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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    @Asprilla - well, I might be at Blackfriars by 5.45-5.50...

    Should be at the Park by 6.30-40 to do an extra lap. I enter at Roehampton Gate and will be going clockwise.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    But you might see me in RP... :wink:

    As I pass with no regard for you fixing your puncture?


    A-hahahahahahaha :wink:
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    cjcp wrote:
    @Asprilla - well, I might be at Blackfriars by 5.45-5.50...

    Should be at the Park by 6.30-40 to do an extra lap. I enter at Roehampton Gate and will be going clockwise.

    Interesting... I shall be going counter. I shall leave the mask on for easier identification as we pootle past each other!
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    @Asprilla - well, I might be at Blackfriars by 5.45-5.50...

    Should be at the Park by 6.30-40 to do an extra lap. I enter at Roehampton Gate and will be going clockwise.

    Interesting... I shall be going counter. I shall leave the mask on for easier identification as we pootle past each other!

    Going the easy way then.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Ah, 6.30. We'll I shall be wondering how you are getting on as I pour my second glass of 2001 Haute Medoc and sit down in the back garden......
    Mud - Genesis Vapour CCX
    Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
    Sun - Cervelo R3
    Winter / Commute - Dolan ADX
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    :o Half day, is it?!
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    cjcp wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    @Asprilla - well, I might be at Blackfriars by 5.45-5.50...

    Should be at the Park by 6.30-40 to do an extra lap. I enter at Roehampton Gate and will be going clockwise.

    Interesting... I shall be going counter. I shall leave the mask on for easier identification as we pootle past each other!

    Going the easy way then.

    Yes and I also prefer the steep right downhill to the other long one.
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    See you there then :D
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Odds of actually meeting you however is slim to nano sized... :) Likely leaving office at 5.40ish and be coming off blackfriars ramp 5-10 mins later.

    *takes note* :twisted:
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    FCN 8 Scott Sportster '05
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,549
    Now, I have a meeting in Wick (small village between Bristol and Bath) at 11am tomorrow, so do I cycle up to Paddingtpn, bike on the train down to Bath, then up over the top of Lansdowne Hill? Are a shed full of sheet metal workers ready for full lycra I wonder? :twisted: or :oops: - can't decide which. Also, the weather doesn't look too great, so it might be soggy dirt-splattered lycra.
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    notsoblue wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Odds of actually meeting you however is slim to nano sized... :) Likely leaving office at 5.40ish and be coming off blackfriars ramp 5-10 mins later.

    *takes note* :twisted:

    What you riding?
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    notsoblue wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Odds of actually meeting you however is slim to nano sized... :) Likely leaving office at 5.40ish and be coming off blackfriars ramp 5-10 mins later.

    *takes note* :twisted:

    Ditto. Mwahahahahahahaha
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    edited August 2010
    cjcp wrote:
    :o Half day, is it?!

    My contract says 7 hours a day so that's 8.30 to 4.30 if I take a hour for lunch. Home by 5.30, shower and then open wine at 5.33.
    Mud - Genesis Vapour CCX
    Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
    Sun - Cervelo R3
    Winter / Commute - Dolan ADX
  • Alphabet
    Alphabet Posts: 436
    went to the pub on friday night and someone had their cyclehire key thingy with them so i took a boris bike out whilst mildly lubricated.

    perfected my heavy bike bunny hopping skillz and then lurked on the embankment for a victim. cycl;e courier whizzed past me, i gave it the beans and ruined him. i swiftly took the next left so he couldn't retake. he is now presumably fired from his jobn and ostracised from the brotherhood of messengers for being scalped by a boris.

    i then got told off by the police for riding on the pavement - i was cycling from the edge of the road to the bike stand. less than 2 metres. grr...

    verdict: boris bikes are awesome.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Asprilla wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    :o Half day, is it?!

    My contract says 7 hours a day so that's 8.30 to 4.30 if I take a hour for lunch. Home by 5.30, shower and then open wine at 5.33.

    Tidy. 8)
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    notsoblue wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Odds of actually meeting you however is slim to nano sized... :) Likely leaving office at 5.40ish and be coming off blackfriars ramp 5-10 mins later.

    *takes note* :twisted:

    What you riding?

    Scott hybrid, Black PlanetX Top, Black bibs, Brown Crumpler. I'm usually coming down the Blackfriars TT Ramp at 5:45-6:00.
    FCN 4 PX SL Pro SRAM Red
    FCN 8 Scott Sportster '05
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,549
    rjsterry wrote:
    Now, I have a meeting in Wick (small village between Bristol and Bath) at 11am tomorrow, so do I cycle up to Paddingtpn, bike on the train down to Bath, then up over the top of Lansdowne Hill? Are a shed full of sheet metal workers ready for full lycra I wonder? :twisted: or :oops: - can't decide which. Also, the weather doesn't look too great, so it might be soggy dirt-splattered lycra.

