lazybloke
Considering a new username
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- Leafy Surrey
Practicing your descending
- Thread starter Ming the Merciless
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I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
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- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Yes, but always aware that the line between descending well and a ride in an ambulance can be excruciatingly thin....
Did this last year while on hols in Southern Italy, riding a borrowed bike down an unknown road....
Did this last year while on hols in Southern Italy, riding a borrowed bike down an unknown road....
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
My goodness 
I've been motorcycling for quite some years (Decades). I have a modern powerful bike, up-to-date sticky rubber - and think i'm an above average rider.
But no way could my brain, body, skill-level, reactions or anything else keep up with those guys. On my motorbike !
I'd be eating their dust for sure. IF i was lucky enough to be that close.......
I've been motorcycling for quite some years (Decades). I have a modern powerful bike, up-to-date sticky rubber - and think i'm an above average rider.
But no way could my brain, body, skill-level, reactions or anything else keep up with those guys. On my motorbike !
I'd be eating their dust for sure. IF i was lucky enough to be that close.......
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Couple of years ago I went on tour with a friend who has been a competitive athlete in various sports all of his life. He's a few years older and a great deal fitter than me. His chosen discipline these days is triathlon and the related two-sport disciplines (yeah, and Ironman)
By a combination of me digging deep and - I suspect - him easing off a bit, I managed to keep up ... just about. The thing that would frustrate me was, on cresting a hill I'd congratulate myself on keeping up and look forward to relaxing freewheel on the downhill, having a stretch and a drink, maybe mouthful of cereal bar. But no, he'd be off again. In those circs I just let him go endeavoured to catch him later, which I would do probably at the top of the next hill. Just in time to repeat.
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
You should have popped into first pub you find after hill and wait for him to notice. It’s touring, not competing…
cougie uk
Guru
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
broke his nose and still managed to win the TDF , won liege bastogne liege by basically outlasting everyone in a snow storm
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Imagine if that was a footballer. He'd be laid up for months!
another famous one on the flat was the chap who got knocked off into barbed wire and still finished the stage
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd_wWuMBysc
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
In my 'younger days' we used to love chasing big motorbikes down the Cat and Fiddle and Axe Edge into Buxton, especially the Cat, as it's quite twisty. Cars would usually slow us up though !
Unfortunately, the brain takes over now and it's 'you've got to go home later and face the family/you've got work on Monday'. Neither would be happy with me turning up in bits again ! I've been with my current employer 16 years and I'm well known from various accidents. If I'm off sick at any point, or unexpectedly working from home, the first comments are 'he's fell off his bike again'.
Happened last year, I'd slept funny and twisted my knee badly - couldn't walk on it. Worked from home for a few days, told them I'd twisted my knee in my sleep. Someone then 'mentioned' to the whole executive meeting that I wasn't there because I'd fallen off my bike. I wasn't happy I tell ye.
Unfortunately, the brain takes over now and it's 'you've got to go home later and face the family/you've got work on Monday'. Neither would be happy with me turning up in bits again ! I've been with my current employer 16 years and I'm well known from various accidents. If I'm off sick at any point, or unexpectedly working from home, the first comments are 'he's fell off his bike again'.
Happened last year, I'd slept funny and twisted my knee badly - couldn't walk on it. Worked from home for a few days, told them I'd twisted my knee in my sleep. Someone then 'mentioned' to the whole executive meeting that I wasn't there because I'd fallen off my bike. I wasn't happy I tell ye.
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Imagine if that was a footballer. He'd be laid up for months!
They would having physio for just lifting their leg over the saddle.
Biggest set of poofs going footballers
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
He knew the route
There was no competition. Some people naturally ride quicker than others. It was his LEJOG - he'd planned it all - and I was just tagging along as far as York so it was up to me to keep up.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
i had the same mate, when i did my back in the other week everyone thought i had totalled the bike again
figbat
Slippery scientist
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- South Oxfordshire, UK
Images like this are often captioned something like "here's a professional cyclist [or rugby player or other sports] pretending they are not injured, and a professional footballer pretending they are".
