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When I got back it all felt like some kind of strange dream. That first piss stop was the dawning of the full realisation of just how shite the evening had turned (weather-wise of course). Hilarious encounter with another cyclist "Evening!!"... and then pretty much how you guys described it. Rivers, wood and stray cats... ha ha! Oil and Gas drilling in Coldharbour ya say... Last night it could have done with a bit of warmth! The strangest thing... having learnt to love London's free papers. Thanks? for that one Jonny and Clintsmoker... sorry to hear about the flat Martin... I shudder to think what time you got in. TNRC has officially begun.
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sounds epic, I got that feeling, like after I first joined the forum and a load of guys had just completed that horrendous dunwich dynamo, and you could only think, you guys are fucking legends, and I would never do that for pleasure.
chapeau young sirs, you should get some commemorative patches made up. Andyp, the sean kelly hardman award shall hereforth be awarded to forum members who show the intestinal fortitude to ride even when the world is trying to stop them... -
sam, cheers dude, but i kinda exaggerated my injuries a bit yesterday just to an extra dose of htfu into the mix.
corny, thoughts of the 07 DD certainly crossed my thoughts a lot last night. but at least we were only out there for a few hours rather than all night.
but man that wind. it was unreal. so many trees creaking and moaning. debris strewn across all the roads, some of which had turned to rivers. fuckin awesome stuff.
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i am an empty shell of a man today.
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sam, cheers dude, but i kinda exaggerated my injuries a bit yesterday just to an extra dose of htfu into the mix.
corny, thoughts of the 07 DD certainly crossed my thoughts a lot last night. but at least we were only out there for a few hours rather than all night.
but man that wind. it was unreal. so many trees creaking and moaning. debris strewn across all the roads, some of which had turned to rivers. fuckin awesome stuff.
Was it really that bad on the 2007 DD? I was quite amazed at the impression it made on some people, as we didn't really encounter huge difficulties on it (e.g., little debris--I got much more of a scare when we suddenly hit a gravelled bit in the dark on the 2008 DD which seemed to stretch for miles)--but then, we were riding well ahead of the main ride, and it only really seems to have got bad when we had already arrived (3:50am, I think). I'd also been on the Exmouth Exodus II ('The Apocalypse') a month earlier, on one of the week-ends when there were huge storms and floods all over the place, and conditions on that one were worse, from memory (although it was less cold than on the DD). Anyway, your ride last night does sound a fair degree worse than the 2007 DD, but I'm sure that there are strong parallels.
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Do you guys never check the weather forecast? ;)
I almost got blown off my bike into cars twice on my commute home last night and kept wondering what it would be like to be caught in a storm in the countryside....
(I'm expecting the 'ricans to tell us to HTFU and to ride in tornadoes and hurricanes).
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[quote=VeeVee;555331]Do you guys never check the weather forecast? ;)
Sure...
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apparently there is going to be a cyclone in bangladesh next tuesday.....any takers?
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next ride:
24/03/09
surrey hills
train - waterloo to effingham junction 19:09 £8 return(approx)
route - hard and hilly 36 miles approx
return via train to waterloo approx midnight.
- clintsmoker SKHA (Sean Kelly HArdman Award)
- clintsmoker SKHA (Sean Kelly HArdman Award)
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purple - don't forget your new initials, you earnt them !
andy - i'll brink a birthday power bar with candle
great to see ved and mike c onboard- clintsmoker SKHA (Sean Kelly Hardman Award)
- Ved
- andyp
- mikec( Lamborghini crushing maniac )
- purple_mj ; SKHA (with a spare front light ftw)
- clintsmoker SKHA (Sean Kelly Hardman Award)
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You do realise March 24th is the date when the antichrist is prophesised to return in The Omen?
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lol.......after last week...who gives a f**k about the antichrist. and do you really think he will have the legs to get around those hills? we're safe. i feel sorry for all those who stay home that evening
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Listen up. I really don't care if I'm seen as pushy or arrogant, but I'm DEMANDING my SKHA right now.
I've just done 80 miles in a wind that was gusting above 30mph at times, which is not fun if you're a 63kg rider. And I never enjoy struggling to turn over a 53x18 going downhill.
30 of those miles were done on a hilly TT course, without aero aids, other than riding in the drops, and I had to push through severe back cramps due to having fuck all road mileage under my belt this winter.
The penultimate 10 were ridden into a headwind, accompanied by light by extremely painful hailstones.
The final 15 were ridden in fucking relentless freezing torrential rain, in Sunday lunchtime traffic, wearing only bibshorts, s/sleeve jersey, arm and knee warmers, toe covers, gillet, 'Spring' gloves, and a helmet/buff.
I had to start doing occasional primal yelling and maniacal laughing to keep going, and had zero feeling left in my fingers and toes and cock region.
I semi-consciously stumbled straight into the bathroom, but needed my wife to run the bath as I was having problems with basic fine motor functions.
She said the colour only returned to my lips after an hour.
And to think, my mate and I (who I was riding back from the event with) were discussing how post-race miles are supposed to be very beneficial as we set off from race HQ.
I don't fucking think so.
Thanks for the SKHA. If you want to retract it, you're going to have to fight me for it.
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shit bmmf, i went out this afternoon with the intention of getting a few decent miles in. the wind, the rain, the wind again, the sleet, the wind again again, the fact i had no gloves, no arm, leg, knee, cock warmers, the fucking wind again again again. checked the odo when i got back. a pathetic, and pathetically slow 30 miles.
today was not a day for riding.
80 miles - that is SKHA+ territory. well done dude.
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I agree. That was a filthy, filthy night to be out in dark country lanes. Chapeau.
You all deserve the Sean Kelly hardman award.