Please don't have a heart attack!

[Pat "5mph"]

Gentlemen, please, don't burst a gut if a wee middle aged lady passes you up a hill, you are going to overtake her promptly at the first bit of flat anyway.

No need to excuse yourself while overtaking me saying stuff like "sorry about this, it's just the hills I can't do" or even "hiya! ... mumble mumble gonna catch you"

Uphill, on the flat, downhill, I go the same speed, 5mph.
You could make the hill too, if you had spent the past winter commuting on ice spikers instead of taking the car.

 

[fossyant]

Oh heck. Some duffer of an SCR idiot then, or a mamil on a Piña..... Whoops.

 

[jarlrmai]

This is hilarious and awesome, reminds me of the time I saw some elderly cyclists up ahead of me and thought "I need to be careful when I go around them", only to realise that I wasn't catching them up as fast as I thought, put a bit of a spurt on (pride etc) and realised they were on electric assist bikes.

Don't think I could stay upright at 5mph though

 

[Deleted member 1258]

the good weather is approaching, the fair weather cyclists are starting to emerge from their winter hibernation, they are already starting to **** me off, every time I pass one I seem to find either they have speeded up and are sucking my wheel a hundred yards down the road or they bust a gut to sprint past but then blow up and are travelling even more slowly when I pass them again.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Oh heck. Some duffer of an SCR idiot then, or a mamil on a Piña..... Whoops.

Nay, normal commuter guys, I think.
It's just that this week I am on office hours shifts (don't really see many cyclists off peak) plus I am riding my Boris dressed in Marathons originals.
It's the end of the ice season

 

[jarlrmai]

I still see the same amount of fellow commuters travelling my way, zero.

I'd love a commute buddy (rival?)

 

[jarlrmai]

Looking at the weather looks like the cold might be back next week.

 

[summerdays]

I get annoyed that some people last week sat on my back wheel for a while (into a stiff cold east wind) and then would overtake and disappear into the distance very promptly indicating that we weren't really on a par - so why sit behind for half a mile! (This is on the flat - on a hill I'm just too slow to bother sitting behind).

(Don't talk about the end of the ice season - the weather lady mentioned potential snow when talking about next week's weather - just when I was thinking about taking the spikes off the spare bike).

 

[SportMonkey]

I get annoyed that some people last week sat on my back wheel for a while (into a stiff cold east wind) and then would overtake and disappear into the distance very promptly indicating that we weren't really on a par - so why sit behind for half a mile! (This is on the flat - on a hill I'm just too slow to bother sitting behind).

(Don't talk about the end of the ice season - the weather lady mentioned potential snow when talking about next week's weather - just when I was thinking about taking the spikes off the spare bike).

I coasted up to the back of another roadie last night, stuck behind him for 300m ish, whilst I was going faster I was wondering if he'd be able to provide me a little rest at above 20mph so I could get my commute average up, sadly he was doing 15mph so I peeled off and took the short way (and a 19mph average commute).

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Don't think I could stay upright at 5mph though

You could if you had 26x1.95 tyres

 

[Maz]

Oh heck. Some duffer of an SCR idiot then, or a mamil on a Piña..... Whoops.

So it was YOU! How else would you know it was a Giant bike?

 

[fossyant]

So it was YOU! How else would you know it was a Giant bike?

SCR = Silly Commuter Racing !

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Hard for me not to SCR as that's the model of bike I have!

 

[GrasB]

Gentlemen, please, don't burst a gut if a wee middle aged lady passes you up a hill, you are going to overtake her promptly at the first bit of flat anyway.

No need to excuse yourself while overtaking me saying stuff like "sorry about this, it's just the hills I can't do" or even "hiya! ... mumble mumble gonna catch you"

Uphill, on the flat, downhill, I go the same speed, 5mph.
You could make the hill too, if you had spent the past winter commuting on ice spikers instead of taking the car.

As a friend said to me one comment to them simply riding up Castle hill was was "it's not that you go that fast on the flat, it's that you don't slow down on the climbs*"

*Cambridge climbs so actually not that steep or long, thus you can simply power up them at 20mph if you have a modicum of aerobic power endurance.

 

[Beebo]

(Don't talk about the end of the ice season - the weather lady mentioned potential snow when talking about next week's weather - just when I was thinking about taking the spikes off the spare bike).

Will you be removing the santa hat from your avatar at the same time?