Has noddergeddon started this year?

rubertoe

Its a couple of years old (2nd birthday in a few weeks) the flyers that you saw were for the great escape our club Audax.

http://www.islington.cc/

fat_tail

too many nodders. will have to start coming in earlier.
very large bloke in Northwave tights and t-shirt this AM on the Embankment. Kept jumping to the front at lights and then getting dispatched a few yards down the line. He had the most enormous thighs and calves I have seen and I am speaking as someone with quite large thighs.

spasypaddy

KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:

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...

its where all the nodders come from :P

willy b

spasypaddy wrote:

KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:

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...

its where all the nodders come from :P

Bit harsh. But yes, RP was a mess this morning, including a CCL crash.

rubertoe

willy b wrote:

spasypaddy wrote:

its where most of the nodders come from :P

Bit harsh. But yes, RP was a mess this morning, including a CCL crash.

FTFY

spasypaddy

rubertoe wrote:

willy b wrote:

spasypaddy wrote:

its where most of the nodders come from :P

Bit harsh. But yes, RP was a mess this morning, including a CCL crash.

FTFY

Fair fucks

i was clearly joking will!

willy b

I know

Kieran_Burns

I know I rarely cycle in or home via Nottingham (ish) but today's rides took me the longer route and I can honestly say I have never seen so many people riding bikes (outside of a sportive) before. I even made a joke about it to two pedestrians walking down a single track who had cyclists (considerately) bombing past them.

MrSweary

I see the Pinnacle bikes are gathering in our work garage for the spring spawning run.

spasypaddy

having now ridden with CCL this morning i can see why they would have accidents.

KnightOfTheLongTights

what's CCL?

spasypaddy

CC London

alan_sherman

So many cyclists on the roads today. Few of the old school 'nodder' though, lots of shiny cycle to work stuff, lots of mamils on race bikes.

I don't believe having more cyclists on the road makes the roads safer for cyclists. I had a very sketchy ride in due to cars trying to go past long lines of cyclists then squeezing in. Cyclists undertaking (including undertaking me to go up the inside of a left turning tipper truck), and the priceless one was a brompton riding lady who came off the pavement into the cycle lane I was in, then stopped dead just as a car was overtaking me. I'd slowed to stay behind her but wasn't expecting the emergency stop!

rhodrich

Phew - what a scorcher! I've just been for a wander around Green Park, and can confirm that Tit Monday is well and truly here!

GiantDance

Rhodrich wrote:

Phew - what a scorcher! I've just been for a wander around Green Park, and can confirm that Tit Monday is well and truly here!

It's Wednesday

KnightOfTheLongTights

Rhodrich wrote:

Phew - what a scorcher! I've just been for a wander around Green Park, and can confirm that Tit Monday is well and truly here!

Would love someone to design a road-sign warning cyclists of the dangers of early-summer rubber-necking...

MrSweary

Rhodrich wrote:

Phew - what a scorcher! I've just been for a wander around Green Park, and can confirm that Tit Monday is well and truly here!

I too went for a wander round Green Park and concur. Also full of idiot narcissists including a guy doing capoeira and repeatedly falling over. People were pointing and laughing.

rubertoe

KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:

Rhodrich wrote:

Phew - what a scorcher! I've just been for a wander around Green Park, and can confirm that Tit Monday is well and truly here!

Would love someone to design a road-sign warning cyclists of the dangers of early-summer rubber-necking...

I am awful at this.

MrSweary

rubertoe wrote:

KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:

Rhodrich wrote:

Phew - what a scorcher! I've just been for a wander around Green Park, and can confirm that Tit Monday is well and truly here!

Would love someone to design a road-sign warning cyclists of the dangers of early-summer rubber-necking...

I am awful at this.

I'm not a great sign designer either. Nothing to be ashamed of.

kayodot

Riding down Millbank and Chelsea Embankment tonight, I can confirm it has started.

pastryboy

I set out at 6 so don't see many others but the bike racks at work are crammed full now. The more the merrier I think as it hopefully heightens driver attention.

tgotb

MrSweary wrote:

a guy doing capoeira and repeatedly falling over.

