Silly commuting racing

2wheelzgood

Wax cos it lasts longer?

You guys will be sorry when he whips past you and quotes "aero" as a key factor of speed!

Greg T

victor ludorum wrote:

No, he'll be in a cubicle immac-ing and polishing his Campag Shamal Ultras in silver... :twisted:

I liked him - he had a strong racing attitude and cojones grande that he may or may not have shaved....

So that's a vaild question then - If you are of that FCN - do you stop just above the bottom of the shorts or are you - ahem - smooth up to your - belt?

Is anyone going to pop onto the roadie forum and ask or is it very hush hush?

victor ludorum

I reckon you would probably leave your bits avec pubes otherwise the stubbly friction would become unbearable during a ride. You could end up with a bush fire...

snooks

While I'd love to watch the shiny silky legs of Greg66 go streaking by the embankment, I'm off home and I'll be a scalping on the way.

Good weekend fellow Gamers, it's a War Zone out there...Enjoy it! :twisted:

cntl

A roadie in full gear overtook me recently, on my new single speed roadie. (he had full gear and the like). I had plenty of energy, but just could not spin fast enough!

2wheelzgood

I feel the pain cntl.. it's not cos you're physically done..tis the price we pay for "looking" so fast dude.. blow em away on hills 8)

and yet I've seen them (roadies with gears) smile when keeping up with me thinking they are superior! :roll:

victor ludorum

Greg T wrote:

I liked him - he had a strong racing attitude and cojones grande that he may or may not have shaved....

I'm just jealous because he's got a Cervelo...

jedster

My bike seems to have provoked a little distaste here to which I would say
a) you should see the duct tape holding the mudguards on
b) I know fear when I smell it

On the other hand, she was on an Orbea Orca, had a Giro Ionos lid, was lycra'd to the nines and had on a pair of sidis that probably cost more than my wheels. She looked like Victoria Pendleton's training partner. I felt quietly pleased that I took the scalp, but should I be ashamed?

Ashamed? No. She was a worthy target.

Plus I'm awed by your commitment to The Game. Faced with that provocation I think I might have sat on her wheel for a good while to admire the scenary and ponder my options. That would have been a little grubby. You just left her in the dust. That's pure competitive spirit.

J

Bassjunkieuk

Seems my notifications for replies had gone pete tong, so I hadn't realized there was new posts! Just sat through 3 pages of trying to stiffle my laughs in a VERY quiet office........

On the subject of scalping zones I think most of the bridges over the thames with bus lanes are quite good, Waterlook and London Bridge being the two I use most of the time usually provide rich pickings! Also the A23 from Brixton to Croydon provides miles of bus lanes (with plenty of lights) to pickup points. It also has a fun little hill as you come towards the common before the train station (south bound) which means you can get a good dose of speed up :-)

Whilst I'm here, is anyone else doing this Capital to Coast ride like me on the 13th and would it be unfair to hunt on it, 60 miles of country lanes could result in hundreds of points :twisted:

greg66_tri_v2.0

You summoned me, insects?

victor ludorum wrote:

No, he'll be in a cubicle immac-ing and polishing his Campag Shamal Ultras in silver... :twisted:

Well, it seems that we have a morlock who has displayed some rudimentary internet skills. Well done, squit. One more thing to look out for as I whip past you.

I almost feel sorry for you all, puzzling over the wonderment of hairless legs, dazzled by the image of an Adonis before you. I can see that they will some some posters here who be unable to resist their urges to find out what lies beneath their carpet covered legs this weekend. I see blood and tears in their futures, at home as well as on the road.

Beware. The hour is approaching... :twisted:

cjcp

Gentlemen,

I've not laughed so much in one day for a long time.

Anyway, down to business. I'll be leaving the office shortly. I'll be moving quickly.

Ride safe.

snooks

Greg66 wrote:

You summoned me, insects?

victor ludorum wrote:

No, he'll be in a cubicle immac-ing and polishing his Campag Shamal Ultras in silver... :twisted:

Well, it seems that we have a morlock who has displayed some rudimentary internet skills. Well done, squit. One more thing to look out for as I whip past you.

I almost feel sorry for you all, puzzling over the wonderment of hairless legs, dazzled by the image of an Adonis before you. I can see that they will some some posters here who be unable to resist their urges to find out what lies beneath their carpet covered legs this weekend. I see blood and tears in their futures, at home as well as on the road.

Beware. The hour is approaching... :twisted:

Disillusioned, but amusing none the less

spursn17

Greg T wrote:

You don't need to tell me - I can't get off this moving train and am now living in fear.

I had to drop a dude on a Boardman straight barred hybrid type thing this morning and thought my eyeballs were boiling........

Slicked MTB?

It could've been me! (Embankment Stn-Tower hill). If it was I was suffering too (just finished a night shift).

