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• #62127
Hoping I wasn't spotted stacking it on the strand this lunch gt85 makes for slippy peddles when pushing off unclipped
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• #62128
did not spot dooks at the horniman
and, more distressingly, I arrived just a few seconds too late to get the last kasekrainer from the sausage stand
distraught photos to follow
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• #62130
Possible spot of KT Bee looking very stealthy at the north end of Clapham Common. If it was sorry I didn't notice quickly enough to shout hi!
Quite possibly - was heading that way at about 4. I hope I was stealthy in an appropriately lit sort of way - I was quite surprised I actually remembered lights when I dragged myself out the house this morning.
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• #62131
KamalRB and a photography-accomplice slaving off Sloane St this evening around 5pm. I was was in a motorcar and felt compelled to give my most agressive-cabby-like DAS.
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KamalRB and a photography-accomplice slaving off Sloane St this evening around 5pm. I was was in a motorcar and felt compelled to give my most agressive-cabby-like DAS.
Like the back-Spok on your Mielec sir.Ah hai, I was photographer. Certainly one of the strangest DAS I have ever had, but made me laugh
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• #62133
Nice to see you mate - hope the photos came out well!
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• #62134
Saw some poor guy nursing a head wound on the nasty right gander just after the Police dog training centre on Layhams. Police were in attendance. I hope he recovers quickly.
I hate that corner, every time I come into it I wonder if I'm going to make it out.
Which corner is that, out of interest?
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• #62136
God that reminds me of one corner on my Brighton route.
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• #62137
That's the one: off camber, dark, greasy (even in the summer). Oncoming cars can't see you, or you them- the corner is also longer (and sharper) than you ever give it credit for and comes after a very fast, flowing 5-10 mins of riding.
You have to consciously scrub off more speed than you have for any of the corners leading up to it. I have had my fair share of dicey moments there (usually trying to hold Jaygee, Bainbridge or Dov's wheel).
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• #62138
You can spin the rear wheel when outbound on that corner- it's always greasy and seemingly always waiting to catch you out.
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• #62139
Ed (and missus?), Saturday lunchtime, just past the Coach & Horses. Spotted from the Dad-taxi during endless loops of SW London.
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• #62140
That's the one: off camber, dark, greasy (even in the summer). Oncoming cars can't see you, or you them- the corner is also longer (and sharper) than you ever give it credit for and comes after a very fast, flowing 5-10 mins of riding.
You have to consciously scrub off more speed than you have for any of the corners leading up to it. I have had my fair share of dicey moments there (usually trying to hold Jaygee, Bainbridge or Dov's wheel).
Exactly that, Dan. The key is to remove as much speed as necessary before making the turn and to be conscious of it every time you approach. It's especially bad at this time of year due to the greasy road conditions.
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• #62141
don't lean!
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• #62142
Nice to see you today, Ed, and the lovely Kati.
Also stopped for a brief chat with Mrs_Socks this afternoon, at possibly not the best place in Peckham for a catch up :/ You're lovely.
It was lovely to chat to you Miss Mouse, hope I didn't keep you too long (it's never going to be a short chat when pets get involved..haha. ) Hopefully catch you again soon, not in the road this time!
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• #62143
Mands - fixing a punture by smithfields. I couldn't think of anything to say so just smiled (possibly creepily) at you.
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• #62145
This morning down New Oxford st and part of Oxford Street till she turned off up Newman St, I think. Girl in White Bern-style helmet, on a pistachio-ish coloured bike with Brown Brooks saddle and bar tape. Front rack. Think the frame says 'Linx Cycles'? Remember complimenting her on the nice bike a few weekes ago outside Sainos in Lower Clapton. The bike looks like something somebody on here would build up.
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• #62146
Lynx?
He's a bike manufacturer as well as exotic car owner?
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• #62147
Mands - fixing a punture by smithfields. I couldn't think of anything to say so just smiled (possibly creepily) at you.
Hai! I smiled back. Fking smithfields night club glass EVERYWHERE!
All good and patched, then pump-pump-it holds, pump-pump-pffffffshhhhh. Whole valve comes off. F U!
Quick pop into LMNH, a flat white later, I'm off.Fixing punctures is still > work.
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• #62148
Just remembered, saw Bitter Buffalo this morning. Did manage to say hi at the lights on Barnsbury. I was in a bit of a mood and shot off a bit sharpish, which I think might have seemed a bit rude, sorry if it did. Usually on that route you meet people again at a subsequent sets of lights but I hit a green wave and didn't stop 'till Theobalds.
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• #62149
Guy on a langster down through hampton hill today , orange bag ect
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• #62150
DAS's a gent with a forum cap under his lid on Cable St around 20 past 8 this morning. Hello!
That was me. Thanks for the DAS, brightened my morning!
Possible spot of KT Bee looking very stealthy at the north end of Clapham Common. If it was sorry I didn't notice quickly enough to shout hi!