Silly commuting racing

MonkeyMonster

Woo hoo - lovely embankment scalping session today. Must have been the macaroni cheese last night! Lots more cars than normal though

Gazzaputt

C'mon was it someone on here on Bianchi going up Old Kent Road and then onto Waterloo Bridge about 8.10?

cjcp

MonkeyMonster wrote:

Woo hoo - lovely embankment scalping session today. Must have been the macaroni cheese last night! Lots more cars than normal though

You must have left much earlier than me then. Quite a bit of traffic for me.

MonkeyMonster

I had my knife out c 8-8.10 on embankment itself. Was annoying amounts of traffic and some wobblers taking up the cycle space. Might have zipped over the 2nd ped crossing but the person was on the other side and had just stepped off *ahem*

Was in the zone so took no prisoners if that meant going into a car space then so be it. Cycle home via embankment all the way to earls court was interesting too. Big grind all the way, where I am more used to stop start racing. Useful to know I can vary my route for different training types.

Greg T

A nine foot massive quadded monster on a Lemond put on a very impressive firepower display this morning along the Vic Embankment.

I would have gave chase - if I were in anyway way equipped both mechanically and biomechanically for the challenge - which I wasn't - so I just marvelled at his awesome.

A game punter on a SS fancied a shot at the title as I spooled up the engine from a standing start from the lights before the Blackfriars tunnel. He was wearing a little bike cap......

I did the neccesary - pulled out - let him see me keeping pace before applying the go juice and spanked him like Max Moseley who has just fitted his spatula attachment to the drive shaft of a tractor.

If you wear your little bike cap you just have to make your marks stick.

cjcp

Greg T wrote:

A nine foot massive quadded monster on a Lemond put on a very impressive firepower display this morning along the Vic Embankment.

I would have gave chase - if I were in anyway way equipped both mechanically and biomechanically for the challenge - which I wasn't - so I just marvelled at his awesome.

Silver and red Lemond. Broad shoulders and even broader handlebars? Enormous legs bulging out of short-ish shorts, tight top? Looks like a rower? And a very strong rower at that

If it's the same guy, I've never got the better of him. I've held my own (just), but that's it.

Greg T

cjcp wrote:

Silver and red Lemond. Broad shoulders and even broader handlebars? Enormous legs bulging out of short-ish shorts, tight top? Looks like a rower? And a very strong rower at that

If it's the same guy, I've never got the better of him. I've held my own (just), but that's it.

That's the puppy.

He's a boy all right - I'd bet he's a rower - or perhaps just drags houses around for MacAlpines.

blu3cat

don't like the sound of the RP resurfacing, not good, not good. Mind you it looked like they were making a pigs ear of Blackshaw Road, and now it's velvety smooth.

Well a good tally this morning, dropped a chap on Wimbledon Hill, and for the first time made it up in the big ring - wahooo. 52:25 goodness.

Another scalp going over Putney bridge on a Specialized road bike, but only because I was trying to not have my scalp ripped from my head by a snake hipped roadie in full Lycra (actually he had a higher FCN due to Lycra). He was fast , just over 30mph as we came off Putney bridge, and on the flat on the other side towards Fulham road. I had to manage 27mph just to stop him becoming a disappearing dot in front of me. I doff my hat to your nippyness.

cjcp

Greg T wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Silver and red Lemond. Broad shoulders and even broader handlebars? Enormous legs bulging out of short-ish shorts, tight top? Looks like a rower? And a very strong rower at that

If it's the same guy, I've never got the better of him. I've held my own (just), but that's it.

That's the puppy.

He's a boy all right - I'd bet he's a rower - or perhaps just drags houses around for MacAlpines.

He's got a very good pedal stroke. He doesn't churn the bigger gears (like, ahem, I try to do). He sits in the 53x17-odd and smoothly disappears over the horizon, with the minimum of fuss. When he changes gear, there's no frantic finger movement. It's like Zen and the Art of SCR.

Clever Pun

a skinful last night and a sore knee = slow :x

sarajoy

To the guy who overtook me a couple of times as I was just starting off from a newly-green traffic light - there's something totally up with your rear wheel. Massively out of true, broken axle/bearings, I don't know. It had quite the wobble on...

And to the lady in the people carrier, it would be nice if you checked to see if someone was likely to get sprayed by your windscreen-wash fluid. Gack. Luckily I think I cried it out eventually.

