Silly commuting racing

Pufftmw

OK - just re-googled my route...

7.2 miles g/f to work
7.0 miles work to g/f

New Cross one way system :roll:

cjcp

King Donut wrote:

Greg T - were you wearing something green?

If he was, that was in fact the snot forced from his beak by his efforts.

King Donut

PS
@MM - unless you were commuting out to Heathrow last week it wasn't me you scalped. I was on a course so couldn't offer a retort to your scandalous claims.

King Donut

cjcp wrote:

King Donut wrote:

Greg T - were you wearing something green?

If he was, that was in fact the snot forced from his beak by his efforts.

I'm not too comfortable about being part of his "five man meat train"!

rjsterry

King Donut wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Both KD and I had seriously squeaky BBs

Arrrggh, I thought it was coming from my headset. I've got no chance of finding it's cause now!

Top ride home last night, seemed to have everything. Glad you didn't suggest we chase the monster up Sawyer's.

Greg T - were you wearing something green?

My usual squeak is cleat/shoe.

cjcp

King Donut wrote:

PS
@MM - unless you were commuting out to Heathrow last week it wasn't me you scalped. I was on a course so couldn't offer a retort to your scandalous claims.

As Yoda said, no, there is another [person who wears a vest, but also a helmet]. Saw him last week.

MonkeyMonster

King Donut wrote:

PS
@MM - unless you were commuting out to Heathrow last week it wasn't me you scalped. I was on a course so couldn't offer a retort to your scandalous claims.

ketsbaia

Pufftmw wrote:

OK - just re-googled my route...

7.2 miles g/f to work
7.0 miles work to g/f

New Cross one way system :roll:

I was wondering how you negotiate the bottom end of OKR since they closed it.

I guess you go along New Cross Road and up Kender Street, appearing at the lights before turning left on to OKR?

I illegally sneak up the road as I enter it just after the road works. Can get a bit hairy if you mis-time the lights at that junction and have to negotiate the oncoming traffic.

Pufftmw

The new tarmac along Queens Road is peachy - lovely on the bum when you have ribbon tyres @ 60 psi anyway

Greg T

King Donut wrote:

Greg T - were you wearing something green?

You think I can remember what I was wearing yesterday?

I have a green Liquigas Jersey (YES I used to ride for the team) and I may have been wearing it yesterday.....

Wrath Rob

New PB home last night, 27:44 over 8.9 miles, so 19.2mph average! Fastest I've done in a while, though I left at around 7pm to do it. In honour of my record I'd like to say a few thank-you's:

To the guy in a green top, blue shorts with a blue face mask riding a Boardman and spending the entire time on the drops, thanks for ensuring that I MTFU'd and ensured you didn't get away, you helped make sure my ride got off to a good start. We met at Blackfriars but unfortunately you turned off somewhere (maybe VB?) and we never resolved who was faster. Chapeau though!

To the guy on the carbon specialzed in full lycra with aero bars who got scalped by me and several others as we left VB lights, MTFU.

To the guy on a maroon bike with aero bars, thanks for spurring me on in my attempts to drop you. I think I gapped you after Chelsea Bridge, judging by the time lag before you arrived at the lights, however I was having to push past 30mph and draft a scooter to do it

All in a rocking ride home!

Bassjunkieuk

dresbo wrote:

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

Found myself a nice little playmate on the way home today, although he spent most of the journey looking at the skull on the on my backpack he certainly had some heart!
If your on here well done! He was a chap with a A-Z jersey riding a Uni-vega road bike who I reckon was late 20s/early 30s and headed through Camberwell and up towards Crystal Palace via Dulwich you get an A+ for effort!

Bassjunkie - what are you wearing when you cycle and what time do you do your journey. We go exactly the same route seemingly every day, but I'm not sure we've ever passed on the road. I'm green Spesh jersey and blue and yellow too-small OCR. Keep an eye out.

I should be fairly easy to spot as I'm normally riding in a sleeveless top at the moment and have tribal style tattoos at the top of each arm. Sport baggies down below (to conceal the lycra....) and have red bar tape on a black/red SCR. I'm usually fairly switched on when it comes to other peoples bikes and tend to notice them first so will keep an eye out for another Giant rider. At the moment I'm leaving the house around 7:30 and arrive at Euston around 8:15.

Todays ride however took me to Victoria, so I got a slightly flatter route in today and was positively flying! Very little SCR action until I picked up a chap spinning like a mentalist on a Scott roadie as I turned off Clapham Common to head down to QTR. A bit of suicidal filtering on my part saw me just get ahead of a big truck and through the temp lights before the cross-road hill with Wandsworth Road. Caught up with him at the CB roundabout by Battersea Park and chased him over CB and caught him at the halfway point before losing him again in filtering. Just my luck he carried on heading norf as I took a quick right to head down Embankment. Saw some terrible RLJing a bit further down as both riders went barrelling past me at around 15-20mph, no sign of slowing up!

HamishD

ketsbaia wrote:

*backtracks*

Well, the whole of SE London going along OKR at about 9ish, anyway.

That's a good ave speed for that distance, Sir. Chapeau.

I'm on a 15-year-old Peugeot Team Festina replica. It's so old, it has Richard Virenque's name on it - as an endorsement!

Cheers mate. You're a bit over an hour too late for me in the mornings - shame, someone else with decent speed would be nice!

