Silly commuting racing
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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
How very dare you
Clown bikes don't get banned by the UCI for being too darn quick, or do very well in RAAM (one of the model pictured), Paris-Brest Paris.....
http://www.moultonbicycles.co.uk/heritage.html
Now if you'd said, 'makes people it passes look like clowns'....
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Neil Holland wrote: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:
I'd surrender as many points as he wanted and I'd also have given him an RLJ exemption pass for the day.
Gotta give it to you for passing him on more than the one occasion - personally I'd have thought about taking a detour._________________________________________________
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Benno68 wrote:Neil Holland wrote: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:
I'd surrender as many points as he wanted and I'd also have given him an RLJ exemption pass for the day.
Gotta give it to you for passing him on more than the one occasion - personally I'd have thought about taking a detour.
I must admit I only leapt to the handgun conclusion after the last overtaking. I let him power ahead after that...0 -
StuAff wrote:How very dare you
Clown bikes don't get banned by the UCI for being too darn quick, or do very well in RAAM (one of the model pictured), Paris-Brest Paris.....
http://www.moultonbicycles.co.uk/heritage.html
So base FCN of 2 then as I think he was shaved (like a lady) :P and +1 for his (or the bike's) beard which still puts him well out of my league and I can relax...0 -
Not totally surprised at a RLJer this morning, went through the lights by my flat on red as I sat patiently for the green light to wake-up and chased and passed him before the next set which he also jumped which took him onto St James Barton roundabout, look for 5102 if you resort to googlemaps. I left him in my wake after giving him some verbals for the second RLJ.
When walking on the pavement in Brizzle it isn't just cyclists you have to be aware of, we also get buses drivingon the pavements. Not just the nearside wheels, this was fully on the pavement with all four wheels :shock:
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage ... ticle.htmlI've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0 -
This morning: two scooters through DSC. Ta-raa, chaps.
Nothing doing this evening though.
Did an extra couple of miles in the Park this evening, chasing a chap in TriTalk kit. He had about 300 yards on me and got him to within 200 yards or so up Broomfield Hill, but he was sans backpack and I wasn't, and I just couldn't reel him in. Dag-nabbit! The snot was in full flow and had to sit down in the garden afterwards to cool down.FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
"Exactly."0 -
No one at all this morning, cursed work making me come in for 6.30
Nasty headwind too!
and I got totally nadgered by the red light angel last night on way home, bout 75% of all lights turned red as I approached. I was good though.Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]0 -
To the geared roadie on the black Trek who tried to scalp me at the bottom of Willesden Lane this morning - gears may make hills easier but they don't make you faster. How's the whoop ass tasting?
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@MonkeyMonster - that's coz we're all in/just out of bed at the mental time you get on the bike!
Had to escort a chap down Millbank this morning. At least, I think I had to; he didn't want to go in front that's for sure. :twisted: And this was after he'd got ahead by creeping at reds and hopping on pavements.FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
"Exactly."0 -
Scalped a slightly smokey Capri last night. He overtook me going into the lights when I was slowing down in the queue of traffic, he went down the side across the white markings (not part of the carriageway really).
I followed him across the lights, then I was in the bus lane him in the normal lane and BAM! I layed down the DDD style awesome and spun past on the flat, checked the comp 35mph no wind either, the tarmac there is smoooooth.
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anyone else see the photographer taking photos of all the cyclists last night? at the junction where lots road peels off embankment??
he had a board up advertising his webiste, bit like the photogrophers you get on the ski slopes, how bizarre?!?!0 -
What's his website?FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
"Exactly."0 -
what about a bmx? from going to uni and back, i go by bmx sometimes and give great big cans of whoopass to the folding bikers! 0
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I know CJ, but with no one to chase either was hard to self motivate properly... If I only had the green lights at 8ish I'd break me record easily!Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
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I'm finding that even tho I'm car-bound this week it provides an excellent opportunity to spectate on SCR action :-)
Saw a few rather nice celeste Bianchi's heading London bound, along with an assortment of other hybrids, MTB's and SS's - none of them looked like they'd admit to it but I'm fairly sure they where all racing!
As I made progress down the road tho a rather large chap passed (heading away from town) wearing one of those Northwave skeleton jersey's and by jaysus did he have massive legs!!! Bulging calves and what appeared to be 2 small engines above those. I eventually caught up a bit later on and got a better look (oh er!) and I'm sure he could have done with raising his saddle a bit as he didn't seem to be getting full extension at the bottom of the stroke, just as well tho as I reckon he was holding a solid 20mph with no apparent effort!
Now why the hell don't I find these cyclist when I'm out!!0 -
top speed? unsure. These folding bikes seem a little incapable for where i live. I'm in sheffield, where the hills coupled with bmx help better my cadence. Typical route is Western Bank- Springvale Road- Crookes if anyone is interested in a commuter race...0
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It's been a long time coming:
Yesterday was my first commute on Donovan since he needed his Fulcrum freehub body replaced. Replaced and back on Fulcrum's this was a long time coming. Yes, for the much larger part of the commute I wasn't entirely happy.
