OK - here is the plan.
Date: Sunday 10th April
Time: 10am start (get there for 9:30 to allow for fannying around)
Meeting point: Loch Leven Community Campus
Plan is to ride from Kinross to pick up the black route at the climb towards Path of Condie then onto Dunning before returning via Glen Devon, Knock Hill and Cleish. This is the western section on the map below and has most of the hills on the route. This takes us back to Kinross and there is then the option to ride the Eastern part of the route (much flatter) depending on energy levels and weather.
Post below if you're definitely coming. I'm not bothered if people hedge their bets until the Saturday, as long as I know on the day who will be there. Similarly, no probs if you opt in then wake up on the Sunday and don't feel like it - just let me know (email for my mobile no if you don't have it already).
Cheers,
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I'm coming and I'm sure Greig is in too.
Ah - the Sunday works even better for me!
Cool.
Greig is a definite too. He can ride at the head of the group.
I'll ride at the head of the other group. 😳
Spooky, i have just been looking at the route profile for the sportive!
I'm in....druidh can i have a lift please?
i'm in although by looks of it ^^^^^ , thats me in 3 times now ( looks like that cheeky facebook chat worked Stuart 🙂 ).
Can i bring the MTB though 🙂
Doug... Tues 6:30 for some more pain. whoa hahahahahahahaha ( this aint a gay thing BTW )
this aint a gay thing BTW
Yeah, yeah.
You on MTB and us on road bikes might just work...
Doug... Tues 6:30 for some more pain. whoa hahahahahahahaha ( this aint a gay thing BTW )
No nothing sinister, he is just waxing my legs for the 'pro look'.
he is just waxing my legs for the 'pro look'.
remember, its veet sensitive at first, 2 coats, then yuo can just gilette it every 3 days.
I knew you'd succumb to the 'pro look'.
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Mind if I pop along for this?
Wasn't expecting to be around for the Sportive so never even considered entering, but work I had pencilled in has been cancelled so am probably going to be around next weekend.
It'll beat the flat and lonely miles in East Lothian, that's for sure.
I'm new to the road cycling game though, so maybe not awesomely fast. Will there be different groups going? I'm averaging about 16mph at the moment. Is this fast enough to keep up with you huge-thighed cycling gods?
16mph is about what we averaged round Perthshire today, so I imagine you'll find a group happy at that pace.
*coughs goddess too coughs* 🙄
Err - huge-thighed???
Ahem. Apologies [b]dirtygirl[/b]. I was using "gods" in the same way "man" is used in Mankind.
And are you actually comfortable holding your hand up to be included in the huge-thighed bunch?
*looks at thighs* No, i'd prefer not to be included in the hugh-thighed bunch...that's why i was [s]wheel sucking[/s] admiring the view today.
that's why i was wheel sucking [s]admiring the view today[/s]
dirty girl!
If this ride turns into nothing but seedy randy talk then.............
i'll deffo be there........ and willing
Waiting for someone to reveal this is an April fools.
Recce of a sportive course? This might be even worse that the current trend for sportive race bikes!
Cracking route, love the Path of Condie and Dunning Glen climbs.
It's all just a ruse for me to gain new facebook buddies Doug...
It was established early on yesterday's Etape "recce" that no-one on the ride was actually [i]doing [/i]the event.
If I were to make this, can I scrounge a lift from Edinburgh? alternatively, any convenient train stations Stuartie?
😀It was established early on yesterday's Etape "recce" that no-one on the ride was actually doing the event.
Were you sleeping when I offered you a lift yesterday?
Um... remember when I said the back of your van wasn't noisy? I was being diplomatic 😉
That said, I would gladly accept another lift, might even buy [b]your[/b] lunch this time instead of your passenger's.
I'm in too!
13fm I'm happy for you to but my lunch again if you like 😆
I'm averaging about 16mph at the moment. Is this fast enough to keep up with you huge-thighed cycling gods?
think an average of 22- 24 will be more on the cards ( if i had my way):(
think an average of 22- 24 will be more on the cards
*prepares excuses in advance* 🙄
It was established early on yesterday's Etape "recce" that no-one on the ride was actually doing the event.
Free entry, and less dangerous too! 😀
Iain - Can get the train to Dunfermline, assuming you are still in Ed.
Happy to do a pick up at Dunf. Town railway station.
Might tag along too Stuart.
Cracking route, love the Path of Condie and Dunning Glen climbs.
So do I Dougie, although you'll do them in a different gear to me! 😀
Seem to have lost the link to the meeting point in the OP, so here it is:
Wow, just looked at the profile for the first half of this, those look like some tasty climbs and descents! 😀
Just discovered there are a group of roadies from my club (Dunfermline CC) doing the same thing on Sunday though they are starting earlier and riding the route in the conventional start-to-finish manner.
Expect to be overtaken by a well-drilled chain-gang wearing tops like this:
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Expect to be overtaken by a well-drilled chain-gang wearing tops like this:
Yeah, i dont think so. Race or die people, race or die
plus: If there starting EARLIER, and chainganging, how will they be OVERTAKING us exactly???.
They're doing the first part of the route first.
We're doing the second part first. They WILL hunt us down. I can draw some diagrams, if necessary.
You can run, but you can't hide from the yellow & blue jerseys Greig...
I have my climbing legs on order for sunday but they have been missing in action since xmas so i'm not holding out much hope that they will turn up 😥
Any good places to have post ride scran?
