Silly commuting racing

mattsaw

Did anyone see catch the utter lunatic on the dayglo orange Spec and baggies T-bone the estate at the Priory Lane lights this morning?

I think he came off far better than the car, he let out a roar and then sped off leaving a poor confused women with her kids sitting in the junction.

Riding like that he won't be long for this world. :roll:

elbowloh

Any of you chaps on the CS7 last night between Balham and Colliers Wood around 18.15 and 18.30 on a black Super6?

Had a bit of back and forth with someone who was fairly rapid, obviously neutralised for Tooting high street - not observed by the chap in black normal shorts who only overtook on the descent or by shoaling at lights - normal shorts meaning i was "treated" to the sight of his crack when he did go in front. Also had another shoaler who was epic at track-creeping at every light. He tried to get away quickly at every light, but looked like he blew up after Tooting Broadway and just soft pedalled.

smokey_bacon

cjcp wrote:

But you didn't mention the immediate climb back up after the hairpin, which is a 'balls-out-please-unstitch-my-@rse-so-I-can-breathe climb.

An absolutley cracking image.....thanks

Lots of angry cyclists around this morning. One particular guy went nuclear at a driver who had parked in the bike lane on the left right after the Harwood Road turn. The guy looked proper shocked to cop such a load of abuse.

Gallywomack

Surefire signs you have slight nobbish tendencies: taking a certain 'quiet' satisfaction in besting all-comers on a designated cycling quietway 8) :oops:

Lovely ride this morning though - roads quiet and legs felt fantastic...hang on...<checks weather - SSE wind - ah>

cjcp

Mattsaw wrote:

Did anyone see catch the utter lunatic on the dayglo orange Spec and baggies T-bone the estate at the Priory Lane lights this morning?

I think he came off far better than the car, he let out a roar and then sped off leaving a poor confused women with her kids sitting in the junction.

Riding like that he won't be long for this world. :roll:

Does he pop up on Strava Flyby?

anonymousblackfg

Lovely ride in though a couple of foxes copped it in CS7 traffic last night, bunny hopped one of them impeccably.

I doubt the chap would be uploading his strava if recording, did no one go to stop him riding off if he was at fault?

vimfuego

Yeah I managed to swerve the remnants of one of them too. Ugh.

hopkinb

Two squashed foxes, one fresh, one not so fresh. Managed to dodge them both.

hopkinb

Ah, I see vim and abfg beat me to it.

mattsaw

cjcp wrote:

Mattsaw wrote:

Did anyone see catch the utter lunatic on the dayglo orange Spec and baggies T-bone the estate at the Priory Lane lights this morning?

I think he came off far better than the car, he let out a roar and then sped off leaving a poor confused women with her kids sitting in the junction.

Riding like that he won't be long for this world. :roll:

Does he pop up on Strava Flyby?

No, nothing that seems to correlate with this chaps erratic trajectory at least

cjcp

LOL!

rower63

Mattsaw wrote:

Did anyone see catch the utter lunatic on the dayglo orange Spec and baggies T-bone the estate at the Priory Lane lights this morning?

I think he came off far better than the car, he let out a roar and then sped off leaving a poor confused women with her kids sitting in the junction.

Riding like that he won't be long for this world. :roll:

That's the scene of the most spectacular cyclist-on-car incident I've ever seen, a couple of years ago. Lights were green for traffic on URR, and red for us waiting on Priory Lane having come from the Park. But the traffic was very heavy and queued, but the junction itself was left clear. A woman in a car decided to turn right across the clear junction towards the Park. At the same time there was a cyclist coming from Barnes direction, "filtering" with the lights in his favour but doing what looked like 20mph. He was going so fast the woman crossing the junction would've never seen him. She T-boned him and he and his smashed bike flew off in 3 different directions. His forks broke, he was lying groaning in the road but after he came to, seemed still in one piece. As I was helping pick up the bits of his bike I noticed it was a fixie with no brakes :shock:
Short version: I think that's a junction that needs real care.

inbike

anonymousblackfg wrote:

It seems drivers in Tooting are a particular stellar level of incompetent, remember a couple of months ago there was similar just east of the Broadway junction, where is appeared a BMW had gone straight through the ones in on a pedestrian island and was just sat there facing the wrong way...

My favourite driver is the one that crashed his car into the ornamental garden in the middle of Vauxhaul Pleasure Gardens, about 200m from the nearest road.

That's a whole new level of special.

mtb-idle

inbike wrote:

anonymousblackfg wrote:

It seems drivers in Tooting are a particular stellar level of incompetent, remember a couple of months ago there was similar just east of the Broadway junction, where is appeared a BMW had gone straight through the ones in on a pedestrian island and was just sat there facing the wrong way...

My favourite driver is the one that crashed his car into the ornamental garden in the middle of Vauxhaul Pleasure Gardens, about 200m from the nearest road.

