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  • Pearcy
    Pearcy Posts: 46
    Congrats to the headphone wearing guy on a old blue Trek this morning. I hope you are still alive to read this. After drafting a transit van within 2cm from Chelsea bridge to the roadwork section, there was then an aborted undertake of a lorry before the ped crossing which resulted in some heavy braking and a meeting with the traffic cones. I was shaking my head as he tried the undertake fully expecting him not to make it. What a fu*king idiot.
  • ryan_w-2
    ryan_w-2 Posts: 1,162
    cjcp wrote:
    martinc wrote:
    Think I've only seen him on the ride in, through RP. Maybe he takes the train home. Still odd though.

    He rides both ways. Can't see the point in riding that distance on a Brommie. Maybe I'm missing something, though.

    Old bloke in his 50s? Wears a high vis jacket a lot? If so, he's a cnut. Loves jumping reds and I've had it out with him a few times.
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  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    Ryan_W wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    martinc wrote:
    Think I've only seen him on the ride in, through RP. Maybe he takes the train home. Still odd though.
    He rides both ways. Can't see the point in riding that distance on a Brommie. Maybe I'm missing something, though.
    Old bloke in his 50s? Wears a high vis jacket a lot? If so, he's a cnut. Loves jumping reds and I've had it out with him a few times.
    Don't think that's him, he's normally dressed in proper roadie kit. His riding style is a bit racy and unpredictable but I don't think he's a serial RLJer. He's Kiwi I think.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,895
    Ryan_W wrote:
    Old bloke in his 50s?
    FFS young gobshite, 50 is not old!

    Although it feels it some mornings
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  • menthel
    menthel Posts: 2,484
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Ryan_W wrote:
    Old bloke in his 50s?
    FFS young gobshite, 50 is not old!

    Although it feels it some mornings

    Yes it is! :lol:
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    cjcp wrote:
    martinc wrote:
    Think I've only seen him on the ride in, through RP. Maybe he takes the train home. Still odd though.

    He rides both ways. Can't see the point in riding that distance on a Brommie. Maybe I'm missing something, though.

    He works in my old office by Cannon Street. Called Andy, I think. Usually wears some pretty vintage club/team kit.

    I saw him riding westwards with just one crank arm on his Brompton once. Poor guy.
  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    martinc wrote:
    Think I've only seen him on the ride in, through RP. Maybe he takes the train home. Still odd though.

    He rides both ways. Can't see the point in riding that distance on a Brommie. Maybe I'm missing something, though.

    He works in my old office by Cannon Street. Called Andy, I think. Usually wears some pretty vintage club/team kit.

    I saw him riding westwards with just one crank arm on his Brompton once. Poor guy.
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Ryan_W wrote:
    Old bloke in his 50s?
    FFS young gobshite, 50 is not old!

    Although it feels it some mornings


    hahahaha, someone took the bait !!!!!
  • hotspanners
    hotspanners Posts: 102
    Hello racers

    I'm back on the Embankment SCR scene after some time commuting from Surbiton to Notting Hill. Not much SCR on that route but it was much safer. I'd forgotten how mental Putney-Westminster is. Seem like a fair few 6th cats have been promoted to 5th cat whilst I've been away so congrats to them.

    When I was last active on here I used to ride a silver Canyon Inflite with Carradice panniers but that bit the dust last year. I'm either on a green Mercian fixie conversion (with the panniers) or a blue Mason Definition (with a saddle pack). Do say hi!
  • rhodrich
    rhodrich Posts: 867
    hotspanners wrote:
    Hello racers

    I'm back on the Embankment SCR scene after some time commuting from Surbiton to Notting Hill. Not much SCR on that route but it was much safer. I'd forgotten how mental Putney-Westminster is. Seem like a fair few 6th cats have been promoted to 5th cat whilst I've been away so congrats to them.

    When I was last active on here I used to ride a silver Canyon Inflite with Carradice panniers but that bit the dust last year. I'm either on a green Mercian fixie conversion (with the panniers) or a blue Mason Definition (with a saddle pack). Do say hi!


    You were showing as being on my flyby yesterday morning, but I failed to spot you! I'll try and look more carefully in future. Were you wearing your pointy helmet? :D
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Left home 45 mins later than usual due to it being my youngest son's birthday today. OMG, the roads were absolute carnage. Getting through Roehampton Gate was like trying to thread a camel through the eye of a needle, and then virtually everywhere through Putney, Fulham, Chelsea etc was a complete cluster. Can't wait to get back to normal commuting times tomorrow.
  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    hotspanners wrote:
    Hello racers

    I'm back on the Embankment SCR scene after some time commuting from Surbiton to Notting Hill. Not much SCR on that route but it was much safer. I'd forgotten how mental Putney-Westminster is. Seem like a fair few 6th cats have been promoted to 5th cat whilst I've been away so congrats to them.

