is important.
Will this strava export affect the wandrer app?
With the pedal thing, When my knees are hurting, Flat pedals are a good break. 🤣.
Jimmy needs to get rid of all his bikes with derailleurs.
I also think that "being clipped in is more efficient" is a big myth. However I agree there are plenty of other reasons to prefer to be clipped in.
What does make being clipped in more efficient, is that your foot is always in the optimal position (assuming you have them set up correctly), even if you can recreate that position with flats
I'm sorry but I'm very confused with the whole strava thing. Why would you use in when you have a Garmin or w/e? I get plenty enough through that
Yes - check the source of your information: I nearly bought a Bowman on strength of David Arthur review. Only the long lead put me off - a lucky escape.
With regard to data, if one can measure it, one can worry about it.
Could you please elaborate on the wd-40 on the spoke nipples and other places? Is this common practice? I live in a wet climate and Ive never heared of doing stuff like that to my bike, but maybe its something I should do?
Please, please do some coverage on the fact Wout Van Aert was in the Belgium Masked singer
i, too, am terrified of the clap. i’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing, though
Colnago designed the bike and it’s made in Italy from all Italian parts. It’s more Colnago than the VR series, made in Asia, just like pretty much any other bike brand.
I use Pro Bike Garage to track the mileage and service intervals on components, and it works through Strava. If it weren't for that I'd drop Strava like a hot potato.
Jimmy says, "This thing I don't use that is changing isn't a big deal for anyone else." SMDH. The solipsism is startling.
Happy Turkey day boys. From the other side of the pond. 😂 think that’s how the saying goes
I support the unpopular opinion on flat pedals person, though i do it using a half-toe clip (the Zefal one). I've been riding more seriously for over a decade and keep meaning to try clipless but honestly my setup (never with the straps!) feels pretty dialed in and still getting fast times on KOMs if you care about that kind of thing (for my sins i do). I will try clipless when i have some spare money, but it's so expensive, you have to chose a pedal, and then a shoe and even then i might find i don't like that setup. Plus i will probably have to alter my technique a little? However, whenever i ride on pedals that are just flats and no hoop, such as the London hire bikes, i almost always find my foot slips off.
I use a leaf blower to dry my bike. An air compressor would also work.
Unfortunately the conclusion about the Strava saga, that this is just the 3rd parties being slow to get direct integration. The problem is that there are a great many different devices and other data sources that needed to be integrated with--this isn't just about being slow to set up a connection with Wahoo, it's not being able to spend the time coding to connect to a multitude of different devices--many of the apps being affected are passion projects, not companies. Moreover, some of those devices/other data sources don't let just anyone use their APIs, so without getting special permission from the makers of devices, they are not able to directly connect.
Practically speaking, I've been thinking about getting a new smart watch. There are brands I have to eliminate from consideration, because while they connect with strava, they don't have easy connections elsewhere.
54:05 im agreeing with this from the off , never had clippies ,have rode in slrap ons (lol) a long time ago , cant be arsed to try clipless got some great flatties on my cannondale 😅