Silly commuting racing
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Passed a moped on the ride home, but I'm not going to call it a scalp as the 3 helmet-less chavs riding it weren't exactly presenting any sort of challenge. Muppets...0
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coming down Archway Hill each morning in the bus lane, it is very disconcerting to see all the traffic suddenly fall back as we go through the speed camera.
I was coming up Holloway Road today when a guy wiggled past me at the lights. "Right" I thought,"I'll have you". Unfortunately he went off up Highgate Hill rather than my (by now) friendly Archway Road. I decided to stick with him anyway and unleash some pain on the hill for him.. He set off at a good speed and I kept 10metres or so back. Imagine my disgust when he turned off into a side road with less than a third of the hill done. Gutted that I had the big hill to climb for no good reason.
And then to add insult to injury as I was battling along towards Barnet into some sort of hurricane a guy with legs like tree trunks came by. I stayed with him but he would definitely have had me (though to be fair was a lower FCN)0 -
Pootled a lot today. My penultimate London commute. nearly got scalped by a Brompton rider over London Bridge. :shock:
Then taken repeatedly on the way home by a dude on a Spesh (with Madone shorts :?). Too lazy to chase, just kept a nice easy cadence and rode alone.David
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Right,
After not cycle commuting for about 6 years and having my bike stolen around Christmas I've bought myself a new mountain bike.....
Itsnotrace calculated my FCN to be 12 so now I've two questions: -
Best route between Finsbury park and St Pauls
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Who might I pass along the way?
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Bloomin' traffic was bloomin' awful on the way to Kew Bridge. Fine from there to Ealing just now though...0
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After my lovely MOT surprise, and the horrendous traffic on the Embankment from Blackfriars to P. Sq, I had a bit of a cob on, so when a blue jersey-ed roadie with no bag rolled past on the way out of the square, I saw an opportunity to cheer myself up. He got a bit of a lead at LBR, but I managed to close most of it down on Millbank, before we both stopped at the lights.
I got away from the lights first and pretty much buried myself to make sure he didn't come past. Kept the lead until we were both filtering slowly through the queue before CB, so I'm claiming it as a scalp, but my legs were absolutely f***ed after that so took it fairly steady the rest of the way home.
Have to say, running your legs under an alternating hot and cold shower, really does help with sore legs.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I had someone on a single speed drafting me for ages along jamaica road (bladdy headwind) still managed to hover around 20 for most of it but the headwind got to me in the end and he gradually eased past me after I did all the hardwork.
Nothing of note on the way in, just the usual nodders and wanderers.
/rant mode/ thanks to the rude boy punto for over taking me and then pulling in with no indication, just because you have tinted windows and shat rear lights does not give you the right to preform such manoeuvres, I thanked him for it through his open window and suggested he use his indicators as I rode past slowly having had to brake heavily. /rant mode off/0 -
p.s. what's my FCN?
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BentMikey wrote:p.s. what's my FCN?
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BY the look of the pic, severely subzero0 -
Rode the XTC in today. Legs are dead from yesterday's ride home - really pushed it as I was supposed to be bringing Mrs C into Cardiff today in the Cakemobile. She cancelled last night after I'd blasted home.
Nothing really of note except the headwind. Should make the ride home easier, but then as I'm on an MTB, if I'm feeling good, I may take a detour or two and hit the trails.0 -
Yeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The headwind must have gone away or something. Or turned into a tailwind. Or it was the 2 bags of hula hoops I ate instead of dinner when I got home from kayaking. Whatever it was I was on fire this morning.
You know in back to the future, yeah? When they hit 88 miles an hour, yeah? And they leave a trail of flames in the road, yeah? Well that was me, this morning. :P
My particular favourite scalp of the day was a guy on a red something-carbon-looking with all the matching gear who filtered ahead of me on HSK, then jumped a red approaching the Albert Hall. There must have been a me-specific tailwind, 'cause I flew past him (having wound up the gear to overtake another roadie) at 26.8mph, with the ol' Bowery creaking like fury.
