Has noddergeddon started this year?

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  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    hmmm... this morning could have been the morning for it but I was too late to witness the annual shambles. A good thread dredge though
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  • MrSweary
    MrSweary Posts: 1,699
    TBH it will be quite hard to tell on my route as it doesn't really get busy until I hit the Oval. Busier this morning but logic says it is still too cold for true noddergeddon to hit.

    I think at the moment we are just seeing the first emergence of the 'turbo-trainer roadie' who has been hibernating in his garage or spare room all winter. There is a preponderance of very clean bikes accompanied by a lot of trying hard.
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  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,974
    MrSweary wrote:
    TBH it will be quite hard to tell on my route as it doesn't really get busy until I hit the Oval. Busier this morning but logic says it is still too cold for true noddergeddon to hit.

    Agree. had to contend with ice in places this morning
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  • cookeeemonster
    cookeeemonster Posts: 1,991
    Not sure if it's started yet but I left slightly later than usual which means the number of cyclists doubles at least once i hit town.

    Overtook same guy 7 times this morning over a 4 mile stretch...one of those who has to get in front of traffic at the lights no matter what (by which i mean no matter how slow he is).

    Setting my alarm for EARLY FROM NOW ON!!!
  • vimfuego
    vimfuego Posts: 1,783
    Left just after 6 this morning as usual - definitely more cyclists about than there has been all winter (yes I'm taking the moral high ground) & much more apparent once you get beyond the Balham/Clapham arrondissement, which must also be known as the "Allez Man quarter" given the prevalence of rugger/hockey socks on show this morning. Can't imagine how bad it must get later in the morning. Bring on tit Monday I say!
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    MrSweary wrote:
    arran77 wrote:
    Are you only a 'real' commuter if you're die hard and cycle all year whatever the weather :lol:

    Correct.

    Including when injured the show must go on, wot wot
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    Also why do nodders think it acceptable to not wash their horrible hi-viz crap?

    Its not self cleaning!
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Tit Monday is that special day in the year when, for the first time, the temperature rises above that magical point which causes girls getting dressed in the morning to decide to show a bit of skin.

    "I was feeling a lot chirpier than usual this Monday morning. Probably because it was 'Tit Monday'."

    "Tit Monday". Excellent. Can't wait!
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  • rhodrich
    rhodrich Posts: 867
    Temporary halt to proceedings today, as the roads cleared of people in hi viz riding full suspension mountain bikes.

    I even extended my route, doing an extra Ballet School lap in Richmond Park in celebration. Rule number 9 isn't just a rule, it's a way of life......
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  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    Rhodrich wrote:
    Temporary halt to proceedings today, as the roads cleared of people in hi viz riding full suspension mountain bikes.

    I even extended my route, doing an extra Ballet School lap in Richmond Park in celebration. Rule number 9 isn't just a rule, it's a way of life......

    Yes I think the p * ss and cold kept a few fairweather faffers off the roads this a.m.
    I might squeeze in a couple of laps of RP on my way home tonight as it seems to be light(ish) now until about 18.45.
    Earn my beer.
  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Due to early morning decorating duties i'm suffering coming in for close to 9am, my god, what noddery cr4p.

    Thankfully some rain is thinning things out but up through Clapham to Stockwell some nodder was properly on the drops giving it some finely time to coincide with traffic chaos and an environment very condusive to death. Good luck to him but I won't be peeling him from inside an HGV's wheel arch.
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  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Due to early morning decorating duties i'm suffering coming in for close to 9am ...
    you get forced out of bed early to do decorating before work during the week? :shock: she must have some force of personality :)
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,865
    rower63 wrote:
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Due to early morning decorating duties i'm suffering coming in for close to 9am ...
    you get forced out of bed early to do decorating before work during the week? :shock: she must have some force of personality :)
    Personality, I was thinking along different lines... :oops:
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  • GiantDance
    GiantDance Posts: 129
    Thought it was a weekend this morning only saw 4 others all the way from CP to Bishopsgate, this was at 06:45 mind.
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  • anonymousblackfg
    anonymousblackfg Posts: 2,029
    Worse than that, the house isn't in any state to live in (but I live there) so she and miniABFG are away and return next week. Not enough hours in the days to sort the house around holding down a full time job as well.

