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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Lots of grumpy mumbling cyclists out this morning! No accidents but chaos around Chelsea bridge because the road east was closed. Chapeau to the guy on a Cervelo S5 with the Canyon Sram disc rear wheel.....thats a hell of a setup!
    Was he also in regular shorts, no helmet and trainers?

    If, I must have been with with you at Chelsea Bridge and down the racetrack.

    I was on a red steel framed bike, white helmet, blue rapha jacket and white luomo back pack.
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  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Tw4ts a plenty be it on bikes or in cars. Shout out to the many RLJers who were all clearly new years resolutionist, fingers crossed they're in tears trying to get home with sh1t kit selection.

    Met Road Safe form to fill out for an exceptional driver in a black Merc similar to that audi driver of headcam/news fame from a few months ago. I am sure it'll turn out to be a hire car or on false plates but at least I have pics and a willing witness.
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  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    elbowloh wrote:
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Lots of grumpy mumbling cyclists out this morning! No accidents but chaos around Chelsea bridge because the road east was closed. Chapeau to the guy on a Cervelo S5 with the Canyon Sram disc rear wheel.....thats a hell of a setup!
    Was he also in regular shorts, no helmet and trainers?

    If, I must have been with with you at Chelsea Bridge and down the racetrack.

    I was on a red steel framed bike, white helmet, blue rapha jacket and white luomo back pack.

    Sounds like him, thought he was in bib tights though...how many guys can have that setup though so I might be wrong.

    The backpack rings a bell. I'll keep an eye out for you. Im on a black and red Allez with purple bar tape and a blue backpack.
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    elbowloh wrote:
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Lots of grumpy mumbling cyclists out this morning! No accidents but chaos around Chelsea bridge because the road east was closed. Chapeau to the guy on a Cervelo S5 with the Canyon Sram disc rear wheel.....thats a hell of a setup!
    Was he also in regular shorts, no helmet and trainers?

    If, I must have been with with you at Chelsea Bridge and down the racetrack.

    I was on a red steel framed bike, white helmet, blue rapha jacket and white luomo back pack.

    Sounds like him, thought he was in bib tights though...how many guys can have that setup though so I might be wrong.

    The backpack rings a bell. I'll keep an eye out for you. Im on a black and red Allez with purple bar tape and a blue backpack.
    May have been bibs, I was more just shocked that his legs weren't covered!
    Felt F1 2014
    Felt Z6 2012
    Red Arthur Caygill steel frame
    Tall....
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Back on the bike this morning after a weekend skiing in Switzerland. The benefit of cycling so much is my legs were way stronger on the slopes than they have ever been before. The bad part is that because my legs were much stronger I did way more than usual and am pretty knackered now.....
  • The Nodder
    The Nodder Posts: 33
    WarrenG wrote:
    https://youtu.be/syOMUam7kdo

    I have no words. She wasn't dangerous or anything but I've not see anything like it before

    Good for her.
    I once did my commute with a large felling axe strapped to my back. Nobody close passed me, even other cyclists gave me room. If I wasn’t worried about the police stopping me I’d have added it to my regular commuting kit.
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    The Nodder wrote:
    WarrenG wrote:
    https://youtu.be/syOMUam7kdo

    I have no words. She wasn't dangerous or anything but I've not see anything like it before

    Good for her.
    I once did my commute with a large felling axe strapped to my back. Nobody close passed me, even other cyclists gave me room. If I wasn’t worried about the police stopping me I’d have added it to my regular commuting kit.

    Most seasoned commuters will give a chopper plenty of room
  • frogonabike
    frogonabike Posts: 157
    I've come across Bowman guy a few times before, I hadn't heard of Bowman but he was quick enough that I looked them up!

    Also can't help but notice the increase in RLJ's at the moment. Really starting to get annoyed with it. Chap on a Brompton jumped a light this morning, when I (inevitably) caught and passed him I opened my mouth to tell him his rear light was upside down so pointing at the floor but I changed my mind. F*** him. Maybe by not telling him he'll get run over. That'll learn him. Karma, yea

    No proper SCR today but had a good race from Balham down to Tooting with a guy last night (can't remember anything about his bike, think it was black :lol: he had some pretty tidy matching kit with some 4 letter acronym I hadn't heard of running down the calf, GCHG or something) I was mostly enjoying the maiden voyage for the Hunt aero 30 disc's. Very nice :D
  • lancew
    lancew Posts: 680
    PoweredByIdris wrote:

    Most seasoned commuters will give a chopper plenty of room

    Ahahahah Brilliant.

    Riding the SE route is pretty damn busy still as well, but not as much racing as your way in the winter though.
    Specialized Allez Sport 2013
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Lancew wrote:
    PoweredByIdris wrote:

    Most seasoned commuters will give a chopper plenty of room

    Ahahahah Brilliant.

    Riding the SE route is pretty damn busy still as well, but not as much racing as your way in the winter though.

    Stopped at the Deptford end of Brookmill road this morning and there must have been 6 or 7 cyclists waiting. Nothing compared to CS7 / Embankment, but that seemed pretty busy for the SE route in, particularly for this time of year.
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  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Any update on Snowmegeddon? 4" due according to the Daily Fail. Rain radar shows it dumping down something west of London but not moving across yet... Where's out man in Wiltshire?
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  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Any update on Snowmegeddon? 4" due according to the Daily Fail. Rain radar shows it dumping down something west of London but not moving across yet... Where's out man in Wiltshire?
    So, that's rain not snow?

