Silly commuting racing

MonkeyMonster

How's the ankle doing CP?

Clever Pun

MonkeyMonster wrote:

How's the ankle doing CP?

the ankle seems pretty much fine, the arch of the foot is still a little tender, clipping out makes me wince a little still.

So, it's getting there, I'm going to try and hit the gym hard tomorrow and see how that goes

thanks for asking

Roastie

choirboy wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Oh one of those laptops circa Windows 95 - 2000

No young man, those are perfectly portable compared to these from my youth:

How scary that I remember those. :oops:

I feel old.

gb155

WHOOP, Scalped a guy we call "Muscle Man Roadie" on an incline this morning

redvee

Had a good day on the roads today, apart from one idiot in a white van I was in the inside lane as a filter lane splits off from the left and WVM wants the filter lane with me in the middle. I'm holding 20mph and reluctant to let any of these precious mph's go. WVM has to pull in behind me to get to his lane and he pulls upto the lights ahead of me and makes a noticable movement back towards the right, where I was, trying to the gap between the lanes so that it was too narrow for me to ride through. Foot down and a wiggle and I'm through between the mirrors Set off from the lights and I'm urging the car in front to hurry up as I'm getting close to the bumper at 25mph.
Managed to hit 25mph on several different parts of the ride and hold it for sometime which I'm glad about, not sure wether this is done to an improvement in my stamina/fitness or a fluke in weather conditions. Thinking the former at the mo, will see what tomorrows ride on the same stretches produces.

AyrshireBacon

gb155 wrote:

WHOOP, Scalped a guy we call "Muscle Man Roadie" on an incline this morning

Was it an up incline or a down incline? :P Well done either way

gb155

AyrshireBacon wrote:

gb155 wrote:

WHOOP, Scalped a guy we call "Muscle Man Roadie" on an incline this morning

Was it an up incline or a down incline? :P Well done either way

LOL, It was UP

attica

Roastie wrote:

How scary that I remember those. :oops:

I feel old.

Roastie, I can only conclude that you are either:-
1 A time traveller
2 Someone who wears his years incredibly well
3 Employed by a company who have never heard the word obsolete
or that someone far younger than you introduced themself to me at the Morpeth by mistake.

Incidentally I got my first scalp since rejoining the fray tonight, a surprised looking roadie on a Madone, also got passed by a guy from Garlands bike shop on the way up a 2% ish "hill" he was in full carbon shaved lycra mode so not a scalping, managed to kick and hold him at 25mph (still uphill) for half a mile before keeping him honest through the whole of Long Ashton, I kept closing on him and he kept getting out of the saddle to put a gap between us, he had fear in his eyes turning to relief as he turned off.

I'm going to enjoy this lower FCN :twisted:

MonkeyMonster

Oooh, had so much fun coming home via embankment, after fixing a fecking puncture... seriously what sort of stones are they putting on the roads that so eaily embed themselves in my tyres...

Still catching someone I was even with at blackfriars bridge (where i then had to fix my puncture) and then refinding them before the 2nd to last bridge on way home was amusing. Anyone recognise a large fella, rather huge thighs wearing light blue shorts? He dropped me at bridge past parliament but I caught him at the last bridge again

So

Much

Fun!

jonginge

MonkeyMonster wrote:

Oooh, had so much fun coming home via embankment, after fixing a fecking puncture... seriously what sort of stones are they putting on the roads that so eaily embed themselves in my tyres...

Still catching someone I was even with at blackfriars bridge (where i then had to fix my puncture) and then refinding them before the 2nd to last bridge on way home was amusing. Anyone recognise a large fella, rather huge thighs wearing light blue shorts? He dropped me at bridge past parliament but I caught him at the last bridge again

So

Much

Fun!

Yes. I really wish he wouldn't *shudder*

MonkeyMonster

Aye he is rather wrong indeed. But slow though

cjcp

The wrong kind of rain indeed this morning. Yuk,

Crawled along Embankment. So did the previously mentioned nine-foot quadded monster on the Lemond. So did the huge guy on the Soloist (think he was the one who used to ride a PX). Not a pleasant ride in. And it was my first commute on the Kona. 46t outer chainring :shock: . I counted it twice in case I came out a bit low first time round. There's more teeth on my eldest's bike. It just looks wrong on a geared bike.

Train home tonight due to one bottle of wine too many with a client.

redvee

A lot of people are going to arrive in work having shed buckets of sweat. T'is raining in Brizzle but not heavily but bloody warm, warmer than yesterday.

Wallace1492

Raining here too in Glasgow, but not so warm at 8C. Had waterproofs on, but was quite warm once I got going. Had waterproof gloves on, that were far, far too warm, need to put them away till it goes sub zero!! Quite enjoyed it I must say, you do feel so good making it in through the dark and rain. 2 Months ago I would have taken one look out and ditched the bike for the car.

MonkeyMonster

Not pleasant but got some good scalps today, I need a head cam as I never bother to clock what they are riding, too busy looking at the road, specially today.

Sealskins ftw, shoes are a quagmire, socks are wet, feet are dry

Gazzaputt

Filthy weather this morning. Was so wet but to warm. Was sweating buckets under my jacket.

Had a I guy I passed guy up Avery Hill Road (hill very very small hill pedalling up) then whizz past going down Eltham High Street (hill downwards). Gave me a chuckle and must gave him some satisfaction.

