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Great stuff Jimmy.

To me she's saying, 'your bike is sexy' and other such stuff

"Your bike is sexy but I cannot ride it as I am a mermaid and it makes me sad....give me some crack instead, s'il vous plait"

Hi guys, I have been advised to register to this site, as ive recently had one of my custom built Bob jackson bike stolen in hammersmith, I know its not at all related to this thread but I apparently have to post on three different threads and wait 24hrs before I can post my own. Im pretty cut up about it as it is a one of a kind. Its black with white bull horn bars, white decal, and twomstickers one on 'tokyo fixed' sticker on the top tube and another near the bottom bracket. Apologies again for posting on the wrong thread.

I did some Jimmy give me your PIN number bike ridings on the weekend. It was pretty warm. I make lots of salt on skinsuit. Fin.

Hi guys, I have been advised to register to this site, as ive recently had one of my custom built Bob jackson bike stolen in hammersmith, I know its not at all related to this thread but I apparently have to post on three different threads and wait 24hrs before I can post my own. Im pretty cut up about it as it is a one of a kind. Its black with white bull horn bars, white decal, and twomstickers one on 'tokyo fixed' sticker on the top tube and another near the bottom bracket. Apologies again for posting on the wrong thread.

Just post in the 'Stolen Bikes' thread.

We have the right thread for everything.

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I didn't ride this weekend, but just did a slightly extended commute today:
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2875291

It was perfect.
Tmw and the next day hoping for some good rides too, as I have Wed afternoon and all of thursday off...
(Total riding time was just under 3hrs, but I had a clinic midway through the ride so it was more like two short rides instead)

Me and Pepe both had the day off so we rode to Brighton. It was lovely.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/343546702

^ sweet rides, what frames?

I can't help but notice you have spacers...

My two hour morning training session somehow became four hours in the saddle with clear skies and glorious sunshine. Good job I'm "working from home" this week. I rode with Kieron, another British expat who I don't dare call a full-kit wanker because he can drop me whenever he likes. I'm using his Strava data here:

The ride was African Crowned Crane shaped. See:

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The neck & head of the crane was the best part of the ride, which we did twice, out & back. It's the "Seven Sisters" route, a nine mile string of seven hills set in lush farmland. The inclines are matched on the chart with seven chunks of effort on Kieron's power meter. Kinjah's time on Strava is 27:06. Ours was 31:46, including time for Keiron waiting for me at three or four hilltops. We'll ride these again because the route is like being spoon fed a series of three minute intervals. I'm feeling stronger on these short hills so the training must be paying off.

The ride also offered an Oh Shit moment when in the last 10 miles, involving two of Kenya's road hazards:

- 1) Multiple speed bumps

- 2) Newspaper sellers standing between lanes on busy roads

A car in front slowed almost to a stop to go over bumps. I could either stop dead or overtake, so I overtook. A newspaper chap was positioned immediately after a set of these humps, a good business ploy to catch drivers at their slowest. He wrong-footed me in the way peds do, and gently received my front wheel and left ergo. Still clipped-in, I did a side-shuffling dance to avoid tasting tarmac but it could genuinely believed I would topple over. He grinned at me as I accelerated away, probably imagining me stacking it in humorous ways.

Ahh Kenya... It must be fun there.
I'm in the peaks.
50 today, 60 tmw- maybe more- if I don't feel dead by Matlock.
Snake pass is the first goal.
1300m climbing today, 1800m tmw.

^ sweet rides, what frames?

The blue one is mine, it's a custom Oak Cycles 853 beast, kitted out with Sram and Enve. The gold one is Doktor P's, it's also 853 except built by Condor in 1996 and is kitted out with Campag and Cinelli.

Shinkuu and I went on a night ride last night. We left at about 10.30 and went flat out almost the whole way.

Was absolutely delightful! I was also very happy with my 36th place on the high gate hill strava segment. Determined to get higher!

http://app.strava.com/activities/67637347

Want a custom oak frame now. Hot damn

This weekend...white man (with tan lines) in the colle dans Malibu. 114k, 2600m. Lovely ride, not 115f like a couple of weeks back.

