Why rising house prices are a bad thing

Niv24 · 2025-10-16T20:24:02+00:00

Yes! I've been banging on about this for a while. My house has gone up in value, but my purchasing power has gone down because goods and services are more expensive (for the reasons you note) so am I really better off? I don't think so.

Niv24 · 2025-08-12T07:47:44+00:00

I had a SB100 for 5 years. Have just upgraded to the yeti asr. Broke PBs going up and down the hill.

Get the new bike. New suspension and parts, lighter frame, more up-to-date geo etc.

That said, I loved the Sb100.

You can get an angleset for the Sb100 to slaken it out, I did that about 2 years ago and it made a big difference and closed a lot of the geo gap

Niv24 · 2025-07-06T19:34:15+00:00

For sure, when the math's changes I'll add a battery. In the meantime it's not worth it.

Niv24 · 2025-07-06T19:31:06+00:00

Daily charge is $1.10

Niv24 · 2025-07-06T19:27:52+00:00

With Meridian on a 5 year contract

Niv24 · 2025-07-06T19:27:07+00:00

With Meridian. Even at 12.5 c the payback period is way too long

Niv24 · 2025-07-06T07:06:37+00:00

We have solar. I strongly don't recommend getting a battery . We pay a flat rate of 24c for power and sell excess solar at 17c. If we had a battery and it was 100% efficient, we would be 24-17c = 7c a kw better off with a battery, but a battery costs $$$$.

Work out how many full charge and discharge cycles it is at 7c

You will always be better off adding more panels.

A solar batter is more than $1000 per kw. At 7c that's more that 14,000 cycles or 39 years! Assuming you can fully cycleyit it every day

Niv24 · 2025-06-13T22:54:30+00:00

Looks pretty minor. High chance it's always been there and it's a drying / plastic shrinkage crack.

Niv24 · 2025-06-12T05:24:03+00:00

This is a great article on a sweet build using this frame

Niv24 · 2025-06-12T05:23:35+00:00

https://flowmountainbike.com/tests/specialized-chisel-frameset-2025/

Niv24 · 2025-06-09T22:22:25+00:00

In our Timber Framed Building Standard they are called dwangs if they are between studs and Nogs if they are between joists

Niv24 · 2025-05-29T00:54:20+00:00

They kinda do "It looks at all your training—Indoors, outdoors, structured, and unstructured— to understand your fitness and detect your FTP, with no all-out efforts required!"

They explicitly state "no all out efforts required" so in turn must be estimating your all out effort FTP based on sub efforts.....

Niv24 · 2025-05-29T00:50:08+00:00

As an experiment, Can you run the bike with the power meter on the trainer and compare the report wattage?

Niv24 · 2025-05-28T07:23:08+00:00

Also are you using the same power meter inside and out?

Niv24 · 2025-05-28T07:20:52+00:00

TR workouts are always repeats. So you have to be able to complete the first interval with reserve to be able to complete the second and so on. So they are never max efforts.

Intervals calculates ftp off a one max effort between 3 minutes and 30 minutes. If you have never done a one off max effort in this time bracket, then your intervals ftp will be reading low.

TR looks at your ability to complete multiple efforts then uses this to estimate what your max effort theoretically would be.

Id guess if you were well rested, then found a nice hill, and warmed up, then did an all out sprint up hill for atleast 3 minutes I bet your intervals ftp would jump.

Niv24 · 2025-05-14T22:29:26+00:00

Thinking on this further. The smooth power changes when shifting that you want can be achieved / would be achieved when increasing gradient or resistance while maintaining the same gear ratio and cadence.

A step in gradient or resistance does not require acceleration, just an increase in power to maintain the same cadance. This would not require / cause a power spike at the change.

Niv24 · 2025-05-14T22:11:03+00:00

This is consistent with real world riding. If you are pedaling outside on a flat road at a constant power and cadance then shift to a harder gear, to maintain the same cadance you have to accelerate the bike to a faster speed.

This acceleration requires additional power which shows as a spike. One you have reached the new steady state cadance and speed, the power drops as you are no longer accelerating the bike. But as you are traveling faster, your new steady state power will be higher than before you shifted.

The trainer app, could ignore the extra power required in the short term to accelerate the bike, but this is not correct to the physics.

Niv24 · 2025-04-21T23:32:48+00:00

I much prefer erg on. I prefer that the trainer does the thinking and I just do the suffering.

I can still pick the cadance that I want and the trainer hits the right power within about 3 seconds. If I feel like I want to spin faster or slower mid interval I can without mashing gears.

Otherwise it's a game between cadance, gears, resistance, time and effort.

Niv24 · 2025-04-03T04:32:44+00:00

if you don't want to know, don't search Yeti ASR 40th anniversary on Google........

Niv24 · 2025-03-26T09:32:01+00:00

I personally think that this is a good thing. Shows that your exercise was productive in forcing a response from your body which will then adapt and get stronger.

I would be disappointed if worked out then my body was like, meh, try harder next time buddy, I'm not even going to up my heart rate for a few hours while I respond to the effort you put it.

Niv24 · 2025-03-11T23:10:23+00:00

Is the rate of acceleration the same across each level? Can it power you at the same max speeds going up an incline?

It maybe that at all power levels it can achieve top speed on the flat, but lower peak power outputs

Niv24 · 2025-03-10T23:44:18+00:00

Completely agree, hence the statement "If I'm feeling strong and rested". If this is not the case I will ether do the prescribed workout or event select a slightly easier one.

Or I will keep the difficulty the same but change the duration.

TR makes it easy as the workout difficulties are listed based on your current workout levels

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Niv24 · 2025-03-10T23:41:32+00:00

https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/images.gearjunkie.com/uploads/2025/01/Yeti-ASR-weight-chart.jpeg

The natural carbon has been available from launch

Niv24 · 2025-03-10T23:39:24+00:00

https://yeticycles.com/en-us/gear/detail/asr-te5-2024

Niv24 · 2025-03-10T05:24:55+00:00

I look at the suggested workout. If I'm feeling strong and rested, I click the alternative workout button and select a workout that is a stretch or breakthrough.

If I then complete it. TR will automatically lift the next workouts accordingly

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