Silly commuting racing

lost_in_thought

Ooh I like that cervelo!

But I clearly need no more bikes. Would be an hilarious commuting machine though! Almost as silly as a full carbon... Oh no hang on...

Greg T

I think you are all overlooking that fearsome whip - the Kona Paddy Wagon that I am currently rocking.

I've been reading bikesnobNY quite a lot can you tell?

il_principe

lost_in_thought wrote:

Ooh I like that Pinarello!

But I clearly need no more bikes. Would be an hilarious commuting machine though! Almost as silly as a full carbon... Oh no hang on...

Fixed that for you.

Big Wib

Don't you have difficulty with traction floating a couple of inches above the ground?

Although that's one way of avoiding craters in the road

Greg T

Big Wib wrote:

Don't you have difficulty with traction floating a couple of inches above the ground?

Although that's one way of avoiding craters in the road

If it touched the ground it would get dirty.

Ask other Greg he's OCD about road dirt and washes his paintwork with holy water and babies tears

il_principe

Greg T wrote:

Big Wib wrote:

Don't you have difficulty with traction floating a couple of inches above the ground?

Although that's one way of avoiding craters in the road

If it touched the ground it would get dirty.

Ask other Greg he's OCD about road dirt and washes his paintwork with holy water and babies tears

Bad idea, babies tears have salt in them...

Greg T

jashburnham wrote:

Bad idea, babies tears have salt in them...

Now that did make me smile.

I remember someone getting flamed stupid for saying they put Fairy liquid in the hot water they used for washing their bikes.

DO NOT USE DETERGENT - IT'S GOT SALT IN IT!

came the over excited web warrior conjouring images of dissolving bikes and sbroken bones.

Jaysus you would have thought they said Concentrated Acid and an angle grinder.

snooks

Greg T wrote:

Big Wib wrote:

Don't you have difficulty with traction floating a couple of inches above the ground?

Although that's one way of avoiding craters in the road

If it touched the ground it would get dirty.

Ask other Greg he's OCD about road dirt and washes his paintwork with holy water and babies tears

You're not making Bianchi cry just you your namesake can wash his bike are you...

That's sick

So how much are you selling baby tears for? :twisted: I just have to look at babies and they start crying...never seen this as a way to make money before...I knew it would come in handy one day though

ps Mr T do you go back along the road worked bit before Southwark bridge on the way home....or do you avoid it?

Greg T

snooks wrote:

You're not making Bianchi cry just you your namesake can wash his bike are you...

ps Mr T do you go back along the road worked bit before Southwark bridge on the way home....or do you avoid it?

I spend most of my time trying to make her not cry - however she seems to love it - I have a dehumidifier running at home trying to dry the curtains out....

As for the roadworks I just plough on and make myself as big as I can - and that's not hard as I'm a porker.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Greg T wrote:

snooks wrote:

You're not making Bianchi cry just you your namesake can wash his bike are you...

ps Mr T do you go back along the road worked bit before Southwark bridge on the way home....or do you avoid it?

I spend most of my time trying to make her not cry - however she seems to love it - I have a dehumidifier running at home trying to dry the curtains out....

As for the roadworks I just plough on and make myself as big as I can - and that's not hard as I'm a porker.

Was that you that made that bloody great trench in the Death Star Canyon a few months back?

I bloody knew it!

Can I borrow your curtains to clean my bikes? I'll use the holy water to rinse them out.

snooks

Greg T wrote:

As for the roadworks I just plough on and make myself as big as I can - and that's not hard as I'm a porker.

I'm now going in that way and didn't know whether there was an easier way. i.e. a way that I didn't have to filter through traffic and could keep up a decent pace, like just after the roadworks

Greg T

snooks wrote:

I'm now going in that way and didn't know whether there was an easier way. i.e. a way that I didn't have to filter through traffic and could keep up a decent pace, like just after the roadworks

You could try cannon st but I find it's teemiing with suicide Peds determined to end both our lives.

