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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Traffic/number of cyclists didn't seem any better or worse than before Christmas to me.

    I seemed worse, after 2 weeks off with only a quick spin round RP to keep the legs ticking over. Then I got to work and realised I'd forgotten the keys to my locks, so had to go to Evans and buy a new lock. Oh for the secure underground bike parking I had at my last employer.
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Other than opening another box of Quality Street, that was the first exercise I've done since 16th December.
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  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Saw the other Hopkins who was enjoying the tail wind and a shiny new Propel.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    Murvis1er wrote:
    Lots of choppers around this morning.

    Flyby says you were near me for about 20 minutes this morning, maybe I'm one of them.... I got annoyed by a car overtaking me going up Dark Hill when there was one coming the other way, so my stupid brain was determined to overtake back. I'm such an idiot.
  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    Murvis1er wrote:
    Lots of choppers around this morning.
    Also, seasons greetings from the Royal Borough of Kensignton and Chelsea:

    IMG-20190107-085558059.jpg

    Mebbe wood choppers?

    Can of lighter fluid & a match and gone before the lads from the ‘station on Kings Road get there?
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    DrLex wrote:
    Murvis1er wrote:
    Lots of choppers around this morning.
    Also, seasons greetings from the Royal Borough of Kensignton and Chelsea:

    IMG-20190107-085558059.jpg

    Mebbe wood choppers?

    Can of lighter fluid & a match and gone before the lads from the ‘station on Kings Road get there?
    I think it's actually an attempt at creating The Cycling Grand National and this is Beeches Brook.
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  • jds_1981
    jds_1981 Posts: 1,858
    DrLex wrote:
    Murvis1er wrote:
    Lots of choppers around this morning.
    Also, seasons greetings from the Royal Borough of Kensignton and Chelsea:

    [url=http [url=gos://ibb.co/kBT2j1B]gos://ibb.co/kBT2j1B[/url]]IMG-20190107-085558059.jpg[/url]

    Mebbe wood choppers?

    Can of lighter fluid & a match and gone before the lads from the ‘station on Kings Road get there?

    Christmas trees don't require lighter fluid. Go up in a matter of seconds as-is.
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  • supernicebig
    supernicebig Posts: 10
    Gallywomack wrote:
    Bit of a dull morning and slightly hungover after yet more drinks last night, so a sluggish ride in. Saw a rider who I think is a guy who has very occasionally posted on here in the past - username is Supernicebig, think his real name is Graham. Picked him up somewhere north of Downham, he seemed to be in pootle mode. I didn't try to overtake as I was quite happy to pootle myself, and if it is the guy I'm thinking of, he used to be quite hard to keep up with on a MTB with full nobblies. Lights kept going green as we got to them so never got to say hello, I branched off at Lewisham for deptford and he went OKR way up Loampit. If that was you (and you see this) - hello!

    Correct, was me! Still commuting 5 days a week, most of the time on Cross bike, and randomly on 29' MTB just to wind the Roadies' up!!! say hello next time!

    G.
  • supernicebig
    supernicebig Posts: 10
    Gallywomack wrote:
    Bit of a dull morning and slightly hungover after yet more drinks last night, so a sluggish ride in. Saw a rider who I think is a guy who has very occasionally posted on here in the past - username is Supernicebig, think his real name is Graham. Picked him up somewhere north of Downham, he seemed to be in pootle mode. I didn't try to overtake as I was quite happy to pootle myself, and if it is the guy I'm thinking of, he used to be quite hard to keep up with on a MTB with full nobblies. Lights kept going green as we got to them so never got to say hello, I branched off at Lewisham for deptford and he went OKR way up Loampit. If that was you (and you see this) - hello!

    Correct, was me! Still commuting 5 days a week, most of the time on Cross bike, and randomly on 29' MTB just to wind the Roadies' up!!! say hello next time!

    G.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,816
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    I got annoyed by a car overtaking me going up Dark Hill when there was one coming the other way, so my stupid brain was determined to overtake back. I'm such an idiot.
    You mean proving the overtake was completely futile by passing them again, turning into some sort of maniac in your attempts to do so? No, I've never done that either :oops:
    Still very quiet out in the wilds of my commute. I think I passed one person going in my direction as I turned off the Hampton Court Road, that was it.
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  • murvis1er
    murvis1er Posts: 57
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Murvis1er wrote:
    Lots of choppers around this morning.

    Flyby says you were near me for about 20 minutes this morning, maybe I'm one of them.... I got annoyed by a car overtaking me going up Dark Hill when there was one coming the other way, so my stupid brain was determined to overtake back. I'm such an idiot.

    Looks like you managed to stay a bit ahead of it all.
    Will look out for you in future seeing as we have pretty much the same route in.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Veronese68 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    I got annoyed by a car overtaking me going up Dark Hill when there was one coming the other way, so my stupid brain was determined to overtake back. I'm such an idiot.
    You mean proving the overtake was completely futile by passing them again, turning into some sort of maniac in your attempts to do so? No, I've never done that either :oops:
    Still very quiet out in the wilds of my commute. I think I passed one person going in my direction as I turned off the Hampton Court Road, that was it.

    Oddly coming home this morning, was a surprising amount of other cyclists north of Hounslow Heath, even a few on the Heath, and fair bit in Bushy Park. Which generally is my busiest area, oddly enough, mainly due to the staggering undue of the parkway cyclepaths.
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    I flewby ABFG in Raynes Park this evening. I somehow knew it was him even though he was 200 metres ahead of me as i dropped down Pepys Road hill he crossed Worple road ahead of me but then went straight on as I headed under the train bridge and out to Grand Drive
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  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    I'd have never have spotted you coming out of that side road... I guess me scoring 2/5 for kit variety and 5/5 for unique luggage makes me an easy spot in some sort of SCR top trumps.

    Good to know you're back out there after the breaks and bumps of last year.
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    I guess me scoring 2/5 for kit variety

    I'd assumed that your kit had fused to your skin, so little do you vary it. :D

    Felt like an unusual wind direction this morning.
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    anonymousblackfg wrote:

    Good to know you're back out there after the breaks and bumps of last year.

    Thanks. Yeah, 2018 almost broke me (both work and cycling) but I'm aiming to get back on it for '19
    FCN = 4
  • kingdav
    kingdav Posts: 417
    I have jinxed the weather by declaring it so dry, it was a day for the summer bike. It'll probably rain on the way home, blame me!

    I varied my kit too by ditching the tights and jacket and going for summer shorts and jersey albeit with leg/arm warmers, long fingers and a gilet. Sadly I don't seem to have been any quicker than normal not picking up a single cup, though it felt fast.
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    Perhaps I need a cyclists air bag for this year (looks pretty $hite TBH)
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  • kingdav
    kingdav Posts: 417
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Perhaps I need a cyclists air bag for this year (looks pretty $hite TBH)
    I was also hugely underwhelmed. All the protection is concentrated on the tummy and back. Whenever I've come off, it's the hips that get first and hard, then maybe the shoulders. Even in the demo he seems to be deliberately having to roll onto his back.
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    kingdav wrote:
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Perhaps I need a cyclists air bag for this year (looks pretty $hite TBH)
    I was also hugely underwhelmed. All the protection is concentrated on the tummy and back. Whenever I've come off, it's the hips that get first and hard, then maybe the shoulders. Even in the demo he seems to be deliberately having to roll onto his back.
    Well, in the demo he takes the first impact on his knee. Maybe he should just wear knee pads.
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  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    elbowloh wrote:
    kingdav wrote:
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Perhaps I need a cyclists air bag for this year (looks pretty $hite TBH)
    I was also hugely underwhelmed. All the protection is concentrated on the tummy and back. Whenever I've come off, it's the hips that get first and hard, then maybe the shoulders. Even in the demo he seems to be deliberately having to roll onto his back.
    Well, in the demo he takes the first impact on his knee. Maybe he should just wear knee pads.

    Might be useful for those 'forgot to unclip moments', although really it should also hide your face for those due to embarrassment
  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    kingdav wrote:
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Perhaps I need a cyclists air bag for this year (looks pretty $hite TBH)
    I was also hugely underwhelmed. All the protection is concentrated on the tummy and back. Whenever I've come off, it's the hips that get first and hard, then maybe the shoulders. Even in the demo he seems to be deliberately having to roll onto his back.


