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Category: Bmx Racing

  • Specialized Speedzone Sport Wireless Computer

    This year started with a lot of gym sessions, mostly legs and back but pretty much all round. I also had a some track time in wind and rain, the track in Kungsbacka is holding up really nice even though it’s January and people still showing up at practice, that is awesome.

    I’ve been testing a bike computer for a while now, I bought the Specialized Speedzone Sport Wireless Computer. This one is basic and straight forward. You got Speed, Maximum Speed, Average Speed, Odometer, Trip Meter and Low Battery Indicator. The only thing I am interested in for now is the maximum speed so I can check which part of the track I achieve the highest speed and for that purpose, this one is perfect. As you see on the picture I mounted the computer on the seat tube upside down instead of on the handlebar as they say it should be, for this I had to glue on a extra bracket on the computer holder. I did this ‘cause I wanted it as hidden as possible and when I sit on the bike it’s easy to just bend down or pull upp the bike and see the numbers. The sensor that measure the speed I mounted on the seat stay (you attach a magnet to a spoke that spins by the sensor and that’s where the magic happens).

    The speedzone sport wireless computer have been doing its job for me but there is one thing that irritates me a little bit, you can’t (what I have found?) zero/reset one specific thing for example Maximum Speed, I want to reset this after each lap and still remain the Trip Meter numbers so I can see how long I ride each practice. This seems to be impossible ’cause the reset is on all functions, except the Odometer and that is a little bit weird in my mind.

  • Took home the total win and the gold plate in the Swedish Cup

    Last day of the year. A year with races and hard crashes. A year when I got the happy felling of winning some races and the most awesome of all to take home the total win and the gold plate in the Swedish Cup, 30+ bmx cruiser class. I hope next year will be as nice as this. The competition will be much harder next year so it’s going to be awesome.

    See you tomorrow and happy new year!

  • Good things and bad things

    Good thing is that training feels better and better of track and the bad thing is that my friend Fredrik crashed at training today and went to the hospital in an ambulance. I got a message from him later to day and he said he was ok, something with his ribs and his pinky had a fracture. Hope you heal quick buddy!

  • Got some laps done in the rain today!

    Got some laps done in the rain today! Already at the warm up lap I felt that my legs were exhausted so this session was kinda rough.

  • Street and ramp session with Fredrik, Johan and Hannes

    Today I had a awesome street/ramp session with Fredrik, Johan and Hannes in “berget”, a skatepark here in Gothenburg. Second time I’m trying to ride a cruiser in the ramps but the first time with the Standard 125-RC 24 frame and it felt really awesome, damn I love it.

    This week also included some great gym sessions, legs and back as usual, hep!

  • Snowy days and ice track

    Winter is here… Bmx training has changed to gym sessions. Yesterday we went to the track and rid between the ice spots and it was kinda fun but I hope it will melt until Thursday.

  • Warrior Blend

    The storm Sven is here in Sweden with strong winds and snow, so the bmx training turned to a gym session with a sip of Warrior Blend!

  • Everything is running smoothly now

    This week i’ve just been riding, riding and working out, everything is running smoothly now practice wise.

    Some thoughts have been running through my mind lately though, I’ve been thinking of my wheels and how to use them. Some say that I should use them as my race wheels for competitions and use my old ones for training and some just tell me to ride them as usual. I’ve had a hard time to decide what to do. I feel that the differences between the sets are so big that changing will affect my training a lot. Yes I could buy an extra set of the Answer wheels, that would be the best of cause, but that’s too expensive and out of budget…

    Conclusion: I think that in my case when I have two wheel sets that really are different from each other, changing to the better set just on race day will affect my riding a lot because everything I’ve been working on at training will not be the same and as precise and the self esteem on the bike will be lower. So for now I will use my new wheel set both on training and on races until I can afford to buy an extra set in same standard.

  • Focusing on bike handle and technique

    I’ve had four training sessions at the track this week. Because of my new awesome Answer wheels I’ve been focusing on bike handle and technique the three last session! The bike is so much lighter now and it’s really noticeable so it feels like a new bike, a bike that I love!