Silly commuting racing

itboffin

The rain has just started, hope you've all finished your arks

It's the end of the world I tell you!!!

Glad I did my stats miles this morning, aw! balls Im outta beer off to the shops then :evil:

lost_in_thought

Clever Pun wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

mudcovered wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Flippin' typical: I spend £45 on some super toasty overshoes after a month of numb feet, only for the weather to warm up.

Ah. On that basis could you buy a hideously expensive waterproof so it stops raining.

Mike

+1 Here ya go

Will you be careful I nearly bought that

Wore shorts and short sleeves (with arm warmers) this morning... not in anyway cold

Lit I was nearly sick then

Yeah, IP shouldn't post pics of his hairy legs on the interwebs.

:P

il_principe

You'll never see my legs attached to feet encased in SPD sandals. FACT.

Aidy

lost_in_thought wrote:

It's sandal weather!



They're back...

Am I the only one wondering how she managed to take a picture of her legs whilst riding a bike at the same time?

Clever Pun

Aidy wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

It's sandal weather!



They're back...

Am I the only one wondering how she managed to take a picture of her legs whilst riding a bike at the same time?

Dondon wrote:

Curse you shorts

itboffin

Today's top tip.

If you don't already have one get yourself a carbon seatpost for the commute, your bottom will thank you ;-)

cjcp

This evening should be fun.

1. Just bought 4lbs of meat in Waitrose, which needs to be transported home tonight. With the laptop, work and clothes.

2. Also just been told that it's going to start caning it down at 6pm. Brill.

Clever Pun

cjcp wrote:

This evening should be fun.

1. Just bought 4lbs of meat in Waitrose, which needs to be transported home tonight. With the laptop, work and clothes.

2. Also just been told that it's going to start caning it down at 6pm. Brill.

stay in the pub till it blows over?

cjcp

Clever Pun wrote:

cjcp wrote:

This evening should be fun.

1. Just bought 4lbs of meat in Waitrose, which needs to be transported home tonight. With the laptop, work and clothes.

2. Also just been told that it's going to start caning it down at 6pm. Brill.

stay in the pub till it blows over?

Only to face The Perfect Storm when I get home? Yeah, I ride home in the rain thanks :P

CXXC

Clever Pun wrote:

cjcp wrote:

This evening should be fun.

1. Just bought 4lbs of meat in Waitrose, which needs to be transported home tonight. With the laptop, work and clothes.

2. Also just been told that it's going to start caning it down at 6pm. Brill.

stay in the pub till it blows over?

that's my plan, looks to be brightening up by about 8ish....and thankfully i've got my overshoes for the ride home

mtb-idle

Great ride in this morning, was glad I rode despite the threatened heavy rain.

After feeling a bit stiff over the first few miles I soon warmed up after a bit of a duel with another cyclist which bought me into Balham for the Clapham, Stockwell, Kennington drag strip.

I was already going well and claiming a few scalps when I spotted another guy on the same bike as me (Celeste Bianchi Via Nirone C2C) and I started to match his pace as the two of us pulled away from the rest of the bunch.

I was on the hoods and still feeling good and felt as though I could go faster so I went onto the drops and pulled past him.

But something felt different. I glanced down at the speedometer and literally said out loud 'No way!' as I saw that I was doing 28.4mph on the flat. Now i know this is nothing to you guys who somehow seem to regularly hit 30mph+ on your commutes but i have never ridden that fast on the flat.

I kept it up for about half a mile then dropped back to about 23 mph. The guy caught me again as I slowed for some lights and we parted ways at Elephant & Castle but what a morning.

Might leave early this evening to avoid the forecast rain tho especially as I'm off to see 'Limehouse Lizzie' a tribute band tonight.

UndercoverElephant

MTB-Idle wrote:

But something felt different. I glanced down at the speedometer and literally said out loud 'No way!' as I saw that I was doing 28.4mph on the flat. Now i know this is nothig to you guys who somehow seem to regualrly hit 30mph+ on your commutes but i have never ridden that fast on the flat.

There's nothing like a good fast scalp to eke out a burst of extra speed. Chapeau, Sir!

itboffin

With the end of this months stats miles looming I had great legs today, Had much fun blasting up Kingsway this morning, I passed a fellow roadie doing 20s (TM) he latched onto my wheel, which I noticed immediately and gave him a full blast from both barrels - straight into the 30s (PP) - Dropped like a stone :-)

Anyone on here?

cjcp

itboffin wrote:

Anyone on here?

Pffft. As if.

Aidy

Yeah, I've had a fair few people try to slipstream me over the past few days.

They never quite seem able to hang on, though

tgotb

Turns out I scalped CJCP last night

though I don't think he was trying, and I was very lucky with the lights...

cjcp

TGOTB wrote:

Turns out I scalped CJCP last night

though I don't think he was trying, and I was very lucky with the lights...

. You did!

My only excuse was that I had to save the legs for reps of the hill in RP and a turbo session at home. Probably should have replaced the reps with some SCR action

lost_in_thought

Clever Pun wrote:

Aidy wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

It's sandal weather!



They're back...

