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don't drink and skid! A need new pair of trousers now.

Skid - you're doing it wrong.

Reeeen remember we were talking about your commute lastnight - my mate is refusing to believe that anyone can ride 10miles into central london in less than an hour. I have him wound up, it is very funny and will probably keep me amused all day looooooong!

Mines 15 miles and I have film foootage of me making it in in 53 minutes if your friend wants (on polo bike too I think)

I know, he is blaming it on the traffic - he comes from ealing to st pauls - winding people up is a bonus ;-)

Reeeen remember we were talking about your commute lastnight - my mate is refusing to believe that anyone can ride 10miles into central london in less than an hour. I have him wound up, it is very funny and will probably keep me amused all day looooooong!

This is the sad thing about many peoples view of cycling, they have no idea how far you can get in a set amount of time, I do 10 miles each way to work and it's normally about 40 mins for me and I'm hardly gasping or sweaty at the end of it.
If more people realised just how flipping quick and easy it is to get places on a bike they would start cycling themselves I reckon. London starts to seem very small after being on a bike for a bit....

Pretty much the first thing that people notice when they start cycling is how quick it is.

He does cycle but is fairly new to London cycling, got his bike a couple of weeks ago on the cyclescheme thing-ma-bob.

He doesn't believe in the whole fixed gear thing... i mean its hardly the tooth fairy or santa is it?

Mines 15 miles and I have film foootage of me making it in in 53 minutes if your friend wants (on polo bike too I think)

It takes me 50 mins to get back home from the West drinks (ca. 15 miles) which includes going through the packed West End.

It takes me 6 pints to get home from work (~10 miles, Bank Station-Tooting Rail).

^Haha, very true. It takes 7 pints to get lost however and 10 pints to do a "brainscraper"

It's 10.8 miles from my house to the station in the morning, through all the traffic in Peckham, Camberwell, Brixton and Clapham Common. I'm often carry 30lbs of rucksack, I stop at all the red lights and I've done that in 50 minutes.

And I'm old and slow, as Reeen will confirm.

It takes me 50 mins to get back home from the West drinks (ca. 15 miles) which includes going through the packed West End.

But do you stop at the lights..?

I'm loving the testimonials guys, i might print them out and leave them on his deck at lunchtime ;-)

Does he live on a boat?

Spelling fail.

I'm loving the testimonials guys, i might print them out and leave them on his deck at lunchtime ;-)

I think I might have a GPS data to humiliate him further. And I'm 40 without too much stamina when I don't take blow.

Drag him down to beers?

OSR, your work mate is ridiculous. he'd be all OMG if he ever sees me in a hurry. let him be in his world, some are learn resistant. tell him morgate to ackre lane in brixtön in 12min at a 7pm weekday and then let him be. (i really wanted a burger that day)

maybe it's a selfprotection thing. denying the possibility of the speed of other makes him not as slow and he feels better about himself. i don't like "not possible" attitude people.

... on a side note, i need ass+c to feel better myself to day.

Afternoon Mr Reeeen! Yeah it is quite funny - i shall let him stay in his world - it's funny looking from the outside in ;-)

@Tea-Bee he is provisionally coming on an ad-hoc london-brighton ride so we shall see who needs gears then!

morgate to ackre lane in brixtön in 12min at a 7pm weekday

how the fuck did you do that?

By pedalling really really fast?

@OSR So he cycles quite a bit then. He's no nodder on a MTB with nobbly tyres?

No mate, he's not the nodder from the infamous "nodder with a side of seafood OT" thread...

@john: overcaffeinated, sugar rush and really, reeeeally hungry, why?

https://www.lfgss.com/post1567246-1095.html

Anyone keen?