Silly commuting racing

snooks

There was some lanky fella on a hybrid that went shooting by me, hang on that's not a hybrid, it's just a blooming great MTB with slicks....and flats!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

All I could do was keep up ish, I had no chance of taking him...he must have been about 12* foot high, wearing lyrca, on a blueish Trek

*in my shock I might have got a bit confused

Apart from that, nout to report...I managed not to run in the back of any buses on the way home which was a bit of a relief...

Although some old bloke and his misses in a beige Skoda took offence at me overtaking motorbike stylee on the right, beeped their horn and moved over towards me, even though the road widened to their left where I (and another cyclist) was overtaking.

ansbaradigeidfran

gtvlusso wrote:

ansbaradigeidfran wrote:

Bit rainy on the way home. Positively piddly.

On the final stretch, I saw a moped waiting to pull out on to the road after me. I put on the power, but couldn't push Ol' Bouncy over 23mph, and was greeted with a lungful of two-stroke fumes. Oh, the pain...

Mmmm 2 stroke....was it Shell?

Couldn't say, sorry: I'm not enough of a connoisseur!

Wrath Rob

The roads of London were quiet on the way home tonight, though it was 9.30! Not much action apart from another SS that got me on the Embankment, he came past at a couple of mph faster and then got up out of his seat and tried to do the "lay down some awesome" trick. A bit of a failure for him though as a) no rucksack for him, so he should have done me on points and b) he was obviously trying too

Anyway, I manfully held on for long enough for him to loose any points as he jumped the next 3 sets of lights. A bit silly really as each time I held the gap and slowly reeled him in. By the time I had to turn of for lots road I was right back on his wheel too. I was tempted to go for the overtake but I just wanted to get home, not have a 1 mile detour to prove the point (yeah, yeah, I know MTFU).

On the negative side, the wine and nibbles from the work do definitely hampered my performance by conspiring to provide a nasty stitch after about 20 mins

itboffin

gb155 wrote:

No bikes my way again today, BUT I just wanted to share that I have finally hit 1000 MILES WOOOT, Check out my blog for some info on me, the last 12 months and 3 pics, May I just say a HUGE Thank You to everyone who has supported and encouraged me since I have been here, You guys and gals are amazing, THANK YOU !!!!

Here is to the NEXT 1000 Miles

Gaz


http://gazzasblogs.blogspot.com/

Very very well done old bean, keep up the good work and keep posting your progress.

BTW a friend of mine recently dropped from 300lb to 200lb by riding his bike and told me one of the things he found helpful was to stop looking at his weight and watch the inches instead.

Chapeau pal chapeau!

itboffin

ansbaradigeidfran wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

ansbaradigeidfran wrote:

Bit rainy on the way home. Positively piddly.

On the final stretch, I saw a moped waiting to pull out on to the road after me. I put on the power, but couldn't push Ol' Bouncy over 23mph, and was greeted with a lungful of two-stroke fumes. Oh, the pain...

Mmmm 2 stroke....was it Shell?

Couldn't say, sorry: I'm not enough of a connoisseur!

I prefer meths :shock:

gb155

itboffin wrote:

gb155 wrote:

No bikes my way again today, BUT I just wanted to share that I have finally hit 1000 MILES WOOOT, Check out my blog for some info on me, the last 12 months and 3 pics, May I just say a HUGE Thank You to everyone who has supported and encouraged me since I have been here, You guys and gals are amazing, THANK YOU !!!!

Here is to the NEXT 1000 Miles

Gaz


http://gazzasblogs.blogspot.com/

Very very well done old bean, keep up the good work and keep posting your progress.

BTW a friend of mine recently dropped from 300lb to 200lb by riding his bike and told me one of the things he found helpful was to stop looking at his weight and watch the inches instead.

Chapeau pal chapeau!

Cheers, I started at 550LBS now at 351Lbs, Those numbers are CRAZY, At the moment watching the weight is working but im sure there will be a day soon where I have to look at inches, Im prepared for that though

Bassjunkieuk

I'm now down to my final commute before my extended Xmas break and it's my short local town blast and to cap it off there will probably be sod all to race as I head home after mid day!

Had a bit of fun last night as I played with a chap on his scooter, admittedly both of us where held up by a bus but I was matching the speed of both vehicles :-) Also managed to time the first set of lights on the way home to perfection, arriving just as they changed and laying down a nice strip of awesome to pull away down the middle lane and hold the pace for the next 200 yards or so to keep ahead of the buses and cars!!!

So just incase I'm not back on here before Xmas (I probably will be but from this afternoon it's gonna be a manic effort to prepare the house for Christmas with all the extra children and people coming over - the best bits!) I'd like to wish you all a merry christmas and I hope santa brings you all the pressies you asked for - cycling related or not!

hondafanatic

:twisted: <- mowahahahaahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I was on a mission this morning. I turned out of my village onto the A6 towards sunny Lancaster.

Ahead of me was a floo-yellow cyclist. That's all I saw at this stage. So I start to give chase along the two mile stretch before we hit the built up area. I was gaining, but not by much.

