Rollapaluza Club ride 20th April 1030

Starting from the cafe at the top of Broadway Market E8 for 30 - 40 easy paced miles around Loughton, Abridge, Theydon Bois and Epping with an optional cake stop at High Beach, Epping Forest. Last week it took us around 2 1/2 hours. All welcome!

No half-wheeling, wheel-sucking or tennis socks.

http://www.rollapaluza.cc/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=39

Don't invite those peskie fixed riders Bill, ffs!!! ;)

Could well possibly attend one of these once my football season is over.

If accepted though, I do wear black cycling socks :o(

EDIT Once my season's over I'm on holiday for a fortnight, so maybe in June!

Don't invite those peskie fixed riders Bill, ffs!!! ;)

can i borrow your ribble hippy and show you how to ride properly ;)

oops, forgot, thats broken, hahaa!

Dale you couldn't ride yourself out of a wet paper bag.. stick to running and suppressed homosexuality.

Dale you couldn't ride yourself out of a wet paper bag.. stick to running and suppressed homosexuality.

words of a scared man!

Starting from the cafe at the top of Broadway Market E8 for 30 - 40 easy paced miles around Loughton, Abridge, Theydon Bois and Epping with an optional cake stop at High Beach, Epping Forest. Last week it took us around 2 1/2 hours. All welcome!

No half-wheeling, wheel-sucking or tennis socks.

http://www.rollapaluza.cc/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=39

Are most people going geared or fixed?

words of a scared man!

Scared of seeing your arse again.. yep, you got me.

Scared of seeing your arse again.. yep, you got me.

you can't afford it and are afraid to see it go off in the distance as i do a lance armstrong vs ullrich, and just ride away!! you'll need all the lycra and carbon you can get!!

@h2o: last week the whole peloton (4!) were geared. No serious climbs though so I guess you would be OK fixed.

Would be in if we agree on the cake. Will also go through the hoops of signing up on Rollapaluza and introduce myself over there.

I should be there with gears and lycra

Fixies are welcome. It's a steady pace - proper club-run style.

Cool - well, if most were on gears last week I shall ride gears...

What is half-wheeling?

Is that like half-steppin' or riding a unicycle?

Half-wheel - To ride hard enough to keep the front wheel just ahead of the wheel of the rider next to you.
--Very annoying habit when two riders are riding side by side. Normally both front wheels would be aligned on an imaginary line. Half wheeling consists of the annoying rider advancing his/her wheel halfway up the road, so his/her front hub will be aligned to the front of the annoyee rider's tire. Half wheeling comes from either bad riding form or just plain obnoxiousness.
--A potentially dangerous situation if the rider in front does not know the rider behind is there because if the front rider moves to the side and hits the wheel of the rider behind, a crash is imminent!
--a) riding just ahead of another rider, as opposed to riding evenly together; this is not good etiquette in group rides; b) a yoga position; or c) a moderately large cheese.
--The bad habit of slightly pulling ahead of your partner when riding side by side. This continues to escalate the pace until your companion whacks you with a bike pump.
--To continually pull-ahead of the rider next to you in a double pace line, causing the other line to accelerate, then you to accelerate again, etc.
--To ride next to, but just ahead of someone. This is particularly irritating when riding in a double pace-line. If a girl does it to you it's called being "half-chicked".
--A very dangerous way of drafting too closely behind someone, liable to cause a crash (or the bicycle on board Heny Hudson's Half Moon on the famous 1609 voyage).
--When you overlap the rider in front of you, or slow down to cause a similar condition to the rider behind. a dangerous place to be for the second rider. Part of a book title, Half-Wheel Hell.

Roadie shit: http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=4100

Half wheelers get spat on.

I'd half wheel.. if I was already wheel sucking.. ;)

hey spotted.

you guys coming back into town. you were going south through wood ford green.

and i was going north. i gave u a shout.

and shortly afterward i saw joe and heidi. hi guys.

i was just out on a training ride (geared). it was great to see you all. it always lifts my spirits when i see people i know.

nice one and see you all soon.

Tennis socks? What are they, never heard of them. Why would you need them, whatever they are?

to play tennis in.

not for cycling.

EVER.