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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Rich158 wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    suzyb wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    I reckon they should be halved :D

    In that case so should all the miles people do in flat places - eg London :lol:
    OMG yes! I'd zoom up the table.

    I'm up for that too - Kent is pretty hilly and my commute from London to Kent is almost entirely up hill. :D
    +1 to that, whereabouts do you commute porgy? I do gravesend to Greenwich, our paths may have crossed

    personally I always play in the knatts valley area, some great hills around there :lol:

    Welling - Holborn - Welling which involves an uphill stretch whichever way you look at it - quite often ill extend the uphill stretch by heading out to erith then back to Welling and if i'm feeling really up for it - take in shooters Hill.

    I've been doing the run out to rochester at the weekends - via Gravesend - there's just about no flat bits between Bexleyheath and Gravesend. But I do feel myself getting gradually fitter.

    Just had to check where Knatts valley is - haven't been out in Kent long. Turns out I was riding round there just two weeks ago - very pleasant - and quite hilly too.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Our paths may well have crossed in that case, look out for a red jacket, pink Condor and a blue rucksack. I've got two routes, Crayford-Bexleyheath-Shooters Hill-Greenwich or if I'm on a recovery ride I'll miss Crayford and drop down through Bexley Village, Blackfen, Eltham etc which is a little flatter.

    The Knatts Valley and Eynsford area is a great place to ride, a few hills of note are Vigo Hill (a really nasty bastard), Exedown Road, and Birling Hill. The legs need a rest this weekend but next time you're headed out that way give me a shout and I'll introduce you to a few of them :lol:
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Rich158 wrote:
    The Knatts Valley and Eynsford area is a great place to ride, a few hills of note are Vigo Hill (a really nasty bastard), Exedown Road, and Birling Hill. The legs need a rest this weekend but next time you're headed out that way give me a shout and I'll introduce you to a few of them :lol:

    OK - having missed a week of cycling I'm itching to get out this weekend - but after that - sure - though my relative lack of fitness still shows when it comes to hills. :oops:
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Porgy wrote:
    Rich158 wrote:
    The Knatts Valley and Eynsford area is a great place to ride, a few hills of note are Vigo Hill (a really nasty bastard), Exedown Road, and Birling Hill. The legs need a rest this weekend but next time you're headed out that way give me a shout and I'll introduce you to a few of them :lol:

    OK - having missed a week of cycling I'm itching to get out this weekend - but after that - sure - though my relative lack of fitness still shows when it comes to hills. :oops:

    So did you get it welded or what? Don't tell me you sculpted it in gaffa tape.
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    will3 wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    Rich158 wrote:
    The Knatts Valley and Eynsford area is a great place to ride, a few hills of note are Vigo Hill (a really nasty bastard), Exedown Road, and Birling Hill. The legs need a rest this weekend but next time you're headed out that way give me a shout and I'll introduce you to a few of them :lol:

    OK - having missed a week of cycling I'm itching to get out this weekend - but after that - sure - though my relative lack of fitness still shows when it comes to hills. :oops:

    So did you get it welded or what? Don't tell me you sculpted it in gaffa tape.

    no - bought a new bike this morning
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Porgy wrote:
    will3 wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    Rich158 wrote:
    The Knatts Valley and Eynsford area is a great place to ride, a few hills of note are Vigo Hill (a really nasty bastard), Exedown Road, and Birling Hill. The legs need a rest this weekend but next time you're headed out that way give me a shout and I'll introduce you to a few of them :lol:

    OK - having missed a week of cycling I'm itching to get out this weekend - but after that - sure - though my relative lack of fitness still shows when it comes to hills. :oops:

    So did you get it welded or what? Don't tell me you sculpted it in gaffa tape.

    no - bought a new bike this morning
    :D
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    It's a cheap hybrid for me to get into work every day.

    I'm still looking to get a proper bike later in the year. :wink:
  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    Porgy wrote:
    It's a cheap hybrid for me to get into work every day.

    I'm still looking to get a proper bike later in the year. :wink:

    What'd you get?
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    a Transeo GT 3.0 - it was seriously marked down from it's original price - I gave it a go and it felt good.

    gt-transeo-30-v-brake-city-hybrid-bike-54671.jpg
    now you're all going to tell me why its crap. :oops:
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    I scared everyone off with a picture of my new hybrid :lol:
  • holybinch
    holybinch Posts: 417
    any bike >> no bike
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    I wouldn't go that far - if I understand you correctly - but I reckon this will see me through the summer...by then I might have a grand or so set aside for the next one.
  • holybinch
    holybinch Posts: 417
    You don't agree that any kind of back is vastly superior to no bike?
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    holybinch wrote:
    You don't agree that any kind of back [bike?] is vastly superior to no bike?

