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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,638
    Chapeau to the guys on the Tricross and the Decathlon who went from Roehampton Gate to Vauhall Bridge this morning. My ride was looking distinctly pootley up till then :)
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  • citycommuter
    citycommuter Posts: 19
    Very quiet as usual for a Friday this morning. Didn't take any scalps worth noting but shared the work on the way in with a guy in a LRC cycling top on a shiny Pinarello, always nice to have some company.
    Introduced myself at VB and suggested he check out this thread, when I told him about SCRing his response was "[/i]that explains a lot" :) .
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    @CC - :lol: I see these LRC guys from time to time. They don't hang around.
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    edited August 2009
    Ian.B wrote:
    King Donut wrote:
    JonGinge wrote:
    King Donut wrote:
    Dumb question time... What does DSC stand for? Dolphin Sq Churchill/Chelsea? I can work out where it is obviously but always leaves me a little :?
    King Donut, I'm shocked, truly shocked: have you not read the entire SCR thread or are you some johnny-come-lately? mmm? mmm?

    DSC=Death Star Canyon (Grosvenor Rd heading west after vauxhall bridge)

    @ JG/CJ Thanks!

    Erm... I did try reading the whole thread but my boss started to questions my output after a couple of weeks.

    I've been wondering myself where DSC is....Dare I ask why it's called that?
    Ok, can't find the real clip but around 1min into this one:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WG1lvSVyrM

    Riding west after vauxhall the enclosing buildings give it that feel. IIRC twas GregT who introduced it to the SCR lexicon

    Edit: the real clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLNZVinF ... re=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtnu4kcK ... re=related
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Back after nearly 2 weeks sunning myself and eating in Italy, it was great, but I really needed to get on a bike and this morning I had power to spare until my new found lack of fitness kicked in and I slowed at the end.

    still I averaged 19.5 for the journey a new pb

    on the squadra today, took a few scalps and numerous POSS (people on single speeds) all a bit of a blur though
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  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    A rather nasty spot of wine flu and a mere 4 hours sleep resulted in a late start this morning and i made the shocking discovery that there are no roadies on the roads after 9am

    Passed several flocks of hybrids but there was not another road bike in sight. :?
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Couple of scalps on ye embankement but must have missed the main push of you roadies.

    Next week lads :D
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  • insomniboy
    insomniboy Posts: 30
    yesterday lunch time i paid a visit to the bike shop, and am now a member of the 50x16 club. not as knee-breakery as i was expecting, but of course i picked the only day my ride home would take me via crystal palace to try some silly gearing.
    this morning was a grin inducing comfortable cadence high speed blur...
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Couple of scalps on ye embankement but must have missed the main push of you roadies.

    Next week lads :D

    That's fighting talk, laddie. :)
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    I had to detour via Embankment this am, from P Sq to Tower Hill. Scalped 1 roadie but kept checking behind me nervously for JG et al, esp in the tunnel. Frustrating riding there on the SS, still no one passed me. It is a stretch of road that always leaves me yearning for gears.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Il Principe wrote:
    I had to detour via Embankment this am, from P Sq to Tower Hill. Scalped 1 roadie but kept checking behind me nervously for JG et al, esp in the tunnel. Frustrating riding there on the SS, still no one passed me. It is a stretch of road that always leaves me yearning for gears.

    there will probably be a free scalp tonight as i'll most likley go back that way after coffee and buns, though strickly speaking i will not be SCR as i'm not commuting.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Walk into my garage this morning and there is was PF number 31, front wheel of my CX :shock:

    When I took the value cap off the nut was undone! how could that happen?

    Still I MTFU and took the partly rebuild SS still managed just about 1hr ride to the station, gonna be fun on the way home with my laptop :D
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    ITB - someone is fcuking with you! How're relations with the neighbours?
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    itboffin wrote:
    Walk into my garage this morning and there is was PF number 31, front wheel of my CX :shock:

    When I took the value cap off the nut was undone! how could that happen?

    You must have been a very bad man in a previous life.

    On a less serious note :P , do you ride close to the kerb or hedge rows?
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    insomniboy wrote:
    yesterday lunch time i paid a visit to the bike shop, and am now a member of the 50x16 club.

    Good man.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    cjcp wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    Walk into my garage this morning and there is was PF number 31, front wheel of my CX :shock:

    When I took the value cap off the nut was undone! how could that happen?

    You must have been a very bad man in a previous life.

    On a less serious note :P , do you ride close to the kerb or hedge rows?

