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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Raining in Brizzle as I type :(:( Looks like bright sunshine in London area according to GMTV :( Think the emergency 1 mile ride will come into play this morning.
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    redvee wrote:
    Raining in Brizzle as I type :(:( Looks like bright sunshine in London area according to GMTV :( Think the emergency 1 mile ride will come into play this morning.

    Well the beeb reckons we're set for a max of 28-30ish so chances are it will rain here to!
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    flaming bloody L plate motorcyclist :evil:

    Complete cock was walking his bike down the inside of buses and vans this morning in front of me.

    The stupid thing was I kept catching him up even though I only filtered when appropriate and safe.

    The number of filthy looks HE got (and sympathetic ones to me) from everyone was astonishing.
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  • soy_sauce
    soy_sauce Posts: 987
    i been "smoked" this morning by a rock lobster on the way to work. :(
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    My word there were a lot of cyclists out and about this morning on HSK.

    And my gosh a lot of them were cycling like prats. There was a veritable peloton jumping reds on pavements. FFS, where are the police when you need them? :roll:
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Bought my first ever pair of cycling shoes yesterday from Lidl. Tried them out for the first time today and lopped three minutes off my personal best. This was still using flat pedals too, I'm amazed at the difference. 36 minutes for 12 miles 8)

    Oh, also dispatched four hybrids on the way. They don't feel like a victory any more but I suspect it felt like a humiliating defeat to them so that's all that counts really. :twisted:
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    I had this annoying spinny Tricross pervert (really spinning he stand in the 30t ring for the whole time) on my commute today. I dropped him again and again but he had the uncanny ability of filtering perfectly to the front so I had to drop him all over again. Most annoying.

    I love it when I overtake a gaggle of hybrids and they try their hardest to keep up but they can't because their collective gear inch isn't even half of mine.

    I got smoked on Saturady, riding to the comic book shop in Croydon, I came across a guy on a steel frame with panniers. As he attempted to pass me he had the biggest grin on his face. I wouldn't let he take me. By the time i got half way up the road he was too awesome and I had to let him power ahead.... :cry: How the hell was he so fast? He passed me with the very same grin while i was panting like a fat man on heat.... :cry:
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    on the mills today for the inaugural commute, it didn't let me down either. The only scalp was a roadie with more ink than me (I suspect)
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  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    had a kind slo-mo SCR this morning with a chap on a roadie (trek I think) on Fulham Palace Road.

    Both pulled away from lights and then after about 30 seconds exertions from us both, kinda both just realised it was far too hot and humid to really go for it and after the next set of lights we cruised along and a draw declared.
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  • jedster
    jedster Posts: 1,717
    How the hell was he so fast? He passed me with the very same grin while i was panting like a fat man on heat....

    He's probably some ex-racer who put's the paniers on just to hand folks on their carbon roadies a beating. Good sport and I can see why he was grinning - a true SCR bandit at heart.

    Just keep in mind those stories of Edie Merxx turning up on club runs on a butcher's bike and giving all and sundry a towelling. You'll feel a whole lot better.

    J
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Maybe you answered your own question with that last sentence.... lardy :wink:




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  • gmillsy
    gmillsy Posts: 37
    brilliant ride in today - was supposed to be a recovery ride after the granfondo luciano on sunday, but couldnt resist to bag a few scalps on the embankment - including a couple of fixes who sped off from the lights but ran out of gas after 100m. happy days.

    they didnt see my knobbly tires until it was too late...
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    How did you get on Sunday millsy?
  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    Female cyclist down at the oval this morning, suspected fatality. :(

    Stay safe everyone
  • gmillsy
    gmillsy Posts: 37
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    How did you get on Sunday millsy?

    snuck round in 3hr50 which i was v pleased with, glad to be back before the worst of the heat! how did you get on?
  • clanton
    clanton Posts: 1,289
    I managed only my second every scalp on Saturday. I very seldom see any other cyclists on my commute but as I was working Saturday and it was such a nice day I took an extended detour home , via Boxhill! I hadn't planned on scalps, just wanted a ncie ride home but when I saw a carbon fibre road bike and shaved legs up ahead I couldn't resist. I said a casual hello as I powered past him about 2/3 up the climb.

    I felt vaguely guilty and a bit sorry for him though, being passed by me on my rusty, rattly tourer with mudguards, 28mm tyres, downtube shifters, baggy mtb shorts and a great big backpack on my back (complete with hi-viz cover!) - he must have died a little inside.

    He may well have been in post-ride-cruise mode but he made no attempt to go after me so I'm claiming it!
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Wet and miserable this morning - in fact, I have never been so wet.....

    On the roadbike too - annoys me if I am doing a short sprint into work...

    Will mountain bike tonight with Wilma to calm my annoyedness.
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    gmillsy wrote:
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    How did you get on Sunday millsy?

    snuck round in 3hr50 which i was v pleased with, glad to be back before the worst of the heat! how did you get on?

    4.09 ride time. Really blew on the last climb had been doing great guns until then was averaging 19mph. Drank 4 litres but didn't save enough for the end.