    I would agree that almost any bike is vastly superior to no bike.

    some bikes are just a waste of good cash tbh. If it can't cope with 30 miles a day for weeks on end then it's worse than useless to me.
  • holybinch
    holybinch Posts: 417
    But then, would it be the bike not coping with 30 miles, or you not coping with the bike for 30 miles? :lol:

    Just pulling your leg, though. At the moment, commuting on the girlfriend's Sirrus, which is a fairly decent bike, but is too small for me, and I can't wait for the cycle to work scheme so I can get my hands on a Fratello (or a CX, but that's another topic)

    If only facilities at work hurried up kicking out people who don't use their bike parking space and gave me one, I could use my roadie... :roll:

    (and yeah, bike, not back. Will teach me to try and sneak a post in a tiny window when the boss is in the room)
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    holybinch wrote:
    But then, would it be the bike not coping with 30 miles, or you not coping with the bike for 30 miles? :lol:

    It was me not coping up until January - but ultimately it was my bike that proved to be the lightweight in this relationship.
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    I've already got a picture of the bike on my desk - where the one of the missus used to be. :lol:
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    I have some disturbing news seems some people (yes you know who you are, lurker!) have been doing 400 miles in a week :shock:

    :evil:

    This will not do......
    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.
  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    itboffin wrote:
    I have some disturbing news seems some people (yes you know who you are, lurker!) have been doing 400 miles in a week :shock:

    :evil:

    This will not do......

    Should it be 500?
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Rich158 wrote:
    +1 to that, whereabouts do you commute porgy? I do gravesend to Greenwich, our paths may have crossed

    personally I always play in the knatts valley area, some great hills around there :lol:

    In the 6th form a schoolfriend used to commute from Stroud to Tonbridge. That seemed a little insane to me then.
    http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=6404
  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    jimmypippa wrote:
    In the 6th form a schoolfriend used to commute from Stroud to Tonbridge. That seemed a little insane to me then.


    :shock: Commute? Are you sure?
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Attica wrote:
    jimmypippa wrote:
    In the 6th form a schoolfriend used to commute from Stroud to Tonbridge. That seemed a little insane to me then.


    :shock: Commute? Are you sure?

    Typo: Strood, Rochester


    I can't seem to get the address of the route for google maps, but it is about 20-miles each way
    http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=6404
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Arrgh, bad cold this week so only cycled twice, just under 50-miles. I won't even bother putting it in for this week.
    http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=6404
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    With just 19 miles to go I declare today an official itboffin REST day :D

    Have you seen it out there? it's cats & dogs :lol:

    Interesting ride home last night/this morning, my DX light ran out of juice halfway home however it was so bright I didn't bother with the spare. Front dérailleur committed suicide with was not much fun, meh! had to MTFU.
    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.
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    Got back from Washington yesterday at about 3:30 (after a 3 hour delay in Newark - all thanks to the BA strike last weekend :evil: )... and went straight out on the bike. :D

    I was so tired I thought I was going to fall asleep riding along!!!

    Anyway another quick spin this morning keeps me on target to make 800 miles for the month, hopefully that'll keep me top 10 MTD.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    itboffin wrote:
    With just 19 miles to go I declare today an official itboffin REST day :D

    Have you seen it out there? it's cats & dogs :lol:

    Interesting ride home last night/this morning, my DX light ran out of juice halfway home however it was so bright I didn't bother with the spare. Front dérailleur committed suicide with was not much fun, meh! had to MTFU.

    Well sort of ........

    Get in 1002
    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.
  • kmc319
    kmc319 Posts: 56
    edited March 2010
    Just added myself here. Currently in at 27th!

    Wish I'd known about it last year - I'd have been second with exactly 8,500 miles.

    Doubt I'll do that sort of amount this year as the weather has led to a poor start and I'd already decided I was having an easier year, it's a good incentive though - hopefully it'll get me moving a bit.

    EDIT - Just checked, 8500 was in 2008. 2009 was actually 8,772.8.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Someone out there loves me, the sky just turned black as soot it's now hailing very very hard :lol:

    mmmm beer!
    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.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Porgy wrote:
    a Transeo GT 3.0 - it was seriously marked down from it's original price - I gave it a go and it felt good.

    gt-transeo-30-v-brake-city-hybrid-bike-54671.jpg
    now you're all going to tell me why its crap. :oops:

    looks fine! I'd make changes such as M+ etc but then I tend to low all weather milage, talking of which I need to clean the drive chain as it's a dark junk.....
  • gert_lush
    gert_lush Posts: 634
    Permission to feel a little bit smug :wink:

    Headed out on my own today on the superGalaxy with some oaty bars & bananas, some drink a mp3 player and page 11 of my road atlas and managed my 1st century of the year woooooohoooooooo

    101.2 miles (had to do a lap of clifton downs to get me over the 100 mark as I had slightly miscalculated an wasn't going to stop on 97! Managed to stay dry all day too, although was a bit touch ans go around glastonbury.

    very very tired now, eating lots, drinking lots and watching the track cycling....phew

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