It's just, if you, it's five minutes gone on YouTube, find an eclipse, how do I fix a broken chain? And now you know how to do it. And it's gonna save you waiting on the soil of the road for like an hour for a pick up in the freezing cold or rain. And depending on what climate you're in, like I've lived in Toronto and I've ridden winters over there. It's no joke. If you break a chain and you're waiting 60, 70 minutes on the side of the road in minus 15, minus 20 degree temperature. It's no joke. Things get very real, very fast. So just take responsibility. Yesterday's podcast or Tuesday's podcast was about extreme ownership. And that's what you need on this. It's extreme ownership. Don't assume someone else in the group knows how to fix a puncture. Don't assume someone knows how to fix a broken chain. Learn how to do, bulk them yourself. Mistake number one. Mistake number two, it's the unclip crash. Now, this one, I need to tell you, I need to be a little bit vulnerable and a little bit honest here. I'm gonna journey back to, oh, what, my college days, I'm gonna say it's around 2004 and I'm just getting into cycling. I've faltered a loan application. I'm of all this shit, I've nice bike. There's a story behind the bike, actually, I managed to get one of my forced racing bikes, proper racing bikes now when I got into this seriously, was a bike that Lance Armstrong actually had in the tour. I'll tell you that story in another day. Actually, no, I'll tell it real fast now. So I was getting treated by Fizzio in Limerick who had done a lot of work for Lance Armstrong back in the day, famous physio here in Ireland, Jared Hartman. And Jared had worked with Lance. Lance refused to take payment from Lance. He said, you know, I'm really happy to work on you, it's great for my profile. It's an honor. Yada, yada. And he didn't take any cash, Lance sent him couple of bikes at the end of the season to say thank you. And this was one of the bikes which I'd gotten off Gera Hartman. So I was riding, I wish I hadn't sold it. Like what was it thinking? Stupid student. So I had one of Armstrong's bikes and I was riding that as my early bike. But I rock up in all Gera Hartman's hand me down to give me including the bike that Armstrong used to use to my local club swords. I think I'm the legend. If you don't know, if you can't be the part, look the part and I certainly look the part. And I rock up to the group, there must be 30, 40 guys there. And I go to stop, I clip out my left foot because I'm not an idiot, everyone knows you have to clip out when you're getting started just before you come up to the junction or come up to stop. So I come up, I clip out my left foot, but I distribute my weight to the right side to the foot that's still clipped in and boom, down I go. It was not nice. So the on clip crash is mistake number two that I see. When you're coming up to a junction, you're coming up to a stop, needless to say, you need to rotate your heel outwards to unclip, but then you make sure to distribute your weight to the soil where you're unclipping from. Don't feel bad if you've had that crash. Every single one of us had that crash, but honestly, most of you didn't experience the intense laughter. The kind of smack group when I crashed. So that's just one of a number of stupid things I don't. I'm a very forced bin out in a group. Thankfully I've put most of those bad habits behind me. Mistake number three I see people making. It's tire choice and I'm gonna loosely use this to talk about tire choice and pressure. Grip, grip, grip. There are the three things you need to be thinking about when you're thinking about tire choice or you're thinking about pressure. Your ability doesn't mean shit if you're in hospital. Honestly a set of tires is like a torty quid. to recommend in roadman resources I think is like a tenor of a tower. What do I recommend them? Because they're grippy. What do I recommend them?
So if I go out and I ride around from here to my local coffee shop ride up in Hote which is about a 30 minute cycle away, it's a popular cycling route And I guarantee you can tell the experience of somebody on the bike how many years they are racing and training according to how appropriately they are dressed for the conditions that are prevalent today. What you need to do before you go out the door, so I'll lay out my routine. So if I know I'm going riding on Saturday morning meeting the roadman's been on Saturday morning, what I will do is Friday night I will look at the weather. I'll lay out my kit according to the weather. So if it's like 10 degrees and cloudy, I'm not going to think shorts and jersey. Unless the sun is beaming, I'm going to have my arms covered, I'm going to have my legs covered. So my decision at 10 degrees is do I want shorts and leg warmers or do I want leggings? Most of the time if it's like 10 degrees, I'm going to go with leggings. Next I'm thinking about up top, what's our base layer, do I want, what's our jersey, do I want? my next decision is do I want a jacket or do I want gile and armormers? 10 degrees I'm going with a jacket and probably gile over that and a little neck scarf. The neck scarf at the moment doubles as amazing in case you forget your mask, going into the coffee shop, you've got a neck scarf. So that's what I'm laying out the night before but then the morning of the ride because the weather forecasts doesn't always get it right or specific to your area. I bring the dogs out first thing in in the morning and I'll check out the weather. I'll just walk out and if you don't have dogs, just walk outside for 30 seconds, feel the temperature, do you need gloves or your feet going to be cold, do you need shoe covers, do you need your ears covered, what is the weather like and dress for the weather. If you're in Ireland, England, anywhere with similar type climates, shorts, jersey are not appropriate for the months, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April. We have a very narrow window in the middle of the summer on a very specific day where you can get away with shorts in a jersey. Also regardless of the weather, regardless of whether it's rain and or not, I'll always have in my back pocket or in my handlebar bag if I have it on, I'll always have a rain cape. Sharers prevalent all the time. Also, if you're stopping for a coffee and you want to get going again, you're going to be cold getting started, showing the rain cape for a couple of minutes. One of those boiling the bag, raincapes, having it in your back pocket all the time, literally the best piece of kit you'll boil for under 50 quid. Guys, that's the top 5 mistakes I see, so to recap them, it's not dressing for the weather, it's roiding without structure, it's grip on tours, it's the only clip crash and it's not having tools to fix your mechanical breakdowns on the side of the road. Guys, don't fall for those mistakes, I fell for every single one of those mistakes. Learn from mistakes but they don't have to be your mistakes, roadmen. I'll be back again tomorrow. Jatiran. Hey everybody, it's Anthony again. Really quick, I want to invite you to join arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. It's a challenge. It's a challenge called a 14 day kickstart challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at right now, this is going to be the catalyst for making you faster and making you leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guesswork out of everything. It's 14 days of training plans regardless of what your level is. There's Masters, Beginner, Advanced. There's meal plans, shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you true at all. So what I recommend you do right now is just stop everything, press pause on this audio and go to roadmansoycling.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the bio. That's roadmansoycling.com slash 14 day.