Silly commuting racing

girv73

Wrath Rob wrote:

...where he may accidentally fall down some stairs

... five times.

Kieran_Burns

Bleeding SCR got me again this morning. :roll:

I'm on my new Tricross Sport (nice bike!) and am weighed down by lots of extras I'm bringing in today (my heavyweight laptop being just one thing). So I'm taking it easy.

Yeah right.

Pulling onto the road I see an MTB go by and the guy looked straight at me and CLEARLY put the hammer down.

I'm not having that, so I was off after him :twisted:

Caught up to him no problems but every time I got close the little sod pulled into standing water and sent a HUGE spray of water straight at me!

Then when I pulled out to get past he 'conveniently' pulled out to take primary at the roundabout,

What some people will do to stay in front. :roll:

Got to say: the Tricross is a damn sight quicker than my old Carrera

Wrath Rob

Are you going to finish the story or are you negating the bit where you MTFU'd and got passed him, just to keep us on the edge of our seats?

DonDaddyD

I play a lot of computer games and this (below) is a paraphrased version of a poem (by Alan Seeger) used for the advert of Gears of war2, that I have tweaked further and now has put me in the mood for some serious scalp wars on the way home:

I have a rendezvous with death.
At some disputed barricade in some foreign land.
It may be that he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land.
And close my eyes and quench my breath.
I have a rendezvous with death
And I am true to my pledged word, I shall not fail my rendezvous.

Que Rage Against the Machine's: Know your Enemy and Killing in the Name of!

Oh lord I'm in the mood now.

I have a rendezvous with death!

Greg T

DDD

I thought you had hung up your cleats and retired claiming you were a massive wood clanger and couldn't hack it....


Here you are singing war songs and rubbing a mixture of tabasco and vicks vapo run into your nostrils....


Will you make up your mind.

lost_in_thought

I have a rendez-vous with my pilates teacher.

Not quite as hardcore.

il_principe

DonDaddyD wrote:

I play a lot of computer games and this (below) is a paraphrased version of a poem (by Alan Seeger) used for the advert of Gears of war2, that I have tweaked further and now has put me in the mood for some serious scalp wars on the way home:

You enjoying Gears DDD? I've been getting stuck in. Looking forward to Resistance 2 as well. Just finished Dead Space and still working through Far Cry 2 as well!

God I'm a closet geek...

jedster

God I'm a closet geek...

I see no closet...

biondino

Queue = line of people
Cue = snooker implement; indication that the time has arrived to carry out a pre-planned action

HTH

linsen

ooh ooh I actaually have something relvant to post here today - a scalp.

I was on my way to work (as per the rules), and I overtook someone. Going up a hill (well a little one) and I wondered if I might manage it and I did. Ha!

You see I don't see many cyclists on my way to work...

Oh and I have knocked ten minutes off my commute in the last month. I'll have to find a longer way home....

Kieran_Burns

Wrath Rob wrote:

Are you going to finish the story or are you negating the bit where you MTFU'd and got passed him, just to keep us on the edge of our seats?

Unfortunately not.

The rules are that you can't appear to be trying and the distance i had available did not allow this (plus you also need to be safe... I could've undertaken him and taken the outside line on the roundabout OR swished past on the outside of the next bend 'fore he pulled off, but both would've been risky.

I shall deliver his soul if I ever see him again and this time I will get the speed to near 30 as I go past and laugh joyously in his face as he is left distraught and destroyed

I did however utterly hack a guy off on the way home tonight - swished past on a hill - and I REALLY wasn't trying. I left him for dead.

Next thing: asthmatic warthog comes past playing silly buggers on the roundabout I was near killed on (no exaggeration) when I slow down to check. I thought it amusing enough to sit on his arse until he pulled off... silent, smooth and silky (unlike him who genuinely sounded like two pigs going at it. Dry.)

Wrath Rob

Kieran_Burns wrote:

(unlike him who genuinely sounded like two pigs going at it. Dry.)

That got me and the mrs laughing

I had a good ride home and had a great tussle with a guy on a black Specialised with tarty yellow bar tape. I had him away from Vauxhal and thought I'd eked out a lead (I'm pretty sure I had but I wasn't about to turn and check) by the time we got to Battersea bridge. Down the other side of the ramp and I'm leading, meating out some kind of awesome to the flotsam as I struggle to shake my shadow (well, it wasn't meating and it wasn't awesome but I figure dramatic license works well on this thread). But ho, what is this? Red lights? Embankment awash with stationary traffic? Poor filtering choice? Him taking to the shared cycle path early? Me cursing my luck? Battle to be rejoined another day...

cjcp

Don't think there'll be much to chase tonight - still at work. Plums.

Might take a wander through Richmond on the way home for a bit more mileage.

