Silly commuting racing

Totalnewbie

Oh so you are actually talking about extended wear ones DDD?

I do hope I have some joy on Friday, as I really don't want to shell out for dailies every day (£50 a month for my prescription, ouch).

Newbury chap

I'm gonna curb my more cantankerous nature and not go all Spike Lee by asking why there are no black female cyclists.... But as much as I was 'feeling' (metaphor refering to attractions) Victoria, I've kind of gone off her.

Come now, have a word with yourself Don, Victoria is just lovely and most cyclists would favour her over hurley...

girv73

VP. I'd heard the rumours, but didn't fully realise. Google Images is gonna get a workout when I get home.

Greg T

DonDaddyD wrote:

Right Vikki Pendleton

..... I've kind of gone off her.

Her thighs aren't that big (nor her butt) and her forehead is a little too pronouced. She's not ugly, the complete package would have me not saying no but I don't covert her as much as I used to. Perhaps if I saw her at Freewheel.... still no Liz Hurley.

Oh shut up.

Listen DDD I like you, you come across like a funny guy, wang eyed, crashing and all that but essentially a good bloke.

Then you have to go and spoil it by posting what must be a deliberately inflammatory remark like that just to rile me into a flame war with you.

Well it's on.

NO LIZ HURLEY

What?

That dried up old trout might have been news back in the 70's when she was banging Hugh Grant but frankly even then he was having a side order of crack whore just to get by.... She's used (and very well used) goods.

VP is a Goddess in anyone's book. You want to get your gammy eyes checked by your LBS I think your sight line is running well out of true.

Kieran_Burns

Just to add - I've bought some rainx and applied it to my cycling wrap arounds. I wear glasses day to day but am road legal without them.

I prefer to wear the wrap arounds for the reasons given previously, so I thought the rainx was a good thing to try.

I'll let you know what happens next time I cycle in the rain. The weather looks clear at the moment, so I may not be testing them this evening.

m0scs

snooks wrote:

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

I really do hate that fine rain, as others who wear glasses to allow them to see beyond their front wheel will I'm sure be aware, it just sticks to them and you can barely see a damn thing!

One reason I only used to commute when the weather was dry ....Then I got contacts and lost my excuse

Seriously, in rain and drizzle contacts are the only way to see without glasses 8)

Hi Snooks,

I wear glasses and contacts but not generally while on my bike as my eyesight is not so bad. However on the one occasion I did wear contacts on the bike, while on my ususal training ride, iI found that they fogged up or similar and I could see better without them. I had to pull over and remove them, it was that bad.

My Misses, who is a frequent contact lens wearer suggested this may have been caused by lack of oxyden getting to the eye. I never wore them again.

Just wondered if you or any other contact lens wearers had suffered similar problems?

I wear the soft disposible 2 weekly lenses.

DonDaddyD

Greg T wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Right Vikki Pendleton

..... I've kind of gone off her.

Her thighs aren't that big (nor her butt) and her forehead is a little too pronouced. She's not ugly, the complete package would have me not saying no but I don't covert her as much as I used to. Perhaps if I saw her at Freewheel.... still no Liz Hurley.

Oh shut up.

Listen DDD I like you, you come across like a funny guy, wang eyed, crashing and all that but essentially a good bloke.

Then you have to go and spoil it by posting what must be a deliberately inflammatory remark like that just to rile me into a flame war with you.

Well it's on.

NO LIZ HURLEY

What?

That dried up old trout might have been news back in the 70's when she was banging Hugh Grant but frankly even then he was having a side order of crack whore just to get by.... She's used (and very well used) goods.

VP is a Goddess in anyone's book. You want to get your gammy eyes checked by your LBS I think your sight line is running well out of true.

What the hell are wang eyes.

Dude, Liz Hurley is class through and through. Pendleton by comparison is Carling extra cold to Liz's Chablis! I could actually see a girl like Pendleton on my arm, she's not out of reach (I'd like to think), Liz however is that echelon above.

