Silly commuting racing

cjcp

DDD - Biondino has a good point. Slowing down? at best, you've put the ball in your own net and handed over your scalp. At worst, you've been scalped because, to all outward appearances, you've well and truly blown. (We've all been there. There's no shame in that.)

:P

greg66_tri_v2.0

itboffin wrote:

Like this poor chap scalped as a child by a 20s something Greg66

I remember this one well.

He were sh!te :twisted:

UndercoverElephant

cjcp wrote:

DDD - Biondino has a good point. Slowing down? at best, you've put the ball in your own net and handed over your scalp. At worst, you've been scalped because, to all outward appearances, you've well and truly blown. (We've all been there. There's no shame in that.)

:P

Yes there jolly well is!!

Met the Boardman rider who gave me some trouble a few pages back last night. I stalked him with my torch on flash mode, must have known it was coming, as my torch makes the signs flash for a good quarter of a mile, even when pointing to the road. Flew past him with a cheeky, "Good evening!", no trouble this time despite the headwind, couldn't even hold my wheel.

Made me think about getting one of the Firebox bike MP3 players ( http://www.firebox.com/product/2307/Lav ... ht?via=ser ), and pointing it the wrong way, so the light illuminates my face from below as I power along, and the speaker plays "Ride of the Valkyries" to my quivering prey. I think it would add a certain something. :twisted:

cjcp

UndercoverElephant wrote:

cjcp wrote:

DDD - Biondino has a good point. Slowing down? at best, you've put the ball in your own net and handed over your scalp. At worst, you've been scalped because, to all outward appearances, you've well and truly blown. (We've all been there. There's no shame in that.)

:P

Yes there jolly well is!!

Shush! I'm trying (feebly) to coax a confession out of him. :P

BentMikey

Now this is an overtake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FejPFthpsQo

Bassjunkieuk

BentMikey wrote:

Now this is an overtake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FejPFthpsQo

Indeed it is! Your certainly shifting and welcome back! Haven't seen you on here for a while BM :-)

Clever Pun

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

I do think we need confirmation that it was CP that passed DDD.....

Nope wasn't me, I was later along there, I've not let him get anywhere near the front while fixing my hair and maybe put a parting in my beard or maybe plats

Still more than happy with my hairless roadie Iron Man scalp 8)

gb155

2 scalps, on film, see my awesomeness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E71aGjt97K4

OH YEAH

DonDaddyD

Guys, please understand this wasn't about SCR but about re-inforcing the point that his crazy blind swerve-to-overtake was pointless.

My slowing down was due to the following:

i) The mid-way lights between Balham tube and the lights by Argos had went red, I slowed for these and still was ahead when they went green, during this pause he managed to gain ground but not get ahead.

ii) When I decided to let him pass I was approching the lights by Argos and would have had to stop anyway.

iii) I decided to crawl to the lights to allow the guy to go pass me so I could see his face. At this point neither he or I were going (what I would consider) fast. We had no where to go.

I'm not lying, I love SCR, god I love it, but whether it's rulled a scalp against me or not the point was that while I'm all up for cold blooded SCR, I won't play at the expense of road safety.

redvee

Why do car drivers insist on getting the model without indicators? Turning into The Grove, MudDock for the out of towners in Brizzle, this morning I see a car going slow and my legs take over. She is on the white line so there is space to the left, just as I'm preparing to do the pass she turns left with the only lights visible are the headlights and taillights :x .
@g see me?' with bemused looks from all three in the cab and the mirror temptingly close but I resisted and rode off with a wave of masturbatory style.

Wrath Rob

I took a sabatical from SCR this morning by doing some interval training on Embankment. Got up to 30.6mph after Chelsea Bridge but the next 4 sprints got progressively slower until I struggled to get aboth 25! Overtook plenty of riders but as I was obviously trying it obviously doesn't count.

