Silly commuting racing
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Great to be on the bike for the first time this week though it should have been a super tailwind, just it didn't quite feel like it.
One of those commutes where I just couldn't break free. I'd get ahead and then inevitable be too late to get through some lights and all plus others would just join me again. Spotted Olas a few times but never at a similar pace as to say morning.If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0 -
anonymousblackfg wrote:Great to be on the bike for the first time this week though it should have been a super tailwind, just it didn't quite feel like it.
One of those commutes where I just couldn't break free. I'd get ahead and then inevitable be too late to get through some lights and all plus others would just join me again. Spotted Olas a few times but never at a similar pace as to say morning.
Was definitely a super tailwind. I rode in with bad-trackstand-on-a-Cervelo guy. He seems to have a 1x on that Cervelo now, very wide range cassette. I gave it full gas up Balham Hill, hit the bottom of the hill at speed, and got faster, buried myself trying to get a strava pot/top 10, and the p!ssing lights at the top went and changed, totally ruined the effort as I sat up in a sulk. :roll:
Those lights have ruined Balham Hill.0 -
Wobbled in this morning and the new cassette meant no more skipping gears after the new chain at the weekend. Strong crosswind meant I was at quite a comical angle at times. Just walked up the road for lunch and there's a hell of a wind, if it keeps up in that direction I'll run out of gears on a 50x11 on the flat going home.0
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hopkinb wrote:anonymousblackfg wrote:Great to be on the bike for the first time this week though it should have been a super tailwind, just it didn't quite feel like it.
One of those commutes where I just couldn't break free. I'd get ahead and then inevitable be too late to get through some lights and all plus others would just join me again. Spotted Olas a few times but never at a similar pace as to say morning.
Was definitely a super tailwind. I rode in with bad-trackstand-on-a-Cervelo guy. He seems to have a 1x on that Cervelo now, very wide range cassette. I gave it full gas up Balham Hill, hit the bottom of the hill at speed, and got faster, buried myself trying to get a strava pot/top 10, and the p!ssing lights at the top went and changed, totally ruined the effort as I sat up in a sulk. :roll:
Those lights have ruined Balham Hill.
Can't you do something radical and... Create a new Strava segment that ends just before the lights? :shock: :twisted:================
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NitrousOxide wrote:hopkinb wrote:anonymousblackfg wrote:Great to be on the bike for the first time this week though it should have been a super tailwind, just it didn't quite feel like it.
One of those commutes where I just couldn't break free. I'd get ahead and then inevitable be too late to get through some lights and all plus others would just join me again. Spotted Olas a few times but never at a similar pace as to say morning.
Was definitely a super tailwind. I rode in with bad-trackstand-on-a-Cervelo guy. He seems to have a 1x on that Cervelo now, very wide range cassette. I gave it full gas up Balham Hill, hit the bottom of the hill at speed, and got faster, buried myself trying to get a strava pot/top 10, and the p!ssing lights at the top went and changed, totally ruined the effort as I sat up in a sulk. :roll:
Those lights have ruined Balham Hill.
Can't you do something radical and... Create a new Strava segment that ends just before the lights? :shock: :twisted:
That would be disingenuous.
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hopkinb wrote:I rode in with bad-trackstand-on-a-Cervelo guy. He seems to have a 1x on that Cervelo now, very wide range cassette.
That ex Crapstand BMC guy?
Roll on head wind and drizzle all the way home...If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0 -
anonymousblackfg wrote:That ex Crapstand BMC guy?
Same one.0 -
Mentally preparing myself for an epic Millbank Monster Wall of Wind. And the big surprise gust just beyond the Vauxhall Bridge junction...Dolan Titanium ADX 2016
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Yep, waiting to hit the brick wall of wind by Millbank Tower. My legs were a bit fried last night, god knows how I'll be after tonight.0
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What wind?
Down here in the wild west anything less than 40 mph is considered calm
Why oh why did I move away from London
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Weirdly, seemed to have a tailwind much of the way home. Too tired to properly make hay and it was a bit grim and slippery anyway but a lot easier than I expected.0
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Last night was grim - good job I'm a fatty, kept me more or less planted on the road, even with my silly wheels.
Good training though, as I battered it in this morning, 4 pots and a shiny gold cup.0 -
Wind didn't feel too bad last night, I even picked up a pot.
A late due to errands on route and finding a 2 year old quite competently preparing scrambled eggs all on her own while Grandparent childcare enlisted for the day were sat in bed reading the papers as I tried to leave for work. A cheeky 14 pots to trump Hopkins.If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0 -
Legs feeling tired, will be completely fried by the time I get home.0
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Never mind your wind on the way home in That London, I'm racing the Soens at Aintree tomorrow - 30mph with 40mph gusts block Westerly. That's going to make going into the corners a bit of a lottery considering its a racecourse and the only shelter is the bloody horse fences...Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
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Rhodrich wrote:Smokey Bacon wrote:Why oh why does Kingston hill need bus platforms with bike ramps and rubbish bits of random cycle lane?? First time I've been up and over there in a few weeks and its a mess!
Agreed. I fail to see how extending bus stops full of pedestrians out into cycle lanes makes things safer, either for the cyclists, or the pedestrians.
As for Kingston HIll, I think this is just the beginning. The whole plan is to get us cyclists off the road, onto the pavement where we 'belong', just like on the Portsmouth Road, as that's apparently how they do things in the Netherlands. Woe betide anyone who continues to use the road once this 'infrastructure' has been put in place.........
Haven't properly looked at what's going on, but if it's like the Portsmouth Road bike lane, it could start off poorly and evolve into something better.FCN 2-4.
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Not feeling it much this morning, spent all morning riding round in the wind yesterday supporting my mum in the Big Half which was ace fun, but seems to have taken it out of me (not as much as running a half marathon would have though!). She ran 2:11.48 btw, just in case you want to compare yourself to a 67 year-old grandmother.
Still seem to have picked up some pots this morning despite bimbling, but I suspect that's more to do with taking New Dover St which I very rarely do. Didn't bother with my 'usual' extra Monday miles on the top-secret training loop, a bit lazy perhaps but feeling a bit worn down by the weather and lots of recent activity so the positive spin is I'm 'listening to my body'.
Waterloo bridge was a lot of effort for very little forward motion this morning. Hoping for a nice whizz home later.0 -
Social with abfg. Lovely morning for it. Left hooked by a dopey non-indicating scooterist in Balham. Spidey senses meant no damage to any party, except to the scooterist's ear drums, and I discovered a lost bar end plug when I got to work, which is a pain the @rse - hopefully the tape won't unravel before I can find another one.0
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Rubbing back brakes made the ride in a tad tougher than it should have been. Another excellent wrench job by me :roll: Lots more MGIFism than usual today, the collective must have gotten out on the wrong side of the bed!0
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Yep, top social commute, happy to Road safe that mug on a scooter in revenge for your bar end plug, though bystanders seemed the loudest supporting the mug on the scooter. I don't think you had your camera with you?
Else roll on a dry commute home before tomorrow's drenching.If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0 -
Wrap some electrical tape round it; that should be enough to keep it from unravelling on the way home.hopkinb wrote:Social with abfg. Lovely morning for it. Left hooked by a dopey non-indicating scooterist in Balham. Spidey senses meant no damage to any party, except to the scooterist's ear drums, and I discovered a lost bar end plug when I got to work, which is a pain the @rse - hopefully the tape won't unravel before I can find another one.
I have a gazillion spare plugs if you need one; I use the BBB ones with a screw-in bung, so the ones that come with the tape never get used.Pannier, 120rpm.0 -
Nice and gentle one in this morning after a possibly slightly pickled incident with an escalator on Saturday night has left me with a fair amount of rib pain. Hoping it's just bruising. Great timing after having literally just booked a load of TT's for the next 8 weeks. Idiot.0
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The dedicate bike lane along Thames Street has been there for what, a billion years now? And still peds walk out into it, be it glaring into their phone or waving at the aeroplanes.
FFS, THEY ACTUALLY HAVE TO STEP DOWN OFF A PAVEMENT INTO IT!!!! ISN'T THERE A PART OF THEIR BRAIN WHICH SAYS "Mmm, better have a look what that means"? Presumably, it's part of their commute route. Presumably, they've done it before.
Nearly had two for the price of one last night, just before London Bridge. A couple of women giggling at their phone screens walked straight out into the bike lane.
Somehow squeezed between them and the pavement (quite a feat for someone of my width).
Then had to take more emergency evasive manoeuvres along Millbank to avoid t-boning a cyclist who pulled out into the path of a few of us. I'm assuming the riders behind me missed him because I didn't hear an "ARGH!" followed by the splashing sound of someone landing in the Thames.
FML.FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
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Rare commute in to t'City for me today. Forgot how great it is coming in from Epsom with a massive tailwind - not so sure the trip home will be quite so enjoyable mind.
Nice to see driving & Allez man standards on CS7 remain at their usual lowly depths, and I see that the requirement for drivers/other cyclists indicating before making turns has now been almost completely phased out. Good job the old spidey senses are still up to scratch. Or maybe I'm just more paranoid about every other f*cker on the roads now?
In other news, a moped got taken out by WVM at the lights outside Stockwell tube. No idea what happened, I was pulling away from the lights / rinsing Allez man (university rugby tour hoody & all) for the second time, when I heard a rather loud impact, turned & saw said mopedist on the deck in the ASL box (actually sliding toward the kerb). I can only assume he was filtering through the waiting traffic when the lights changed & WVM didn't see him as he emerged. Purely speculation though.CS7
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Cracking tail wind though Strava doesn't seem that impressed. @vimfuego, indicating on CS7 was officially phased out in about 2015, apparently no one could remember when it was seen on that stretch of road anyway.If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0
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Was keeping my powder dry for the battle into the headwind later, but traffic and the green light gods nearly gave me the perfect sprint from Oval to Elephant, and I picked up a couple of top ten cups. I had to lift off a bit for traffic towards the Elephant end of the road, so could have gone a second or two quicker.
I expect I have expended more watts down there in the past for a lot less speed though. :roll:0 -
I dug in for the col du Balham, I had a clear bottom section but hit the red at the top. Looking at the segment, it ends on the opposite side of the lights so sodding pointless!If I know you, and I like you, you can borrow my bike box for £30 a week. PM for details.0
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anonymousblackfg wrote:I dug in for the col du Balham, I had a clear bottom section but hit the red at the top. Looking at the segment, it ends on the opposite side of the lights so sodding pointless!
Yep, I was moaning on here about it the other day. I tried to re-draw the segment, but gave up due to incompetence.0
