Silly commuting racing
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Hint its not the words in the sentence, but the sentence and structure itself. The structure is often used to describe someone, who is fast.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 -
Top Gear - describing the Stig“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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...............“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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:-( It is indeed a dark day..........For I have encountered a truly worthy adversary who did claim my scalp :evil:
Kitted out in full on courier attire with the bull horned SS, rolled up jeans and messenger bag he was matching me up hills and laying down serious speed on the flats, not to mention trackstanding at lights with no visible signs of breathing (whilst I try to gulp down air and water whilst covering up the digits that are north of 175 on my cheapo HRM)
I managed to reel him in after the climb on the flat which is only to be expected when you have gears, but I had to go up a couple and get it to a good 26mph to pass! A bit later on along Church Road in Crystal Palace he came round and I attempted to follow but my efforts to draw myself closer to him where matched by him accelerating away from me.
Chapeau sir! It's not often I find riders on my routes that best me :-)
Also one for the old skool bike aficionados, I spotted a shaved head chap in Dulwich Paragon kit today on a old Pinarrelo Prince :-) I fear I have to say whilst it was nice to see it isn't a patch on the current model, I mean it just looks wrong without those melted forks :-D
Also an honourable mention should go to the older gent on the Charge Plug with the black wrap-arounds who was constantly with me from Camberwell through to Crystal Palace - he also put in a sterling effort despite his solitary gear!0 -
So after my serious attack of ghey this morning I MTFU this evening by breaking into double digits and to my surprise the pain was most bareable, until a hybrid hi-viz commuter fancied himself some ITB scalp, not so my visible friend with to many gears for I did show him not only how fast a proper SS is but also a couple of nice pot-hole bunny hops
me in pain!?! Never :shock:Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
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.0 -
@BJUK - wahey! Looks like you have some competition, sir.
I saw a Pinarello tonight too. Don't know which model, but he's nippy - eased by me on Millbank while I was spinning away (in the 39), but filtered faster at VB lights and got through when he didn't. That could have been fun - damn!
- although saw him again in Richmond after I did an extra loop on my way home.
Was fizzing very nicely through DSC all the way over the Putney Bridge. Managed 34 mph on the stretch to AB, but had to ease off due to traffic. Wasn't going to threaten my PB speed though.FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
"Exactly."0 -
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Went out tonight and tried a slight deviation to the normal route and in doing so learned how effective it can be to slipstream a bus at 20mph. Tried the same later with a fire engine but they were a little too fast for me. Slipstreaming buses won't work in rush hour though.I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0
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Like to say to the tit that drafted me down the Sidcup Bypass last learn to ride properly if you want to draft.
When I signal to come through and then I'm slowing means both. It isn't my fault that when I turn off you must have nearly stacked it.
Also you had 2 chances to pass me which you never took up.
Call me a f*cking knob again and I'll take that shitty Scott you ride and wrap it around your head. Also give your chain a lube.
I'll see you again as I ride that road everynight.0 -
Gazzaputt wrote:Like to say to the tit that drafted me down the Sidcup Bypass last learn to ride properly if you want to draft.
When I signal to come through and then I'm slowing means both. It isn't my fault that when I turn off you must have nearly stacked it.
Also you had 2 chances to pass me which you never took up.
Call me a f*cking knob again and I'll take that shitty Scott you ride and wrap it around your head. Also give your chain a lube.
I'll see you again as I ride that road everynight.
Wow, a little angry!
Had some idiot scream at me to signal (as I'd slowed down and hopped behind another rider to turn left - obviously not signaling as I needed to brake! But it should also have been pretty obvious what I was doing, I mean, I'd moved in behind another, obviously slower, cyclist for a junction). He then promptly jumped a red light.
Nice work, dude.0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:My dear friends it will be war, a war as sure as night chases day.
True there may be many a battle fought and won. True there will be some that I may even lose but the one constant is that the war will remain.
So pump those tyres, check those chains, oil those brackets and lose those dust caps in an effort to weight save. This will be about desire a test of fortitude and a testament to those who will never give up as they are drowned and lost to the fury of testicular-pride!
