To the woman cycling west along Millbank at 0820

Bromptoneer · June 2007

If you do plan to overtake a lowly Brompton (me), then please make sure you have enough speed to actually get past rather than trying to force me into the barriers outside the Palace of Westminster!

It was a rather silly manoeuver.

...and further along at the Lambeth Bridge roundabout, I would suggest that you never assume that the car you are undertaking when entering the roundabaout is going straight on! If the car had turned left without indicating while you were alongside, you would have been hurt.

Rant over. Sorry.

peejay78 · June 2007

"please make sure you have enough speed to actually get past"

methinks the bromptonaut doth protest too much

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domtyler · June 2007

You were forced off the road into the barriers by a little woman on a shopper bike?

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Gussio · June 2007

Did she have a basket on the front of her bike?

Archcp · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by domtyler

You were forced off the road into the barriers by a little woman on a shopper bike?

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Where does it suggest she was on a shopper?

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Bromptoneer · June 2007

"You were forced off the road into the barriers by a little woman on a shopper bike?"

The bike was quite nice actually - more in the style of a lightweight tourer.

The location was a pinch point where there is barely room for one bike and a car, so two bikes side by side is definitely not a good idea.

It's not a area where I would try to overtake.

" Did she have a basket on the front of her bike?"

She had a rucksack on, so there was no need for a shopping bag at the front.

I don't have a shopping bag either.

"methinks the bromptonaut doth protest too much"

Not at all.

graham_g · June 2007

You guys are terrible - no need for Brompton p**s taking! (Was it an old Granny?)

Bromptoneer · June 2007

"(Was it an old Granny?)"

No, SHE wasn't, and the way she was cycling she won't get to be one either.

peejay78 · June 2007

did she only have one leg and no hands, just weird contraptions and a series of pulleys that enable her to operate the brakes?

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graham_g · June 2007

Only joshing, I do apologise. I got overtaken by a Brompton last year, was very impressed with the guys full on aero position with his chin down on the bars.

Bromptoneer · June 2007

"did she only have one leg and no hands, just weird contraptions and a series of pulleys that enable her to operate the brakes?"

You've come across her in London as well then?

Bromptoneer · June 2007

" Only joshing, I do apologise."

No probs Graham. I admit that I do tend to go flat out on my ride from Waterloo Stn to Vauxhall Bridge. It's only a 8 min ride, so I do try to get warmed up in that short time.

I must say that if you get a gust of headwind on the Brompy you don't half suffer, and I always seem to get it halfway down Millbank.

Tynancp · June 2007

did she have a nice arse?

overtaken by a girl, sigh

some primary/dominant position lectures fro you I fear

Cab · June 2007

It is the general rule, if you're overtaking then make sure you're actually able to go faster than the vehicle you're passing, don't pass someone and then hold them up, and don't just sit there on their flank. All the same, best to let 'em go when they do that and go back around the outside of them when they (inevitably) start to flag.

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Bromptoneer · June 2007

I quite agree Cab.

That's exactly what I did and then caught her up by Millbank Tower after not wanting to make a suicidal dash across the Lambeth Bridge roundabout.

peejay78 · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Bromptoneer

"did she only have one leg and no hands, just weird contraptions and a series of pulleys that enable her to operate the brakes?"

You've come across her in London as well then?

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she overtook me so i used a handy roadsign to stove her face in.

sometimes i get overtaken by people who don't realise i'm slowing for the lights, or because there's a huge articulated death on wheels in front.

slow and steady wins the race, i guess.

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rothbook · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> You've come across her in London as well then? <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Filth!

Modz plz delete.

dubnobass · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Bromptoneer
I must say that if you get a gust of headwind on the Brompy you don't half suffer, and I always seem to get it halfway down Millbank.
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Ah, that gust of wind halfway down Millbank.. it's like an old friend that says "hello!" every day.
I don't think you suffer any less on a non-Brompton. Sometimes I feel like I could get off and walk.
Apparently there used to be windmills along that stretch of the river, a couple of hundred years ago.

If I had a baby elephant, I'd re-enact THAT scene from Blue Peter, with John Noakes, on a daily basis. Wouldn't you? "Ooh, gerroff me foot!"