    Further to this (maybe a question for Roastie or any other Bath-based forumites), what are my chances of covering the 6.6miles and big hill from Bath Spa station to Wick in the 37 minutes between the train arriving and the start of the meeting? Possible, I'm sure, but turning up dripping with sweat and gasping my lungs up might be a bit much to inflict on non-cyclists.
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    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    notsoblue wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    notsoblue wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Odds of actually meeting you however is slim to nano sized... :) Likely leaving office at 5.40ish and be coming off blackfriars ramp 5-10 mins later.

    *takes note* :twisted:

    What you riding?

    Scott hybrid, Black PlanetX Top, Black bibs, Brown Crumpler. I'm usually coming down the Blackfriars TT Ramp at 5:45-6:00.

    fcn of 6 then? grey cannondale, red face mask, black camelback today, white and blue cdale jersey.
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • King Donut
    King Donut Posts: 498
    cjcp wrote:
    ... will be going clockwise.

    So you're on a bike that will make it up Broomfield then?! I think I've sorted out my creaking (either that or my ipod was up too loud this morning). May well be tempted in to some anti clockwise monkey hunting in the park later.
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    King Donut wrote:
    May well be tempted in to some anti clockwise monkey hunting in the park later.

    Made me smile :D
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    King Donut wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    ... will be going clockwise.

    So you're on a bike that will make it up Broomfield then?! I think I've sorted out my creaking (either that or my ipod was up too loud this morning). May well be tempted in to some anti clockwise monkey hunting in the park later.

    :lol:
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Richmound Park was quite empty at just past 9am no other roadies to be found.

    Brookfield is fun for annoying TTers by swooping past and seeing if you can hold them off before darkhill.
  • mudcovered
    mudcovered Posts: 725
    rjsterry wrote:
    Now, I have a meeting in Wick (small village between Bristol and Bath) at 11am tomorrow, so do I cycle up to Paddingtpn, bike on the train down to Bath, then up over the top of Lansdowne Hill?
    It isn't a great forecast for tomorrow round here. :(

    That's a pretty tough ride you would be letting yourself in for. That is one of the steeper hills around the city (not quite the steepest) and then you get to descend into Wick which means climbing back out the other way at the end of the day. If you are seriously considering cycling it might be easier to get from Bristol Temple Meads to Wick and back. It would certainly be flatter.

    Mike
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,549
    Hmm, just checked and it's an extra 3-4 miles from BTM or BPW, so I think it'll have to be Bath Spa. I'll reassess the weather tomorrow morning - I know I can handle that hill as I used to ride it on an old 10-speed now and then when I lived near Bristol, but against the clock and with a wet descent the other side, discretion (a taxi) might be the better part of valour. Thanks for the suggestion all the same.
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  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    rjsterry wrote:
    Hmm, just checked and it's an extra 3-4 miles from BTM or BPW, so I think it'll have to be Bath Spa. I'll reassess the weather tomorrow morning - I know I can handle that hill as I used to ride it on an old 10-speed now and then when I lived near Bristol, but against the clock and with a wet descent the other side, discretion (a taxi) might be the better part of valour. Thanks for the suggestion all the same.

    or jjst take some shower gel and perform some sort of sponge bath type affair on the wet descent.

    On Second thoughts a Taxi is probably better.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,549
    It's so crazy it might just work :lol:


    (You have ridden Lansdowne, have you? about 130m height gain in 1 mile with some tight bends on one side, or 190m in 1.6miles on the other side, straight but finishes in central Bath with lots of traffic.)

    I am still tempted though.
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    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • Stevehall00
    Stevehall00 Posts: 19
    Hi all

    Havent posted in ages but waiting for a boardman cx as I have moved into the sticks and wanted to share a scalp from legend.

    Moved into sticks, cr@p roads so sold road bike and am currently 'in between bikes' which is like going downstairs in a morning to find a child missing. So I have borrowed a big heavy MTB on slicks. Took the iron horse out the other day on a bike path to work and sighted a hybrid between hull and beverley. I tell you, reeling him in from 100 yards took 2 miles on that beast and I went by him with so much inner triumph I might have taken off like ET.

    Made it stick, took the scalp and loved being part of the game after being at FCN4 for ages and getting hammered by everyone.
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Okay so what happened there... Didn't get caught by smarty pants but also never saw CJ coming the other way! As it were.

    Good ride though - some rather tasty bikes in the park.
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • gaz545
    gaz545 Posts: 493
    HamishD wrote:
    gaz545 wrote:
    HamishD wrote:
    To the guy with the Beano shirt from West Wickham on the recumbent who I could keep up with on Anerley Hill but then repeatedly handed me my scalp all the way to Fulham through the teeth of an evil headwind – chapeau sir! The only reason I managed to catch up with you occasionally is that recumbents are shee-ite at filtering . . .
    Was it orange or white? and was it USS?

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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Okay so what happened there... Didn't get caught by smarty pants but also never saw CJ coming the other way! As it were.

    Good ride though - some rather tasty bikes in the park.

    Pretty sure I saw you going Clockwise round Richmond Park, at the top of that hill after Kingston Gate? I must have been just ahead/behind you....

    Btw, is the really tall, bald chap with Cervelo kit on a blue and white road bike (trek?) on here?
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