UndercoverElephant

MOOOOPPPPEEEEEDDDD!!! MOPED! MOPED! MOPED!

He overtook me in Musselburgh, but was having trouble getting away until I got stuck behind a Lycra'd roadie playing support vehicle to his ten year old son. Chapeau to the youngster though, they were going over 20 up a slight hill!

Anyway, him having got caught up in Portobello, and me having gone the quicker route along the prom, I met Mr. Moped again along Seafield Road, we both stop at a red, about a nice straight, traffic-free half mile strip to where I turn off to work. It goes green, and I go hyper-sonic. Mr Moped, tries to pull in front, and I click down a gear at the back and leave him for dead. I turn off on an early amber, he's sat fuming at the red.

Nice! :twisted:

cjcp

Working from home this am. May go in this pm on the basis that I would prefer to catch the train this pm than tomorrow morning.

itboffin

Soaked through all my layers this morning even the waterproof jacket missed my train by a country mile thanks to my disfunctional right knee in fact I'm still on my way to work that's how slow I am ATM

Me thinks I'll be calling the support vehicle tonight

very glad I packed an additional set of warm cyclewear this morning mmm toasty

choirboy

"And I'm not looking forward to the journey home, neither!"

King Donut

It's gonna be dry by tonight in London. So they say.

Think I saw Canondale man last night, although he didn't look that tall to me. He was wearing Aussie shorts (or at least they were gold/green) and no helmet. Picked him up by Embankment tube stn. Stayed with him till the run up to Chelsea Bridge where he jumped a red. He motors - barely dropped below 30 on the open road - and stops for nothing with some questionable filtering.

redvee

Tried to have a pop at a scooter this morning but he got the jump on me and was away but not that far in front, was always 20-30 foot behind him which gave me good time to look at the machine as something didn't look right about it. The frame was twisted so that the wheels weren't line astern as they should, looked like he was on a constant LH turn.

vorsprung

itboffin wrote:

Soaked through all my layers this morning even the waterproof jacket

so..it...isn't...waterproof...then....?

wasn't terribly wet on Devon/Somerset border but like redvee said for Brissle quite warm

shoulder_of_orion

Aren't you 6'6" King Donut?

Anyway, for sillyness I think people will have to do well to beat my commute this morning.

I did the old, take-jacket-off-and-attempt-to-put-it-in-bag-whilst-crossing-Vauxhall-Bridge-manoeuvre.

Of course the jacket inevitably got entangled in the front wheel and I ended up kissing tarmac. Big grazes on nose, mouth, forehead. Banged my knee on the bike on the way down. Wrist injury as I hit the ground. Luckily the helmet took the brunt of the impact and the facial injuries were caused by a secondary impact and are all superficial.

Some kindly peds helped me, called an ambulance and I spent a couple of hours at the Kensington and Chelsea hospital. All is fine, but I look a bit like Sly Stallone at the end of Rocky. I have an interview on friday so not ideal. But hey-ho could've been worse...

MonkeyMonster

Doh, I'm guessing you won't be trying that again any time soon... Its the story for the interview as to why you face resembles corned beef that you have to now create to make you sound manly!

Glad that your okay though of course bar a few scrapes

attica

D'Oh!

Got to work, answered phone, sat in chair for 10 minutes, got up, got changed, noticed the massive wet patch on chair, located carrier bag, sat on that (on chair).

Lovely warm rain this morning, felt like I'd wet myself...

... oh no, perhaps I did :oops: :oops: :oops:

jonginge

Shoulder of Lamb wrote:

Aren't you 6'6" King Donut?

Anyway, for sillyness I think people will have to do well to beat my commute this morning.

I did the old, take-jacket-off-and-attempt-to-put-it-in-bag-whilst-crossing-Vauxhall-Bridge-manoeuvre.

Of course the jacket inevitably got entangled in the front wheel and I ended up kissing tarmac. Big grazes on nose, mouth, forehead. Banged my knee on the bike on the way down. Wrist injury as I hit the ground. Luckily the helmet took the brunt of the impact and the facial injuries were caused by a secondary impact and are all superficial.

Some kindly peds helped me, called an ambulance and I spent a couple of hours at the Kensington and Chelsea hospital. All is fine, but I look a bit like Sly Stallone at the end of Rocky. I have an interview on friday so not ideal. But hey-ho could've been worse...

It seems SCR is a bit old hat. The new game is Silly Commuting Face-planting. Was Cantdosleepy the other day and now you.

Glad you're ok SoL but you forgot to mention the most important thing: was the bike ok?

Clever Pun

Ouch... I stopped to take my coat off earlier.

Hope you're ok

Jay dubbleU

A curse on Continental Travel Contact tyres - wettest day for months and two visits from the PF one in each tyre - only had the damn things about six weeks - back to the Marathons :x

But as Atiica said it was lovely warm rain - very strange

flamite

Shoulder of Lamb wrote:

I did the old, take-jacket-off-and-attempt-to-put-it-in-bag-whilst-crossing-Vauxhall-Bridge-manoeuvre.

Of course the jacket inevitably got entangled in the front wheel and I ended up kissing tarmac. Big grazes on nose, mouth, forehead. Banged my knee on the bike on the way down. Wrist injury as I hit the ground. Luckily the helmet took the brunt of the impact and the facial injuries were caused by a secondary impact and are all superficial.

Glad your okish

Tried a similar thing of trying to put gloves on while cycling, nice little tarmac kissing moment resulted, I now always stop and do these things..