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One tip to improve my cycling?
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Gramaisc
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Sorry, it equates to getting up, having your breakfast in Swindon and then cycling to Stafford in time for the football results....
flossietoo
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Thanks for the Forum support. Very tired and a bit sick. But I did it. It might be a while before I can look at the bike. X
stoofer34
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This bamboo bike is in the National Technical Museum in Prague - 1896 vintage..
http://www.ntm.cz/en
monkey bidness
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Any Forumites entered for the London 100 this year?
@flossietoo ?
@flossietoo ?
Withnail
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Ay up monkey bidness, where've ya been!
Was sorely tempted after f2's heroics last year but feared for my life - in the words of my Attorney, "If we go back out there, we will surely die" - so chickened out.
You doing it?
flossietoo
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I'm in again!
Having sworn that I would NEVER do it again, I received the link telling me that the ballot was opening. At midnight I went online 'just to have a look'. At one minute past midnight I pressed Enter.
I told myself that it was a ballot and that I probably wouldn't get a place.
Last week received my Congratulations magazine. My husband thinks that is enough evidence to have me sectioned.
It CAN'T be as bad as last year...
Having sworn that I would NEVER do it again, I received the link telling me that the ballot was opening. At midnight I went online 'just to have a look'. At one minute past midnight I pressed Enter.
I told myself that it was a ballot and that I probably wouldn't get a place.
Last week received my Congratulations magazine. My husband thinks that is enough evidence to have me sectioned.
It CAN'T be as bad as last year...
monkey bidness
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Re London-Surrey 100.
I regret to say that I too have been successful in the Ballot for entries.!
Having read the Congratulations Magazine I am bricking myself. All of the pictures of last year's event show Lycra clad athletes (male & female) atop feather-light miracles of modern velocipede engineering.
Where are the puffing red-faced MAMILs? Where are the old geezers on 7 year old hybrid bangers with straight bars? Christ, I am going to stand out like a turd in a swimming pool!
There is not one piece of Lycra in my wardrobe. My summer cycling attire is knotted handkerchief and baggy khaki shorts. In winter I am clad top to toe in (slightly baggy) ninja gear. (picture to follow). Actually, now that I think about, it when I have the full face covering on it looks vaguely like a male Burkha.
Flossietoo, help me out here. Are there any ordinary participants? Have they been airbrushed out of all the publicity stills? Was there anybody there last year on an ordinary bike? Any eejits?
Btw, though you say that it cannot get any worse, I seem to remember that the 2 highest mountains in Surrey - Bo(llo)x Hill and Leith(al) Hill were cut out because of the bad weather last . Which is hardly likely to occur again this year? Could we be that lucky?
I regret to say that I too have been successful in the Ballot for entries.!
Having read the Congratulations Magazine I am bricking myself. All of the pictures of last year's event show Lycra clad athletes (male & female) atop feather-light miracles of modern velocipede engineering.
Where are the puffing red-faced MAMILs? Where are the old geezers on 7 year old hybrid bangers with straight bars? Christ, I am going to stand out like a turd in a swimming pool!
There is not one piece of Lycra in my wardrobe. My summer cycling attire is knotted handkerchief and baggy khaki shorts. In winter I am clad top to toe in (slightly baggy) ninja gear. (picture to follow). Actually, now that I think about, it when I have the full face covering on it looks vaguely like a male Burkha.
Flossietoo, help me out here. Are there any ordinary participants? Have they been airbrushed out of all the publicity stills? Was there anybody there last year on an ordinary bike? Any eejits?
Btw, though you say that it cannot get any worse, I seem to remember that the 2 highest mountains in Surrey - Bo(llo)x Hill and Leith(al) Hill were cut out because of the bad weather last . Which is hardly likely to occur again this year? Could we be that lucky?
Gramaisc
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Mmmm - I have seen pictures of the state @flossietoo was in at the end of last year's event.
If it had been the Grand National, then she might have found stewards erecting a tent around her to avoid distressing the spectators.
If it had been the Grand National, then she might have found stewards erecting a tent around her to avoid distressing the spectators.
monkey bidness
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Whats with the 'Post Ride'? Mid-ride works for me!
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
The old railway line shall be much quieter this year, not sure I can make it to Gnosall dry!