Someone as posh as Liz Hurley has got to be an absolute swinging would-normally-disgust-me-but-she's-fit-so-its-ok FREAK. Crack Whore loving Hugh Grant, BAH! He probably did it so he could remind himself what normal sex was like compared to the sheer and utter digust Liz was demanding in the bedroom. Any way you want to look at that if you can get buckwild in the bedroom that's going to be some good sh*t!

Don't get me wrong I wouldn't say no to Pendleton, my girlfriend and I have discussed this... But Liz Hurley, my god! If she was a cause of death she'd be spontaneous combustion because that's the only way you could account for her beauty.

itboffin

This one is for you Greg

Edit - That's 50kg with a 20kg bar :shock:

Newbury chap

quote] Dude, Liz Hurley is class through and through. Pendleton by comparison is Carling extra cold to Liz's Chablis! I could actually see a girl like Pendleton on my arm, she's not out of reach (I'd like to think), Liz however is that echelon above.

Someone as posh as Liz Hurley has got to be an absolute swinging would-normally-disgust-me-but-she's-fit-so-its-ok FREAK. Crack Whore loving Hugh Grant, BAH! He probably did it so he could remind himself what normal sex was like compared to the sheer and utter digust Liz was demanding in the bedroom. Any way you want to look at that if you can get buckwild in the bedroom that's going to be some good sh*t!

Don't get me wrong I wouldn't say no to Pendleton, my girlfriend and I have discussed this... But Liz Hurley, my god! If she was a cause of death she'd be spontaneous combustion because that's the only way you could account for her beauty..[/

I will not be drawn in to a fight here. Lets just agree that you are wrong and VP has more class in her little finger than Liz, who is nice to look at but ultimately has no real talent.

Ride safe chaps...

biondino

Vicky P with glasses = much hotter than Vicky P without glasses.

I have never had a girlfriend who didn't need glasses.

(I'll let you have fun with that one if you like)

Greg T

DonDaddyD wrote:

But Liz Hurley, my god! If she was a cause of death she'd be spontaneous combustion .

That's because the dried up old hag is dessicated and a fire risk.

Jaysus christ man, for a man who professes to man up in the trouser stakes your basic grasp of anatomy is shocking....

VP is world and Olympic track sprint Champ, her Pelvic floor could crack walnuts, LH is a tired owd slapper whose pelvic floor grows walnuts.

Wang eye=

linsen

biondino wrote:

Vicky P with glasses = much hotter than Vicky P without glasses.

I have never had a girlfriend who didn't need glasses.

(I'll let you have fun with that one if you like)

Target too easy by far

dafruk

girv73 wrote:

VP. I'd heard the rumours, but didn't fully realise. Google Images is gonna get me a workout when I get home.

I've completed the missing blank for you.[/b]

el_presidente

DonDaddyD wrote:

I'm gonna curb my more cantankerous nature and not go all Spike Lee by asking why there are no black female cyclists....

Shanaze Reade

Greg T

el_presidente wrote:

Shanaze Reade

DDD is in all kinds of strife here, he's backed the wrong horse in the Goddess war and missed VPs track buddy and pursuit partner Shanaze (world champ - them's MY stripes)who manned up big style in the Olympics crashing out trying to beat a Frog, didn't play safe for silver.

DDD serve your arse up to the hive mind - you've been toasted.

Newbury chap

VP is world and Olympic track sprint Champ, her Pelvic floor could crack walnuts, LH is a tired owd slapper whose pelvic floor grows walnuts.

That is the funniest thing i have heard all week

il_principe

Oi Four Eyes' - take your contact lens related drivel onto another thread please.

Honestly. I care not for your defective genes.

:shock:

snooks

m0scs wrote:

Hi Snooks,

I wear glasses and contacts but not generally while on my bike as my eyesight is not so bad. However on the one occasion I did wear contacts on the bike, while on my ususal training ride, iI found that they fogged up or similar and I could see better without them. I had to pull over and remove them, it was that bad.

My Misses, who is a frequent contact lens wearer suggested this may have been caused by lack of oxyden getting to the eye. I never wore them again.

Just wondered if you or any other contact lens wearers had suffered similar problems?

I wear the soft disposible 2 weekly lenses.

Sounds like the contact lens drying out....with them in, look at a computer screen without blinking...same thing should happen, vision goes kind of milky and blurry?....all you have to do is just blink...lots :roll: :roll: :roll:

shades help in the summer, rain helps in the winter

jashburnham wrote:

Oi Four Eyes' - take your contact lens related drivel onto another thread please.

Honestly. I care not for your defective genes.

:shock:

Shut it prince boy!

You and your defective I want it, must have it genes can go and drink babycham with your wobbly forks somewhere else!! :P

snooks

We have our first drop out.....

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12590719

Litts is a girly, litts is a girly!

the_hundredth_idiot

I can't keep track of this thread. Everytime I look the page count has increased. I can't afford to spend that much of my working day wasting on the internet if I want to carry on having a working day. :?

But, back to the specs vs contact lenses debate, might I be so bold as to add a third option? Laser surgery. Two weeks from today, I will be the proud owner of a pair of fully functioning eyeballs for the first time in my 30-something years on this planet. The only downside is that I might then realise just how much protection the specs gave me against wind (crying) and suicidal insects.

But it will be only a few short years, though, before my decline into 40-something reading glasses (which I fully intend to have on a chain around my neck a la Larry Grayson). Or perhaps no to the chain.

But, then again, perhaps the chain is needed as my first thought as I paged down and saw Greg T referring to a picture of VP wearing specs was of the potential (please, God, no) American vice-president - I mean Palin not Biden. Unclip hair, shake head from side to side, ...

PS. Contact lenses steaming up? Really? Are you sure? I've been in saunas and steam rooms (for the, ahem, relaxing therapeutic qualities) and never had such a problem.

lost_in_thought

RIGHT.

I will not have the beautiful, bespectacled or not VP compared to that tired old fish-faced slapper Hurley. A posh accent does not a classy lady make - I should know, I've got one myself.

DDD, stop it.

Jay dubbleU

L_i_T - totally agree with you on the Hurley/VP issue - being a lady has nothing to do with class or accent - DDD you're cool but wrong

on the glasses v lenses issue I had a mate who had laser surgery done and when we climbed Kili he had all sorts of problems because apparently the process cuts grooves into the back of the eyeball - his eyeballs swelled and he couldn't focus once we got above the 4000m mark - I've also heard tales from other climbers that the effect is worst if you go to high altitude so stick with the glasses if you're planning anything over 6000m

DonDaddyD

Pedant moment:

Shanaze Reade is the daughter of an Irish Mother and Jamaican Father. She is as much white as she is black. Just saying is all.....

Ok Liz Hurley:


And

If your wife/girlfriend/life partner looked like the above... just think.... now take some alone time....

Back? Good! Because:

I lower my head while I hand the tomahawk of schooling and scalping to itboffin for the pic below.

itboffin wrote:

This one is for you Greg

Edit - That's 50kg with a 20kg bar :shock:

Jaysus have mercy! Baby got back

Special credit to Greg T for setting a younin' (me) straight!

(Click the link watch and learn! MTFU was part of my upbringing!)

Jay dubbleU

DDD - this one is for you

http://blackchickonabike.blogspot.com/2 ... seeks.html

DonDaddyD

Jay dubbleU wrote:

DDD - this one is for you

http://blackchickonabike.blogspot.com/2 ... seeks.html

Attractive black girl........

Sigh, I give up....

Anyway, why in the team photo have they got the all the women sitting on the floor in front of the men. It conveys the image of subservience, just saying is all....

