Middle aged Male Fantasy..

pottssteve
pottssteve Posts: 4,069
edited October 2008 in The bottom bracket
So I'm riding along this morning, approaching a 4 way junction with traffic lights. Check behind, nothing there (it's about 6.45am) and pull into the middle lane to go straight across. I'm going reasonably quickly (for me), and as I get close to the lights they change from green to amber. I have one of those "Blimey, I'll have to brake" moments, before deciding to go for it, eyeballs out so to speak. I belt across the junction, being gawped at by a dozen or so locals (as a 6 foot Gweilo in a cycle helmet I get a lot of that).

And then it happens. As my thighs are pumping and I'm across the junction, Mark Cavendish pops into my head. All of a sudden I AM Mark Cavendish, screaming aross the line to win another Tour stage..... :lol:

I resisted the urge to raise both hands, but did coast for 200m or so...
I'm 40 years old, for God's sake. I'll be buying a convertable next. Please kill me now.
Does this happen to anyone else?
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Oh I see, you like to watch, do you?

    Come on, don't be shy....
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    OK, so I'm the only one with Cavendish-sprint fantasies.

    Or maybe you were expecting some sort of Mills and Boon confection involving Victoria Pendleton, a pound of jelly babies and a bicycle pump...?
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  • stage_fright
    stage_fright Posts: 218
    Victoria Pendelton likes jelly babies?

    good to know if I ever bump into her..'Hi - would you like some sweeties?'..ohh...maybe not then. :oops:
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  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    I don't have the same thoughts. Mostly with that kind of thing I think "damn I wish bike had better brakes, crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappppppppppppp" as I just hope beyond hope.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,915
    no

    you should fantasize you just beaten Cav
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  • pdstsp
    pdstsp Posts: 1,264
    I've been lucky enough to holiday in the Alps a few summers and I do the same fantasy thing when climbing a col - I am Pantani out on my own taking minutes out of all comers. It does tend to go tits up when I get overtaken by elderly French women smoking gitanes riding shoppers.
  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    What's wrong with being 40........... :?
  • bill57
    bill57 Posts: 454
    Have a proper mid-life crisis, buy a red Italian convertible.
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    fossyant wrote:
    What's wrong with being 40........... :?
    Dunno, I can't remember back that far... :wink:
  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    Kind of embarrassing...

    I did a couple of runs up the Alpe this year. The second time was my birthday and it started snowing about halfway up. I thought about heading back to the chalet, but then I thought of the Lance training video and thought, "if he can do it, so can I".

    I spent the rest of the climb giving everything balls to the wall whilst looking out for chubby Germans to give "the look" to.

    Didn't find any Germans, but I did make it to the top in a blizzard.
  • SCR Pedro
    SCR Pedro Posts: 912
    Hey there,

    I was practicing my sprinting one day, and as I was heading towards the speed limit sign on the edge of town, I had visions of Paolo Bettini on my wheel trying to take my €20k stage bonus away from me. I think I reached a new record crossing the line. He never tried it on again, and if Cav every comes anywhere near me I'll kick him into a ditch.

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  • unclemalc
    unclemalc Posts: 563
    guinea wrote:
    Kind of embarrassing...

    I did a couple of runs up the Alpe this year. The second time was my birthday and it started snowing about halfway up. I thought about heading back to the chalet, but then I thought of the Lance training video and thought, "if he can do it, so can I".

    I spent the rest of the climb giving everything balls to the wall whilst looking out for chubby Germans to give "the look" to.

    Didn't find any Germans, but I did make it to the top in a blizzard.

    :lol: Envy... :mrgreen:
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    I thought for a moment this thread was going to be about trebuchets and bubonic plague etc

    :lol:
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  • shedhead
    shedhead Posts: 367
    Isn't amber just a lighter shade of red?

    I commute about 150-200 miles per week on my fixie & i go full on most of the time, well when my 40 yr old heart & lungs permit, so when i encounter Mr Amber i tend to mash the pedals & go for it, unless there's a 40ft articulated lorry revving up at the other junction obviously !!

    :)

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  • Cunobelin
    Cunobelin Posts: 11,792
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    One red convertible!
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