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viktorvaughn

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luka said:
dont you feel nervous? ive been putting off getting back on mine. my confidence always takes a long time to recover after a crash.
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yeah i'm a bit more circumspect going around corners, bit scary but hopefully makes you a better cyclist in the long run..?
 
Slothrop

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
Rule #64: Cornering confidence increases with time and experience.

This pattern continues until it falls sharply and suddenly.
 
jenks

jenks

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Definitely noticing a sharp increase in lycra clad road bikers out again today. It's good to see and may well connected to any one of the following:the cycle safe campaign, good news stories of british success in the early part of the cycling season, some good weather; Boardman getting decent bikes in Halfords; a certain retro cool of road bikes themselves; the cycle to work scheme; the rise in cyclo sportives; obesity; men of a certain age spending money on shiny kit; the critical mass (in all senses) of bikes on the road in London trickling out east to us; I'm sure there are other reasons too but nice to see because in the end it might mean we aren't constantly being run off the road by psychotic drivers who go on about road tax (which doesn't exist and even if cyclists were part of vehicle excise they still wouldn't have to pay because they have zero emissions just like certain cars, which are also exempt.)

@luka and victor - i think riding with others helps with overcoming post accident fear because then crashing becomes just something that everyone does occasionally and someone has always come off worse than you and they are still throwing the bike into the corners with no apparent concern for their health.
 
jenks

jenks

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The light is good enough now for an after work ride - still the best antidote to the stress of the classroom. Looking forward to incipient spring highlights of daffs and cherry blossom round Barling way.
 
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viktorvaughn

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Slothrop

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
matt b said:
Seconded: it was bike rush hour in the southern Dales on Sunday morning. Like a really shit peloton at times.
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You should try pre-lecture rush hour in Cambridge. It's like a really big really shit peloton where half the riders are still mashed from the night before.

And yeah, agree with everyone about the start of nice weather and long evenings, looking forward to some after work bimbles in the near future.

Also, we rode through the countryside at night for about the first time last night, which was quite fun once I got over the fact that (despite growing up in a village and spending half my spare time in the lakes / snowdonia / peak district) I still freak the fuck out if I'm out in normal countryside after dark...

Very dark, very quiet, quite cool.
 
matt b

matt b

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Slothrop said:
You should try pre-lecture rush hour in Cambridge. It's like a really big really shit peloton where half the riders are still mashed from the night before.
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True, true, but I'm talking about 10 miles from the nearest town on 'quiet' country lanes. Craziness.

My De Rosa frame is the same as this one:
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Having done about 150 miles on it now, I have to say it's mint to ride, but I think I might have to get a compact chainset in order to save the legs on longer rides...
 
jenks

jenks

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We should try and get a Dissensus sportive going - 25 miles to a pub and lunch and 25 after. could be somewhere we could get to on a train, be a laugh. I know we're a disparate group but there could be somewhere appropriate.

The view at the end of 35 mile heralding of Spring:

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matt b

matt b

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jenks said:
We should try and get a Dissensus sportive going - 25 miles to a pub and lunch and 25 after. could be somewhere we could get to on a train, be a laugh. I know we're a disparate group but there could be somewhere appropriate.
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Sounds like a good idea. Lord knows where a midpoint for us all is, though- east midlands?

I'm waiting anxiously for the clocks to change before I can head out on post-work rides, although I have been able to get out on the past couple of wednesday late-afternoons. Will hopefully do so again today if that pile of marking goes down significantly.
 
craner

craner

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I watched the Paris-Nice race yesterday. The cycling was alright, the scenery was amazing. Bradley Wiggins won it.
 
jenks

jenks

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Brad was brilliant there. i once drove up the Col de Vence and it gave me vertigo - the idea of racing up it is mind boggling.

Spring Classics season is upon us - Gent-Wevelgem yesterday. Lots of one day races mainly in Belgium/Holland over rough and ready cobbled sections with rabid drunk fans roaring them along. The greatest, for many, is Roubaix (which is actually in northern France) with its sections of loaf sized cobbles (pave). Look out Boonen, Cancellera, Gilbert and Hushovd - all hard bastards. It's even more interesting of it rains!

 
matt b

matt b

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Lush day for a ride:

<a href="" title="Towards Bolton Abbey by matthewbmatthewb, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7270/7024907965_eef3cdfcc5.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="Towards Bolton Abbey"></a>
<a href="" title="Looking back by matthewbmatthewb, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6111/7024906895_5842dd9c88.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="Looking back"></a>
<a href="" title="A lamb, an oystercatcher and a curlew were in the field on the left. This is a picture of the road. by matthewbmatthewb, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7213/6878804174_57b9f9ee7c.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="A lamb, an oystercatcher and a curlew were in the field on the left. This is a picture of the road."></a>
 
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