Your Anti-Rants here

rubertoe

King Jeffers wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

coming along the cycle track last night homeward bound, i come around a corner an there is about 30 girls (look like they had just finished gcses or something) all dancing around

most of them had their tops unbuttoned!? :shock:

almost choked on my sandwich

Child protection will be knocking on your door soon.

mudcow007

rubertoe wrote:

King Jeffers wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

coming along the cycle track last night homeward bound, i come around a corner an there is about 30 girls (look like they had just finished gcses or something) all dancing around

most of them had their tops unbuttoned!? :shock:

almost choked on my sandwich

Child protection will be knocking on your door soon.

i didnt go looking for them (i didnt need too), they were all just hanging around on track!

veronese68

The joys of cycling:

Unfortunately this didn't happen to me.

gilmour84

New commute is 17 miles each way. And I am managing it in 1 hour 5 minutes. Saves me £4.40 and half an hour each way on PT. It also now has a few hills, so hopefully it will help me with my next sportive. Also not had a driver make a silly maneuver in about 3 weeks. Are they all in better moods because of the weather, or is it just my new route?

CiB

CiB wrote:

Earlier this year my speeds had fallen off a cliff and I thought that my best days were behind me, and I'd better get used to becoming a nodder with a speed limit of ~8mph. Just noticed that my last 3 commutes in have been avg spd of 19+mph, and going home isn't much worse. Yessss!!!! The legs & lungs are back. Clear the roads. :twisted:

Seriously it's a big relief. I'm officially old this year. I can cope with age, not with being slow.

Rgds
Lance.

Both arms aloft; wide grin, cheering crowds lining the ring road past the glider club, at Lidl's new shop and in the car park here. I thought these 19+ avgs ought to be beaten and a sub one hour commute bashed out again so I gave the old Betsy a bit of a clean last night and fitted the tri-bars, then went for it this morning. 20mph avg = 3mins per mile so a beady eye on the clock should keep me on track, and it did. At 6 miles I was 1m 20s up, and maintained that for the rest of the way give or take a bit then eased it out with a steady 27-28 for the last mile on the run-in.

20.3 miles, 0h 58m 23s. I'm claiming that as a PB, Olympic, World & UK All-comers record from my house to sunny Bicester, until someone* beats it. And whichever way you slice it, it's not bad for a slightly lardy middle-aged commuter. So. Arms aloft. I'll go and fight off the excitable girls in the project office in a minute.

* I have, twice actually, with a 59:56 and a 56:38 but both were quite helpfully wind-assisted. This was all me, with a bit of a cross wind in places.

rubertoe

Its Friday, I'm off work.

A package has just arrived with some Haribo and some free stuff from wiggle.

I have a new cassette and chain to fit and then a 50 miler planned for a bit later, in what i consider to be almost perfect conditions.

Life is good today.

suzyb

Got 2 bags of haribo with my recent wiggle order

London_Falcon

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: Guns n Roses, London O2 last night. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Awesome gig, ended 1:30am, didn't get home until 3:30am but made it to my desk for 9am and feeling weirdly ok....

V long weekend to recovery and get out on the bike. Happy days indeed.

asprilla

Rant with a silver lining:

We ask for more memory, more pairing stations, and decent monitors wor we can be more productive. None of this is authorised by finance.

Finance did however, authorise the purchase of the four 40" 3d LCD TVs we stuck on the end of the request for a laugh. We now have them in the office wired up to Sky 3d HD just in time for the Olympics, TdF, Wimbledon and Euro Championships.

One of them is situated directly above my monitor. Fun.

bails87

Despite being hit by a dozy driver, my bike is okay apart from the torn bar tape.

msmancunia

First day back on the bike after abdo keyhole surgery a week ago and all is well. Only thing I can moan about is that I went in with an innie and came out with an outie...

roger_merriman

msmancunia wrote:

First day back on the bike after abdo keyhole surgery a week ago and all is well. Only thing I can moan about is that I went in with an innie and came out with an outie...

Belly button?

keyhole stuff is amazing, my sister in law had some a few months back, remarkable.

msmancunia

Yep - belly button will never be the same again, but I feel right as rain, given that they were have a right good rummage like one of those grabber machines on the pier at Blackpool. No pain at all.

veronese68

I was supposed to have my appendix out with keyhole surgery. I woke up with a scar about 4" long. I told the surgeon he must have a f'ing big key and he replied that I'd had the biggest appendix he'd ever seen. Apparently it was about 6" long. I said "No appenDIX!" and checked I was still intact.

msmancunia

Veronese68 wrote:

I was supposed to have my appendix out with keyhole surgery. I woke up with a scar about 4" long. I told the surgeon he must have a f'ing big key and he replied that I'd had the biggest appendix he'd ever seen. Apparently it was about 6" long. I said "No appenDIX!" and checked I was still intact.

My belly button looks like it's been taken out, turned inside out, and put back in with a flat-head screwdriver

Twostage

msmancunia wrote:

My belly button looks like it's been taken out, turned inside out, and put back in with a flat-head screwdriver

Sounds like a scene from Alien.

redjeepǃ

On my commute home a couple of nights ago.

