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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Nah, its bitter as you know - given we persuaded you to have your first full pint ever on Friday...

    Quite surprised how quickly I began liking the stuff, given the years of disliking it. I guess you need to drink it as a pint in full as oppose to having little sips here and there....

    There is now a single strand of hair on my chest from drinking real ale-beer. I feel somewhat more mighty.
    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 Game
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Nah, its bitter as you know - given we persuaded you to have your first full pint ever on Friday...

    Quite surprised how quickly I began liking the stuff, given the years of disliking it. I guess you need to drink it as a pint in full as oppose to having little sips here and there....

    There is now a single strand of hair on my chest from drinking real ale-beer. I feel somewhat more mighty.

    Breakfast of Champions. :D
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    There is now a single strand of hair on my chest from drinking real ale-beer. I feel somewhat more mighty.

    Well you need hair somewhere at least :) </potcalling>

    Tis lovely stuff indeed - need to get you on the bombardier next time.
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    There is now a single strand of hair on my chest from drinking real ale-beer. I feel somewhat more mighty.

    Well you need hair somewhere at least :) </potcalling>

    Tis lovely stuff indeed - need to get you on the bombardier next time.

    I think I switched to Bombadier when you left. I wanted another ale, but didn't know what one I (we) had so looked at James saw Bombadier and took the leap. By the end of the night I was on Titanic... the irony...
    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 Game
  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    There is now a single strand of hair on my chest from drinking real ale-beer. I feel somewhat more mighty.

    Well you need hair somewhere at least :) </potcalling>

    Tis lovely stuff indeed - need to get you on the bombardier next time.

    I think I switched to Bombadier when you left. I wanted another ale, but didn't know what one I (we) had so looked at James saw Bombadier and took the leap. By the end of the night I was on Titanic... the irony...
    Met by a wall of ice when you got home?
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    JonGinge wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I think I switched to Bombadier when you left. I wanted another ale, but didn't know what one I (we) had so looked at James saw Bombadier and took the leap. By the end of the night I was on Titanic... the irony...
    Met by a wall of ice when you got home?

    :lol:
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    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
    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 Game
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Donovan Giant SCR3, I haven't chosen my bridge yet. I've been over three, still trying to find the best one..

    Only ask as I ride Focus Variado and had someone try and pass me on Waterloo Bridge Monday morning.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    Donovan Giant SCR3, I haven't chosen my bridge yet. I've been over three, still trying to find the best one..

    Only ask as I ride Focus Variado and had someone try and pass me on Waterloo Bridge Monday morning.

    That might have been me.... :oops: This would have been around 8.45am. You'd know if it was me, can't be too many black guys of a certain size, on a red Giant SCR3, red helmet and white jacket that is disintergrating...
    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 Game
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Nah it wasn't I passed there earleir. Guy that tried it on was little white guy on a Giant. Spinning away furiously bless him.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Glorious, glorious commute this morning.

    Too many roadies to contend with, avoided Vauxhaul and the Embankment and went along Kennington road.

    Special mention, guy on the Condor, Focus Varido and a few single speeds, all of which fell victim as my scalp.!

    What bridge if any do you cross and roughly a time? Also what bike are you riding?

    Waterloo any time between 9:15 and 11:30 :D then again in the evening any time between 18:15 & v.v.v. late depends on how long I spend in the The Blackfriar :D
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Nah, its bitter as you know - given we persuaded you to have your first full pint ever on Friday...

    Quite surprised how quickly I began liking the stuff, given the years of disliking it. I guess you need to drink it as a pint in full as oppose to having little sips here and there....

    There is now a single strand of hair on my chest from drinking real ale-beer. I feel somewhat more mighty.

    Breakfast of Champions. :D

    The One True Breakfast of Champions is a can of beer and a bowl of ice cream.

    Many's the day of awesome skiing I've had on that.
    Swim. Bike. Run. Yeah. That's what I used to do.

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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Why is it crossing Waterloo Bridge south from aldwych you can get some serious speed. It rises slowly and then drops away towards the iMax. Topped at 38 last week going across. Scared me shitless as I hit one of the pot holes in the bus lane.

    Wasn't SCR just having a good sprint.
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Greg66 wrote:
    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Nah, its bitter as you know - given we persuaded you to have your first full pint ever on Friday...

    Quite surprised how quickly I began liking the stuff, given the years of disliking it. I guess you need to drink it as a pint in full as oppose to having little sips here and there....

    There is now a single strand of hair on my chest from drinking real ale-beer. I feel somewhat more mighty.

    Breakfast of Champions. :D

    The One True Breakfast of Champions is a can of beer and a bowl of ice cream.

    Many's the day of awesome skiing I've had on that.

    Surely sex is the breakfast of champions, like the badge on James Hunt's race suit used to say.

    I want one of those (either one)
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited November 2009
    It is but there are many on this site who have sacrificed it for the privilege of owning the bike itself.

    Ask Greg, he had to give up something for two Cervelo's....

    As for GregT, he traded off sex for a Bianchi, though I (and I would assume he would) think it worth it. Still, I'm sure he misses going 'buck wild up in all that'.
    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 Game
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Gazzaputt wrote:
    Why is it crossing Waterloo Bridge south from aldwych you can get some serious speed. It rises slowly and then drops away towards the iMax. Topped at 38 last week going across. Scared me shitless as I hit one of the pot holes in the bus lane.

