Silly commuting racing

jonginge

jedster wrote:

2 hours a night? Jesus wept.

People who actually take endurance sports seriously have to be a bit mental. A mate of mine at school was a very good amateur roadie. Used to do 3 hours on the rollers after school in the winter...

:shock: I like my rollers but, but 3hrs. Nosir

Greg T

I was involved in a mutually destructive Dog Fight with Airnimal guy. He had the edge on me but I don't when i'm beaten (I don't know when i'm winning either - my perception is shot to hell).

We gave it rooty toot along the E and NKR, the fearsome slopes of Mount Doom (the range formerly known as Col De Putney Bridge) came and went.

We had a chat at the Putney bank lights.

"You are moving some" Said I

"You have to riding one of these" Said AG

"How far are you going" I asked

"Sunningdale"

That's outside the M25.

I told him he was showing off.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Greg T wrote:

I was involved in a mutually destructive Dog Fight with Airnimal guy. He had the edge on me but I don't when i'm beaten (I don't know when i'm winning either - my perception is shot to hell).

We gave it rooty toot along the E and NKR, the fearsome slopes of Mount Doom (the range formerly known as Col De Putney Bridge) came and went.

We had a chat at the Putney bank lights.

"You are moving some" Said I

"You have to riding one of these" Said AG

"How far are you going" I asked

"Sunningdale"

That's outside the M25.

I told him he was showing off.

The *only* way back from there would have been for you to have said "Oh, I don't tend to go through there on the way to Southampton."

Greg T

Greg66 wrote:

The *only* way back from there would have been for you to have said "Oh, I don't tend to go through there on the way to Southampton."

At my previous job (on Liverpool St) I was just putting my bike in the racks when wiry old guy on a tourer pulled up and we fell to chatting.

I big timed my 15 mile commute up large, as I am want to do and asked him where he'd come from.

Brighton.

Lesson brothers.

Old Guys on Touring Bikes are nails.

cjcp

Greg T wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

The *only* way back from there would have been for you to have said "Oh, I don't tend to go through there on the way to Southampton."

At my previous job (on Liverpool St) I was just putting my bike in the racks when wiry old guy on a tourer pulled up and we fell to chatting.

I big timed my 15 mile commute up large, as I am want to do and asked him where he'd come from.

Brighton.

Lesson brothers.

Old Guys on Touring Bikes are nails.

+1.

At Priory Lane lights one morning, I exchanged a few ords with an older chap on a Specialized with panniers. He was going to Hammersmith and I said I was off to Fenchurch St. He said he had a shorter commute today. He normally commutes to Reading. End of chat really.

lost_in_thought

Greg T wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

The *only* way back from there would have been for you to have said "Oh, I don't tend to go through there on the way to Southampton."

At my previous job (on Liverpool St) I was just putting my bike in the racks when wiry old guy on a tourer pulled up and we fell to chatting.

I big timed my 15 mile commute up large, as I am want to do and asked him where he'd come from.

Brighton.

Lesson brothers.

Old Guys on Touring Bikes are nails.

Spot on.

I mean, just look at ITB...

:P

UndercoverElephant

Greg T wrote:

Old Guys on Touring Bikes are nails.

You're not wrong. Saw a vinegary old bugger the other day, going the other way from me and his bike was laden with the following:

One large handlebar bag on the front
Two huge front panniers
One large saddle pack
And, get this, two enormous backpacks, too large even for the SAS as rear panniers.

Major respect to the old buzzard. Turned round and scalped him anyway, a scalp's a scalp, right? Even with all those bags his FCN was better than mine

King Donut

Airnimal *google*.... Ahhh this is what I got "out-filtered" by on lower richmond road a couple of months back. Wondered what it was.

Greg T

King Donut wrote:

Airnimal *google*.... Ahhh this is what I got "out-filtered" by on lower richmond road a couple of months back. Wondered what it was.

They are the tool of choice for high end Roadies who need to crack their bikes and load them on trains.

I've never seen one from the side, only ever getting smaller from the back.

Clever Pun

Greg T wrote:

King Donut wrote:

Airnimal *google*.... Ahhh this is what I got "out-filtered" by on lower richmond road a couple of months back. Wondered what it was.

They are the tool of choice for high end Roadies who need to crack their bikes and load them on trains.

I've never seen one from the side, only ever getting smaller from the back.

yeah I've seen one I got near him at some lights then he flew off again...sh!toffquick bike

Bassjunkieuk

I had one of those humbling moments once and to top things off it was on my longest commute, the Thames Ditton one. I was locking up and another guy pulls in, we got chatting and he asked where I ride in from and I replied cheerily "Near the Crystal Palace footie ground" to which he replies casually "Oh that's nice I came in from Bromley"

BROMLEY!!! FFS that's about 6-8 miles from me and I already ride 13 miles to get here!!!!
He did admit that he only does it 2 or 3 times a week, I didn't really have the heart to tell him to MTFU :-D

Roastie

Greg T wrote:

I was involved in a mutually destructive Dog Fight with Airnimal guy. He had the edge on me but I don't when i'm beaten (I don't know when i'm winning either - my perception is shot to hell).

We gave it rooty toot along the E and NKR, the fearsome slopes of Mount Doom (the range formerly known as Col De Putney Bridge) came and went.

We had a chat at the Putney bank lights.

