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itboffin
Joined: 05 Jun 2008
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Location: Marlborough, Windshire
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 Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 12:08 pm |
Nothing of interest for me this morning apart from the last gasps of fitness fleeing like rats on a sinking ship, however one of the cyclists in the office stacked it at Blackfriars last night, car in front of him did an emergency stop because some plum ped walked out into the road.
Road: FCN 2
CX: FCN 3
SS: FCN 4
Tourer: FCN 5
The Beast II: FCN 11
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The Running Man
Joined: 02 Sep 2009
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Location: Calne : Wiltshire
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Jay dubbleU
Joined: 18 Sep 2008
Posts: 1204
Location: Armpit of the known universe
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 2:44 pm |
You cycle up Hackpen Hill ? Whoa - chapeau sir
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
Emo Philips
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Clever Pun
Joined: 02 Aug 2007
Posts: 3014
Location: London
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 4:35 pm |
Took a few other fixed riders easily enough today but that was spoiled by a roadie doing me all ends up.. I was pondering along thinking my tyre felt a bit squishy and was looking to see the displacment when I catch sight of a shadow whipping up on me I raise my head casual like and start to generate more power but it's too late and the roadie ragging himself on the drops whips past me.. I speed up and start to catch up as he's now back on the hoods but I've got to turn off... I feel cheated I was caught out...feck
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itboffin
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DonDaddyD
Joined: 19 Jun 2007
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Location: The middle distance
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 7:46 pm |
I got well and truly scalped along Kennington Road by an older chap on a Canondale roadie. It was one of those life lessons that when I look back on it will make me a better person... 
So along Kennington, t'was I a guy on a grey Cervelo and the older chap on a Canondale. We go for it, jostling for position. I see my opening and drop my power awesome, Ifly past everyone, the Cervelo the dude on the Canondale even the people who went through the light sequence prior to ours. Behind me is the Canondale, not faultering, not missing a beat. I get out of my saddle give the bike a wiggle to squeeze that little bit extra but nothing I feel him creeping, we look he says something, but I'm going to fast to make out words. I laugh, he shows me what awesome really looks like.
It wasn't until Stockwell Tube station (despite several lights on route), before I caught him again to congratulate him. He laughed it off as a 'bit of fun'.
(my knee was hurting at this point but I was on the bike so I'm not using it as an excuse)
Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights as you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game |
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Jay dubbleU
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MatHammond
Joined: 10 Nov 2007
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 8:46 pm |
| DonDaddyD wrote: | I got well and truly scalped along Kennington Road by an older chap on a Canondale roadie. It was one of those life lessons that when I look back on it will make me a better person...
So along Kennington, t'was I a guy on a grey Cervelo and the older chap on a Canondale. We go for it, jostling for position. I see my opening and drop my power awesome, Ifly past everyone, the Cervelo the dude on the Canondale even the people who went through the light sequence prior to ours. Behind me is the Canondale, not faultering, not missing a beat. I get out of my saddle give the bike a wiggle to squeeze that little bit extra but nothing I feel him creeping, we look he says something, but I'm going to fast to make out words. I laugh, he shows me what awesome really looks like.
It wasn't until Stockwell Tube station (despite several lights on route), before I caught him again to congratulate him. He laughed it off as a 'bit of fun'.
(my knee was hurting at this point but I was on the bike so I'm not using it as an excuse) |
DDD it wasn't you I saw at the Burger King drive in on Balham Hill was it?!
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itboffin
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Greg66
Joined: 04 Jul 2008
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Location: The Embankment
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 9:05 pm |
| DonDaddyD wrote: | I got well and truly scalped along Kennington Road by an older chap on a Canondale roadie. It was one of those life lessons that when I look back on it will make me a better person...
