Silly commuting racing

itboffin

Cafewanda wrote:

Sometimes, just sometimes, I actually envy ITB and K_B's commutes home

I was going to take some photos this evening because the road was so bad and because it just so stunning however the swarms of those tiny black flies killed that idea.

May be tomorrow.

cjcp

Lot of bikes out tonight, but mainly hybrids, so no SCR action...

Gave it a bit of stick along Embankment all the same.

m0scs

Did 25 mile lap tonight. For some reason I'm always faster when it's hot.

Either that or total alcohol abstainance at the weekend is helping.

I never see anyone to race out in the country lanes.

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gtvlusso

bad day yesterday:

Soaked on way in
Kit still wet when I went home and the weather was very hot.
Puncture at the top of Filton Hill
get home and dog has been sick everywhere.

Grrrr......

Hopefully, today will be better - on fixed again today.

Wotski

Hi all, just joined the forum; good to see a community of fellow SCR folk.

I'm on a 22 mile commute into central London and always end-up getting burned by a fresh legged whippet who has just set off from Oval or thereabouts. So, my question is whether there is any handycapping in the SCR to take account of longer commutes?

Cheers, Wotski.

cjcp

Wotski wrote:

Hi all, just joined the forum; good to see a community of fellow SCR folk.

I'm on a 22 mile commute into central London and always end-up getting burned by a fresh legged whippet who has just set off from Oval or thereabouts. So, my question is whether there is any handycapping in the SCR to take account of longer commutes?

Cheers, Wotski.

Welcome, Wotski!

I'm afraid not, ol' chap. Here it comes....

M.

T.

F.

U.

Stuey01

Had a bit a ding dong this morning with a guy on the exact same Bianchi as me, but with shimano rather than campag bits on. FCN identical, same bike, both with SPD's, baggies, sunglasses, rucksack. I was clearly faster, at one point he had a little dig so I turned my awesome up to 11 and left him behind.

FAST dude on a Trek 7.3 hybird this morning. He was absolutely tanking it between Clapham and E&C, 22-23 mph. I had him for top speed, reeled him in and overtook but could not shake him, then he snuck by with some crafty filtering and beat the lights.
Chapeau that man.

Roastie

I was taking it super easy this AM due to a touch of head cold (thanks to Mrs Roastie). I was doing really well (at riding slowly) until the run up towards London Bridge.

So at the intersection where Borough High St meets Southwark St, this grey-skinsuited twit on a lumo-yellow wheeled Lemond fixie couldn't be @rsed to wait at does the usual twit thing (RLJ). Perhaps because I'd passed him a little earlier, I found this RLJ really annoyed me.

By the time the light turned green he was just about passing under the railway bridge. A lovely opening saw me clear the stationary traffic up the to the railway bridge quite quickly, but by this stage Lemond-man was already headed onto the bridge, out of his saddle to accelerate past a bus.

Time for some whoopass. Big ring and nailing it through the sprockets. He appeared to be turning his gear strongly, definitely no pootle. I eased up a bit as I passed him (so as not to look like I was actually trying), giving him that "ya f&%ker" look that I practice in the mirror every morning before leaving him for dead. He finally caught up at the Monument lights where traffic forced him to stop, but I caned his tush again up to Fenchurch Street.

I don't know why RLJers irritate me so much, but they do.

il_principe

Wotski wrote:

Hi all, just joined the forum; good to see a community of fellow SCR folk.

I'm on a 22 mile commute into central London and always end-up getting burned by a fresh legged whippet who has just set off from Oval or thereabouts. So, my question is whether there is any handycapping in the SCR to take account of longer commutes?

Cheers, Wotski.

Dude it's no excuse. I did 20 miles before my commute this am, including a fast lap of RP and still laid waste to the Embankment on my way home, 3 roadie scalps bagged. I admit it's not technically SCR as I was training and heading home to swap bikes, but still they should at least put up a fight.

Anyway welcome and as CJ says, MTFU. Also there's regular beers @ Morpeth Arms (Milbank) on Friday's, why not pop in and say hello sometime.

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12590749&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=980

UndercoverElephant

Last night there descended an unholy fog on the good city of Edinburgh, and through this fog roared the first BSO rider of the apocalypse.