It was a beautiful evening and so I decided to take the long way home (30km instead of 10). I had a profound sense of realisation just how lucky I was that my commute took me through stunningly scenic countryside that most people would be jealous of and along deserted country lanes where (generally) the few drivers you meet are considerate and friendly.

To cap it all, climbing a hill on the last couple of km, I caught up with a guy who must have been 10- 15 years younger than me, on a much newer bike and in full lycra. I must have been doing twice his speed going up the hill and I was on my 15 year old commuter bike, MTB shorts and had a rucksack on my back.

redvee

Asprilla wrote:

Rant with a silver lining:

We ask for more memory, more pairing stations, and decent monitors wor we can be more productive. None of this is authorised by finance.

Finance did however, authorise the purchase of the four 40" 3d LCD TVs we stuck on the end of the request for a laugh. We now have them in the office wired up to Sky 3d HD just in time for the Olympics, TdF, Wimbledon and Euro Championships.

One of them is situated directly above my monitor. Fun.

To get the full effect of the TVs you'll need to wear the Joe90 specs which you'll have to take off if you look back at your monitor to do some work.

redjeepǃ

Asprilla wrote:

Rant with a silver lining:

We ask for more memory, more pairing stations, and decent monitors wor we can be more productive. None of this is authorised by finance.

Finance did however, authorise the purchase of the four 40" 3d LCD TVs we stuck on the end of the request for a laugh. We now have them in the office wired up to Sky 3d HD just in time for the Olympics, TdF, Wimbledon and Euro Championships.

One of them is situated directly above my monitor. Fun.

Proof, not that it should be needed, that Finance should never be allowed to have the authority to actually approve or deny things, they should only be there to check the sums of the people who know what's actually important to the business.

That's how it works at my place. Finance wouldn't ever reject something I've approved, but they may point out that it needs to be moved to a different budget. I generally go along, to make them feel wanted ....

DrLex

Redjeep! wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Rant with a silver lining:

We ask for more memory, more pairing stations, and decent monitors wor we can be more productive. None of this is authorised by finance.

Finance did however, authorise the purchase of the four 40" 3d LCD TVs we stuck on the end of the request for a laugh. We now have them in the office wired up to Sky 3d HD just in time for the Olympics, TdF, Wimbledon and Euro Championships.

One of them is situated directly above my monitor. Fun.

Proof, not that it should be needed, that Finance should never be allowed to have the authority to actually approve or deny things, they should only be there to check the sums of the people who know what's actually important to the business.

That's how it works at my place. Finance wouldn't ever reject something I've approved, but they may point out that it needs to be moved to a different budget. I generally go along, to make them feel wanted ....

Absolutely; in the same way, the Legal department shouldn't be there to block actions, but to ensure that they comply with the current legislation. As it is, they seem to spend their time construing narcolepsy-inducing leases, f**king up simple contracts and burning hot the same direct line as the HR dept to the firm of City Solicitors on an eye-watering level of retainer...

asprilla

redvee wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Rant with a silver lining:

We ask for more memory, more pairing stations, and decent monitors wor we can be more productive. None of this is authorised by finance.

Finance did however, authorise the purchase of the four 40" 3d LCD TVs we stuck on the end of the request for a laugh. We now have them in the office wired up to Sky 3d HD just in time for the Olympics, TdF, Wimbledon and Euro Championships.

One of them is situated directly above my monitor. Fun.

To get the full effect of the TVs you'll need to wear the Joe90 specs which you'll have to take off if you look back at your monitor to do some work.

Work, you say?

redvee

I went to Halfords I was strong and looked at the Vicky P pictures and didn't buy any bike bits cause they didn't have what I wanted. I did buy some threadlock though.

Agent57

This isn't really an anti-rant, but a passing question. I was musing about the forum today, and "whatever happened to lost_in_thought?" came to mind. Can't have seen her about for a few months or so. Maybe I missed something.

rick_chasey

Legs were really hurting today.

Still managed to put in a healthy performance on the way in .

Mr Sworld

Had a great weekend in the Yorkshire Dales.

Completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge (25 miles and 5,200 feet of ascent) in under 10 hours. 8)

SimonAH

Agent57 wrote:

This isn't really an anti-rant, but a passing question. I was musing about the forum today, and "whatever happened to lost_in_thought?" came to mind. Can't have seen her about for a few months or so. Maybe I missed something.

IIRC The lovely LIT has moved out of the smoke and is not commuting much and has less time to pop in here. I'm sure she'll stick her head around the door at some point.

jonny_trousers

Wiggo :shock:

Blonde Cyclist

Broken biscuit - all the calories must have leaked out

SimonAH

Spent four hours taking full loads of smiling kids on laps round the boating lake in Cwmbran on the pedicab. Absolutely fantastic fun in glorious sunshine. :-D

Even the odd yummy mummy :-D

DrLex

SimonAH wrote:

Spent four hours taking full loads of smiling kids on laps round the boating lake in Cwmbran on the pedicab. Absolutely fantastic fun in glorious sunshine. :-D

Even the odd yummy mummy :-D

I need a break from teh internetz - read "kids" and then "pedocab"...



Monday ought to be long enough