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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    cjcp wrote:
    Where is Greg anyway?

    Beauty sleep
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    edited September 2009
    redvee wrote:
    :D:D
    :cry:
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Jordan feints, he shoots, and that's the game! :D
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    cjcp wrote:
    Oh come on!

    My post showed as the top of page 700, then a refresh showed CJ :cry:
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    :mrgreen::mrgreen:
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    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Damn it! Stupid storm knocked out my power!
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Damn it! Stupid storm knocked out my power!

    Posting from your place in the country?
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    redvee wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Damn it! Stupid storm knocked out my power!

    Posting from your place in the country?

    Ealing is quite a way out of town, you know.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    cjcp wrote:
    redvee wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Damn it! Stupid storm knocked out my power!

    Posting from your place in the country?

    Ealing is quite a way out of town, you know.

    It is! Almost middlesex, dontcha know...
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  • kyoukoku
    kyoukoku Posts: 105
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    redvee wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Damn it! Stupid storm knocked out my power!

    Posting from your place in the country?

    Ealing is quite a way out of town, you know.

    It is! Almost middlesex, dontcha know...

    Middlesex is/was quite a large area, dontcha know

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Huh, so it's actually very much in MIddlesex! And yet has a london postcode...
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  • Caligari_uk
    Caligari_uk Posts: 186
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Nice post, BTW, Caligari! Where abouts in Narrfuk?

    Thanks! Getting it out of my 'system' and onto the screen felt kind of...therapeutic.

    Oh - and watch 'Deliverance' if you want the 'real' Norfolk experience.
  • kyoukoku
    kyoukoku Posts: 105
    Caligari_uk wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Nice post, BTW, Caligari! Where abouts in Narrfuk?

    Thanks! Getting it out of my 'system' and onto the screen felt kind of...therapeutic.

    Oh - and watch 'Deliverance' if you want the 'real' Norfolk experience.

    "Squeal like a pig!!" :shock:
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  • Caligari_uk
    Caligari_uk Posts: 186
    kyoukoku wrote:
    Caligari_uk wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Nice post, BTW, Caligari! Where abouts in Narrfuk?

    Thanks! Getting it out of my 'system' and onto the screen felt kind of...therapeutic.

    Oh - and watch 'Deliverance' if you want the 'real' Norfolk experience.

    "Squeal like a pig!!" :shock:

    Well - that's more of a standard Norfolk-esque initiation for when you start High School.

    I could never make eye contact with our headmaster after that.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    I now have banjos playing in my head... :o

    Well, looking out the window, looks like there's no need to pedal this morning.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Huh, so it's actually very much in MIddlesex! And yet has a london postcode...

    heh.

    postcode areas are just lines in the sand to make it easier for royal mail.

    if you follow tthe line where SW and TW meet there is no great difference I tend to use (very roughly) the M25 as the dividing line. where I live was once a village now is part though very much on the edge off city and is part of it.
  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    So.. erm.. was there a bit of a tailwind this morning? :shock:
  • d21dga
    d21dga Posts: 113
    4th visit from the fairy in 3 weeks :( :x I'm going to have to get a new rear tyre I think, it seems the Kenda's that came with the bike just aren't up to the job. The infuriating thing is I can't tell what caused 3 of them.

    I'm pretty sure the 2nd was caused by a very small sharp stone sneaking into the tyre as I replaced the tube after the first visit but the first one and the last 2, I've no idea as there was no sign of anything in the tyre.

    Ah well, gives me a valid excuse to buy some stuff!
  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    cjcp wrote:
    Get in.

    Despatched everything in sight tonight. I was, however, trying in every sense of the word. Hunched, down on the hoods and going for it. Needed to let off steam and decided I wasn't going to hang around with the dark clouds looming. Time trialled someone down in the Park. He passed me when I stopped to put some music on at Roehampton Gate and had between one and two minutes on me by the time I got going, and caught him before Kingston Gate. He was trying too, which made it even better. :D
    I love rides like that. The enjoyment of pure speed.
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    cjcp wrote:

    Well, looking out the window, looks like there's no need to pedal this morning.

    That's roughly what I thought as I headed out the house this morning and could swear the wind was blowing DOWN my road, which should mean a TAILWIND on the main drag to work :-D

    No such luck tho.......after eventually losing the tw4t in his little Megane Scenic who obviously didn't use or need his left wing mirror (folded in) and persisted on blocking the bike lane I was fighting into a vicious headwind. My usual blast on the open carriageway though town was reduced to an on-the-drops fight to keep the speed north of 20!

    Still it's all good exercise and will make me a better rider..........I have to tell myself that to keep sane :lol:
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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Hells teeth that was some wind this morning. Commute usually takes 1 hour 10 minutes, record is 1 hour 2 minutes this morning 1 hour 23 minutes :(
    Actually had to use the little ring and everything!
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    amnezia wrote:
    So.. erm.. was there a bit of a tailwind this morning? :shock:

    You know, I have no idea. I thought there would be and in the Park, there was. I was flying. But on Millbank, there was some silly cross wind nd I was a good 2mph slower than yesterday.