    Met office app tells me it's raining here in Kentish Town right now, but looking out the window, it is definitely not.
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    I'm chipping off bang on 5, as the rain/snow/sleet only looks like it's getting worse as the evening progresses. Met office app says the heavy stuff starts around 6.
  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    Accuweather saying rain at 5 and 8 then snow at 10 and 11.....take your pick!
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    TGOTB wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    hopkinb wrote:
    Like bl00dy summer out there, number of bl00dy cyclists. Tsssk.

    never fear this weeks cold snap will end all that
    I'm not sure it will. Coming from the SW, the number of cyclists is pretty much normal until you get to Putney Bridge, then it's suddenly choppergeddon, which suggests most of them are starting off in Fulham. I'm not sure the section along NKR/Embankment is long enough, or gets cold enough, to penetrate a decent pair of hockey socks.

    Hold on a minute i'm a Fulham boy, what are you saying ....!? :lol:
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Any update on Snowmegeddon?
    According to every weather forecast I can find, it's absolutely dumping it down in SW London right now.

    According to my window, it's not.
    Pannier, 120rpm.
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    itboffin wrote:
    Hold on a minute i'm a Fulham boy, what are you saying ....!? :lol:
    Explains a lot...
    Pannier, 120rpm.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    TGOTB wrote:
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Any update on Snowmegeddon?
    According to every weather forecast I can find, it's absolutely dumping it down in SW London right now.

    According to my window, it's not.

    Correct, very dry and pleasant early bail for me.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Pissing down now though, when I would normally be arriving home. So :) .
  • sgt.pepper
    sgt.pepper Posts: 300
    Hitting 30+ degrees here, had to take my gloves off for the heat last night. Did drop a guy on a full aero TT bike with deep sections though - that was a pretty proud scalp.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Sgt.Pepper wrote:
    Hitting 30+ degrees here, had to take my gloves off for the heat last night. Did drop a guy on a full aero TT bike with deep sections though - that was a pretty proud scalp.

    *BLOCKED*
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    I thought I'd have the roads more or less to myself, what with the ice on the puddles at the side of the road, but oh no. Hordes of cycle commuters. It really does take rain to thin out the numbers. I suppose those living further out or not on a heavily gritted bus route might have had issues, but it was another pleasant ride for me, even if my toes were a little cold.
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Last night was badass riding, cold rain but the snow didn't start falling until an hour or so later.

    Trainw@nkered it today as am going to the football tonight.
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    Some quite sketchy-looking roads before I got to Richmond Park this morning, and the park itself seemed a bit icier than normal too; I guess last night's precipitation washed away a lot of the salt. Didn't actually feel the tyres sliding, but I didn't really give them much of a chance. -5.5°G in the park.
    Normal service restored once over Putney Bridge: seas of PE shorts and hockey socks (and, in one case, no socks); riders on hybrids toiling wearily up the Col de Chutney Mary and then sailing straight through the red lights on the other side; riders disappearing up the inside of left-turning HGVs; fairies aplenty...
    Pannier, 120rpm.
  • magictrumpet
    magictrumpet Posts: 54
    Discovered that 60 psi (thanks bikeshop) destroys speed. I was having to draft mountain bikes yesterday, couldn't understand what was wrong as I didn't realise they were so underpressured. :-(

    When I checked the pressure last night and put it back to it's rightful 115psi, found my performance this morning to be perfectly restored and no one got past me (despite a valiant fellow on a Giant. But dropped him anyway).

    A Lesson in Pneumatics.
  • Gallywomack
    Gallywomack Posts: 823
    Opted for the main roads this morning (Evelyn St/Jamaica Rd) figuring it'd be less icy than Q1. That may well have been true, but unfortunately the Rotherhithe tunnel is closed so it was utter trafficgeddon pretty much the whole way. Only really able to get going properly once onto Tooley St. Very large numbers of cyclists, amazing really. A few choppers jumping red lights etc but the majority comporting themselves creditably. Enjoyed the last little jaunt over to Waterloo, well warmed up by then and a nice clear day.
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  • frogonabike
    frogonabike Posts: 157
    MagicTrumpet wrote:
    Discovered that 60 psi (thanks bikeshop) destroys speed. I was having to draft mountain bikes yesterday, couldn't understand what was wrong as I didn't realise they were so underpressured. :-(

    When I checked the pressure last night and put it back to it's rightful 115psi, found my performance this morning to be perfectly restored and no one got past me (despite a valiant fellow on a Giant. But dropped him anyway).

    A Lesson in Pneumatics.


    What size tyres are you running at 115psi? Sounds pretty old school
  • magictrumpet
    magictrumpet Posts: 54
    edited January 2019
    Normal tubes. Shimano Ultegra wheels in a Cannondale SuperEvo 105 type thing.

    Is that old school? Admittedly, it's nothing too fancy, but it works for me. :-)
  • magictrumpet
    magictrumpet Posts: 54
    (Perhaps I don't mean PSI, but a different unit that goes up the recommended 120 pressure units?!)
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Icy local roads but I was in the car dues to kiddie drop off run this morning.

    Last night was fine but I was mentalistly overdressed for 2/3 of my ride before proper rain/sleet finally started. I am not sure if kit selection worked or whether my body temperature had got so high 20 minutes of getting soaked made no difference.

    What do peeps reckon for tomorrow, big frost over night but a dry day with the sun out, dry cold commute or ice rink?
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