Show us your.......newbie progress!

[Mo1959]

Just a quick or rather slower loop, taking it easy on the slippery surfaces out there today.

http://www.strava.com/activities/213445677

You're lucky you could see the surfaces........most of mine were under puddles!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Pah, you can go off some folk. Lol. I got drenched and the bike is filthy! Oh well, the waterproof jacket I ordered from Decathlon is due to get delivered today. I think it might get a lot of use.

Short sleeves again today! way too warm. It really isn't nice! Swarms of insects everywhere yuck. Yuck. YUCK...

Give me cold any day!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Incredible! That was how I came off! Ordinary left hand bend, the bike slipped away from under me, put hand down to break the fall...little finger took the weight and ended up at right angles!

We take these things lightly, but I for one have learnt a lesson, this can be a dangerous pastime. My finger injury has now affected my grip for the rest of my life.

I agree - I am always amazed by the humour and general light-hearted-ness shown towards 'clip-less moments'.

Not in a million years is falling off of a bike at any speed remotely funny.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Business as usual here.

After the lovely day yesterday it is wall to wall drizzle.

Visibility across the village is murky at best and ceases totally at around 150m.

I am marooned in a sea of clag.

Have a lovely/safe/happy ride all of you who live in more favourable climes.

^^^^That sounds bad now - I do of course wish the same for everyone made of hardier stuff than me and who gets out in grotty weather too.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I agree - I am always amazed by the humour and general light-hearted-ness shown towards 'clip-less moments'.

Not in a million years is falling off of a bike at any speed remotely funny.

I don't know my off the other week was a little, mind you I had a soft landing as did the bike ( I think), another six to eight feet the story would most likely have been a bit like @Mo1959 's, just shows you you though a lapse of of concentration at any speed can be dangerous, I think a lot of motorist road users forget this, as multiple wheeled vehicles are more stable ect...............

 

[Mo1959]

Short sleeves again today! way too warm. It really isn't nice! Swarms of insects everywhere yuck. Yuck. YUCK...

Give me cold any day!

Wanna swap?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Wanna swap?

Yep... You any good at cooking? Tomorrow is Christmas cake day... Usual commute but earlier than normal and much later home than normal plus the gardening whilst waiting 5 hours for it to cook... Tree has been felled just needs the clean up operation to happen!

 

[Mo1959]

Yep... You any good at cooking? Tomorrow is Christmas cake day... Usual commute but earlier than normal and much later home than normal plus the gardening whilst waiting 5 hours for it to cook... Tree has been felled just needs the clean up operation to happen!

Ha, ha................can't cook, won't cook........disaster in a kitchen!!

Just getting ready for my dog walk. It looks horrible out there. That good Scots word dreich sums it up perfectly.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Cloudy here but still warmer out than in and short sleeves. Just about to set out on the return leg having preped up everything for an early start tomorrow. Fruit is soaking in a dry cider since I can't find dry apple juice any more and it makes for a more moist cake that way... Everything almost sorted... Except the <insert swear word here > garden!

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Had a quiet a close call last night, with someone just not seeing me on a mini roundabout, how the heck he missed my light, and spoke reflectors ect I will never know, this is on the same roundabout i had an argument with a taxi driver for parking on the double yellows on the approach to it (its the reason the double yellows are there), lets put it this way i had to cross the white circle where as normally I would go to the left of it.



Yellow path me, red the car, thin red from the gps.

You can see how short the double yellows are, so there was really no need for the taxi driver to park on them (different incident to the one last night)

 

[Steady]

I've found my personal tactic to use for going faster up some 'hill-ish' segments, it's trying to keep up with a horse and cart! Those horses can't half maintain a good speed uphill. Knew I was pushing it, my lungs were protesting. I gave the chap in the cart warning that I was behind but that I wasn't going to overtake (like I could have even if I had tried!) but eventually did on the downhill between the next uphill and I knew I had to gun it otherwise he'd have to overtake me, made it near to the top of the hill and I heard the clop clop of horses hooves and pushed on harder.

http://www.strava.com/activities/213509453

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

19ºC YUCK.... horrible... humid overcaste and fine drizzle at my parents home. @Mo1959 you are more than welcome to it! please have it... I hate it.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Best laid plans of mice and men gang aft something or other...

I had every intention of a pre-work ride in this morning's mist and murk, but no. Ended up being pressganged into household things and a trip to a DIY enormo-store. Which, quite frankly, is sh*t.

Good on you, those who rode!

 

[RWright]

Another 14 miler on my normal track. It was 19C here too, but sunshine. I was thinking it was about perfect except a little chill in the breeze. I am glad to be able to still be riding in shorts and t-shirt and fingerless gloves.

 

[Stonechat]

I heard of a hill training method where you use a gear higher than normal, and lower cadence, might try this tomorrow, can only give it up as impossible if I can't do it

It is supposed to help build leg strength!!!