Silly commuting racing

Jay dubbleU

Strange encounter this evening with a guy on an MTB - passed him and his mate who was on a hybrid with bar ends without really thinking about it when I hear a sound not unlike an angry walrus following me - MTB guy is chasing me and spinning so fast I thought his legs would explode - he managed to keep it up for about 50 yards - I was so astonished I just carried on cruising and watched him until he gave up and I passed him again - weird :roll:

b0y1nterupted

i had the pleasure of scalping my boss this morning

cjcp

Bit of high-paced tit-for-tat action along Embankment last night.

Quick chap on a gold Cannondale with baggies. Don't let the baggies fool you, if you see him.

Kieran_Burns

I've been driving in this week due to some chest / cough / viral thing and REALLY miss the bike... however this morning I saw a sight that made me glad I could get past at speed.

People: T-Shirts tucked INTO lycra cycling shorts is WRONG. Biblically wrong. Creation of the Earth wrong. BIG BANG WRONG.

Just.
Don't.
Okay?


That and the sandles with socks.... flat bar hybrid, with baggy panniers and soft tyres. Do you think he was trying to get people to point?

girv73

Haven't been on the bike much this past month for various rather dull reasons, but I managed a commute on the BeOne today. I still wasn't feeling great and had decided on the short'n'easy route in (8 miles, downhill) and wasn't putting much effort in even at that.

Then along(side) comes a roadie. Full lycra, fit looking, not on the good bike but I imagine he has a Good Bike wrapped in a duvet in a well guarded storage facility. "Alright mate?" he says, not out of breath, "You heading to Belfast? Take my wheel if you want.".

Nice one. A steady 25mph down the hill and on to the flat, then I take over at the front and manage to hold 24mph for the next few miles (this is fast for me!), then he's back on point and puts the hammer down. I sprint to about 28mph but he's still pulling away and I can't keep up. No matter, our paths separate anyway and I get to work with a personal best average speed for that route.

Same FCN so no points, but chapeau and thanks for the tow sir!

itboffin

I've fully embraced my inner fakenger this week I've ridden 6 miles on my SS with a chain slacker that G66 waist line, today I've taken it to the next level with drainpipe jeans.

Damn I forgot my little cap

il_principe

Had a fantastic hour on the bike this morning (pre-commute) headed out to RP. Legs were feeling great on the way out, so I decided to go Clockwise, and boom, clocked a 17:01 lap with a top speed of 37 down Sawyers hill before being forced to slow by traffic.

It's going to be a good day.

prawny

Feel like poo today so I came in the car

It's the first time I've driven into town, took longer than the bike

And I saw loads of fresh scalps

Gonna load up on cold remedies tomorrow and retake the streets :twisted:

flamite

2 visits from our fav fairy today! one on millbank the other just before blackfriars tunnel! only noticed 2nd time round that tyre has massive cut in it, now i know what that spare bit of rubber in repair kit is for!!

thanks to the 2 roadies who stopped to ask if i needed anything!

Gazzaputt

Gazzaputt wrote:

Not looking to the ride home. Realised why sore this morning have a horrid cold developing all day.

Some people will get a great scalp tonight!

Confirmed flu

Think Monday's ride home really didn't help at all.

Can't say if it's swine or not doctor aren't testing any longer. Work now won't let me back for 5 days not that I feel in any fit state to be there.

Oh well at least the TDF is on and should be a cracking stage just hope I don't sleep through like I did yesterday.

Bassjunkieuk

Il Principe wrote:

Had a fantastic hour on the bike this morning (pre-commute) headed out to RP. Legs were feeling great on the way out, so I decided to go Clockwise, and boom, clocked a 17:01 lap with a top speed of 37 down Sawyers hill before being forced to slow by traffic.

It's going to be a good day.

Well done! Superb time there!!

Twas slow progress this morning as the traffic was dire from the northside of Tower Bridge to docklands. Can't seem to figure out exactly what caused it as the beeb's traffic info just says there is queuing traffic and delays on The Highway, Limehouse Link Tunnel and Rotherhithe Tunnel. The traffic was solid on Highway meaning I got some filtering practice and then once on Narrow Street there where queue's of cars waiting to get round to Rotherhithe Tunnel, something I've never seen before!