    What are you talking about im bad in this life :twisted:

    and NO I ride primary always
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Had a decent ride with a not-too-speedy Kingston Wheeler up Fulham Road this morning. We're swapping the lead, maybe doing about 19mph (no speedo on the Jackson), and then we come to the Hyde Park Corner underpass. I follow him down, assuming he'll pull away while I spin out, but he's clearly on an *ahem* recovery ride, so I stay with him. As we hit the up slope, I give it some welly to try and conserve momentum on the fixie, and absolutely shoot past him. Never saw him again.
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  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    JonGinge wrote:
    Ian.B wrote:
    King Donut wrote:
    JonGinge wrote:
    King Donut wrote:
    Dumb question time... What does DSC stand for? Dolphin Sq Churchill/Chelsea? I can work out where it is obviously but always leaves me a little :?
    King Donut, I'm shocked, truly shocked: have you not read the entire SCR thread or are you some johnny-come-lately? mmm? mmm?

    DSC=Death Star Canyon (Grosvenor Rd heading west after vauxhall bridge)

    @ JG/CJ Thanks!

    Erm... I did try reading the whole thread but my boss started to questions my output after a couple of weeks.

    I've been wondering myself where DSC is....Dare I ask why it's called that?
    Ok, can't find the real clip but around 1min into this one:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WG1lvSVyrM

    Riding west after vauxhall the enclosing buildings give it that feel. IIRC twas GregT who introduced it to the SCR lexicon

    Edit: the real clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLNZVinF ... re=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtnu4kcK ... re=related

    Ah! All is now clear, thank you!
  • clanton
    clanton Posts: 1,289
    Don't think this has been on here before - made me chuckle anyway!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn29DvMITu4
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    clanton wrote:
    Don't think this has been on here before - made me chuckle anyway!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn29DvMITu4

    Was posted twice yesterday, however that does nothing to diminish its awesomeness.
  • clanton
    clanton Posts: 1,289
    Sorry, missed it yesterday, got it on email today. Still, enjoyed the bits about the fakengers!
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    The people who hand out copies of the metro must get more cycle-savvy. Since I started on the longer commute I've only been able to get my copy on the fly, ie not stopping, but as I usually get my copy by some buslights I always have to stop anyway. Grabbed my copy this morning and uncliped the sternum strap on my bag to put the paper in and scalped an MTB in the process :D but did give him fair chance to reclaim his scalp by having a quick browse of the paper before it went into the bag but he didn't play ball. There was a FBR speccy trying as I left home but soon left him looking at the backwheel, thats the trouble with a 7am depart, nobody to play with. Might try the 9am crowd when I have a day off.
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  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    Nearly taken out by a driver turning right across me at the lights, he screeched to a halt just in time. And, yes, it was a.......... minicab.

    One full lycra'd roadie on the way. His shorts were so transparent (yuck) that it frankly left no option. Which leads me to wonder, if I'm on a commute (I was) but it's a Saturday so the other roadie probably wasn't, is that SCR? Or does it count as an S½CR scalp?
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    You were commuting, doesn't matter if the other party was or not.
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Ian.B wrote:
    Nearly taken out by a driver turning right across me at the lights, he screeched to a halt just in time. And, yes, it was a.......... minicab.

    One full lycra'd roadie on the way. His shorts were so transparent (yuck) that it frankly left no option. Which leads me to wonder, if I'm on a commute (I was) but it's a Saturday so the other roadie probably wasn't, is that SCR? Or does it count as an S½CR scalp?

    I think it should count double, if your out in that kit on a Saturday I'd say your either en-route to a club ride or at least a bit of an enthusiast so shouldn't be passed really ;-) Nought on my ride in this morning as I'm also working today, but I need the OT and it's only til 13:00!
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  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    That's just the answer I was hoping for!
    ian
  • tebbit
    tebbit Posts: 604
    There is an upside to transparent shorts, I was out this morning from Versailles to San cyr Ecole, when I was over taken taken by a young lady out on a road bike, her shorts had lost their opacity at the rear, it makes up for the hairy arse@ you see back home in Blighty.
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    tebbit wrote:
    There is an upside to transparent shorts, I was out this morning from Versailles to San cyr Ecole, when I was over taken taken by a young lady out on a road bike, her shorts had lost their opacity at the rear, it makes up for the hairy ars*@ you see back home in Blighty.

    :evil: That's it, rub it in!!! no pun intended ;-)
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  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    Ian.B wrote:
    Nearly taken out by a driver turning right across me at the lights, he screeched to a halt just in time. And, yes, it was a.......... minicab.

    One full lycra'd roadie on the way. His shorts were so transparent (yuck) that it frankly left no option. Which leads me to wonder, if I'm on a commute (I was) but it's a Saturday so the other roadie probably wasn't, is that SCR? Or does it count as an S½CR scalp?

    Nearly taken out again on the way home! This time a woman pulling rapidly out of a side turn as I passed, right by Death Crash Bridge. She just slammed on the brakes in time. At least she looked contrite.
  • Cychologist
    Cychologist Posts: 39
    tebbit wrote:
    There is an upside to transparent shorts, I was out this morning from Versailles to San cyr Ecole, when I was over taken taken by a young lady out on a road bike, her shorts had lost their opacity at the rear, it makes up for the hairy ars*@ you see back home in Blighty.

    talk about your motivation....
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