So along Kennington, t'was I a guy on a grey Cervelo and the older chap on a Canondale. We go for it, jostling for position. I see my opening and drop my power awesome, Ifly past everyone, the Cervelo the dude on the Canondale even the people who went through the light sequence prior to ours. Behind me is the Canondale, not faultering, not missing a beat. I get out of my saddle give the bike a wiggle to squeeze that little bit extra but nothing I feel him creeping, we look he says something, but I'm going to fast to make out words. I laugh, he shows me what awesome really looks like.
It wasn't until Stockwell Tube station (despite several lights on route), before I caught him again to congratulate him. He laughed it off as a 'bit of fun'.
(my knee was hurting at this point but I was on the bike so I'm not using it as an excuse) |
<sigh>
DDD, how many times have I had to tell you this?
It's *always* the old ones. Always. 
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DonDaddyD
Joined: 19 Jun 2007
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Location: The middle distance
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 10:09 pm |
| MatHammond wrote: | | DonDaddyD wrote: | I got well and truly scalped along Kennington Road by an older chap on a Canondale roadie. It was one of those life lessons that when I look back on it will make me a better person...
So along Kennington, t'was I a guy on a grey Cervelo and the older chap on a Canondale. We go for it, jostling for position. I see my opening and drop my power awesome, Ifly past everyone, the Cervelo the dude on the Canondale even the people who went through the light sequence prior to ours. Behind me is the Canondale, not faultering, not missing a beat. I get out of my saddle give the bike a wiggle to squeeze that little bit extra but nothing I feel him creeping, we look he says something, but I'm going to fast to make out words. I laugh, he shows me what awesome really looks like.
It wasn't until Stockwell Tube station (despite several lights on route), before I caught him again to congratulate him. He laughed it off as a 'bit of fun'.
(my knee was hurting at this point but I was on the bike so I'm not using it as an excuse) |
DDD it wasn't you I saw at the Burger King drive in on Balham Hill was it?! |
Yes, I wasn't the black guy having an argument, I was the black guy on the bike watching. Where you the guy arguing with the driver?
Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights as you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game |
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Jay dubbleU
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MatHammond
Joined: 10 Nov 2007
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 10:39 pm |
| DonDaddyD wrote: | | MatHammond wrote: | | DonDaddyD wrote: | I got well and truly scalped along Kennington Road by an older chap on a Canondale roadie. It was one of those life lessons that when I look back on it will make me a better person...
So along Kennington, t'was I a guy on a grey Cervelo and the older chap on a Canondale. We go for it, jostling for position. I see my opening and drop my power awesome, Ifly past everyone, the Cervelo the dude on the Canondale even the people who went through the light sequence prior to ours. Behind me is the Canondale, not faultering, not missing a beat. I get out of my saddle give the bike a wiggle to squeeze that little bit extra but nothing I feel him creeping, we look he says something, but I'm going to fast to make out words. I laugh, he shows me what awesome really looks like.
It wasn't until Stockwell Tube station (despite several lights on route), before I caught him again to congratulate him. He laughed it off as a 'bit of fun'.
(my knee was hurting at this point but I was on the bike so I'm not using it as an excuse) |
DDD it wasn't you I saw at the Burger King drive in on Balham Hill was it?! |
Yes, I wasn't the black guy having an argument, I was the black guy on the bike watching. Where you the guy arguing with the driver? |
Was just passing. Thought it was probably you (have clocked you on the Kharma before) - if you'd been on the Kharma I would've known for sure and said hello!
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Wrath Rob
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DonDaddyD
Joined: 19 Jun 2007
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Location: The middle distance
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 5:50 am |
| MatHammond wrote: |
Was just passing. Thought it was probably you (have clocked you on the Kharma before) - if you'd been on the Kharma I would've known for sure and said hello! |
Shoulda took the gamble, but kinda glad you didn't as I was doing two things:
Watching the argument* (also just standing by to be a witness as this looked like it could get ugly, quickly)
Resting my knee as it began to really feel sore. I could only manage 15mph at best (in short bursts) on the way home. Took me fooking ages!
