Silly commuting racing

jonginge

Mythical beast well and truly spotted in SW london.
It was frighteningly quick along millbank wind tunnel and chelsea embankment. My legs were ablur
However, the goddess Nemesis had the last laugh as I had a pun... er unscheduled deflation going past Chutney Mary. My first this year! No problem, thought I, I have the technology, I can reinflate it. Track knut spanner...check. Tyre levers...check. Spare tube...check. Pump...pump...aaaarrgh. The long walk home of shame :oops:

cjcp

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

Greg T wrote:

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

I had a potentially fatal sniffle last week and left the bike at home

..........

(PS MTFU does not mean being on the bike but whinging like a little girl)

WMC......

I respectfully suggest that you reconsider your position.

That position should be bent over your top tube having your cojones refilled with mojo Juice via a track pump by a dude (or burd sistas) who did stay on his bike despite man flu / ebola / bit of a headwind.

let us know how you get on, also if you are finding the keys on your keyboard too hard you can wear wooly gloves or something to stop it smarting so much.

Stayed on your bike but cried like a little girl!

Crying negates all MFTU points. If it's not in the already SCR constitution I propose an amendment

Oh yeah be sure to rehydrate before heading home, your tears may have drained your body of vital salts and fluids

I think the kid's crying at the shame of her dad wearing that socks and sandals combo. WTH was he thinking?

cjcp

Was out on a course yesterday. Ebola? Tired? What's all this girly excuse nonsense?

Yesterday morning was a bit quick. Anyone seen a tall-ish chap with huge thighs, on a silvery grey and red Lemond? Doesn't look as if he's trying, but in three pedal strokes, he's half a mile away. :shock: The unfeasible size of thighs and the shape of his upper body (i.e. he has one compared to the average roadie) suggests he's a rower. It also seems that he can take is body to dark, dark places along Embankment.

He filtered by just as we turned off the NKR and he remain in front for the duration of Embankment. The back-pack was on the <large cough> heavier side yesterday, but I was on the absolute limit of "not trying" and only holding him. We stopped at the Vauxhall Bridge Lights, and I had to ditch skin-breathing: I was taking in great gulps of air, creating a vacuum immediately around me. At least the chap on the Lemond was doing the same.

Last night, there was a quick chap on a Scott. Skinned him heading into the Millbank Wind Tunnel :twisted: , he then took a flyer at the VB Lights and took him again after Death Star Canyon. He then drafted me down the stretch between CB and AB - I indicated for him to go by, but he didn't want to/couldn't :twisted: .

He did the same through Parsons Green, but I think he got the message when I kept looking back, so he passed me. Excellent, Col de Putney Bridge beckons andhe's gone too early. I give him 20 yards as we turn left on to the run up to the Bridge. 30 yards or so before the lights, I make the day's decisive move and it's game over.

cjcp

I take it back. I'm knackered. The headwind along Embankment just saps the energy out of you.

BoardinBob

To the guy on the Cube Acid this morning.

You only beat me because you jumped the red light :roll:

Littigator

CJCP, watch out there probably isn't anyone left alive apart from thee and me after yesterday's nancygermfest!

Anyhoo, just in case anyone else has managed to crawl out of their pit and haul their sorry ass to work this morning, I had what can only be described as an epoch-making ride home last night. I think there must have been a tailwind along the Embankment surely. Anyone else notice?

I kept up a min. speed (apart from lights) of 26 from Lambeth Bridge to Albert Bridge last night, often more like 30mph. The traffic was pretty heavy but gave plenty of space up the inside so I had joy unending as i passed cab after cab...oh the sweet sweet bliss!

greg66_tri_v2.0

cjcp wrote:

Yesterday morning was a bit quick. Anyone seen a tall-ish chap with huge thighs, on a silvery grey and red Lemond? Doesn't look as if he's trying, but in three pedal strokes, he's half a mile away. :shock: The unfeasible size of thighs and the shape of his upper body (i.e. he has one compared to the average roadie) suggests he's a rower. It also seems that he can take is body to dark, dark places along Embankment.

This sound like him: http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopi ... r#15002353 ?

