Silly commuting racing

itboffin

blast from the past


Who won that first year of SCR i forget???

itboffin

SCR

rower63

I think I did, as a lurker

itboffin

God can I be arsed to search the forum and my emails

mattsaw

Avg Max
Speed 21.0mi/h 32.7mi/h
Elapsed Time 31:33

Why can't it be half term every week?
Saving myself ten minutes a day communing that I can now spend looking at pictures of bikes and socks on Instagram :P

roger_merriman

Mattsaw wrote:

Avg Max
Speed 21.0mi/h 32.7mi/h
Elapsed Time 31:33

Why can't it be half term every week?
Saving myself ten minutes a day communing that I can now spend looking at pictures of bikes and socks on Instagram :P

Even on my heavy slow bike, with gears that need sorting saved me ten mins, even with that poxy wind.

itboffin

Tomorrow i will be mostly OFF ROADING what could possibly go wrong

roger_merriman

itboffin wrote:

Tomorrow i will be mostly OFF ROADING what could possibly go wrong

have you booked the air ambulance?

itboffin

no landing spots in the forest, its make it back or i'm badger food

cruff

itboffin wrote:

no landing spots in the forest, its make it back or i'm badger food

At least the tree cover will lessen the impact of the 100mph winds you ride in...

awavey

shot passed a guy who was wearing his office clothes to cycle in, no big deal didnt think anything of it at the time as he wasnt riding that fast, but it obviously upset his SCR credentials as maybe a mile further on I got held for a good while trying to turn right by heavy traffic, just as it cleared and I move off, the same guy comes charging past me and turns right as well, and is then riding in that slighlty out of control fast peddaling style trying to keep ahead.

at which stage Im thinking well I think can easily pass you again as Im not struggling to keep up, but it was clear with the amount of risks he started to take and how he kept shoulder checking, if I did pass him he was going to be doing something stupid to take the lead again.

so I just followed at a looming distance from him, hoping he was going to enjoy a nice sweaty day in his clothes based on the amount of effort he was putting in

itboffin

Cruff wrote:

itboffin wrote:

no landing spots in the forest, its make it back or i'm badger food

At least the tree cover will lessen the impact of the 100mph winds you ride in...

All safely home but my god proper off road riding is hard work, talk about keeping your wits about you, take you eye off the ground for 1 sec and you'll be on it.

My local forest is very rideable on a MTB but not with the slick conti tyres I have fitted, I did finally pick up a large thorn puncture which held as a plug until i got home.

Lots of backtracking and looking helplessly at a phone with no signal.

Also riding over gravel and fist sized stone is super hard work :?

rower63

Barnes/Putney/LRR traffic back as expected this morning after last week's bliss: queued all the way back to Bolan and beyond.

mtb-idle

strangely enough heading in from SW along CS Heaven was reasonable, i kept wondering if the schools were actually back today or not.

Mind you a tough 100km to Windsor and back yesterday with a strong cross wind the whole way meant I had little in the legs this morning. I did get to ride in Bushy Park for the first time ever though. That's nice in there isn't it?

norks74

Re. Stockwell segregated cycle lane and the end of it.

Can anyone on here please enlighten me as to the right of way where the segregated cycle lane comes to an end heading North in Stockwell? There's a small road on the left, Stockwell Terrace.

I ask as both the bike lane and the outside car lane have lights that go green at the same time, and this morning a car turned left, indicating very late to go into Stockwell Terrace, and came close to taking out the guy ahead of me. I'm surprised that Stockwell Terrace isn't a no entry from that end, but there's no 'No Left Turn' sign to say that cars cannot turn in. There is though a straight on white arrow with blue background sign on the lights which I've thought to mean ahead only.

Observations welcome.

hopkinb

Norks74 wrote:

Re. Stockwell segregated cycle lane and the end of it.

Can anyone on here please enlighten me as to the right of way where the segregated cycle lane comes to an end heading North in Stockwell? There's a small road on the left, Stockwell Terrace.

I ask as both the bike lane and the outside car lane have lights that go green at the same time, and this morning a car turned left, indicating very late to go into Stockwell Terrace, and came close to taking out the guy ahead of me. I'm surprised that Stockwell Terrace isn't a no entry from that end, but there's no 'No Left Turn' sign to say that cars cannot turn in. There is though a straight on white arrow with blue background sign on the lights which I've thought to mean ahead only.

Observations welcome.

In 7 years I've only seen 1 car try to turn left there. Similar outcome to yours, near carnage. Sufficiently rare to not bother me too much though!

veronese68

Nice pedal in and back today, warm weather has definitely brought them all out of the woodwork. Passed a couple of roadies this morning, one with shaved legs like a girl. Then took a triantelopes scalp riding through Bushy Park this evening, sleeveless skin suit with name stencilled on his aris’ and tri bars made it easy to identify the species, I rolled by sat up with hands on the hoods and wished him a good afternoon to be polite. He may have been keeping to a certain heart rate or something but a scalp is a scalp.

norks74

hopkinb wrote:

Norks74 wrote:

Re. Stockwell segregated cycle lane and the end of it.

Can anyone on here please enlighten me as to the right of way where the segregated cycle lane comes to an end heading North in Stockwell? There's a small road on the left, Stockwell Terrace.

I ask as both the bike lane and the outside car lane have lights that go green at the same time, and this morning a car turned left, indicating very late to go into Stockwell Terrace, and came close to taking out the guy ahead of me. I'm surprised that Stockwell Terrace isn't a no entry from that end, but there's no 'No Left Turn' sign to say that cars cannot turn in. There is though a straight on white arrow with blue background sign on the lights which I've thought to mean ahead only.

Observations welcome.

In 7 years I've only seen 1 car try to turn left there. Similar outcome to yours, near carnage. Sufficiently rare to not bother me too much though!

