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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    daveholla wrote:
    Anyone take part in Redbull Timelaps at the weekend? The legs needed a hand spinning on the way in this morning!
    I also left the noddy race number tag on my seatpost - does this count as bonus points?
    No. I think this is very much frowned upon in SCR circles. If anything, it makes you a target...
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  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    elbowloh wrote:
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    frogonabike wrote:
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Beers tonight mean trainw@kering for me. I seem to be so used to shoulder checking that I now do it when walking around the tube.

    Ha! I'm always doing this AND my inner voice wants me to berate people who don't do it before changing (walking) lanes :lol:

    Me too; I actually hand-signalled as I pulled into another 'lane' last week. This was whilst walking thru Canary Wharf shopping centre one lunchtime. :lol: :oops:
    I used to shoulder check even before i started cycling. It just makes sense to me.

    Don't think i've ever hand-signalled as a pedestrian though.

    Wait, doesn't everyone? Not necessarily a full arm out, but a little hovering "fling" outwards prior to turning? Especially in shopping centers and supermarkets. :oops:
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  • Gallywomack
    Gallywomack Posts: 823
    Road closed on the way in the morning in Lewisham/Ladywell, just by the Church. Looked like a nasty accident, a couple of cyclists were there giving statements. Only thing I can find suggests a 10 year old boy knocked down by a car. Hope he is OK if so. Slowish ride in today into the wind, have been a bit late last couple of days so has been busy on the roads.
    Pompino
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    In a miserable mood due to work all commute, a few bits of competition but kept telling myself I was too ill to compete, ditto last night. Hopefully all better for tail wind home (nope, just checked, headwind).
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    I'd forgotten how scary the Embankment cycle track is in the dark when it's busy. Riders with gazillion-watt searchlights; riders with no lights at all (normally coming the other way, overtaking the ones with searchlights), and kamikaze pedestrians dressed in black. Back to Fleet St and The Strand for me until Spring, unless someone can locate the dimmer switch for the streetlights...

    In other news, while I wait for the new mech for my commuting bike to arrive I'm riding this strange compromise of a thing I found at the back of the garage. Seems to combine the practicality of a TT bike (narrow slick tyres, no mud clearance, no mudguards) with the aerodynamics of a CX bike. Handling somewhere between the two, but it is definitely not at home performing sharp 90 degree turns into bike lanes.
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Cracking ride home last night. Tailwind, light traffic, hardly any nodders and good groups meant I flew home. Deer all over the road through RP made it more fun. Paid for my efforts this morning though perhaps those recovery ciders last night werent so clever.


    Yeah, I so nearly wiped out on a deer stood in the middle of the road in RP yesterday evening. Cheeky bugger didn't move a muscle when I zipped past him at close quarters

    Was trainw@nkering today, out for dinner with work tonight. Back on the bike tomorrow, peeps.
  • Gallywomack
    Gallywomack Posts: 823
    Was in a rush to get home, so the tailwind and a fairly lucky run of greens was most welcome. Enjoyable commute, particularly the van driver on Brookmill Road who, having shot up behind me and slammed on the anchors last minute rather than passing through a traffic island (cheers, I suppose), then claimed he was doing 20mph when I pointed out the speed limit to him (slightly hypocritically as I was doing 25mph+)
    Pompino
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    I managed 10km this evening before someone was kind enough to tell me I hadn't turned my rear light on.
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  • dekant
    dekant Posts: 114
    edited October 2018
    Kingstonian wrote:
    Yeah, I so nearly wiped out on a deer

    You don't wipe out deer; deer wipe you out.

    Seriously though, I was round the park that night as well and they were everywhere, taking liberties. Fairly unusual to see them so spread out.

    The last few nights have also served as my yearly reminder that every year represents another step forwards in the weaponisation of bike lights by nodders. Nothing wrong with a high power light, but they don't need to be on full power all the time, neither do they need to be pointed straight at people's faces.

    Gallywomack - speed limits only apply to motorised vehicles except where specific bylaws are in place, so not hypocritical at all.