Had more fun on the way home with a guy SSing on a white road bike in a black and red top from Parliment Square onwards. He was pretty quick but span out at around 24, alowing me to get past. Unfortunately traffic stopped play at Chelsea Gardens so couldnt win a decisive advantage. Good riding though and chapeau

itboffin

gb155 wrote:

2 scalps, on film, see my awesomeness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E71aGjt97K4

OH YEAH

Cough cough! - DRAFT!!!

Just kidding Gaz :P

good show, like the cheery morning!

redvee

Passed a fixie on the way home with what looked a slightly buckled wheel but what caught my eye was the handlebars, or lack of, must have been all of 8" wide :?

Kieran_Burns

itboffin wrote:

gb155 wrote:

2 scalps, on film, see my awesomeness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E71aGjt97K4

OH YEAH

Cough cough! - DRAFT!!!

Just kidding Gaz :P

good show, like the cheery morning!

Was it just me, or can anyone else hear "diediediediedie" uttered in a quiet monotone during those vids?

redvee

BentMikey wrote:

Now this is an overtake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FejPFthpsQo

Needs a cheery hello as you passed him to rub it in.

ocaaaaa

Was cycling through Chiswick the other day between 2 sets of lights, 2 lanes : 1 to go straight, one to go left - I was in the middle as I was going straight , going quite slowly as the light ahead was red.

This **** minicab driver behind me starts honking his horn then shouted something about me getting out of his lane, wtf?

What was he going to achieve by overtaking me, there was a red light 20-30 meters ahead :x

cjcp

Missed out on some quality SCR through Putney and the LRR this evening.

Spotted the rapid Condor SSer from the other night join Embankment at Lambeth B R'about. I pass him, but not quickly because he's quickly up to speed. After a stop at VB lights, I lead through DSC and on to CB lights. I decide to skip this spinning malarky and put it into the 14, then 13. Feels good, especially since I've put a bit of proverbial daylight between me and the pursuers.

We regroup at CB lights. They go green and it's down the slope. There's no shadow behind me, which is good. I keep the speed up on the flat - doing about 29/30. Traffic ahead. Pants. We slow down and the Condor is quickly back. He filters much more quickly, and he's been joined by another SSer. Hurrah! This will be fun. I catch up at AB lights, and pass them both on the stretch to BB lights.

But then I spot a chap walking his bike. It's a hybrid and the wheels look the same size as mine, so I stop to offer the spare tube I patched up last weekend. SCR over. And it's Condor man again. Drat! Another Queen's Ride speed fest down the drain.

Hats off to him - he offered to pay for it. To my embarrassment, I proceeded to make a genuine pigs-ear of the tyre change. Took 15-20 mins. The tyre was a b*ugger to get back on, the tube was a b*ugger to reinflate, then the tyre was bulging in a certain spot, so had to fix that. I must have looked in a real pickle because a woman on a Principia with tri bars stopped to ask if we were ok. Thanks. The only way I could have been more useless would have been to throw his wheel in the river. It would have been quicker for him to walk. :oops:

BentMikey

redvee wrote:

Passed a fixie on the way home with what looked a slightly buckled wheel but what caught my eye was the handlebars, or lack of, must have been all of 8" wide :?

Those are wider than mine.

MonkeyMonster

Not many this morning, I went too early Got a couple of team coloured roadies though - someone in some blue outfit no helmet, might have had waterproofy jacket (also blue)?

Couple of crazy bastards filtering on parliament sq.

will3

To the bloke on the black and white racer with raceblades goiing into Cambridge past Marshals this morning:

If you're gonna overtake (and you're not BTW) overtake.
Don't draw alongside and then just sit there unable to go any faster.

greg66_tri_v2.0

cjcp wrote:

I must have looked in a real pickle because a woman on a Principia with tri bars stopped to ask if we were ok.

Oh, the shame!

So in the spirit of get your excuses in early, I offer the following.