Revelation 6:1 - 6:2 - "...When the Lamb had opened the first of the seven seals, I heard the first of the four beasts say with thundering knobbly tyres, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a silver and red BSO; and he that sat on him had a High-viz jacket: and there was given unto him a Bell Helmet, and he departed as conqueror and to conquest."

There was blood flowing along every gutter of the capital last night, many scalps added to my backpack. In total, five hybrid riders and a hairy-legged roadie had their souls removed and sent straight to SCR purgatory. All of them wailed, all dispatched swiftly and without any effort at all; the beast is coming, and he's coming for your soul.

I can still hear the screaming this morning. It makes me feel good! :twisted:

il_principe

Roastie wrote:

giving him that "ya f&%ker" look that I practice in the mirror every morning before leaving him for dead.

tardington

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Last night there descended an unholy fog on the good city of Edinburgh, and through this fog roared the first BSO rider of the apocalypse.

Revelation 6:1 - 6:2 - "...When the Lamb had opened the first of the seven seals, I heard the first of the four beasts say with thundering knobbly tyres, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a silver and red BSO; and he that sat on him had a High-viz jacket: and there was given unto him a Bell Helmet, and he departed as conqueror and to conquest."

There was blood flowing along every gutter of the capital last night, many scalps added to my backpack. In total, five hybrid riders and a hairy-legged roadie had their souls removed and sent straight to SCR purgatory. All of them wailed, all dispatched swiftly and without any effort at all; the beast is coming, and he's coming for your soul.

I can still hear the screaming this morning. It makes me feel good! :twisted:

I am going to sit in the Espy one evening and watch this happening...

lost_in_thought

You know my orange cap? The one that burns its image into your retinas? Well I was wearing its matching t-shirt today, ohhhh yes.

For those who haven't seen the 'please don't kill me' cap, it's bright orange, like brighter than hi-vis orange bright.

Interestingly, nobody pulled out a yard in front of me today, nor did anyone cut me up on the Shebu roundabout like they usually do, and peds seemed to see me coming.

I think I may have blinded them all.... :twisted:

biondino

A magnificent 13.6mph average on the way into work today! Now that's a recovery ride (race number left on to demonstrate just why I was going so slowly :twisted: ).

Citizen Smith

I've seen LiT's cap and can vouch that it's BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN!

Absolutely kaning it at the moment - topped out at 28mph along Vauxhall Bridge Rd...handed some drivers their scalps back through their wound down windows as I know they don't count!

blu3cat

Sauntering in this morning due to the quite warm weather, and I thought I had a possible adversary coming over Putney bridge - fully lycra-d up Roadie, but he turned off towards Chelsea - pah.

I did however catch up with a roadie on a Decathlon road bike and easily over took him, I initially thought he was just pootling along, and I thought scalp. He was wearing a full autumn hi-viz jacket, and WINTER TIGHTS!!!!! :shock:

However I had encountered the equivalent of car 00 from Wacky Racers.

At the lights on Hammersmith, he caught up as I waited at the ASL and decided to plonk his bike directly in front of me. Thanks :roll:

Put the metal to the pedal and left him for standing as I went round him on Hammersmith one way. Scalp to me.

Next set of lights a repeat performance from both of us, except a dirty look from me as I passed. Repeat scalping.

At the light as Shepherds Bush Green goes to Wood Lane, I am in the primary position on the ASL and he pulls to my right. I thought aha he's gonna go for it, and he did, straight to 15 miles an hour, cutting me up as he moves into the bike lane :roll:. It's however a fairly light free straight run, so get past him and stay past him enough to get to work without seeing him again.

Does the same scalp 3 times count as 3 scalps?

benno68

Went the shorter way home last night (4 miles or so) and went as quick as I could, legs burning and lungs in bits, hmm... I thought I was getting fitter!

Got up a short but fairly steep climb up Llandough Hill which is 1/4 mile from home. At the top two roadies go past I'm guessing at around 25mph then another shortish climb and the guy at the back appeared to be hurting big time, I take off just to see if I can get close to the slower guy, managed to pull him in and got to his back wheel but arrived at the house just before I could nail him. I think he was on his last legs as I'm guessing he'd gone up Leckwith Hill, judging by his build he wasn't the fittest cyclist on the planet either.

