competitive commuting

[pshore]

With the Giro I've not gone truly flat out yet, but I've done a flat 20 miles with a 24mph average, which is 21-22min.

Aaaaah, well erm that is some challenge - I'll start with the lower one first! I have not seen anyone going that fast on the commute, or at the weekend come to think if it.

Its my first season on 23mm tyres and I am able to average 20mph so far. Gonna have to get some more interval training in.

I was averaging 15mph only a few years back and have mostly improved simply by SCR and one hour blasts to work. Its somehow way more motivating than the gym.

 

[BSRU]

I especially love commuter racing when I'm wearing a floaty skirt with my hair flying, turns out some chaps in lycra aren't that impressed by being overtaken by a curvy girl in civvies!

I tried that but my floaty skirt kept getting stuck in my chain .

 

[Becs]

I tried that but my floaty skirt kept getting stuck in my chain .

Oh it has to be short (with leggings underneath!) :-)

P.S. When I say "curvy" I mean big t*ts and a shapely bottom - not a Beth Ditto style lump that should be banned from short skirts! :-)

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I would catch up and pass or outpace others if I wasn't on a recovery ride every time I go out

I'll have to remember that one

 

[abo]

Oh it has to be short (with leggings underneath!) :-)

P.S. When I say "curvy" I mean big t*ts and a shapely bottom - not a Beth Ditto style lump that should be banned from short skirts! :-)

I'd ask for evidence but then I'd be shoo'd off the forum, so I won't

 

[BentMikey]

Ah yeah, can't help it sometimes:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GscAwKrVmcU


ps. I dunno why anyone would want to overtake a girl like Becs!!

 

[clarion]

I ride as fast as I do, but don't race. I am, however, pleased when I overtake someone I perceive to be a fast/strong rider.

I do chase down RLJers when I can, though.

 

[Beebo]

I do chase down RLJers when I can, though.

I do that too. Last week I overtook the same bloke 4 times on my commute. He kept passing me at red lights and I would just reel him back in, over take and then stop at the lights, only for it all to start again!

 

[wiggydiggy]

I ride as fast as I do, but don't race. I am, however, pleased when I overtake someone I perceive to be a fast/strong rider.

I do chase down RLJers when I can, though.

I dont deliberately chase anyone but I find passing RLJs more satisfying than anyone else

As for SCR I'm not bothered, if someone is slower than me and theres a nice run ahead I'll pass. Otherwise if I'm close to where I need to turn I'll happily sit behind someone fore a few hundred yards*. Likewise that old chap on the iron-monger special, the chav lad on some random full suspension or the full works roadie can wizz by if they like, I'm happy at my pace

*By behind I dont mean a foot from their back wheel either!

 

[gaz]

racing buses is more fun
[media]
]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQdM9xTCi8[/media]

 

[kedab]

today i learned that this sort of behaviour is in all of us

on my way in to work this afternoon a lad in his baggy tracksuit exits a side road 50 meters or so in front of me - he's got plenty of time and give him credit he did stop to check - as he gets going he looks over his shoulder at me and then gets up out of his saddle (he's riding a standard cambridge MTB) and starts giving it some proper effort - i'm already smiling and remembering my efforts to keep a lad behind me last week, so i carry on at the same pace and cruise past him shortly after with a cheery 'hello'

come up to a set of red lights and looking over my shoulder i see him cross the road bump up the kerb and pop in to the Co-Op...i'm sure he didn't intend to have a bit of a race on his way to the shops when he left the house

 

[zigzag]

I dont deliberately chase anyone but I find passing RLJs more satisfying than anyone else

for some reason i tend to pass rljs much closer than rlw* cyclists

*red light waiting

 

[BentMikey]

for some reason i tend to pass rljs much closer than rlw* cyclists

*red light waiting

I've found myself very tempted to do that, but don't because I'd be as bad as the close overtake drivers trying to teach us a lesson.

Years ago I did a return close pass on another cyclist who cut me up, and although it was satisfying, I felt like a toerag afterwards.

 

[BentMikey]

.i'm sure he didn't intend to have a bit of a race on his way to the shops when he left the house

Awesomeness!

 

[jim55]

we were out on a wee run last week ,,there was about 7 of us and we passed through a wee place ,,we werent going fast just cruising ,,prob about 15-18 mph ,,some wee kids who had bmx bikes must have thought ,,"i can beat them " brill they were going like the clappers for about 100 yds or so keeping up with the "racers lol"and then they burned out and gave up ,,sterling effort ,,u actually heard one say /shout "i was beating them there ",,,class