I was thinking of trying some south of the river off roading at Tower Bridge but I hear there are Dragons over there so won't be trying it.

biondino

Has this been the most active day in the forum in living memory?

shoulder_of_orion

I've been fecking busy at work. pish!

I've had some good SCR action since I last posted here:

Scalp!: Friday evening, at Bricklayers Arms, I saw a large dark-skinned male going up the flyover and I just powered past him on the way up but I was a good couple of hundred yards behind him to start with so it was gratifying to slowly reel someone in. There is something more satisfying about a scalping on an incline - like that famous moment in the tdf when Lance just looked back at the rest and the poor little blighters just didn't have the legs to keep up. I didn't look back, but when I got to the top, I took my hands off the bars and did up my Jacket for the descent. That must of hurt cos he tried a lot of very unsafe filtering after that but each time the lights went green I had him on the straights before he turned off. He had MASSIVE thighs.

Scalped! (not): Down the old kent road again on Friday evening going full pelt. I had to pick up one of the little people, they fine you something like £5 per min if you are late and I was running late so I was giving my all. You can imagine my horror when I was quite casually passed by someone on a Cannondale road bike, passing me like I would an old lady on a shopper, displaying no apparent effort whatsoever. You can likewise imagine my delight when I saw his silky smooth shaved like a laydee legs (quite a rarity in these chilly times I might add). I had that feeling that others have noted that it's not quite right to feel such joy at looking at another man's legs.

Non-Scalp: Well this one I am just not counting, sorry Gregg66, but some things are just not on. This guy was a pure lycra'd up roadie and technically above me in the food chain, but he was either disabled or recovering from a long term injury. I overtook him once at Oval and once on embankment (I took a "short cut" that turned out not to be so). That guy had cojones the size of beachballs and there is no way my soul will allow that to be counted as a scalp.

Scalped! (judgement needed): Ok, so this is the closest I have come to being scalped. Tuesday evening, I took yet another route home (i have 3-4 options), this time on the A200, which is slightly longer but you are going along at a far faster pace for nearly all of the journey so it's about the same time-wise. I approached the junction at deptford and I saw him, a silver haired dude on a hybrid with a pannier on one side. At least a couple of rungs down from me on the ladder. I normally pass such creatures with a mixture of disdain and disgust but this old boy had been on the viagra or epo or amphetimines. He was probably some kind of fitness nutball like a marathon runner or triathlete. I moved off at pace and carried on up Friendly street which is about half a mile or so up hill, quite nasty when you have caned it for the past 11 miles. I thought I had left the silver fox way back but then I heard the dreaded crunch of poorly oiled gears. The horror! Noooo! I wasn't having that so I put it all in, he never got past me or even to within a couple of metres of me... but obejaysus it was undignified. I had to get out of the saddle and by the time I got to the lights (thank god it was red) I was panting and hacking like dot cotton after running the 1500 metres. Luckily he turned off at that point, if he had carried on up Wickham Ave he would have probably passed me.



Right I'm off in search of more scalps...

DonDaddyD

You know what Shoulder of Orion...

Chapeau!

I take my helmet off to you sir!

hope you meet us at the next Mopeth drinks (if I can make it)

What steed are you riding sir?

(You make me want to return from injury early and lay waste to my commute!)

cjcp

jashburnham wrote:

cjcp wrote:

How much does it cost?

Parker have the Frame only for £3,799.99!

Shhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettt.

Clever Pun

cjcp wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

cjcp wrote:

How much does it cost?

Parker have the Frame only for £3,799.99!

Shhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettt.

someones been watching the Wire

cjcp

What's the Wire?

Bassjunkieuk

Fairly decent ride home this evening. Felt like I was drawing on a Bottomless Pit Of Power this evening as I had a quick blast south down from Euston Station to Aldwych. My confidence in taking corners at speed and technique is certainly improving as I'm getting faster round the switchback section to get towards Waterloo Bridge!

