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tlw1tlw1 Posts: 21,542
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Local 5k race - not yet fixed but agreed to do it with friends last night and obviously want to crush them.

A few jobs and then probably the local as we avoid the house as the youngest is having a party.
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  • sungodsungod Posts: 15,901
    'ning

    feels like a nippy start, gilet i think, august, brrrr, at least it's bright

    ride cafes laze bubbly outing

    crush them without mercy tlw
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • thistle_thistle_ Posts: 6,937
    'Ning

    15 degrees here, back to scorchio. Maybe.

    8 hours sleep but feel like I could do with another 8 hours :tired_face:

    Off for a gentle bike ride with a friend to check out some cafes, assuming the puncture fairy didn't visit overnight.
  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 11,627
    Morning All. Parkrun beckons then pander to the OH,s whims. Eldest doing similar with his Klingon and young oxo at work. Was going to run to and from Parkrun but backs twinging and I've got a 10k race tomorrow so taking it easy. Promised to meet a mate later to plan next year's bike tour. Might be a late night. Dull and coolish here in south Derbyshire. Good luck TLW go thrash them. Perhaps a side bet with free beer for the winner as a sweetener.
    Too many bikes according to Mrs O.
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 56,262
    Legs survived yesterday's Ide Hill/Toys Hill climb. May try a run as recommended by the physio. In the meantime, drop junior to the station for a day in London (there are a few trains running), head out with hounds then get supplies.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinnopinno Posts: 50,097
    5k ain't enough furlongs for that horse.

    It's pouring. Supposed to brighten up later but when is 'later' ?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • beansnikpohbeansnikpoh Posts: 1,277
    It was nippyish at 7. Warmed up though. Basking on my front porch while I finish my bottle. Found a group of 5 who were going my way at my pace for about half of my ride, which is always nice. Joined in, did my pulls. Makes it much easier, but for someone who rides solo, it feels like cheating.
  • pinnopinno Posts: 50,097
    But a conducive group of individuals can be the best bike rides. Also, you can go a lot further.

    There are so many cyclists here locally. I see them regularly and it would be great if you could get them together. However, there are 5 or 6 individuals whom I could name starting with c.unt 1 and c.unt 2 etc who will frequent a group ride and who will dictate the pace, the route and who will take over. It has happened all too frequently and people end up being pi$$ed off and the cohesion quickly fabricates.

    Ironically, c.unts 1 to 6 ended up in a little clique and then due to their ego's, no longer talk to each other after multiple fall outs and no longer ride together.

    If I could assemble some strong enough people who would be confident enough to tell them to either roll with the collective or f.uck off...
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • orraloonorraloon Posts: 12,146
    Just do one's own thang.

    'Super' Saturday? It's like effing November here, blowing and wet, not forecasting to back off and let the sun glimpse out until late afternoon. Erse. An indoors day beckons. Erse again, I wanted to go for a pedal pootle. Watch a flat Vuelta stage with beaucoup de Wittermouth? Guess I could mute him.
  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 24,015
    pinno said:

    But a conducive group of individuals can be the best bike rides. Also, you can go a lot further.

    There are so many cyclists here locally. I see them regularly and it would be great if you could get them together. However, there are 5 or 6 individuals whom I could name starting with c.unt 1 and c.unt 2 etc who will frequent a group ride and who will dictate the pace, the route and who will take over. It has happened all too frequently and people end up being pi$$ed off and the cohesion quickly fabricates.

    Ironically, c.unts 1 to 6 ended up in a little clique and then due to their ego's, no longer talk to each other after multiple fall outs and no longer ride together.

    If I could assemble some strong enough people who would be confident enough to tell them to either roll with the collective or f.uck off...

    This was my exact experience too. Less so than with clubs but still.
    This is why I now tend to ride solo or meet up with a couple of oldies for a pootle & coffee.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinnopinno Posts: 50,097
    I would have no hesitation doing a century in a group. Solo? I'm working on it.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 24,015
    pinno said:

    I would have no hesitation doing a century in a group. Solo? I'm working on it.