I also got the best start off the motocross gates at HPC.
Oh and to the guy with the beetlejuice socks on the yellow peugeot: while you're ignoring red lights and general decorum, you can feel free to ignore speed limit signs too.
'Cause you don't need to worry about breaking the law there.
Even in school zones.
If you dress that distictively you really ought to be fast. :twisted:0 -
Think I may have scalped a parent from my kids school this morning! This being The Game and it not caring for gender I still feel a bit guilty to say it was one of the mums :-) To her credit she was holding a very respectable 20-22mph on a very new looking Trek roadie and has rather large thighs :shock: At first I actually thought it was a bloke but the hips (and long hair once I got closer!!) gave it away.......
Plain sailing until the junction of WBR/NKR at which point it all went to pot as the tw4ts in tin boxes decide to try and barge into queuing lanes of traffic as opposed to waiting in line like everyone else. Makes filtering rather difficult when some twunt closes a gap :evil: Damn shame as well as there was at least one guy in blue/white kit that looked rather worthy :-(
Still I managed to keep my scalp intact along Embankment and had a nice race from VB>LBR with a chap who arrived late and was 1/3 way across junction before our lights actually went green!0 -
:oops: Sometimes when I'm SCR'ing and I really start to put the power down, my internal monologue says, "Libyans! Lets see if you can do ninety!". :oops:lost_in_thought wrote:You know in back to the future, yeah? When they hit 88 miles an hour, yeah? And they leave a trail of flames in the road, yeah? Well that was me, this morning. :P0 -
Legs still rather sore this morning from last night's death-or-glory blast down the Embankment, so quite a bit of enforced pootling. Still, a fairly respectable time, and no scalps lost in open play, so fairly happy.
@LiT: Clearly the poor Bowery's bearings aren't that far gone if you can push it up to that speed. Go on, give it a treat and clean them.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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lost_in_thought wrote:
Seriously, I heard it on the tube. Its not just that either but the forks creak too Its not a healthy bike... :twisted: Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]0 -
Your scalps are all well and good guys but today as far as I'm concerned anyway, they just dont cut it. I'll explain...
While attempting to pootle to work today I was overtaken by a female Roadie in team kit and on tri bars. Now normally when roadies power past i'm not overly bothered i'm more of a "meh, its just a dirty roadie, it's not like I lose my scalp to them." but today (and i'm mostly putting this down to the tri bars) cue the red mist.This red mist was the catalyst for an epic combination of man and machine pushing the speed barriers to catch up with sed dirty roadie. Now, I won't lie, it took me a while to catch her and at one point I didn't think I was going to, but thanks to some epic effort and luck at the lights I managed to get closer as we filtered at the road works at Murrayfield. Next up was the climb up Westercoats past Donaldson's School and to Haymarket where I turn off.
Now I knew this was my moment, I started to put the "power" down and moved round a couple of other people on bikes (a couple of folks on MTBs with slicks and a one dude on a folder). Now it was only me and the tri barred, team kitted, dirty rotten roadie woman left. Ooh now she's out her seat trying to get up here, too late missus i'm already at "Mach1"... zooooooooom past i go... I leave the power on despite the legs telling me to slow down and I build up a nice lead, I leave 3/4 power on until I turn off up the road.
A proper scalp, hells and yeah! 8)
In hindsight, I don't care if she wasn't racing, I was. I don't care that she was, well a she, If you were team kit and use tri bars you've gotta be able to cycle when needed. I don't care if she was on the last leg of an epic length commute and i'm only doing a 5miler. Simply put it's a roadie scalp, I don't get many and i'm taking it! "I have a plan, a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a fox." (from the Blackadder TV series)0 -
MonkeyMonster wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:
Seriously, I heard it on the tube. Its not just that either but the forks creak too Its not a healthy bike... :twisted:
And the handlebars.... :shock:
EDIT: Nice work Anton1r... what are you riding?0 -
anton1r wrote:Your scalps are all well and good guys but today as far as I'm concerned anyway, they just dont cut it. I'll explain...
