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[keithaitch]

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Liking the saddle. Nice looking bike. What is it. It looks like a classic steel frame.
Does it really make much difference as to what bike you are on considering no head wind . I guess the gearing will make as much difference as anything?

She's a 1991 dawes. Reynolds 53 1 tubing and a shimano 7speed triple ring drive mech, mavic wheels which have never needed truing. She has served me well and was my first good bike, she has been to the top of the tourmalet, the grossglockner and Mt Ventoux amongst others. She now faithfully takes me to work everyday and leaves the harder work to younger bikes, but she will always be my first love.

 

[Mark68]

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She's a 1991 dawes. Reynolds 53 1 tubing and a shimano 7speed triple ring drive mech, mavic wheels which have never needed truing. She has served me well and was my first good bike, she has been to the top of the tourmalet, the grossglockner and Mt Ventoux amongst others. She now faithfully takes me to work everyday and leaves the harder work to younger bikes, but she will always be my first love.

Very nice. I did wonder. I have in my loft a Dawes super galaxy that I did Lands end to John o Groats back in 1996. Fully loaded with camping gear and totally self supported. Took a month off work thinking it might be my last chance to do so before retirement 😄 I didn't have all the mod cons like gps and mobile phone back then. Only an Ordnance survey map showing the UK and a couple of Landranger maps for when I was in a tricky to navigate area. They were a bit of a pain when it was wet and windy and it always tore where you needed to look at Still got very fond memories and can remember quite a lot like it was yesterday.

I did say to my girlfriend and now my wife that I would do it again for my 50th birthday. Well 50 has been and gone so am now looking at 60th
Oh well we'll see

Enough of my ramblings

 

[Randyberlin]

Very nice. I did wonder. I have in my loft a Dawes super galaxy that I did Lands end to John o Groats back in 1996. Fully loaded with camping gear and totally self supported. Took a month off work thinking it might be my last chance to do so before retirement 😄 I didn't have all the mod cons like gps and mobile phone back then. Only an Ordnance survey map showing the UK and a couple of Landranger maps for when I was in a tricky to navigate area. They were a bit of a pain when it was wet and windy and it always tore where you needed to look at Still got very fond memories and can remember quite a lot like it was yesterday.

I did say to my girlfriend and now my wife that I would do it again for my 50th birthday. Well 50 has been and gone so am now looking at 60th
Oh well we'll see

Enough of my ramblings

Touring is my love. I have been lucky enough to get a 3 week tour every year except this year Since 1995. I do solo credit card tours because I’m too lazy and love a shower, clean sheets full breakfast, coffee and a newspaper. To me it is the ultimate self indulgence, I still can’t believe my wife let me do New Zealand without her one year.

I have a map in my office to let me daydream..
Light as I can get. 3 days worth of clothes before laundromat.

 

[BILL S]

Yes good tactics. I got that wrong today so will try it on the rerun. You seem to have got stronger. I thought I would easily drop you on slight inclines but that was far from being the case.

 

[keithaitch]

Touring is my love. I have been lucky enough to get a 3 week tour every year except this year Since 1995. I do solo credit card tours because I’m too lazy and love a shower, clean sheets full breakfast, coffee and a newspaper. To me it is the ultimate self indulgence, I still can’t believe my wife let me do New Zealand without her one year.

I have a map in my office to let me daydream..
Light as I can get. 3 days worth of clothes before laundromat.

Me too Randy I agree 105% but I've come to it a bit late. This year was to be a return to the Dolomites but it will wait for next year and yes third day self service laundry and pack as light as possible all this kit into one little bag.

 

[Randyberlin]

Me too Randy I agree 105% but I've come to it a bit late. This year was to be a return to the Dolomites but it will wait for next year and yes third day self service laundry and pack as light as possible all this kit into one little bag. View attachment 529303

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I was supposed to be finishing up a tour of Scandinavia . British Air credited me my $480 for the round trip to Copenhagen from Seattle, but I don't think I'll ever get that kind of great price again.
Next year!