    EDIT: it occurs to me that for every nodder in the park with a billion lumens pointed at you, there is equally a nodder trying to navigate round on a low power city light (i.e. a light to be see with, rather than to see with) so they are essentially using their own night vision. They then get shouty when you pass them with your sensibly powered, dipped lights as it basically blinds them for a bit.
  • AyBee
    AyBee Posts: 36
    KW on a on-one single speed jumping lights this morning - have a word CJ :)
  • AyBee
    AyBee Posts: 36
    dekant wrote:
    The last few nights have also served as my yearly reminder that every year represents another step forwards in the weaponisation of bike lights by nodders. Nothing wrong with a high power light, but they don't need to be on full power all the time, neither do they need to be pointed level.
    My pet hate about this time of year. Nobody seems aware that having a billion lumen light on your helmet or seatpost is actually not required on the streets of london and you're just blinding those behind you on bikes! :x
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    V social ride in chatting with a hacking and spluttering abfg, who only battered one van, and was nearly right hooked just once. Nice crisp morning for it.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    AyBee wrote:
    KW on a on-one single speed jumping lights this morning - have a word CJ :)

    FFS :cry: Cheers for letting me know.

    Older looking guy? Glasses?
    FCN 2-4.

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  • AyBee
    AyBee Posts: 36
    cjcp wrote:
    AyBee wrote:
    KW on a on-one single speed jumping lights this morning - have a word CJ :)

    FFS :cry: Cheers for letting me know.

    Older looking guy? Glasses?
    :lol: Grey hair, didn't see the front of him. Slightly odd that he chose to wear his short sleeve top over his longer clothing, just to advertise he was KW.
  • Gallywomack
    Gallywomack Posts: 823
    dekant wrote:
    Gallywomack - speed limits only apply to motorised vehicles except where specific bylaws are in place, so not hypocritical at all.

    Ah, thanks - I half knew that but felt my argument lost a little force when I responded to his "I was doing 20" with "Well I wasn't!" :lol:

    On that stretch in particular, I should pretty much never be overtaken by a motorised vehicle if they obeyed the limit. It's not really a road where 20mph makes sense so I don't mind sensible overtakes, but close passes or MGIF nonsense like the guy last night is particularly galling when it clearly involves them going far in excess of the limit.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    AyBee wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    AyBee wrote:
    KW on a on-one single speed jumping lights this morning - have a word CJ :)

    FFS :cry: Cheers for letting me know.

    Older looking guy? Glasses?
    :lol: Grey hair, didn't see the front of him. Slightly odd that he chose to wear his short sleeve top over his longer clothing, just to advertise he was KW.

    Gotcha.

    FFS.

    EDIT: whereabouts?
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    AyBee wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    AyBee wrote:
    KW on a on-one single speed jumping lights this morning - have a word CJ :)

    FFS :cry: Cheers for letting me know.

    Older looking guy? Glasses?
    :lol: Grey hair, didn't see the front of him. Slightly odd that he chose to wear his short sleeve top over his longer clothing, just to advertise he was KW.


    light blue bike, by any chance? Only wondering if it is the same guy that I encountered a few days ago.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Kingstonian wrote:
    AyBee wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    AyBee wrote:
    KW on a on-one single speed jumping lights this morning - have a word CJ :)

    FFS :cry: Cheers for letting me know.

    Older looking guy? Glasses?
    :lol: Grey hair, didn't see the front of him. Slightly odd that he chose to wear his short sleeve top over his longer clothing, just to advertise he was KW.


    light blue bike, by any chance? Only wondering if it is the same guy that I encountered a few days ago.

    Yep.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    hopkinb wrote:
    V social ride in chatting with a hacking and spluttering abfg, who only battered one van, and was nearly right hooked just once. Nice crisp morning for it.

    Too busy watching the big van trying to pull out on me to spot the small van cutting through traffic!

    As for the battery incident, if all did that to every bus/van/car that block that crossing ever sing cycle of the lights they may eventually stop being such selfish d1cks.