You forgot to add 'Can you dig it?'
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Clever Pun wrote:Also I was burning round on a scooter on Saturday, I can't see how a cycle could ever do a scooter driven properly
Took two motorbikes and a learner driver (on the open road) last night. Get in.0 -
Chapeau to the guy on the suspension Mountain Bike with thick knobbly tyres heading through Balham Clapham Common towards Clapham North.
Not only did you out sprint me, you destroyed a courier a Marin hybrid and a Mini. You had calfs thicker than my 16inch neck you man mountain of a man.
I was glad to turn off towards Acre Lane.
Chapeau good sir.
Won't be happening 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 -
Dunno if this one will belong in rants, at the moment I think it's funny, but let's see how it turns out:
I was waiting at the lights at the junction between Stamford Street and Blackfriars Road about to go straight across into Southwark Street, here.
There's three of us cyclists at the lights waiting behind the line when a woman on a shopper casually pulls around all the traffic and puts herself miles in front. I can tell we're all thinking "great, I'm going to have to get round her as fast as possible" - this is a busy junction, made more complex because I honestly can't tell which of us is going to be fastest off the lights.
The lights change and we all move off, turns out I'm fastest, so I claim two scalps. Predictably, shopper lady is very slow. Less predictably, she's adopting primary, but I suspect through incompetence rather than roadsense - it's not necessary, and in this situation certainly not sensible.
This means that to get round her I've got to go really wide, about three metres from the kerb. A quick life-saver over the shoulder tells me it's safe, so I go for it and put the power down to get past quick. Not quick enough for the guy in a battered people carrier behind me though. He starts beeping and when I look round he's overtaking me while I'm overtaking her, and gesturing me to move over.
Weird thing is, he had that look on his face which seemed to say "I am educating a rider who doesn't know the rules of the road" NOT "bloody cyclists, getting in my way". And his young son in the back was watching me with something between to admiration and confusion. I am struck by compassion and empathy and choose to return the favour and give him an education! :twisted:
I keep up with him for the next 500 yards or so, flashing the occasional cheeky grin through his passenger window - strangely he's ignoring me now! I passed another bike or two, but I was ignoring them. When we approach the next set of red lights I happily sail past with just one backward glance, smiling so wide the top of my head should be falling off, then stop at the line and wait patiently, safe in the knowledge he's five vehicles behind and his son thinks I'm cool. 8) FCN 6 in the week on the shiny new single speed.
FCN 3 at the weekend - struggling to do it justice!0 -
I had a fun ride in today. I left late (after 7am) so many more cyclists out today.
Just a few metres from my front door I came across a dude on a red Raleigh road bike. He looks young and possibly cocky, so I know this could be interesting. He gets onto the main road before me, and I'm still half asleep, so I gently spin up to catch and pass him.
I give it a fair amount of beans up to Vauxhall, where I tap off as I negotiate the cross. While I'm waiting at one of the lights (a reasonable wait, I should say), who should roll up, but dude on the Raleigh. On the run to E&C I'm going easy but quickly, adn have expected to have dropped Raleigh boy again, but a glance at a shop front window reflection reveals the he is latched onto my wheel - just to the left where I can't see him peeking over my right shoulder.
I have to slow down for filtering, and he stays behind. Now we're onto Borough. I pull away but every time he catches up at the RLs so I have to keep going quickly to stay honest. At the last light onto London Bridge he goes quickly - I give it horns and finally put a decent bit of real estate between us! That was the last I saw of him.
It was a great bit of SCR, mostly because it lasted pretty much for the full length of the London leg of my commute and I had to work reasonably hard to stay honest. I hope red Raleigh dude reads this - 'twas fun, be good to meet up again soon!David
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Lovely ride in this morning.
Started off in the Park. Took a guy at the top of Dark Hill. He duly re-took me and started to crank it up. He seemed to be in a hurry. I follow him, but keep about 20-30 yards back. He's out of the saddle at times trying to get more speed. I stay on the tops of the bars. I think we're doing about 24. However, he sneaks through the lights at Priory Lane - part of me thinks it was an RLJ - so that's that.