ChrisLS · June 2007

...overtaken...I dream of being overtaken...there's only me ploughing back and forth on my route, and the council have built me my very own cycle path...just for me

Archcp · June 2007

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<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Bromptoneer
I must say that if you get a gust of headwind on the Brompy you don't half suffer, and I always seem to get it halfway down Millbank.
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Ah, that gust of wind halfway down Millbank.. it's like an old friend that says "hello!" every day.
I don't think you suffer any less on a non-Brompton. Sometimes I feel like I could get off and walk.
Apparently there used to be windmills along that stretch of the river, a couple of hundred years ago.
If I had a baby elephant, I'd re-enact THAT scene from Blue Peter, with John Noakes, on a daily basis. Wouldn't you? "Ooh, gerroff me foot!"
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The clue being in the name, I guess...[;)]

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domtyler · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Arch
<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by dubnobass
<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Bromptoneer
I must say that if you get a gust of headwind on the Brompy you don't half suffer, and I always seem to get it halfway down Millbank.
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Ah, that gust of wind halfway down Millbank.. it's like an old friend that says "hello!" every day.
I don't think you suffer any less on a non-Brompton. Sometimes I feel like I could get off and walk.
Apparently there used to be windmills along that stretch of the river, a couple of hundred years ago.
If I had a baby elephant, I'd re-enact THAT scene from Blue Peter, with John Noakes, on a daily basis. Wouldn't you? "Ooh, gerroff me foot!"
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The clue being in the name, I guess...[;)]

If I had a baby elephant, it could help me clean the car. If I had a car.
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Oooo you're sharp today Arch. You are on fire girl! [:D]

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Archcp · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by domtyler

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Arch

The clue being in the name, I guess...[;)]

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Oooo you're sharp today Arch. You are on fire girl! [:D]

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No, no, that was yesterday when I was running a temperature, Today, I'm just snotty.

You might be surprised though, how often people fail to connect place names with historic events/uses etc...

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Jacomus-rides-Gen · June 2007

I think Millbank actually suffers from BDOH if we look at cyclo-math

http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/nelson/cyclomath.html#top

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Totalnewbie · June 2007

I never knew that was why it was called that and I've lived in London all me life, guv'nor...

I knew Horseferry Rd close by was called that because of the, er, horse ferry that used to be at the end before Lambeth bridge was...

And there still is a windmill further sarf, in Brixton.

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peejay78 · June 2007

aparently there used to be gropec**t lane, on account of the whores in the middle ages.

(a history of london, stephen inwood and roy porter)

living on roman road leads me to believe there may have been a roman road here once.

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Archcp · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by peejay78

aparently there used to be gropec**t lane, on account of the whores in the middle ages.

(a history of london, stephen inwood and roy porter)

living on roman road leads me to believe there may have been a roman road here once.

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Yup, there used to be one of those in York, it got changed at some stage to Grape Lane.

And just opposite it, is Hornpot Lane, but that's nothing rude, it's because there was a workshop there that processed cattle horn as a material...

I've never looked up the derivation of Ogleforth... I ought to, really, as I live on it!

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Origamist · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">aparently there used to be gropec**t lane, on account of the whores in the middle ages.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

A man in Lendal Cellers told me there used to be a lane with the same name in York, and it is now bowdlerized as Grape Lane! Amazing what you can learn in a pub, from a drunk...

Folders

Edit: Far too slow, I should have guessed a denizen of York would beat me to it...

peejay78 · June 2007

and knightriders street - on account of the route the knights would use to get out through ludgate.

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Archcp · June 2007

[:)] Sorry!

Found this about my street..

"The street is thought to be a Scandinavian name which means 'the ford haunted by an owl'. It may alternatively have belonged to someone called Ugel"

I can't say I've heard many owls about the place... It was apparently formerly 'Uggelforth'.

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thereisnospooncp · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by peejay78

and knightriders street - on account of the route the knights would use to get out through ludgate.

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Nah, it's called that because the Hoffmestier rides up and down in KITT.

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dubnobass · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Arch
The clue being in the name, I guess...[;)]
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D'oh!! I be stoopid.

Wikipedia reckons that 'it is possible that the street known as Gropec**te Lane is now known as Threadneedle Street'

Tee hee!

If I had a baby elephant, I'd re-enact THAT scene from Blue Peter, with John Noakes, on a daily basis. Wouldn't you? "Ooh, gerroff me foot!"

To the woman cycling west along Millbank at 0820

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