Blasted over the bridge, dumped an old guy on a tourer before the river section and then reeled in some more floatsam as I headed round the roundabout. Found a right c0ck at the lights just down from the Evans who barged his way through the peds crossing the road just because it was on the flashing amber phase :evil: I fully intended to rip his scalp clean off but unfortunately the next set of lights by The Cut conspired against me changing a bit to early for me to claim a "late amber" - I stopped and watched him ride off........

Found what was looking like a nice challenger in Camberwell but that turned into nothing. Also found a Maserati driver who seemed to have a severe case of SWS, sitting in traffic blipping his throttle - I guess he was just a tad frustrated that I was making quicker progress on my £400 bike then he was in his £60K+ car!
I managed to make up some ground on a roadie up Denmark Hill and then passed just before I turned off down Sunray Avenue to pursue a Z3, turned out to be a fruitless affair as the driver kept braking! Annoying when you get held up by cars!!!

Chose the longer hill today and had some fun getting up there, as I came on I thought I saw the tell-tale flashing of a rear light but due to the turns and undulations it disappeared pretty much straight after, it wasn't until the final rise that I could see them filter right to line up to take the same exit I do off the roundabout. I manage to get onto the roundabout with him only just exiting, narrowly avoid the pillock in the van who was coming ALL the way round despite not indicating!!! I caught up with the rider at the next set of lights but I'm not sure if I can claim the scalp.........if he did ride the whole hill then simply by making up enough ground on him I made it up the hill quicker then him, but there are also plenty of side roads that he could have joined from.........regardless of this I binned him along the parade and had an amazing run once I got past the bus garage as all the lights remained green! I even managed to avoid the learner driver who decided to try and execute a 3 point turn at a busy junction.........damn near reversed into another car in the queue!

All this meant that my entrance into my last descent wasn't obscured by a car like yesterday.....I do remember thinking "engage hyper drive and lets f**king go!"
A van was attempting to pull out from a road on the right, but I was in primary and the passenger seemed to have spotted me. He looked rather shocked at the speed I was coming down at. That was the last I saw of them until I turned off at the bottom :-) By the look on the passengers face he was rather impressed!!!!

Clever Pun

cjcp wrote:

What's the Wire?

Damn boy you need the WIre

best tv series ever...

the first 3 series are pretty cheap on ebay/amazon.... get sone it has the Pun seal of approval... If you don't like it... you're wrong

Jay dubbleU

My first electric bike scalp tonite - game old dear but I won in the end :roll:

cjcp

What's it about? Is it computer/IT geekery stuff?

Clever Pun

cjcp wrote:

What's it about? Is it computer/IT geekery stuff?

:x No... The 5 series cover most aspects of life in Baltimore based around the drug dealers and cops... it's awesome


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire

cjcp

Bit heavy for me. The Big Bang is more my level.

Clever Pun

cjcp wrote:

Bit heavy for me. The Big Bang is more my level.

no it's really good... trust me, funny too

Christophe3967

Good work, BJUK, SoO. Carry on.

cjcp

Christophe - are you a club kit wearer?

gtvlusso

Rear tyre blew out this morning, fairweather lot...rant rant moan moan blah blah world must die due to minor setback - bad day at the office, still here at 11:30pm - STFU gtvlusso and just get on with it......

Grrr....blah!

Christophe3967

cjcp wrote:

Christophe - are you a club kit wearer?

Not me Guv.

cjcp

It was all go this morning. A Bianchi and a Trek tearing along Embankment (maybe, ahem, a spot of RLJ action there, chaps), the rower (I say that because he has enormous legs and seriously broad shoulders) on the Lemond putting the hammer down, hybrids and SSers attempting to draft.

Can only attribute the upturn in the number of cyclists to the fair weather. What the heck, it's gooooooooooooooooood.