    When I was last active on here I used to ride a silver Canyon Inflite with Carradice panniers but that bit the dust last year. I'm either on a green Mercian fixie conversion (with the panniers) or a blue Mason Definition (with a saddle pack). Do say hi!
    Welcome back! Not sure if you got familiar with the Westminster-Blackfriars segregated section before your hiatus, but do be careful on that! There are regularly ambulances attending head-ons and as it gets darker you get unlighted and front-red-lighted morons too.
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  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    Kingstonian wrote:
    Left home 45 mins later than usual ...
    me too
    Kingstonian wrote:
    ... OMG, the roads were absolute carnage. Getting through Roehampton Gate was like trying to thread a camel through the eye of a needle, and then virtually everywhere through Putney, Fulham, Chelsea etc was a complete cluster ...
    Roger that. Nonetheless quite a spirited ride this morning, every part from the very outset featured competitive people up for a joust. Legs tired now. I wonder if you were one of them...
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  • hotspanners
    hotspanners Posts: 102
    Rhodrich wrote:


    You were showing as being on my flyby yesterday morning, but I failed to spot you! I'll try and look more carefully in future. Were you wearing your pointy helmet? :D

    Never leave home without it. On or off the bike. Are you still usually in Wheelers kit? I'll look out for you.
  • hotspanners
    hotspanners Posts: 102
    rower63 wrote:
    hotspanners wrote:
    Hello racers

    I'm back on the Embankment SCR scene after some time commuting from Surbiton to Notting Hill. Not much SCR on that route but it was much safer. I'd forgotten how mental Putney-Westminster is. Seem like a fair few 6th cats have been promoted to 5th cat whilst I've been away so congrats to them.

    When I was last active on here I used to ride a silver Canyon Inflite with Carradice panniers but that bit the dust last year. I'm either on a green Mercian fixie conversion (with the panniers) or a blue Mason Definition (with a saddle pack). Do say hi!
    Welcome back! Not sure if you got familiar with the Westminster-Blackfriars segregated section before your hiatus, but do be careful on that! There are regularly ambulances attending head-ons and as it gets darker you get unlighted and front-red-lighted morons too.

    Thanks!

    I stop at Waterloo Bridge now so only have to use the bike lane for a little bit, but even then you have to have your wits about you.
  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    Left earlier than normal and took the nasty route this morning as had an early meeting; by gum it was nasty.

    Still, a little bit of SCR with a mtb'r with knobblies, I'd managed to pull out a lead of about 20 seconds with them over 3 km, before I stopped filtering and sat behind a dumper truck 2 cars back from a roundabout, whereas they took the incredibly thin cycle lane and went up the inside just before the dumper started to move.
    Thankfully, the dumper didn't turn left.

    It may not sound a lot, but being unable to use the big front ring and spinning at 120rpm meant it felt like a lot of hard work, and I'd earned it!
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  • martinc
    martinc Posts: 422
    Overestimated the warmth of the sun and dared to go no arm warmers or leg warmers. Mistake.
    Chilly in RP for sure as dozens of photographers capturing the deer in their morning glory.
    Decided speed was my best way to keep warm, aided by doing the Embankment with CJ.
    Sun is fun.
    Always in stealth mode
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,895
    Managed to wobble in today as the invalid decided it was too uncomfortable at work with crutches. Bushy Park was open and very pretty which was definitely a good thing, bit fresh with a nice ground mist though. Might have to dig out warmer gloves soon. Legs felt very heavy so quite glad there was no competition.
    Picked the Mrs up from Twickenham yesterday and there was a bloke on a 'Dale fat bike with lefty fork and another chap on a road bike as I was sat at a set of lights. Caught them up at Teddington Lock and they were still together. The bloke was on 4" knobbly tyres, he must be an absolute beast. Or the other bloke should hang his head in shame.
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  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    martinc wrote:
    Overestimated the warmth of the sun and dared to go no arm warmers or leg warmers. Mistake.
    Chilly in RP for sure as dozens of photographers capturing the deer in their morning glory.
    Decided speed was my best way to keep warm, aided by doing the Embankment with CJ.
    Sun is fun.

    Agreed, chilly was the word. I'm sure temps mean different things in the burbs as my usual clothing choices are not as warm since moving! Having said that seeing the sunrise while descending Kingston Hill was ace.
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Stuggled to catch London-Red this evening as he was towing a white SS through the park. Caught up at the top of ballet school hill, but was blown at this point and fell back again, until Ham dip when I managed to go past. Think he'd given up at this point.

    Was a nice quick run.
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  • london-red
    london-red Posts: 1,266
    Asprilla wrote:
    Stuggled to catch London-Red this evening as he was towing a white SS through the park. Caught up at the top of ballet school hill, but was blown at this point and fell back again, until Ham dip when I managed to go past. Think he'd given up at this point.

    Was a nice quick run.

    What were you riding? I'm so rubbish at recognising people out there...

