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kevsterjw
kevsterjw Posts: 45
edited August 2009 in Commuting chat
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  • gadgets
    gadgets Posts: 100
    good luck and happy riding tomorrow. I just did my first commute to work today :D
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    kevsterjw wrote:
    "its not a race"
    It is you know, it is!!! or at least it will become one very, very soon....
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    +1 Wallace :D
  • Hurricane151
    Hurricane151 Posts: 632
    "just got to remember "its not a race"

    after a while you will realise that it certainly is a race. as soon as someone goes past you then your competative streak will kick in and the need for more training and better bike will slowly take over. Or that maybe just me!!!
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Hurricane151 wrote:
    "Or that maybe just me!!!

    +1 and me..... Upgraded bike, now need to upgrade me.... Only 1 scalp today, but a lower FCN, so not really good. Not so many scalps to take on Maryhill Road....

    Maybe tonight, but then again with U2 and Arsenal both playing in Glasgow roads might be quiet....
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • fury21
    fury21 Posts: 71
    kevsterjw wrote:
    just got to remember "its not a race"
    Quite right.

    When you're ready, the... uh... 'self-help' guide is here

    :)
    itsnotarace.org - SCR Rules & FCN Calculator
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    What if there's no one to pass. Does that mean you can't play :(
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Should we rename today as Virgin Tuesday? :wink:

    So many new starters!

    Good Luck all :D
    Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Did someone say virgin!? :twisted:

    As in virgin scalps of course...
    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
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    -null- wrote:
    What if there's no one to pass. Does that mean you can't play :(

    You can just play with yourself.... sorry by yourself. :D

    Always be ready for someone to come along. Maryhill Road thows up a few surprises...
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    fury21 wrote:
    When you're ready, the... uh... 'self-help' guide is here

    :)

    Did you come up with that website? Top work if you did!
  • fury21
    fury21 Posts: 71
    -null- wrote:
    What if there's no one to pass. Does that mean you can't play :(

    Ah, this topic has been pondered before..
    Victor Ludorum wrote:
    The mighty racer does not decry the lack of opposition, he beats the wind itself.

    ;)
    Il Principe wrote:
    Did you come up with that website? Top work if you did!
    I am but a humble scribe (of lowly FCN 10). thanks though :wink:
    itsnotarace.org - SCR Rules & FCN Calculator
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    Or you can buy a Garmin Edge 705 and race yourself everyday.
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    we are the proud, the few, Descendents.

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  • kevsterjw
    kevsterjw Posts: 45
    edited September 2009
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  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    kevsterjw wrote:
    well pretty uneventful ride in, ten miles 45 mins, horrid hill just before work but did hit 61kph going down the othe side! :D

    one thing, christ I was freezing I need arm warmers and a better light.

    Well that's the hard one out of the way. It just gets easier now (honest).
    -Spider-
  • kevsterjw
    kevsterjw Posts: 45
    edited September 2009
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  • pedalo delgado
    pedalo delgado Posts: 25
    i don't race either :roll:
    usually its me against me on the nokia sportstracker doodah
    oh and watch out for bromptons - that stuff about clown bike is pesh
    some bugger keeps getting me on one at the sheriff court bridge :cry:
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    Food Chain Eight
    Nine If A Beardy

    But I Don't Race :-)

    I have a silver bike with plastic bits and a bell !
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Aye Bromptons are good. Couple of months ago met my first one on Milngavie Road, I caught up with him at lights. Thought I would give him a couple of yards then scalp him, however, the couple of yards turned into a couple of hundred and I realised horror of horrors I was drafting a beardie on a Brompton. Small hill by this time and I put the foot down and passed, still he kept within a hundred yards most of the way home, but the elastic was stretched. Gave me a new respect for those bikes.
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    meh, bromptons are quick on the flat, but they can't generally climb for tosh. I had one get me going down the oxford high street cos i was spinning out on my ss mtb, but i got him going up headington hill, with his stupid gearing he could match my grunt skywards.
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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    kevsterjw wrote:
    finally starting commuting to work as of tomorrow, 10 mile each way hoping for 45 mins.

    just got to remember "its not a race"

    Not a race and yet you're freely admiting to making it a time trial with your 45 minute target? :lol: Hoo Yoo Kiddin?

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