I've been feeling ker-nackered all this week, and wrapped up a little too much this morning. Outside where the Flower Show is I pulled in, ostensibly to remove my gilet, but actually because I was fecking exhausted and wanted to lie down on a bench and have a snooze. Security guards put paid to that idea.

I carry on, pootling my merry way in, grabbing a helpful draft from a slow-moving scaffold lorry along DSC.

At VB lights I'm first to arrive; no one barges in front, and so off I go. Do a proper "you coming?" shoulder check at the 'Peth and see a line of hi-viz with no one roaring up the outside. Phew. Relax. Settle in for more low quality work.

And then. Just past the lights, who should pop up on my right shoulder? None other than JG. Thank The Lord (and JG) and that he wasn't in a feisty mood - we ended up chatting alongside each other like a pair of tourists all the way to Temple.

cjcp

Hehe. You'd have been feeling a touch warmer if he'd lit the afterburners.

Damn right about it being warm. It might as well have been raining this morning I was sweating so much. Was having to work hard to keep my scalp this morning.

I overtook a lovely Independent F. bike on a training ride in RP and gave him a tow between Robin Hood and Roehampton Gates. That got the heart pumping and the temperature never seemed to drop after that.

Then, on Embankment, there was a chap on a 'Dale with enormous legs and a lock around his waist. I've seen him go much faster, but he seemed content to pootle today. I'd have been right on the limit if he'd put his foot down.

And, finally, today's I'm Very Thick Award goes to the woman in the bike box up against the pavement at the three-lane traffic lights at the junction with Minories gassing away on her mobile 'phone, even when the lights go green. Well done, love. Maybe you could stop and wave at the aeroplanes next time. :roll:

gtvlusso

Generally in a bad mood.....angry cyclist, so avoiding all conflict. I am not gonna race my ar*e off to get into work early to sort these thick idiots out.....

Useless b*stards.

Greg T

I met up with King Donut this morning - he's still rocking the nine foot tall and tank top look....

We had a chat at the Dolphin boy junction (I'm ahead) and the next time I see him he's pushing a pointlessly big gear dropping my arse like a red hot dog turd going past the Morpeth.

It was a near run thing to grab a hold of him as he beats on by - I shamelessly draft him (he was weakening - obviously - I could tell by his rock steady cadence and road speed)up to the pre Parl Sq roundabout where he loses me in traffic.

I also have a chat with a half girl / half gazelle gamine creature about the dangers of left hand turns and being on the inside of artic's as - you guessed it - she went inside me as I'm hanging back from a fecking big truck exiting the R/bout and goes up his inside.

fenboy369

will3 wrote:

To the bloke on the black and white racer with raceblades goiing into Cambridge past Marshals this morning:

If you're gonna overtake (and you're not BTW) overtake.
Don't draw alongside and then just sit there unable to go any faster.

Bloody hell! Cambridge! What time do you go down Newmarket Road? I get to MA at about 6.45ish, so I might see you going the other way. I'm on the Kona btw...

will3

fenboy369 wrote:

will3 wrote:

To the bloke on the black and white racer with raceblades goiing into Cambridge past Marshals this morning:

If you're gonna overtake (and you're not BTW) overtake.
Don't draw alongside and then just sit there unable to go any faster.

Bloody hell! Cambridge! What time do you go down Newmarket Road? I get to MA at about 6.45ish, so I might see you going the other way. I'm on the Kona btw...

too early for me. I'm afraid, I officially get in at 8, but haven't actually managed that yet as a combination of late nights and cold mornings are making getting out of bed extremely problematic in the morning.

itboffin

25 mins of pain free turbo action for me this fine warm and cosy non-commuting morning, fired up spotify and got into the grove baby oh yeh! 8)

Turbo trainers are so boring

Another session planned before lunch and again at home time, virtual commuting it's the future in fact perhaps I could video my commute and then play it back on the laptop, mmm!



