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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    salsajake wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    With everyone piling the miles on, February's going to be the longest shortest month...

    I hadn't considered that actually, need to get at least 500, 600 might be a push

    thanks
    Can you all have a few days off? Last year was pretty easy - an extra day's commute would keep me in the top 20, sometime borderline top 10. Mid 30s now and nowhere, despite commuting from almost the start of the year. Give the old slower fat kids a chance... :(

    We can't have "he who has the power to pull the plug" in a bad mood! Be kind and let him move up the line folks!


    :lol:
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    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    salsajake wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    With everyone piling the miles on, February's going to be the longest shortest month...

    I hadn't considered that actually, need to get at least 500, 600 might be a push

    thanks
    Can you all have a few days off? Last year was pretty easy - an extra day's commute would keep me in the top 20, sometime borderline top 10. Mid 30s now and nowhere, despite commuting from almost the start of the year. Give the old slower fat kids a chance... :(

    We can't have "he who has the power to pull the plug" in a bad mood! Be kind and let him move up the line folks!
    Too right. It's half term next week too so no miles for me whilst we're away. Not good.

    I remember being top once, when I first signed up to this nonsense. Then some other commuters joined in and that was that.

    Keep it up everyone. You're all doing very well. <waves stick in air, nurse pushes bathchair away...>
    :)
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    0 miles yesterday. Post Superbowl day off work and was just too lazy to get on the bike. Gonna have to make up for that over the coming days.

    you got cocky and dropped like a stone :wink:


    Given what's been said we need Cib in a wookies outfit I think :lol:

    to anyone who wants to be top, start your own mini league with just you in it.
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  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    Clever Pun wrote:
    you got cocky and dropped like a stone :wink:

    tonight's planned miles should get me back on track for the 800 though.
    As yet unnamed (Dolan Seta)
    Joelle (Focus Expert SRAM)
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    nic_77 - great mini-league there; Rural Riders. There must be a few of us - hop over and add yourself to it (as long as you aren't likely to beat me that is).

    Nice one - exactly how I envisaged the ML being used. :idea:
  • barry_kellett99
    barry_kellett99 Posts: 480
    What qualifies as being rural?!
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  • cuthbertrogergaylord
    cuthbertrogergaylord Posts: 58
    The gaylord cometh!

    I have just rocketed into 3rd place in the commuters beginning with C mini league.

    Alas I will be off for one whole month :x :x following shoulder surgery next wednesday so will likely be down the bottom (and fat!) come mid march.
  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    barry_kellett99 wrote:
    What qualifies as being rural?!

    I see quite a bit of wildlife... giraffes, monkeys (London Zoo)... roadkill (Regents Park), and a lot of my route is regualrly covered in horse **** (St Johns Wood Barracks)... i guess that doesn't count though.
    As yet unnamed (Dolan Seta)
    Joelle (Focus Expert SRAM)
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    barry_kellett99 wrote:
    What qualifies as being rural?!
    Does your neighbour hang over the gate chewing on a bit of hay and use baler twine for a belt? Does he live 4 miles away and have a collie dog permanently round his feet? You're rural. (Say hello to my Dad next time you pass him.)

    Rural in my book is not urban, which is > about 2/3 of your ride bing out in the sticks. Maybe. No-one cares really, unless DDD or similar tries to claim a rural commute. Some are too London-centric to get away with it.
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    edited February 2010
    barry_kellett99 wrote:
    What qualifies as being rural?!
    Do you feel rural? Do you hit the central locking button on the car when you go into town? :lol:

    It's fairly arbitrary really... but we could always make some rules? For example, at least three of the following must apply:
    - No traffic lights
    - Less than 10% of the route is lit by streetlights
    - You have to avoid manure on the road
    - You can ride at least a mile with only the sound of your bike and birds tweating (not a twitter reference)
    - You see a tractor / farmer working
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    cuthbertrogergaylord wrote:
    The gaylord cometh!

    I have just rocketed into 3rd place in the commuters beginning with C mini league.
    PMSL. A coffee / keyboard moment. :D
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    nic_77 wrote:
    barry_kellett99 wrote:
    What qualifies as being rural?!
    Do you feel rural? Do you hit the central locking button on the car when you go into town? :lol:

    It's fairly arbitrary really... but we could always make some rules? For example, at least three of the following must apply:
    - No traffic lights
    - Less than 10% of the route is lit by streetlights
    - You have to avoid manure on the road
    - You can ride at least a mile with only the sound of your bike and birds tweating (not a twitter reference)
    - You see a tractor / farmer working
    Good. I'd add 'regular encounters with girls on horses'. That's more of an aspiration than a qualifier tho tbh.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    I suggest a Celtic League, for the Irish, Welsh and Scottish.

    Stricter qualification than the football obv., knowing someone who drank a pint of Guiness one time wouldn't really cut it, you have to live there.

