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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    TGOTB wrote:
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    I counted 6 of which at least 3 needed a service of some kind!
    Triantelopes?

    Probably. Season has started. I'll be bringing mine out to RP commuting duty shortly.

    Overtook a chap on a Bolide last week. He was weaving all over the place.
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    Asprilla wrote:
    He was weaving all over the place.
    That's one way to tell. Also:
    - Deep section rear wheels (TTers don't own these, as they can always race with a disc)
    - Sleeveless tops and arm warmers
    - Full aero tuck, all the aero gear, 21mph
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    TGOTB wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    He was weaving all over the place.
    That's one way to tell. Also:
    - Deep section rear wheels (TTers don't own these, as they can always race with a disc)
    - Sleeveless tops and arm warmers
    - Full aero tuck, all the aero gear, 21mph

    Clearly you've seen me race.
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    Asprilla wrote:
    TGOTB wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    He was weaving all over the place.
    That's one way to tell. Also:
    - Deep section rear wheels (TTers don't own these, as they can always race with a disc)
    - Sleeveless tops and arm warmers
    - Full aero tuck, all the aero gear, 21mph

    Clearly you've seen me race.
    You know I've seen you race, and you were very much weaving all over the place :-)
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    TGOTB wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    TGOTB wrote:
    Asprilla wrote:
    He was weaving all over the place.
    That's one way to tell. Also:
    - Deep section rear wheels (TTers don't own these, as they can always race with a disc)
    - Sleeveless tops and arm warmers
    - Full aero tuck, all the aero gear, 21mph

    Clearly you've seen me race.
    You know I've seen you race, and you were very much weaving all over the place :-)

    Dry file tread tyres on a quagmire will do that to anyone. I was quite happy I only fell off once.
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  • ShandyH
    ShandyH Posts: 555
    What I thought I was about to read:
    Asprilla wrote:
    So, I do a HRV test every morning and it tells me whether to go to work.

    So far I'm finding it very useful.

    Magnus, you’ve got me worried. What is the test?
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Gallywomack wrote:

    In other news, jersey and arm-warmers this morning, hopefully marking the retirement of the jacket until about November.

    Yip, first day sans Gabba for me today; ss top, arm-warmers and gilet. Also removed my gloves at Kennington.

    I do find cycle clothing is a very personal thing though. I ride weekends with a multinational group and when we all rode the Flanders sportive t'other week we all had the same bespoke long-sleeved top & bib shorts in superRoubaix (SRX) material. The range of additional kit went as follows:

    - 30+ Brit - SRX kit and nothing beneath
    - 50+ Brit (me) - SRX kit and ss top beneath + kneewarmers
    - 40+ South African x 4 - SRX kit and ss top beneath + kneewarmers
    - 40+ Italian - SRX kit, ss top beneath but with a buff pulled up over his head and ears + full length legwarmers
    - 30+ Brazilian - SRX kit, merino base layer + Gabba 2 beneath plus buff around his face cowboy mask stylee+ full length legwarmers

    I’m on the lower end in that for commute I don’t bother with gloves or longs as since my commute is now a hr or so I warm up even at the fairly pedestrian pace!

    Talking of pedestrians huge variety of clothes last few days, with the mature dog walkers in jackets etc, but the teenagers proudly showing midriff etc,
  • matt.j
    matt.j Posts: 45
    Tubular hells.... I finally got my prommuting commuppance this morning and I’m now waiting in Richmond Park for Mrs J and the team car. I must have had quite a lead as the team car is taking ages!
  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    Wheres the sun gone??? Huge traffic from the BolanBerg all the way to New Kings Road. Never seen it like that before. Increase in cyclists too. Wish the climate protesters would occupy PS again. I rather enjoyed rolling through there with no cars.
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    One would assume it's the schools back and Hammersmith Bridge shut. There is no way many aren't going to brave crossing the Thames in anything other than a car.