I think as you say, it's rare, as can only remember probably one or two instances of this kind of thing happening before too. Oddly today was the first time I've ever put a camera on the bike to commute and so managed to record it. But what the camera didn't record was the, and I want to be polite....utterly inattentive and then not nearly apologetic enough chap behind me who somehow smashed into my rear end, ripping my rear tyre and knocking my rear wheel out of true. £28 quid down for a cheap tyre and a wheel true, simply because someone's not looking at the road ahead when they really should be. Nice!

Still that 'junction' for want of a better word, requires some work, whether it be the light phasing or whatnot.

anonymousblackfg

hopkinb wrote:

Norks74 wrote:

Observations welcome.

In 7 years I've only seen 1 car try to turn left there. Similar outcome to yours, near carnage. Sufficiently rare to not bother me too much though!

I had to google streetview this, have never seen anyone turn in (though all the cars are parked in it facing that way). I can fully understand the carnage that would happen.

Loads of em out today and some useless riding, luckily all the stockwell'esk cycle paths were avoided so just breezed past the hoards with the cars.

monkimark

Isn't stockwell terrace already no entry from the other side?
I would say that the straight ahead arrow is to stop people turning down the wrong side of the road straight after the lights and right of way is the same as for any other side street.
Other than people who live there, I can't see why anyone would turn left down there, unless maybe they missed the turn at the lights.

Norks74 wrote:

Re. Stockwell segregated cycle lane and the end of it.

Can anyone on here please enlighten me as to the right of way where the segregated cycle lane comes to an end heading North in Stockwell? There's a small road on the left, Stockwell Terrace.

I ask as both the bike lane and the outside car lane have lights that go green at the same time, and this morning a car turned left, indicating very late to go into Stockwell Terrace, and came close to taking out the guy ahead of me. I'm surprised that Stockwell Terrace isn't a no entry from that end, but there's no 'No Left Turn' sign to say that cars cannot turn in. There is though a straight on white arrow with blue background sign on the lights which I've thought to mean ahead only.

Observations welcome.

roger_merriman

MTB-Idle wrote:

strangely enough heading in from SW along CS Heaven was reasonable, i kept wondering if the schools were actually back today or not.

Mind you a tough 100km to Windsor and back yesterday with a strong cross wind the whole way meant I had little in the legs this morning. I did get to ride in Bushy Park for the first time ever though. That's nice in there isn't it?

yup, I have commuted to various places over the years but I try to include Bushy Park as its a nice bit of traffic free green.

asprilla

Realised over the weekend that I'd never done a sub-20 lap of the park. Never really tried; Strava says I only have 10 complete laps to my name from Roehampton ACW.

Rectified this morning. Room for improvement.

anonymousblackfg

Asprilla wrote:

Realised over the weekend that I'd never done a sub-20 lap of the park. Never really tried; Strava says I only have 10 complete laps to my name from Roehampton ACW.

Rectified this morning. Room for improvement.

3 laps under an hour is the target...

Anyone else see the four motorbike coppers stop a little car by Oval? I assume it was probably the driver having just nearly knocked one of them off so was having a word, maybe the only benefit of having spare po po in london due to Trump.

asprilla

anonymousblackfg wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Realised over the weekend that I'd never done a sub-20 lap of the park. Never really tried; Strava says I only have 10 complete laps to my name from Roehampton ACW.

Rectified this morning. Room for improvement.

3 laps under an hour is the target...

I might do three laps in a year if I really motivate myself. My current average is less that one a year.

asprilla

Dupe.

elbowloh

Back in the day i used to do a few laps, but then got bored of it . Lots of people i know go to RP just to do loads of laps, i'd rather get out of town to Surrey or Kent.

london-red

elbowloh wrote:

Back in the day i used to do a few laps, but then got bored of it . Lots of people i know go to RP just to do loads of laps, i'd rather get out of town to Surrey or Kent.

But if you live near the park, and get out early enough (or even better go mid-week) a three-lap challenge at your fastest possible speed is a great, time-efficient training session.

njee20

Is it? Just going and riding hard for an hour isn't generally the sort of training most coaches would prescribe, depending on your goals there are probably better uses of that time, although I see the appeal.

Total carnage this morning, with Kingston being dug up, then solid traffic all the way through Putney. Even considering returning to CS7 for the journey home!

cruff

njee20 wrote:

Is it? Just going and riding hard for an hour isn't generally the sort of training most coaches would prescribe, depending on your goals there are probably better uses of that time, although I see the appeal.

Total carnage this morning, with Kingston being dug up, then solid traffic all the way through Putney. Even considering returning to CS7 for the journey home!

In fact, that's exactly the sort of session most coaches would prescribe once every 6 to 8 weeks. An hour as hard as you can go is the very definition of an FTP test (though I'd argue it wouldn't be a great idea to do it in RP due to turns, pedestrians, vehicles, belligerent stags etc making it very difficult to get a consistent effort out - and most coaches wouldn't be sadistic enough to make you do a 'proper' FTP test and just give you the 20 minute one)

roger_merriman

London-Red wrote:

elbowloh wrote:

Back in the day i used to do a few laps, but then got bored of it . Lots of people i know go to RP just to do loads of laps, i'd rather get out of town to Surrey or Kent.

But if you live near the park, and get out early enough (or even better go mid-week) a three-lap challenge at your fastest possible speed is a great, time-efficient training session.

That’s all true and I do like the park early or very late, though generally I pass though I think I have lapped it at some point but would be years ago.

I do get why lots of folks go there on the weekend but personally I find it a bit dull, I’m much more MTB/gravel anyway so Wimbledon is much more interesting, though might find a quiet day and have a off road lap, which I haven’t done for ages!