But there was a moment:
Though Donovan is carrying injury his return to the Balham drag strip was mighty. ”Let the heavens roar in glory of his return and let hell shudder under the awesome rotations of his righteous Fulcrum Racing 7's!”
On the way home, I had been struggling with a dodgy drive train. I couldn't properly put the hammer down for any decent length of time, without the painful scrape of chain rub and my slightly out-of-true rear wheel was annoyingly slowing me down as it skimmed the brake.
More annoyingly was this girl who I dropped and at each set of lights would insist on planting her bike ahead of mine. I would overtake in an Endless Waltz only to encounter yet another girl who thought she was fast and clearly enjoyed trying to overtake people. Traffic demanded that I ride around their pace and alongside Hybrids and a guy on a tourer with panniers. The pain, the anger and the frustration.
As we pull up to Balham Tube, heading towards Tooting, Donovan must have made the same final prayer Samson made to the Lord after Delilah cut of his hair because things got biblical.
Green, and damn! Both girls where spinning hard and taking up most of the road making it dangerous to overtake as doing so would mean going into the right lane with lots of moving traffic. I wasn’t even thinking about them, the guy on the tourer was ahead giving it the beans and there were some hybrids trying to be roadbikes that I wanted to bite, chew and spit out. Still, what I wanted and reality where clearly two separate entities; I'm struggling to clip-in let alone get the power down while trying to overtake two girls riding abreast and taking up an entire lane in doing so. All the while I can hear Donovan's chain rubbing against the mech and I'm distraught at the prospect that I may get dropped. Things were getting immensely embarrassing, quickly.
I'm desperately fiddling with the gears and suddenly I hear something click! Suddenly and briefly Donovan is alive again. Alive! He is ALIVE! Bam-motha-fecking-BAM!!! I reign Thunder, Lightning and Death through those cranks, I check my shoulder and pull into the lane with the cars and go with them, all the cyclists look at my sheer, utter, unbridled and passion-filled awesome! They are none entities, each one, overtaken, scalped and no longer exist in my reality of forward motion. Tears of joy are in my eyes! This means something, the drag strip means a lot to me and it's moments like this that I love. I'm still going and now the car ahead is going too slow (there was traffic). I check inside (two lane traffic) and start gaining on the car infront as I pull beside her she is looking at me:Yes dear this is what awesome looks like!
I don't stop, I can't stop, I won’t stop! Through the lights I get to Tooting Bec, Tooting Broadway and then the chain starts rubbing again and all hell breaks loose I slow, I fiddle with the gears, which results in my chain/cranks seizing near Colliers Wood.
No matter, for a moment no matter how brief I was awesome once again.Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
do you really give your bikes names? Donavan? :shock:0
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Yes, why?Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
What's the TV called then? Wayne?0
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epic saga snipped to save spaceDonDaddyD wrote:It's been a long time coming:
DDD you have far tooooo much time on your hands to be able to write such mahoosive posts!! nevertheless they are rather entertaining and quite inspiring I have to admit, keep it up! 8) 0 -
will3 wrote:What's the TV called then? Wayne?
Haven't named the TV. But seeing as you asked:
Giant SCR 3 = Donovan.
Seat Ibiza = Sebastian
And this is Karen:
I am to understand that others on this site also name their bikes. Linsen for example calls her Lemond, Frank.
Sign of affection I suppose.Kyoukoku wrote:DonDaddyD wrote:It's been a long time coming:
epic saga snipped to save space
DDD you have far tooooo much time on your hands to be able to write such mahoosive posts!! nevertheless they are rather entertaining and quite inspiring I have to admit, keep it up! 8)
Why thank you.Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
Brilliant! :shock: It takes all sorts! :evil: To think that we share the roads (and pavements) with idiots like this every day!redvee wrote:When walking on the pavement in Brizzle it isn't just cyclists you have to be aware of, we also get buses drivingon the pavements. Not just the nearside wheels, this was fully on the pavement with all four wheels :shock:
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage ... ticle.htmlDavid
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So if I get you right, you scalped two girls and a dude on a fully loaded tourer?DonDaddyD wrote:It's been a long time coming:
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UndercoverElephant wrote:Roastie wrote:So if I get you right, you scalped two girls and a dude on a fully loaded tourer?
Two girls on hybrids? :?
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No, two girls: one on single speed, the other was on one of those rapid flat bar road bikes (rapid).
Guy on a Tourer wasn't fully loaded and had some legs on him. There were hybrids around as well, Trek's mostly (if memory serves) and a guy on a Santa Cruz white bike, but they don't count.
Don't take away my awesome. It's all relative, my awesome may not compare to Roastie's awesome, but it's awesome all the same to me, which is awesome in and of its awesome self simply because I can appreciate different levels of awesome.
Awesome.Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:
Don't take away my awesome. It's all relative, my awesome may not compare to Roastie's awesome, but it's awesome all the same to me, which is awesome in and of its awesome self simply because I can appreciate different levels of awesome.
Awesome.
Awesome is as awesome does!
Excellent post tho, back to your usual high standards :-D0
