May's ride with food
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StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
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- Portsmouth
I had no idea.
Many happys
Many happy returns indeed!
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- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Ah! Happy Birthday Abs. I was struggling too.I had to work! A couple of hours drinking coffee and eating chocolate biscuits at the Royal college of Physicians (I healed myself) followed by a black cab to Shaftesbury Ave. From there a wander to the NPG followed by a walk across to the South Bank. Some chit chat and a beer or four, followed by a couple of free concerts in the Festival Hall open space, with more beers. I left before the midnight céilidh which sounded fabntastic when the band were warming up.
It was just like a bike ride - only different.
Well done all - for the most part - hope you are not too miffed Dave!
It was just like a bike ride - only different.
Well done all - for the most part - hope you are not too miffed Dave!
A good ride with another woeful start. The Cambridge rides have been a bit like that recently. Stu describing the downpour as biblical is no exaggeration. Ian and User10571 had found a cosy awning whilst the rest of us waited for Dave to fix his puncture and catch up. He rather unfortunately punctured around a large one way system loop so it wasn't feasible to send someone back to help. Getting wet we (I) decided just to ride in the rain and make some headway and the heavy "shower" soon passed.
I think we lost Dave after he "pit stopped" somewhere near Ware. We waited a good amount of time for him repeatedly calling and sent someone back to look for him. Eventually we had to press on which resulted in yet another puncture. Quick text from Dave said "on A10" so we said where we'd be heading expecting to meet him on the other side of Standon. Finding no Dave there we called and sent another text saying we were moving on as it was unlikely that hadn't beaten us there. Got a call from Dave as we were heading for the Shelfords. He was in Cambridge. He must have put a pace on but with us waiting for him and the added puncture there wasn't much chance of us getting there quickly.
We picked the pace up anyway motoring towards Cambridge in the mid to high 20s. Unfortunately not fast enough as Dave had twiddled his thumbs silly and decided to catch the train home.
Food in the Fort Saint George was great as usual and the weather was wonderfully sunny drying all our wet feet. Myself with my shoes hanging on the back of my chair. A quick loo stop later discovering I had embarrassingly bad helmet hair we set off for home. Just of Fowlmere and making good speed I suffered a painful calf twinge which moments later became cramp. Very annoyed at myself for ending up in this predicament we pressed on after a rest. Unfortunately I must have modified my pedal stroke as about 10 miles later I was in agony on every down stroke due to successfully pulling a knee muscle.
I regret having to abandon and was quite annoyed with myself but my body left me no choice. It could have been caused by a number of factors though. Less cycling, lowered oxygen intake/lung capacity due to asthma, hay fever and high humidity or maybe just being out of condition as I've not been doing my commute since leaving my job. Either way I only managed 87 miles with an average of 16mph. Going to rest up for a week then get back to a regular riding routine to build my strength back up.
Thanks all for the ride and whilst tough and wet I did enjoy it and also managed to get slightly sunburnt.
Abs
EDIT : Yup it's my Birthday tomorrow reaching the grand age of 39.
I think we lost Dave after he "pit stopped" somewhere near Ware. We waited a good amount of time for him repeatedly calling and sent someone back to look for him. Eventually we had to press on which resulted in yet another puncture. Quick text from Dave said "on A10" so we said where we'd be heading expecting to meet him on the other side of Standon. Finding no Dave there we called and sent another text saying we were moving on as it was unlikely that hadn't beaten us there. Got a call from Dave as we were heading for the Shelfords. He was in Cambridge. He must have put a pace on but with us waiting for him and the added puncture there wasn't much chance of us getting there quickly.
We picked the pace up anyway motoring towards Cambridge in the mid to high 20s. Unfortunately not fast enough as Dave had twiddled his thumbs silly and decided to catch the train home.
Food in the Fort Saint George was great as usual and the weather was wonderfully sunny drying all our wet feet. Myself with my shoes hanging on the back of my chair. A quick loo stop later discovering I had embarrassingly bad helmet hair we set off for home. Just of Fowlmere and making good speed I suffered a painful calf twinge which moments later became cramp. Very annoyed at myself for ending up in this predicament we pressed on after a rest. Unfortunately I must have modified my pedal stroke as about 10 miles later I was in agony on every down stroke due to successfully pulling a knee muscle.
I regret having to abandon and was quite annoyed with myself but my body left me no choice. It could have been caused by a number of factors though. Less cycling, lowered oxygen intake/lung capacity due to asthma, hay fever and high humidity or maybe just being out of condition as I've not been doing my commute since leaving my job. Either way I only managed 87 miles with an average of 16mph. Going to rest up for a week then get back to a regular riding routine to build my strength back up.
Thanks all for the ride and whilst tough and wet I did enjoy it and also managed to get slightly sunburnt.
Abs
EDIT : Yup it's my Birthday tomorrow reaching the grand age of 39.
Aperitif
Meme bar
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- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Anyway, say what you like about Dave as he will be 'bartending' at The Rum Club by now... Hello Dave 
rb58
Enigma
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- Bexley, Kent
EDIT : Yup it's my Birthday tomorrow reaching the grand age of 39.
Nice to see the young 'uns enjoying themselves. Happy Birthday Abs.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
IZap, having checked my garage, althought, cos our sizes don't match, I can't offer you clipless shoes, I can offer some flat pedals with horrible plastic clips which I think may be better than wearing trainers on SPD-SL pedals.....
Let me know if you're interested
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
Noticed that, not quite sure what the idea was there!
Might I suggest a visit to a decent bike shop Arnold? Your knee problems might be down to incorrect position- a bike fit would help if that's the case. And you could get some shoes and pedals while you were at it!
Becs
Veteran
- Location
- Old Hatfield (it's nice honest!)
Still squiffey, still drinking the lovely wine . . . Promise to be sober in time for Brighton :-)
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
Alright alright there!!!!!!!!
calm down everyone, I've got flat pedals too. Except they don't fit on the damn campy crankset, I've got a tiagra crankset that the pedals fit on...but that needs a new bottom bracket.
As you all know, cycling demands money, which students don't have, even tho, I work full-time, I need to invest money into other things, cycling related.... so here you go
Eventually I'll sort out everything, ill get some clipless pedals and shoes, I just need some time
calm down everyone, I've got flat pedals too. Except they don't fit on the damn campy crankset, I've got a tiagra crankset that the pedals fit on...but that needs a new bottom bracket.
As you all know, cycling demands money, which students don't have, even tho, I work full-time, I need to invest money into other things, cycling related.... so here you go
Eventually I'll sort out everything, ill get some clipless pedals and shoes, I just need some time
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
frank9755
Cyclist
- Location
- West London
I only took a few pictures yesterday.
This is the group waiting at the start:
During one of the many 'curse of Cambridge' puncture stops. At least this one was in sunshine...
...and we had a horse watching over us
(NB soft focus effect created by cycling for three hours with camera in back pocket on a wet day!
I had an interesting end to the day as my route home took me through Shepherd's Bush. As I approached there was a loud roar and there were loads of people in blue and white hooped shirts on the green. Then police sirens, and I had to dodge a fair bit of broken glass on the road. As I went up Uxbridge Road there were loads of fans out, including one guy who crossed the road in front of me wearing only a bright green body stocking.
Atmosphere seemed mostly very good natured, although there was one driver who looked a bit lost, and was getting directions from the police, who the crowd seemed to be taunting.
TC, sorry we lost you at the p-break!
I was in two minds as to whether to wait until you got going but I thought if I got in touch with the group you would be able to see me and we would get back better that way. I was worried that you might have turned onto the bypass at the roundabout as it did look a bit tempting when I passed it. I caught the group on the way into Ware then we waited for you on the far side of town and I rode back through the town, but it looked clear you must have gone on the bypass. We probably waited for more than 20 minutes in all so you would have been a long way ahead probably by the time you had a chance to work out where you were!
This is the group waiting at the start:
During one of the many 'curse of Cambridge' puncture stops. At least this one was in sunshine...
...and we had a horse watching over us
(NB soft focus effect created by cycling for three hours with camera in back pocket on a wet day!
I had an interesting end to the day as my route home took me through Shepherd's Bush. As I approached there was a loud roar and there were loads of people in blue and white hooped shirts on the green. Then police sirens, and I had to dodge a fair bit of broken glass on the road. As I went up Uxbridge Road there were loads of fans out, including one guy who crossed the road in front of me wearing only a bright green body stocking.
Atmosphere seemed mostly very good natured, although there was one driver who looked a bit lost, and was getting directions from the police, who the crowd seemed to be taunting.
TC, sorry we lost you at the p-break!
I was in two minds as to whether to wait until you got going but I thought if I got in touch with the group you would be able to see me and we would get back better that way. I was worried that you might have turned onto the bypass at the roundabout as it did look a bit tempting when I passed it. I caught the group on the way into Ware then we waited for you on the far side of town and I rode back through the town, but it looked clear you must have gone on the bypass. We probably waited for more than 20 minutes in all so you would have been a long way ahead probably by the time you had a chance to work out where you were!
