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  • 13ADL1X
    13ADL1X Posts: 151
    Unfortunately, I don't see any other bike users on my commute through Halifax. I therefore, have to get my kicks by drag racing cars and buses away from the lights. I love popping the front wheel up a few inches coz I'm putting the hammer down.
    The trail is long and my legs are burning but I can't stop smiling.
  • Paul E
    Paul E Posts: 2,052
    Has anyone got any tips about any routes from shooters hill into the west end??? wont be until the end of march when i get my bike back from where it is but I am planning ahead lol!
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Greg66 wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    White bar tape wrapped around the Newton bars and Deda stem, she's f*cking nice to look at. This Morning, beside my bed I just laid there watching her intently, looking at every detail, every curve. The sun beamed through my window and grazed her woven skin. I turned to my girlfriend and said "she looks beautiful doesn't she?"

    Yeah, now I'm curious.

    How's that gonna work out for you in the long run? :wink:

    IlPrinces still looks great but he barely rides it... Karens a dirty hoor so will look like a scrubber soon enough... it's the natural order of things
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    White bar tape wrapped around the Newton bars and Deda stem, she's f*cking nice to look at. This Morning, beside my bed I just laid there watching her intently, looking at every detail, every curve. The sun beamed through my window and grazed her woven skin. I turned to my girlfriend and said "she looks beautiful doesn't she?"

    Yeah, now I'm curious.

    How's that gonna work out for you in the long run? :wink:

    IlPrinces still looks great but he barely rides it... Karens a dirty hoor so will look like a scrubber soon enough... it's the natural order of things

    Liquid lunch?
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    White bar tape wrapped around the Newton bars and Deda stem, she's f*cking nice to look at. This Morning, beside my bed I just laid there watching her intently, looking at every detail, every curve. The sun beamed through my window and grazed her woven skin. I turned to my girlfriend and said "she looks beautiful doesn't she?"

    Yeah, now I'm curious.

    How's that gonna work out for you in the long run? :wink:

    IlPrinces still looks great but he barely rides it... Karens a dirty hoor so will look like a scrubber soon enough... it's the natural order of things

    Oi! Ok It's not ridden over the winter months, but is wiped down after every ride anyway...
  • markshaw77
    markshaw77 Posts: 437
    Paul E wrote:
    Has anyone got any tips about any routes from shooters hill into the west end??? wont be until the end of march when i get my bike back from where it is but I am planning ahead lol!

    I come in from Dartford via Shooter's Hill about once/twice a week, but am heading for Paddington, so probably keep further south/west than you might want to go

    http://connect.garmin.com/activity/18535948

    Worst bits are the section from Bricklayers Arms r'bout alond New Kent Road to E&C and getting across the new junction at the south side of Westminster Bridge Road.
  • Paul E
    Paul E Posts: 2,052
    markshaw77 wrote:
    Paul E wrote:
    Has anyone got any tips about any routes from shooters hill into the west end??? wont be until the end of march when i get my bike back from where it is but I am planning ahead lol!

    I come in from Dartford via Shooter's Hill about once/twice a week, but am heading for Paddington, so probably keep further south/west than you might want to go

    http://connect.garmin.com/activity/18535948

    Worst bits are the section from Bricklayers Arms r'bout alond New Kent Road to E&C and getting across the new junction at the south side of Westminster Bridge Road.

    The route I was looking at followed yours up to a certain point then I need to go north once over westminster bridge up whitehall to trafalgar sq then up charing cross rd, it was the part from here to the river which I was unclear about and whether to head north earlier and go along victoria embankment
  • CXXC
    CXXC Posts: 237
    Having moved to SW from SE London over the w/e this morning was my first commute back on the "strip" in over a year, and the glorious morning sun only added to the enjoyment. I was up and out early though so not a great deal of SCR action.

    Headwind picked up on Millbank so ducked in behind a chap on an old skool white bianchi with WC stripes who had caught me up at VB lights and then I took a tow to Embankment where he got out the saddle to shoot through an orange before I could get the chance to say thanks.

    Looking forward to the ride home already
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    @CXXC - what's your route?

    Great ride home. Pootled in this morning so had some energy in the legs. Also - that was one helluva tailwind - managed 31.5 on Millbank without going full tilt. :o Similar fun on the CB-AB stretch.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    White bar tape wrapped around the Newton bars and Deda stem, she's f*cking nice to look at. This Morning, beside my bed I just laid there watching her intently, looking at every detail, every curve. The sun beamed through my window and grazed her woven skin. I turned to my girlfriend and said "she looks beautiful doesn't she?"

