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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Il Principe wrote:
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    What a glorious ride in, it was all I could do not to just keep going when I reached the office.

    +1

    Full on pootle this morning. Along with a few other roadies. I think everyone was just soaking up the sun. What a great ride.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    rjsterry wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    I was in pootle mood tonight nearly all the way home. Nearly...

    Tonight, I saw the same drafting fairy on the Giant that I saw yesterday morning. He was drafting again. I pootled, apart from the NKR. Cheerio. :mrgreen:

    And then I let him go and he had 150 yards on me going into Queen's Ride. That was -5 yards by the top of Bolan Bridge. :mrgreen:

    I let him go ahead (but not "go") after that, but my work was done. :mrgreen:

    Knew you couldn't last a day :wink:

    I couldn't resist. I tried, believe me, but I couldn't. Not in this particular situation. :twisted:
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
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  • The Running Man
    The Running Man Posts: 574
    Bit chilly in sunny Calne this morning at 7.00 ish but what a crackerjack of a day.

    Got out of the house a bit ealier this morning so I could come in the longer way and was head down fighting the wind for most of the trip. Loads of bloomin' slow traffic through Devizes and Melksham and one revolting diesel lorry that was spewing out filth for about a mile in front of me all the way from Melksham to Attworth - YUK.

    As the counterbalance I was waiting at the junction to turn right down the hill to Devizes after N Wilts GC watching a couple of hares roar around a field after each other and it seemed to be just for the joy of it.

    Still loving the countryside :D:D:D
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  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,973
    Had to take the train this morning :(

    At least I'm back in the saddle this evening albeit on the older bike.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Someone said hello to me at the traffic lights near jamaica way this morning was on a hybrid/mountain bike thing... anyone? Was a little confused as it wasn't one of the two treks mentioned earlier and you know obviously you cant talk to different types of rider :lol:

    Dropped a roadie in rapha gear even had a rapha bag too as I went past he either dropped his head to check the speed or kick on... either way I was long gone
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    gbsahne wrote:
    Had to take the train this morning :(

    I couldn't have faced that. :o
    At least I'm back in the saddle this evening albeit on the older bike.

    But there is light at the end of the tunnel! :D
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Quick chap on a tourer (I suspect, drop bars but with wider tyres) was obviously up for a bit of pain this morning. Although technically below me in the FCN he was still giving it some down past Clapham Common and towards Stockwell :-)

    Pretty much all I have to report for this morning......
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Really quite annoyed that I had to get PT this morning. It's glorious, albeit cold, out there.

    Had a crap day at work yesterday and got home at 11. Just before setting off I noticed my rear wheel had two loose spokes. Dammit, they're those mavic bladed ones, too. Need to work out how to tighten those. Overslept this morning and the Pearson has a puncture I've been meaning to fix for a week or so... at least I got a seat on SWT
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    What a lovely ride in this morning.

    Who's up for beers then to finish off such a sunny day?
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  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    Anyone here ride a black/grey carbon job with campag vento wheelset, wearing a rapha jacket along embankment this morning?
  • andy83
    andy83 Posts: 1,558
    does anyone get any racing around birmingham, maybe going into town from kings norton way. the only people I ever get to race are old people. I even some days leave at normal commuting time on days off trying to find people

    its just not fair!!

    there is a guy on a blue trek I see coming through wythall sometimes but always the opposite way to me, maybe I could try catch him somedays, anyone on here?
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    What a lovely ride in this morning.

    Who's up for beers then to finish off such a sunny day?

    I could be convinced...
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    JonGinge wrote:
    Dammit, they're those mavic bladed ones, too. Need to work out how to tighten those.

    Are they the ones with alu nipples, like on the Ksyriums?
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
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  • Paddy O Dawes
    Paddy O Dawes Posts: 52
    Was that you on the wasp-coloured Condor? The one that changed up and passed me round Holborn way as my legs spun out? I can't pedal any faster than that *sob* - my legs start to unscrew at the hips. Anyway, nice one!

    Lovely day for it. Hello flowers, hello trees...
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    cjcp wrote:
    JonGinge wrote:
    Dammit, they're those mavic bladed ones, too. Need to work out how to tighten those.

    Are they the ones with alu nipples, like on the Ksyriums?
    Not sure. Probably. They are supposed to be nyloc, though. TBH they may be on the way out anyway. Had them a couple of years and the wear indicator is getting a bit shallow. The front also took the brunt of my left-hook incident in 2008. May have to start a 'what wheels' thread ;)
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    JonGinge wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    JonGinge wrote:
    Dammit, they're those mavic bladed ones, too. Need to work out how to tighten those.