That's a whole new level of special.

Putting Vauxhall and Pleasure in the same sentence, it certainly is

tgotb

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!

Turns out is is something about me. R63 (and possibly Cambs) saw me having exactly the same effect on a white van driver this evening (though this time the aggression was restricted to a bit of unnecessary revving and acceleration).

I wonder what I'm doing to upset these people. I haven't been banging anyone's wife, honest!

hopkinb

Very quiet traffic, almost like a school holiday.

"Tapering" :roll: for this cx business on Sunday, so nothing doing on the road this morning. Seemed like a huge tailwind, as i was passed by an endless stream of pe kit wearing types all displaying 6 to 12 inches of hairy lower back/upper arse crack. Surely a cheap pair of bibs is a good investment.

inbike

Bibs do have the downside of making my wife laugh at me as I get dressed.

elbowloh

inbike wrote:

Bibs do have the downside of making my wife laugh at me as I get dressed.

First time my wife saw me put bibs on "they're funny dungarees".

smokey_bacon

elbowloh wrote:

inbike wrote:

Bibs do have the downside of making my wife laugh at me as I get dressed.

First time my wife saw me put bibs on "they're funny dungarees".

My GF insists on calling bibs unitards.

anonymousblackfg

Just as a final note on the SCR CX, i'm officially out so my name can be scratched or happy to appear as DNS.

mtb-idle

TGOTB wrote:

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!

Turns out is is something about me. R63 (and possibly Cambs) saw me having exactly the same effect on a white van driver this evening (though this time the aggression was restricted to a bit of unnecessary revving and acceleration).

I wonder what I'm doing to upset these people. I haven't been banging anyone's wife, honest!

It's the Brompton. Even us other real cyclists are thinking the same about you

kingstonian

That headwind tonight was ridiculous

kingdav

Sure was, I was very glad to have a buddy to share it with. We had one or two others sheltering behind too, was nice to get some thanks.

roger_merriman

Kingstonian wrote:

That headwind tonight was ridiculous

Was rather lovely! Tailwind that is!

cjcp

hopkinb wrote:

Very quiet traffic, almost like a school holiday.

"Tapering" :roll: for this cx business on Sunday, so nothing doing on the road this morning. Seemed like a huge tailwind, as i was passed by an endless stream of pe kit wearing types all displaying 6 to 12 inches of hairy lower back/upper ars* crack. Surely a cheap pair of bibs is a good investment.

"Tapering"

<narrows eyes suspiciously>

Hmm. That sounds very pro.

Which reminds me, I must pick up my inhalers today...

What are you riding?

I'll be another one in KW kit, probably near a Planet X XLS.

Do say 'hello' if you see me before I see you!

hopkinb

cjcp wrote:

hopkinb wrote:

Very quiet traffic, almost like a school holiday.

"Tapering" :roll: for this cx business on Sunday, so nothing doing on the road this morning. Seemed like a huge tailwind, as i was passed by an endless stream of pe kit wearing types all displaying 6 to 12 inches of hairy lower back/upper ars* crack. Surely a cheap pair of bibs is a good investment.

"Tapering"

<narrows eyes suspiciously>

Hmm. That sounds very pro.

Which reminds me, I must pick up my inhalers today...

What are you riding?

I'll be another one in KW kit, probably near a Planet X XLS.

Do say 'hello' if you see me before I see you!

Pro?! Pro wrestler maybe. I'm just trying to make sure my old legs aren't too tired!

I have a ti pickenflick, decked out with garish black and white pro-lite wheels for this event.

I'll be with V68. I think he's giving me a lift.

veronese68

Yes, I’ll give Hopper a lift over. Reckon we’ll get there about 10ish so hopefully have time for a bit of a recce.
Is putting a stick in the spokes of people lapping me allowed?
Aah, meant to pick up some Belgian beer, is Swedish near enough?

asprilla

I also forgot to get Belgian beer. Will bring something suitably tasty though

Looks wet. I blame the change in weather squarely at the feet of TGOTB.

40mm tyres it is then.

veronese68

Asprilla wrote:

Looks wet. I blame the change in weather squarely at the feet of TGOTB.

Of course it's his fault, he's the organiser so he wil have organised the weather.
Should I take the MTB with wide bars and 2.4" tyres to complete my role as mobile chicane.

tgotb

Erm... Come on lads, I've been busy helping my team build a bl**dy brilliant CX course, so I haven't had time for forum banter.

Yes, I take full credit for the authentic Flandrian weather, we ordered it months ago. It'll just make the Belgian Fries and Bitterbollen taste better; if you get a bit chilly you can always warm up with a hot coffee.

The course was seriously fast this afternoon. Faster than last year, for sure. What'll it be like tomorrow? Your guess is as good as mine, but I'm pretty confident you don't want to be bringing your tractor.....