Managed to catch up with a chap on a SS and then binned him although this was whilst filtering and trying to avoid the 6-8 motorbikes and scooters who where weaving in and out of traffic.

Cafewanda

gtvlusso wrote:

Gonna start commuting naked......never been so wet in such a short space of time. No one out today - gurls!

.......... and your hands were on the handlebars at all times?

Cafewanda

lost_in_thought wrote:

When you get in to work vaguely on time there are often other riders about! I'll have to remember that for my next 3 days in the office...

Oh and to the 3 roadies, and one Kingston Wheeler on HSK, I claim your scalps!

gmillsy

cjcp wrote:

Bit of high-paced tit-for-tat action along Embankment last night.

Quick chap on a gold Cannondale with baggies. Don't let the baggies fool you, if you see him.

Was it a cannondale MTB? that might have been me. Awesome ride in this morning - hardly any traffic around - got a group going with a couple of roadies and caned it along - happy days.

MartinGT

I had a lad on a Halfrauds £50 special laughing at me last night whilst waiting at a RL. He was in scruffs, looked like a labourer and a complete chav.

Me, well I am clad in lycra, shaved legs etc, was sat at the RL for 5mins whilst he RLJ, soon caught him up with no effort and winked as I went past

He looked furious

Coriander

Gazzaputt wrote:

Gazzaputt wrote:

Not looking to the ride home. Realised why sore this morning have a horrid cold developing all day.

Some people will get a great scalp tonight!

Confirmed flu

Think Monday's ride home really didn't help at all.

Can't say if it's swine or not doctor aren't testing any longer. Work now won't let me back for 5 days not that I feel in any fit state to be there.

Oh well at least the TDF is on and should be a cracking stage just hope I don't sleep through like I did yesterday.

Apparently it will be swine flu - it's the predominant virus at the moment so if you have flu symptoms, the assumption is that it is swine flu (according to the doctor in my pilates class). But swine flu is just flu.

GentlemanBear

first SCR post, but worth it I think for six miles of nip and tuck from Clapton to London Bridge this morning... my opponant, in lycra on an OnOne kept getting a couple of hundred metres on me by RLJing before I passed and (I thought) dropped him on Shoreditch High Street. A couple of minutes later he catches up as I'm stopped at the lights at the bottom of Gracechurch Street and sprints off towards London Bridge, I let him lead me out and then took and dropped him and a trundling double decker up the rise over the bridge, a kind green light lets me turn left towards work and ride off into the distance - aces!

sorry for my excess enthusiasm, but it lasted the whole of my commute and made it really exciting - maybe I've been watching too much TdF

jonginge

Was supposed to be a pootle this morning. Still got pig flu* so there's no power in the engine room just now. As is often the way the pootling ended on reaching embankment: I went to semi-pootle, which seemed to be enough.

Bumped into a fellow SCR summer-drinker but burdened as I am with a propensity for remembering faces rather than names I can't tell you who it was :oops: Nice Rapha country jersey BTW. I was going to pootle and chat but there were scalps heading up the road and my sporting blood was up

* it may be just a cold

cjcp

gmillsy wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Bit of high-paced tit-for-tat action along Embankment last night.

Quick chap on a gold Cannondale with baggies. Don't let the baggies fool you, if you see him.

Was it a cannondale MTB? that might have been me. Awesome ride in this morning - hardly any traffic around - got a group going with a couple of roadies and caned it along - happy days.

Nah, a road bike.

This morning was interesting. To the chap on the Colnago and the red Spesh - you're very welcome for the 2 mile tow. The former then RLJs. Double :roll: Then have a chap over Putney Bridge who thinks I should use my brakes instead of him using his. He started off slightly behind me too. :roll:

Thereafter though, all good , but I needed to keep a good pace in to keep the scalp. Lots of roadies out this morning.

jonginge

Oh yeah. Has anyone ever seen a Dynamo that isn't an idiot? Are they born like that or is it something in the club lycra?