    Loads of cyclists out and a marked rise in Clapham Men happily RLJ'ing, hammer down a couple of times to break free.
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Back on it after a week of cerveza and jamon iberico.

    I am fat(ter) and slow(er).
  • rhodrich
    rhodrich Posts: 867
    Too much chocolate, not enough exercise over Easter. That was tough.

    It's only once the 'fair weather' cyclists come back at this time of year that you realise quite how fast us 'promuters' who do this all year round are though. Felt very satisfying dispatching waves of them at a time this morning.
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  • ryan_w-2
    ryan_w-2 Posts: 1,162
    Who saw the flatbed Transit with the ladder overtaking cyclists AND cars this morning down Priory Lane towards URR, around 0730?

    He was doing about 40-50mph and ended up stuck at the lights. Caught up with him and he was slouched in his seat, no seatbelt drinking a coffee.

    The chap next to me had his GoPro on, so hopefully the twunt will get reported.
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  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    WVM seemed particularly put out that he had to stop drinking stella in the park and return to work today
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Nearly got left hooked this morning at the junction of URR and Putney Bridge Road. I was going up the left of stationary traffic, in the cycle lane, when on driver decided he wanted to reposition himself for going left when the light changed.

    In his ambulance.

    Obviously a slow day and wanted to drum up some business.
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    Asprilla wrote:
    Nearly got left hooked this morning at the junction of URR and Putney Bridge Road. I was going up the left of stationary traffic, in the cycle lane, when on driver decided he wanted to reposition himself for going left when the light changed.

    In his ambulance.

    Obviously a slow day and wanted to drum up some business.
    Serves you right for taking the wrong route.

    Today is St George's day, which is considered to be the anniversary of his death. This means that from tomorrow you're also going to have to start keeping an eye out for that dragon...
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    Asprilla's not scared of dragons. CJ is preoccupied, possibly as a result of coming from one of only two countries in the world that has a dragon on it's flag.
    St Gearge's day beer festival and Morris dancers at the Pub down the road from me tonight. I will enjoy one of them and tolerate the other.
    Nice ride in for me this morning, mild weather and enough traffic that meant I was passing cars most of the way in. No other cyclists going my way as usual.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Asprilla's not scared of dragons. CJ is preoccupied, possibly as a result of coming from one of only two countries in the world that has a dragon on it's flag.
    St Gearge's day beer festival and Morris dancers at the Pub down the road from me tonight. I will enjoy one of them and tolerate the other.
    Nice ride in for me this morning, mild weather and enough traffic that meant I was passing cars most of the way in. No other cyclists going my way as usual.

    :mrgreen:

    That dancing is something else. But it's nothing short of a miracle they can still stand after a day's drinking, I mean, dancing.

    Was in RP around 5.30 this morning. Blissful.

    Which was a complete contrast to that Lower Richmond Road->Putney Bridge traffic because of the Hammersmith Bridge closure. If those who drive that way think that this route change is human adaptation, we're all screwed.