*The argument was awesome, two kids one black the other mixed race, driving dangerously around the cyclist. So dangerous in fact that even before they did anything (just waiting at the lights and I long-before I realised their ethnicity just in case I get accused of being a BNP sympathiser or something) I waited behind them at the lights. This was by Clapham South tube. Lights go green then beep the cyclist swerve around him and by the time they get to the shell garage at the top of Balham Hill traffic is stopped and the cyclist is saying "pull over get out and we'll sort this out". I'm thinking FIGHT!
They do so and the guy stands his ground, lectures them, gets into a scuffle when the more 'square dude' of the two gets animated and imitates that he wants some fisticuffs. He stands his ground even more. The cyclist had a friend or girlfriend with him so by this point I got bored, knee was sore so I rode home.
Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights as you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game |
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Bassjunkieuk
Joined: 27 Sep 2007
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 6:53 am |
| DonDaddyD wrote: | | MatHammond wrote: |
Was just passing. Thought it was probably you (have clocked you on the Kharma before) - if you'd been on the Kharma I would've known for sure and said hello! |
Shoulda took the gamble, but kinda glad you didn't as I was doing two things:
Watching the argument* (also just standing by to be a witness as this looked like it could get ugly, quickly)
Resting my knee as it began to really feel sore. I could only manage 15mph at best (in short bursts) on the way home. Took me fooking ages!
*The argument was awesome, two kids one black the other mixed race, driving dangerously around the cyclist. So dangerous in fact that even before they did anything (just waiting at the lights and I long-before I realised their ethnicity just in case I get accused of being a BNP sympathiser or something) I waited behind them at the lights. This was by Clapham South tube. Lights go green then beep the cyclist swerve around him and by the time they get to the shell garage at the top of Balham Hill traffic is stopped and the cyclist is saying "pull over get out and we'll sort this out". I'm thinking FIGHT!
They do so and the guy stands his ground, lectures them, gets into a scuffle when the more 'square dude' of the two gets animated and imitates that he wants some fisticuffs. He stands his ground even more. The cyclist had a friend or girlfriend with him so by this point I got bored, knee was sore so I rode home. |
Sounds like right fun! I learny my lesson after losing my rag with a driver obviously sufferering from a severe case of SWS in Brixton who was undertaking in the bus lane! Confronting them in the Esso garage and might have called the driver a pr!ck, had to make a sharpish exit tho as the passenger got out who was about 6ft tall and rather built. I stupidly repeated what I called the driver and he came over obviously looking to hurt me! I jumped on bike and narrowly missed being kicked off.
Now I just try and let it slide, safe in the knowledge that they only drive like an ignorant tw4t because they are trying to prove their masculinity!
Nothing to report on my cycle front. Took a different and quieter route home last night so no chance of a scalp.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese from the trap
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MonkeyMonster
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The Running Man
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biondino
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 11:51 am |
There was a dirty RLJing idiot this morning in Piccadilly whose bike was basically an inverted V shape - his front wheel at one angle, the rest of his bike at another. It was screaming from dirt and rust and warpedness and looked like it would collapse at any moment. Which might be a good thing as the **** might not be able to lunge through a zebra crossing in use.
I'd like to offer a chapeau to the bearded guy on a hybrid with a multi-coloured hi-viz vest on Kings Road at about 7pm last night. You didn't half accelerate quickly! And although I caught you up as you tired no less than three times, you managed to hang on when I finally got to overtake on Lower Richmond Road, and I almost blew a gasket maintaining that speed. Nice work.
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xfit
Joined: 05 Nov 2009
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Posted Thu Nov 5, 2009 1:47 pm |
Scalp committee decision needed.
If you overtake a full shaved legged roadie in pinarello sponsored club gear but it's obvious he's not really trying does it still count? I'd love to say yes as surely his pride should dictate he not be dropped for any reason by a 'slow hybrid' in baggies. Surely a cause for a bit of celebration as I don't see too many commuters on my run but I ended up just feeling a bit childish.
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