"You are moving some" Said I

"You have to riding one of these" Said AG

"How far are you going" I asked

"Sunningdale"

That's outside the M25.

I told him he was showing off.

Mad.

JonS123

My first scalp(s) I feel I have had to push my self for in a while - 1 policeman and 1 policewomen on their police bikes on their way to a call - saw them jump a red light as I was approaching the junction, waited for green and bingo

Roastie

Nice one Jon!

blu3cat

JonS123 wrote:

My first scalp(s) I feel I have had to push my self for in a while - 1 policeman and 1 policewomen on their police bikes on their way to a call - saw them jump a red light as I was approaching the junction, waited for green and bingo

shame the police bikes don't have a siren and flashing lights

gb155

Just a couple of MTB's today, They have no chance once "Le Fat One" locks onto them now

jimmypippa

Roadie passed me at the crest of a hill yesterday, I kept pace with him for about 4-miles but noticed that he kept changing down gears and spinning,

He was obviously just warmig down or something...

Mithras

Count me in,
First two scalps, Two MTBs on the back roads of Peterborough.

Jay dubbleU

Ha Ha - emailed Pearson - they will deal via Halfords C2W so I'm now waiting for a quote from the for a Hanzo plus Xero wheels and Gatorskins

Swindon beware :evil:

itboffin

lost_in_thought wrote:

Greg T wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

The *only* way back from there would have been for you to have said "Oh, I don't tend to go through there on the way to Southampton."

At my previous job (on Liverpool St) I was just putting my bike in the racks when wiry old guy on a tourer pulled up and we fell to chatting.

I big timed my 15 mile commute up large, as I am want to do and asked him where he'd come from.

Brighton.

Lesson brothers.

Old Guys on Touring Bikes are nails.

Spot on.

I mean, just look at ITB...

:P

That did NOT go unnoticed young lady....

I'm not old i'm mature like a fine wine

Kieran_Burns

itboffin wrote:

That did NOT go unnoticed young lady....

I'm not old i'm mature like a fine wine

yup, pickled, dusty and kept hidden away in the cellar

capoz77

i think this is the thread with the most pages I have EVER seen on the net!!! Is it worth the read LOL

jimmypippa

Whey-hey, the Manchester to blackpool ride had plenty of true scalps.

I was scalped by one person with a worse FCN

Full-susser with nobbly tires, at about 48-miles.

I think I passed him later, but he must have passed me at 25+ :shock:

Several club riders were engaging the warp drive, I swear I heard a humming as one went past.

lost_in_thought

capoz77 wrote:

i think this is the thread with the most pages I have EVER seen on the net!!! Is it worth the read LOL

There's only one way to find out...

edhornby

jimmypippa wrote:

Whey-hey, the Manchester to blackpool ride had plenty of true scalps.

I was scalped by one person with a worse FCN

Full-susser with nobbly tires, at about 48-miles.

I think I passed him later, but he must have passed me at 25+ :shock:

Several club riders were engaging the warp drive, I swear I heard a humming as one went past.

hell yeah !!!!

it was immensely satisfying to ride away from groups of carbon bling machines on my fixed... headwind for the last 15 miles was a killer, glad to get in a group for that section

admittedly I left at around 7.30am but I was the first singlespeeder in the paddock. go me

Eau Rouge

edhornby wrote:

it was immensely satisfying to ride away from groups of carbon bling machines on my fixed...

You do know that, unlike say cars or motorbikes, the performance of the engine on a bicycle is not related to the cost of it?

barriecusvein

capoz77 wrote:

i think this is the thread with the most pages I have EVER seen on the net!!! Is it worth the read LOL

pffft

http://fazed.net/forum/view/?id=30943&p=931

Roastie

I felt like the quickest thing in London today. There was a bit of a tailwind, sure, but today was fast. Blistering. Like taking a good 40s off my previous best. 27.5km/h door to door (no auto-pause) - and including stopping to offer a PF victim a hand (she has been mighty busy lately, hasn't she?).

I did much better with latching onto that green wave that my morning commute seems to favour (sticking it at 40-45km/h, where I could, helped), and so I only had to stop and wait a few times at RLs. I even hit green at Monument, which never happens.

As for scalps? I think the only vehicles that overtook me today (that I didn't repass) were two motorcycles. Insane.

Greg T

Roastie wrote:

but today was fast. Blistering.

It was a very nice ride in.

Made all the better by a Gazelle on a fixed making a play for the title at the bottom of Tower Hill.

By the top he was reconsidering his life and wondering where it had all gone wrong.

Hell - I don't make the rules - I just apply them.

cjcp

And it's on days like these that you know you're in for some fun and games with the drafting fairies on the way home.

Had a classic on Friday evening: a Dynamo who thought red lights only expressed an opinion.

He jumped three in the time I saw him, yet I caught him up I passed him twice and, on both occasions, he hopped onto the back wheel. (He did it the second time even though I had waved him by on the first. He either didn't care or the penny didn't drop. :roll:). The second occasion was amusing though. It was on the stretch between Chelsea and Albert Bridges. There's a headwind and he tucks in. I give him a bit of time and then wave him by. He overtakes. Slowly. "And there's the headwind!" I think. He moves ahead and I have to slow and, for about 20 yards, freewheel, until we're both slowed by traffic.

He got well ahead during the subsequent filtering and made the green light at Battersea Bridge.