Silly commuting racing

Stuey01

Sorry for the off-topic. Bikes, yes right. I've been off the bike for two days now and won't be able to go for a ride til Monday. GRRRR.

anyone want a ride on Monday? either richmond park or a little jaunt out to Surrey. a mate has just bought a roadi and we'll be out for a spin.

gb155

God where have they all gone? No one else on the road AGAIN today

Tarmac Terrorist

I followed this guy yesterday and marvelled and he continuousley tried to drop me. I clung to his wheel then, when the time was right swiftly put him to the sword, along old kent road, up dunton road and down grange road in london, he then proceeded the RJL to my extreme disatisfaction but hey.....then on the way home, after dropping a couple of guys along London Road Nr London Southbank Uni, i saw this guy who looked pretty serious...i followed him for a bit and out of respect, i didnt challenge him as i was content just tagging along, but then he tried to dropped me and i instantly reeled him in and overtook him..anyways, i caught up and i started talking to him as im a novice to the cycling game and he was pretty cool and invited me along to his club. I rode with him for a bit and then left him up and along denmark hill...nice couple days!

blu3cat

Nothing epic, just a simple Boardman Roadie scalp on the way home.

spursn17

blu3cat wrote:

Nothing epic, just a simple Boardman Roadie scalp on the way home.

Time and location?

I'm worried now!

cjcp

Bit late telling this, but a first last week: had a speed skater drafting me in Richmond Park. I'm not sure if I dropped him or if he slowed down, but he definitely caught up with me. Have seen them before. They can seriously shift.

blu3cat

spursn17 wrote:

blu3cat wrote:

Nothing epic, just a simple Boardman Roadie scalp on the way home.

Time and location?

I'm worried now!

6.30 ish Wood Lane.

spursn17

blu3cat wrote:

spursn17 wrote:

blu3cat wrote:

Nothing epic, just a simple Boardman Roadie scalp on the way home.

Time and location?

I'm worried now!

6.30 ish Wood Lane.

Hoorah and huzzah!

Not me

redvee

Can I say that BMW drivers are cocks?
Riding under the railway on Cattle Market Road in Brizzle approaching, in primary, a traffic island with parked cars ahead and I could hear a car behind, or rather the engine, just as I emerged into the daylight he hits the horn twice and comes within 12" of me to the side and from the rear. Waiting 15 seconds whilst I passed by the island and parked cars was too long for him. :x

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

blu3cat

Bmw drivers do little to convince me of their ability to drive considerately, although occasionally you do get one. Much "after you-ing" recently as a BMW 1 series and I meandred through lights and road works on Wood Lane

SpursN17, part of me thinks I get a couple of scalps every day as they are not SCRing themselves. Very rarely go through the centre of town where most of the action seems to take place. :oops: [/b]

cjcp

Bit of a duel along Embankment with a chap on a Specialized (Tarmac, I think. Seriously oversized head tube) last night. T-shirt and baggy shorts, but the "World Duathlon Championship Rimini" socks gave it away. However, I only spotted these when we went our separate ways at the traffic lights on at Ashburnham and NKR junction: bar a stretch between Chelsea and Albert Bridges, he spent the rest of the Millbank-Cheyne Walk stretch in my wind shadow.

redvee

cjcp wrote:

in my wind shadow.

Does this relate to the effects of baked beans or drafting

gb155

Im hoping for a heat wave next week, Im only in for 3 days so if theres a heat wave there should be prety and my legs will be rested :twisted:

roger_merriman

cjcp wrote:

Bit late telling this, but a first last week: had a speed skater drafting me in Richmond Park. I'm not sure if I dropped him or if he slowed down, but he definitely caught up with me. Have seen them before. They can seriously shift.

saw one at night, coming towards me took a while to work out what it was...

gazza_d1

Does anyone know what the FCN for a moulton APB would be?

My guess would be a "fast hybrid", but it's also a full susser, confused about it?

Ta

UndercoverElephant

Are they not folders?

Yesterday I had a poacher attempting to take my tusks. I'd just crossed a footbridge in Musselburgh, a very slow patch as it's so narrow and all of a sudden, my Elephant senses detected a road bike behind me. I turned round, and there was a twenty-something whippet type. Full Lycra, no helmet, long frizzy hair on a CAAD 9.

"Morning.", he said, with a cold, poachers timbre, and the game was afoot.

The chase takes place on a very pot-holed stretch of road I have nicknamed headwind alley. Whatever the wind direction, there's always a headwind on this mile of pitted and speed-bumped tarmac. I wind up the pedals, he's right on my tail, I wind up further, 20, 22, 24 mph. It's hurting as there's a decent wind, I keep up mid-twenties for the mile before we get to the T-junction at the end, each second expecting to hear the crack of a blunderbuss.

As I near the junction, I turn back **to check for cars** and see that Whippet boy is some 15 meters back, I get to the junction and there's a decent gap for me to turn right before a car comes, he arrives a few seconds after, and there's nothing happening. I pound the open road ahead, and he's not seen again.

I love it when drafters can't keep up. Especially as I have a lovely frizzy scalp to add to my collection.