    TBF to the SS guy, he did put some shifts in and was pretty rapid (on my scale, anyway). From Ham dip to KG I struggled to keep up with a dude on an electric skateboard :lol:
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    London-Red wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    Stuggled to catch London-Red this evening as he was towing a white SS through the park. Caught up at the top of ballet school hill, but was blown at this point and fell back again, until Ham dip when I managed to go past. Think he'd given up at this point.

    Was a nice quick run.

    What were you riding? I'm so rubbish at recognising people out there...

    TBF to the SS guy, he did put some shifts in and was pretty rapid (on my scale, anyway). From Ham dip to KG I struggled to keep up with a dude on an electric skateboard :lol:

    I was on a non-descript black Canyon; you would have heard the bb before noticing it. I overtook you just before the electric skateboard fella. Was he wearing a motorcycle helmet?
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  • london-red
    london-red Posts: 1,266
    Asprilla wrote:
    I was on a non-descript black Canyon; you would have heard the bb before noticing it. I overtook you just before the electric skateboard fella. Was he wearing a motorcycle helmet?

    Next time we should say hello - our paths have crossed loads of times in the past!

    Skateboard dude was in full face MTB helmet mode. Odd. I assume he's face planted before, which doesn't surprise me given the speed and the size of the wheels...
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Those electric skateboards look mental. All looks fine while they're cruising along, but when they need to pull out an emergency stop it must be utter carnage.
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    rower63 wrote:
    Kingstonian wrote:
    Left home 45 mins later than usual ...
    me too
    Kingstonian wrote:
    ... OMG, the roads were absolute carnage. Getting through Roehampton Gate was like trying to thread a camel through the eye of a needle, and then virtually everywhere through Putney, Fulham, Chelsea etc was a complete cluster ...
    Roger that. Nonetheless quite a spirited ride this morning, every part from the very outset featured competitive people up for a joust. Legs tired now. I wonder if you were one of them...


    Nah, not me, or at least I didn't see you. My legs are feeling a bit frazzled now too.
  • london-red
    london-red Posts: 1,266
    Kingstonian wrote:
    Those electric skateboards look mental. All looks fine while they're cruising along, but when they need to pull out an emergency stop it must be utter carnage.

    I never caught the skateboard bug as a kid - fell off a couple of times, then decided it wasn't for me.. Gnarly bunch I reckon.
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Given one of my childcarers for Sunday's CX race boarded a plane to the US to dry out a relative yesterday morning, I think my CX ambitions are limited, so, one last blast over the common before sticking the slicks back on tonight. Remounts need work given the bruise on my knee after getting off to pass a dog walker while heading up the toast rack.

    Else, I got pipped (I would claim the foot came off the gas as the competitor started a conversation with me) by CJ on Embankment before lights, traffic and cyclist chaos at the blackfriars bridge crossing which saw me come from the back and sail through ahead of the traffic leaving CJ marooned on a gaggle of nodders.
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Had a pacy ride home last night, as i caught up with spinny single speed guy at lights. We then both applied the hammer as much as possible, given traffic. Sweaty mess as I tumbled through the door.

    Some w@nker on a mountain bike jumping on and off pavements to "beat" the traffic in South Wimbledon this morning. I was hanging behind a massive double lorry thing as I knew it would encroach on the cycle lane (large vehicles always do there as the road narrows), when mountain bike guy got impatient, hopped on to the pavement, past me, then back on to the road, into the lorry's blind spot, just at the same time as the lorry took up the road space. I don't think I've seen anyone that close to being killed before, he was white as a sheet as I told him to think before he next tried doing something fcuking stupid.
  • tgotb
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    Subjected to the bizarrest stream of invective I think I've ever heard on NKR this morning. I'd just filtered round a clapped-out looking lorry approaching Col de Chutney Mary when one of the guys in the cab unleashed a torrent of f-ing and blinding, homophobic abuse, the works. Super-aggressive revving of the engine. All very odd; I didn't do anything to "get in their way", nor did anyone around me. I hadn't said anything, hadn't gestured anything, hadn't interacted with them any way, nothing. It was clearly directed at me, not the other cyclists around me; all very strange. From the sheer level of abuse you'd have thought I'd been nailing his wife or something!

    Guy who stopped next to me at the lights asked me what it was all about; had to confess I hadn't the faintest idea!
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  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    TGOTB wrote:
    Subjected to the bizarrest stream of invective I think I've ever heard on NKR this morning. I'd just filtered round a clapped-out looking lorry approaching Col de Chutney Mary when one of the guys in the cab unleashed a torrent of f-ing and blinding, homophobic abuse, the works. Super-aggressive revving of the engine. All very odd; I didn't do anything to "get in their way", nor did anyone around me. I hadn't said anything, hadn't gestured anything, hadn't interacted with them any way, nothing. It was clearly directed at me, not the other cyclists around me; all very strange. From the sheer level of abuse you'd have thought I'd been nailing his wife or something!

    Guy who stopped next to me at the lights asked me what it was all about; had to confess I hadn't the faintest idea!

    Perhaps his mother ran off with a cyclist when he was a kid, and it scarred him for life....

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