Silly commuting racing

m0scs

LiT A request.

Can you please change your Avatar, it's scary! :shock:

lost_in_thought

Greg T wrote:

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

Maybe you should stop staring at them like you want to run them down and they might move out?

Perhaps I could start shouting encouragement?

I do that...

I shout 'go!' or 'after you' or 'go on'....

I want to shout 'are you actually unable to see that I have reduced my speed in order to allow you to cross? Please do so before you force me to either put a foot down or lose my temper speed up and blast past you.'

But it's a bit of a mouthful.

iain_j

They're a pain in the a**e at traffic lights. The lights are on red, the pedestrian crossing lights have gone green, i'm obviously slowing down, yet they still stand on the kerb watching me roll up, still too nervous to step out.

Then there's a pillocks who wait until the traffic has started moving again til they walk out, slowly, head down, "if i don't look at you, you won't hit me"

Greg T

So the dash to the line hasn't started yet.....

si. d

I hereby register my participation in the Silly commuter race.

For months I thought nobody else was silly enough to be 'racing' on their commute. To find out others do it as well, and that it is further qualified by a scoring system- Brilliant.

FCN - 11,
Route - Bristol,

I've heard alot about underhand tactics for keeping FCNs low, are the UCI planning on enforcing random testing?

Totalnewbie

I really don't think you can blame them for waiting to see if you've stopped at traffic lights, so many cyclists trundle through and jump the lights (also having slowed down to make it 'safer', you see). It's never bothered me, I'm stopping anyway.

Greg T

si. d wrote:

I've heard alot about underhand tactics for keeping FCNs low, are the UCI planning on enforcing random testing?

I've been storing samples for months now, Mrs T says that the Freezer is NOT for that.

Greg T

I'm off

Greg T

Standing up

Greg T

Lunge!

Too easy. I have cowed the oppo, you were beaten to 7,000 before you even started!

Bassjunkieuk

iain_j wrote:

Then there's a pillocks who wait until the traffic has started moving again til they walk out, slowly, head down, "if i don't look at you, you won't hit me"

Actually if they don't look they can't identify you in the line up after you've run them over :-)
I've bashed my shins rather nicely as peds assume that stopped cars = safe to cross even when the red man is up. They seem to forget that cyclist and even motorbikes can still filter down in between stationary cars!

lost_in_thought

Greg T wrote:

Lunge!

Too easy. I have cowed the oppo, you were beaten to 7,000 before you even started!

Who took 6000? I'm noting the progression towards 500 pages....

Greg T

lost_in_thought wrote:

Greg T wrote:

Lunge!

Too easy. I have cowed the oppo, you were beaten to 7,000 before you even started!

Who took 6000? I'm noting the progression towards 500 pages....

I took them both.

I have very little self esteem and need to bolster it in meaningless, trivial ways.

Feltup

Greg T wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Greg T wrote:

Lunge!

Too easy. I have cowed the oppo, you were beaten to 7,000 before you even started!

Who took 6000? I'm noting the progression towards 500 pages....

I took them both.

I have very little self esteem and need to bolster it in meaningless, trivial ways.

Congratulations you truly are the master in the world of your own Race you to 8000?

lost_in_thought

m0scs wrote:

LiT A request.

Can you please change your Avatar, it's scary! :shock:

I'll put myself back soon... In the meantime I'm quite enjoying my alter-ego...

Greg T

Feltup wrote:

Race you to 8000?

I don't race

gert_lush

si. d wrote:

I hereby register my participation in the Silly commuter race.

For months I thought nobody else was silly enough to be 'racing' on their commute. To find out others do it as well, and that it is further qualified by a scoring system- Brilliant.

FCN - 11,
Route - Bristol,

I've heard alot about underhand tactics for keeping FCNs low, are the UCI planning on enforcing random testing?

Welcome to "The Game" its not a race...I just like to come 1st

Your now under the spell

Feltup

Greg T wrote:

Feltup wrote:

Race you to 8000?

I don't race

Just happen to win?

Greg T

Feltup wrote:

Just happen to win?

Looks like it from where I'm sitting, breathing easily, sat back, looking around, non commital air of "not trying" around me.

Just panned out that way.

Feltup

Perfection personified. I do admire you. Just take care that your underlying fitness doesn't slip and you fall in to complacency. That would be a crying shame.

oldgit

Greg T wrote:

Mrs_Ragbrutty wrote:

Is there a handicap for age and gender?

As for the racing there's "no" modifier for gender - (however guys will die a little death and weaken inside if you pass them) age is difficult as there are two camps.

I concurr. I remember an MTB race where I was passed by a woman. Just as I was in the process of being absolutely gutted, a young woman called out from the watching crowd, "come on mum". I think of that moment every time I'm flagging on a ride - it's a great motivator.