I know should have MTFU'd and gone past my house and taken him on the downward stretch, but I had get home to see my boys off who were off to South Shields

Nothing at all to do with the thought of having to get back up the hill of course (cough...splutter)

Today's cycle in was uneventful as per usual.

Gazzaputt

Rode the Focus today on a recovery ride and still no f*cker got near me

shoulder_of_orion

Man I've gotta stop pissing off Yardies or I'm going to end up dead.

This morning I pulled up to a junction stopped in the "bike box" in front of the rest of the traffic and pulled away when the lights turned green. I took my normal assertive position and next thing I know, some pillock in a convertible BMW 7 series is driving alongside, face contorted with rage:

"WTFdo ya think ya doin? MOVE OVER"

I had and continued to follow the highway code and was moving at a fairly rapid pace for a bike, but I did at that point made a familiar "hand shuffling" gesture which he could clearly see in his rear view mirror.

Next thing I know, I've got snarling Yardie out of the Bimmer squaring up to me, and threatening something along the lines of "I'll put you in hospital", though he said it in his Jamaican brogue, which was a little more colourful and I don't remember the exact form of words.

The gestures and threats continued for the next mile or so as we regularly passed each other in startstop traffic.

Note to self: hold it down.

il_principe

Convertable eh? Whip round to the drviers side when he's stopped and have the keys out of the ignition, then leg it. That'll teach the fecker.

gtvlusso

Shoulder of Lamb wrote:

Man I've gotta stop pissing off Yardies or I'm going to end up dead.

This morning I pulled up to a junction stopped in the "bike box" in front of the rest of the traffic and pulled away when the lights turned green. I took my normal assertive position and next thing I know, some pillock in a convertible BMW 7 series is driving alongside, face contorted with rage:

"WTFdo ya think ya doin? MOVE OVER"

I had and continued to follow the highway code and was moving at a fairly rapid pace for a bike, but I did at that point made a familiar "hand shuffling" gesture which he could clearly see in his rear view mirror.

Next thing I know, I've got snarling Yardie out of the Bimmer squaring up to me, and threatening something along the lines of "I'll put you in hospital", though he said it in his Jamaican brogue, which was a little more colourful and I don't remember the exact form of words.

The gestures and threats continued for the next mile or so as we regularly passed each other in startstop traffic.

Note to self: hold it down.

Always keep it in the back of your mind: Yardie's are thick tw@ts and wannabe gang-stars. probably works in Accounts for a haulage/logistics firm in Wembley.....car is on finance which he can barely afford and he lives with his mum in Peckham...she cooks a mighty fine Rice and Peas......or am I wrong and he is a drug dealing nutter with a blade?

blu3cat

or am I wrong and he is a drug dealing nutter with a blade?

Nah, dealers all drive Audis now don't they.

cjcp

Roastie wrote:

I don't know why RLJers irritate me so much, but they do.

It's very pleasing to pass an RLJer who's clearly "trying". :twisted:

cjcp

Il Principe wrote:

Convertable eh? Whip round to the drviers side when he's stopped and have the keys out of the ignition, then leg it. That'll teach the fecker.

Blow him a kiss and ask him which hairdresser he works for.

Cafewanda

cjcp wrote:

Wotski wrote:

Hi all, just joined the forum; good to see a community of fellow SCR folk.

I'm on a 22 mile commute into central London and always end-up getting burned by a fresh legged whippet who has just set off from Oval or thereabouts. So, my question is whether there is any handycapping in the SCR to take account of longer commutes?

Cheers, Wotski.

Welcome, Wotski!

I'm afraid not, ol' chap. Here it comes....

M.

T.

F.

U.

Harsh, but welcome

Cafewanda

itboffin wrote:

Cafewanda wrote:

Sometimes, just sometimes, I actually envy ITB and K_B's commutes home

I was going to take some photos this evening because the road was so bad and because it just so stunning however the swarms of those tiny black flies killed that idea.

May be tomorrow.

See that you do!

Cafewanda

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Last night there descended an unholy fog on the good city of Edinburgh, and through this fog roared the first BSO rider of the apocalypse.