Didn't spot the frame that guy was on.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Littigator wrote:

I had what can only be described as an epoch-making ride home last night. I think there must have been a tailwind along the Embankment surely. Anyone else notice?

Yup. Noticed a few leaves on the pavement cartwheeling alongside me opposite the Morpeth.

Littigator wrote:

I kept up a min. speed (apart from lights) of 26 from Lambeth Bridge to Albert Bridge last night

But that's fairly standard, non? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

cjcp

CJCP, watch out there probably isn't anyone left alive apart from thee and me after yesterday's nancygermfest!

Quite. How are the ladies this morning?

Anyhoo, just in case anyone else has managed to crawl out of their pit and haul their sorry ass to work this morning, I had what can only be described as an epoch-making ride home last night. I think there must have been a tailwind along the Embankment surely. Anyone else notice?

cjcp

Greg66 wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Yesterday morning was a bit quick. Anyone seen a tall-ish chap with huge thighs, on a silvery grey and red Lemond? Doesn't look as if he's trying, but in three pedal strokes, he's half a mile away. :shock: The unfeasible size of thighs and the shape of his upper body (i.e. he has one compared to the average roadie) suggests he's a rower. It also seems that he can take is body to dark, dark places along Embankment.

This sound like him: http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopi ... r#15002353 ?

Didn't spot the frame that guy was on.

I think that's the chap. I've seen him a few times now. He's got wide handlebars. Upper body remainless motionless apart from the pumping of what must be an enormous heart and the movement of a rib cage that contains dive-tank size lungs.

W1

Littigator wrote:

CJCP, watch out there probably isn't anyone left alive apart from thee and me after yesterday's nancygermfest!

Anyhoo, just in case anyone else has managed to crawl out of their pit and haul their sorry ass to work this morning, I had what can only be described as an epoch-making ride home last night. I think there must have been a tailwind along the Embankment surely. Anyone else notice?

I kept up a min. speed (apart from lights) of 26 from Lambeth Bridge to Albert Bridge last night, often more like 30mph. The traffic was pretty heavy but gave plenty of space up the inside so I had joy unending as i passed cab after cab...oh the sweet sweet bliss!

Yep, what was a bastard head wind in the morning became a blessed tail wind in the evening - and the traffic was pretty light - same again today!

lost_in_thought

Blimey o'Reilly, last night's spin home was fun. My flag-windsocks were registering almost no wind as I left the office, and after a stopover at Westfield, I set off home.

Now, I don't know if the no-wind had turned into a tail-wind, or whether it was the stretching-out my legs got round Hyde Park at lunch, or whether it was just the sheer relief of there not being a headwind, but my god it seemed fast. I really need to find my computer.

This morning, warmer than yesterday, slight headwind but nothing too tricky, again flew in.

Scalped a peloton of hybrids with a roadie in the middle trying to hide... the shame, the shame. If you have to hide with the hybrids, get one. :twisted:

And a sighting! A bloke freewheeling on SheBu high street on a bike with a 3-spoke aero front wheel! I tried to get a look at the bike, but a bus driver decided to pick that moment to try and kill me... b'stard. I wonder if it was track bike guy... but surely he wouldn't have a freewheel?

Jen J

Well I was in the fast lane as usual this morning, and there were a few idiots in there that so should have been in the middle lane. I kept having to overtake them, and eventually they got the message and moved. One was even wearing speedos rather than baggy shorts. :?

Then the superfast guy got in, and I kept up with him. And he kept stopping at the ends every 4 laps to do silly stretches. He really needs to MTFU.

Swimming Commuting Racing. Yes?

Jen J

Oh and I did actually see another cyclist on my mini commute this morning!

And I scalped him easily. And he was all lycra'd up on a roadie, while I was in work clothes on the Bowery.

And I'm really wibbling about the changover to fixed wheel this weekend. I tried not to freewheel at all today, and when I come to a halt it gets a little messy. And I have to stop a lot on my mini commute :?

lost_in_thought

Jen J wrote:

Then the superfast guy got in, and I kept up with him. And he kept stopping at the ends every 4 laps to do silly stretches. He really needs to MTFU.

Swimming Commuting Racing. Yes?

He is clearly not superfast. Give him some technique pointers. I find that's a really good nail in the coffin for a swimming bloke after they've been beaten by a girl.

'Try to lift the left elbow a bit more mate, it'll improve your shoulder roll and stroke length'.

Also, don't overtake, just hit their feet for a length or so, then apologise.

These are some of my favourite games.

Jen J

lost_in_thought wrote:

He is clearly not superfast. Give him some technique pointers. I find that's a really good nail in the coffin for a swimming bloke after they've been beaten by a girl.

'Try to lift the left elbow a bit more mate, it'll improve your shoulder roll and stroke length'.

Also, don't overtake, just hit their feet for a length or so, then apologise.

These are some of my favourite games.

He's actually quite good-looking, so I'm just going to observe for a while...;)

I did nearly suggest to the first guy that the fast lane should not be used by really slow swimmers, but after I'd done 5 lengths to his 1 and a bit, he moved...

jedster

He is clearly not superfast. Give him some technique pointers. I find that's a really good nail in the coffin for a swimming bloke after they've been beaten by a girl.

'Try to lift the left elbow a bit more mate, it'll improve your shoulder roll and stroke length'.

Also, don't overtake, just hit their feet for a length or so, then apologise.

These are some of my favourite games

You are evil ....

Steve Waugh should have approached you for lessons (you know, Aussie cricket captain, coined the phrase "mental distruction", spent most of 20 test matches stood near to Nasser Hussain telling him he was out of his depth and was nowhere near good enough to be playing test cricket).

By the way, talk me through that shoulder roll business again...

J

lost_in_thought

jedster wrote:

He is clearly not superfast. Give him some technique pointers. I find that's a really good nail in the coffin for a swimming bloke after they've been beaten by a girl.

'Try to lift the left elbow a bit more mate, it'll improve your shoulder roll and stroke length'.

Also, don't overtake, just hit their feet for a length or so, then apologise.

These are some of my favourite games

You are evil ....

Steve Waugh should have approached you for lessons (you know, Aussie cricket captain, coined the phrase "mental distruction", spent most of 20 test matches stood near to Nasser Hussain telling him he was out of his depth and was nowhere near good enough to be playing test cricket).

By the way, talk me through that shoulder roll business again...

J

Oh yes, I know of the mighty Steve Waugh and his mental destruction techniques...

Suffice to say shoulder roll allows you to use the trunk muscles as well as the arm muscles, and allows a longer, less fatiguing and more efficient stroke. Some swimmers who've never had good training tend to swim freestyle with their shoulders flat.

For more info read this article.

Clever Pun

lost_in_thought wrote:

Jen J wrote:

Then the superfast guy got in, and I kept up with him. And he kept stopping at the ends every 4 laps to do silly stretches. He really needs to MTFU.

Swimming Commuting Racing. Yes?

He is clearly not superfast. Give him some technique pointers. I find that's a really good nail in the coffin for a swimming bloke after they've been beaten by a girl.

'Try to lift the left elbow a bit more mate, it'll improve your shoulder roll and stroke length'.

Also, don't overtake, just hit their feet for a length or so, then apologise.

These are some of my favourite games.

With swimming I used to do 4 laps breaststoke and then gun it for 10 at crawl until I got to a mile (64 lengths)... about 35-40 mins knackering but good

don_don

And I'm really wibbling about the changover to fixed wheel this weekend.

It'll be fine, trust me And you'll be raving about it here in a couple of weeks time I guarantee it.

don_don

Oh my god I've just realised I've posted in SCR :shock:

Runs away screaming to hide under the desk :roll:

Jen J

don_don wrote:

And I'm really wibbling about the changover to fixed wheel this weekend.

It'll be fine, trust me And you'll be raving about it here in a couple of weeks time I guarantee it.

I'm sure I will once I've got the hang of it, which is why I want to change, it's just the getting the hang of it I' worreid about! But I guess it's easier to practise not stopping pedalling on a fixie than freewheel anyway.