DiggingDeeper

I don't think this hopeful is in Greg66's fixie barnstormer league but its all relative I guess. I was just trundling thro Holloway tonight (ie: not putting in enough effort - due to feeling miserable from this morning when I took a monster perler), Too sharp too fast on a wet road, front wheel went west. Nose dived the road skinning knees and elbows. Back roads fortunately so I am still here to tell the tale.

Get underway off the lights at Holloway/Archway road junction and the klaxons go off. There is this geezer in a mountain bike helmet astride a fixie screaming after a moped/weedy mbike going down the other side of the road like he is on fire. I am on the lump of lead today, me knees hurting but this affrontary is unpalatable. I start wading through the assorted Islington basket carrying town bikes and start to get about putting the world right. I am after him

Its about 500m to the next lights, so not much time. I manage to stem the loss and finally begin to reel him in, albeit so slowly. The lights change ahead of us - I thought this it is he is off, I judged he would geta legal ambler gambler. But what is this the geezer stops. Hats off.

I pull up also on the other side of the road and was relieved to see him blowing like Count Basie in full flow. I felt cheap cos of the lights, but thems the breaks. Green.....bam and he is off again. Head down, legs pumping (the pair of us). He does me. He makes the next lights and I hear the sound of defeat ringing in my ears. 3 short stretches, all with red lights and I am meat. No way back.

My first encounter with a real fixie! So they do exist. I would have been interested to have kept it going up Finsbury Park incline to Manor House as his fitness seem suspect (his attitude was top dollar).

Here's hoping we meet again on the carbon roadster. Sir, I wear a sword!

DiggingDeeper

I forgot to add.....

If you lot are so blind how would you know a knobbly mbike from a roadster anway?

Wrath Rob

Jay dubbleU wrote:

DDD - this one is for you

http://blackchickonabike.blogspot.com/2 ... seeks.html

I was just about to lambast the lilly livered lot of you for polluting this thread with vile off-topic tangents when Jay rescued you all with this



There was a commute tonight, I met my first fellow SCR, Hi Jash, and then enjoyed a good tow along the Embankment by a lycra roadie doing 24 into the wind :shock:

I quietly ignored the guilt gnawing at my soul as the normal klingon-komplainer turned klingon. Still, needs must when the devil pisses in your breakfast.

biondino

DonDaddyD wrote:

Shanaze Reade is the daughter of an Irish Mother and Jamaican Father. She is as much white as she is black. Just saying is all.....

Dude, you tell her she's not black, then come and report her response to us. If you can still walk...

Bassjunkieuk

Had the most frustrating moment on my commute home this evening. Everything was going so well, as I approached the level crossing at Motspur Park the barriers where just lifting so I didn't loose any momentum.
As I was approaching I could see two other cyclist waiting, 1 in a flouro jacket and the other all in blue. More importantly the one in blue appeared to be riding a drop bar bike, yahay I gots me a target :-)

As we pulled off from the crossing a couple of cars seperated me and the two bits of meat ahead. I managed to get ahead of one car but the one remaing between us seemed to think it's car was about 10 ft. wider then it really was and so pulled over at every car that came the other way! With each passing car the roadie got further ahead. He'd already gone past MTB flouro jacket guy and had a clear road ahead. I tucked in right behind the car waiting for my moment to pounce. I saw my gap took it, bagging MTB guy at the same time.

I could now set about chasing down my ultimate prize. I caught up with him just as we entered the width restricters and one way section at the top near the lights. I was really hoping that he'd head straight over and give me a chance to fully remove his scalp but he headed up Grand Drive whilst I headed towards Morden, our paths split before the final battle could take place. DAMNIT!!!

On the plus side I managed another PB on the way home, averaging 18mph on this evenings ride home. The thing was I could sense I was on a flyer as I seemed to drawing power from a bottomless reserve as I was charging up the hills, sorry "inclines", and keeping up a decent pace on the flats. Felt really good until I got a bit closer to home and started having to deal with the numpty drivers who don't understand what indicators and give-way lines are for!