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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Rolf F wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    My weekend rides might already push me over a 1000 feet on average. There are a lot of hills in Kent.

    Hills? In Kent? Naaah, just topographic irregularities :lol:

    PS - you can't come in! :P

    the hills in your sig look weak
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  • benno68
    benno68 Posts: 1,689
    Thanks for the advice fella's.

    We both work in the same place, but I cycle in as I need to stay in work a bit later usually. I live just under 4 miles from my workplace so maybe I'd have to work a "bike spending account" out on taxi fares :D

    I'd like to say that Mrs Benno is great, lets me keep my bike indoors, bike stand currently under the stairs and she no longer questions me for looking lovingly at the bike when we're watching the TV :lol:

    October's the time to push, my birthday and 2 years of cycling behind me and hopefully 7000 miles done in total, but damn I a carbon bike for the summer!
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    None of that advice works for me

    1. I'm seperated from my wife so my money's my own - there's just not enough of it.
    2. my travel is free so there's no savings to be made from cycling
    3. bloody pay freeze likely to keep things that way for the forseeable future

    any bankers out there willing to let me have 0.001% of their bonus.


    Please? :(
  • salsajake
    salsajake Posts: 702
    Porgy wrote:
    None of that advice works for me

    1. I'm seperated from my wife so my money's my own - there's just not enough of it.
    2. my travel is free so there's no savings to be made from cycling
    3. bloody pay freeze likely to keep things that way for the forseeable future

    any bankers out there willing to let me have 0.001% of their bonus.


    Please? :(

    the pay freeze is probably due to all the money in the economy being thrown back to the banks in the first place, to fritter away as they see fit, yet again...
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Porgy wrote:
    None of that advice works for me

    1. I'm seperated from my wife so my money's my own - there's just not enough of it.
    2. my travel is free so there's no savings to be made from cycling
    3. bloody pay freeze likely to keep things that way for the forseeable future

    any bankers out there willing to let me have 0.001% of their bonus.


    Please? :(

    put something together... over time ebay, beg, borrow etc.. buy a cheap frame and go from there.. SS or fixed nice and cheap if you buy sensibly
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Clever Pun wrote:
    the hills in your sig look weak

    M'eh! Those are just my commute hills. They are a bit weak but they are worth over 1000 feet. So nyaah, nyaaah, nyaahhhhhh!!!!! :lol:
    Faster than a tent.......
  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    MTFU'd today for the 2nd time this year and commuted by bike to work.

    This was a new commute as I recently moved and it is now 17.5 miles each way. Going home is uphill though :roll:

    Not sure that I will commute again until mid-March with the forecast weather and a skiing holiday coming up. Then I am going to enjoy making progress up the table :)
  • salsajake
    salsajake Posts: 702
    Coopster the 1st wrote:

    This was a new commute as I recently moved and it is now 17.5 miles each way. Going home is uphill though :roll:

    better than the other way round in some ways, as at least it makes getting out of bed a bit easier knowing you can cruise in to some extent. How far uphill, are you in the 1000' a day mini-league?
  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    salsajake wrote:
    Coopster the 1st wrote:

    This was a new commute as I recently moved and it is now 17.5 miles each way. Going home is uphill though :roll:

    better than the other way round in some ways, as at least it makes getting out of bed a bit easier knowing you can cruise in to some extent. How far uphill, are you in the 1000' a day mini-league?

    Yep, that is a positive to the route.

    Miss out on the hilly mini-league by around 250' as 8 miles each way is pan-flat and most of the rest is just a couple of % false flat :roll:
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    My bike is fixed and I pick it up in the morning. I'm all excited now. :lol:
  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    Got a bit carried away this evening... cute jogger going round Regents Park so though "i'll keep doing laps till she leaves".... turned out she had good stamina and I ended up doing 30miles :P
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    Got a bit carried away this evening... cute jogger going round Regents Park so though "i'll keep doing laps till she leaves".... turned out she had good stamina and I ended up doing 30miles :P

    Yeah

    Jurys tend to accept those sort of explanations
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  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    WheezyMcChubby wrote:
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    Got a bit carried away this evening... cute jogger going round Regents Park so though "i'll keep doing laps till she leaves".... turned out she had good stamina and I ended up doing 30miles :P

    Yeah

    Jurys tend to accept those sort of explanations

    lucky i was on my bike or i wouldn't have stood a chance of catching her with my hanky and chloroform.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    @porgy what's happened to your mileage? I thought you was nails! :lol:

    Due to the lack of stats to update other than my rapidly increasing weight and waistline has forced my to do this.....

