carpediemracing 

SRMs are rock solid if the batteries are good. I'd get it, yes.

My SRM tale:

I bought two wired SRMs. One came on a closeout bike (Cannondale Team Replica with an SI SRM). The PCV battery was dead when I got the bike, the cranks lasted for a year or so. SRM replaced the PCV battery under warranty. Since then the PCV battery died again (I haven't replaced it, it's sitting on my bench, and at some point in use the waterproof screen cracked slightly) and I've replaced the crank battery once.

I bought a second SRM set off of eBay, also SI. "Just back from SRM, not used." When I got it the crank battery was dead, the PCV was fine. I replaced the crank battery and it's my spare now (will be going on the frame I just got back from Tsunami). I'm using the PCV off this one.

For the first the bike came with the chainstay mount. I bought a second one, then a BB, then another BB (currently in use). I bought one extra BB mount in all this, it's the last spare I have.

I also bought three total extra mounts (lost 1 of those). I also lost one original mount (off the bike).

waterrockets 

One note, RX found that wired SRMs won't fit on our Fujis because of the huge waterrockets-proof bottom bracket shell.

ridethecliche

I had a wired one that I was given as a gift. Thing was rock solid. I sent it back to srm when i got it for new batteries, but it worked for almost 2 years without new ones after that. I gave it to a friend after I stopped racing because he was kicking ass and taking names and I wanted to see his numbers.

Recovery is coming along. My mom came up for a couple of days so that's solid. I think I can take a shower today so I'm looking forward to that.


Can't you extend the mounts with zip ties? I thought I made mine work that way on my caad9 because i wanted to place it differently.

GirlAnachronism

I've posted here a bit about the breathing problems I've had this season, and I finally got a diagnosis last week, and since there were some questions in the race report thread, I thought I'd share an update. I'm pretty much done racing for right now, and maybe forever, I think, but oh well. At least it's not cancer!

I thought it was asthma for the first two months or so (this popped up in March). I tried many many inhalers, and combinations of inhalers, to no avail. Then I did an exercise test and we found that it was actually some sort of physical obstruction in my throat. That took quite a bit of troubleshooting to track down. Last week I found out that I have something called exercise-induced laryngomalacia. The regular (non EI) form is fairly common in infants, and fairly rare in adults. Basically something in my larynx is collapsing into my airway, and blocking it, every time I breathe hard. There's some medicine that may or may not provide some sort of relief, but is unlikely to actually treat it, or get me back to 100%. Respiratory retraining exercises may also be helpful, though again, they won't treat the problem. I don't know why I suddenly developed this now, or if it will ever go away. My doctor mentioned something about there potentially being a surgical option at some point, but I don't know the details of that yet.

It feels like trying to train and race while breathing through a straw, or with my mouth closed. I can do it, I just have to be REALLY careful about when and where I use my efforts, and it takes me forever to recover from them. Two days ago I tried to do a 10' threshold interval and had to pull over to the side of the road after 5 minutes because I was so out of breath I was choking. Everyone can hear me wheezing in races. It's starting to affect my voice and making it difficult for me to talk the day after a hard workout or race. This sport is hard enough already when I have full use of my airway--I've been just keeping on with keeping on this year while I try to figure it out, but going from where I was getting to be pretty good to being pretty mediocre has been tough. I'm not sure if racing is something I want to, or even can, keep pursuing, or if it's time to do something else with my time.

jwible

The only info I can find points to July 21st, of course now that I look at my calendar I'm out of town that weekend. Grrrr. Family commitments.... But the Asheville club that hosts he event doesn't have anything up on their site about it yet. Kinda late in the game. Not sure if it's going to happen or not. Would love to try that last climb on the RR just to do it.


Quiet you. Don't make me send a senior citizen strip o gram with 'he loves to be tickled below the rib cage' as the special treat.

jwible

Dang GA! Sorry to hear that.

Would triathlons be a viable training goal? Mostly if not all sub threshold work...

GirlAnachronism

Honestly, I don't think I could run with my breathing like this. It's been progressing pretty rapidly, and I don't think I've seen the end of it yet.

I'm kind of sneaking through crits with smarts and my residual high threshold, but I couldn't go do a TT right now.

substructure

I may be going to the French Broad RR. I've done it a few times. Always thought I was feeling great until the real skinny guys jump up the climb like I was pinned to the road.

rkwaki

That's the issue I have. Next year at 170-175 maybe, this year at 185-190 no way.

valygrl

Oh GA. That's awful. I'm so sorry. Crossing my fingers the find a treatment for you.

tombailey

+1

topflightpro

French Broad is July 20th through the 22nd, according to the Carolina Cycling Assoc. racing calendar.

I will not be there.

gsteinb

Become queen of the fondos. It's the future of the sport I'm told.

Waiting here to be taken in for surgery.

waterrockets 

We need RX to elaborate, but I believe it pushes the sensor outside the radius where it could communicate with the crank. It's got protrusions on the bottom. Not sure what bike rkwaki rides, but just wanted to point it out:

rkwaki

Right now I am on a BMC with standard bottom bracket.

Racer Ex 

It wasn't a sensor issue. The wired unit cranks have a smaller radius inner circle for the electronics; the Fuji and some other BB30 type BB's have too much meat in the BB area, you can't put the crank flush against the BB bearing. Shimming was out of the question because it would leave too little engagement on the non-driveside splines.

The wireless have a bigger ID, issue solved.

shovelhd

GA.

****.

I don't know what else to say.

Racer Ex 

Ayup. I'd be inclined to seek out a specialist or two in the field though.

rbart4506

I'm with RacerX on this one...Second opinion for sure...

Hope everything works out...

Homebrew01

GA, sorry to hear it. I hope it turns out to be a simpler issue.

Enthalpic

Surgery appears to be an option (laser epiglottoplasty, supraglottoplasty). You are young and enjoy active living, I say aggressively treat instead of resorting to a sedentary lifestyle.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7598366
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15758541

merlinextraligh

I just learned that there's a similar issue with Quarq Cinqo Saturns and Williers (and other BB386 bb's)

Quarq is testing their new Quarq Red power meter with a Willier frame this week.

This could f' up my plans for a new Willier Zero7.

merlinextraligh

GA,

Sorry to hear that. One more vote for exploring this with a sceond opinion/ surgical options.

GirlAnachronism

Thanks guys. Believe me, I've been aggressively pursuing every option have, and have been getting great care through Columbia. I am absolutely miserable and this has been taking a huge toll on not just my race season (which is a wash at this point) but my quality of life too. We only even figured out what it was last week. I have an email into my ENT doctor asking about the surgery, and if it might even be feasible to just do it before I leave NYC.

On a lighter note, getting the diagnosis was pretty funny. The ENT doctor told me that she wanted to put the camera in my throat while I was experiencing the symptoms, so she wanted me to try and trigger it. There was no treadmill or bike in the office, so she said "sorry about the flip flops," then asked me to go run and up and down the stairs. It turns out that "the stairs" are not an enclosed stairwell, but just an open staircase in the middle of this fancy medical office. So there I am, basically running stadiums in my mini skirt and bare feet, trying to induce what sounds like an awful asthma attack while some very confused receptionists keep stopping me to ask if "I'm sure the doctor told me to do this?"

shovelhd

Wow. They couldn't have taken you to a cardiologist's office? They usually have a stress test room with a treadmill.

While we're talking about medical issues, everyone think good thoughts for gsteinb as he is under the knife this afternoon.