Am I the only one wondering how she managed to take a picture of her legs whilst riding a bike at the same time?

Dondon wrote:

Curse you shorts

Find an empty towpath, preferably in France, and hold the camera level with the front axle. Take several photos. One will work.

Bassjunkieuk

I'm off commuting cycling now for about a week as I've got a long weekend holiday at Longleat Centre Parcs until Monday then a couple of days off the other side.
Might try and head to RP on Tues/Wed depending on the mileage I get in at CP ;-)

Shall have much fun scalping other riders at the park, although to give them a chance I might hitch up one of the selection of mini-BJUK's to the bike and I might even explain the Unspoken Game to the eldest.......seeing as they already seem to have the cycling bug after hearing this from the 2nd eldest yesterday whilst watching the track cycling:

Her "Daddy, do you think I could do that?"
Me "Yeah"
Her "If I wanted to see how fast I could go I'd go to the hill in the park and ride up and down it and see how many times I could do that, like 10 or 12 times"
Me :-D She just described hill reps with no prompting ;-)

itboffin

lost_in_thought wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

Aidy wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

It's sandal weather!



They're back...

Am I the only one wondering how she managed to take a picture of her legs whilst riding a bike at the same time?

Dondon wrote:

Curse you shorts

Find an empty towpath, preferably in France, and hold the camera level with the front axle. Take several photos. One will work.

Kinky non!

mtb-idle

MTB-Idle wrote:

Might leave early this evening to avoid the forecast rain tho especially as I'm off to see 'Limehouse Lizzie' a tribute band tonight.

Well, I left early but didn't avoid the rain. Got an absolute soaking last night and kit still damp this morning.

But Limehouse Lizzie were superb tho

UndercoverElephant

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

I'm off commuting cycling now for about a week as I've got a long weekend holiday at Longleat Centre Parcs until Monday then a couple of days off the other side.
Might try and head to RP on Tues/Wed depending on the mileage I get in at CP ;-)

Shall have much fun scalping other riders at the park, although to give them a chance I might hitch up one of the selection of mini-BJUK's to the bike and I might even explain the Unspoken Game to the eldest.......seeing as they already seem to have the cycling bug after hearing this from the 2nd eldest yesterday whilst watching the track cycling:

Her "Daddy, do you think I could do that?"
Me "Yeah"
Her "If I wanted to see how fast I could go I'd go to the hill in the park and ride up and down it and see how many times I could do that, like 10 or 12 times"
Me :-D She just described hill reps with no prompting ;-)

Aw, a proud father moment indeed. My eldest just turned ten and wanted to get a new, faster bike just so he could crush his mate George and grind his tattered soul into a bloody pulp.

Brought a proud lump to me throat, I must say.

kurako

Normally stay off this thread due to not really having quite enough awesomeness to blast along above 30 but..

Was anyone on here the guy with a white jersey and glasses that I passed and slowed to talk to just before Blackfriars turn-off? I was in a red jersey and grey/orange back pack.

I'm not sure you could hear me properly but what I was trying to explain was the reason I looked back and said 'Jesus!' as I passed was that the bloke mashing along in the rugby top tried to squeeze up the inside despite there not being much of a gap.

Rugby top bloke ( white roadie, clips, trainers, Hump rain cover ). If you read this you need to remember the rules. Be safe.

Clever Pun

Adjudication please

I'm waiting at the bottom of beckenham hill and a fixed rider passes on the main road, the light go green and I'm off putting in a good pace as I want this scalp except he's fairly damned nippy and it takes me 2 miles to catch up with him he's riding a lovely baby blue Independent? with a very nice wood effect mudguard. Eventually my opportunity arises and I grit my teeth and head past with zero showboating immediatly he's on my tail and try as I might I can't shake him for the next mile or so eventually I lose him around the loampit vale I suspect he went on to grenwich or I was lucky filtering

scalp?

jedster

Dear me, a bit of a crushing experience this morning.

My path crossed with the chap on the Madone again this morning (near Cookham). He caught me up and we had a chat. Then he led off into a nasty little headwind. My legs didn;t have it this morning and I couldn't stick with him. :oops: So he eased back to let me get back to him and gave me a tow for a couple of miles. :oops: :oops: I felt duty bound to have a crack at the front but blew up pretty quick. :oops: :oops: :oops:

Anyway, if by chance he's reading this, thanks, I'll try to return the favour when I've got a bit more in the tank.

Oh, first day in a short-sleeve jersey, no base layer today. Roll on summer.

J

rjsterry

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

I'm off commuting cycling now for about a week as I've got a long weekend holiday at Longleat Centre Parcs until Monday then a couple of days off the other side.
Might try and head to RP on Tues/Wed depending on the mileage I get in at CP ;-)

Shall have much fun scalping other riders at the park, although to give them a chance I might hitch up one of the selection of mini-BJUK's to the bike and I might even explain the Unspoken Game to the eldest.......seeing as they already seem to have the cycling bug after hearing this from the 2nd eldest yesterday whilst watching the track cycling:

Her "Daddy, do you think I could do that?"
Me "Yeah"
Her "If I wanted to see how fast I could go I'd go to the hill in the park and ride up and down it and see how many times I could do that, like 10 or 12 times"
Me :-D She just described hill reps with no prompting ;-)

Aw, a proud father moment indeed. My eldest just turned ten and wanted to get a new, faster bike just so he could crush his mate George and grind his tattered soul into a bloody pulp.

Brought a proud lump to me throat, I must say.

Indeed. All that to come for me. Must make sure not to overdo it and put her off cycling. That would be a tragedy beyond comprehension. Go easy on the pootlers at CenterParcs BJUK

il_principe

Kurako wrote:

Normally stay off this thread due to not really having quite enough awesomeness to blast along above 30 but..

Was anyone on here the guy with a white jersey and glasses that I passed and slowed to talk to just before Blackfriars turn-off? I was in a red jersey and grey/orange back pack.

I'm not sure you could hear me properly but what I was trying to explain was the reason I looked back and said 'Jesus!' as I passed was that the bloke mashing along in the rugby top tried to squeeze up the inside despite there not being much of a gap.

Rugby top bloke ( white roadie, clips, trainers, Hump rain cover ). If you read this you need to remember the rules. Be safe.

I think I've had a run in with rugby man - was he riding a Cube? Rides like a t0$$er.

I had a grrr commute this morning:

1: Could not find my brand new Rapha jacket anywhere - it's lost somewhere in my flat (i hope). I've only had it for 3 weeks... :shock:
2: Got a fecking p*ncture on 9 elms - it was a slow burner so I chucked in a full canister of Co2 and nursed the bike into the office.
3: Got into office - changed tubes, realised I'd used my last canister. Cue much mini pumping.
4: Now need to go to onyourbike at lunch and pay whatever extortionate price they charge for Co2 - I'm out on the bike this evening and don't dare go anywhere without gas.
5: Rear Rubino Pro has had it, cut to hell and has a sizeable hole just above the bead - I have new one at home but could not be bothered to fit it on Weds when I was fettling.
6: I spent ages getting the chain tension perfect on weds night, now I'm gonna have to spend my lunch hour fecking about with it again.

Robstar24

got a puncture as well this morning.

Does anyone have any views/experience on that tyre cement that can apparently fill in the tiny cracks and tears that develop in tyres? I have a few of these and the tyre still has plenty of life in it but want to prevent more flats

kurako

Il Principe wrote:

Kurako wrote:

Normally stay off this thread due to not really having quite enough awesomeness to blast along above 30 but..

Was anyone on here the guy with a white jersey and glasses that I passed and slowed to talk to just before Blackfriars turn-off? I was in a red jersey and grey/orange back pack.

I'm not sure you could hear me properly but what I was trying to explain was the reason I looked back and said 'Jesus!' as I passed was that the bloke mashing along in the rugby top tried to squeeze up the inside despite there not being much of a gap.

Rugby top bloke ( white roadie, clips, trainers, Hump rain cover ). If you read this you need to remember the rules. Be safe.

I think I've had a run in with rugby man - was he riding a Cube? Rides like a t0$$er.

I had a grrr commute this morning:

1: Could not find my brand new Rapha jacket anywhere - it's lost somewhere in my flat (i hope). I've only had it for 3 weeks... :shock:
2: Got a fecking p*ncture on 9 elms - it was a slow burner so I chucked in a full canister of Co2 and nursed the bike into the office.
3: Got into office - changed tubes, realised I'd used my last canister. Cue much mini pumping.
4: Now need to go to onyourbike at lunch and pay whatever extortionate price they charge for Co2 - I'm out on the bike this evening and don't dare go anywhere without gas.
5: Rear Rubino Pro has had it, cut to hell and has a sizeable hole just above the bead - I have new one at home but could not be bothered to fit it on Weds when I was fettling.
6: I spent ages getting the chain tension perfect on weds night, now I'm gonna have to spend my lunch hour fecking about with it again.

Didn't catch the brand of bike. Rides like a t0$$er sounds like a fair description. I got it on helmet cam in any case but I really should get on with some of that work stuff just now :shock:

cjcp

Kurako wrote:

Normally stay off this thread due to not really having quite enough awesomeness to blast along above 30 but..

Was anyone on here the guy with a white jersey and glasses that I passed and slowed to talk to just before Blackfriars turn-off? I was in a red jersey and grey/orange back pack.

I'm not sure you could hear me properly but what I was trying to explain was the reason I looked back and said 'Jesus!' as I passed was that the bloke mashing along in the rugby top tried to squeeze up the inside despite there not being much of a gap.

Rugby top bloke ( white roadie, clips, trainers, Hump rain cover ). If you read this you need to remember the rules. Be safe.

Seen a couple of Cubists, but not this morning. One's in roadie gear and goes like the clappers.

In other news, I was scalped all over the shop this morning. A 3am finish meant I had zero energy this morning. A stream of roadies passed me on the roadies pass me on the NKR and didn't have the energy to chase. I even had to let The Great Dossard (red Giant) go. Might have to down a can of Red Bull before tonight's ride home.

@CP - he drafted. He might have been nippy, but he drafted. IMO, if you draft, you lose your scalp on a technicality at least.