Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
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Yeah, but you've got a kick-ass trike...
This is true I should quit making stupid comments, I'm trying to fit a tiny bit of carbon somewhere through, I'm thinking a bottle cage
I don't have carbon or garmin
I doubt carbon will be up to recumbent standards for a while yet, I know there are some, but not hearing good things about them.
want and need, always a fine line isnt there:-)
Do you *really* need a carbon frame or a garmin? wherever you draw the line, it's a fairly arbitrary one. anyway, gives us all something to talk about
I don't even race and I have a power meter.
maybe if you are working towards a specific goal it could come in handy, but unless its pretty massive, think moving up a couple of CAT's in a short period and not london to Brighton, then its a nice to have rather than a need.
Beautiful. But does anyone apart from cat 1 upwards "REALLY" need to know the information that this can give you?