Your commuting arch nemesis

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  • i easily did my nemesis in this morning....


































    took the car :twisted:
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Mine is a hill which I avoid and slightly fear :( I managed it today but it was a real effort, silly thing is it's no way the biggest or steepest hill around and yet it almost does me every time.

    I battled with it on many occasions so far the hill is in the lead, there's this odd building at the top with nothing to indicate its purpose, it's evil I tell you evil :evil:

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    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    No nemesis here, but I only commute 2 miles (I sometimes take the 20 mile route home, mind).

    I'd quite like a nemesis. I do have a nickname though. A few weeks ago, one of the kids I regularly pass on my route shouted "All right, speedy!" I chuckled, but truth be told I was only doing 17mph.
    MTB commuter / 531c commuter / CR1 Team 2009 / RockHopper Pro Disc / 10 mile PB: 25:52 (Jun 2014)
  • suppose its better than getting called a fat b@stard by a teen at a bus stop.....

    his friends loved my comeback of "i'm loosing weight cycling but you'll always be ginger"

    dont think he did though :P
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    my commuting nemesis is East Wonford Hill and Heavitree. I will beat the barsteward one day, for the meantime I will keep chipping away at it but it won't beat me.

    To be honest with the time of day that I commute there arn't many other cyclists around so the only thing I have to beat are the urban foxes and badgers.
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    itboffin wrote:
    Mine is a hill which I avoid and slightly fear :( I managed it today but it was a real effort, silly thing is it's no way the biggest or steepest hill around and yet it almost does me every time.

    I battled with it on many occasions so far the hill is in the lead, there's this odd building at the top with nothing to indicate its purpose, it's evil I tell you evil :evil:

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    You think that's sinister,

    in the Peak District there is a ntational trust property entitled "Wooden Pole"

    Ciomming across this sighn with no warning messes with your mind...

    http://peakdistrict.nationaltrust.org.uk/wooden-pole
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    itboffin wrote:
    Mine is a hill which I avoid and slightly fear :( I managed it today but it was a real effort, silly thing is it's no way the biggest or steepest hill around and yet it almost does me every time.

    I battled with it on many occasions so far the hill is in the lead, there's this odd building at the top with nothing to indicate its purpose, it's evil I tell you evil :evil:

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    I know what that is.

    Its a small one of these:

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Surely that just a pineapple :P
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    itboffin wrote:
    Surely that just a pineapple :P
    Well, at least its a M&S pineapple. Yours is from Lidl. :D



    Have you been into yours? Could be a tardis.

    Alternatively, there might simply be some questionable soggy paper packaging and a faint smell of wee.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    I don't have an arch nemesis, but I know I am the arch nemesis of anyone who takes on Shooters Hill :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Rich158 wrote:
    I don't have an arch nemesis, but I know I am the arch nemesis of anyone who takes on Shooters Hill :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

    Call that a hill, pah! :P
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Exactly, it's a little pimple I sprint over :wink:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2