Drfabulous0

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Bleeding SCR got me again this morning. :roll:

I'm on my new Tricross Sport (nice bike!) and am weighed down by lots of extras I'm bringing in today (my heavyweight laptop being just one thing). So I'm taking it easy.

Yeah right.

Pulling onto the road I see an MTB go by and the guy looked straight at me and CLEARLY put the hammer down.

I'm not having that, so I was off after him :twisted:

Caught up to him no problems but every time I got close the little sod pulled into standing water and sent a HUGE spray of water straight at me!

Then when I pulled out to get past he 'conveniently' pulled out to take primary at the roundabout,

What some people will do to stay in front. :roll:

Got to say: the Tricross is a damn sight quicker than my old Carrera

You were sat inches from my wheel for nearly two miles, selfishly taking advantage of my slipstream without taking your turn in front, if you want to follow me through a puddle that's your problem. As for 'conveniently' pulling out into primary, what do you do when you approach a roundabout and some idiot is right up your arse, totally blocking your view of traffic approaching from behind? Believe it or not staying in front isn't all that important to some of us, if you're faster then get past and and get gone.

snooks

Jen J, I feel you should be awarded the MPPA (Most Prolific Poster Award) I've been on here for around 16 months, with a tad over 700 posts, I come on here most days and speak Bulwarks (it's a nautical expression, that's all you need to know ) and have notched up an alright number, helped of course by this thread

Miss Jen J however...

639 posts in less than two months! Are you some type of freakily fast typist? or just unemployed? (OR shortly to be? )

Christ on a bike, I don't think in the history of any forums I've ever seen a number of post rise faster than Saturn V!!!

Fair play to you, you've obviously managed to take the pi$$ at work better than me! How? I'll never know! But I bow down to you, you've taken wasting time to a higher level


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I'm not worthy!

girv73

Eventful enough ride home last night, plenty of ups and downs. You'll groan at that one later when you read the whole post.

Mrs. G73 calls about 4.45 and blurts something like "halfpricechristmastreesattesco whenareyouleaving?" which, as any married man will realise, translates to something like "why did you have to take that stupid bike today of all days i mean couldnt you tell this morning tesco were going to do a surprise christmas tree clearance this afternoon and get the bus despite it being slower stop talking on the phone and leave now what are you waiting for and why don't you love me?" ... so soon I'm hammering it home along the shorter of my two regularish routes.

Traffic is heavy, weather is cool and dry - like and unlike me respectively.

There's a guy on a road bike+baggies+no lights that I'm slowly reeling in, but he's a bit ahead of me yet and keeps getting green lights that have changed to red when I get there, so he pulls away again. Eventually he peels off down a side street and I lose him ... boo!

So I continue up to the top of my main 5-5 climb (5 miles, 5%) only to find total gridlock as the Police have closed the road, footpath, sewers, trees and everything and all traffic is being diverted ... that's right, back down the hill again ... double boo! I jokingly asked the cop directing traffic "You gonna send me all the way back down that hill?" - "Sorry, sir" he replied. Must be a cyclist

I head down a side road so I don't have to go ALL the way to the bottom, select granny gears for the 10-15% climb up the other side of this new hill and ... chainsuck! Treble boo!

I stop (like I'd a choice!) and prise the chain out of the bottom bracket, then start spinning up the hill. This was the first time for a few months that I'd tried this hill, based on the pain and suffering it inflicted when I tried it back then - this time it's a LOT easier and I get to the top without too much trouble. Nice - commuting training must be having an effect

I'm nearly home now. The last 500m or so to my street is steeply enough uphill and residential and I usually take it pretty easy as a bit of a cooldown, but the SCR Gods aren't letting me off easy tonight and a kid, on the footpath, on a stealthed supermarket special MTB, with the saddle lower than the stem and his knees peaking higher than his ears, glances over as I pass and is struck with the urge to race! He starts stomping the pedals up the hill to pass me ... I figure he's one FCN higher than me (lack of beard ) so it's a legitimate scalp and GAME ON, SONNY BOY. I smoothly shift a couple of gears higher and spin up again and he is dispatched. You play with the big boys kid, you're gonna get burned. I hope he cried. Nice.

Feltup

But did you get a great deal on a Christmas tree?????????????/

Littigator

Yeah what about the tree dude...focus on priorities


Jeez amateurs

lost_in_thought

He's back... my nemesis has returned from his period in hiding in his secret underground lair...

He's not a big bloke, blonde-y reddish dreadlocked hair, freakishly muscular calves, FG with red rims.... red rims (like red rum)... backpack, flash SPD-y shoes. He's above me in the food chain, thank god.

He's also quick. When I was on gollum, I could keep the distance between us after he overtook me for about 1 minute, then he would be gone. So imagine my glee when this morning I managed to maintain the distance for most of the ride down uxbridge road! However, I wasn't reeling him in. Not a bit. I'd catch him at the lights, but his acceleration was just so much better than mine that he'd get about 6 metres ahead, and stay there. Oh and the 'not trying' was out the window.

