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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Il Principe wrote:
    biondino wrote:

    I was sitting on a bike with pink bars, saddle, lights and tyres, wearing a pink jersey and pink sunglasses. Do you think that's enough?

    No you nee a cape. It's illegal to challenge "yooves" without a cape.

    +1 That would make for an awesome scalping outfit as well :-D
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Il Principe wrote:
    biondino wrote:

    I was sitting on a bike with pink bars, saddle, lights and tyres, wearing a pink jersey and pink sunglasses. Do you think that's enough?

    No you nee a cape. It's illegal to challenge "yooves" without a cape.

    It would be cool to have a cape.

    Nice one though.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    This on the commute...

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    would be brilliant.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Add these to the mix:
    http://www.impsport.com/direct1/index.p ... ductId=192
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    New Plowman Craven kit?
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • benno68
    benno68 Posts: 1,689
    Much better ride in this morning, my legs were feeling much easier unlike yesterday which was a struggle - not helped by a lady overtaking me when I was doing 30 downhill, she was braking and indicating left as she was passing me, giving me just enough warning to avoid her left hook. :roll:

    Passed a few cyclists en route in and did my good deed for the day, moving 2 geese off the road back onto Roath Park Lake where they belong. Of course the drivers of the 15 or 20 cars that had stopped wouldn't get off their lazy backsides to do anything - I'm sure they'd have waited all day!
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    cjcp wrote:
    This on the commute...

    captainchaos.jpg

    would be brilliant.

    is that Greg T?
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  • d21dga
    d21dga Posts: 113
    My 4th day of commuting and finally some SCR action!!!

    On the way home tonight I was cruising down a residential road when up ahead I spy a cyclist a.k.a. 'target'. I up my speed, quick look over my shoulder and power past, leaving nothing but destruction in my wake.










    ok so it was a kid on a bike with stabilisers but i still owned her!! 8) :roll: :wink:
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    A scalp is a scalp. :)

    Broke a dossard on Sawyer's Hill in the Park tonight. I heard a slight crack and suddenly, he was gone. :twisted:
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    Riding home tonight was not enjoyable.

    Scalp intact, but (a) I'm just plain knackered; (b) the bike feels "tight" - maybe the wheel hubs need some lube (yeah, right - see point (a) above for the fix); (c) it's blowing a gale in every fecking direction at once, except from behind me; (d) I'm fed up riding under grey clouds and in blustery wind.

    Now I'm pretty sure in April/May we were being told that this would be a totally scorchio summer. Bzzzzzt! No prize for you Mr. Weatherforecaster. Perhaps you can go back to predicting global warming. Or a new ice age. Or something that you won't be rumbled over within three months.

    When will it get easy again? :(
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Gotta admit, Millbank was a genuine Wall of Wind tonight. Just befoe you reach Millbank Tower: WHOOMP! Spittle and snottle was flowing by the time I crested Col de Putney Bridge this evening. I was knackered.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Greg66 wrote:
    Riding home tonight was not enjoyable.

    Scalp intact, but (a) I'm just plain knackered; (b) the bike feels "tight" - maybe the wheel hubs need some lube (yeah, right - see point (a) above for the fix); (c) it's blowing a gale in every fecking direction at once, except from behind me; (d) I'm fed up riding under grey clouds and in blustery wind.

    Now I'm pretty sure in April/May we were being told that this would be a totally scorchio summer. Bzzzzzt! No prize for you Mr. Weatherforecaster. Perhaps you can go back to predicting global warming. Or a new ice age. Or something that you won't be rumbled over within three months.

    When will it get easy again? :(

    What a strange thing to say. We've had a better than average summer so far!

    Riding home was a bit tough, but I rather enjoyed it. I've got scarily addicted to riding recently...
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    What d'ya mean? On the whole, July's been pants. Not wet (like last year), but pants all the same.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I had work drinks this evening... I barely noticed the headwind after a few beers, but there was some serious rain about!

    Last commute for some time tomorrow!
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    It certainly did appear to be a bit blowy last night! As G66 said it seemed to come from every direction except behind you no matter which way you headed!!

    Anyhow setting off from work I think I just missed GregT, saw him whipping round the roundabout at Westferry Circus and set off to chase him down but he got through the lights at the bottom of the ramp and I got stopped......

    No scalps of note on last nights ride but I did spot an interesting rider in Camberwell, I saw him first when I was waiting to join at Albany Road as he rode past appearing he was going to be jousting! He was carrying a roll of carpet or paper about 2m long underneath his arm :shock: I thought he must me mad as it's not the best section of road to ride along with 1 arm due to the numerous pothole and typical London drivers. It wasn't however until I came to overtake him a bit further up when I noticed we was riding a SS!!! Mentalist I tell ya :o
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    last night the wind was a sod, luckily me and a shaved roadie teamed up and made good headway through it... he spoke to me after I near spat on him I immediately apologised once I realised it was near him.. didn't get him though.. upped my speed by about 5mph thankfully
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Legs felt very good this morning. 8) But...

    where the heck was everyone? Did everyone take the train? :(
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    cjcp wrote:
    where the heck was everyone?
    I was wondering the same thing...

