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Ha! Love it.
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Awesome. Did he save it then?
I had someone crash across me, both of us at ~30kph a little bit uphill. He careered left through the pack, hit my front wheel sideways on and did an endo over the kerb. He seemed committed to this weird direction. Something metal and sharp on the back of his bike cut my finger mid-endo, I am guessing rear brake cable. I was lucky to keep upright and not cause a mass pileup behind.
Best wishes to the ones who weren't so lucky.
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'On the right',,, same prat did it to me coming into a fast roundabout as though he owned the road , I just held my line and said that as Im in front it his problem not mine,,, you wouldnt get a racing car move out the way, tosser
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Finished. My plan was to do no stops and try and get round in 4hr30m. My riding time was 4hr30m, but I had to stop twice, so my total time was 4hr37m. Stop one was when my Tilquist Garmin mount broke, dumping my Garmin on the floor. I stopped and went back to get it, and collected it from a kindly joggerist who'd been passing. Stop two was an unplanned loo stop.
Highlight of the day was on a descent about 70 miles in, when a gentleman in a Kingston Wheelers top overtook me bellowing 'ON THE RIGHT, ON THE RIGHT' like an enraged walrus, his legs thrashing violently to try and get enough speed to pass. He just managed to get past, only to make a total horlicks of the next corner, which for him involved handfuls of brake, a locked-up rear wheel, a sideways bike, a loud 'FAAAAAACK' and a total absence of apex. I LOL'd and asked him on the next climb (as I passed him) whether he'd ever considered cycle training. He didn't take it well.