Aidy

sarajoy wrote:

To the guy who overtook me a couple of times as I was just starting off from a newly-green traffic light - there's something totally up with your rear wheel. Massively out of true, broken axle/bearings, I don't know. It had quite the wobble on...

I've had a fair few occasions where I've felt the need to inform people about the lack of roadworthiness of their cars. I'm generally amazed at the kind of states in which some people will drive cars in - and how blissfully unaware they are.

hoolio

To the guy who overtook me a couple of times as I was just starting off from a newly-green traffic light - there's something totally up with your rear wheel. Massively out of true, broken axle/bearings, I don't know. It had quite the wobble on...

Best one I've seen was the woman fully bedecked in flourescent and hi viz, right down to the bright yellow gloves. How can someone so apparently safety conscious ride a bike with the back V-brake hanging off?!
Judging by the amount of cack all over it, and the dry weather we'd been having at the time it wasn't recent either.

amnezia

Cyclist down on Chelsea embankment this morning at Albert Bridge Road junction.

Yellow road bike on the ground in the middle of the junction, ambulance on scene.

Hope you're okay who ever you are

mcockram85

ANy of you regular rides commute from Fareham?

choirboy

What's the starting FCN of one of these then?

lost_in_thought

choirboy wrote:

What's one of these then?

Fixed that for you.

stuaff

lost_in_thought wrote:

choirboy wrote:

What's the FCN for this marvellous piece of British engineering then?

Fixed your fix for you.

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Moulton AM Speed. Doesn't fold/collapse but does have teeny wheels...not sure about FCN.

lost_in_thought

Doesn't fold or collapse but still looks like a clown bike?

I've found a new thread for it...

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12648740

Roastie

lost_in_thought wrote:

Oh and your wish is my command, forumites...



The sharp-eyed among you will also spot the kickstand... :oops:

Call me a sicko, but I'm digging it. :shock:

choirboy

lost_in_thought wrote:

Doesn't fold or collapse but still looks like a clown bike?

I've found a new thread for it...

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12648740

Fixed that thread for you. ;-)

jonginge

I worry about "bikes" that need to have Speed written on the seat tube.

Anymahoo, this is a clown bike:



First ride since last thursday due to gas-related shenanigans. Was slow but the top of my head is still ginger. Yay.
Saw the unfeasibly tall chap with the red cannondale on the NKR but he got away through a very amber light.

choirboy

JonGinge wrote:

I worry about "bikes" that need to have Speed written on the seat tube.

But what is its FCN Godammit??? Saw one in Hyde Park this morning and just about stayed with it but need to know if my scalp was at risk or not!!

MonkeyMonster

Its got drop bars, but weird so I'd say yes you were in danger FCN of 8. But then I do like to wind people up

UndercoverElephant

choirboy wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

I worry about "bikes" that need to have Speed written on the seat tube.

But what is its FCN Godammit??? Saw one in Hyde Park this morning and just about stayed with it but need to know if my scalp was at risk or not!!

I'm not an arbiter here by a long stroke, but I'd say, "If it looks like a Brompton, and it quacks like a Brompton". I don't care if it's a folder or not, it makes the owner look like a monkey on a trick bike. Add to that the full suspension, I think it's a good FCN 10.

lost_in_thought

It has full suspension? FFS. What's wrong with people?

choirboy

MonkeyMonster wrote:

Its got drop bars, but weird so I'd say yes you were in danger FCN of 8. But then I do like to wind people up

Actually the one I saw had flat bars. And a mirror! And a beard! But also clipless pedals.... Go figure.

MonkeyMonster

A bike beard... Won't that obscure the front light?

_Brun_

choirboy wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

Its got drop bars, but weird so I'd say yes you were in danger FCN of 8. But then I do like to wind people up

Actually the one I saw had flat bars. And a mirror! And a beard! But also clipless pedals.... Go figure.

A bike merkin would protect the bottom bracket quite well.

Neil Holland

Not sure about all this point scoring stuff yet but how many points would you surrender for being overtaken by a cyclist with a handgun?

Am pretty sure that I rode along Jamaica Road with a chap with this in his hoodie yesterday morning... I passed him several times but as he didn't stop at red lights he always ended up ahead...

He had his right hand in the pocket the whole time and looked very shifty indeed quite possibly wired and I'm not talking double espresso... :shock: