SCR of the year 2008

Jen J

As suggested by the lovely itboffin on the SCR thread, how about an award for the SCR of the year?

Post your nominations here please, along with reasons why.

As it would be nice to announce the winner at the SCR Christmas drinks, you have until Wednesday evening to nominate.

The five most nominated will then be put to the vote in a poll on Thursday morning, with the winner simply being the one with the most votes when the social starts. Simple, eh?

To make it easy to count nominations, plesae keep this thread for nominations only, take the chat elsewhere ok? :twisted:

And as the self-designated organiser (sorry itb, I'm stealing your thunder), I'm taking myself out of contention. Because given my one mile commute with no other cyclists to scalp I'm sure you would all have nominated me anyway...;)

gb155

I vote for cjcp, The man commutes when most of us are in bed and at a time even I wouldnt dare ride.

itboffin

Why thank you Jen you're too kind.

It was a tough call but my vote has to go to Greg T :shock: :shock: :shock: old man Greg T is not only the multi BR post award winning champ but also posted some amazingly funny stories and retorts back in the early days of the SCR forum. You have read ALL ofg the SCR posts haven't you...!

SCR of the year 2008 candidates

Greg T = 1
cjcp = 1

Jen you didn't add your nomination.

Jen J

I nominate CJCP too.

Mainly because he commutes along my nemesises (nemsisii?) of the two big hills in RP every day but also because on the first RP social ride he babysat me for the last two laps.

itboffin

Ah! the "gentleman" vote, shakes the public's hand, kisses babies does lots of fab work for charity

SCR of the year 2008 candidates

Greg T = 1
cjcp = 2

m0scs

My Vote goes to cjcp.

Greg T=1
cjcp=3

cjcp

:shock: 8)

Tricky. Part of me says ChrisLS, as he was the giver of life to this thread. Then there's Greg T and Snooks, who IIRC developed it and nutured it through the early stages of its life.

But, Greg T has been the driving force behind this thread, and the one who has steadfastly refused to be distracted by the combined demands of the normal working day and recent fatherhood to ensure that this thread remains as vibrant (and, at times, hopelessly random) as ever. (He has however been run pretty close by BJUK and Littigator.)

Verdict: Greg T.

P.S. An area of weakness for Greg T though, and one he must focus on in 2009, is to develop a fan base of the sort LiT has built up.

P.P.S. Am I right in thinking that Greg66 is the only one on Embankment (I don't recall Attica being scalped) who hasn't been scalped (he's had a close shave with the rower and a feisty encounter with a Serotta, I think?)? This surely deserves a prize. (This is before his recent infirmity )

itboffin

cjcp wrote:

:shock: 8)

Tricky. Part of me says ChrisLS, as he was the giver of life to this thread. Then there's Greg T and Snooks, who IIRC developed it and nutured it through the early stages of its life.

But, Greg T has been the driving force behind this thread, and the one who has steadfastly refused to be distracted by the combined demands of the normal working day and recent fatherhood to ensure that this thread remains as vibrant (and, at times, hopelessly random) as ever. (He has however been run pretty close by BJUK and Littigator.)

Verdict: Greg T.

P.S. An area of weakness for Greg T though, and one he must focus on in 2009, is to develop a fan base of the sort LiT has built up.

P.P.S. Am I right in thinking that Greg66 is the only one on Embankment (I don't recall Attica being scalped) who hasn't been scalped (he's had a close shave with the rower and a feisty encounter with a Serotta, I think?)? This surely deserves a prize. (This is before his recent infirmity )

Whilst the Embankment is not strictly my normal commute I am happy to report that on the occasions I have I remained fully intact.

attica

I'm proud to say that my scalp is indeed intact if somewhat greyer than it was.

My vote goes to GregT because he makes me laugh with such regularity.
Honourable mention goes to DonDaddyD for his bombast and GB155 for being downright inspirational.

redvee

My vote is going with LiT. she always makes topics interesting with her posts and from what I've read she ain't gonna get scalped, she could scalp the SPOTY 2008, aka Chris Hoy. Plus she instigated/organised the piss-up on friday. When we leave the party I'll have to make sure I'm behind her cause I'm sure the view would be good and I don't want to be scalped by her and know I've got no chance of scalping her.

R34PER

my vote for (london)SCR of the year goes to DonDaddyD for inspiring and OTT posts and effort (obviously excluding the week of car travel i asume thats down to the southern softness creeping in).

linsen

Greg T - Never fails to make me chuckle.....

tailwindhome

Never been to this London place you speak off!

No other commuters on my route Never been scalped though :P

Follow the SCR thread though and would like to nominate Greg 66

For a combination of quick wit, Armstrongesque arrogance and imparting lots of technical knowledge

Though 2 identical bikes in this credit crunch times is more than a bit tarty.

By my reckoning that is

Greg T 4
CJCP 3
Lit 1
DDD 1
Greg 66 1

Coriander

cjcp wrote:

P.S. An area of weakness for Greg T though, and one he must focus on in 2009, is to develop a fan base of the sort LiT has built up.

Oh, Greg T's fanbase may be smaller than L-i-T, due to the much smaller number of women on here, but what it lacks in breadth, I'm sure it more than makes up for in depth. Be still my beating heart.

I nominate the man himself for being the funniest poster on any forum anywhere (not that I've used any others, but I know) (though Greg66 is not far behind, is it something to do with the name?) and an unending generosity - who else took up matchmaking on my behalf?




So that makes it:

Greg T 5
CJCP 3
Lit 1
DDD 1
Greg 66 1

Bassjunkieuk

Hmm, I think my vote is going to go for GregT aswell.
He is probably the single biggest cause of me getting funny looks as I try to control my shoulders, stifle the laughter and all whilst trying to not spit coffee/tea/water over the computer :-)

Even tho she has ruled herself out I'd like to make make an honourable mention for Jen J, to go from not really riding a bike much about 3 months ago to a full on FG WITH clipless pedals is certainly commendable :-)

Greg T 6
CJCP 3
Lit 1
DDD 1
Greg 66 1

Jen J

Aw thanks

Just a reminder that we're still just nominating at the moment - voting won't start until Thursday, so we don't need to keep count yet, and also I don't see why people can't nominate more than one person if they wanted to?

snooks

I nominate the father of SCR....The person who started off this whole thing, Someone we know an alarming amount about...The size of his thighs, the size of his ring, we were there for the birth of his daughter, and his conversion to SS.


The one, the only Mr Greg T

ansbaradigeidfran

I'm far too much of a noob in SCR circles to be so bold as to nominate anyone (I've only got two scalps on my wall :shock:) but I'll be a-voting when the time comes.

Jay dubbleU

Hard to nominate anyone - you've all been very helpful and welcoming to an ancient newby - its was GregTs postings that first made me think this thread was worth following but I think I have to make 2 nominations - GregT for the London SCR and ITBoffin for the country cousins


Greg T 8
CJCP 3
Lit 1
DDD 1
Greg 66 1
ITBoffin 1

gb155

Attica wrote:

I'm proud to say that my scalp is indeed intact if somewhat greyer than it was.

My vote goes to GregT because he makes me laugh with such regularity.
Honourable mention goes to DonDaddyD for his bombast and GB155 for being downright inspirational.

Shucks, Thanks Man, Mucho Appreciated.

cjcp

Jen J wrote:

Aw thanks

Just a reminder that we're still just nominating at the moment - voting won't start until Thursday, so we don't need to keep count yet, and also I don't see why people can't nominate more than one person if they wanted to?

If we can nominate more than one person, then I also nominate GB155. I do so primarily because he voted for me.

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaah, only kidding. As Attica said, he's an inspiration; he illustrates perfectly what you can do if you get off your backside and get on with it.

Littigator

You've all taken complete leave of your senses with this drivelistic nonsense about Greg T. Ker-rist I have to see the man most mornings wheezing his pitiful way along the Embankment and I can assure you he's about as funny as a dose of the clap!

No really, his posts are all lifted from other forums (a quick Google will confirm this) and my views are in no way based on the fact that I'm jealous of his wit, charm, banter and popularity!

Harrumph, let me also make it QUITE clear that I do not in any way think the fact that's he's made me spit coffee down my nose, across my keyboard and all over my screen more times than I care to remember, in any way makes him amusing.

My candidates

gb155 for truly inspirational posts, keep up the hard work fellah.
CJCP for being a right proper gent
Not Greg T for not being funny never ever on this forum so there ha!

biondino

Well, since gb155 has already been nominated (see my SCR post), and several of the likely winners also, I'd like to add the extremely worthwhile names of bassjunkieuk - who maybe represents the spirit and enthusiasm of SCR better than anyone else, and is unrelentingly positive, on the boards and in life - and attica, who's the kind of chap I'd like my daughter to bring home.

cjcp

biondino wrote:

and attica, who's the kind of chap I'd like my daughter to bring home.

Have you taken leave of your senses? He's from out west. He might as well be from the wilds of Borneo

DonDaddyD

DonDaddyD wrote:

Page 338 of SCR

I went to the Mopeth Arms on Friday.

Anywho, the journey home

I feel unashamed in admitting that Greg66 is awesome with awesome sauce sprinkled on top.

I had a vague idea of how to get home - I'm of the thought that you cannot get lost in London, too many signs, landmarks, train stations and bus stops to centre yourself - but given that Greg and I were heading in a mostly same direction I intended to tag along with him. A lesson in life have I been taught.

We started out at what I suppose was normal speed for Greg. Me? My balls weren't out, they had fallen from my body and were rolling on the ground! It wasn't the speed, I could in brief spurts go faster but it was sustaining that level of speed I had the most trouble with. I spun so hard the little oil I had had flung itself from my cassette and chain.

Greg was kind enough to tell me to get a few feet from his back wheel. That way I could better enjoy the sweet supple clean air that was his draft. Man, I was trying long before he even signaled me to do so. What I don't think he realised was how expensive the cost of enjoying that air was. I'm not sure I could fully describe what it took for me to even get my bike that close! I did for about 30 seconds it was all I could afford. What was even more funny about this was it took Greg several times to tell me to draft, one of those times we were going too fast for my ears and brain to transfer the sound from his voice into words I could understand! :shock:

At the lights he told me "come on we're missing all the greens" :shock: I've never been more thankful of traffic lights in my life.

Armageddon
In some religions, the Armageddon is the site (Mount of Megiddo) of the final battle between God and Satan. It can also refer to an apocalyptic catastrophe.

Cheekily I asked was that (the performance he had produced so far) Armageddon? The war cry had been sung, I remember thinking "oh god" because with all the majestic grace of a mythological Norse god of Thunder Greg got up off his seat and with a perfect pedal rhythm delivered Mount of Megiddo to me.

I tried to keep up but soon I was wiping the dribble from my mouth, blinking away the tears from my eyes and I found I was laughing to myself out loud while lost within the delirium of speed as everything had gone psychedelic. The sick twisted thing, it looked - before I lost sight of the messianic turning of his cranks - like he had far more to give. I'm now of the thought that if Greg ever released the full fury of Armageddon his only feasible adversaries would be the concept of time and speed.

The conclusion I came to was that when I chased the SS/FG from London Bridge to Clapham it was fast, I still wonder how I managed to keep up. The soul destroying difference between that and riding with Greg was that the SS/FG was spinning out he may have had more to give but his bike couldn't except with a Herculean amount of spinning. Greg, on the other hand was visibly slowing down to my maximum, maybe I could have gone faster but it was fear that if I ever dared he'd only up the tempo and then my heart would explode.

As he headed towards Wandsworth and I Balham and my senses came back into focus, I checked the cycle computer. Judge as you will - the computer doesn't get affected when my Cateye is on flash mode - it read 37.4mph - this even I doubt is accurate.

But credit to the man he didn't leave me, made sure I got back to Clapham and even had kindness enough to tell me to keep my cadence up as we hit a steep hill.

Following a master class in speed, the pleasure of witnessing 'a thick layer of armageddon' and personal experience: Greg66 gets my vote.

I would also like to nominate:

Bassjunkieuk, who as Biondino said :

represents the spirit and enthusiasm of SCR better than anyone else,

Also, special mention goes to:

GregT, whose posts are like drugs that give me all kinds of highs and gigles throughout the working day and now have me seemingly hooked, desperate to find out what he is going to say next!

greg66_tri_v2.0

I've been giving this some thought, because it seems to me to ask the question: what makes a "good" SCR'er?

For me, it's someone who's been inspired by SCR'ing, and inspires others with their tales of scalping, and refusal to yield.

So with that in mind I'm going to make two nominations, DDD and BJUK, both of whom I think perfectly embody those qualities.


As for Greg T, well, he's funny-*ish*. For a flea picking, carpet trouser wearing morlock. :twisted:

itboffin

Where is the old toad? that 'new' addition to the family T seems to be getting in the way of our forums enjoyment levels, perhaps if we all shout MASSIVE RING three times he might appear.

Anyone seen Jash as well, young 'un today no commitment.

Littigator

Greg66 wrote:

I've been giving this some thought, because it seems to me to ask the question: what makes a "good" SCR'er?

For me, it's someone who's been inspired by SCR'ing, and inspires others with their tales of scalping, and refusal to yield.

So with that in mind I'm going to make two nominations, DDD and BJUK, both of whom I think perfectly embody those qualities.


As for Greg T, well, he's funny-*ish*. For a flea picking, carpet trouser wearing morlock. :twisted:

Well said that man...you may dress like the Devil(cyclist) Wears Prada or something from a homocycxualist magazine but you know what you're talking about.

greg66_tri_v2.0

itboffin wrote:

Where is the old toad? that 'new' addition to the family T seems to be getting in the way of our forums enjoyment levels, perhaps if we all shout MASSIVE RING three times he might appear.

Anyone seen Jash as well, young 'un today no commitment.

My guess is that they've both been fingered by their respective bosses (!) for overusing the Internet. They're reduced to surfing on their phones in the bogs.

itboffin

It's a hard habit to kick, you takes your fixes anyway you can.

gb155

Just a quick thanks to everyone who has mentioned my name here, Its been 11 Months since I started on this road and it has at times been hard and isolated but I now have my life back and in another 12 months I hope to be at my goal, I have only been commuting the full distace both ways for 4 months so im not sure I can be classed as commuter of the "year" but I will make damm sure I push all you guys (and gals) for it next year

Gaz