    Are they the ones with alu nipples, like on the Ksyriums?
    Not sure. Probably. They are supposed to be nyloc, though. TBH they may be on the way out anyway. Had them a couple of years and the wear indicator is getting a bit shallow. The front also took the brunt of my left-hook incident in 2008. May have to start a 'what wheels' thread ;)

    Nyloc sounds about right. They're a bugger to tune apparently.

    I may be able to help with the wheels...
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,482
    edited March 2010
    Lovely weather, but my Endura Strike gloves seem to have stopped keeping my hands warm. Really quite uncomfortable up to Tooting (also saw someone riding without gloves at Tooting Broadway :shock:).

    Nm, to use DDD's brother's parlance, after that bar a leftward drifting taxi coming off Blackfriars Bridge (Lots of hand waving, angry stares to point out that she was cutting a whole group of cyclists up by drifting over the cycle lane) and a big black Merc that pulled out of Timber Street onto Baltic Street East without looking. So much for safer back roads.

    Did see off a chap in civvies on a flash Pinarello on Clapham Road, but he was just pootling.

    EDIT: Just remembered, I did crank it up to 29.5mph just past Stockwell. Quite pleased with that given I was not really on form this morning.
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    You are a 'Pocket Rocket of Thunder"

    Seriously.

    I was rocking 28mph along Clapham Common and you were pulling away like my speed didn't matter.

    You are awesome. Faster (well more powerful) than ever I'd say Much fun.

    Once again you've one my vote for SCR of the year.

    My speedo clocked 30.5 whilst I was in pursuit of that guy way ahead of us as we started by the Common :twisted:

    Are you often along there around that time as I *might* bump into you again this evening as I'll be hitting it around that time again :-D
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    I shortened my commute by a mile so I could go hill climbing, such a beautiful day great views best of all my legs felt great, it's gonna be tough not to cycle tomorrow.

    I hate sitting in the car as we visit family knowing I could have cycled :(

    must not over cook it, think of the bigger picture :)
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  • Robstar24
    Robstar24 Posts: 173
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Someone said hello to me at the traffic lights near jamaica way this morning was on a hybrid/mountain bike thing... anyone? Was a little confused as it wasn't one of the two treks mentioned earlier and you know obviously you cant talk to different types of rider :lol:

    I usually come in from my girlfriend's out in hertfordshire on fridays, will say hello if I see you during the week... good ride this am but sooo cold, I left at 7.10 am, and just before leaving when i was filling up my water bottle having got the bike out of the shed there were bits of ice floating around in it...

    but i managed not to slide on any ice so all in all a good ride in
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Richmond Park was beautiful this morning, all white over with the Deer grazing on the rugby pitch, couldn't have asked for a nicer commute.

    Everyone was pootling this morning; There were 5 of us pootling between Priory Lane and Queen's Ride and when I took off from the lights at a reasonable gentle pace I would have expected at lease one of them to go past me, but no.

    The only blackspot was the weaving nobber on a red tyred fixie who was all over the place going up URR and over Putney Bridge, running every red light on the way.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    +1 for the Park. I love it when it's like that.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,482
    A new SCR rule - Pootle Friday?
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  • King Donut
    King Donut Posts: 498
    Asprilla wrote:
    Richmond Park was beautiful this morning....

    Anyone know if the park is still closed overnight? I've been leaving at 6am this week and was tempted to give it a try this morning seeing as it was so nice.
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Nope it's 24hr now, has been since Monday.

    I emailed them this week to find out.
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  • King Donut
    King Donut Posts: 498
    Nice one, thanks Asprilla!
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Does anyone recognise a large stick insect on a fixie/ss that goes along HSK heading east in the morning in full lycra (dhb leggings I think)
    He is TALL.
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Does anyone recognise a large stick insect on a fixie/ss that goes along HSK heading east in the morning in full lycra (dhb leggings I think)
    He is TALL.

    Might want to post that on the 6'4" Commuter Club thread......
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  • the other me
    the other me Posts: 114
    I wish you'd all stop saying how easy you were taking it this morning - I didn't pootle, I was awesome AND I would have been awesome even if everyone else wasn't pootling*

    oh, and hi!


    * may not be true
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Bassjunkieuk wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Does anyone recognise a large stick insect on a fixie/ss that goes along HSK heading east in the morning in full lycra (dhb leggings I think)
    He is TALL.

    Might want to post that on the 6'4" Commuter Club thread......

    :D

    I think cj and I have both clocked him coming back via embankment. Weird genetic crossbreed with a giraffe I'd say.
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