    Caned it again this morning. Scalp remained in tact. Had to work for it though. Onto Embankment, I caught a glimpse of a white cycling to behind me. It was about 10 yards behind me going over Albert Bridge and flitering past the cars on Chelsea Embankment. Cleared those then upped the speed a bit. That seemed to do the trick. Legs feel good this week. Which means they'll be pants when I come to do a short ride in the Park on Sunday.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    cjcp wrote:
    amnezia wrote:
    So.. erm.. was there a bit of a tailwind this morning? :shock:

    You know, I have no idea. I thought there would be and in the Park, there was. I was flying. But on Millbank, there was some silly cross wind nd I was a good 2mph slower than yesterday.

    Caned it again this morning. Scalp remained in tact. Had to work for it though. Onto Embankment, I caught a glimpse of a white cycling to behind me. It was about 10 yards behind me going over Albert Bridge and flitering past the cars on Chelsea Embankment. Cleared those then upped the speed a bit. That seemed to do the trick. Legs feel good this week. Which means they'll be pants when I come to do a short ride in the Park on Sunday.

    there was definitely a bit of a crosswind in places but according to Google there was a 25mph westerly this morning. Chelsea embankment was awesomely quick for me at around 7.30.
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    amnezia wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    amnezia wrote:
    So.. erm.. was there a bit of a tailwind this morning? :shock:

    You know, I have no idea. I thought there would be and in the Park, there was. I was flying. But on Millbank, there was some silly cross wind nd I was a good 2mph slower than yesterday.

    Caned it again this morning. Scalp remained in tact. Had to work for it though. Onto Embankment, I caught a glimpse of a white cycling to behind me. It was about 10 yards behind me going over Albert Bridge and flitering past the cars on Chelsea Embankment. Cleared those then upped the speed a bit. That seemed to do the trick. Legs feel good this week. Which means they'll be pants when I come to do a short ride in the Park on Sunday.

    there was definitely a bit of a crosswind in places but according to Google there was a 25mph westerly this morning. Chelsea embankment was awesomely quick for me at around 7.30.

    You city dwellers lead such sheltered lives...............
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    I'm not sure if it what happened just now I left the house slightly later than normal, no rain or wind and just nailed it 20 miles in 56mins single speed again! I actually even took a scalp, Lycra clad n all :lol:

    think I might buy a lotto ticket :wink:
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  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    itboffin wrote:
    I'm not sure if it what happened just now I left the house slightly later than normal, no rain or wind and just nailed it 20 miles in 56mins single speed again! I actually even took a scalp, Lycra clad n all :lol:

    think I might buy a lotto ticket :wink:

    No rain or wind, do you have some sort of magic forcefield around you that shields you. Nope headwind all the way for me this morning.

    No other fellow roadies around on route for me, although was in the mood for some nippy cycling and managed to MTFU and negate the headwind's effect time wise.

    As a point of adjudication, got a clip on mudguard for the roadie, what does that do to my FCN - it's a rear only, and it's for winter.
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  • MonkeyMonster
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    blu3cat wrote:
    As a point of adjudication, got a clip on mudguard for the roadie, what does that do to my FCN - it's a rear only, and it's for winter.

    Sounds like its a rear spoiler... -1 surely.
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  • blu3cat
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    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    blu3cat wrote:
    As a point of adjudication, got a clip on mudguard for the roadie, what does that do to my FCN - it's a rear only, and it's for winter.

    Sounds like its a rear spoiler... -1 surely.

    I demand a recount, surely that makes my roadie half a tourer, and therefore a +1? :wink:
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    blu3cat wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    blu3cat wrote:
    As a point of adjudication, got a clip on mudguard for the roadie, what does that do to my FCN - it's a rear only, and it's for winter.

    Sounds like its a rear spoiler... -1 surely.

    I demand a recount, surely that makes my roadie half a tourer, and therefore a +1? :wink:

    Search your conscience, lad. How are you going to feel when a non-clip-on-mudguard roadie passes you? Are you going to see it as ok because you've got a mudguard or will you say "that shouldn't make any difference, it's time to rumble". :twisted:
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    cjcp wrote:
    blu3cat wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    blu3cat wrote:
    As a point of adjudication, got a clip on mudguard for the roadie, what does that do to my FCN - it's a rear only, and it's for winter.

    Sounds like its a rear spoiler... -1 surely.

    I demand a recount, surely that makes my roadie half a tourer, and therefore a +1? :wink:

    Search your conscience, lad. How are you going to feel when a non-clip-on-mudguard roadie passes you? Are you going to see it as ok because you've got a mudguard or will you say "that shouldn't make any difference, it's time to rumble". :twisted:

    nope I'm gonna MTFU and take my scalp back or give it my all trying. I just want to be able to scoop a few more scalps into my capacious yet relatively empty scalp sack.
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    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

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