    Was a bit peeved at the way they were timing the event and no water at the end wasn't to good.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    amnezia wrote:
    Female cyclist down at the oval this morning, suspected fatality. :(

    Stay safe everyone

    :( Nothing in the Standard online yet. Anything more on this?
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  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    amnezia wrote:
    Female cyclist down at the oval this morning, suspected fatality. :(

    Stay safe everyone
    How many more until we see substantive action rather than all this pussyfooting around by the powers that be!?! :x
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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    amnezia wrote:
    Female cyclist down at the oval this morning, suspected fatality. :(

    Stay safe everyone

    Confirmed fatality.

    RIP
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Now on this post I will say that fat, F*cking blonde haired buffoon should get off his arse in city towers and get something done.

    Every week it seems a female cyclist is killed by a HGV.

    Ban the bloody things from London unless they have adequate mirrors, sensors and the driver has attended a cyclist awareness course. .
  • benno68
    benno68 Posts: 1,689
    One fatality is one too many, but serious incidents involving cyclists in London seem to be a weekly occurence. Certainly enough incidents for the powers that be to take some positive action.

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  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    edited June 2009
    see this post on yahoo news board. Sounds pretty horrific.
    Hello there

    I believe someone at Southwark Cyclists might be logging these incidents ??

    It happened at about 0815. The lorry and cyclist were both travelling along Clapham Road and the lorry turned left into Harleyford Street

    A man in the sandwich shop where I sometimes buy my breakfast has just told me that he heard on the radio that the cyclist has died although I can’t confirm that

    The most worrying thing about being a witness to this was that the lorry driver simply didn’t seem to realise. It was as though the cyclist and bike hadn’t provided any detectable resistance so he simply had not known to stop. He only seemed to realise something was wrong when pedestrians waiting at the crossing started waving to attract his attention

    The wheels on the lorry were so tall and the wheel arches so high that the cyclist practically rode underneath the lorry before being carried along by its wheels

    Very disturbing

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southwark ... ssage/7570
  • Stuey01
    Stuey01 Posts: 1,273
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    amnezia wrote:
    Female cyclist down at the oval this morning, suspected fatality. :(

    Stay safe everyone

    Confirmed fatality.

    RIP

    Fuck.

    I passed the aftermath this morning, police taping off the road and such. It was a big site truck, like the ones that carry gravel. Looked like the lorry may have been turning left at the lights when it happened.

    There was high vis clothing and single cycling shoe on the road under the wheels, a very sad image.

    I was really hoping, against the odds, that this person would be ok.

    Witnessed a guy get left hooked by a car this morning, fortunately he was OK, the driver stopped and apologised and they exchanged details, left mine as a witness.


    Bad morning.

    Stay safe out there people.
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    MTFU in the rain though I did do the short route. Got the timing of the ride spot on, as I left home the clouds stopped dropping the water on the roads of Brizzle. Dark enough for a rear led though this was missed by the golf driver who after overtaking me decided to try and squeeze me into the railing on the St James Barton R'bout, shouted and waved at her and she realised the error of ways. I even thanked her afterwards with a slight hint of sarcasm in the voice. Managed a dab free ride through the three sets of lights also this morning despite the best efforts of the saab driver who realised he was in the wrong lane with me 6" from his bumper as we moved away from the last set of lights, cue more verbals.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    After deciding to go for the burn tonight in an attempt to get my first sub 50 minute laden commute, i got caught at the lights in the city over and over :cry:

    However, this did not deter me and I put the pedal down the whole damn' way home. I cannot remember the last time I was so tired when I arrived. :?

    Still: 1 dozy, dozy, stupid feckin' woman who even KNEW I was behind her on the bridleway STILL went bimbling along in the middle until I was forced to bully past her (I tried to be polite but the daft tart had earphones on and simply did not acknowledge me... nuts to that, push past)

    The best bit was the last 1 mile straight - I saw two cyclists up ahead (seen them before, one very cute girl and this HUGE black guy)

    At this point, the horizon was being repeatedly lit up by major lightening bolts, so whatever: I was bollocking down the road. :shock:

    Holding 23-24 the whole way down, and shoulder checking to ensure the road behind was clear I went belting past this girl who actually squealed as I overtook her! She had no idea I was there (headphones AGAIN :roll: ) so i think the surprise was total.

    Big guy on the hardtail who was giving it some beans was despatched quite easily, and I really had very little breath to spare for a hello, so I just kept the pedal down and made damn' sure there was no way he was going to catch me :wink:

    Rolled onto the drive at exactly 48 mins for the 14 miles... I just know I can beat 45 if i get the conditions right, but that was hard work tonight
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Interesting ride home this evening straight out of Whitchurch station down the steep station road and right into the country lanes and I notice the road is a different colour in the distance when I get there it's because they've removed the road surface leaving a loose stone covering, which was nice :shock:

    1.5 miles up hill and then an interesting sliding slipping downhill 1 mile :? my bike is now covered in tar with a layer of crushed stones...

    Cool!!!!! :D
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    itboffin wrote:
    Interesting ride home this evening straight out of Whitchurch station down the steep station road and right into the country lanes and I notice the road is a different colour in the distance when I get there it's because they've removed the road surface leaving a loose stone covering, which was nice :shock:

    1.5 miles up hill and then an interesting sliding slipping downhill 1 mile :? my bike is now covered in tar with a layer of crushed stones...

    Cool!!!!! :D

    Trendy! Pebble Dash bike. What's next? Flock tyres? Artex saddle? :shock:
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Sometimes, just sometimes, I actually envy ITB and K_B's commutes home

    :lol::lol:

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