    I wonder how breathable that is.... Imagine how much the dft will waste funding that idea... And then getting the highway code updated to add that to stuff we should wear on a bike...
    Can't wait for the first bit of victim blaming for someone not wearing that after they've been driven into by someone on a phone....
    #jaded
    Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Perhaps I need a cyclists air bag for this year (looks pretty $hite TBH)

    So it doesn't protect your head, shoulders, arms or legs. I assume it also won't help if you get run over by a lorry.

    I think it may have been funded by people who have never fallen off a bike.
  • dekant
    dekant Posts: 114
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    So it doesn't protect your head, shoulders, arms or legs.

    No worries sir! Simply combine it with the Hövding inflatable helmet for all your inflation needs!*
    https://hovding.com/


    *Disclaimer:
    All inflation needs does not apply to shoulders, arms or legs
  • norks74
    norks74 Posts: 54
    dekant wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    So it doesn't protect your head, shoulders, arms or legs.

    No worries sir! Simply combine it with the Hövding inflatable helmet for all your inflation needs!*
    https://hovding.com/


    *Disclaimer:
    All inflation needs does not apply to shoulders, arms or legs

    When I scrolled down that page to the heading 'PERSONALIZISE YOUR HÖVDING' - I thought for a moment they were selling other types of inflatable safety wear too.
  • dekant
    dekant Posts: 114
    You need to contact me directly for that :lol:
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    I guess that shows the price of safety. £249 every time you come off, I assume regardless of whether your head hits anything.
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    I guess that shows the price of safety. £249 every time you come off, I assume regardless of whether your head hits anything.
    How often do you come off? Car airbags are way more expensive (I gather your car is likely to be an insurance write-off if the airbags are activated, even if it's otherwise undamaged) but I haven't heard any complaints about the cost of those.

    There are a gazillion other reasons I wouldn't tough one of these with a bargepole, but (for road riding) I don't think the cost is prohibitive. If you buy decent regular helmets and replace them every 5 years, as most seem to recommend, it's not going to take long to rack up £250.

    Off-road's a different ballgame obviously, but i don't think these are targetted at riders who expect to crash multiple times in one ride.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    TGOTB wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    I guess that shows the price of safety. £249 every time you come off, I assume regardless of whether your head hits anything.
    How often do you come off? Car airbags are way more expensive (I gather your car is likely to be an insurance write-off if the airbags are activated, even if it's otherwise undamaged) but I haven't heard any complaints about the cost of those.

    There are a gazillion other reasons I wouldn't tough one of these with a bargepole, but (for road riding) I don't think the cost is prohibitive. If you buy decent regular helmets and replace them every 5 years, as most seem to recommend, it's not going to take long to rack up £250.

    Off-road's a different ballgame obviously, but i don't think these are targetted at riders who expect to crash multiple times in one ride.

    Maybe about once every 18 months? Last one was on ice last year where I hit the ground elbow first and rolled onto my back. Did not replace my helmet. Previous one my head hit the floor, so I replaced the helmet.

    A car airbag doesn't deploy every time you have a scrape.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    TGOTB wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    I guess that shows the price of safety. £249 every time you come off, I assume regardless of whether your head hits anything.
    How often do you come off? Car airbags are way more expensive (I gather your car is likely to be an insurance write-off if the airbags are activated, even if it's otherwise undamaged) but I haven't heard any complaints about the cost of those.

    There are a gazillion other reasons I wouldn't tough one of these with a bargepole, but (for road riding) I don't think the cost is prohibitive. If you buy decent regular helmets and replace them every 5 years, as most seem to recommend, it's not going to take long to rack up £250.

    Off-road's a different ballgame obviously, but i don't think these are targetted at riders who expect to crash multiple times in one ride.

    Maybe about once every 18 months? Last one was on ice last year where I hit the ground elbow first and rolled onto my back. Did not replace my helmet. Previous one my head hit the floor, so I replaced the helmet.

    A car airbag doesn't deploy every time you have a scrape.

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