    Easy. Chuck in a cafe stop and it's simply 2x50 miles. You do need to enjoy your own company though. 😉 My record is a 3 stop 170 miles.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • sungodsungod Posts: 15,901
    cold, gloomygrey, and more bad drivers in the last couple of hours than in the previous four weeks

    plus whichever stupid council it is (camden i suspect) has installed rows of cyclist impaling posts on yet another road, making life more unpleasant and dangerous for both drivers and, especially, cyclists

    increasingly considering relocating somewhere warmer and saner
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • pinnopinno Posts: 50,097
    pblakeney said:

    pinno said:

    I would have no hesitation doing a century in a group. Solo? I'm working on it.

    Easy. Chuck in a cafe stop and it's simply 2x50 miles. You do need to enjoy your own company though. 😉 My record is a 3 stop 170 miles.
    I have done quite a few but that was before.
    [...and yes I do enjoy being solo out in the sticks]
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • beansnikpohbeansnikpoh Posts: 1,277
    sungod said:

    cold, gloomygrey, and more bad drivers in the last couple of hours than in the previous four weeks

    plus whichever stupid council it is (camden i suspect) has installed rows of cyclist impaling posts on yet another road, making life more unpleasant and dangerous for both drivers and, especially, cyclists

    increasingly considering relocating somewhere warmer and saner

    Are they the "segregation" posts for cycle lanes? I hate them. I discovered the other day that they fold over if driven over.

    Cycle lanes suck balls unless you're an inept cyclist, and even then they suck balls because they instil a false sense of security. I've seen 2 right hooks through queuing traffic, and more left hooks than I can shake a stick at.
  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 11,627
    I hate being in large groups purely because I always end up with the knobs in the groups riding like lunatics and causing accidents. Prefer to ride solo or small groups of people I know. Max distance is 140 to date but that will change soon hopefully.
    Too many bikes according to Mrs O.
  • sungodsungod Posts: 15,901
    beansnikpoh said:

    sungod said:

    cold, gloomygrey, and more bad drivers in the last couple of hours than in the previous four weeks

    plus whichever stupid council it is (camden i suspect) has installed rows of cyclist impaling posts on yet another road, making life more unpleasant and dangerous for both drivers and, especially, cyclists

    increasingly considering relocating somewhere warmer and saner

    Are they the "segregation" posts for cycle lanes? I hate them. I discovered the other day that they fold over if driven over.

    Cycle lanes suck balls unless you're an inept cyclist, and even then they suck balls because they instil a false sense of security. I've seen 2 right hooks through queuing traffic, and more left hooks than I can shake a stick at.
    yep, segregating lanes, rendering them too narrow to pass with frequent need to veer out for bus stops/parking/loading areas, idiots using them as running tracks, littered with glass and other debris as the road sweeping vehicles can no longer get to them, grrr

    spend the money on fixing the pot holes, sagging trenches, etc.
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • seanoconnseanoconn Posts: 10,764
    My record ride cycling road bikes on and off since the age of 12 is a might 40 miles 😎 Pretty pathetic and shameful. Averaging 80 miles plus a week for the last few months so the fitness is there.

    Armed with a new garmin and hoping to give the pesky family the slip so I can ease my shame in the near future.

    Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
  • seanoconnseanoconn Posts: 10,764
    sungod said:

    beansnikpoh said:

    sungod said:

    cold, gloomygrey, and more bad drivers in the last couple of hours than in the previous four weeks

    plus whichever stupid council it is (camden i suspect) has installed rows of cyclist impaling posts on yet another road, making life more unpleasant and dangerous for both drivers and, especially, cyclists

    increasingly considering relocating somewhere warmer and saner

    Are they the "segregation" posts for cycle lanes? I hate them. I discovered the other day that they fold over if driven over.

    Cycle lanes suck balls unless you're an inept cyclist, and even then they suck balls because they instil a false sense of security. I've seen 2 right hooks through queuing traffic, and more left hooks than I can shake a stick at.
    yep, segregating lanes, rendering them too narrow to pass with frequent need to veer out for bus stops/parking/loading areas, idiots using them as running tracks, littered with glass and other debris as the road sweeping vehicles can no longer get to them, grrr

    spend the money on fixing the pot holes, sagging trenches, etc.
    Don’t have any experience cycling in other uk cities but London roads are absolute poop.
    Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 11,627
    All city riding is pants. Feels like you've got a target on you saying hit me. Even smaller city's like Derby are pants.
    Too many bikes according to Mrs O.
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 56,262
    oxoman said:

    All city riding is pants. Feels like you've got a target on you saying hit me. Even smaller city's like Derby are pants.

