Silly commuting racing

don_don

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.

b & c

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?

100% yes. I have a flu jab every Wednesday and I get the same

don_don

Man hangover, nearly as bad as Man Flu and for which there is no known cure

Worse than child-birth

m0scs

don_don wrote:

Man hangover, nearly as bad as Man Flu and for which there is no known cure

Worse than child-birth

Quite! Ive witnessed child birth. You get an epidural, spinal tap for that.

Maybe I will pop down the loal chemist to see if I can pick up a DIY version for Man Hangover.

greg66_tri_v2.0

biondino wrote:

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

Well, and time. Obv.

A swift pint c 10.30 in the morning can work wonders.

It's a slippery slope though. One best trod with caution.

Littigator

Greg66 wrote:

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

For ponces with their shifty clicky dangly bits on the back...perhaps yes. For a clyclister purist on the fixie framed suicide hell bike it is a matter of 120rpm plus over wet pitted roads in the dark pure adrenalin rush ride!

Do I make myself clear? :twisted:

lost_in_thought

Hair of the dog is a sketchy one, unless you get it right you can prolong the pain of a truly apocalyptic hangover.

See may eve in Oxford for an example. Apocalyptic, I tell you. :shock: Mind you, that doesn't really count as you have to stop drinking for it to be hair of the dog...

1x red bull/2x pro plus, 1x bike ride, followed by 1x large carb-heavy breakfast = one of the better ones. If you're not too worried about the cancer a sunbed is also a good addition.

itboffin

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.

Go for the ride, it's the best non alcohol related cure.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Littigator wrote:

For ponces with their shifty clicky dangly bits on the back...perhaps yes. For a clyclister purist on the fixie framed suicide hell bike it is a matter of 120rpm plus over wet pitted roads in the dark pure adrenalin rush ride!

Do I make myself clear? :twisted:

Ah, yes.

You should have said you were on the child's bicycle. With your Road Runner (beep-beep) legs all a-blur, being helplessly dragged along by the wind. :P

DonDaddyD

m0scs wrote:

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

Complaining about a hangover, oh will you MTFU

Man Flu is one thing, personally I think it should be taken with absolute seriousness by the medical professions and research should be undertaken to provide medicine and counselling for any male suffering from this swift and vicious illness. In addition to paid sick leave it should also be a legal requirement to have paid man flu leave. Oh, and an equal amount of maternity leave for men as well (but that is another issue and I'm feeling broody).... :oops:

BUT!!! Man hangover!!!???!!! DUDE, WILL YOU MTFU!

M

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F

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A hangover is and always will be a glorious thing, its a mark of a truly brilliant night out (or a night in) much like a tattoo found on your persons after a sex, drugs and rock and roll fuelled road trip where you can't remember why, how, who, what or where you got said tattoo! (I don't have a tattoo) "I admit nothing!"

Nothing is funnier (much later in the day when you share the story with your mates in the pub :shock: ) than waking up with a hangover and the only thing that feels worse is the sight of the burd (who's name you don't know and are glad you cannot remember) sleeping in your nook, realising the debauched nastiness you got up to with someone your not even marginally attracted to and contemplating chewing your arm off to get away!

At the very least a hangover is an excuse to have the fattest, decadent, biggest, greasy spoon fry-up you can imagine - I'm talking 2 fried eggs, 2 scrambled egg, 4 sausages(2 linconshire and 2 cumberland), 4 rashes of bacon, a 3/4 can'o'beans, mushrooms, 2 slices of toast with butter and a pint of tea. Its an excuse to stay in bed and play X-box/Playstation all day. These are actual official remedies of curing a hangover. OR you could partake in a secret act that releases endorphins into the brain...- its known to cure a hangover as well. :shock: all the rage with guys and girls when I went to Uni... :shock:

If you can climb out of bed and make it to work, with hangover in full swing you KNOW you are a master of MTFU and no on can question your testicular fortitude!

Live life enjoy the pain its a reminder that you indeed LIVE!

[DondaddyD]Take's a breath, logs out and goes back to work[/DondaddyD]

Feltup

biondino wrote:

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

Well, and time. Obv.

Try surfing as well, that first duck dive in cold water will make you forget you had a hangover. I agree that a face full of powder(snow(other powders may also work, don't know )) works a treat.

don_don

OR you could partake in a secret act that releases endorphins into the brain...- its know to cure a hangover as well.

No, No, No, No, No

Pounding head, furry tongues, beery sweat and the shakes :shock:

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Unless you mean nipple clamping in the privacy of your own room, in which case carry on...

Wrath Rob

I'm coming to the conclusion that there is a big cyclying capacitor somewhere near the Embankment. Yesterdy morning it was sucking all of our energy in as we slogged our way to work, and then yesterday evening it was feeding us all with its stored goodness on the way home. The Embankment was dispatched at 25+, with much overtaking of cars through the Deathstar Canyon. The capacitor seemed to be running dry between Battersea and Albert though as it turned into a bit more of a slog. I had some annoying mosquito on a MTB latching onto my wheel at Albert Bridge. He prooved hard to shift, staying reasonably close down Lotts road. I cranked it up and either he turned off or simply decided that he agreed with my hypothesis that MTBs truly are slow and that he needed to upgrade his artillery to a proper bike before coming back for a rematch.

This morning the capacitor was definitely in suck mode though. A couple of other roadies and me got a fantastic tow off of a scooter into the wind at a stead 26+ though, right up until we filtered past him at Vauxhal, I got the jump on them at the lights and then was immediately slayed by the reverse Millbank Wind Tunnel and found 19 a hard speed to maintain. I'm sure they enjoyed watching me slog it out, safe in my wind bubble.