Is that the Brazilian cocktail made with lime? If so, it makes me fall over too...

awavey

pastryboy wrote:

I set out at 6 so don't see many others but the bike racks at work are crammed full now. The more the merrier I think as it hopefully heightens driver attention.

or driver frustration, cant think the tipper truck that I saw overtaking a nodder round a blind bend towards a stream of oncoming traffic on a 60 limit road was thinking too much, it certainly heightened the attention of the drivers heading towards the tipper truck.

then there was the nodder last week who was so desperate to stay ahead me and not close him down, who almost managed to chuck his back wheel under the path of an X5, missed by less than a foot.

or the nodder built like the incredible hulk,Im guessing he does alot of gym weights work rather than cycles much, who bunny hopped off a cycle path into the road straight in front of a bus and then looked over his shoulder.

yep nice to see more people cycling, but please can they do the cycle sensibly thing too

vimfuego

It has most definitely started. I'm all for more people riding too - the more of us the better. BUT a percentage of the recently emerged nodders (they can be recognised by their pale skin, constant blinking at the sunlight, shiny new CTW steed/piece of cr*p they dragged out of the shed and maybe pumped the tyres up on, ridiculous amount of hi-viz clothing, rugger shorts, trainers, & for some reason winter jackets seem popular too....?) seem to have spent the winter forgetting how to ride sensibly.
Had some f*cknut last night who couldn't accept that someone might overtake him, so filtered like a lunatic (not a shoulder check in sight - no idea how he wasn't mown down a couple of time when he swept out in front of a car without looking) undertook me twice whilst I slowed for red lights, RLJ'd his weasly little guts out and for some reason seemed offended when I called him a bellend as he ran yet another red and nearly took a ped out in the process. Wasn't the only example of this breed of fool either. There were plenty of slow pokes about, but at least the majority of them are predictable, ride in a straight line, don't shove past you at lights for no reason and seem to be OK with the fact that everyone rides at their own pace.

I shouldn't really get too bothered by these idiots really, but "cyclists" (I wouldn't class this twunt as a cyclist really - just a bellend who happened to be on a bike) are so visible to motorists and Daily Mail readers during the commuting hours, that it just perpetuates the us & them attitudes.

Plus - where were you all winter eh? Lightweight. ;-)

iPete

Today, it started today.

fat_tail

iPete wrote:

Today, it started today.

no definitely today.... never seen so much hi-viz and rugby socks in my life.

elbowloh

I don't get the whole rugby/hockey sock thing.

What's the point?

Who started it?

Why has it caught on?

hopkinb

elbowloh wrote:

I don't get the whole rugby/hockey sock thing.

What's the point?

Who started it?

Why has it caught on?

It's what one wears to do exercise don't you know?

I had some tit pull up on my right today, and I was on the right hand side of the advanced stop box. When the lights turned green, they proceeded to turn left, across the bows of maybe 7 or 8 bemused cyclists. Completely oblivious. It it bad form to push the fcukers off their bikes? Obviously I never would, but the temptation is enormous.

Having said that, I had to haul on the anchors yesterday evening to avoid smashing into the back of a car who pulled over after passing me. I forgot I recently switched to clipless pedals, so elegantly toppled over onto my left knee. So maybe I'm a nodder too.

iPete

elbowloh wrote:

I don't get the whole rugby/hockey sock thing.

What's the point?

Who started it?

Why has it caught on?

As a former 'allez' man :oops: they are useful on cold mornings when you don't own much kit (3/4 shorts, knee warmers, toe covers etc.) and still ride in trainers, which are useless at keeping your feet warm.

dhope

iPete wrote:

elbowloh wrote:

I don't get the whole rugby/hockey sock thing.

What's the point?

Who started it?

Why has it caught on?

As a former 'allez' man :oops: they are useful on cold mornings when you don't own much kit (3/4 shorts, knee warmers, toe covers etc.) and still ride in trainers, which are useless at keeping your feet warm.

I still do half of winter in 3/4 and ski socks. Depends which is closest to the front of the wardrobe. Ski socks and S-Works slippers, it's a strong look...