Wrath Rob

Was there a tail-wind this morning? I don't think so but what appeared to be a slow ride saw me break 30 mins, and that normally means tail wind. I did draft a truck though for most of Embankment after Temple, which may have contributed. A roadie in far to much red lycra and another one in a grey/black wind proof top had a good go, though I don't think that either of them were expecting my rabid burst of acceleration which launched me past them and into the slipstream from the truck that they were both trying to catch. I caught it, they didn't. Scalps are mine! BOOM, HEADSHOT!

I think I will pay for my recent speedy rides. My legs are aching as I type and I still have the ride home to go. I prey I don't encounter the giant on the Airnimal...

dresbo

Wrath Rob wrote:

Was there a tail-wind this morning? I don't think so but what appeared to be a slow ride saw me break 30 mins, and that normally means tail wind.

I think I will pay for my recent speedy rides. My legs are aching as I type and I still have the ride home to go. I prey I don't encounter the giant on the Airnimal...

There was definitely a tailwind from the south. I was taking it really easy as I've got a squash match this evening, but I was still spinning around 23mph on the flats. Might be less fun on the way home though

lost_in_thought

There did seem to be some kind of tailwind, or perhaps a no-wind.

ketsbaia

Usual ruddy headwind along the OKR. I swear that road is a wind tunnel.

jonginge

Hmm, the wind didn't feel that helpful this morning. I seem to be getting that a lot of late.

Kieran_Burns

Gods there are some SERIOUSLY black clouds rolling in from the North at the moment! :shock:

Had a minor Thunderstorm pass over at lunch but there's a mighty looking one coming this way right now.

Just had a clap of Thunder that made the windows rattle!!! :shock:

asprilla

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Gods there are some SERIOUSLY black clouds rolling in from the North at the moment! :shock:

Had a minor Thunderstorm pass over at lunch but there's a mighty looking one coming this way right now.

Just had a clap of Thunder that made the windows rattle!!! :shock:

Quick get on your bike, insulated from the earth by rubber is the safest place to be!

Wrath Rob

Still in the office, looking at the peds wandering around with their umbrellas up, I've got no water proofs and no overshoes: not looking good

lost_in_thought

Weirdly sunny here again now... is the rain en route?

Wrath Rob

I'm over in EC2 so it may already have been through the centre of town.

Not that I'm tracking your whereabouts :twisted:

asprilla

Was a lovely ride until Kingston and then I got torrential rain and hail of the biblical variety. I was grinning like an idiot all the way through it.

Got home and my Crud Roadracer Mk2s have arrived. Excellent.

asprilla

Was a lovely ride until Kingston and then I got torrential rain and hail of the biblical variety. I was grinning like an idiot all the way through it.

Got home and my Crud Roadracer Mk2s have arrived. Excellent.

Bassjunkieuk

Was damp roads when I left offices by St James choob station. It never seemed to get going properly but was probably most heavy as I was heading down QTR. Had a bit of a "moment" when I locked up the rear wheel and did a bit of a squirm......

Managed to keep a clean bill of health on DSC, no thinks to a complete clip-in fail coming away from VB lights. Missed it on first attempt (never good in 92GI) and then once I did get it in I went to apply some power and my foot came un-clipped!!! It eventually stayed in and I got off and was quickly up to warp speed!

Got boxed in by CB and so didn't bother trying to filter the 3/4 cars to get to front as I wanted to turn over the bridge.

After that I was picking off various roadies on QTR and round Clapham Common with a massive group scalping after the hill down from Clapham South.

LazyBoycp

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Gods there are some SERIOUSLY black clouds rolling in from the North at the moment! :shock:

Had a minor Thunderstorm pass over at lunch but there's a mighty looking one coming this way right now.

Just had a clap of Thunder that made the windows rattle!!! :shock:

Torrential rain, thunder & lightning here in Manchester too, with a fair bit of flooding - water at about BB height at some points, even when riding in primary! :shock: Naturally it has all cleared up and looks nice outside now. Was quite good fun though, and drivers were driving appropriately for the conditions, which made for a pleasant change. Only saw a couple of other cyclists on my way home, and one of them was hiding in a bus shelter.

Given the lack of rain this year, I think that was the first time getting drenched on the bike in a long time. Had forgotten how good a hot shower feels afterwards.

Wrath Rob

Managed to avoid the worst of it and its now lovely and sunny over SW London. Not much action to report either. An early tussle with a guy in red and white lycra top with black shorts on a white Condor SS looked to be taking shape but the check point the police had put up on Embankment stopped all fun there.

rjsterry

Well that police checkpoint on the Embankment was a little bit of genius, eh? 7 or 8 police milling around staring at a mile of stationary traffic.

Anyhoo, after that it all cleared up nicely. Coming into PS, a purple and silver Colnago SS decided to make a move. Let him get a bit of a lead down past LBR then steamed past with not a little nonchalance on Millbank.

Let him leave VB lights first (find it quite tricky to clip in in my overshoes for some reason, then opened it up again down DSC.

Arrived at CB lights a good 15 seconds ahead of him, but he pushed to the front again and set off just before the green light. Well, now I'm clearly taking the extended route for another go. It doesn't take long to reel him in and remove the last remains of his scalp.

Not much after that, aside from a complete tool in a shiny black Range Rover who forced me across the two lanes, rather than let me turn onto Trinity Road.

cjcp

Good effort, sir. Was that a retro-style Colnago? If so, he's rapid. Tall-ish chap, right? Think he heads out to Richmond way.