Clever Pun

Had a load of ink work done on thursday so I can't really gun it till thursday cycled for the first time since then (gutted not to be out over the weekend) but can't push it as I'm not supposed to sweat too much

great to be back on the bike after 4 days off it and celebrated by dropping a roadie like a stone

will3

Would those cycling down newmarket road in cambridge in a westerly direction in the morning please cycle a bit faster?
You really don't make it a challenge :roll:

il_principe

Waiting at lights at Willesden this am when a bloke on a Dolan Fixed blazed past me, through the lights and off up the hill. I wasn't having that so gunned it on green and caught him at the top, bloke had the most mahoosive calves I've ever seen. I took him on the descent but he RLJ'd in Kilburn, took him again with speed and cunning filtering, but he jumped another light on Edgeware and was gone. Such a pity as it looked like game on for a while and I rarely get any compo down Kilburn/Edgeware/Pk lane. Sodding RLJing cheats, no fun at all.

The Decade felt heavy today after a weekend hammering the Prince through Kent and Sussex!

stuaff

gazza_d1 wrote:

Does anyone know what the FCN for a moulton APB would be?

My guess would be a "fast hybrid", but it's also a full susser, confused about it?

Ta

Bromptons/collapsing bikes have a base FCN of 10. If it's a separable, I'd count it as that.....
BTW, UndercoverElephant- there are no Moulton folders, Dr Alex prefers to keep the frame as stiff as possible.

Jay dubbleU

Strange isn't it - only in SCR does the word 'Morning' constitute an unspoken challenge :twisted:

Bored - still not back on the bike after an exciting few days of gastric flu :roll:

MonkeyMonster

After a week off and coming in late... 3 amusing roadies this morning. A giant (taller than 6'6'') on a 22+inch red roadbike (someones surely seen him before), full named gearer (didn't see bike sorry) who wasn't trying that hard and a poor littler guy who was having to cane it to keep up. Me and full named kit legally kept up with their RLJing and then split off separate ways at blackfriars bridge. I had the giant who tried to lose me twice up hill before turning off - nice try buddy though not sure I deserved the side spit when you saw I was still there on your tail.
Nice to come back to I must say - not good weather though for rest of week... Booo

Bassjunkieuk

Spent my 2 commutes today chasing those things with engines through the lovely roads in Croydon, completely devoid of any worthy bike competition I'm finding it quite fun to draft buses :-D

Tried out the HRM I'd picked up in Lidl's about a year ago for the 2nd time today. Not sure how accurate it was but it reckons I peaked at around 190 each way :shock: Spent all the time in the "upper zone", but this might be to do with the fact that the ride only takes about 10 minutes and it allows 5 minutes as a warm up - by which time I'm already chasing after the next motorised vehicle on an extended interval session ;-)

redvee

Coming home tonight in the rain with sunglasses on, I was riding up a gentle incline to a junction and had a mondeo attempt an overtake. I knew he was behind me as I heard the engine but didn't expect to see him on the wrong side of the road trying the overtake. As we get to the junction the road goes to the left for the last 10yds, in the wet there was no way I was going to take it tight like I normally do. Poor mondeo man was left on the wrong side of the road.

cjcp

This morning was fast. Sigma rider on a Rapha Condor was back (and he still wasn't trying, I'm convinced. The guy would lay me to waste if he floored it), a Dynamo, the Tallest Man on a Bike on Embankment (he with the red Cannondale) and two other roadies, one of whom repeatedly RLJ'd and was hammering it - hi viz jacket flapping and rear light flashing. I kept my scalp, but not without a fair amount of effort. I had the excuse o fat least trying to burn off some of the beer I drank on the weekend.

This evening was much quieter though. The headwind was feckin' brutal too. Managed two extra laps of the Park on the way home and managed a PB top speed down Sawyer's Hill. Caught up with the Optima Health team 10-12 strong chain gang and managed to make the pass stick. Think they were catching me though by the time I reached the next roundabout.

gb155

put the same roadie to the sword twice tonight, he blew a red to pass me, I chased him down and he caught me at the top of a hill while I was sat at a red and he AGAIN RLJ'ed, Chased down and passed again, Fat boy was on FIRE

kyoukoku

gb155 wrote:

put the same roadie to the sword twice tonight, he blew a red to pass me, I chased him down and he caught me at the top of a hill while I was sat at a red and he AGAIN RLJ'ed, Chased down and passed again, Fat boy was on FIRE

haha , reminds me of this: http://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=2009-06-28

MonkeyMonster

Where were you all at 6.30 am this morning... Tut.

Nowt but mopeds to keep catching up and 2 mahoosive dumper trucks.

gb155

kyoukoku wrote:

gb155 wrote:

put the same roadie to the sword twice tonight, he blew a red to pass me, I chased him down and he caught me at the top of a hill while I was sat at a red and he AGAIN RLJ'ed, Chased down and passed again, Fat boy was on FIRE

haha , reminds me of this: http://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=2009-06-28

LOL

No commute today gives me chance at least to put the gore cables on the Surosa for tomorrow

Gazzaputt

Wow all out in force this morning.

Guy on a singlespeed overtook me on Avery Hill Road but got past him on the hill and he drafted I think until Eltham Road where he went to pass again but a I dropped the hammer a little. Joked with him 'I used to ride one of them' he replied it wasn't a fair race as I had gears. He then did the worse RLJ in Lee High Road where the roadworks are by cycling up on the path to get around them :x .

The had a good ride along with a guy in a Greenwich Tri club shirt. Both of us shared the work along the Old Kent Road to make good speed.

Then Waterloo Bridge guy on a lovely retro Pinarello but he RLJ all the way from Aldwych to Euston