Going home along chelsea embankment and I passed this SS Dynamo a couple of times. I wasn't trying that hard due to my currently enfeebled state but he didn't seem to be trying much either. He got a hand raise and nod on the first pass. He RLJed the lights after the hospital. I passed him again. He filters past at the lights. I pass him again. Then he comes sprinting past and I resist jumping on his tail. The lights for battersea br go red when we're at the bottom of the rise (ie miles away from the lights) but he barrels through the junction swerving and weaving through the cars turning across the junction. Twunt.

cjcp

JonGinge wrote:

this SS Dynamo

Langster?

cjcp

Oh, I saw another Airnimal this morning. Older chap, no helmet. He can shift too.

jonginge

cjcp wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

this SS Dynamo

Langster?

No, something more old skool. Wasn't really paying attention

Clever Pun

last night I had to get to 25 drop an MTB'er... that's just not right... fair play to the guy though

This morning was pretty quick for me averaged 18.7 even though the traffic was rancid around rotherhithe tunnel, I managed 3 roadies and two FG/SS'er.. and prize of prizes a hairless roadie... we was drafting one of the aforementioned fixed guys I saw the target and blasted past them both smooth as you like.. it was beautiful, he caught up with me at the lights later and drafted me for a bit, just like he was sitting in my pocket cause I owned him.

jonginge

cjcp wrote:

Oh, I saw another Airnimal this morning. Older chap, no helmet. He can shift too.

There ya go. Probably the chap I was talking about the other week

flamite

You think the airnimal's are fast, saw one of these this morning... http://www.swissbike.com/

boy was it shifting!

Bikequin

Nice run in this morning, went half way with my dad - who was on old hybrid laden to the max with panniers - so was getting scalped left right and centre. Between RP and Putney bridge he gave me the all clear to bomb on - so I did .

I think because i'd had a serious pootle for half my jounrey I was feeling nice and fresh so smasehed it up the NKR and KR at a really decent pace this morning. Picked up a couple of decent scalps - including absolutely belting away from 4 or 5 roadies as we turned onto the NKR from putney bridge - I think one might well have been SCRing as he wasn't really shifting before and then put his head down and got back to me when i eased up a bit - in fairness to him I think it was only my surprise attack that left him behind- he seemed quite comfortable in getting back to me. He then turned off at the start of the KR proper.
The some more roadies but none really going some - so don't think I can be too proud of any of their scalps.

Still a great ride in and has put me in cracking mood for the rest of the day - even if I am meant to snowed under.

salsajake

Two this morning, there I was, wanting an easy day to pootle in before fighting headwinds on the way home, when a roadie passes me at the foot of a gentle hill. I react immediately, straight back on his wheel, my panniers clacking away merrily at the increased cadence. He stands up immediately at the bottom of the hill and goes no faster as a result, so I am dawdling behind and although I could have dropped him immediately, waited until the top where we went different sides of stationary traffic - didn't see him again after that.

Then, 8 miles later, I'm trackstanding at a red light and set off on green and a commuter hybrid comes dashing past, obviously with momentum. Again, straight on his wheel and this time I do go for the early pass - he sticks with me at 25+ on the flat at first (clearly an SCR'r himself), but a sustained period on the drops and bum out of saddle makes him disappear.

How dare people pass me when I am trying to have a nice rest, yet why does it feel so good to have repassed both of them?!

cjcp

salsajake wrote:

How dare people pass me when I am trying to have a nice rest,

+1. It's extremely inconsiderate. You want to shout at them. But SCR waits for no man.

Bassjunkieuk

I did forget to mention earlier I did have a chap on a hybrid try his luck away from the lights at Camberwell Green this morning, fair play to him he was certainly trying but once I was clipped in and spooled up he was dropped. Kept the pace up until past the second set of lights and then the next as they where all green, I even got round the corner onto Albany Road without a stop, by which time I was hoping for a red :oops: Having said this I was pushing 23mph as I passed him so chapeau for the quick start :-)