AAAC 76C
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Respect!
That's my age backwards, you have had 9 years more fun than me, I'm jealous!
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Respect!
That's my age backwards, you have had 9 years more fun than me, I'm jealous!
AAAC 76C
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I waited for you once then all three of you beggerd of downhill and left me dangling a few seconds behind for a while.
With all those little hills everywhere there was never any doubt about you catching up.
AAAC 76C
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Looking at the results board we obviously saved some effort there Bill as we undercut Bridgy's watts and Watts/kg. It was however a very on and off effort session with very little time to get into any rhythm. Our F/W & S/W combo's seem to work against each other as well which also made working together hard.
I was trying to lead you out for the finish but you appeared to be trying let me go ahead.
When we got to the end I didn't have my usual motivation to get over the line first and I was actually looking for a 0.0 gap between us.
As you say, Paul made more w/kg than us, which makes sense as we had the drafting advantage. I still feel the most efficient way for me to get up the hills is to take a good run at them and keep the power on as long as I can, hence me always appearing to make a break at the bottom of the hill, but then you always overtaking at some point. With these hills being quite small I could get away with doing that but with anything much bigger you'd be off. Not sure if its F/W or S/W related, but more likely its just different methods of attack. Only need to look as far as the last summer cup ride to see that when the hills get bigger I end up minutes behind.
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Well that old age pensioner truly kicked my arse on tonights ride good ride gw happy birthday
Cheers AAAC for the push at the end
bobinski
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Happy 
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theboxers
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Why am I thinking OFFIL and thinking rude words,Well OAPIL sounds better than OFIL I suppose
, MAFFIL is a more accurate description of me 
.@Goldwolfie are you retiring or do you have to carry on working. If you retire I see an improvement in the BKool rankings coming up with all the extra time you'll be spending on the bike.
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I think I may have just found my new Fans. Slight problem, 
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They might not fit in the car, a V70,
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I think I may have just found my new Fans. Slight problem,
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They might not fit in the car, a V70,
I've got the bigger version of those. They are great because they will blow cooling air all over your body not just a small area.
theboxers
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It's a shame they can't supply a tail wind in the virtual world, they're big enough
Edit
Just realised you're talking about a wind tunnel. The big one is over a metre tall
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Goldwolfie
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Yes Geoff, I get the State Pension from 65 as I just qualify to avoid the sliding scale out to 70+ for the youngsters of today.
@theboxers - I retire on Monday. I know what you are thinking, why not retire today, being a Friday, Well being a tight git, I wouldn't have got my July holiday entitlement, as I have to work completed months to qualify. So one extra early start for an extra 2.5 days holiday pay, seems like a good deal.
Us Pensioners have got to look after the pennies you know.
Cycling will be a big part of my retirement plans - increasing my outdoor mileage to build up to some multi-day touring with an aim to do LEJOG in May/June next year. Obviously, this will be at a more sedate pace than I have to trash about on Chain Gang event nights.
