The 2022 Half Century (50km or 50M) a month challenge chatzone
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So we have controversy over who is the first poster this month . We have @biggs682 who was first to post ,but it the chatzone thread and apparently he rode on the 39th of April ? . Then we have @Eribiste who was first to post correctly in the challenge thread. I will call it a draw and sit for ly on the fence . A good start to the month with 5 of us posted already
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Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Got mine done today with a combined click and collect and the inward commute. Today was also the Ipswich to Felixstowe classic vehicle run on part of the route and I'm sure I saw @Jon George possibly getting his 50k in mixed in with some of the bicycles as I was coming out of Nacton.
Without this challenge I would have bailed out today when the rear derailleur cable snapped after 40 km. While I did have to shorten the ride to 72km at least I got a qualifier in!
Top tip: if the rear cable breaks, hold the derailleur so the chain is somewhere on the middle of the cassette and tie the broken cable on the bottle cage. I used one of the bolts to pinch the cable then coiled the rest around the cage out of the way. Assuming you have a double chain set you can get two usable gears.
Top tip: if the rear cable breaks, hold the derailleur so the chain is somewhere on the middle of the cassette and tie the broken cable on the bottle cage. I used one of the bolts to pinch the cable then coiled the rest around the cage out of the way. Assuming you have a double chain set you can get two usable gears.
bluenotebob
Veteran
- Location
- France
312km cycled this week – and I've not claimed a single point ..
I cycled 64km today – but on five different bikes (I wrote about it in the ‘Your Ride Today’ thread). I haven’t claimed a point because five bikes implies five rides .. but it was continuous in the sense that I went out and rode, came home and changed bikes, went out again etc etc.
If anyone thinks I deserve a point for silliness, or originality – or for simply having far too much time on my hands – then please say so !
I cycled 64km today – but on five different bikes (I wrote about it in the ‘Your Ride Today’ thread). I haven’t claimed a point because five bikes implies five rides .. but it was continuous in the sense that I went out and rode, came home and changed bikes, went out again etc etc.
If anyone thinks I deserve a point for silliness, or originality – or for simply having far too much time on my hands – then please say so !
@bluenotebob i‘d award a point for having five fully functional bikes!
Nothing in the rules stops you returning to home or using multiple bikes ( mainly because I didn't think anyone was silly enough to use 5 bikes !!! ). So as far as I'm concerned completely legit . Its just up to you if you think it's 1 ride or not . My reasoning on 1 ride or not , its 1 ride if no change of clothes is involved
Jon George
Mamil and couldn't care less
- Location
- Suffolk an' Good
Ah, I was taking Pasty #7 The Fixed Gear for a spin and caught up with someone I know riding one of the Penny Farthings. I am potentially considering attempting this month's 50k on it.
(The Fixed Gear, not The Farthing. 
)You have posted this in the metric Century thread
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
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Nice trip up the coast this morning - hadn't planned to go very far, but the weather and cycling was quite pleasant, and I think I've shaken off the worst of the Covid after effects.
False start, got to the end of the street then turned back, went inside, lifted water bottle then started again
Flat run along the coast to Largs, then on to Wemyss Bay. The coast road from Largs to Wemyss bay is a bit narrow and was busy, but the alternative (a quiet farm road) involved a hill, so I stayed on the coast.
The intention had been to get a coffee at Wemyss Bay station - but a train had just arrived from Glasgow, there was no sign of the next ferry, and the queue in the cafe reached out the door! So back to Largs, coffee there (watching another ferry) then back down the coast home.
62km.
False start, got to the end of the street then turned back, went inside, lifted water bottle then started again
Flat run along the coast to Largs, then on to Wemyss Bay. The coast road from Largs to Wemyss bay is a bit narrow and was busy, but the alternative (a quiet farm road) involved a hill, so I stayed on the coast.
The intention had been to get a coffee at Wemyss Bay station - but a train had just arrived from Glasgow, there was no sign of the next ferry, and the queue in the cafe reached out the door! So back to Largs, coffee there (watching another ferry) then back down the coast home.
62km.
Jon George
Mamil and couldn't care less
- Location
- Suffolk an' Good
Went out to try one loop of the three that make up a flat route I have recently adopted (to get in 'a banker') on my new Fixed Gear. (A bit Yin and Yang: had a driver beep me for the crime of not being in a cycle lane and slowing him down for about three seconds, but got complemented on my bike by another rider as he paused to cycle alongside and chat for a minute.) Apart from making sure I've got enough nutrition on me when I go for it, this is becoming a possibility for me.
