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  • Pearcy
    Pearcy Posts: 46
    Asprilla wrote:
    Flyby tells me it was busy on the way home yesterday, including a pootling Cambs, some Paceliners, iPete going the wrong way in Kingston and I managed to not be caught by rower63.

    Great success.

    Yes, seems we rode together Asprilla although I don’t know which colour Canyon to look out for to say hello to next time. I was one of the Paceliners on a black/white CAAD12 although not in club kit yesterday.
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Pearcy wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    Flyby tells me it was busy on the way home yesterday, including a pootling Cambs, some Paceliners, iPete going the wrong way in Kingston and I managed to not be caught by rower63.

    Great success.

    Yes, seems we rode together Asprilla although I don’t know which colour Canyon to look out for to say hello to next time. I was one of the Paceliners on a black/white CAAD12 although not in club kit yesterday.

    We're you in black and bagless, and did you tap someone on the wrong shoulder at the junction onto URR? If so I'm the bloke he thought had done it.
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  • Pearcy
    Pearcy Posts: 46
    Asprilla wrote:
    Pearcy wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    Flyby tells me it was busy on the way home yesterday, including a pootling Cambs, some Paceliners, iPete going the wrong way in Kingston and I managed to not be caught by rower63.

    Great success.

    Yes, seems we rode together Asprilla although I don’t know which colour Canyon to look out for to say hello to next time. I was one of the Paceliners on a black/white CAAD12 although not in club kit yesterday.

    We're you in black and bagless, and did you tap someone on the wrong shoulder at the junction onto URR? If so I'm the bloke he thought had done it.
    ah yes, that was me shoulder tapping. Confused my fellow PLer for a second. Will say hi next time.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Was up in London and jumped on a Boris Bike from Lincoln Inn Fields to Victoria and put a few noses out of joint by keeping up and passing people on decent bikes going down the Mall and towards Elizabeth Bridge where I put the bike to bed.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • inbike
    inbike Posts: 264
    Dogged from central to RP by someone on an orange and grey ale kit.

    I'm not usually bothered by people sitting on my wheel but he was too close for anything but pro racing. And whenever he lost a wheel he just soft pedaled until they came by again.

    Infuriating.
  • j_mcd
    j_mcd Posts: 473
    It is HOT outside, hopefully the forecasts are right and it'll be cooler on Sunday for the Ride100.

    Roads were pretty empty this morning, is something going on I don't know about?!
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,302
    J_MCD wrote:
    It is HOT outside, hopefully the forecasts are right and it'll be cooler on Sunday for the Ride100.

    Roads were pretty empty this morning, is something going on I don't know about?!

    Were you not informed about summer holidays?

    Met office is forecasting rain for sunday now...
  • j_mcd
    j_mcd Posts: 473
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    J_MCD wrote:
    It is HOT outside, hopefully the forecasts are right and it'll be cooler on Sunday for the Ride100.

    Roads were pretty empty this morning, is something going on I don't know about?!

    Were you not informed about summer holidays?

    Met office is forecasting rain for sunday now...

    Summer holiday traffic is so variable though, it was really quiet today though.

    I've seen the forecasts and hopefully I'll be finished before it hits! Might ruin the BBQ i have planned in the afternoon though!
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  • nipmeister
    nipmeister Posts: 8
    Can anyone explain to me why people on CS7 are so moody and serious? Give me the OKR anyday!
  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    nipmeister wrote:
    Can anyone explain to me why people on CS7 are so moody and serious? Give me the OKR anyday!

    Anyone who has to come through Tooting is going to be in a bad mood....I dont have to do that so I always have an extemely sunny disposition.
  • nipmeister
    nipmeister Posts: 8
    Fair point!
  • inbike
    inbike Posts: 264
    CS7 has the best motorpacing options. 24mph average speed between Clapham Common and Oval yesterday, despite getting stopped at a few lights.

    Those girly evoke range rovers create a bigger draft zone than a double decker. They don't accelerate very well either, so easy to keep with them off the lights. 10/10 would follow again.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    nipmeister wrote:
    Can anyone explain to me why people on CS7 are so moody and serious? Give me the OKR anyday!
    I always say hello when I see you. :)
  • nipmeister
    nipmeister Posts: 8
    am I following you on Strava?
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Yep. Just noticed I wasn't following you, but have requested.
  • sgt.pepper
    sgt.pepper Posts: 300
    Retro Avanti jersey arrived the other day to match my classic Raleigh. I'm now the coolest commuter in Wellington.

    In my mind.
  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    Thought id got under the hour mark for my surbo > city commute for the first time this morning. Wahoo tells me 59:59 (honest!) but strava has found an exta minute twenty. Very frustrating. Must pedal faster!
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,302
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Thought id got under the hour mark for my surbo > city commute for the first time this morning. Wahoo tells me 59:59 (honest!) but strava has found an exta minute twenty. Very frustrating. Must pedal faster!

    Was a quick day today. 100% tailwind - Kingston to Hammersmith in 24 minutes is pretty much a record for me. Lucky with the lights as well.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Driving back from visiting my mother for her umpteenth birthday, I was waiting to turn right into Priory Lane about 18.20-25. What should I see coming towards me but an orange POC helmet wearing MBC kit, dragging a train of 5 fairies in to the left turn.

