Best / Worst moments 2010 ?

3Pears

Ok what are folks best and worst moments on their bike during 2010 ??

Mine are :-

Best: Maratona dles Dolomites - awesome event, if anyone gets chance, just do it

Worst: Car pulling across my path, whilst I was doing 29mph BOOM :evil: if anyone gets chance DONT do it :shock:

Now really looking forward to 2011

Anonymous

Best:

First points finish in a BC race.

or

Beacon Little Mountain Time Trial. Just a generally brill day!

Worst:

Alpe d'Huez, felt terrible from the off, no power, dressed in summer clothing to be met by blizzard at the top.

or

National TLI Time trial, everytime I tried to put power down I threw up a little.

or

Needing a good ride in the last club 10 of the season to guarantee my handicap points championship win, I was FLYING, half a mile an hour up at the turnaround and feeling stronger by the mile when my saddle fell off.

Chiggy

Best moment.

Finished an Audax 100 on a shopping bike.


Worst.

There are no bad moments in cycling. They are "Learning experiences".

T.C.

Worst , hand injury meant 6 weeks off the bike, best, completing the T O Pembroke despite the 6 weeks off!

Pretre

Best: Getting my new De Rosa, after a 5 month wait, & taking it to Spain in late March for a great weeks cycling in glorious warm sunshine

Worst: Crashing into a car a week after coming back from Spain - triple, stable, pelvic fracture, 9 days in hospital, 2 months off work, 4 months on crutches, 11kg weight gain due to chronic boredom comfort eating.

Roll on 2011 - replaced the written-off De Rosa with a Colnago C59, which I picked up yesterday. Hopefully I'll keep it for a bt longer than 2.5 weeks this time!

greeny12

Good thread!

Best - two actually - 1) riding solo into a headwind to catch up to the back of a fast group over the Brecon Beacon moorland...I was so strong that day. 2) My first 'club run' with my new cycling team...grinned like a Cheshire cat for the rest of the day!

Worst - lying awake all night (and I mean ALL night) on the eve of the Marmotte. Every time I checked the clock another half an hour had dragged past and I realised all my months of preparation had been for nothing...

lochindaal

BEST: Finishing the Etape this year without having to stop and push at any time (I had to stop on Ventoux in the previous year on my first Etape attempt)

WORST: Spending 3hrs in the medical tent on a drip after finishing said Etape

bigmat

Best:

1. 50 minutes up the Col de Joux Plane, knocking 8 minutes off my PB.
2. The rest of my trip to the Alps, including a couple of stages of le tour.
3. Getting onto the podium for one of the two time trials I managed to enter.
4. Beating Russ Downing over a mile.
5. Another decent finish on the RP 3 lap challenge board.

Worst - basically I have had such a hectic year it comes down to a list of the events that I have ended up missing:

1. Milan San Remo.
2. All the annual hill climb events.
3. Any racing at Crystal Palace (or anywhere else).
4. Big G sportive.
5. Club handicap championship.

Roll on next year!

maddog 2

best - Marmotte, again

worst - cramp on the FWC was very annoying

TheStone

MatHammond wrote:

Best:
1. 50 minutes up the Col de Joux Plane, knocking 8 minutes off my PB.

20 mins slower, but that was a cool evening. Rain and lightning.

Other Best
- Flanders (long route) although parts of it I didn't enjoy.
- Cheshire Cat. In great form and the profile was perfect for me
- Golden Gate Bridge at the end of a 1700k mini tour.

Worst
- Washington, 2 days of rain, wind and loneliness at the start of mini tour.
- Morzine sportive. Started well, but tired and cold late on.
- Still not breaking 60 mins for Richmond Park !!!!!

phreak

3Pears wrote:

Ok what are folks best and worst moments on their bike during 2010 ??

Mine are :-

Best: Maratona dles Dolomites - awesome event, if anyone gets chance, just do it

+1 for that.

Worst: Not really that bad but the ice at some of the earlier sportives was a bit of a pain.

v718

Best

Placed Top 100 of the Hubert Arbes Sportive over the Soulor and the Tourmalet.

1hr and 15 for the Tourmalet from Luz.

Worst

Cramp in the Hubert Arbes ended up with a torn muscle 2 weeks before the etape didnt Ride!

Velonutter

Best

Riding from London to Paris in June 8)

Worst

Crashing 1/2 mile from the end :x

Brewsterwmb

makes good reading ^

For me -

Best - sportive results top 5 etc are up there but has to be La Marmotte ! Or my new Condor Leggaro!

Worse - crashing hard on the Dragon Ride. Still pulled myself home for a Gold standard time. Blood and ripped gloves etc hanging off....

Unclemonty121

Great thread

Best - Getting my Team Carbon in Jan and spending 6 months loving riding, with big summer plans, taking and keeping off nearly 3 stone.