    Yeah, now I'm curious.

    How's that gonna work out for you in the long run? :wink:

    IlPrinces still looks great but he barely rides it... Karens a dirty hoor so will look like a scrubber soon enough... it's the natural order of things

    Liquid lunch?

    Nah not on a monday.. I did up the weights for today had that nice tingly overused muscle feeling, moved upto 30kgs on the dumbells (chest press).

    It was a good twofer that I couldn't hold back on
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  • Bikequin
    Bikequin Posts: 402
    Really enjoyed the cycle home tonight - as CJ said there was a pretty sweet tailwind for anyone heading S - SW. Not real SCR action but the bus that was broken down right in the middle of Sloane Sq roundabout was causing absolute chaos.

    DDD what sportive are you doing this Sunday?
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,482
    A bit of a mixed bag tonight. The usual story up to Parliament Square, and then a whole group of us got stuck behind a crawling bus down to Lambeth Bridge. It all opened up after that though and the tailwind kicked in allowing a good sprint down to VB. Set off on the green light behind a couple of roadies, I then must have rather overcooked it as I passed the two roadies at the end of DSC, but then faded rather badly past Dolphin Square, and was re-passed by one of them. Must learn to hold something back for the second half.

    All quiet through Battersea, Clapham, Balham and Tooting, and Mitcham as well until just coming into Hackbridge some little runt of a pizza delivery scooter pulled out of a turning on the right and straight into my path :shock: :evil:. He hesitated at the last moment so I thought, "I'm not standing for that" and lit the afterburners. No idea how fast I got, but I was out of the saddle, bars waggling, and in something like 52x13 - anyway, he didn't catch me until I slowed for the turn off into Carshalton. Another X for the side of the bike shed :D and a little bit buzzy afterwards
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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    I got scalped by JonGinge today
  • Backsplash
    Backsplash Posts: 21
    Very disappointing SCR at the moment on the Greenwich-London bridge route.
    Lots of pootlers, quite a few road bikes, but nobody seems to want to play at the times I come through...at 8.30 and 5.30ish

    Maybe I need to get up earlier and try and bump into Clever Pun or Rich 158 :?
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Sewinman wrote:
    I got scalped by JonGinge today

    nothing to be ashamed about unless you're riding a scooter or shave your legs
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  • holybinch
    holybinch Posts: 417
    Yesterday was a good day.
    For the first time I scalped more than I got scalped, and I found that bloke on a Bianchi who has a long part of his commute in common with me.
    Yesterday morning, we were pretty even. In the evening, I was glad to find him again around Sheperd's Bush. Managed to drop him pretty well, then had a good bash at a couple of hybrids, but, what a surprise, just as I passed Ealing Common, he was there.

    Saw him this morning, but was he was a red light ahead of me, and the legs were completely out of juice. I blame the lack of fitness, the smoking (yes, still) and the headwind.
    We shall see tonight if I can reclaim my scalp!
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Backsplash wrote:
    Very disappointing SCR at the moment on the Greenwich-London bridge route.
    Lots of pootlers, quite a few road bikes, but nobody seems to want to play at the times I come through...at 8.30 and 5.30ish

    Maybe I need to get up earlier and try and bump into Clever Pun or Rich 158 :?

    I was through there about 8 today it's normally 8.30-45ish

    followed what seemed to be a fairly quick fella on one of those turd coloured specialised road bikes he really slowed woefully when we got to the small bump just before the Grove St? junction traffic lights. he didn't make the lights.
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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    I got scalped by JonGinge today

    nothing to be ashamed about unless you're riding a scooter or shave your legs

    Yeah, he was rapid. He gave a little flick of his fingers after passing, presume that meant 'I am pulling in front of you' (?), pointless gesture as he was already about 3 bike lenghs gone! :lol: There was a guy behind him who was keeping up and they were racing, the second guy turned towards Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea. Was quite a sight :D
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Thinking it was SS Tuesday on the Drag Strip today, never seen so many around!
    Had a quickish chap on a nice blue Look that had a nice cruising speed but slipped back on the "climb" towards Clapham South. Then picked up a chap on a dark red Langster who made sure I couldn't ease up much all the way from Clapham Common and then up South Lambeth Road - he'd pull away from the lights a bit quicker then me but then once I'd got the gear wound up he was left in my wake.

    Was a bit blowy coming along Millbank, at first I thought it was a *slight* tailwind then as I came past Millbank Tower it was like riding onto treacle!

    Opened up a can of whoopa$$ for no apparent reason down Whitehall other then to enjoy going fast which finished off the morning ride quite nicely :-)
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  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Great ride home last night, "raced" a guy on a Focus (Milram colours, Rival g/set, Cayo or Izalco perhaps?) and a Cervelo top. He was giving it some decent speed, managed to stick with him all the way through to Balham then outpaced him on the drag strip towards Tooting before turning off down Ritherdon Road - given he had initially come from behind I guess that counts as a draw (although I was on the Iron Horse so bonus points for me!)
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Sewinman wrote:
    I got scalped by JonGinge today

    What was that? Couldn't hear properly 8)
  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    p.s. I saw five BSO numpties stopping traffic so they could cycle over zebra crossings. :roll:
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Sewinman wrote:
    p.s. I saw five BSO numpties stopping traffic so they could cycle over zebra crossings. :roll:

    I always feel thats taking the wee wee, fine use the zebra but at least walk it.
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Bit nippy this morning chaps.. I should have put my better gloves on. I'm hoping that'll be a tail wind on the way home!
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Bit nippy this morning chaps.. I should have put my better gloves on. I'm hoping that'll be a tail wind on the way home!

    You big jessy :P . Even I thought it was all right this morning.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,482
    Mumblegrumblemubleheadwindgrumblemumble :evil:

    Still, not as cold as yesterday. Passed a chap on a rather 'eye-catching' (i.e. garish) Scott, with matching mitts and Uvex helmet in Columbia HTC colours (I've spotted him before in full team kit, but had his winter woolies on today), but this was turning off The Cut onto Blackfriars Road as we all pootled away from the lights, so not really a scalp. Will have to try and spot him on the open road, as dressing like Cav is really asking for it.
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  • Citizen Smith
    Citizen Smith Posts: 336
    MatHammond wrote:
    Great ride home last night, "raced" a guy on a Focus (Milram colours, Rival g/set, Cayo or Izalco perhaps?) and a Cervelo top. He was giving it some decent speed, managed to stick with him all the way through to Balham then outpaced him on the drag strip towards Tooting before turning off down Ritherdon Road - given he had initially come from behind I guess that counts as a draw (although I was on the Iron Horse so bonus points for me!)

    Interesting - v. interesting. I think you guys out-filtered me as we approached Balham tube. I'm on a grey hybrid with pretty wide bars, red backback, all in black.

    I spotted the chap on the Focus as some competition too! I was towards the back of the small gaggle of bikes we had at the Balham lights and then followed you two down to Ritherdon.

    Nice pace - I wasn't losing ground on you guys but nor was I gaining!
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  • jonginge
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    Sewinman wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    I got scalped by JonGinge today

    nothing to be ashamed about unless you're riding a scooter or shave your legs

    Yeah, he was rapid. He gave a little flick of his fingers after passing, presume that meant 'I am pulling in front of you' (?), pointless gesture as he was already about 3 bike lenghs gone! :lol: There was a guy behind him who was keeping up and they were racing, the second guy turned towards Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea. Was quite a sight :D
    Apologies for not recognising you Morgan. The fingers thing is just part of my acknowledgement routine: I was just saying hi. There was also a dip of the head :D

    Didn't know there was anyone on my tail. I was just doing my own thing. He must have wanted the draft, limited as it is ;)

    Anyway, not a scalp was on carbon with a power meter...
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  • Citizen Smith
    Citizen Smith Posts: 336
    JonGinge wrote:

    Anyway, not a scalp was on carbon with a power meter...

    Got to love JG's honesty....self administered FCN adjustments. That's a sign of a true player of the game.
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  • MonkeyMonster
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    cjcp wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Bit nippy this morning chaps.. I should have put my better gloves on. I'm hoping that'll be a tail wind on the way home!

    You big jessy :P . Even I thought it was all right this morning.

    I had a single ss jersey and my summer long finger gloves. Shorts and 3/4 enduras. All I needed was my sealskins which I fortuitously remembered to bring in my bag just in case...

    I think the only person jinge can officially scalp is Mr Ice Greg66. There is a modifier for being stupidly quick is there not... :D
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