The considered approach

[Eat MY Dust]

What's this about going uphill .......

TBH hills are a great leveller - you can't sit on wheels as gravity takes it's course..... nowhere to hide......

The TT technique to passing folk is to give a quick blast just before you overtake, so you are well clear and they can't draft you... you then settle into the rhythm again.....

TBH I get more pleasure going up the hills than going down them. It's the feeling of beating the hill (if that makes any sense)

 

[Bollo]

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The TT technique to passing folk is to give a quick blast just before you overtake, .....

Hopefully not a blast of guff?!

 

[goo_mason]

Completely off-topic, but can I just say what a brilliantly obtuse angle this thread has gone off at. I've been laughing my way through the last few pages, as I'm trying to avoid Comic Relief so I can watch it tomorrow and FF to the good bits (if there ARE any).

 

[snorri]

And trying to camoflage it with a smile is the worse type of antogonistic behaviour there is.

col, have you ever looked at your sig line:?:

With regard to starting conversations with strangers, I think you have been spending too much time on the London Underground. It's not the real world down there you know, in the real world people DO speak to strangers and frequently both parties gain from the experience.

 

[purplepolly]

Back to topic - cought up a lad RLJ'ing last night - he was 20-30 feet past the ASL, just inches from the traffic flow. I was a few cars back in the traffic queue - he jumped over 4 lanes of traffic as soon as he could - I set off on green, passed him a few hundred yards down the road. I come to next set, wait in line with the traffic. He then sails down the outside, over the ASL and continues to jump the lights - over the junction and off.

Lights eventually change for me, about 2 minutes later...I'll 'ave him (long 1 mile climb coming up)..... couldn't see him as the road straightened up...bugger...must have turned off...... oh no he hasn't - he was pushing the bike up the hill. I just stared at him....... looser.....must have been half my age.....these youngsters...too many chips... (ps he was slim).....

Let the RLJ'ers be, it's something to keep chasing down......

My favourite was about a year ago - a young male cyclist jumped the light I was waiting at and went through the pelican crossing just missing the pedestrian... lights change.. I start off... and the drivers who've just witnessed the RLJ are now treated to the sight of a not too svelte woman on a folding bike sailing past the offender and quickly leaving him far behind. I might have laughed a bit when overtaking him.

 

[col]

col, have you ever looked at your sig line:?:

With regard to starting conversations with strangers, I think you have been spending too much time on the London Underground. It's not the real world down there you know, in the real world people DO speak to strangers and frequently both parties gain from the experience.

Quite right .

 

[Downward]

I know it's off topic (sorry to go back to it) but bonj's claim to ride so fast as to not get hit by spray on a bike without mudguards is just absolutely hilarious...

Is Bonj Chuck Norris ??!

 

[c2c]

Is Bonj Chuck Norris ??!

i can go so slow that the spray doesnt touch me...

 

[Downward]

Chuck Norris is such a fast cyclist that any rain or spray can't catch him.