    Hilarious SCR incident with a car in RP this morning. Cruising down the gentle hill towards Roehampton gate at around 25; car comes up behind me and tries to overtake. Speed limit in RP is 20 and I'm not going to be scalped without putting up a fight, so I up the tempo. Woman in the car pulls alongside, but because I'm now doing 30 and still accelerating (on the road bike today) she's not going to have time to get past before we meet traffic coming the other way. Rather than giving up, she now starts hooting and gesticulating for me to slow down! In the end she scraped past me and zoomed off towards Barnes, at what must have been at least twice the speed limit, but the moral victory was mine...
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    cjcp wrote:
    Legs felt very good this morning. 8) But...

    where the heck was everyone? Did everyone take the train? :(
    Mighta :oops:
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  • King Donut
    King Donut Posts: 498
    cjcp wrote:
    Legs felt very good this morning. 8) But...

    where the heck was everyone? Did everyone take the train? :(

    Yes very empty on the roads today. Maybe everyone’s got that Friday feelin and heading to the pub after work so left the bike at home. Come on people, don’t you know you can legally ride a bike home from the pub drunk.

    Swift this morning. Unfortunately I forgot to reset my comp after a pootle to the LBS last night (purchased my first item of lyca :oops: ... when the wife sees them in the wash I'm a dead man). And for once the wind is due to drop off by the home run.

    I think I saw the remnants of some bike on bike action last night in the park. Couple of roadies looked like they had hit each other on the roundabout by Roehampton Gate. All was in hand though.
  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    Didn't even appear to be that many cars, I normally get held up in traffic a bit more.

    Except upper street. Absolute carnage.

    And someone should really teach motorcyclists not to block up gaps that they clearly can't get through. Grr.
  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    cjcp wrote:
    Legs felt very good this morning. 8) But...

    where the heck was everyone? Did everyone take the train? :(

    Thursday is the new Friday. They're all bunking off, or at their second homes.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    That guy on the Brompton wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    where the heck was everyone?
    I was wondering the same thing...

    Hilarious SCR incident with a car in RP this morning. Cruising down the gentle hill towards Roehampton gate at around 25; car comes up behind me and tries to overtake. Speed limit in RP is 20 and I'm not going to be scalped without putting up a fight, so I up the tempo. Woman in the car pulls alongside, but because I'm now doing 30 and still accelerating (on the road bike today) she's not going to have time to get past before we meet traffic coming the other way. Rather than giving up, she now starts hooting and gesticulating for me to slow down! In the end she scraped past me and zoomed off towards Barnes, at what must have been at least twice the speed limit, but the moral victory was mine...

    Yeah, had an incident with a car at Kingston Gate roundabout. Car (driven by someone who must have 12) mounted the cobbled roundabout because he overtook me too late/close to it. I overtook him at the Gate, about 100 yards later. Some people are hopelessly stupid when they drive.
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    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Aidy wrote:
    And someone should really teach motorcyclists not to block up gaps that they clearly can't get through. Grr.

    Word.

    This is where those tridents (and I'm not talking about the pointy ones :oops: ) would come in useful...
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    cjcp wrote:
    This is where those tridents (and I'm not talking about the pointy ones :oops: ) would come in useful...

    The boffins at Game labs have been experimenting with nuclear weapons deployed in the direct obstacle clearing mode for some time.

    Lower Thames St has been used as the test area as any rider who rode it before it's partial resurfacing could tell you - if their bollocks hadn't been rammed into their throats by their seat post.

    To be fair the blast radius of even a small tactical device is several kilometers - you do however get a killer "pro cyclist" tan - however your kit does melt on your skin.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Yeah, I don't know if it was the new chain I fitted last night, or the early night I got, or a combination of the two, but I was feeling great this morning!

    Also, the sun was shining, which doesn't hurt. :D

    Scalped a fakenger fellow, little cap with a stripe on, rolled up jeans and everything - I had 2 panniers... bwahahaha etc.

    London was like the marie celeste as far as bikes go, however it seems possible that everyone may have taken their cars...
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  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    some people do have this friday off..... :P

    no bike riding tho, gigging with a very cheesy cabaret band....
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Bit late this one, but better late than never.

    Pretty sure I saw Rob Hayles in Richmond Park a couple of weeks back on my way home. He was in his Halfords kit. Unfortunately, I was unable to appear all cool and brilliant: I had just arrived at the top of Broomfield Hill, on a Friday evening, with a heavy backpack. I had wiped the sweat just in time to see.

    I should have turned round and scalped him. (Yeah, like that was ever going to happen.)
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Bit wet on Milbank this evening

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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    itboffin wrote:
    Bit wet on Milbank this evening

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    Oh man, my entire flat's gonna be underwater. Godammit!

    Bloody rain.

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