    Think of City riding as like mountain biking, except the obstacles are made of metal or concrete instead of wood or rock. Makes it more fun :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 56,262
    seanoconn said:

    My record ride cycling road bikes on and off since the age of 12 is a might 40 miles 😎 Pretty pathetic and shameful. Averaging 80 miles plus a week for the last few months so the fitness is there.

    Armed with a new garmin and hoping to give the pesky family the slip so I can ease my shame in the near future.

    I know I've done about 55 miles tops as I've done the London - Brighton a few times. Otherwise I don't really care - just ride for as long as I feel like riding. You don't get any gold stars for going further or faster than anyone else :)

    That said, I am going to do more non commute riding from now on as the roads and lanes round here are great B) So much better than the 'burbs.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pinnopinno Posts: 50,097
    oxoman said:

    All city riding is pants. Feels like you've got a target on you saying hit me. Even smaller city's like Derby are pants.

    City's - in the UK.

    Stockholm was brilliant. Couldn't imagine cycling in Rome or Paris.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Stevo_666Stevo_666 Posts: 56,262
    edited August 2022
    pinno said:

    oxoman said:

    All city riding is pants. Feels like you've got a target on you saying hit me. Even smaller city's like Derby are pants.

    City's - in the UK.

    Stockholm was brilliant. Couldn't imagine cycling in Rome or Paris.
    Nah, think of it like MTB'ing like I said above. Just requires a different mindset from normal roadie stuff (and some 28c tyres). That said, agree with you on Paris and Rome - all those bloody cobbles.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • thistle_thistle_ Posts: 6,937
    edited August 2022
    Max distance: 105 miles on a sportive back in 2009 when I was fit. Just riding solo I've managed 95 miles.

    Those barrier things are useless because they stop you riding round the cycle lane sized potholes.

    C.unt.x dictating the pace: wait until it's his/her turn on the front then make a cheeky turn left and let them go solo.
    Small group/couple of mates, cafe, dcking about having fun on bikes, that's how it should be.
  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 11,627
    I did the Midland Monster at 106 miles prior to Bat flu and ended up with a gaggle of klingons, not one pulled a stint up front so I upped the anti for a bit till they'd all dropped off. The only problem was the last half mile to the finish was a very slight hill and I almost had to walk it I was so knackered. And yes Pinno UK cities although Amsterdam was not pleasant either.
    Too many bikes according to Mrs O.
  • thistle_thistle_ Posts: 6,937
    oxoman said:

    I did the Midland Monster at 106 miles prior to Bat flu and ended up with a gaggle of klingons

    For a moment I thought you meant people riding in fancy dress, which would have been quite fun.
  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 11,627
    thistle_ said:

    oxoman said:

    I did the Midland Monster at 106 miles prior to Bat flu and ended up with a gaggle of klingons

    For a moment I thought you meant people riding in fancy dress, which would have been quite fun.
    Felt like it at times.🤔🤭🤣
    Too many bikes according to Mrs O.
  • tlw1tlw1 Posts: 21,542
    150 miles is my max, 5 days in a row doing JOGLE

    Fancy a decent ride - haven’t done one for a while

    Crushed the 5k - but didn’t get a pair of winners sunglasses this time 😢
  • oxomanoxoman Posts: 11,627
    tlw1 said:

    150 miles is my max, 5 days in a row doing JOGLE

    Fancy a decent ride - haven’t done one for a while

    Crushed the 5k - but didn’t get a pair of winners sunglasses this time 😢

    I fancy doing jogle or lejog but unsupported and riding till unable to. TBH enjoyed the Coast and Castles I did with extra thrown in approx 60 miles steady riding each day. Lots of beer consumed as well. Glad you crushed the 5k. Managed to PB local parkrun post covid route still not my best PR time though.
    Too many bikes according to Mrs O.
  • seanoconnseanoconn Posts: 10,764
    6th anniversary with current wifey. Had a nice meal with the family and was presented with a well deserved medal 🥇 for outstanding bravery in the presence of the enemy. 😃


    Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
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