goody
Veteran
- Location
- Carshalton
Must have the KOM by now on all the segments...even the pros didn't ride it that many times
Maybe he is JP!
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/mystery-cyclist-beats-the-pros-strava-times-24227
Box Hill Obsession
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Maybe he is JP!
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/mystery-cyclist-beats-the-pros-strava-times-24227
Racing roadkill
Guru
I don't find Leith / Box hill, remotely interesting, or particularly challenging. The new super popularity, is due to the legacy of the 2012 Olympic race (they did the climb 9 times, so that would be a challenge). Now every fat, ex-golfing accountant, in Christendom wants to ride that route. If there's a market, the sportive organisers are going to try and tap into it. I was talking to a couple of people who live round that way, last week. They want that area renamed "the fat accountant sea".
You must have missed the term "public" in "public highway"
Residents do not own the roads in their area.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
As a "muscularly built" ex-accountant I probably fit that description.
Same issue around here. Some famous climbs that sportives always target but there are loads of better ones that never feature. I guess it's the same reason; people come for a day out and want to go home having ridden the famous climb(s). That there are better climbs isn't really important to them. Nothing wrong with that.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I'm not getting upset. I don't think there's any harm in trying to seeing other people's point of view though. It doesn't have to to be a matter of tribalism.
Nothing to do with tribalism at all.
More cyclists - less car drivers = good thing.
Sittingduck
Legendary Member
- Location
- Somewhere flat
Remeber when he took the KOM there was a rumour circulating that JP is actually Contador, lol
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Did anyone ever discover why a former England football manager got a good hiding while parked in his car in the early hours at the foot of Box Hill?
Dropping a sweet wrapper out of the window ?
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Serious matter, as you know, so he couldn't complain.
But I think it was a bit more exciting than that.
vickster
Squire
Came on to one of those tough bikers who hang out in the carpark? Cottaging in the lavs?
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Possibility.
As I recall, it was a baseball bat attack while he was sitting in his Range Rover.
He said publicly he had become lost - on a journey from London he had done dozens of times - stopped for a rest, and the attack must have been a random act of thuggery.
Also a possibility, but conspiracy theory speculation is not an invention of the internet, so there was plenty of it at the time.
jack smith
Veteran
- Location
- Durham
Ive never cycled down south but a sportive im doing includes box hill, i cant imagine there being may hills worth doing down that way anyway lol, thankfully i live 40 mile away from the two highest roads in england 
So dont need much more tbh as i ride it most weeks.
Perfect road surface, sharp corners on the decent, and hardly any traffic! You do need to watch out a sheep dosent walk out when your doing 45-50 on the downhill though! Us northerners have it great.
So dont need much more tbh as i ride it most weeks.Perfect road surface, sharp corners on the decent, and hardly any traffic! You do need to watch out a sheep dosent walk out when your doing 45-50 on the downhill though! Us northerners have it great.
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