Jen J

don_don wrote:

Oh my god I've just realised I've posted in SCR :shock:

Runs away screaming to hide under the desk :roll:

Too late now...you're here... :twisted:

don_don

Jen J wrote:

don_don wrote:

And I'm really wibbling about the changover to fixed wheel this weekend.

It'll be fine, trust me And you'll be raving about it here in a couple of weeks time I guarantee it.

I'm sure I will once I've got the hang of it, which is why I want to change, it's just the getting the hang of it I' worreid about! But I guess it's easier to practise not stopping pedalling on a fixie than freewheel anyway.

If it helps, the only thing that really caught me out was trying to freewheel as I was signalling left :roll: No harm done and I only did it once Other than that it felt pretty natural quite quickly. You will be concentrating more at first anyway, it being something new. That helps with anticipating little istakes berfore they happen.

Have fun

That helps with anticipating little istakes berfore they happen

You can see I'm not typing fixed can't you :roll: Doh..

m0scs

My head hurts

Due to the intake of n ciders wine and a chinese last night, Im suffering.

Seemed like a good idea at the time, seeing Im working from home today.

Should I:

a) Get out on my bike, do a 20 mile ride and sweat it out my my system.

b) Do nothing, as exercise will dehydrate me more and make me feel worse

c) MTFU ( I love that expression) and stop writing stupid posts?

d) Given the epidemic of Man Flu on the forum, which seems to be contagious through the web, should I go back to bed,and count my lucky stars Im not yet affected.

biondino

I took a taxi's number last night after the f*cker screamed by incredibly close to me at the very top of King's Road. I'm undecided about whether to make a complaint, though at the time I was pretty decided. It was straightforward bad driving - I couldn't find an excuse for him.

And this morning I shouted "stop you silly cow" at a girl who had RLJed 5 or 6 in a row on Oxford Street (jncluding Oxford Circus) and was approaching a red light with 3 or 4 dozen commuters starting to cross. I knew what she was going to do, and she does it. Doesn't even look round as I bellow after her. Dozy arsehole.

In other news, I am still knackered! No energy last night, despite the tailwind, and none this morning. Any chance a flu jab on Wednesday could be responsible?

don_don

Jen J wrote:

don_don wrote:

Oh my god I've just realised I've posted in SCR :shock:

Runs away screaming to hide under the desk :roll:

Too late now...you're here... :twisted:

I'm already starting to feel a little odd; the infection is spreading fast :shock:

lost_in_thought

m0scs wrote:

My head hurts

Due to the intake of n ciders wine and a chinese last night, Im suffering.

Seemed like a good idea at the time, seeing Im working from home today.

Should I:

a) Get out on my bike, do a 20 mile ride and sweat it out my my system.

b) Do nothing, as exercise will dehydrate me more and make me feel worse

c) MTFU ( I love that expression) and stop writing stupid posts?

d) Given the epidemic of Man Flu on the forum, which seems to be contagious through the web, should I go back to bed,and count my lucky stars Im not yet affected.

Sweat it out, definitely. Not much cures a hangover as well as a bike ride. Oh yeah, and MTFU.

So a and c.

biondino

Skiing is the only 100% effective hangover remedy I've ever experienced.

Well, and time. Obv.

m0scs

biondino wrote:

I took a taxi's number last night after the f*cker screamed by incredibly close to me at the very top of King's Road. I'm undecided about whether to make a complaint, though at the time I was pretty decided. It was straightforward bad driving - I couldn't find an excuse for him.

And this morning I shouted "stop you silly cow" at a girl who had RLJed 5 or 6 in a row on Oxford Street (jncluding Oxford Circus) and was approaching a red light with 3 or 4 dozen commuters starting to cross. I knew what she was going to do, and she does it. Doesn't even look round as I bellow after her. Dozy arsehole.

In other news, I am still knackered! No energy last night, despite the tailwind, and none this morning. Any chance a flu jab on Wednesday could be responsible?

B I hope that was a Man Flu jab, not just the usual weaker variety, which is no use at all for us boys.

I have a hangover, Man hangover, nearly as bad as Man Flu and for which there is no known cure. See my ealier post.