Highgate Hill Thursdays

By the way, hoops, have you noticed that you don't have 6,666 posts on spagettihoops any more? It's down to 6,665.

#stalking

How is this possible?

A thread that you may have posted in may have been deleted. Or it's further proof of the self-defeating nature of evil.

All this talking and I have only ever seen one of you ride up that hill. (Oliver used to get a taxi)

Are you still in Dorothy's dogland, hoops?

All this talking and I have only ever seen one of you ride up that hill. (Oliver used to get a taxi)

You must be completely blind if you confuse me with JD.

I rode up it just last Tuesday. Luckily, no-one off the forum saw me.

6,666, motherfuckers.
Evil has been restored.

I'm viewing this thread under style ID 1. Beat that for being old and evil.

@ PGM - I had a very considerate private hire vehicle style taxi cunt thing wait behind me tonight as I bossed primary at all the pinchpoints, and he didn't give me any shit when I let him through as we approached the right-hander at the top. But then of course, *I was going rather quickly**.

*probably making scary wheezing noises

I rode up it just last Tuesday. Luckily, no-one off the forum saw me.

'off'?

Like 'im off the telly?

Fucking hell, Oliver, that's not the kind of slackness I expect to be produced by your mouth finger.

Are you still in Dorothy's dogland, hoops?

Indeed i am. I shall have to return at some point though, unfortunately.

Its nice when people reolize that you are busting a fucking gut as hard as you can and dont try to complicate things with dodgy overtaking.

I miss Highgate Hill/ swains/ Dartmouth Park. Luckely there are plenty of hills in the land slightly to the right of the land down under.

Hang on a second - I wasn't trying *that *hard.

I went up Cudham on Sunday whilst making a bit of an effort, and was rewarded by appearing on the second page of the segment leader board.

That's worse than being on page 15, in many ways.

Irons entire body

Indeed i am. I shall have to return at some point though, unfortunately.

Hit me up if you need any club cut medium jerseys ;)

Hang on a second - I wasn't trying *that *hard.

making scary wheezing noises

Really?

I went up Cudham on Sunday whilst making a bit of an effort, and was rewarded by appearing on the second page of the segment leader board.

That's worse than being on page 15, in many ways.

Irons entire body

You pictured Jeremy in your mind's eye as a sort of performance carrot?

Hit me up if you need any club cut medium jerseys ;)

I'm a small, and also no longer CSG!

Really?

Hayfever.

Ah, I forgot about summer. Seems like along time ago.

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~7W/kg for a couple of minutes is like recovery ride shit for me. I use the time to sit up and sort out a new Twitter avatar on my phone.

Marmalade atkins was my first love!

That probably explains something. I'm not sure what.

531 thread dredge

I just dipped under 2min on Highgate West on my fixie bike, and have now fully transitioned from the world of light-hearted and whimsical online fixed cycling culture banter to the cold and soulless world of online cycling data archiving. It's taken about 6 years.

Yes, it's a boast post... but is it progress?

Top of the board, congrats! I'm not familiar with online cycling data archiving, is it self-published or done automatically via a cyclocomputer? Is it all timed from exactly the same points A and B? What about tailwinds and secretly drafting buses? Not that you would ever do that or anything. I guess it is progress, it channels and provides an outlet for someone's competitiveness. It introduces another social element to what is a solo activity, and that can't be a bad thing. Advancement in technology and statistical analysis techniques have recently been applied to some sports like football with mixed success, though. I wouldn't get too bogged down with it!

Basically you send a fax to Strava HQ, and they send out 2 local agents who go and wait at the start and end of a road segmentation with stopwatches (Casio, not some cheap shit), roughly 10 minutes before your check-in. They have easily recognisable fluoro orange tabards, and also set up a temporary road closure, both for your safety and to prevent slipstreaming traffic. They also adjust your time on the segmentation if wind assistance falls outside of certain parameters. After the recording session, you are able to make an ad hoc appeal if you feel their data doesn't marry up with what you've got on your speedometer (Cateye, not some cheap shit), but they're very professional and it's usually miscalibration on the part of the rider, or something interfering with the wheel magnet.

After you've ridden at least once under the jurisdiction of the Strava agents, you can subscribe to a monthly A4 newsletter for your local area that lists league tables of local rides, and there's a sew-on patch you earn once you've completed 100 segmentations, then a gold-plated pin badge for when you've done 1000.

It's all very high tech.