 

[keithaitch]

So @AndyMacca 3 minutes down on @shimceltic. We need a plan. My best so far is we mug him. We both pull alongside him, on a steep climb i think we have a chance. You punch him and i steal his bike. Not great i know but can you think of anything better? I'm prepared to do the punching if you're not, even though it totally runs contrary to my deep held pacifist beliefs as it would be for an even nobler cause, cycling.

 

[AndyMacca]

So @AndyMacca 3 minutes down on @shimceltic. We need a plan. My best so far is we mug him. We both pull alongside him, on a steep climb i think we have a chance. You punch him and i steal his bike. Not great i know but can you think of anything better? I'm prepared to do the punching if you're not, even though it totally runs contrary to my deep held pacifist beliefs as it would be for an even nobler cause, cycling.

@shimceltic did work really hard for that so it's only right that everyone else work marginally harder trying to ruin it, that's how we roll.

"Working marginally harder" is an umbrella term that covers a multitude of reasonable tactics:

• Teamwork playing to strengths on descents, climbs and flats.
• Drafting to preserve energy and mugging at the end. (just payback from a previous TT )
• Let 20psi out of Shim's back tyre at the start line.
• Disqualification of winning time for breach of yet to be determined technicality.
• Deployment of a complex web of excuses and justifications for a sub-par performance, ideally groundwork for the backstory should begin prior to the race - 'not my favourite bike', 'limited ratios', 'tyre feels a tad low today', my own - 'mid-week cold' etc.. In fact we should probably compile a catalogue for future use.
• 'The Keith' - form a breakaway group which then descends into violence and theft.

Unreasonable tactics which should not be applied under any circumstance as they are deemed deeply and culturally offensive to the cycling fraternity.

• Graciously admitting defeat and resignation to the fact that the best athlete won.

 

[keithaitch]

@shimceltic did work really hard for that so it's only right that everyone else work marginally harder trying to ruin it, that's how we roll.

"Working marginally harder" is an umbrella term that covers a multitude of reasonable tactics:

• Teamwork playing to strengths on descents, climbs and flats.
• Drafting to preserve energy and mugging at the end. (just payback from a previous TT )
• Let 20psi out of Shim's back tyre at the start line.
• Disqualification of winning time for breach of yet to be determined technicality.
• Deployment of a complex web of excuses and justifications for a sub-par performance, ideally groundwork for the backstory should begin prior to the race - 'not my favourite bike', 'limited ratios', 'tyre feels a tad low today', my own - 'mid-week cold' etc.. In fact we should probably compile a catalogue for future use.
• 'The Keith' - form a breakaway group which then descends into violence and theft.

Unreasonable tactics which should not be applied under any circumstance as they are deemed deeply and culturally offensive to the cycling fraternity.

• Graciously admitting defeat and resignation to the fact that the best athlete won.

I'll work on number 4 and announce it just after stage 4 when he thinks he's won. At the moment it's that anybody participating within 50 miles of the Theakston's brewery has to drink two bottles of Old Peculiar before every stage or face a 20 second penalty for each bottle not consumed.

 

[shimceltic]

So @AndyMacca 3 minutes down on @shimceltic. We need a plan. My best so far is we mug him. We both pull alongside him, on a steep climb i think we have a chance. You punch him and i steal his bike. Not great i know but can you think of anything better? I'm prepared to do the punching if you're not, even though it totally runs contrary to my deep held pacifist beliefs as it would be for an even nobler cause, cycling.

Stay off the doppa Malta!

 

[shimceltic]

I'll work on number 4 and announce it just after stage 4 when he thinks he's won. At the moment it's that anybody participating within 50 miles of the Theakston's brewery has to drink two bottles of Old Peculiar before every stage or face a 20 second penalty for each bottle not consumed.

Challenge accepted

 

[shimceltic]

I've got 33 pints of this to get through 1st though.

 

[BILL S]

Ok Who's doing the rerun?

Who's starting I more to the point?

I'll get it set up for me to start in th mean time.

 

[Brusgaard]

Ok Who's doing the rerun?

Who's starting I more to the point?

I'll get it set up for me to start in th mean time.

You go ahead and start it. I’ll join you...

 

[Randyberlin]

You go ahead and start it. I’ll join you...

I'll see you guys briefly on the starting line. I don't want to improve too fast, because now I'm afraid Andy and Keith will take my lunch money if I'm too close.