Glad someone has a lower number than me... going to shave, oh and maybe shave my legs :P
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Commuting
Competitive commuting (reposted)
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Posted 14 years ago #
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I am a fourteen. And I am coming to get you all...
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I can be found on the Rodney St Tunnel - Warrisotn Path - Ferry Rd - Granton - Roseburn path this afternoon at a approx 3.45 Min - come get me ;p
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How can I possibly refuse such an offer?
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"How can I possibly refuse such an offer?"
You both got cams??
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@Min look for the beard on the blue bike
@chdot I'm not sure what you mean...Posted 14 years ago # -
@chdot I'm not sure what you mean...
Well I assume you'll be approaching from different directions so it'll be like jousting. You'd be able to do a split screen edit.
Then one of you'll have to turn round and race...
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Bah, you part timers! I'll just have to see about catching you at the weekends ;-)
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Cyclepath Chicken! I'll make sure i ride round the carnage.
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Dave I usually cycle at ~5pm - I got an unusually early start today...
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Hmm, unfortunately I didn't make it! I hope there will be another opportunity. I'll get my lance serviced in anticipation.
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oo-er!
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You have a dirty mind but I have just realised that reference might not be obvious, Chdot mentioned jousting so I thought lance!
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"Chdot mentioned jousting so I thought lance!"
Quite right!
And when you've tried that there's someone on here who knows about bicycle polo.
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=654#post-5447
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spytfyre
Mystery bike. Is there more than one orange recumbent in Edinburgh query.- Is it orange Dave?
Is it parked somewhere in the region of Perth St?
This is a LB customer's bike I reckon. Will look like one in the Bollard Video? That's the LB demo Fuego but is actually smaller frame.
Nazca Fuego with SON / B&M lighting used for commuting - 30+ mile round trip. Very comfy and client carries a fair amount too.
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You want someone to pass you on a windy day then tuck in behind them - let them take your wind.
@Min - much easier to chase a person in front than to stay ahead with no one to chase, also hills are a factor in slowing down the larger homo sapien.
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@Min - No worries, will catch you another time, today I don't know when I will be on the road home, depends on how healthy my flexi time is...
@Dave - glad to see someone else saying "oo-er" before me ;)Posted 14 years ago # -
I'll have a window of opportunity on Friday, will take care not to miss it this time. ;-)
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"will take care not to miss" ...
(apologies for selective editing...)
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Stolen from Twitter
"Mr competitive MTB on the commute this morning - blasted off from every set of lights. I wasn't really in the mood to race him.
So instead I drafted him while riding sat up with no-hands on the bars. I'm not competitive, I've just got more style."
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Yes, I was that no-handed cyclist. Some mornings it's more fun to watch someone toil rather than leave them behind.
As I posted later, I'm not a fast cyclist, but I'm a fast commuter...
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Getting a wee bit trendy there Anth ;-)
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no hands eh Anth?
tut tutPosted 14 years ago # -
Couldn't help myself today, despite having a stinking cold and wheezing on my MTB I somehow thought it would be a good idea to draft the shaved legged roadie on the carbon bike on that uphill bit of Corstorphine road.
Did quite well. For about 5 minutes. Then sense intervened. Testosterone, eh?
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@Min - I'll be on the same path starting in Scotland Yard park an entering Rodney St Tunnel just after 5pm this evening, good luck catching me ;P
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Who airzounded me and then overtook me heading uphill on the Innocent on Tuesday just after 5pm?
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@Kirst - I never zound another cyclist although I am getting tempted to zound them when they are coming in the other direction behind a pedestrian on their side of the path and don't warn the pedestrian
Also I don't go the Innocent wayPosted 14 years ago # -
That rules you out then! I didn't mind the zounding. I had my mp3 player on anyway. I must apologise to whoever I went past this morning as I was singing along to the Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé album with full-on operatic trills.
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"I was singing along to the Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé album with full-on operatic trills"
Why does no-one have their video cameras at a time like this??
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"@Min - I'll be on the same path starting in Scotland Yard park an entering Rodney St Tunnel just after 5pm this evening, good luck catching me ;P "
Hmm, I'd need it since I'll still be at work then! Unfortunately I'm not normally around there at that time, it would just have been a few days in the last couple of weeks. Would I have got double points for passing someone as speedy sounding as "Spytfyre? :-)
I did have a roadie with muscly legs pass me this morning and briefly considered a chase. But only briefly.
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