Ok, today was the Glasgow to Edinburgh run with 'pedal for Scotland' I wasn't doing the run but had arranged to meet a young chap and his sister when they reached the halfway point which is close to my home. Now, there was a reason we'd set up this meeting. He'd recently beat a Strava time of mine and we'd decided to see who was best.
We met up and headed into Linlithgow and stopped at the feeding station. It was here I decided that cheating might be my best bet. So, while he and his sister were off getting some food I took of my speed cut out.
So, we set off. Now, before we get to the strava segment there's a shorter hill which starts from a set of traffic lights under the railway bridge. I'd been keeping the power turned down up until this point but went to level 5 as we stopped at the lights.
There were dozens of bikes at the lights and as they went to green we went under the bridge. As it was crowded we were slow at first, once clear of the bridge the 'proper' cyclists started jockeying for position.
I was getting impatient and decide to give the Typhoon its head. I went wide and said in a loud voice. "Come on youngster, it's not even a real hill" the Typhoon took off up the hill and left everyone way behind. When I got clear I looked back, no-one was catching me so I slowed so my two friends could catch me.
As he caught up he laughed and said, "you've been rumbled" when I had shot off a couple of 'proper cyclists' had tried to come after me.one said to the other. "He MUST be on an electric bike. So I left it without the cut off speed for the next 12 miles.
It's childish I know but hey!
As to our challenge, it was a dead heat on strava, which, considering I had got rid of the cut off speed meant he did very well.
Having no cut off speed for 12 miles or so wasn't too heavy on the battery I did 26 miles before I changed it and it wasn't dead at that point but I thought I'd give it a break.
No doubt someone will now post telling me I'm a major criminal.
We met up and headed into Linlithgow and stopped at the feeding station. It was here I decided that cheating might be my best bet. So, while he and his sister were off getting some food I took of my speed cut out.
So, we set off. Now, before we get to the strava segment there's a shorter hill which starts from a set of traffic lights under the railway bridge. I'd been keeping the power turned down up until this point but went to level 5 as we stopped at the lights.
There were dozens of bikes at the lights and as they went to green we went under the bridge. As it was crowded we were slow at first, once clear of the bridge the 'proper' cyclists started jockeying for position.
I was getting impatient and decide to give the Typhoon its head. I went wide and said in a loud voice. "Come on youngster, it's not even a real hill" the Typhoon took off up the hill and left everyone way behind. When I got clear I looked back, no-one was catching me so I slowed so my two friends could catch me.
As he caught up he laughed and said, "you've been rumbled" when I had shot off a couple of 'proper cyclists' had tried to come after me.one said to the other. "He MUST be on an electric bike. So I left it without the cut off speed for the next 12 miles.
It's childish I know but hey!
As to our challenge, it was a dead heat on strava, which, considering I had got rid of the cut off speed meant he did very well.
Having no cut off speed for 12 miles or so wasn't too heavy on the battery I did 26 miles before I changed it and it wasn't dead at that point but I thought I'd give it a break.
No doubt someone will now post telling me I'm a major criminal.