    How the heck can they be ok sitting in a car for that long?
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  • wolfsbane2k
    wolfsbane2k Posts: 3,056
    Managed 2 PB's this morning, rather a surprise - both because the drivers of the cars behind me were behaving very nicely, and I didn't want to hold them up too much in the heavy traffic or enable them to try a stupid overtake, so smashed the power down.
    Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    cjcp wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    St Gearge's day beer festival and Morris dancers at the Pub down the road from me tonight. I will enjoy one of them and tolerate the other.
    That dancing is something else. But it's nothing short of a miracle they can still stand after a day's drinking, I mean, dancing.
    That's how the dancing came about, they were incapable of standing still so whilst swaying about they started jumping about in their desperate attempts to stay upright. The bells were a signal to their companions if one of them got lost and as a warning to any sober types. Not sure where the sticks came from, broken walking sticks perhaps.
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  • tgotb
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    Veronese68 wrote:
    That's how the dancing came about, they were incapable of standing still so whilst swaying about they started jumping about in their desperate attempts to stay upright. The bells were a signal to their companions if one of them got lost and as a warning to any sober types. Not sure where the sticks came from, broken walking sticks perhaps.
    And the horse's head?
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    TGOTB wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    That's how the dancing came about, they were incapable of standing still so whilst swaying about they started jumping about in their desperate attempts to stay upright. The bells were a signal to their companions if one of them got lost and as a warning to any sober types. Not sure where the sticks came from, broken walking sticks perhaps.
    And the horse's head?
    Errr, one of them stepped on the toes (literally) of a mafia crime boss whilst staggering about drunk. I mean whilst dancing. This meant he woke up with a horse's head next to him, the others thought the best way to deal with it was to pretend they needed it as a prop.
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  • tgotb
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    Veronese68 wrote:
    Errr, one of them stepped on the toes (literally) of a mafia crime boss whilst staggering about drunk. I mean whilst dancing. This meant he woke up with a horse's head next to him, the others thought the best way to deal with it was to pretend they needed it as a prop.
    I take it you've been at the beer festival since lunchtime?
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    I spent my easter week off cycling (305 miles) and hiking (30+ miles) = gained weight not sure how i managed that seeing as i didnt increase my usual food or drink intake
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    TGOTB wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Errr, one of them stepped on the toes (literally) of a mafia crime boss whilst staggering about drunk. I mean whilst dancing. This meant he woke up with a horse's head next to him, the others thought the best way to deal with it was to pretend they needed it as a prop.
    I take it you've been at the beer festival since lunchtime?
    I don’t need beer to spout horseshit. :lol:
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  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    Impromptu detour through Chelsea last night because of road closure for what looked like an accident on embankment. Otherwise very civilised i.e. slow, except for being shouted at by a bromptonier for apparently not holding my line into an ASL.
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    I went home via RP last night. Took my normal south of the river route of CS7 and A3 through wandsworth, then upper Richmond road rather than lower.

    No dragons yet, despite the death of St George. Just remarkably chopper-free roads.
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Impromptu detour through Chelsea last night because of road closure for what looked like an accident on embankment.
    I saw that; police were just cordoning it off when I arrived. Someone had managed to get a flatbed lorry with some sort of high load firmly wedged under the railway bridge. Even the pavement on both sides of the road was closed. I'm pretty sure the protocol with bridge strikes is to close the railway until it's been checked out by a structural engineer, so I hate to think what it did to the rush hour train service.

    In other news, first day of "normal" post-Easter traffic today, and LRR is properly fooked.
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  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    TGOTB wrote:
    Smokey Bacon wrote:
    Impromptu detour through Chelsea last night because of road closure for what looked like an accident on embankment.
    I saw that; police were just cordoning it off when I arrived. Someone had managed to get a flatbed lorry with some sort of high load firmly wedged under the railway bridge. Even the pavement on both sides of the road was closed. I'm pretty sure the protocol with bridge strikes is to close the railway until it's been checked out by a structural engineer, so I hate to think what it did to the rush hour train service.

    In other news, first day of "normal" post-Easter traffic today, and LRR is properly fooked.

    Ah that'll do it! They had taken the truck away by the time I got there.
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    First day back on the commute after a couple of weeks in Canada skiing. Nice to see how the weather has transformed RP - leaves out everywhere, the place was quite barren before I left.

    Safe to say the closure of Hammersmith Bridge is a cluster of monumental proportions, not helped by me leaving home qtr of an hour later than usual I suspect. Anyone know how long the bridge is closed? It does make me wonder how many of the plums clogging up LRR will be sat in their cars wondering if public transport might be an easier option - not many, I suspect.

    Also, landing on your head and shoulder when crashing whilst skiing is a great way to trash the muscles in your shoulder, which is resulting in a trip to the physio tomorrow for an assessment. Hasn't stopped me riding yet (one short spin on Monday to see how it was, commuting today and tomorrow) but we'll see what the physio tells me.....

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