Manchester - Llandudno 25 April 2015 featuring the Inaugural Hill Climb Sausage Challenge

[nickyboy]

Here's the one I was singing somewhere near Colwyn Bay trying to keep spirits up. Although nobody said it at the time, the looks I got were definitely "shut the f*** up and keep cycling"


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dckdQHuDdcw

 

[I like Skol]

If I was there I would have told you to shut up Nick

 

[Ootini]

I'm surprised you two didn't hit the Karaoke in the last bar we visited.

 

[mike3121]

Here's the one I was singing somewhere near Colwyn Bay trying to keep spirits up. Although nobody said it at the time, the looks I got were definitely "shut the f*** up and keep cycling"


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dckdQHuDdcw[URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dckdQHuDdcw[/QUOTE'][/QUOTE[/URL]]

This was one of the memories of the ride I was trying to blank out
but I must admit it did make us laugh, at first...............

 

[I like Skol]

I'm surprised you two didn't hit the Karaoke in the last bar we visited.

Why didn't you mention it at the time? I would have been there like a shot....

 

[rich p]

age had not withered them, apart from Rich P who sadly looked like he had been disinterred specially for the ride

Quality @Origamist !
...and you'd have seen how near it was to the truth if only you'd made it to the finish!

Here we go, just for Rich P.....

Sung by Bonnie Tyler, whereas the performer we finally remembered that sung Lylac Wine was Elkie Brooks.

Never been seen in the same room skolly

 

[Cubist]

Just checked the bike properly. Seatstay is crushed. Bugger. Looks like my heel hit it as we went down.

 

[nickyboy]

Just checked the bike properly. Seatstay is crushed. Bugger. Looks like my heel hit it as we went down.

This was after your resident bike mechanics, @I like Skol and me pronounced your bike "good to go"

 

[I like Skol]

This was after your resident bike mechanics, @I like Skol and me pronounced your bike "good to go"

It is a bugger indeed. I spotted the damage as I unloaded it from the roofrack at Cubes place. This was after giving it a quick check over when I picked it up from the pub and again giving it a clean bill of health. Only when I flipped the bike around to wheel it into his garage did I spot the small area of chipped paintwork on the otherwise undamaged side of the bike.

I believe there are companies that can repair such damage or maybe it is covered by an accidental damage extension on your house insurance if you are lucky?

 

[Cubist]

I think I have a £300 excess on accidental damage. By the time I factor in new glasses (titanium varifocals with pentax lenses) a £200 paramo jacket, a fifty quid helmet and the jersey and bibtights the hospital cut off, the frame may be the only thing I pay for.

I'm afraid most of the evidence is pointing to the fact I may have been unconscious before I came off. No marks on my gloves, no pedal damage, no ripped bar tape, just nudged out of alignment. I'll have to get the doc to check it out.

 

[Cubist]

It is a bugger indeed. I spotted the damage as I unloaded it from the roofrack at Cubes place. This was after giving it a quick check over when I picked it up from the pub and again giving it a clean bill of health. Only when I flipped the bike around to wheel it into his garage did I spot the small area of chipped paintwork on the otherwise undamaged side of the bike.

I believe there are companies that can repair such damage or maybe it is covered by an accidental damage extension on your house insurance if you are lucky?

If you press it in there's a soft bit which gives under pressure in the middle of the tube.

 

[I like Skol]

I'm afraid most of the evidence is pointing to the fact I may have been unconscious before I came off.

I can't remember if we suggested it to you after the accident while waiting for the ambulance or when Nick and me discussed the incident but I did put forward the possibility that you had blacked out before falling off as there was no reason for you to go down where you did. Definitely worth raising the idea with your doctor.

 

[Cubist]

That would also fit with the way you were lying @Cubist - flat out face down with your right arm under your body, as if you'd just gone straight down without even putting a hand out to save yourself. You can't have had time to even begin to unclip either, which is probably how the bike ended up on top of you .

Yep, it begins to make sense. I wasn't feeling poorly, had had plenty to eat and drink, yet absolutely blank after I passed nickyboy at top of the lane.

 

[doughnut]

Yep, it begins to make sense. I wasn't feeling poorly, had had plenty to eat and drink, yet absolutely blank after I passed nickyboy at top of the lane.

Maybe @nickyboy was singing that "Here comes the sun" song again, and your body just shut down. I heard that everyone on his corridor at the Travellodge got refunds after he started singing in the shower after the ride.

 

[I like Skol]

Hey @nickyboy I posted your trousers back to you this morning. They were a bit short for me and kept falling down so you can have'em