100km Chiltern Ride | UK roads are terrible

When the sun shines you have to go out on your bike. So since doing ride London and then the local chain gang ive been having a bit of trouble with the BB86 bottom bracket. If you listen closely you can hear it almost all the time.
I have now fixed this and the bike is back to being perfect again and absolutely no noise- more on that in the next video!
Great to meet up and ride with some local mates- a solid 100km ride ended up being more of a cafe ride after a few flats. Hit me up if you want route for the Chilterns.
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good morning it is Sunday June 2nd so welcome to June we’ve made it it’s a beautiful morning early in the morning 8:00 a.m. I’m going to go meet up with some friends we’re going for a three-man ride 100K I have charged my batteries sort out my computer connecting it to my power meter I put sealant in my tires I’ve done everything I hope that I need to do it’s a lot guys cycling is a lot nowadays welcome back to the wli let’s [Music] [Music] roll so I met these boys doing ride London last year we were cycling along turns out we lived not too far from one another Scott is a weapon on the bike and he puts down such good numbers um he’s a w bomb slightly bigger Rider I think he’s kind of like 90 95 kg so on the flats he tears it up we haven’t had a chance to ride together this year but I’ve been looking at his straa and a lot of his rides just holding some very steady very high Watts so I looking forward to linking up with him again because he hasn’t seen me for about maybe 8 months and it’ll be a good chance just to ask him whether he thinks I got any better because that’s actually quite nice anyway we got 100K out through the Chilton and a few little Hills the only other thing to add is after ride London and then doing the Chain Gang I am getting a little bit of squeaking from my bottom bracket bb86 bottom bracket I am going to troubleshoot that when I get home and see if I can fix it these guys like to ride in one shot and then grab a coffee so it’s not a coffee ride it’s a coffee after the ride see you on the other side so this is where we’re meeting outside the lion uh in beckfield when did cycling become about so much stuff so obviously I’m slightly different being a bit of a YouTuber you know two GoPros to charge two sham batteries to charge heart rate monitor to charge head unit to charge got to make sure your levers are charged um you know I had to sort out my seat my bottom bracket is squeaking it’s a lot sometimes it is a bit overwhelming but you know the pitfalls of Technology are quite simply that you have to you have to keep them up but I you know someone said the you know Mechanicals group sets for the win in one of my comments and and sometimes you just have to agree with that but you know seal it in the tubes that that or sealant in your tires that kind of stuff you got top that up it’s a lot guys cycling has become an absolute lot and I’m I’m quite you know I wasn’t an offici back in the day I’m quite new to it so I’m trying to stay on top of it but yes right when the boys get here out for a smash [Music] oh what a day huh we have a ride later this summer which is 100 MERS that Scott pulls a group together for in many senses don’t you kind of give throw the throw the call out to people invite anyone yeah who rides basically yeah that’s it it’s the Marlo red kite which is a local Cycling group uh 100 mile and I think we’re going to aim for like a 4-Hour ride time right like aim for a 4our pace but with a few stops is yeah four and a bit I think yeah yeah with a few Rolling Hills well organized yeah here comes right morning [Music] morning now we’re going to we’re going to keep um keep the tradition going with this happened last time this is the only second time it’s only yeah and and that there was that time that I got a flat remember that going up that top of that hill and Scott changed my Che for me ly’s got everything he needs uh he’s running tubeless have you you going to try and put a plug in if it’s only a small hole then I’d leave it for a bit that’s fine though isn’t it cuz you’re not trying to put air in it you’re just trying to put a plug in but that’s why it was leaking cuz I didn’t have the tube in there oh canister in there so that is a that’s a CO2 thing with a extend with a plug on it as well so we we just put we just put plug in ly turn that down so we’re going to leave we’re going to wait here for a couple of minutes the classic we also need to get lyy to change his tires he’s got a few Bolding spots we’re not Jud sorry that was so judgy mate that was Sor haven’t even rid this bike yeah it is fun isn’t it cuz yeah but you only really kind of like start taking care of your bik when you get it back out for the summer again and it’s the first of June it feels like we haven’t so we put plug in funny enough this is exactly what I had to do last time I went riding with Lloyd we had had the same issue we got a little plug in it he put in I always get really kind of scared of putting plugs in do you want the electronic one [Music] nice thing about riding