Been training really hard these last three weeks in preparation for September's Savannah Classic, a 125km road race from Tanzania to Nairobi. After all this "proper training" I'm hoping to surprise some people with my new strength.

This morning was a nice 30 minute warm up followed by three 15 minute intervals at threshold, grinding up this long steady hill at 1-2%. After each one I felt more dizzy but, bizarrely, in less and less pain. I was clinging to the wheel of Kieron who was pushing out 260W with peaks of 300W. Next time I will ask him to surprise me once or twice with an attack, see how I cope with it.

Just finished my micro tour of the peaks.
Today: Just under 60 miles, just under 1700m. 3.5hrs.
Twice up snake pass (both sides) because the descent was awesome, a new route(to me) up winnats, and curbar to finish in chesterfield. Sat a t the station trying to decide between riding home and train, chickened out and got train.

No shame in it, eyebrows. No shame at all.

Yesturday I cycled the Croix de Fer and then came back down to watch the tour go over the Glandon.

My legs weren't complaining too much on the return leg, so decided to quickly pop up the Col de Sabot, hadn't fully realised it was 2130 meters..

http://www.cols-cyclisme.com/images/courbes/1039.gif

Sunny at the bottom.. snowing hard at the top.
Seriously cold, wet dangerous decent.. without a coat.
Luckily I at least had a hat in my back pocket.

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Got up early for this

then buggered off into Griffith Park to continue my Rapha Rising torture.
95% done now, a mere 1125ft to go.

http://app.strava.com/activities/68516331

Yesterday, I did this:

The route was from Broughton in Furness over Corny Fell and then up to Wasdale Head (near Scafell Pike) and then back through Eskdale and over Hardknott Pass, Wrynose Pass and into Coniston. Then it was the return over Wrynose and Hardknott and back over Corny Fell.

Weekend Ride

High point: The Scottish family who mistook my recklessness on the descent from Wrynose as skill and gave a round of applause and a "gaun yersel!" at the bottom.

Low points: Nearly sicking up my own legs going back up Hardknott and Strava 'losing' the ride and failing to upload it thus ruining my chances of a Waffa woundel.

107km around the Yorkshire Wolds, http://big-g-sportive.co.uk/:

edit: I don't know how you embed the Garmin summary: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/345321468

I don't fully understand Garmin's stats: the ride details claim 953m elevation, but my dashboard has ascribed 1270m effort to the jaunt. It felt more like the latter than the former, trust me...

About 700 riders, all told, doing one of four courses (30km, 60km, 100km and 160km). There were supposedly two food stations, both common to the 100 and 160 routes, but the first station (at 50km) was off-piste slightly, and, IMHO, poorly signed, so I missed it completely. Unfortunate, since it was being manned by a colleague through whose good offices I managed to register late for the ride in the first place.

Second feed station, just after Huggate, was a welcome respite after a long, long drag up through Millington Woods. Jelly babies, fig rolls, flapjacks, bananas, lots and lots of water etc etc

The final 'big' hill - the last proper spike on the elevation profile - is Nunburnholme. I got up it fine, but was behind a rider who'd slowed down to the point that they simply toppled sideways onto the tarmac. They were fine, but it was unfortunate that they'd had the spill right in front of one of the official photographers...

Anyway, after Nunburnholme, the psychological fallacy of thinking it was the last 'hill' was revealed: every teeny, tiny incline felt like a mountain after that. Having set a notional target time of 5hrs 30mins for the ride, by the time I'd crested Nunburnholme I was thinking that a sub 5hr time was within my grasp. But a headwind for the final 25km, coupled with the fact that I was worn out, meant that I eventually crawled home in the aforementioned 5hrs 06.

So, despite beating my notional pre-ride target by 24mins, I feel disappointed with myself that I didn't somehow whittle a further 6mins off.

^^ 10,000ft of climbing?? Serious, serious props... Man, those descents all look pretty sharpish!