And then I spot why I'm not gaining that quickly. As I get closer I spy lycra, clipless peddles and oddly smooth legs pushing them around....

Game on. - just before I got to Lancaster itself I peddle past this roadie, I actually held my breath and sat as up right as I could as if this was a casual cycle to work...I continued to pull away for the next half mile.

Then I came to a stop at a set of red lights at a major junction...well, you can guess what he did...

So not only a SCR win, but a moral victory as well...hoorah!

And this was done on my wife's MTB with full MTB tires and I think I deserve an extra point as it has a ladies saddle...

cjcp

m0scs wrote:

Surely though, with thin wheels and high tyre pressures road bike wheels must suffer similarly from spoke breakages, Or not?

Seems logical, but isn't the front suss intended to absorb some of the stick?

In truth, I have no idea. Wheels are a dark art.

Fyi, I bought new wheels this summer when spoke after spoke broke on my mtb. Cost me about £100 off Wiggle.

cjcp

Nailed it last night and this morning. Feel absolutely spent.

Chased a SS home last night from Embankment and finally got him on Bolan Death Crash Bridge. (Picture my tongue hanging out, wild panting - but only after I'd passed him, so as not to show any outward signs of fatigue.) I felt like a fisherman who'd been battling with a marlin for hours on end.

linsen

Well this was my last ride in to work of the year, so I thought I'd try to get my lazy legs going and get there in a decent time.
Had a great ride, realised that if I push harder, I can go faster
Also helped pumping the tyres up before I left - they didn't feel too bad but had gone down to 60psi :shock:
No scalps to be had (well, not worthy of mention) Come to think of it, there never is, but please don't sack me - I like it here :oops:

lost_in_thought

No bike today.

Further to my grumbling post about my ankle hurting yesterday, I awoke this morning to find that someone appears to have placed a quail's egg in my ankle where part of my achilles tendon should be.

I looked on this as a bad thing, and made the unusually mature decision not to cycle.

But it's such a nice day!

Clever Pun

No bike for me today (Christmas party) but I'd like a couple of clarifications

the rapha winter hat.. does that count as a little cap? (-1) it's got ear flaps and it's not little

also where does a recumbent sit in the ratings as I managed to drop one last night... he tried to put up a fight but knowing I wasn't cycling today I whipped him good.

itboffin

Clever Pun wrote:

No bike for me today (Christmas party) but I'd like a couple of clarifications

the rapha winter hat.. does that count as a little cap? (-1) it's got ear flaps and it's not little

also where does a recumbent sit in the ratings as I managed to drop one last night... he tried to put up a fight but knowing I wasn't cycling today I whipped him good.

Any item of Rapha kit should carry a TdF jersey equivalent penalty, that stuff is stupidly expensive.

Yes yes it does look very cool, mmmm

CP -1

Feltup

hondafanatic wrote:

And this was done on my wife's MTB with full MTB tires and I think I deserve an extra point as it has a ladies saddle...

You can have the point in my view. I cycled 14miles on my GF's bike once and the saddle nearly killed me. Big saddles may be comfy for that 1/2 mile to the shops but after that they rub horrendously :shock:

Anyway kudos to you on your pass Christmas Chapeau to you sir

gtvlusso

Had a good race today with a guy on an Audax bike - He looked like a mileeater. I took him on a flat, he took me through traffic, then I took him on a climb, he took me on the flat again. We both met up at a round-a-bout and I told him to take right of way (as we were there together and heading the same way - not a round-a-bout to be fucked with as it is really busy).

No one won in reality due to circumstance and traffic, - then we went seperate ways. I felt vindicated that I was not knackered in any way and beat him on a climb whilst staying seated.

jonginge

lost_in_thought wrote:

No bike today.

Further to my grumbling post about my ankle hurting yesterday, I awoke this morning to find that someone appears to have placed a quail's egg in my ankle where part of my achilles tendon should be.

I looked on this as a bad thing, and made the unusually mature decision not to cycle.

But it's such a nice day!

Erk. I'd get that seen to. An old housemate of mine broke her achilles playing netball. She initially thought an opponent had kicked her. She was in a cast for a couple of months... (may not be related but a 2cm hike in seat height is quite a lot in one go when your tendons aren't used to it)

@CJ MTB today? Berry floor jacket and celeste on the shorts? If not there was another rapid MTBer :shock:

cjcp

Clever Pun wrote:

No bike for me today (Christmas party) but I'd like a couple of clarifications

the rapha winter hat.. does that count as a little cap? (-1) it's got ear flaps and it's not little

I don't think there should be an adjustment; it's just warm winter wear. I have an Assos one. I think the wearing of winter garments, whatever its "chopper" rating, can be distinguished from the wearing of a cap in the summer as it is more associated with the peleton.

Btw, I wear a cap to keep the rain off and, in the summer, to keep the rain off. It's also made by Assos. Yes, I know, people might well look at me and think, "chopper".