As a noob on here I know I'm a bit of a bottom feeder, but how about changing the +/- modifiers to an a/b/c/d etc sub-classification? I am an FCN8, if I was on SPD's maybe I would be an FCN8a, ordinary shoes 8b, team shirt 8c, or with panniers an 8d?

That would give someone like me a chance to move up the food chain.

snooks

spursn17 wrote:

As a noob on here I know I'm a bit of a bottom feeder, but how about changing the +/- modifiers to an a/b/c/d etc sub-classification? I am an FCN8, if I was on SPD's maybe I would be an FCN8a, ordinary shoes 8b, team shirt 8c, or with panniers an 8d?

That would give someone like me a chance to move up the food chain.

But then if I (on a slicked MTB) were to bag ANY hybrid I'd get a point....Even if he or she is a tube shy gutter wobbler in a suit - i.e non cycling clothes with flat pedals...under your a,b,c idea you'd still get a point...but you know you might be riding what is a lower food chain bike, but your abilities are higher up the food chain than theirs, so it's not really much or a scalp...like racing a Porsche against a Metro. Not really in the spirit of The Game

You can move up, by picking the minus numbers. Wear wrap arounds, a TDF Jersey, don't take a bag and already you're a hairy roadie....get some aerobars (you'll look lovely, trust me!!) and you'll be a single speeder, and have to start bagging the Top Guns for points

Or you could go the other way, grow a beard, get an orange lollypop and ride in the buff, and suddenly you could overtake a snail and get a point for it!!

Rules is Rules...and I've edited them loads already, and the a,b,c think would my my little mtb brain hurt, and it's Friday night and I'm off to the pub!

sc999cs

If you happened to take a folding bike on a train, and looked out of the window and saw the train go past a roadie that wouldn't count would it?

It's not fair, my commute just isn't far enough and I'm out in the sticks. I'm lucky to even see another cyclist

Steve C

2wheelzgood

So I was anticipating Greg's (the ladyshaver Greg) post about how mony motorbikes he bagged.. shame. No show!

So i was out on my motorbike this eve and pasted several bikes coming the other way but I totted their FCN up nonetheless.

Then I overtook a shaved roadie (like a lady although they were growing back and needed a re-wax I reckon) with team colours on, possibly other modifiers.. I don't think it's fair to -1 a team ladyshaver for having no rucksack tho.
Anyway he was on the same FCN as me and my 90bhp yamaha.. the shame! 8)

I've just found some fixed gear stylish folk in Leeds http://fixedgearleeds.blogspot.com/ made the mistake of joiing the facebook site before seeing their fixie awesome (showoffs). I really wanna lay the smackdown but they look well skilld. crap. luckily not too many of em about and I've never spotted them, but I surely wouldn't loos epoints from the passing me.
They have caps and can wheelie and hop road fixies.through ponds!

m0scs

I have been reading all the posts on this topic and laughing out loud.

I dont commute to work but when Im out on my bike Im always on the prowl for prey higher up the food chain. I have also entered myself in charity events to burn off the opposition doing the Norwich 50 a few weeks ago, when many a road biker was left in my wake.

Must get myself down to Embankment to join in the fun one morning.

See you out there.

As im new to the FCN can you grade me please

Spec Epic Comp full sus with lockout on both ends
Spec Nimbus tyes/ commuter use
Giro Xen helmet
Oakley Flack jacket shades (mirrored)
Hairy legs
clipless shoes
Cycle shorts and top,
Cycle computer Polar CS200 HRM.
Anything else cool I can wear!

Cheers


Simon

snooks

m0scs wrote:

As im new to the FCN can you grade me please

OK the way I see it:

Spec Epic Comp full sus with lockout on both ends (11)
Spec Nimbus tyes/ commuter use (-1)
Giro Xen helmet (0)
Oakley Flack jacket shades (mirrored) (not wrap around therefore 0)
Hairy legs (na unless yer a roadie 0)
clipless shoes (-1) because you're lower than FC8)
Cycle shorts and top, Baggy or lycra? Baggies +1 Lycra 0
Cycle computer Polar CS200 HRM. (0)
Anything else cool I can wear! (depends on yer definition of cool really! )

So you'll be riding of a FCN of 9 in Lycra, or 10 in Baggies

If you have a team shirt, when you wear it you'll be -1, or by some freak incident you find yourself wearing a TDF top it will be -2

Enjoy The Game....

Sea_Green_Incorruptible

Oh man! I've missed out on much of the jolliness of last week as I've been 'on a sickness' and so off the bike. Back on this morning though and looking for scalps.

In front of me I spy a potential point scorer: hairy roadie (same as me) but with full team kit on. 'That's a point I think' and move in for the kill, particularly as we have a mile long uphill with a headwind coming up and I like to think I'm quite tasty in the face of such adversary.