    Roll on clear lungs!
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  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    cjcp wrote:
    Kingstonian wrote:
    AyBee wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    AyBee wrote:
    KW on a on-one single speed jumping lights this morning - have a word CJ :)

    FFS :cry: Cheers for letting me know.

    Older looking guy? Glasses?
    :lol: Grey hair, didn't see the front of him. Slightly odd that he chose to wear his short sleeve top over his longer clothing, just to advertise he was KW.


    light blue bike, by any chance? Only wondering if it is the same guy that I encountered a few days ago.

    Yep.

    Seen this guy about this week too. KW Gillet, random multicoloured bits of kit etc. Stops at the big lights not so much on the smaller ones/ped crossings.
  • martinc
    martinc Posts: 422
    cjcp wrote:
    Kingstonian wrote:
    AyBee wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    AyBee wrote:
    KW on a on-one single speed jumping lights this morning - have a word CJ :)

    FFS :cry: Cheers for letting me know.

    Older looking guy? Glasses?
    :lol: Grey hair, didn't see the front of him. Slightly odd that he chose to wear his short sleeve top over his longer clothing, just to advertise he was KW.


    light blue bike, by any chance? Only wondering if it is the same guy that I encountered a few days ago.

    Yep.

    Is that the guy that doesn't wear a helmet either? If so, he annoys me too.
    Always in stealth mode
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Smokey - can you remember roughly which ones?
    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:
    Smokey - can you remember roughly which ones?

    Sure, if memory serves, all the lights from the roundabout on Lower Richmond Road to Putney Bridge. Plus lights and ped crossing @ Parsons Green. Plus various bits of unnecesary shoaling and stopping for but going way early from a red light.
  • drhaggis
    drhaggis Posts: 1,150
    My legs felt dead this morning. And consequently, got scalped by a fellow roadie on the way to work this morning. Passed him right after he joined the Roseburn path, and got overtaken about 2 km later. I had a hard time following his wheel by then.

    Later on, at Lothian road, a ricer on a Corsa decided to give it gas, overtake me while on primary, get back on my lane and slam on the brakes before almost hitting the car ahead waiting for the lights to go green. I mean, what's the point? Of course, my direction had a green light, so I never saw him after that.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    I'm not sure a Corsa will be a Japanese import.
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  • AyBee
    AyBee Posts: 36
    cjcp wrote:
    EDIT: whereabouts?
    Right turn onto embankment. Probably easier just to wear his summer kit under his winter kit if he wants to do that :lol:
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    AyBee wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    EDIT: whereabouts?
    Right turn onto embankment. Probably easier just to wear his summer kit under his winter kit if he wants to do that :lol:


    Yeah, you've gotta be a bit of a plum to make yourself so identifiable if you choose to ride like that
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    So, smashed an e-bike 3 times this morning (who then kept shoaling at the lights). Not really a day for SCR, too wet.

    Also, far too many people without mudguards or inadequate mudguards on their bikes. Constantly getting sprayed in the face and mouth with road crap.
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    First time in eons that I have had my mudguards on. Took a while to find them. I don't think I even broke into a sweat today. I hate riding quickly in the wet. I'm sure it's a mental block, but I'm convinced I will end up sprawled all over the road if I have to brake on one of the several thousand puddles of diesel floating on top of the water on the road. The fact that my brakes sound like a herd of angry geese doesn't instil me with confidence either - they work just fine, but the noise sh!ts me up every time, even if just gently braking, it sounds like an accident about to happen.. :roll:

    Anyway, long story short, joined the ranks of the nodders. Only took a few minutes longer than normal, made me feel happier. As you were. :)
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    You're goosed after keeping up with my pace yesterday morning.

    Train w4nkered due to kiddy drop off (just you lot wait till I get my elec assist cargo bike...) Having my hacking cough made it quite pleasant knowing it made all those other mugs feel like they may well walk away with Ebola from their trip on the 8:10 to Waterloo.
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