    Wasn't SCR just having a good sprint.

    Real brown tights time if you catch a crosswind at +30mph :shock: :? :lol:
    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.
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    It is but there are many on this site who have sacrificed it for the priviledged of owning the bike itself.

    I'm really beginning to wonder if Karen and your girlfriend are seperate entities :shock:
  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Ask Greg, he had to give up something for two Cervelo's....

    A nice man, dressed mostly in black, but with a red glow, came calling, and asked for my sole. I gave him a pair of my shoes, and presto - not one, but two Cervelos!

    I should be chief negotiator for the UN, me.
    Swim. Bike. Run. Yeah. That's what I used to do.

    Bike 1
    Bike 2-A
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Greg66 wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Ask Greg, he had to give up something for two Cervelo's....

    A nice man, dressed mostly in black, but with a red glow, came calling, and asked for my sole. I gave him a pair of my shoes, and presto - not one, but two Cervelos!

    I should be chief negotiator for the UN, me.

    Just 1 sole?

    ns-sweetlady-sole.jpg
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Whee - great fun zipping home tonight :)

    Proper edge to the cold but i did discover you can overtighten your velcro straps on shoes - massive foot cramp till I did an on the fly re-stick.
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    After the experiences of the last two days I've come to the conclusion that bus & van dirvers are out to get me. Riding to the Naval Vollie for drinks tonight I'm behind a bus and move to the left into the bus lane with the bus ahead and expecting it to move across like I have but no he stays in the lane and then stops and I undertake him and he then waves his hand at me. As I get in front of him and point out the orange lights fitted to his vehicle and shout at the bus as to what they are for and ride off to him flashing the headlights and a one finger salute from me. Coming back home I'm with a blue WVM keeping pace with him. I get to the Haymarket roundabout and he cuts me up enough for my fist to make contact with the side of his van, luckily this happened at 5mph. Rode off expecting the worst but he knew he was in the worng and didn't get out to discuss the matter at the lights by chez Redvee.
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Awesome post DDD! Sounds like your really taking to the new commute. As for which bridge to cross?? WANDSWORTH!!!! That way you can take in the WHOLE Embankment :-)

    Alas tho my commute can't compare to that epicness but I did have a good effort at chasing down the twunt in the 59 regged 308 that pulled out of a side road on my way home. I was cruising along around the 23 mark and out they come. A light tap on the brakes means I don't end up eating exhaust pipe before they remember where their gears are and speed off up the road. Had them back in my sights at the end of the road (about 3/4 mile) but lost them a few sets of traffic lights ahead.....

    Still I added 0.7 miles to my average for the previous day meaning my 2.7 mile ride home was a proper sprint @ 17.7mph :-)
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Knocked my front wheel out of true this morning after avoiding the usual "man in van" pulling out of Tesco without looking......nuts, back to the truing stand for me.

    Other than that, getting a bit parky these days.....still on top of my game!
  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    Bassjunkieuk wrote:
    Awesome post DDD! Sounds like your really taking to the new commute. As for which bridge to cross?? WANDSWORTH!!!! That way you can take in the WHOLE Embankment :-)

    cross at Wandsworth if you dare, thats my territory :twisted:
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    @amnezia - were you wearing a Look-style short sleeve cycling top and black shorts at any point last week? I had a bit of a ding dong with a man on a silvery, bluey, black Giant last week. Tuesday or Wednesday maybe.
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    cjcp wrote:
    @amnezia - were you wearing a Look-style short sleeve cycling top and black shorts at any point last week? I had a bit of a ding dong with a man on a silvery, bluey, black Giant last week. Tuesday or Wednesday maybe.

    He'll never remember.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    @amnezia - were you wearing a Look-style short sleeve cycling top and black shorts at any point last week? I had a bit of a ding dong with a man on a silvery, bluey, black Giant last week. Tuesday or Wednesday maybe.

    He'll never remember.

    You. Get your coat. Now.

    :wink:
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    cjcp wrote:
    UndercoverElephant wrote:

    He'll never remember.

    You. Get your coat. Now.

    :wink:

    You've pulled, here's 10p to phone your mum...
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    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    cjcp wrote:
    @amnezia - were you wearing a Look-style short sleeve cycling top and black shorts at any point last week? I had a bit of a ding dong with a man on a silvery, bluey, black Giant last week. Tuesday or Wednesday maybe.

    I don't have Look jersey but i do have a Santini short sleeve black/white which looks very similar to the Look Pro jersey.

    if so then yeah that would of been me :wink:
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    amnezia wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    @amnezia - were you wearing a Look-style short sleeve cycling top and black shorts at any point last week? I had a bit of a ding dong with a man on a silvery, bluey, black Giant last week. Tuesday or Wednesday maybe.

    I don't have Look jersey but i do have a Santini short sleeve black/white which looks very similar to the Look Pro jersey.

    if so then yeah that would of been me :wink:

    Hmm. Did you ask me at Battersea Bridge where I was going to? Thing is, you didn't turn off down Lots Road for the WB route.

    @MM - :lol:
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."

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