Wanders off to find video camera.....

jonginge

No afterburners available today. Two days working from home with no chance of getting out on the bike has left my legs feeling disconnected from my premotor cortex*. This being the case I was quite happy to go mid-twenties along chelsea embankment and, say, 27s up millbank. I pull away from the lights at vauxhall bridge, it takes a few seconds to carve my way through the wave of hi-viz in front of me. What's this? Roadie up ahead, looks like a nice bike. Stick to the plan: 27s. Close the gap to roadie. That's a very nice bike. Oh, full assos. Bimble past with the trademarked hand raise and nod. Hang on, I recognise that fella... cue some chat and some very slow filtering.

Good to see you Mr 66. We may have been cycling like tourists but we still outgunned everyone on vicky embankment



*Geeks think millenium falcon hyerdrive in empire strikes back

King Donut

The hangover had the core temperature up there from the off this morning. Got a sweat on just carrying the bike downstairs.

Had a bus drafting me up NKR. Our output is fairly equal, but he uses my slipstream to pass and then swerve in to two cyclists in front of me, forcing one of them in to the kerb. I pass the bus 50 metres later and he's sitting there blatantly laughing at us. I can only hope Karma is a cyclist with an inclination for buggery.

Soon after I spot the all-conquering-super-charged-trunk-of-thighs belonging to our very own Greg T. Surely one of the politest cyclists in London, he guides me through the NKR bombsite but I start to lose him in traffic and by the time we turn on to Embankment I'm hanging on and clearly trying.

A quick hello at lights and we're off. I'm feeling guilty for not hitting the front, but there's fairly heavy traffic and I'm gonna have to really wind it up to get there, with blowing up soon after a distinct probablility.

We catch the red at VB lights and the hangover returns. Cue green and I'm all over the shop. It takes me so long to clip in I'm in danger of missing this cycle of lights. GT is off while I tentatively tippy toe in to the middle of the junction trying not to scrape my shin down the pedal. This is bad. Two roadies undertake me (wearing hi-viz ffs) but at last I'm clipped in.

The roadies are dispatched with consummate ease but I've got a taxi on my 6 who I can tell I've annoyed with my slow gettaway. I feel like crying and the morpeth looks tempting but I seem to be gaining on a spinny GT so I forge on, mashing away the hangover. By the bottom of the slope I'm past him but I've ridden myself in to an untenable position and only one thing can save me... traffic and lights. I somehow flow through Millbank, Parliament sq and on to Embankment with barely a red in sight (I'm now wondering if I just RLJ'd the whole way without noticing).

The greens along Embankment give me a lead out that an HTC train would be proud of and I arrive at the mouth of the tunnel with enough beans to go toe to toe with a beemer. Held him off until we were in daylight and I slow for my turn off.

Restricted to 3 days on the bike this week so no excuses.

King Donut

cjcp wrote:

But then I spot a chap walking his bike. It's a hybrid and the wheels look the same size as mine, so I stop to offer the spare tube I patched up last weekend. SCR over. And it's Condor man again. Drat! Another Queen's Ride speed fest down the drain.

Hats off to him - he offered to pay for it. To my embarrassment, I proceeded to make a genuine pigs-ear of the tyre change. Took 15-20 mins. The tyre was a b*ugger to get back on, the tube was a b*ugger to reinflate, then the tyre was bulging in a certain spot, so had to fix that. I must have looked in a real pickle because a woman on a Principia with tri bars stopped to ask if we were ok. Thanks. The only way I could have been more useless would have been to throw his wheel in the river. It would have been quicker for him to walk. :oops:

You are a true gent.

I had two on Tues night with only one spare tube. Couldn't locate the second one to repair it so I pootled home from Sheen sitting on the handlebars. One roadie in baggies even tried to claim my scalp on URR before I put him to bed (and probably destroyed my wheel in the process). Tires were split to shreds and I'd been putting off fitting the replacements I bought 3 months ago so I guess I got what I deserved