    This is where i've been staying for the last week, check out the weather http://www.weatherzone.com.au/wa/gascoyne/monkey-mia

    Mmmm toasty :twisted:

    Just gone 11am and it's 32.4c phew! must be time for another beer :wink:
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    edited February 2010
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    Got a bit carried away this evening... cute jogger going round Regents Park so though "i'll keep doing laps till she leaves".... turned out she had good stamina and I ended up doing 30miles :P

    Oddjob, I wish you'd use the milage addition feature like the rest of us, that way no only would the WTD and MTD columns work for you, you'd also be able to add the correct ride type to each ride for example "commuting" and "perving" :wink:
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Porgy wrote:
    My bike is fixed and I pick it up in the morning. I'm all excited now. :lol:

    Two inevitable things about silly commuter stats:

    ITB's knees will give out
    Porgy's bike will break.
  • salsajake
    salsajake Posts: 702
    I've noticed that from the mini-leagues it seems that a good chunk of the people out there pounding out massive miles are married with kids and drink guiness. Is that down to the wives or the kids I wonder...
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    itboffin wrote:
    @porgy what's happened to your mileage? I thought you was nails! :lol:

    My bike can't take it, needed a service so I've been bikeless this week.

    My target is 150 miles a week - I'm only 60 down - so I intend to claw it back at the weekend.
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    will3 wrote:
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    Got a bit carried away this evening... cute jogger going round Regents Park so though "i'll keep doing laps till she leaves".... turned out she had good stamina and I ended up doing 30miles :P

    Oddjob, I wisho you'd use the milage addition feature like the rest of us, that way no only would the WTD and MTD columns work for you, you'd also be able to add the correct ride type to each ride for example "commuting" and "perving" :wink:

    +1

    I like to see that when someone jumps ahead of me they've done some proper mileage and then all you can say is well done.

    Although if you think the police will do you with the incriminating evidence maybe some code would help
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    salsajake wrote:
    I've noticed that from the mini-leagues it seems that a good chunk of the people out there pounding out massive miles are married with kids and drink guiness. Is that down to the wives or the kids I wonder...

    well Guinness is the tastiest beer FACT! Being married was pure luck for me, bum deal for mrs itboffin, kids well is was talked into it :)

    @porgy seriously running with one bike shows a lack of commitment to the fraternity :)

    it's actually too hot to go out ATM, I'm sitting watching the sea & drink wine ;)

    top tip: talking mrs itboffin out on a sunset cruise tomorrow night followed by a dinner (just the two of us) - at which point I'll reach across hold her hand and break the news..... Of the new arrival!

    Beans for dinner for the rest of the year :)
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    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.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Finally through the 1,000 mile barrier. Feeling every mile this morning, too...
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    cjcp wrote:
    Finally through the 1,000 mile barrier. Feeling every mile this morning, too...

    Bad cjcp. Saying "Finally through the 1,000 mile barrier" when you are about the second person on the board to do it is a) showing off and b) rubbing salt into the inadequacies of the rest of us - boo hiss :lol:
    Faster than a tent.......
  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    Clever Pun wrote:
    +1

    I like to see that when someone jumps ahead of me they've done some proper mileage and then all you can say is well done.

    I'll start from next month.... just for you :P
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  • hambones
    hambones Posts: 407
    The pack are closing :( I can feel their hot breath on my buffed-up neck, I can hear their rasping in my ear (must be a severe gradient).... :D

    My commute was cut 7 miles short last night due to a visit from the PF. I know this is no excuse as I should have been able to fix it by the roadside etc etc, but sometimes you just can't refuse the offer of a rather attractive work colleague to run you home.... :)
    Still breathing.....
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    +1

    I like to see that when someone jumps ahead of me they've done some proper mileage and then all you can say is well done.

    I'll start from next month.... just for you :P

    thank you
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  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    In fact... i've started from this week, although i had to mess around a bit to work out how it was going to accept the data. All correct now with this weeks individual rides.
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  • salsajake
    salsajake Posts: 702
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    In fact... i've started from this week, although i had to mess around a bit to work out how it was going to accept the data. All correct now with this weeks individual rides.

    2 hours on a commute - that's commitment! Mine has just gone up to around low 1:20s on the way in (as I have changed route) and that is definitely long enough thank you! Should be down to below the 20s once I'm back in the groove and all this thick gloopy cold air dissolves away. Is it true that there is less wind resistance when the air is warmer or have I just made that up?
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    salsajake wrote:
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    In fact... i've started from this week, although i had to mess around a bit to work out how it was going to accept the data. All correct now with this weeks individual rides.

    2 hours on a commute - that's commitment!

    If you read back a bit you'll find that he wasn't actually commuting as such, just admiring the scenery, or somthing
  • salsajake
    salsajake Posts: 702
    will3 wrote:
    salsajake wrote:
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    In fact... i've started from this week, although i had to mess around a bit to work out how it was going to accept the data. All correct now with this weeks individual rides.

    2 hours on a commute - that's commitment!

    If you read back a bit you'll find that he wasn't actually commuting as such, just admiring the scenery, or somthing

    still commitment, just a different type! The average speed presumably suffered too, dropping to roughly jogging pace I guess!
  • R_T_A
    R_T_A Posts: 488
    I seem to be languishing in the mid-30s (on the table - not life generally).

    Sadly, just getting to work and back at the moment is enough of a chore, with the little 'un deciding 04:00 is a good time for breakfast for the last two weeks :evil:
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