with these boys is we always like to go up into the Chilton so we get a few Hills which I quite enjoy usually when I’m on my own or with the Chain Gang it’s all dead flat or Reason toly flat lucky to live in Buckingham where the hills nice and rolling but good little workout but look how gorgeous today is so nice and it feels really nice um to meet up with these boys again I do love the connections you make through cycling and each group have a different vibe today is lovely I will say that thanks boys for in inviting me [Music] along nice work boy on how’s that feel nothing too [Music] heavy hold [Music] left what what a day what a morning we’re just rolling down into Henley now it is so nice to get out and we’re not pushing too hard but it’s definitely not like an easy ride we have our moments which is quite [Music] nice we just went through a horrible patch of kind of farm runoff on the road like loads of water loads of yeah we’re good thank you as nice a day as it is I just think with all the bad weather the roads in some places in the countryside got so much water run off as there’s loads of like slate like tiny little bits of slate in the soil washed onto the road we have picked up our second flat which is Scott so I think we’ll probably end up taking a bit of a shortcut to get back to the boys we got the kids to get back to but I think it’s a very typical atypical way to do a Sunday ride you know everyone’s got time constraints but it’s not it’s not so bad on a Sunday in bright you know blue skies very different on a Sunday when it’s hammering with rain be Max I am the common denominator here this is our fourth puncher riding together we’ve only ridden five times guys so looks like the boys might cut it a little bit short and if they do I’ll probably duck off and G into a Windsor Loop add a few miles on quite enjoying it it’s too nice a day not to back on the road Scott is very dialed with fixing his wheel he’s um he’s running tubes so you know pull a tube out whack a tube in done oh no more punct pleas this does seem like the state of the UK roads at the moment with the winter that we’ve had so Scotty boy uh with the punctures and the slowdowns we had today has to get back so he’s taking a little shortcut we are now in Henley which is one of my favorite places to cycle through it’s so [Music] gorgeous not being a like self indulgent ass lyy but do you think my cycling’s come on in the year that you’ve known me oh yeah 100% 100% the few rides we’ve gone when I got dropped coming into Henley that time when I tried to take the front with the boys and then I just got melted off the back I warn yeah you did I say I always St but I think think I’d hold those groups a lot better now around and find out that is My Philosophy a lot of the time I get shouted out on the internet for it but I do feel like you know I kind of met you boys reasonably early on in my cycling escapades you know that ride London where I didn’t know what I was doing just jumped in did it on my own with met you guys and then we did a few rides last summer um but I do feel like I’ve come a t like a real long way oh yeah definitely right consistency you look how many miles you probably put in the think back there’s no secret is there no putting the hard work in and the miles in and uh you’ll get the results [Music] Vell life baby so Scott’s bail cuz he needs to get back for the fam and our two punctures have slowed us a little bit down but look how busy it is here well not busy but like look at the culture one of the truly great spots in uh South Buck just outside Henley grab that so something you might not know is if you ever come to V life they have the V life challenge which is a local Loop that you can do and dive onto the leader board and you get some there’s some absolutely Wicked names on this uh Harvey Weinberger like some absolute local Legends fastest time is 24 minutes 42 seconds so it’s worth doing they will give you a free coffee if you if you end up top of the list right we’re ready to go an update as I come into 95k k for the morning um Sean his legs have taken a bit of a hit so we’ve settled on the pace Scott’s gone back a different way I’m going do one last climb and loop back round for a solo ride back home but it’s been a glorious really nice way to start a Sunday morning one more climb to go then I’ll leave the boys to it as they head [Music] home so the boys are off up to beckfield I’ve taken a little tour off just hit 100K uh 58k to get home food and then I probably need to go for a run cuz I have a UTMB 100 K Ultra race in tenor next weekend that I probably haven’t done enough training for right guys we’re going to leave this one here thanks so much for joining in again hopefully you know these rides for me I want to do the red kite 100 Miler which will be a pace line for 100 miles through the Chilton first weekend of September um look it up if you want to come join and that’s what I’m kind of using these rides to train for amongst other things but that’ll be an awesome ride thanks so much for joining in we’ll be doing the fast pace group on Tuesday night and I will see you on another one soon