While attempting to pootle to work today I was overtaken by a female Roadie in team kit and on tri bars. Now normally when roadies power past i'm not overly bothered i'm more of a "meh, its just a dirty roadie, it's not like I lose my scalp to them." but today (and i'm mostly putting this down to the tri bars) cue the red mist.This red mist was the catalyst for an epic combination of man and machine pushing the speed barriers to catch up with sed dirty roadie. Now, I won't lie, it took me a while to catch her and at one point I didn't think I was going to, but thanks to some epic effort and luck at the lights I managed to get closer as we filtered at the road works at Murrayfield. Next up was the climb up Westercoats past Donaldson's School and to Haymarket where I turn off.
Now I knew this was my moment, I started to put the "power" down and moved round a couple of other people on bikes (a couple of folks on MTBs with slicks and a one dude on a folder). Now it was only me and the tri barred, team kitted, dirty rotten roadie woman left. Ooh now she's out her seat trying to get up here, too late missus i'm already at "Mach1"... zooooooooom past i go... I leave the power on despite the legs telling me to slow down and I build up a nice lead, I leave 3/4 power on until I turn off up the road.
A proper scalp, hells and yeah! 8)
In hindsight, I don't care if she wasn't racing, I was. I don't care that she was, well a she, If you were team kit and use tri bars you've gotta be able to cycle when needed. I don't care if she was on the last leg of an epic length commute and i'm only doing a 5miler. Simply put it's a roadie scalp, I don't get many and i'm taking it!
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Cheers guys, I wasn't planning on hammering it to work today but I just couldn't help myself!
Current commuter steed is a Diamondback Eastwood.
All the same as in the link below except I got rid of the stupid suspension seat post.
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/diamond-back/eastwood-2006-hybrid-bike-ec013683"I have a plan, a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a fox." (from the Blackadder TV series)0 -
anton1r wrote:Cheers guys, I wasn't planning on hammering it to work today but I just couldn't help myself!
Current commuter steed is a Diamondback Eastwood.
All the same as in the link below except I got rid of the stupid suspension seat post.
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/diamond-back/eastwood-2006-hybrid-bike-ec013683
You are Miss Marple - and I claim my 5 pounds.Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
What would Thora Hurd do?0 -
Greg T wrote:
You are Miss Marple - and I claim my 5 pounds.anton1r wrote:Cheers guys, I wasn't planning on hammering it to work today but I just couldn't help myself!
Current commuter steed is a Diamondback Eastwood.
All the same as in the link below except I got rid of the stupid suspension seat post.
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/diamond-back/eastwood-2006-hybrid-bike-ec013683
Uhh what? That's someone that got banned isn't it?
I assure you i am not. that is the bike i ride to work on and i shall now claim your 5 pounds. "I have a plan, a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a fox." (from the Blackadder TV series)0 -
too late missus i'm already at "Mach1"... zooooooooom past i go
I proper laughed out loud at that :oops: 0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:
Ahh ok fair enough. Yeah feel free to take the wee wee out of the bike. It's not in the slightest a nice or fancy bike but it gets me from home to work and hopefully its not shiny/nice enough for some toerag to want to nick it."I have a plan, a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a fox." (from the Blackadder TV series)0 -
You should get some pictures of tri-bars to stick along your top tube, one for every such scalp.anton1r wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:
Ahh ok fair enough. Yeah feel free to take the wee wee out of the bike. It's not in the slightest a nice or fancy bike but it gets me from home to work and hopefully its not shiny/nice enough for some toerag to want to nick it.
Anyhow, Greg T's comment is a compliment. Miss Marple is an oldie, and we all know how powerful those innocuous looking oldies on bikes really are!0 -
Dude i'm 26 so not too old, but it occurs to me that you may have been paying my stealthy overtaking skills a compliment, which i'll take. Cheers.
Anyway enough about me any more epic battles to work this morning people?"I have a plan, a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a fox." (from the Blackadder TV series)0
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