What about points for rarity of other riders? My commute is 20 miles each way on minor country roads and I never see anyone

redvee

LiT, you drive a truck and catch the bus home. Bet the otehr commuters let you have a double seat all to yourself when you get on with you bracers and Truckers Cap. Any kids tried to ping your bracers yet? or to give them the proper american term, suspenders. Hands up, not you Don_Don, who wants to ping LiTs suspenders? :oops:

pigeon42

No SCR for me today - I was being super super careful cos it was very cold and black-icy this morning. Soooo, having safely navigated the on-road bit of my commute, and breathed a sigh of relief as I reach the gravel tracks and car-less-ness of the common I let my guard drop... whoooooooooooop - out goes the bike from under me, and in slow motion I hit the deck, proceeding to slide along on my arse for a couple of metres. Marvelous.

Thankfully no harm done apart from a bit of a sore bum, and on the plus side I stopped to have a chat with the other lady cyclist who I always pass as we go opposite directions to work, as we shared ice-sliding stories

DiggingDeeper

Feltup wrote:

Just take care that your underlying fitness doesn't slip and you fall in to complacency. That would be a crying shame.

Never a truer word spoken (ok written). The incline past the womens correctional residence @Holloway is an ample opportunity to test your legs against the speed camera there. Anyway Capt Complacency here thinks 26 mph, good enough, could do better but what's the point.

......Bang.....6ft something fit as a butchers dog riding its owners bike comes hammering past doing 30+. He's timed the next lights 100 yards off to perfection. I am left staring at his shrinking image getting steadily smaller. You get the peep peep peep of the lights, spool up, flashing lights and I'm gone.

Repeat last paragraph at the next light 500 yards further.

Things getting deperate. Bigger wait this time, monster junction with the A1. Get the go and it's basically flat out as he has 'kin miles on me at this point. Half a mile later (and thankfully he finally got caught at a set of lights (although briefly) I am level at the next major junction. We stare at the incline alongside Finsbury park. This is it....sort it out here. Half mile to the next junction. We are both giving it large behind this bus. 2/3 of the way to the next lights he pulls an outrageous manouvre . Just as a 38 Tonner starts to overtake the bus he pulls out, does the bus in a James Bondesque style. Whoaaa......

I am defeated....lorry driver obviously ticked off as he guns his engine and gets right up chummys rear. He who hesitates is lost (or possibly dead in this case).

He turns left at the junction and I hand over my syrup as the rules insist.

Seriously hacked off the rest of the way home....................................... :evil:

Can anyone give the page ref for the argument about how inadequate the FCN based on bike type is.

jimmypippa

As a newbie here, I am confused, I think my FCN is 9*, but am not sure about my clothing "allowance".

I have come to cycle commuting from (fast) hillwalking, so dress more like a fellrunner than cyclist (trainers, tracksters) plus a high-vis cycling waterproof during the winter.

I have discovered a way of keeping my nether regions warm at the cost of looking like a complete twassock, and that is microfibre shorts *outside* the tracksters (the shorts are windproof).

*hybrid with flat handlebars, flat pedals, rucsac

Anyway it hardly matters, I see about 5 other cyclists, one who manages to light-up whilst cycling, and goes at about 5 mph, three going in the other direction and one who sometimes coincides with me....

rb1956

ChrisLS wrote:

...so let's be specific...at what age do we start being classed as old? :?:

I don't get older, it's the world that gets younger. The other day a cheeky little bint at the checkout of my local chemist asked me if I had a Senior's Card! :evil: As if! It's at least... er... eight years before I qualify.

Bassjunkieuk

DD, if it makes you feel any better I think you could save your scalp on a few technicalities. Firstly and most glaringly your description of his overtook and narrow missing of being turned into a pancake doesn't exactly sound like "safe riding" to me! The game is best played where both riders have enough room to safely overtake each other rather then it being a challenge of who has the biggest balls or is feeling invicible!

roger_merriman

Totalnewbie wrote:

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

I've had a few times where I've been really going some, see someone at the crossing and start to slow and they wave me through....... :-D

Maybe you should stop staring at them like you want to run them down and they might move out?

Me too.

I think the reason many like to wait until you've stopped before they cross because it is actually pretty rare for a cyclist to stop at a zebra crossing and they are just making sure. They always look surprised when I nod to show I've seen them and hence they can cross (if nothing else is coming).

to be honest it's not just bikes, but cars buses etc. that pay no attention, to zerba crossings. it very much is a london thing sadly. or at least city thing.

gb155

lost_in_thought wrote:

m0scs wrote:

LiT A request.

Can you please change your Avatar, it's scary! :shock:

I'll put myself back soon... In the meantime I'm quite enjoying my alter-ego...

Nahhh, Leave it as it is Dave

gb155

My call to arms was answered yesterday as I saw 3 other bikes, All shaved roadies on ss's and all kicked my butt....Next time I make I wish I will becareful how I word it.