Anyway, I pass him nonchalantly and then put the hammer down but can't loose him. In fact, he hangs on my tail for the next mile and a half, including the uphill, where I'm managing to maintain 19 mph and killing myself in the process. Just as I'm begining to despair, he peals off into a side road behind me.

Now is this a victory or not? As I see it there are two interpretations:

1) In my manly (hairy) glory I managed to break his spirit and force him to bail out to save face.
2) He was just playing with me all the time and got a free ride up a windy hill.

I like to think that the answer is '1', and If I read the rules right then I get the point. But I can't help thinking that in fact I was the one that was used and abused by the encouter - like the most lowly and craven of domestiques.

What do your reckon? Is the point valid or should I hang my head in shame...?

Greg T

Sea_Green_Incorruptible wrote:

he hangs on my tail for the next mile and a half, including the uphill, where I'm managing to maintain 19 mph and killing myself in the process. Just as I'm begining to despair, he peals off into a side road behind me.

Now is this a victory or not? ?

I give you this

Every man thinks less of himself for drafting

Dr Johnson

In my book that's a big win...

You know yourself you are sat in pocket and you're thinking "oh this is all right - I'll just tuck in here until I get my breath back and then I'll take my turn at the front 'cos them's the rules.."

Three mins later and you are still there thinking "Jaysus this guy's laying down some awesome here - I'm puffing AND I'm not doing the work - make my move after the turn"

After the turn you are dying inside as you know that your leader has more Vamos than you and that you are scared to try and get by as the wind's just the wrong side of stiff, " I was going to take it easy anyway" and you know - and this is the killer - that once you got by the guy he'd be sitting on your tail wondering why you'd bothered as you are now slowing him down, he swings out overtakes you and you don't have the heart to sit in his draft again.

You wonder where it all went wrong as you are alone watching him leave you cold with the wind on your face and self loathing coursing through your veins like paraquat.

This dude would have had a go at the front if he thought he could....

Don't tell me anyone is "happy" to be pulled along in the company of strangers...

That having been said I did have a Klingon tuck in tighter than an Amish Virgin's undergarments for the whole length of the embankment today - he was weak - but seemingly without shame...

Edited to add -

Scalps this morning.

One Singlie - who in fairness must have had his shopper in the bike shop to have wider tyres and a basket added as he was seriously slow - defo the bottom of the bracket and should have been thrown back in - still I have no mercy in these matters so I done him anyway.

I also inadvertently did a Roadie (Thai style - silky) who I went by thinking he was a rugged up salt of the earth type. When he pulled up to me at the lights I noticed he'd had a small off (bit of rash nothing"serious") and was a bit scraped up on his forearm.

I noticed at that point that the he's a friend of Lilly Savage and booked the win. Result.

I also saw my first Herman Safety lollipop on shopper piloted by an old lady in parliament Sq. She must have been 60 but I was on my gaurd at the lights just in case she tried anything......

ChrisLS

...two on the up this morning, both on mountain bikes...me on my hybrid, big ole' pannier on the carrier...I didn't even get off the saddle 8)

Clever Pun

The roads were bereft of scalps for me today... at the grenwich tunnel I saw a girl roadie who fitted a 5 woohoo potential points I thought. Like a true gent I let her out of the lift first, she then fu<ked about with her bike for ages I took my time but just couldn't wait... damn

the nearest thing to any parity was a hybrid that when I got closer had a massivly buckled wheel...pfft

Ah yes someone pulled up next to me at the lights looking all cocky thinking he could take me.. skinned him alive, self preservation more than anything... damnit

Hopefully there will be some proper bikes out this evening

el_presidente

Can someone give me an FCN number please?

Steed: dropped bar Graham Weigh 531 custom fixie (with front & rear brakes)
Attire: Baggy shorts / various tops, sometimes cycling tops sometimes not (today it's my Gerolsteiner replica)
Others: Giro Atmos helmet & courier bag
Legs: hairy

and also what would it be if I reverted to my old commute bike, a slicked up singlespeed MTB, as some sort of stealth tactic?

thanking you

Greg T

el_presidente wrote:

Can someone give me an FCN number please?

Steed: dropped bar Graham Weigh 531 custom fixie (with front & rear brakes)

Nice Ride. Welcome.

Fixle Singlie = 2

Attire: Baggy shorts / various tops, sometimes cycling tops sometimes not (today it's my Gerolsteiner replica)
Others: Giro Atmos helmet & courier bag
Legs: hairy

I always get lost in the attire adjusters.... baggy shorts are apparently a +1 so this would take you to 3 - same as Single speed Free Wheel - but as a rule of thumb suggest you should be keeping the flock away from hairy roadies and running down less baggy fixies and greased up Roadies who shave their legs (like Thai men who "wub yooo wong time")

and also what would it be if I reverted to my old commute bike, a slicked up singlespeed MTB, as some sort of stealth tactic?

SS MTBs are a crime against God and I will not consider this.

edited to correct my Biff maths

Clever Pun

el_presidente wrote:

Can someone give me an FCN number please?

Steed: dropped bar Graham Weigh 531 custom fixie (with front & rear brakes)
Attire: Baggy shorts / various tops, sometimes cycling tops sometimes not (today it's my Gerolsteiner replica)
Others: Giro Atmos helmet & courier bag
Legs: hairy

and also what would it be if I reverted to my old commute bike, a slicked up singlespeed MTB, as some sort of stealth tactic?

thanking you

fixie - 3
I think that's it as you wear baggies... be careful out there, you're a prime target

single speed mtb is more tricky, hardtail? the single speed knocks you up the chain

it just depends if the single speed overrides the bike type... so a 4 or a 6 I reckon... something like that

snooks

el_presidente wrote:

Can someone give me an FCN number please?

Steed: dropped bar Graham Weigh 531 custom fixie (with front & rear brakes) (3)
Attire: Baggy shorts / various tops, sometimes cycling tops sometimes not (today it's my Gerolsteiner replica) Baggies (+1) replica top (-1)
Others: Giro Atmos helmet & courier bag (0) and (0)
Legs: hairy (not a lady I hope )

So that will give you FCN of 3, but because yer FCN is between 2-4 you get a point for anyone the same and above, otherwise you'll run out of targets, but you'll be fighting off bromptons at the lights and lady legged roadies with a Herman Safety lollipops!

el_presidente wrote:

and also what would it be if I reverted to my old commute bike, a slicked up singlespeed MTB, as some sort of stealth tactic?

Hmmmm might have to get clarification...but I'd rate you at a slicked mtb ( 8 ) but then it would either be -1 OR -2 for being singlespeed...But I'll refer to Greg T's judgment...So the final tally either 7 or 6

No scalps today, I let the train take the strai...enjoyment out of commuting I had too much kit to bring into the office...A laptop is bearable, but a laptop and a load of pro camera gear might just kill me!!! :shock:
.

2wheelzgood

converted SS.. yeah I saw jedster (the sly fox) trying to claim FCN 8 for a ss'd mtb.
I've decided my converted (low end-yes dissing my bike =bigging myself up!) hybrid is a 5.

I've suggested that converted bikes (mainly SS or fixies will be the FCN of the SS +1 for hybrids or 700 wheels and +2 for mtbs and the like:
slicked mtb: 4+2=6
hybrids 4+1=5 so same as a manly roadie. which I reckon's game on as ssers make up for gears in tigh diameter! :oops:

any good?

the other way is 8-1 or 2 ending up near same for Mtb and 7-1 or 2 for hybrids.

the fact that we've converted "normal" bikes shows we are quite the enthusiast and that we are mad enough to ride them, that we are silly or like to think we have skillz.. ahem.
even if we don't, we're trying hard so we should carry that cross

el_presidente wrote:

as some sort of stealth tactic?

doesn't the fact that you're admitting to it being a tactic to deliberately gain scalping points, move you up the FC? esp when you have another bike which is higher!!

I think people using a "slower" bike on purpose should get -1. My mtb is a 9 (never use it to commute so no bags.. seems unfair to get +1 for baggies on an mtb but I'll take it.
I do feel cheap riding a 9 though when I am mostly seen atop a 5.

Or is this part of the game? I though it was about being honest with yourself? :?

el_presidente

I'll take the consensus of a 3 for the fixie then. And the ss mtb will stay in the shed. Let the game commence!

2wheelzgood

wow, my hat off to ya brave man.. that's a challenge, watch yer back!

victor ludorum

2wheelzgood wrote:

I think people using a "slower" bike on purpose should get -1.

Or is this part of the game? I though it was about being honest with yourself? :?

I think using a slower bike on purpose is unsportsmanlike, and should see you disbarred from The Game. Okay, if you happen to be on a slower bike you must use the tools you've got, but deliberately under equipping yourself to score easy points!? No... Lions must look like lions, and lambs must look like lambs.

[victor ludorum pauses from typing as a facial tic tightens the muscle of his cheek. He touches his fingers to an old sabre scar earned while an exchange student at Griefswald. He picks up a glass of schnapps and tosses it back. The raw burn of the alcohol as it hits his throat snaps from his reverie...]

Where was I? Oh yes... deliberately riding down the food chain and knowing you're doing it is bad for the soul. Sure, you might score a few easy victories, but before you know it, you'll be swerving down cul de sacs scamming points off toddlers on like-a-bikes.