    I tried to persuade my wife and daughter to open their windows and shout "come on rower" but they refused, and called me a nutter. :D

    I was turning left up the past the school before entering the park, but I did see in the rear view that someone else had belatedly taken a turn on the front..
  • dyrlac
    dyrlac Posts: 751
    Halfway down Roehampton to Robin Hood, after I was putting in a workmanlike 275 watts into the headwind, chap comes round and says "let me take a turn". I tuck in behind, then blow up like a balloon up broomfield for no obvious reason (other than cracking under the pressure to keep up), so rattled that I couldn't get my front mech to shift back up into the big ring, and my benefactor sails away. Hat, sir.
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  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    edited July 2018
    hopkinb wrote:
    Driving back from visiting my mother for her umpteenth birthday, I was waiting to turn right into Priory Lane about 18.20-25. What should I see coming towards me but an orange POC helmet wearing MBC kit, dragging a train of 5 fairies in to the left turn.

    I tried to persuade my wife and daughter to open their windows and shout "come on rower" but they refused, and called me a nutter. :D

    I was turning left up the past the school before entering the park, but I did see in the rear view that someone else had belatedly taken a turn on the front..
    :) superb. That would have been funny.
    I was getting a bit tired of the fairies by then TBH, I'd had a set of them into the SW wind for most of the journey. So along Priory Lane I gradually eased and eased trying to tempt someone to go past. Only one did, and I let him go it alone about 20m in front, before going straight back past as soon as I entered the Park. I decided on the Sawyers route, and a chap caught and passed me on the very gentle slope after Sheen X. But once past he stabilized 5-10m ahead. Then when the gradient started to get a little more serious, without much more effort on my part, I went back past him and he was nowhere in sight by the time I crested the summit. This happens quite a lot, I'm not sure what they're thinking using all their bullets before the gradient comes...

    Separately, earlier in the journey, and this should probably be in "rants", but whatevs, I was approaching Chelsea Bridge along the painted blue section, it was quite busy. There was a gaggle of slower-moving riders up ahead, so I shoulder-checked to move aside and saw that I was at that moment being overtaken by a stream of riders, I had to hold my line. Trouble was, the gaggle in front had just come across a REALLY slow-moving Boris Bike, and they all scattered to the four winds to get past, impeding some of the riders passing me. Still, I held my own line but had to brake rather hard, immediately hearing behind me "oh-oh-oh-oh" as someone too close nearly rear-ended me. I detected disapproval in her tone too, but it was she who was far too close for the conditions. She had a bike and kit to know better. Worse, thereafter she blatantly jumped every red there was all the way to Putney and beyond, a true chopper in club-kit disguise.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,900
    rower63 wrote:
    This happens quite a lot, I'm not sure what they're thinking using all their bullets before the gradient comes...
    In the unlikely event that I'm gaining on someone and there is a hill coming up I will slow down rather than pass them before the hill. Quite happy to pass on a hill if I feel I can maintain my pace.
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  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    rower63 wrote:
    I went back past him and he was nowhere in sight by the time I crested the summit. This happens quite a lot, I'm not sure what they're thinking using all their bullets before the gradient comes...

    I see this loads too, strong on the flats but unable to hold a pace on a hill or any sort of false flat. Couldnt tell you why they think like that but most, in my experience, refuse to shift gear and grind up which seems bonkers to me.
  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    rower63 wrote:
    I went back past him and he was nowhere in sight by the time I crested the summit. This happens quite a lot, I'm not sure what they're thinking using all their bullets before the gradient comes...

    I see this loads too, strong on the flats but unable to hold a pace on a hill or any sort of false flat. Couldnt tell you why they think like that but most, in my experience, refuse to shift gear and grind up which seems bonkers to me.

    Waving from the bottom of the hill here, as I feel that describes me.
    I can quite happily hit and hold 23-24mph on the flat for a couple of KM, as I found out last night to my surprise, but give me the slightest hill and I struggle like mad, as everyone else overtakes me. I blame my weight...
    But then I know that, and ease up anywhere near a hill.
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  • dekant
    dekant Posts: 114
    Funny, as I also see the opposite when I'm trying to stick to a consistent low power rather than SCR for recovery days. Am overtaken on the hills and then the same people are really slow on the flat.

    Col du Southwark bridge southbound is a good example of this regardless of what I'm doing. Loads of people seem to sprint it then freewheel as soon as it levels off.
  • prhymeate
    prhymeate Posts: 795
    I'm gonna be commuting from Tooting to close to Hackney Central station. Does anyone have any recommended routes? I'm fine over London Bridge to Monument but not sure of the best route from there. Straight up Kingsland Road to Dalston Junction and right on to Dalston Lane? Right at Bethnal Green Road and then left on Cambridge Heath Road? Any suggestions appreciated. Looking for speed rather than scenery.
  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    I had an eyeful on the way home yesterday evening. Heading along NKR through Fulham/Chelsea, a young woman was walking along the pavement wearing a short loose dress. A sudden gust of wind blew the dress up completely to shoulder level, it was immediately apparent that all she was wearing was the dress and a pair of shoes :shock: . Retina scorched.
    I kept an ear out for the sound of cars crashing behind me as I continued my journey...
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  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    nipmeister wrote:
    Can anyone explain to me why people on CS7 are so moody and serious? Give me the OKR anyday!

    You talking about riders or drivers? Anyone see this today?

    https://vimeo.com/282653231
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,302
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    nipmeister wrote:
    Can anyone explain to me why people on CS7 are so moody and serious? Give me the OKR anyday!

    You talking about riders or drivers? Anyone see this today?

    https://vimeo.com/282653231

    sheeeeet!

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