Irn-Bru? Scottish Blethering Thread

[Col5632]

3rd longest ever ride done yesterday, Tak was much harder than i remember it being
http://app.strava.com/activities/187874525

 

[Scoosh]

Scoosh daughter has just returned to northern Sweden for the final year of her MSc. There will be some Strathclyde Uni exchange students there but none on her course. How to identify them ?

Mrs Scoosh suggestion: "Wear your Irn-Bru hoodie - they're bound to come and ask about it ! "

 

[Scoosh]

3rd longest ever ride done yesterday, Tak was much harder than i remember it being
http://app.strava.com/activities/187874525

See that memory thing ??

It's a nasty deceiver, so it is ...



Well Done too , @Col5632

 

[Louch]

flat I viewed tonight has a designated shed outside for bikes, was full of different bikes, some more complete than others! its a sign

 

[Col5632]

See that memory thing ??

It's a nasty deceiver, so it is ...



Well Done too , @Col5632

Maybe its cause i done it with @tug benson last time so it didnt seem as long, didnt help i had a slight headwind all the way to the tak, the descent is epic though

 

[tug benson]

Aye the drop from the top of the Tak is great fun, a couple of wee sharp climbs then you have a really good drop into Stirling... Good fun, still the 18% corners near the top of the tak are hell

 

[Col5632]

Aye the drop from the top of the Tak is great fun, a couple of wee sharp climbs then you have a really good drop into Stirling... Good fun, still the 18% corners near the top of the tak are hell

I remembered them but forgot how tuff they actually were, was so happy to see the car park at the top

A guy had fell off near the fort, two folk had stopped for him, they were in the bushes looking for something

 

[Brandane]

Is anyone bothering with PFS on Sunday (the 50 mile version)? I know as a cycling event it has become a victim of its own success and is a bit of a plodathon, but it's the only way I am ever going to get a medal for cycling!
The weather forecast looks good, with a slightly favourable wind, so I might do as I did a few years ago and turn up and register on the day. Or I might go to the air show at Prestwick (by bike of course).

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I'm not doing the 47 mile this year, because I'm bored with it. Wanted to try the 110, never managed the training, so I'll pass.
Quite pricey too.
If you do it, mind you cannot ride the same route back until everybody has finished. Watch out for wobbly bairns and racing mamils.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Yeah I'm doing it. As usual I'm starting as early as possible, I think that's why I manage to avoid the worst of the congestion and silly excesses.It's become my "thing" and not to do it (for the 4th year) would feel odd.

 

[Brandane]

Quite pricey too.

Aye the price appears to have shot up since the last time I did it (might have been 2011). £50 when you add on transport. Might give it a miss and head for Glasgow Prestwick.

 

[Louch]

I am doing it with @GlasgowFinn , starting at 8 and aiming to stay ahead of the crowds . Then cycling back to Cumbernauld to get my car from his

 

[GlasgowFinn]

@Pat "5mph" can you suggest a route back towards Linlithgow that will avoid the route in - @Louch might know. I assume that if we are using roads then they can't really stop us.

 

[Louch]

I know a couple of ways we can take

 

[Scoosh]

I think it is really about avoiding the cycle paths into the city, which will be full of excited/ beginner/ exhausted/ dead-or-dying cyclists who don't have much awareness of others left by that stage of the proceedings !