Silly commuting racing

greg66_tri_v2.0

jashburnham wrote:

I'm in bed! Yey laptop. Boo ever diminishing battery power...

Hmm. Bloke in bed with a laptop.

Seedy much?

How is Sveltana, your sexy Russian bride-to-be? :twisted:

lost_in_thought

OK, nobody else is going to bed until we have definitively figured out this hairy-legged person's FCN...

il_principe

Greg66 wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

I'm in bed! Yey laptop. Boo ever diminishing battery power...

Hmm. Bloke in bed with a laptop.

Seedy much?

How is Sveltana, your sexy Russian bride-to-be? :twisted:

Speaking of internet brides I actually had a missed call from a Thai number earlier, rather worrying...

greg66_tri_v2.0

But he needs to tell us what pedals he's running. And I bet he's gone to bed.

Shall we ring him?

Or text him first to say that we're about to ring

il_principe

Better fax first eh?

lost_in_thought

And back we go to www.thaibrides.com...

il_principe

il_principe

lost_in_thought

Greg66 wrote:

But he needs to tell us what pedals he's running. And I bet he's gone to bed.

Shall we ring him?

Or text him first to say that we're about to ring

So inconsiderate... Actually I have a pigeon we could send...

itboffin

Err don't you lot have work in the morning !?!?

cjcp you get like 1-1.5 hrs sleep a night as it is.

jash those movies draining the battery

greg seeing as you're unable to reach your toes these days did you wake up misses G66 for that little math session

LiTs hello no wine for me just night nurse and hot choc.

lost_in_thought

I'm 'working' from home again...

cjcp

itboffin wrote:

Err don't you lot have work in the morning !?!?

cjcp you get like 1-1.5 hrs sleep a night as it is.

jash those movies draining the battery

greg seeing as you're unable to reach your toes these days did you wake up misses G66 for that little math session

LiTs hello no wine for me just night nurse and hot choc.

Won't be long. I could be on the sofa again though: my youngest is occupying the space I normally fill. Little monster. :P

redvee

I'm working on recycling cans of lager plus reading about who jashburnham shares his bed with.

lost_in_thought

Looks like it might be the two chaps from little britain...

bracketed

Sorry! Still here, just about!

So 6 it is... yep, clipless all the way.

I do have a problem with cracked nipples though... but I think that's a post for another day

Ta very much for all the in depth investigation, I feel I know who I am now! See you on that there embankment....

lost_in_thought

Thank god. Now we can all go to bed.

greg66_tri_v2.0

And sleep soundly, safe in the knowledge that once again, I WAS RIGHT!

Night all. Sleep tight.

cjcp

Night, John Boy

greg66_tri_v2.0

lost_in_thought wrote:

Thank god. Now we can all go to bed.

Not together, dear reader, in case you were wondering.

itboffin

They did :shock:

Feltup

I want my 2 mins 23s back from reading pages 556 and 557

don_don

Well, I could have done with some gears this morning. The wind coming down off the hill was so strong I nearly scalped myself a couple of times..

Luckily I don't have to ride back into it, since I'm taking the train to Prestatyn this evening for a weekend away, wahaaay :?

Bassjunkieuk

Productive ride in this morning and my most fruitful of the week!
Got my first scalp within 2 miles of leaving, a Bianchi roadie as I came down the usually quiet residential road towards Streatham.

Picked up a couple of tourers (or at least panniered up roadies) before hitting Balham and claiming a few SSers!

Unfortunately the run from Balham Waitrose to Stockwell brought LOADS of RLJers :-(
I also had to sit and wait at a rather long light sequence by Clapham North after watching 4 lycra'd up roadies disappear from the side road down past the common. I couldn't even see them once our lights had changed to let us through so missed out on some prize scalpage there :x

gtvlusso

Well - nothing has taken or caught me this week - although, I did have a ding dong with an MTB'er who took me on the flat (I span out on the SS), so I got him on the next hill.

On roadbike over the next few days as I cocked up BB and had to do some "intricate" angle griding to correct.....

Have a good weekend all!

The Chingford Skinhead

A shocking SCR experience this morning.

Shortly after setting off and realising that the roads were both touched with frost and grease I decided to slow down a bit (not that I'm every that fast). Anyhow, about 10 mins into ride and I hear the familiar tick-tick-tick-tick of a bike behind me. I don’t want to look, for to look would tell him or her that I knew the race was on. So, I put the hammer down ignoring the patches of ice, explosion of iron work and gaping holes in the road. I sweep majestically around a bend but it is back. Tick-tick-tick-tick

I push harder; my legs still tired from the late blast home last night but yet determined not to be passed so early into my journey. I feel I must be pulling away.

I am Captain Hook and tick-tick-tick-tick sound is my crocodile nemeses. It’s back, I have to look. It’s a !! car with some kind of problem in its engine!

There was one bright note to my trip in today. I’m normally a mega polite rider, I follow the rules of the road and I even thank drivers who wait and give me room before passing. I do so in the hope that the next time they see a cyclist they’ll again do the right thing. However, I can have a dark side…as I entered Islington this morning some complete Tw@ in a mini tried to barge past me on a narrow chicane. He/she didn’t make it and so I stayed bang in primary position for the next five minutes, leaving just enough gap between me and the van in front so that mini-tw@ knew there was space for him/her but was never going to get to it. The engine was revving and I could feel the hate. As soon as a passing gap on the other side of the road opened up I’d adjust my primary position slightly to ensure it couldn’t be used. I wasn’t in reality holding him/her up – apart from one car space – yet to they deemed that enough to risk my life / health for it. I therefore deemed hacking them off to be worth it. If they’re in such a hurry tomorrow perhaps they’ll leave home a little earlier.

Bassjunkieuk

TCS - That one car space is very valuable! Heaven forbid they can't get 5 yards further into the traffic jam ;-)
I have actually had a few courteous drivers over the last few days that really made me think about how we remember things i.e. it's only really the bad behavior that sticks! I think it was yesterday when a driver hung back a bit to let me back across the lane so I could get into the bus lane (he got a thumbs up as I indicated to acknowledge him) and this morning a plonker in a Luton van pulled right into the ASL at a red light. I gave him a glaring look and indicated he should have stopped at the back line, but once the lights changed he didn't go racing off and let me and the other cyclist get off first :-)

Also, well done for keeping ahead of the dodgy car :-D

iain_j

On my way to work there's a crossroad with traffic light. At that time of the morning, there's only ever people going one way - the same way as me, because there's no-one coming the other way out of town that time, the road on the left is out of Asda that no-one is coming out of at that time, and the road on the right is just a road to nowhere that no-one ever comes out of at any time.

So why, when caught at the red light, do I have to wait frickin ages for those other three utterly empty roads to get individual green lights? Especially when it's cold, wet and windy, ie. this morning. Grr.

Should RLJ'ing be allowed?

/runs off

biondino

As I cycle through Putney common to the death bridge I am always convinced I can hear a bike behind me but there's never anyone there. Ghost rider? or my own rear mech?

Bassjunkieuk

Surely if it was ghost rider you'd feel him?

itboffin

As usual there we're no other riders on my route this morning, I did get buzzed by a low flying RAF helicopter then later on by an Army Air Corp helicopter, the bright yellow hi-viz jacket makes a great target