Cyclopaat, an alter ego with a twist
A while ago, I was recording a round-trip through my backyard with my GoPro HERO 9, to be shared with those of you who would like to create a Real Life Video (RLV).
If you are on an indoor cycling platform that supports using your own, like Rouvy or BigRingVR that is.
I had a route in mind that would be just under two hours, which would be more than enough for most indoor sessions.
At the end of our “holiday” on Tenerife, I’ve written my usual recap.
Before we went there, I posted on Strava that we were (going there) and that I would let my Strava subscrption expire after we got back.
I’ve cancelled the auro-renewal, put all my activities in “private” mode and am currently contemplating on whether or not to delete my account altogether.
However, I have probably more posts with links to Strava entries – that are no longer working anyway – than I figured beforehand.
Despite Ray’s critical review of the Garmin Varia RCT715 – which actually reflects how I feel about EVERY Garmin product when they dump it into the market and fix blatant errors and design flaws with “updates” after that – I got myself this rear radar / camera combo anyway.
You can read Ray’s review here.
Last Saturday, I first used it during my Gran Fondo.
I recently got another bike, a Leader Fox Sonora MTB.
This post “explains” how that happened…
About a month back, my Canyon SpeedMax self-destructed.
During one of my usual loops, the fork broke – luckily, I was riding at low speed, as I just passed a cattle guard (prone to getting a pinch flat) and it was going uphill back onto the dyke I was riding.
Paula had to come and pick me up but I still needed to walk about a mile to get to the pickup point with a bike in pieces. Not easy on cycling shoes…
Last Saturday, April 16th, I participated in the individual time trial event “Tijdrit Almere”.
It’s organized by Start2Finish, Tri2One being the main sponsor.
As the name implies, it’s in my hometown and the long distance is 42 kms, or three laps of 14 kms each.
Until 2019, this event took place in my backyard, the wide open polder outside the city.
I participated only once in that, before it changed the location to the outskirts of Almere-Haven – the oldest neighborhood of Almere – for the 2019 edition last minute.
The new course is following the dyke along the “Gooimeer” lake, so also on that one, there’s no hiding from the wind…