He can also trackstand for the entire light cycle. All of them.

My reign of supremacy on the Uxbridge road is over... however it is good fun going hell for leather chasing someone who's actually faster than me for a change.

Must... get... faster...

Then, on Kensington High Street, a guy pulls up alongside me on a Focus.

I think 'oh, that's a focus like Biondino's. Huh. Oh, the guy on it is smiling at me... weird. Hang on, I know him from somewhere... He's talking to me... it is Biondino!

Must... engage...brain...

girv73

@Feltup, Littigator: half price - £30 - for a rather nice 7' tree that will fit just luverly into our new living room, last one in the shop. Mrs. was unreasonably pleased, she likes Christmas.

It did have someone else's name on it, along with "RESERVED - TO COLLECT". Evil? Perhaps, but it's like the old saying goes - "if you're not there, you don't get the tree". Well maybe that's not an old saying as such. In any case it's a Tesco problem not a G73 problem.

Jen J

snooks wrote:

Jen J, I feel you should be awarded the MPPA (Most Prolific Poster Award) I've been on here for around 16 months, with a tad over 700 posts, I come on here most days and speak Bulwarks (it's a nautical expression, that's all you need to know ) and have notched up an alright number, helped of course by this thread

Miss Jen J however...

639 posts in less than two months! Are you some type of freakily fast typist? or just unemployed? (OR shortly to be? )

Christ on a bike, I don't think in the history of any forums I've ever seen a number of post rise faster than Saturn V!!!

Fair play to you, you've obviously managed to take the pi$$ at work better than me! How? I'll never know! But I bow down to you, you've taken wasting time to a higher level


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I'm not worthy!

Shhhh! Don't tell my boss!

I'm actually on study leave today, so can legitimately be on here during my breaks. Ish.

And to be fair, a lot of my posts are at during weekends and evening. Well, some of them anyway...;)

biondino

Oops!

biondino

Morning all!

The theme for today was "vans doing three point turns in front of me". Shamefully, on two of the 4 occasions this happened, I nipped past the van as he was at one of the points of his turn, which is a bit dangerous really.

The other theme for the day wasn't being scalped, but not being able to do anything about a dude on a Trek 1000 who was either a masochist or whose rear derailleur had failed with him pushing 53/12. Fair play to the guy, once he got up to speed (which took a while) he was doing 23, 24mph and on High Street Ken there were no opportunities to find a long enough drag to have a go at pwning him.

At least things got better when I bumped into LiT. "I'd know that bum anywhere", I thought*, though it took her rather longer to recognise me. At least now I've had the "hmm, some weirdo's smiling at me, I shall give him a forced half smile and avert my gaze" experience

*this may not be strictly true

Feltup

[quote="
At least things got better when I bumped into LiT. "I'd know that bum anywhere", I thought*, though it took her rather longer to recognise me. At least now I've had the "hmm, some weirdo's smiling at me, I shall give him a forced half smile and avert my gaze" experience

*this may not be strictly true[/quote]

So who scalped who? Did LiTs smile nicely then put the hammer down and in one spin leaving you in her wake or did you wait for recognition and then burn her in a "friends on the forum but no friends in SCR" style?

lost_in_thought

Effing high street ken... I give up all scalping once I'm there.

Were you really on your trek? Jesus. Must engage brain. Can't even read.

BTW, which way did you go from Chiswick to HSK? I have been considering changing my route to go that way for a while - how was it?

And I know, my bum is famous. And large.

Feltup

girv73 wrote:

@Feltup, Littigator: half price - £30 - for a rather nice 7' tree that will fit just luverly into our new living room, last one in the shop. Mrs. was unreasonably pleased, she likes Christmas.

Good work on earning the brownie points. I would like to add BAH HUMBUG!

girv73

I second that humbug. I've enough to do as it is, then suddenly it's Christmas!

Littigator

girv73 wrote:

@Feltup, Littigator: half price - £30 - for a rather nice 7' tree that will fit just luverly into our new living room, last one in the shop. Mrs. was unreasonably pleased, she likes Christmas.

It did have someone else's name on it, along with "RESERVED - TO COLLECT". Evil? Perhaps, but it's like the old saying goes - "if you're not there, you don't get the tree". Well maybe that's not an old saying as such. In any case it's a Tesco problem not a G73 problem.

Oh was she now

Littigator

biondino wrote:

At least now I've had the "hmm, some weirdo's smiling at me, I shall give him a forced half smile and avert my gaze" experience

Can it Stalky boy! You get that all the time really

girv73

Littigator wrote:

Oh was she now

Yeah, so much ... excitement over a plastic tree :roll: