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  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    Kurako wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Aidy wrote:
    So I rode along the embankment today.

    Is it just me? I don't really see the attraction.

    I'm not sure people go out of their way to ride on it, it's just a major artery east-west

    I like it westbound. There's not so many side roads because of the dirty great river in the way. You can get a nice clear run except its often spoiled by all the bleedin cars :evil:

    I cycled it properly for the first time on Friday, from London Bridge to Wandsworth Bridge. It was great with the sun out. There're plenty of fast stretches to test your legs so I can see why the SCRers here go on about it. Of course, being a non-SCRer, I just pootled along at my own leisurely pace :wink:
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,491
    Aidy wrote:
    So I rode along the embankment today.

    Is it just me? I don't really see the attraction.

    I thought this to start with, but give it a few more tries. Maybe just the zeal of the converted.
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  • Citizen Smith
    Citizen Smith Posts: 336
    After meeting a friend for beers in Covent Garden last night, made my home via Trafalgar Square>Whitehall>Embankment>CB>Queenstown>Silverthorne>Clapham Old Town>A24 Dragstrip to Tooting.

    Absolutely blasted my way home....the force seemed to be with me....whether that was the tailwind, the ale or the traffic light positive karma....I don't care as it was a great ride.

    Very few people about when I headed back at 9.15pm though did pass two roadies alongside Clapham Common. Felt like I passed them at twice their speed...they must have been in pootle mode. Didn't seem fair scalps.

    Wish I had more of these "Plot a course for home Mr Sulu. Warp nine. Engage!" commutes! :D
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  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    rjsterry wrote:
    Aidy wrote:
    So I rode along the embankment today.

    Is it just me? I don't really see the attraction.

    I thought this to start with, but give it a few more tries. Maybe just the zeal of the converted.

    To be fair, I wasn't on it for a great stretch - it just seemed to be full of cars, with a couple of slow cyclists scattered throughout.
  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    Aidy wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    Aidy wrote:
    So I rode along the embankment today.

    Is it just me? I don't really see the attraction.

    I thought this to start with, but give it a few more tries. Maybe just the zeal of the converted.

    To be fair, I wasn't on it for a great stretch - it just seemed to be full of cars, with a couple of slow cyclists scattered throughout.

    Maybe, like Narnia, it isn't there if you look for it...
  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    Well done to the HGV driver who managed to avoid killing two roadies who tried to squeeze up the inside as he was indicating left near Blackfriars this morning. I know we shouldn't need to congratulate professional drivers for their skills in not killing cyclists, but it was piss poor riding.
  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    W1 wrote:
    Well done to the HGV driver who managed to avoid killing two roadies who tried to squeeze up the inside as he was indicating left near Blackfriars this morning. I know we shouldn't need to congratulate professional drivers for their skills in not killing cyclists, but it was wee-wee poor riding.

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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    kelsen wrote:
    Kurako wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Aidy wrote:
    So I rode along the embankment today.

    Is it just me? I don't really see the attraction.

    I'm not sure people go out of their way to ride on it, it's just a major artery east-west

    I like it westbound. There's not so many side roads because of the dirty great river in the way. You can get a nice clear run except its often spoiled by all the bleedin cars :evil:

    I cycled it properly for the first time on Friday, from London Bridge to Wandsworth Bridge. It was great with the sun out. There're plenty of fast stretches to test your legs so I can see why the SCRers here go on about it. Of course, being a non-SCRer, I just pootled along at my own leisurely pace :wink:

    I think it really does depend on when you hit it and who is on there at the same time. My first crack at the Embankment proper was the same stretch as Kelsen, LB>WB and I had a cracking time. Picked up some rather rapid roadies at Vauxhall Bridge then pretty much had to keep it lit until I turned off at WB! The speed and suicidal filtering was a proper rush :-)
    Second run on it was a bit boring as no other competition around :-( Going to start using it whenever I can now as I need to rack up miles......
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  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    It's just so much quicker than the stop-start of less "mainstream" roads - fewer junctions, fewer lights and it's wide enough so that passing cars can (generally) give you more room. You can get a genuinely good and long run going on most days.

    When it properly clogs up though it can be a pain (particularly west bound) due to parked cars and a lack of lane definition.
  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    :( I am missing The Game so much! Reading the stories does help tho'

    Recently I've been worked to the bone & "commuting" (once or twice a week) to South Wales. So much time spent, nay wasted, in a tin can ... :(
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,491
    Roastie wrote:
    :( I am missing The Game so much! Reading the stories does help tho'

    Recently I've been worked to the bone & "commuting" (once or twice a week) to South Wales. So much time spent, nay wasted, in a tin can ... :(

    Thought you'd been a bit quiet. No way yo can cycle to Paddington, then get the train to Newport or Cardiff then cycle from there? Could sell it to your employer as "I can work on the train". I've tried it with a folder for my site visits in Bristol and it works fairly well aside from getting changed in a train toilet.
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Managed to get the timings on the lights spot on this morning and flew through the first 6 sets on green and got caught on number 7 thankfully as it was starting to hurt. Later in teh ride I unwisely did a bit of ambulance chasing but only lasted 100 yds before we went our seperate ways.
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  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    Here's footage of one of my morning commutes last week. It covers the Balham, Clapham, Stockwell drag strip, perhaps one of you is on this?
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,491
    Couldn't see myself on there, but the red FG/SS looks familiar. What time was this? I normally get on at Tooting Broadway at about 8.30, and follow the same route up to Oval, then turn off at Kennington Road (used to go all the way up to London Bridge, but got fed up of E&C lunatic driving). On the way home, I've been diverting via the Embankment for the last few weeks, and rejoining the drag strip via Queenstown Road. The best of both worlds I think, but a bit out of your way from Canary Wharf.
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  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    I leave home around seven and arrive at work at 8-15/8-20ish so Tooting Broadway is roughly 7-30
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,491
    Too early for me I think, but you never know.
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Early this morn... quite chilly but nice.
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  • NormalD
    NormalD Posts: 145
    Beat the number 9 from the Pru to where it turns off the Shinfield road this morning.

    Now that's not happened before. :D
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  • W1
    W1 Posts: 2,636
    BLOODY HEADWIND - again!
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Face masks at the ready today folks!!


    Ash cloud and grey cyclists may be in evidence later on :shock:
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Here's footage of one of my morning commutes last week. It covers the Balham, Clapham, Stockwell drag strip, perhaps one of you is on this?

    Well I now what life is like from the point of view of your scrotum......

    It's a slightly disconcerting camera.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Face masks at the ready today folks!!


    Ash cloud and grey cyclists may be in evidence later on :shock:

    Is that why the sky looked so grey and heavy this morning? I thought that was only up north.

    Most odd like a huge bonfire smoke cloud.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,491
    Asprilla wrote:
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Here's footage of one of my morning commutes last week. It covers the Balham, Clapham, Stockwell drag strip, perhaps one of you is on this?

    Well I now what life is like from the point of view of your scrotum......

    It's a slightly disconcerting camera.


    I was wondering where it was attached as well. I don't think that was quite what was meant by "Got some helmet cam footage of YOUR commute?". [Apologies if it's a bit early in the morning for that sort of thing]
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Yes, Mr Grey Trek, Chelsea Embanmkent is quite a bit easier into a headwind when you take a tow.
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  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    After a considerable period of playing leap frog with some fakenger last night (he was jumping lights), he tried to show me how awesome he was by bursting past me on a clear stretch.

    Bless.

    One swift manoeuvre around him, and then he seemed to disappear. Weird.

    :)
  • Spiffington
    Spiffington Posts: 11
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    quite chilly
    Being cold just means you're not cycling fast enough.
  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    A question, does SCR count on Sportives?
  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Coopster the 1st wrote:
    A question, does SCR count on Sportives?
    Well, sportives are not races and the official website of SCR is http://www.itsnotarace.org/ So.......

    ....absolutely :D
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  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    Need some SCR clarification regarding this jersey
    http://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ID=2687

    A forum member has stated...
    it's neither TdF or Team Kit so it doesn't raise my FCN.
    What say the crowd?
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    Need some SCR clarification regarding this jersey
    http://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ID=2687

    A forum member has stated...
    it's neither TdF or Team Kit so it doesn't raise my FCN.
    What say the crowd?
    Booo, hissss.

    It's a grand tour leader's jersey FFS, how can it not lower your FCN?
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