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What does the Elite have that the normal one doesn't?

Glancing at it, the gears and stuff are higher end.

MsKov says to change hers. the next model up has a full carbon frame and better widgets..

/makes crappy joke about having to pedal less

I think it is the opposite, ish.

Apparently a fully kitted out tri-atholon bike is bloody hard for novices to use. I am sure Mali knows more than me, or can explain better

Mail has it covered. To be honest I didn't know when I got it, only that they suggested either go entry level (c.£500) or elite (800), rather than the one in between - beyond that you're outside the cost allowed in the standard cycle to work (up to £1k). Seeing as they're all an upgrade of parts etc. from the one below, thinking the one in the middle isn't worth it suggests it's all a bit arbitrary. Better gears have probably been good for me - cycling legally, there's a lot of stop-start and therefore a lot of gear change and hot brake action.

Aye, a pal got the TDF off them the other day. Seemed pretty happy with it once it was re-assembled properly. Decathlon/B'Twin's Triban range is worth a look too. Try some, buy whatever fits & feels best/fastest/gayest (I'm not sure which is the highest priority for roadies )


As for a dedicated deviants thread the general bikes thread is all inclusive so you can enjoy your lycra & skinny tyre perversions in there
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13 and a half stone. Shitfucks.

No more biscuits at work and I'll take the stairs from now on. WIll cut down drinking in the week and see what happens. Time for going cycling just doesn't exist, and the exercise bike isn't appealing.

I've put on a couple of kilos too since we had a baby. Need to get out running again. Cycling just takes to long to feel like I've done anything.

This is what I am now. I've lost over a stone.

Yeah, it's something they dont tell you. "Daddy belly" it was referred to at the weekend.

Trouble is, biscuits are too readily available here.

But what if you are me?

I have a note attached to my monitor from when I last weighed myself a month ago which tells me I was 15st 3lb.

I'm going to go and weigh myself this afternoon and expect to certainly be under 15 stone but hopefully hovering around 14st 7-8lb

My waist has definitely shrunk in the last month so here's hoping. I intend to be 14 stone by the BBQ and then put the lot back on in pure meat on that day.

They just put in a Costa and an M&S food outlet in the main entrance at work which isn't helping. It's mostly at home, though. Doesn't seem fair to sod off out running for an hour as soon as I get home when my wife's often been with the baby on her own all day. So instead I make us all some food and then usually have a beer. I am just a helpless victim of circumstance.

Yeah, this is the trap I seem to have fallen into.

I am down to 16.5 stone...

if I get to 15 stone Ms kov wants to chuck me out of a plane!

is it having trouble leaving the runway or something?

Something about a sky dive.. try not to encourage her at the BBQ

I would never, ever, do such a thing now you have put such a thought into my head.

Me either.

Yeah I totally will not mention the time I jumped out of a plane at all. And how it was great.

Mum's the word matey.

Ms Kov loved it she has done it once. She is tiny so was in teh air longer, I would plummet like a brick..

Um, have you been taking physics lessons from Kissyfur?

Grenade-fix.

That is what MsKov said when they were free falling.. The heavier folks passed them

I don't really want to do one.

I wish you would do one.

I would never.

Not least as one of my friends (and drummer in my then band) did so and had the parachute fail to deploy.

At least it wasn't a bizarre gardening accident.

It's true, heavy people fall faster, due to maths.

I weigh 12st 4lbs at the moment, a full stone lighter than I was at the start of this thread

Heavy people fall faster due to not parachuting on the moon

Malc

Just been for a workplace health assessment. I am 5'11'', 13st 0lbs, 19% body fat. Quite pleased with it since I haven't really made any major changes. Less fizzy drinks and sweeties during the day, mainly.

Fewer.

had a curry delivered last night, and I've beene ating biscuits at work again. Netflix and exercise bike beckons.

Good going. Well done.

I measure it out in cups

Fewer cups of fizzy drinks then.

I admire your dedication.

No more biscuits or booze in the week and 30 minutes on the exercise bike at 120 rpm or there abouts at 70% max heart rate (calculated). See what happens in a week.

4lbs lost this week, so now I have hit 12st

It seems not eating anything is the best way to lose weight, who knew!

Cycled in to work again today, and should hopefully do the same on Thursday.
If I can get into the habit of doing this on a regular basis that should help, rather than relying on me to be sufficiently motivated to go out in the evenings.

I'm back on the 5-2 diet and am going to get out running again. It did really well for me until the baby came along and it all fell by the wayside. Yesterday I only ate about 500 calories and never really even felt hungry. Fat reserves.

When can you run on the 5-2 diet? Not on the 2 days, I'd imagine, and perhaps not the days after?

I got weighed yesterday. Started out at 15st 3lb on the 1st April.

2 and a bit months of healthier eating, weightlifting 3 times a week and general abstinence later and my weight yesterday has plummeted to;

15st 1lb.

BALLS.

Still my waist has gone down as per my belt so fuck it.

Yeah, weightlifting isn't going to lose you much weight, fella.

500 cals on a couple of days and anything you like on the others isn't going to stop you doing anything on any day really. You might have a mental block and your mind will be telling you that you are too weak, but in reality your body will be fine. Assuming you are not diabetic or anything like that.

Although the 500 calorie diet is recommend for diabetes, some research said.

Mental note, don't do knee slides on all weather pitches..