    If anyone wants to organise a SCR painting/DIY party i'm all ears.
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  • MrSweary
    MrSweary Posts: 1,699
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Worse than that, the house isn't in any state to live in (but I live there) so she and miniABFG are away and return next week. Not enough hours in the days to sort the house around holding down a full time job as well.

    If anyone wants to organise a SCR painting/DIY party i'm all ears.

    Would be willing to help just as soon as we finish ours. Only 8 months in. :roll:
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,865
    MrSweary wrote:
    anonymousblackfg wrote:
    Worse than that, the house isn't in any state to live in (but I live there) so she and miniABFG are away and return next week. Not enough hours in the days to sort the house around holding down a full time job as well.

    If anyone wants to organise a SCR painting/DIY party i'm all ears.

    Would be willing to help just as soon as we finish ours. Only 8 months in. :roll:
    Only 8 months :shock:
    I'm 20 years in and on the third lap. Never ending.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    What's the led equivalent of a nodder? A plodder perhaps, well they're sure out in force today.

    Fav past time of a plodder, dragging a child across busy rush hour traffic, perf between lorries and buses
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    I have a couple of year round nodders I pass, but no new nodders, although depending on the weather there are now more bikes in the racks at work now!
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  • rhodrich
    rhodrich Posts: 867
    Felt like a continuous stream of nodderage on my route this morning. On the one hand, it's quite annoying at traffic lights. On the other, it sure does feel good to be riding in primary overtaking them all. I do need to start wearing sunglasses though, as the hi-viz overload appears to have burnt a hole in my retina.
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  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    Oh my, if it hadn't already - it has now.
  • cookeeemonster
    cookeeemonster Posts: 1,991
    KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:
    Oh my, if it hadn't already - it has now.

    +1 :)

    Saw my first bike smash today...on nodderville (cable st cs3). Guy coming too fast round a blind(ish) corner...WHAM!

    Happened to the guy in front of me...could've been me so in that sense a wake up call. Luckily both ok but the front wheel was buckled to funk of the guy who's fault it was. Bas start to the day for them :(
  • MrSweary
    MrSweary Posts: 1,699
    Lousy with them this morning. Lots of shiny bikes with wheezing geezers on them and wheezy bikes with shiny geezers on them. Bike racks are getting full already.

    If it means I get to ride in the sun I'm all for it. Also, strangely, I felt faster this morning in summer bibs... :?
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  • spasypaddy
    spasypaddy Posts: 5,180
    regents park was horrible this morning
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  • bendertherobot
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    I haven't looked in on this thread because I thought, round my way, it didn't matter. Taff Trail into Cardiff.

    But, I was wrong. Plain wrong.
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  • Pufftmw
    Pufftmw Posts: 1,941
    Loampit Hill & OKR was positively flooded with slow moving chicanery. Most were well behaved but there's always one dipstick RLJ :roll:

    Prize of the day goes to the hipster looking plum who pulled out 2m from behind a stationary lorry into the oncoming traffic lane looking at something on his right... Unfortunately it was straight into my path but fortunately I was able to stop 1 inch from his front wheel (love my new disc brakes :) ) "oh, my bad" he said...
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  • corriebee1
    corriebee1 Posts: 390
    It's certainly in full swing in Cambridge now. And i have to confess to being one of the nodders!

    I think i lost my scalp about half a dozen times last Summer in total. Yesterday i lost it TWICE! Once to an old man in the morning, and once to a single speed dude in t-shirt and trainers in the evening! It's enough to drive me back into the car again!

    Need to get fit again. Upping the distance next week to 14 miles e/w.
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    spasypaddy wrote:
    regents park was horrible this morning


    ICC Chaingang?
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  • spasypaddy
    spasypaddy Posts: 5,180
    rubertoe wrote:
    spasypaddy wrote:
    regents park was horrible this morning


    ICC Chaingang?
    no. didn't see one islington jersey in the park
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  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    spasypaddy wrote:
    rubertoe wrote:
    spasypaddy wrote:
    regents park was horrible this morning


    ICC Chaingang?
    no. didn't see one islington jersey in the park

    So what's the score with this ICC then? New club?
    Saw flyers for it and a couple of jerseys in the LMNH caff when we popped in there to watch Flanders the other day...

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