The Richmond Park 3-Lap Challenge

@nathan - thursday :)

Ah, shit. Should have stayed schtum.

Why not still do the cheese medal and award it to the fastest fixed rider?

This was always going to end up with a geared top three so fixed needs a medal of its own.

Pete has a point. I'll make it happen :)

Why not have a geared list and a fixed list? Seems appropriate...

I'll get out next week on my geared and see what I can do.

Heading over tomorrow in the AM, let see how my time is.

TBH, I'm not sure how much of a difference riding a fixed wheel will be, as the list seemed quite sporadic.

TBH, I'm not sure how much of a difference riding a fixed wheel will be, as the list seemed quite sporadic.

If I had some gears I'd definitely be faster. I'm spinning out on the straights, grinding up the climbs and holding back on the descents. I'm actually looking into getting a geared bike, but feel it may be the wrong time of year to get one.

I've only been cycling properly since 2008 and always fixed, so I've kinda never ridden a geared bike. Very odd.

Why not still do the cheese medal..?

Yeah! Shame Tom will have it...

but feel it may be the wrong time of year to get one.

If anything, it's the right time of years getting the 2011 models at discounted price before it get sold out to make way for the 2012 version (which already have arrived).

^ Without de-railing this thread too much, recommended geared bikes sub-£500?

From the top of my head;

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/specialedition.asp?action=GenerateConstructor&part=SERIBB7005RACESHIM&sub=conf_SERC&bike=1

others will have some better suggestion though.

Something nice second hand Nathan, new sub-£500 road bikes aren't all that from what I've seen and you'll get much more for your money. Either the modern, practical end of vintage or a 'nearly new'. e.g. This would have been too small for you but would have been a cracking way to spend c.£500 on a roadie.

Before I got my Colnago I'd ridden fixed constantly since 2008, riding gears was weird. It really took some getting used to. I was petrified of only having the brakes to stop me, it felt unsafe. And using the gears properly took some re-learning. And I had to learn to freewheel, I kept pedalling constantly!

I'd agree now isn't the time of year, although that does mean potential bargains as other people think the same thing.

you lot should all join London Dynamo... You'd fit right in.

Tom mang, for someone who isn't competitive you're pretty competitive.
imperial winter series at Hillingdon. You. There.

you lot should all join London Dynamo... You'd fit right in.

Isn't that the whole point of the LFGSS jersey?

Oh ffs Bainbridge, what did you have to go and do that for?

I vow not to post here again until I've got a decent time down.

Loving the tags on this thread by the way, but the bike radar chevron combo shows a distinct lack of imagination.

I'd like to have a crack at this one- will the park be hell on earth on Saturday?

That's the only time I can realistically get there and [hippy]smash it[/hippy]

What size are you FC. selling a roadbike, maybe. it is a steel one (Columbus though...)

What size are you FC. selling a roadbike, maybe. it is a steel one (Columbus though...)

54cm-55cm seat tube with traditional geometry...

ah too big then.

You should be able to pick something like that up, no probs on ebay.

also going clockwise, girl with big curly hair, drops and I think chrome vees.
Hai, if any of you are on here.

that was me, hi
saw two guys going anti on fixed, one wearing red jersey and another one on a silver/chrome bike, both with drops...(wasn't really paying attention today and done my laps absentmindedly)
which one were you?

Glad I didn't come out with you today after all Tom. My legs are still fucked from Sunday.

what happened? overdone it?

Posted in weekend rides...and in the new bonk thread. 67mi to Cambridge, 17.4mph non stop 66gi.

Think I left part of my soul (and maybe a lung) somewhere in Cambridgeshire.

that's pretty good going, please tell me you have some energy food while in motion...