Revelation 6:1 - 6:2 - "...When the Lamb had opened the first of the seven seals, I heard the first of the four beasts say with thundering knobbly tyres, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a silver and red BSO; and he that sat on him had a High-viz jacket: and there was given unto him a Bell Helmet, and he departed as conqueror and to conquest."

There was blood flowing along every gutter of the capital last night, many scalps added to my backpack. In total, five hybrid riders and a hairy-legged roadie had their souls removed and sent straight to SCR purgatory. All of them wailed, all dispatched swiftly and without any effort at all; the beast is coming, and he's coming for your soul.

I can still hear the screaming this morning. It makes me feel good! :twisted:

Sheer class!

Cafewanda

Shoulder of Lamb wrote:

Man I've gotta stop pissing off Yardies or I'm going to end up dead.

This morning I pulled up to a junction stopped in the "bike box" in front of the rest of the traffic and pulled away when the lights turned green. I took my normal assertive position and next thing I know, some pillock in a convertible BMW 7 series is driving alongside, face contorted with rage:

"WTFdo ya think ya doin? MOVE OVER"

I had and continued to follow the highway code and was moving at a fairly rapid pace for a bike, but I did at that point made a familiar "hand shuffling" gesture which he could clearly see in his rear view mirror.

Next thing I know, I've got snarling Yardie out of the Bimmer squaring up to me, and threatening something along the lines of "I'll put you in hospital", though he said it in his Jamaican brogue, which was a little more colourful and I don't remember the exact form of words.

The gestures and threats continued for the next mile or so as we regularly passed each other in startstop traffic.

Note to self: hold it down.

MTFU - he just trying to encourage your training. Invite him for a drink, I'm sure he'd appreciate it.

you could also say "one of my best BR forum member is of Jamaican-descent and she said I should tell you about your BC and PC and A-Z. So there!"

itboffin

So I'm running late this morning for my off site strategic planning workshop for those of you who are unfamiliar with these buy me a beer and I'll mindmap it with you

As such I choose the rolled up jeans short sleeved shirt and trusty SS outfit, busting out of Waterloo I hit traffic light pay dirt greens all the way to the north side of the river allowing a good min or so to spin that baby up to maximum warp thus ejecting a variety of cycling types in my wake.  At the lights I filter like an NYC messenger on crack, pausing briefly for the green and then BAM straight into the high 20's with not even so much as a sly grin as I blur passing the grazing herds of hi-viz & Lycra tarts.  By this point I'm moving faster that the surrounding traffic and still hitting greens, ace!

I arrived at work in <9mins for the 2.55miles pouring with sweat soaked to the bone and smiling happily to myself at being 1 min early, I then promptly spend 10 mins dicking around in the office and walk in late to the seminar

Much brainstorming and role playing later the day is over and I'm outside the office trousers rolled up (very Masonic) guess who I bump into???

Oh yes I did, all dressed in Lycra purched on top of a full carbon steed and would you have it going my way FFS anyway 2 mins later were flying along the grays inn road in the high 20's side by side casually chatting as you do at that speed :0 needless to say the same green light luck was in effect, so I now find myself a Waterloo again in record time again and even more soaked in sweat.

Anyone fancy the seat next to me?

Roastie

So, I'm happily (track) standing at a light on Borough High Street when this stupid twitbrain fat w@nk nut on a scooter forces his way into a non-gap between a motorcycle and myself. If I hadn't fallen out of it to the left he would undoubtedly have knocked my front wheel - it was just ridiculous.

So I say: "Hey! Give me some space." To that the twit just grins a stupid fat faced grin as if to say "So?"

I so wanted to hit him. The light turns green and I toddle off slowly (head cold, supposed to be riding slowly) - but the red mist gets the better of me and I chase The Stupid down. To be honest I wasn't sure what I was going to do, but...

Anyhow catch him. Stop and wait for him at the next light. Now he refuses to make eye contact. Sadly he beats me to the lights at Borough High St tube, and I match him from there to E&C where I finally get some air on him. Kicking his azz solidly into and through the second E&C roundabout.

Riding out the anger did good, and it felt fun to stick it to him sans engine given that he was trying to get away. Sadly on the A3 towards Clapham the traffic opened up and he rode off .

Maybe I should have just punched him. :evil: