Silly commuting racing

1…23542355235723592360…2536

Comments

  • kingdav
    kingdav Posts: 417
    I was so glad I was on my disc commuter with the big tyres this morning. Bus driver pulled from being stationary in a bus stop out into the outer lane directly in front of me as I was in coming down Brixton Hill. I managed to come to a skiding halt, but narrowly missed being funnelled into the oncoming traffic.

    Of course when I stopped him to have words, he told me I shouldn't be overtaking and that he wasn't stopped at all.

    The adrenalin gave me wings for the remainder of the ride so SCR supremacy was maintained.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,897
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Proper Cat 6 chopperthon this morning.
    I passed one bloke on a hybrid this morning, didn't see anyone else going my way.
    Legs like lead at the moment, after a very lazy year I've finally started riding a bit more. Unfortunately to visit the old man in hospital. But, every cloud and all that as it's made me ride more. I even see other people on bikes.
    Kinesis Pro6
    Marin Nail Trail
    Cotic Solaris
  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Proper Cat 6 chopperthon this morning. Thought better of getting involved, wish I had popcorn for some of it...was well entertaining.
    I just had a vision of what a potential '6th cat' race would involve

    I'm currently lying in a darkened room sobbing
    Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
    Specialising in Git Daaahns and Cafs. Norvern Munkey/Transplanted Laaandoner.
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Despite a fuller diet it still seems I have nothing in the legs.

    A fair few Choppers about, I was quite happy just to let some of them go but a good helping of normal utility cyclists out there which makes me think we are getting towards normalising cycle commuting.
    If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Proper Cat 6 chopperthon this morning.
    I passed one bloke on a hybrid this morning, didn't see anyone else going my way.
    Legs like lead at the moment, after a very lazy year I've finally started riding a bit more. Unfortunately to visit the old man in hospital. But, every cloud and all that as it's made me ride more. I even see other people on bikes.

    I quite liked the ride to St Georges, though Queen Mary's was nicer in that it was Bushy/Richmond Park. much easier to park as well, be that bike or car, at Queen Mary's.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,897
    roger merriman wrote:
    I quite liked the ride to St Georges, though Queen Mary's was nicer in that it was Bushy/Richmond Park. much easier to park as well, be that bike or car, at Queen Mary's.
    Yes, it's quite a nice ride really. Having the cross bike with slightly fatter tyres makes the Wimbledon Common route viable. Just shared the route with a friend as his son will be riding Tooting to Twickenham.
    Kinesis Pro6
    Marin Nail Trail
    Cotic Solaris
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Cruff wrote:
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Proper Cat 6 chopperthon this morning. Thought better of getting involved, wish I had popcorn for some of it...was well entertaining.
    I just had a vision of what a potential '6th cat' race would involve

    I'm currently lying in a darkened room sobbing

    Djamolidine Abdoujaparov? :)
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    cjcp wrote:
    Cruff wrote:
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Proper Cat 6 chopperthon this morning. Thought better of getting involved, wish I had popcorn for some of it...was well entertaining.
    I just had a vision of what a potential '6th cat' race would involve

    I'm currently lying in a darkened room sobbing

    Djamolidine Abdoujaparov? :)

    He'd be useful on the millbank sprint :shock: !!
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Anyone swinging by Holborn on the route home? I may do if out at 5:30 but look unlikely.
    If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.
  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    Cruff wrote:
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Proper Cat 6 chopperthon this morning. Thought better of getting involved, wish I had popcorn for some of it...was well entertaining.
    I just had a vision of what a potential '6th cat' race would involve

    I'm currently lying in a darkened room sobbing

    Djamolidine Abdoujaparov? :)

    He'd be useful on the millbank sprint :shock: !!
    From what I remember of it, he'd be out of his depth. Until you've seen a bloke move out from the wheel in front without shoulder checking at 55k/h on wet ice-painted bike lane you haven't lived. Abdoujaparov was a rank amateur in the chop stakes.
    Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
    Specialising in Git Daaahns and Cafs. Norvern Munkey/Transplanted Laaandoner.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Cruff wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    Who's the fella on the SS green and silver Cannondale? Blimey, he can shift.
    Think that might be iPete - who used to post on here when I lived out Woking way three years ago. Smashed me up Broomfield more than once :D

    He's done that to me, and along the flats :), so I know it wasn't him.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,897
    Had a bit of actual SCR last night, riding home from Tooting and feeling a bit knackered I was passed along the stretch between South Wimbledon and the tram crossing, he was going a fair bit quicker than me which was a little disheartening. Dug a bit deeper as I think he slowed a little and had caught him again by the Nelson hospital, commented on his bike as I caught him near Wimbledon Chase. Can't remember the make, very shiny multi coloured metallic fade paint job with Sram discs, Chris King headset and a Rotor chainset. Went our separate ways shortly after thankfully. Felt a little better when I checked the Flyby and he'd got his 3rd best time on Strava along the stretch where he passed me, at least I made him put in a bit of effort. Good fun anyway, took it easy after that.
    Kinesis Pro6
    Marin Nail Trail
    Cotic Solaris
  • mr_ribble
    mr_ribble Posts: 1,068
    Cat Attack
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    Mr_Ribble wrote:
    Cat Attack

    Suicide Squirrels for me
  • AyBee
    AyBee Posts: 36
    Don't you just love it when some douche is more interested in SCR than what's ahead...motorbike up ahead indicating left so I go to move right to find some idiot hasn't even seen the motorbike and isn't even aware that I'm trying to move right because he's so fixated on trying to get past me and is sat 2mm off my right hand side! :x
  • magictrumpet
    magictrumpet Posts: 54
    I beat a fast Colnado Tornado with green socks along Embankment this morning. Huzzah.

    But in truth he was probably a faster, more serious dude than me, and he either didn't know the quickest lines to avoid potential right-turning cars or was naturally a bit more cautious, so I was able to leapfrog due to knowing where to go.

    So I don't think it was the cleanest of wins to be able to claim the scalp.
  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    PoweredByIdris wrote:
    Mr_Ribble wrote:
    Cat Attack

    Suicide Squirrels for me

    Ditto - the pesky varmints love to suddenly swerve back towards the front wheel when they had been dashing safely away.
    Location: ciderspace
  • mr_ribble
    mr_ribble Posts: 1,068
    "The thinking cat's board game"
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Had a bit of actual SCR last night, riding home from Tooting and feeling a bit knackered I was passed along the stretch between South Wimbledon and the tram crossing, he was going a fair bit quicker than me which was a little disheartening. Dug a bit deeper as I think he slowed a little and had caught him again by the Nelson hospital, commented on his bike as I caught him near Wimbledon Chase. Can't remember the make, very shiny multi coloured metallic fade paint job with Sram discs, Chris King headset and a Rotor chainset. Went our separate ways shortly after thankfully. Felt a little better when I checked the Flyby and he'd got his 3rd best time on Strava along the stretch where he passed me, at least I made him put in a bit of effort. Good fun anyway, took it easy after that.

    It's some custom steel job with eTap, Talbot is the maker I think. I've had a chat with him before.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,897
    hopkinb wrote:
    It's some custom steel job with eTap, Talbot is the maker I think. I've had a chat with him before.
    That looks about right, it is a beautiful thing. Rather than saying you had a chat could you not have said he was so fast you couldn't breathe or something?
    Kinesis Pro6
    Marin Nail Trail
    Cotic Solaris
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Veronese68 wrote:
    That looks about right, it is a beautiful thing. Rather than saying you had a chat could you not have said he was so fast you couldn't breathe or something?

    He kept on catching up with me at lights, I felt I should say hi and comment on his lovely bike. :D
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    AyBee wrote:
    Don't you just love it when some douche is more interested in SCR than what's ahead...motorbike up ahead indicating left so I go to move right to find some idiot hasn't even seen the motorbike and isn't even aware that I'm trying to move right because he's so fixated on trying to get past me and is sat 2mm off my right hand side! :x

    Had this tonight. I just don't get the need for, or even see the attraction in, sitting right on someone's wheel. They should just p1ss off to Hillingdon.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • sgt.pepper
    sgt.pepper Posts: 300
    Bottom bracket broke this morning, ended up embarrassingly asking a woman on an ebike for a tow.

    Not impressed as it only got fixed a few weeks ago. Virtually every repair that shop has done for me lately has gone wrong in some way - though I do wonder if I got some degreaser in it while doing the chain over the weekend.
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Kept closing down some shoaler on a shiny boardman last night, gradually gathering a decent little pack of riders before said shoaler vanished and said pack left me for dead after a failed effort to stay shead of them.
    If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.
  • errorist
    errorist Posts: 169
    Pretty uneventful week so far apart from experiencing repeated challenges yesterday from a chap on a SuperSix with Cosmics who kept trying to overtake or beat me off the lights with full on out of the saddle sprints. Felt smug as I held him off every time while seated and on my less than light commuter steed. Could feel his rage increasing with every failed attempt 8)
  • dekant
    dekant Posts: 114
    Sgt.Pepper wrote:
    Bottom bracket broke this morning, ended up embarrassingly asking a woman on an ebike for a tow.

    Not impressed as it only got fixed a few weeks ago. Virtually every repair that shop has done for me lately has gone wrong in some way - though I do wonder if I got some degreaser in it while doing the chain over the weekend.

    How does a BB break so catastrophically that you can't even ride the bike anymore?!
  • mosheehan
    mosheehan Posts: 64
    Swam home last night, when it was a nice morning ride in, my gloves, helmet and shoes are still soggy from last night!!!
    The Monkeys are out to get me!
    Cannondale CaadX Tiagra Disc
  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    Spinning to win this morning. Was encoruaged to give it the beans on Southwark Bridge by a wheelsucker Id picked with a BB noise so loud it sounded like it would explode at any moment. I just wanted away from the noise tbh, was 2 seconds off a pb that I thought was well out of reach!
  • kingdav
    kingdav Posts: 417
    I traded some watts with an enthusiastic competitor on a Basso between Toulouse and Broadgate over London Bridge this morning, good exercise!
  • martinc
    martinc Posts: 422
    I've gone a bit early with putting on the winter 32mm tyres. Gawd it's hard work = Thanks for the tow this morn Mr Paceline.
    Always in stealth mode

Categories