All quiet then until I get to VB lights. There's one guy behind me and about 20 bikes (roadies and hybrids) ahead of me. By the time I go through the lights, the 20-odd bikes are stretched out nicely towards the Morpeth. I can't resist it . I accelerate to about 32mph and snaffle each and every one of them up by the traffic lights outside the Tate (one difference between the old alu and my Scott is that the latter accelerates *much* quicker ).
However, stamina needs a bit of work - managed 34 through Blackfriars tunnel, but couldn't hold it and ran out of steam well before the end of the tunnel. Need to work on that if I'm to avoid being repeatedly Ginge'd in the future. FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
"Exactly."0 -
A fairly quick route in this morning; little to race bar myself unfortunatly.
I did discover there is anpther FCN:4/5 (beard based variable) rider on my route, I caught up with him as we both turned off into a park, he carried on but it was the end of my commute, little left to do but cool down.
Annoyingly I think I may have had his scalp if it wern't for a technical problem - I normally take the final A road stretch at 26-28, but a front mech cable snap meant I was trapped on the small ring, maxing out at around 24.
Next time!FCN: 50 -
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Roastie wrote:but a glance at a shop front window reflection reveals the he is latched onto my wheel - just to the left where I can't see him peeking over my right shoulder.
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Nice, SCR is all about stealth shoulder checks. Can't let the chap behind know you know he's there and you're trying to lose him.
Vehicle rear window reflections are also your friend."Come at the king, you best not miss." - Omar, The Wire
FCN 4: Willier Izoard XP
FCN 7: GT Legato 4.0
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Still ill
But your tales of scalping activities cheers me no end!
Can't wait to get back on the hunter.Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]0 -
Citizen Smith wrote:Roastie wrote:but a glance at a shop front window reflection reveals the he is latched onto my wheel - just to the left where I can't see him peeking over my right shoulder.
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Nice, SCR is all about stealth shoulder checks. Can't let the chap behind know you know he's there and you're trying to lose him.
Vehicle rear window reflections are also your friend.
The area on the cabs below the rear window are big enough to have a stealthy check too.
On the check over the shoulder, I'm forever looking back behind me to check for cars, but, if I think someone's there, I'll turn the head slow enough to initimate (especially if riding on the tops), "there's plenty more in the tank, pilgrim."*
@TheBrogueadier - d'oh!
There rarely is. There's a bit more. But not much.FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
"Exactly."0 -
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:
OK, I appreciate the attention, and my ego is expanding, but I should point out I wasn't actually going that fast - rush hour traffic and luck were on my side.
So thank you all for the comments, and I'm glad you liked my story FCN 6 in the week on the shiny new single speed.
FCN 3 at the weekend - struggling to do it justice!0 -
unscarred wrote:...
I keep up with him for the next 500 yards or so, flashing the occasional cheeky grin through his passenger window - strangely he's ignoring me now! I passed another bike or two, but I was ignoring them. When we approach the next set of red lights I happily sail past with just one backward glance, smiling so wide the top of my head should be falling off, then stop at the line and wait patiently, safe in the knowledge he's five vehicles behind and his son thinks I'm cool. 8) v.8)
For a second I thought you were saying you sailed THROUGH the lights smiling at him!0 -
@ CJ, what's all this Scott business? You going undercover?0
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unscarred wrote:DonDaddyD wrote:
OK, I appreciate the attention, and my ego is expanding, but I should point out I wasn't actually going that fast - rush hour traffic and luck were on my side.
So thank you all for the comments, and I'm glad you liked my story
Ah and he is so modest too!!!! SCRer of the year!!!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 -
King Donut wrote:@ CJ, what's all this Scott business? You going undercover?
Sadly, no. My trusty red commuter is busted. Bottom bracket cracked.
So, the Scott has been pressed into service while I build the crosser up. If the rains come before I complete the build, the mtb will dusted down for some Roadie Worrying. FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
"Exactly."0