Fingers crossed that the capacitor is flowing in our direction on the way home tonight!

dafruk

don_don wrote:

Unless you mean nipple clamping in the privacy of your own room, in which case carry on...

Please, for the love of god, never post on this topic again.

tailwindhome

edhornby wrote:

mornin all

just a quick note to let you know that I will be duelling with a moped tomorrow lunchtime !!!!

One of the blokes who I work with has a wheeled hairdryer and he knows that I ride a FGSS, so there has been a great deal of general posturing which has turned into challenge from him to a race. I naturally agreed and we've got a short stretch of road identified and a crowd of assorted onlookers just to up the ante

I have a feeling I'm going to get nailed as it's a 200m standing start race but the pressure's all on him....

any tips ????

Nearly forgot about this

Any results yet??

m0scs

Im now committed to a ride to sort out the Hangover.

I may be some time...

Will report back in later on its effectiveness or not to quell the pain in my head.

If that fails I find a Wopper Cheese, large fries and chocolate shake usually does the trick.

DDD You seem to have lived a bit. Respect.

The worse I find is when you wake up after a work night out/ Xmas party, unable to remember a thing and having to face the music. :oops:

Musing on the idea of a MTFU tattoo.

lost_in_thought

I'm musing on the idea of a jacket with MTFU printed on the back for all the geared roadies on my route to read as I pass them.

Perhaps also print out some fliers reading 'you should be ashamed' and hand them out at the lights...

:twisted:

I'm feeling particularly hyper today. Going to go for a ride in the park again and see if I can't scalp me some horses. It only counts if they're at a gallop.

girv73

@lost_in_thought wear a Hallow'een mask and try to scare some into a stampede, then race them. They'll have a -1 FCN modifier for "panic".

biondino

You guys might like this:

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Littigator

biondino wrote:

You guys might like this:

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

That's given me a headache already...mind you my hangover isn't helping much

Stevehall00

Hooray for me!

I have finally splashed out on my super bright cateye backlight. Bring on the darkness...

Now my tyres and backlight combined are worth twice what I paid for the rest of the bike!

I await my ctw scheme with baited breath. Apart from the fact that il go from an 8 to a 3 overnight.

cjcp

Stevehall00 wrote:

Apart from the fact that il go from an 8 to a 3 overnight.

The harsh realities of The Game. :twisted:

(What's the new bike going to be?)

don_don

dafruk wrote:

don_don wrote:

Unless you mean nipple clamping in the privacy of your own room, in which case carry on...

Please, for the love of god, never post on this topic again.

He started it :P

biondino

Do you reckon Nicklouse reads this thread? I want to ask him for tips on making my internally routed cable not rattle in my top tube but it's hardly worth starting a thread about.

Jay dubbleU

Ice climbing - only true cure for a hangover :twisted:

Solved my problem with the saddle/comfort - I usually wear cords to work which makes me one of the better dressed people at work - you should see some of the physicists or at least the ones that aren't dressed by their mothers - surprised they don't wear their pjs into the office - however I digress - got soaked going home last night so wore my Ron Hills on the bike to go and meet my wife - instant comfort - its not the saddle its the cords! :oops:

Littigator

biondino wrote:

Do you reckon Nicklouse reads this thread? I want to ask him for tips on making my internally routed cable not rattle in my top tube but it's hardly worth starting a thread about.

PM him you numpty

Bassjunkieuk

F**king hell........I stupidly go away for 3 days (sans bike, not really an ideal location......3/4 un-paved track to B road would crisp my rims!!!) and I didn't get a chance to get online!

So I've finally read the last 14 pages of posts and digested all the info, seems like all I missed was an outbreak of man-flu :-)

m0scs wrote:

The worse I find is when you wake up after a work night out/ Xmas party, unable to remember a thing and having to face the music. :oops:

Musing on the idea of a MTFU tattoo.

I actually do have experience of this.....many years ago back when I was working with PC World and the Xmas party was (as usual) held at one of the dept. managers brothers restaurants - except this year we had an open bar

This proved to be my downfall as I drunk myself stupid and couldn't remember most of the evening. The next morning I woke up with a fairly bad headache and still felt a bit drunk. The store was only 15 minutes ride away so I jumped on the ol' Halford full-susser and sped off into work. Got there rather hot and sweaty but feeling 100% better! My arrival also shocked one of the other guys who was already in who I think helped carry me to the coach to get home, as he wasn't expecting to see me walking into the store all bright eyed at 8:45 :-D

Back on the really short commute now so only really cars to race, although I am nipping over to one of the ickle one's friends houses so I get a bit of a longer ride this evening.
However being this close to home also meant I had a rather nice lunch break as I took a walk down to GB Cycles. Saw the matt black £8K Prince that G66's mate brought... :shock: :shock: DAMN THAT IS ONE NICE LOOKING BIT OF KIT! Various other bits of nice kit in there, all far to much for me tho :-(

Jen J

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

So I've finally read the last 14 pages of posts and digested all the info, seems like all I missed was an outbreak of man-flu :-)

I believe there was mention of an isolated case of ebola.

dmcmylor

I am new to this forum but have been really amused by it, but for heavens sake what is MTFU ????????????????????

natcot

Never thought I'd be a player of this game, but funny how things change when you spot someone ahead! This morning I spotted a target and asumed he would be gone quick time, a couple of miles later and I'm there, close, wondering what to do? I stay quite close for a while but it's too slow, acutally it's my normal pace, but with my focus on the prey I'm holding a really easy 22mph and I'm all over him without trying, so I back off, but it's too slow, so we're off, wind it up and cruise on by, a polite hello, and push on........end of! Ribble rider 0 Dahon rider 1......yah! I'm in the game, I'm a hunter!

biondino

Man The F|_|ck Up

Should I buy one of those £10k Colnago Ferraris as an investment?