The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

@classic33 People in Comrie saying there was an earthquake a couple of hours ago, but nothing on the website yet.

You on Drummond Street?

 

[Drago]

Night Johnboy.

 

[classic33]

Night Johnboy.

Night GranMa

 

[ColinJ]

I have just been plotting the route for a particularly tough metric century ride and was Street Viewing part of it. I had a flashback to the last time I rode up there. Take a look HERE at what I call the 'Goose Eye Grovel' - a vicious little climb. Follow it up to the T-junction at the top...

I did it on the first Tour de Yorkshire sportive. I caught up with a rider from darn sarth (~London accent) halfway up the 20% ramp. He was really struggling and gasped out a desperate question - "How much longer does this b*st*rd go on for?" I feel really ashamed now, but I made a joke of it. I pretended that I wasn't also struggling and replied "Oh, sorry, we haven't got to the steep bit yet - this is just the warm-up!" He let out a strangled scream and immediately jumped off his bike!!!

Oh, second flashback... In July 2012 I did a forum ride via that climb. I suffered so much, I thought that it was going to kill me. What I didn't know then was that I was riding suffering with the pulmonary embolism that almost DID kill me a couple of weeks later...

 

[classic33]

I have just been plotting the route for a particularly tough metric century ride and was Street Viewing part of it. I had a flashback to the last time I rode up there. Take a look HERE at what I call the 'Goose Eye Grovel' - a vicious little climb. Follow it up to the T-junction at the top...

I did it on the first Tour de Yorkshire sportive. I caught up with a rider from darn sarth (~London accent) halfway up the 20% ramp. He was really struggling and gasped out a desperate question - "How much longer does this b*st*rd go on for?" I feel really ashamed now, but I made a joke of it. I pretended that I wasn't also struggling and replied "Oh, sorry, we haven't got to the steep bit yet - this is just the warm-up!" He let out a strangled scream and immediately jumped off his bike!!!

Oh, second flashback... In July 2012 I did a forum ride via that climb. I suffered so much, I thought that it was going to kill me. What I didn't know then was that I was riding suffering with the pulmonary embolism that almost DID kill me a couple of weeks later...

That was mean and uncalled for. And i'm glad I'm not the only one who's done it. Where'd he dump his bike after jumping off it?

 

[12boy]

Brown eyed Girl...When it came out I was living on the Navajo Res and the Navajos just loved it.
I always liked Wild Horses.
But what I really liked was blues...Junior Wells, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann and R&B....Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Sam Cooke, and Aretha Franklin. I always thought Bob Dylan was the poet of my generation, too. Damn, but there was some music in the sixties and seventies.

 

[ColinJ]

That was mean and uncalled for. And i'm glad I'm not the only one who's done it. Where'd he dump his bike after jumping off it?

He started walking up, pushing it in front of him. The truth is, he almost kept up with me!

 

[classic33]

He started walking up, pushing it in front of him. The truth is, he almost kept up with me!

You slowed to offer him support/encouragement, to make it to the top?

 

[ColinJ]

You slowed to offer him support/encouragement, to make it to the top?

If I had slowed down any more, I'd have been walking behind him!

I think his main problem was that he had attacked the climb from the bottom and ran out of steam before the top. If he had paced himself I think he would probably have made it. I learned a long time ago to just select my lowest gear for the steep stuff and try not to exceed 80-90% of maximum effort unless I absolutely have to.

 

[classic33]

If I had slowed down any more, I'd have been walking behind him!

I think his main problem was that he had attacked the climb from the bottom and ran out of steam before the top. If he had paced himself I think he would probably have made it. I learned a long time ago to just select my lowest gear for the steep stuff and try not to exceed 80-90% of maximum effort unless I absolutely have to.

That'd would have ruined his image of you though.

 

[PaulSB]

I rode the first Tour de Yorkshire as well. I remember grovelling up a climb in a town, can't recall which, and muttering to the rider next to me:

"They've got some bastard hills round here"

The reply came from a lady on the pavement:

"Ay, that's why it's so bastard beautiful"

Never forgotten that and still makes me smile today.

 

[Dave7]

I think John Peel had it right - you can recognise this in the first 2 seconds! (The video leads into those 2 seconds with a couple of seconds of silence.)

When we had tropical fish one of them was a 'Black Shark'........which I named Feargal (see what I did there )

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Brown eyed Girl...When it came out I was living on the Navajo Res and the Navajos just loved it.
I always liked Wild Horses.
But what I really liked was blues...Junior Wells, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann and R&B....Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Sam Cooke, and Aretha Franklin. I always thought Bob Dylan was the poet of my generation, too. Damn, but there was some music in the sixties and seventies.

And don't forget Big Mama Thorton

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning from a dull grey and cool Coventry

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Good morning all, cool and grey here too.