Clever Pun

cjcp wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

No bike for me today (Christmas party) but I'd like a couple of clarifications

the rapha winter hat.. does that count as a little cap? (-1) it's got ear flaps and it's not little

I don't think there should be an adjustment; it's just warm winter wear. I have an Assos one. I think the wearing of winter garments, whatever its "chopper" rating, can be distinguished from the wearing of a cap in the summer as it is more associated with the peloton.

Btw, I wear a cap to keep the rain off and, in the summer, to keep the rain off. It's also made by Assos. Yes, I know, people might well look at me and think, "chopper".

if you cycle past them then there's no problems... if a MTB does you all ends up, well that's another story

Clever Pun

itboffin wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

No bike for me today (Christmas party) but I'd like a couple of clarifications

the rapha winter hat.. does that count as a little cap? (-1) it's got ear flaps and it's not little

also where does a recumbent sit in the ratings as I managed to drop one last night... he tried to put up a fight but knowing I wasn't cycling today I whipped him good.

Any item of Rapha kit should carry a TdF jersey equivalent penalty, that stuff is stupidly expensive.

Yes yes it does look very cool, mmmm

CP -1

if you didn't have 20 bikes you could get some too

Jen J

Clever Pun wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

No bike for me today (Christmas party) but I'd like a couple of clarifications

the rapha winter hat.. does that count as a little cap? (-1) it's got ear flaps and it's not little

also where does a recumbent sit in the ratings as I managed to drop one last night... he tried to put up a fight but knowing I wasn't cycling today I whipped him good.

Any item of Rapha kit should carry a TdF jersey equivalent penalty, that stuff is stupidly expensive.

Yes yes it does look very cool, mmmm

CP -1

if you didn't have 20 bikes you could get some too

itboffin

Jen J wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

No bike for me today (Christmas party) but I'd like a couple of clarifications

the rapha winter hat.. does that count as a little cap? (-1) it's got ear flaps and it's not little

also where does a recumbent sit in the ratings as I managed to drop one last night... he tried to put up a fight but knowing I wasn't cycling today I whipped him good.

Any item of Rapha kit should carry a TdF jersey equivalent penalty, that stuff is stupidly expensive.

Yes yes it does look very cool, mmmm

CP -1

if you didn't have 20 bikes you could get some too

hey now! I only have 9 bikes ATM

cjcp

JonGinge wrote:

@CJ MTB today? Berry floor jacket and celeste on the shorts? If not there was another rapid MTBer :shock:

Nope, not me, mate.

LiT - sorry to hear that. Heal up quick!

Jay dubbleU

LiT - sorry to hear about the tendon - wise move not to cycle in even though this morning was excellent - seriously I would get professional advice - I have a similar problem where my achilles tendon swelled up (after long distance walk) - took me about six weeks to get it sorted

Excellent day today - crisp but not cold, sun shining, birds coughing in the hedgerows etc - alas not another bike in site - only four bikes in the shed when I got to work - looks like the fair weather cyclists have wimped out again :evil:

m0scs

cjcp wrote:

m0scs wrote:

Surely though, with thin wheels and high tyre pressures road bike wheels must suffer similarly from spoke breakages, Or not?

Seems logical, but isn't the front suss intended to absorb some of the stick?

In truth, I have no idea. Wheels are a dark art.

Fyi, I bought new wheels this summer when spoke after spoke broke on my mtb. Cost me about £100 off Wiggle.

I tend to ride with both front and rear locked out most of the time. If the road gets rough I flick on the front suspension but turn it off when climbing hills.

Do spokes rust if the wheels isn't cleaned or just snap because of metal fatigue?

Anyway no cycling for me again due to lack of a rear wheel. Training log is looking very bare over the last few weeks.

I hate it when I cant ride my bike, makes me very irritable :evil:
.

snooks

Well a great day for cycling, so I had to drive to Norwich and back

Work's just getting in the way of commuting and it's not fair

Sorry to hear about the ankle LiT, any news on how likely you'll be a ped?

woodford2barbican

Seeing as LIT is now an enforced ped, do we need to come up with a new food chain for her?

It would still class as SCR - just without the bike.

Being cast in plaster must put you somewhere near the bottom....

I would have a go at creating the relevant taxonomic scheme, but it is so long since I inhabited the tube that I am no longer familiar with the sub-species of that strain of *human*.

snooks

woodford2barbican wrote:

Seeing as LIT is now an enforced ped, do we need to come up with a new food chain for her?

It would still class as SCR - just without the bike.

Being cast in plaster must put you somewhere near the bottom....

Not your greatest idea, Lit being a competeitive sort will be chasing every Tom, Dick and Harry down the road, knackering her good leg and re knackering her bad leg in the process



No LiT's be good now, [cornish]don't be chasing no one[/cornish]

itboffin

Those of you that have read every post (you have right?) in this thread will remember the pedestrian version of the SCR, real players will race NOT race even when on foot and I've seen lots of people who do.

you know who you are

redvee

Does this mean LiT is the first SCR'er to get plastrered this xmas ?