Worst - Having a knee op in July and having been told I'd be off the bike for 2 weeks orginally, it has turned into a 6 month and still waiting lay off. Not ridden the new winter bike yet either

mididoctors

maddog 2 wrote:

worst - cramp on the FWC was very annoying

still a decent time thou IIRC

what was your marmotte time?

best moment: dropping the young uns

worst: slicing my hand in two!(not cycle related)

RonB

Best - going 'round the Birmingham Sky ride twice, with MiniRon loving every minute of it,

Worst - Bonk 8miles from the end of the Silverstone Sportive. To my horror the broom wagon was a hearse!

andy162

Best..

Ride from Sennen Cove to St Ives. Stunning weather & great coffee in St Ives.

Etape du Dales in 6h24, rode on my own & felt good all way round.

TLI Thursday night league. Good fun. Odd win too.

A weekend with my mates at Glentress/Innerliethen. Off road perfection!


Worst...

Jan & Feb.

Doing Ryedale Rumble with a hangover.

Snapping a chain whilst in 2 man break in local BC race...4 laps to go & gap getting bigger. Could've been in the bag!

Eagle RR in October.

nigelsmith

Best - Mow Cop, then FWC and the Etape both in under 8 hrs, John O Groats to Lands End in the first ride Across Britain

Worst - realising how crap I really was losing out in all the sprints at Hillingdon, never coming near a point.

Ah well there's always next year.

Ron Stuart

3Pears wrote:

Ok what are folks best and worst moments on their bike during 2010 ??

Mine are :-

Best: Maratona dles Dolomites - awesome event, if anyone gets chance, just do it

Worst: Car pulling across my path, whilst I was doing 29mph BOOM :evil: if anyone gets chance DONT do it :shock:

Now really looking forward to 2011

Did the Maratona in 2006 great event and can relate to car problem--- read on.

Best -
1. Being a pacer in the Johnny Helms Memorial 2-up Grand Prix des Gentleman on a perfect day with the who's who from yester-year to race against.

2. Ride from friends house in Montefiore Conca (Emilia Romagna) around Provincia di Pesaro - Urbino last May on a hot day taking in Tavoleto, Lunano, Urbania then Lunch in Urbino (people watching) after lunch down to Pesaro then the beautiful panoramic road through Fiorenzuola to Cattolica where meet wife/friends on beach for ice cream, then back to Montefiore via Morciano di Romagna, best solo ride ever.

Worst -
Being mown down by a hit and run driver last March, I was very lucky to come away with just cracked ribs and other minor injuries but you should of seen the state of the bike. Managed to make the local newspaper but alas the police never found the culprit.

AlunP

Best - Following the second half of the Tour - Granny ringing up the Tourmalet with my Mrs, a bike based tasting of les grand vins de Pauliac , head banging in Bourg. Chaingate. Seeing a legend (Lance) for the last time. The Bordeaux burn up - GO CAV.

Worst - the sickening feeling when I found out that my (best) bike had been nicked in Chester. It lasted for 10 full seconds - then I realised I had clamped it with my (best) lock to a different post 20 yards away.....

itboffin

Best: Cycling in the French Alps with fellow BR friends

Worst: Shoulder injury which now need surgery (17th Dec.)

2011 is going to be tough

blim

Best: Flanders, cresting the Muur

Worst: Coming off on ice in February. I could still feel the bruises in May.

schlepcycling

Best: Bought 2 new bikes, Scott Spark 30 MTB and BMC SLC01 with full 11 speed Record and got a cheque for £7k.........see below

Worst: Having all my bikes nicked!

cakewalk

Best. Cingles Du Ventoux

Worst. a/a. Due to lakc of training.

Tail end Charlie

Best
1. 55 minute downhill when on holiday in South of France when I didn't have to pedal at all.
2. Watching the penny farthing race in Knutsford.

Worst
1. Finding a crack in the head tube of my fixie which I had built up. It was just a hack bike, but I loved it.

Theomerchant

Best; Entering my first sportive (Ride the route-Tour of Worcester) last sept and even though I know its not a race coming 14th out of 120 riders!...AND I only started riding road bikes last March

Worst; Fist day out with my local club and causing a crash :?...boy did I feel guilty!!

captain_oakley

Best: Completing the Fred Whitton.
The chap and his kids handing out water on Hardknott

Worst: Having cycled through Boot Village at about 90 odd miles
to be confronted with Hardknott Pass and entering a world
of pain!! on the said Fred Whitton.


'Another coffee or are we off......'

Skippy2309

best: getting my fixed gear and caad9 and beating my missus on both even tho she was in the car :twisted:

worst: trashing my knee which has had me off the bike for close to 3months now :evil: mri tomorrow.... i got to say i am bloody nervous, just hope it gets sorted out

Skippy2309

best: getting my fixed gear and caad9 and beating my missus on both even tho she was in the car :twisted:

worst: trashing my knee which has had me off the bike for close to 3months now :evil: mri tomorrow.... i got to say i am bloody nervous, just hope it gets sorted out

3Pears

Good luck with your MRI scan skippy ! I get results of my knee scan this Friday :shock: