you get an idea of the type of terrain.
Looks fairly tame TBF
you get an idea of the type of terrain.
Looks fairly tame TBF
Nope, this was not 10k of "easy commute". This is hilly country with a 200m climb up tracks back into the village from the forest. The forest is on dune sand - so nothing is flat. Take a look at his YouTube channel if you want some idea of his daily exercise. (As ever, the camera makes the 30% gradients look flat. But you get an idea of the type of terrain.)
A battery only last around 25km in the middle of summer when the sand is at its driest. Quite honestly, I'm amazed that the motor has lasted so long - he works his bike hard.
1500ft over 30km is pretty flat.
My ROAD commute is hillier
and that's way flatter than pretty much any mtb ride I'd ever want to do
No.. They're mainly worn out rough as fuck half obliterated and unloved UK tarmac/asphalt and littered with potholes, ruts and shitty failed repair work. And generally wet (poorly drained) and minging.Your roads are soft sand? Wow!
Your heart rate (out of context) means absolutely nothing.BTW, that one was gentle on me 'cos I was on my clockwork bike. Heart rate hit 181 ).
No.. They're mainly worn out rough as fuck half obliterated and unloved UK tarmac/asphalt and littered with potholes, ruts and shitty failed repair work. And generally wet (poorly drained) and minging.
As I said.. Useage (where, by whom, how and in what conditions) your Emtb is ridden makes a MASSIVE difference to the motor lifespan.
Your heart rate (out of context) means absolutely nothing.
You remind me of why I left Britain in 1980... immediately after spending in year in your part of the world I'd almost lost the will to live. That shortage of natural daylight for months of the year did nothing for either my humour, or that of the locals. (Not that they liked my English accent anyway.) I headed for warmer climes with more daylight and have never regretted it. […]
There are meaningful daylight differences in a country as small as the UK? That's educational for me, I wouldn't have guessed that.
(I'm Canadian, am used to a country 5.5 timezones wide and I don't even know how many latitudes tall, so most countries seem tiny to me, so your comment was genuinely educational.)
Daylight differences are due to differences in latitude. In the late 70's I was living on Britain's south coast but was working in Scotland and then the Shetlands. In your terms, that difference in daylight hours is the same as between Toronto and Long Island in The Hudson Bay. In the Shetlands, there was weak daylight between 10am and 2pm in winter. I used to be a keen photographer but the daylight was so weak that a tripod was needed even at midday.
I'm currently living in Southern Spain, which puts the daylight difference as the equivalent of your North-South difference between Toronto and the Beaufort Sea.
Where Gary lives in Scotland, he's probably enjoying around 5 to 6 hours of daylight at the moment - probably heavily masked by thick clouds and torrential rain. Here in Vejer, we get 10 hours of winter sunshine which, with the blue sky, is strong enough to need sun lotion protection. We each have our preference
Timezones are eccentric. Spain is set to CET, which is one hour ahead of GMT. However, where we live we are to the west of Dublin in the Irish Republic, so we should, in theory, be a half hour behind GMT. Tourists are always surprised that lunchtime is between 2pm and 4pm and dinner never earlier that 8pm (when the restaurants open) and usually closer to 10pm. When it's explained that this is, in reality 12:30-14:30 and 18:30-20:30 it still doesn't stop them hammering on the doors at midday to be fed. Folks are strange...
I'm in the south of Scotland. South East to be exact so it's actually drier here than the west of EnglandWhere Gary lives in Scotland, he's probably enjoying around 5 to 6 hours of daylight at the moment - probably heavily masked by thick clouds and torrential rain.
I live within the 48th latitude (or the 48th parallel, as we typically call it in Canada, which helpfully distinguishes it from latitude of height above ground, or above sea level, which the word latitude is also used for).
I guess that's a language difference that didn't cross the pond too well. We describe elevation above sea level as "altitude", which removes that ambiguity.
No shit. I was 34 or 35 and entered in a 1hr stairmaster challenge and the person supervising was shitting herself as I was in the 215-220 range solidly for most of the hour. She kept on wanting me to ease back before I had a heart attack.HR is an odd thing. And most doctors don't seem to understand it either.
Well, for whatever reason, Canadians commonly say "parallel" instead of "latitude". It comes up particularly frequently in reference to the 49th parallel, which is the dividing line between much (though not all) of Canada and the U.S. Do you only say lines of latitude, or do you refer to parallels as well?
I do IT support for several Medical Centers and some of the doctors just plain scare me.Baffles me how can you become a doctor without understanding the basics of how the bodily organs work and that there are natural differences from patient to patient.
That's a bunch of kms in a year for sure. I would guess that the majority of which were on pavement or gravel roads as our Bosch powered emtb with close to 7000km now. Has there been any issues with the motor?I'm not due to ride out with Beni for a week or two, so haven't had a chance to photograph his latest mileage. But here are this year's stats he's just put up on Strava. All on the same E8000 motor and battery.
Just under 8000km during 2019, and 128,000m of climbing.
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That's a bunch of kms in a year for sure. I would guess that the majority of which were on pavement or gravel roads as our Bosch powered emtb with close to 7000km now. Has there been any issues with the motor?
This ^^ definitelyriding with jumps and dropoffs takes a toll on the E8000 contributing a much reduced lifespan of the bearings and bottom bracket area of the motor causing premature wear.
from?Especially in the torque sensor which probably needs to be a little more robust for that type of use.
Max HR is just as odd thing to get hung up on.. My max cycling (Road) is at least 10bpm higher than my running Max HR.
This ^^ definitely
But where do you get this:
from?
In my observation a lot of these are on bikes that are being ridden hard in all-mountain and enduro/bike park type scenarios. Speculation on my part...sure but it does follow the clues.
I've no clue WTF "all mountain" means. Never have
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