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
2 rides this month. Both on the new (to us) Viking Tandem. Suspect ex hire bike at some point.
Yesterday was a trip to see my Aunt in Attleborough, via Evans the bike shop for a bell and some cable ties. Our Evans is closing as the landlord is refurbishing the flats upstairs and wants Evans to pay for the new security door and the carpets, we are led to believe. Evans have told landlord to poke off. A bell was gifted to us, as well as some cable ties, by the manager. Nice chap, I bought my Trek from him 3 months ago.
We had a nice ride to Attleborough and deeply glad that the original saddles were in the ‘free to good home’ box, ready to be put on the front grass at half term. I had an old Selle Rolls, that bike bud now adores - he’s welcome, bloody uncomfortable thing. I just took my SMP off my Genesis for the duration of the weekend. It‘s now back on the Genny. Biscuits and tea consumed, we returned to Wymondham and then headed off towards Wreningham. The chain came off as we changed gear - badly- at the bottom of a hill. The subsequent stopping dead and baling left me with bruises where the pedal, then wheel got me. It’s like being 12 again. The hill start after, went well. I have taken to just closing my eyes on hill starts. It works.
During the ride we practiced riding slowly, turning circles in both direction, slowly, leaning into corners, an emergency stop (because some idiot just stepped in front of us with that ‘it’s only a bike’ attitude while we were doing around 23mph). We stopped while bike bud used his ‘work voice’ to tell the person to get out of the way.
Today we had 5 miles on the lovely Marriotts Way before going to Whitwell Station cafe for cake. We practiced figure of 8s, slowly, in the car park. Just getting more confident with small turning circles. Home and a mile on the A140 was scary but it appears 28mph is doable when being bullied by a twit in a beemer - we hooked a left into St Faiths village before anyone came a cropper as that bike is a tadge flexible. Or wobbly. Or not stiff enough for two of us running for our lives. Leaning works btw. Nearly had a knee down. Well not quite but stacking it sideways seemed a better option than being nudged. Like I said, a twit. Probably over compensating for something.
Home on the cycle paths with no more drama.
Himself is now seriously considering a gravel tandem. Something stiffer, faster, better and that fits. Ho hum, better rattle the piggy bank.
Yesterday was a trip to see my Aunt in Attleborough, via Evans the bike shop for a bell and some cable ties. Our Evans is closing as the landlord is refurbishing the flats upstairs and wants Evans to pay for the new security door and the carpets, we are led to believe. Evans have told landlord to poke off. A bell was gifted to us, as well as some cable ties, by the manager. Nice chap, I bought my Trek from him 3 months ago.
We had a nice ride to Attleborough and deeply glad that the original saddles were in the ‘free to good home’ box, ready to be put on the front grass at half term. I had an old Selle Rolls, that bike bud now adores - he’s welcome, bloody uncomfortable thing. I just took my SMP off my Genesis for the duration of the weekend. It‘s now back on the Genny. Biscuits and tea consumed, we returned to Wymondham and then headed off towards Wreningham. The chain came off as we changed gear - badly- at the bottom of a hill. The subsequent stopping dead and baling left me with bruises where the pedal, then wheel got me. It’s like being 12 again. The hill start after, went well. I have taken to just closing my eyes on hill starts. It works.
During the ride we practiced riding slowly, turning circles in both direction, slowly, leaning into corners, an emergency stop (because some idiot just stepped in front of us with that ‘it’s only a bike’ attitude while we were doing around 23mph). We stopped while bike bud used his ‘work voice’ to tell the person to get out of the way.
Today we had 5 miles on the lovely Marriotts Way before going to Whitwell Station cafe for cake. We practiced figure of 8s, slowly, in the car park. Just getting more confident with small turning circles. Home and a mile on the A140 was scary but it appears 28mph is doable when being bullied by a twit in a beemer - we hooked a left into St Faiths village before anyone came a cropper as that bike is a tadge flexible. Or wobbly. Or not stiff enough for two of us running for our lives. Leaning works btw. Nearly had a knee down. Well not quite but stacking it sideways seemed a better option than being nudged. Like I said, a twit. Probably over compensating for something.
Home on the cycle paths with no more drama.
Himself is now seriously considering a gravel tandem. Something stiffer, faster, better and that fits. Ho hum, better rattle the piggy bank.
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