    Do you have to set it up CIB, or can anyone do it?
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Anyone can create and modify a ML. Security not included here...
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    barry_kellett99 wrote:
    What qualifies as being rural?!

    I'm near a Park, with lots of deer, fluffy rabbits, foxes and squirrels. Also, girls on horses pass my house regularly. (Their steeds cr@p in the road just as regularly.)

    Is that rural? (I live in Kingston upon Thames.)

    @WMC - a storming idea. 8) We should consider sponsorship, you know. This could go global.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    CiB wrote:
    cuthbertrogergaylord wrote:
    The gaylord cometh!

    I have just rocketed into 3rd place in the commuters beginning with C mini league.
    PMSL. A coffee / keyboard moment. :D

    holy cr@p I'm top 8)
    Purveyor of sonic doom

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    Fixed Pista- FCN 5
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Clever Pun wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    cuthbertrogergaylord wrote:
    The gaylord cometh!

    I have just rocketed into 3rd place in the commuters beginning with C mini league.
    PMSL. A coffee / keyboard moment. :D

    holy cr@p I'm top 8)

    Not for long, sunshine; not for long. :wink:
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    CiB wrote:
    No-one cares really, unless DDD or similar tries to claim a rural commute. Some are too London-centric to get away with it.

    Rural is wherever the underground stops. So Brixton or Merton if you live South West of London.

    My stats since I dropped my cycle computer and lost all my stats
    DDD - 319.2 - 319.2 - 69 - x
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    No-one cares really, unless DDD or similar tries to claim a rural commute. Some are too London-centric to get away with it.

    Rural is wherever the underground stops. So Brixton or Merton if you live South West of London.

    My stats since I dropped my cycle computer and lost all my stats
    DDD - 319.2 - 319.2 - 69 - x

    I go for london, inside the M25 not perfect but close.

    the area of london I live in has not been rural for many years, and is some way from the tube.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    WheezyMcChubby wrote:
    I suggest a Celtic League, for the Irish, Welsh and Scottish.

    Stricter qualification than the football obv., knowing someone who drank a pint of Guiness one time wouldn't really cut it, you have to live there.

    Do you have to set it up CIB, or can anyone do it?

    do you mean those who are Irish, Welsh or Scottish? or those who commute in said countries?
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Sometimes I just say things and am amazed that people take them so seriously.

    From Brixton there has got to be another 50miles, at least, of built up city in all Southerly directions.

    My Gran is from a Mountain in Jamaica - that's rural.
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    My stats since I dropped my cycle computer and lost all my stats
    DDD - 319.2 - 319.2 - 69 - x


    Get them in the table.

    Careful though, it's addictive.
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  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    roger merriman wrote:
    knowing someone who drank a pint of Guiness one time

    :idea: Hmmmm a Guinness drinkers' mini-league
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    roger merriman wrote:
    knowing someone who drank a pint of Guiness one time

    :idea: Hmmmm a Guinness drinkers' mini-league
    Sorted. See ML page... (it may well disappear tonight without warning)
    Edit - I'm top. Whoopeee
  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    CiB wrote:
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    roger merriman wrote:
    knowing someone who drank a pint of Guiness one time

    :idea: Hmmmm a Guinness drinkers' mini-league
    Sorted. See ML page... (it may well disappear tonight without warning)
    Edit - I'm top. Whoopeee
    *whistles nonchalantly*
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    cjcp wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    cuthbertrogergaylord wrote:
    The gaylord cometh!

    I have just rocketed into 3rd place in the commuters beginning with C mini league.
    PMSL. A coffee / keyboard moment. :D

    holy cr@p I'm top 8)

    Not for long, sunshine; not for long. :wink:

    fully aware of that, but for now miles in the bag... revel in short lived glory
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  • mkirby
    mkirby Posts: 365
    im so in on the rural league. I have to dodge cute girls on horses (though im usually shitting my self too much to notice, cant stand the things), the many farmers with guns, tractors and random farm animals. The roads are covered in animal crap which hides the moon crater that is the road surface.
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    JonGinge wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    roger merriman wrote:
    knowing someone who drank a pint of Guiness one time

    :idea: Hmmmm a Guinness drinkers' mini-league
    Sorted. See ML page... (it may well disappear tonight without warning)
    Edit - I'm top. Whoopeee
    *whistles nonchalantly*

    Sorry Ginge, I knew two other black pint drinkers... If only some way of resetting morpeth regulars to drinking volumes. I might have a chance of being in the top 5 that way. :D
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    DonDaddyD wrote:

    My Gran is from a Mountain in Jamaica - that's rural.

    I grew up in devon.. also rural... still doesn't count :P
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    I'd say I'm rural but because I ride along the main road there are two sets of traffic lights, no manure on the road and I can't ride a mile without traffic noise :(
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