I'm thinking here might be right on the money:
http://www.lochlevenslarder.com/eat
"Back bacon with black pudding and red onion confit panini" is one of the items on the menu. I'm SO there.
um... bit of an ask this one but I'll try it anyway, has anyone got a front STI shifter they can lend me (or sell me very cheap) for the weekend?
Got some pimpy new Ultegras on the way but won't have them for the weekend.
Otherwise its a good excuse to watch the Paris Roubaix with a beer or three 8)
I don't see flavoured lattes on the menu. Do you think if i asked they'd buy in some goats cheese especially to put in my latte?
some goats cheese especially to put in my latte?
your a sick girl, dirty. Thats wrong on all accounts.. Worse than a baileys with guiness.
You can run, but you can't hide from the yellow & blue jerseys Greig...
You'll find i can hide, although my big ears sticking out each side of the rock is a big giveaway 😆
13fm - you're just going to have to join me singlespeeding! Saying that, the course profile is a tad 😯
Bump - The weather is looking fine for Sunday with virtually no wind (or horizontal rain) 😮
13fm - you're just going to have to join me singlespeeding! Saying that, the course profile is a tad
Goddammit, no excuse is good enough when you singlespeeders are about, is it?
I'll be doing 120km on the singlespeed CX on Saturday (Milngavie to Crianlarich/Ardlui via Glen Ample, all comers welcome) so I would insist upon having gears on Sunday 😳
Looking like one swee-eet day for this; I'm, like, [u]totally[/u] devastated I can't make it 🙂 . Great area for pumping up the climbing reserves. Someone get photos (if it's allowed)
There won't be any photies Rob - I shall be wearing shorts so everyone will be blinded by my peely wally legs after winter time 😆
Oh, did you get my em about the skull cap btw, not sure if it sent?
Oh, didn't see that Claire.... on bookface? Re-send if you can... don't think you'll be needing it this weekend, at least 🙂
13fm - 8:30 at your place - (probably best where I dropped you off last week)
Mustard - 8:20 outside Barnardos, Gorgie Road
DGOAB - 8:15 at the bins 🙂
Stuartie - I'll give this a miss, we are going moontin' instead. While the weather is this good, we're off to do the Bienn a Ghlo loop the morn.
At the bins? Classy 🙂 *looks out the suncream*
No worries McM - hope you have you some good moontin'
Boo. I'm going to have to rain check. I've done 50 miles today in penance 🙁
Sorry guys, I've spoken to Colin but in case he didn't get the message, I'm out too, stunning ride today though, shame the first tan-lines of the year are from my 3/4s, tan line half-way up my calf 😳
Lordy!
😯
Heh! I take it you did the full route then? There was enough climbing in the section I did with you all. Cracking ride though - nice quiet roads and good company. Any sign of Gilberto..... 🙂
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I'm telling you, it was him!
Yup - did the whole thing Dan. Tough ride for early in the year and plenty of climbing after we split. No sign of Cowdenbeath's only Mexican at the car park - hope he made it home ok!
Yeah, he had a map so hopefully he made it. Lampre man 😆
plenty of climbing after we split
The radoggair factor?
Fantastic day, thanks Stuart & everyone who came along
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With a bit of zoom, its Him!!!!
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Edit: why can i not get that to work?!
Yep deffo him.
Cheers all a belter, although it did nearly kill me, and a special mention to my domestique radoggair 😆
Yours is far superior, shows the true girth 😯
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good ride y'all, my arms are like lobsters just now though!!!.
alot of good climbs on that route, think that sportive will have a few victims.
Good too see some new faces as well, but here's what i learnt from today
Andy needs a bling carbon bike with GEARS ( and proper size inner tubes)
bigdugsbaws is horrendously gay, uses butt plugs and used my personal butt cream 🙂
All the men need to shave their legs ( apart from me 🙂 )
Dan is a pussy who gimped out after half the course ( his excuses were poor you honour )
Gilberto wore way too much, attempted to cycle way too far for his first ride this year ( and also travelled all the way from Mexico to meet us - just made that bit up really, he was mexican but lived local )
Stuart, altho academically astute and has somewhere in the region of 35 weeks holidays a year, still could not find the time to make up a good forum name. Rubbish ( also lied about us being caught my his imaginary bike club chain gang. Woteva)
Colin - should not be alive at all, after being what can only be described as 'robocopped' into a back seat of a car full of twisted metal.
Clare - Apart from drinking the equivalant of an olympic sized pool, her forum name 'dirtygirlonabike', after alot of probing, does indeed translate from exploits which i will never mention but does not involve mud :* ( this maybe slightly untrue because she answered the question with a 'no comment', which translated to me as make up your own story, and in my devious head was a belter )
Me - perfect as ever, amazing looking legs and will refuse to wear suncream as long as i live in Scottishland
Thanks from me too, also nearly broke me - special thanks to Stuart for listening to me groan my way up one of the last climbs, and of course, radoggair for general awesomeness 🙂 I've finally got all the road grime off my legs, shame, i was growing attached to the white feet, sunburn and grime look 8)
Andy, hows the cereal eating going...i've scoffed a packet of biscuits so far, and an apple for good measure, cereal next!
EDIT: total drinking so far: 6 800m bottles of water, 5 pints of water/nuun/oj, and a latte (no thanks to the community centre for being shut at early o'clock on a sunday and depriving me of a second one!)
bigdugsbaws - You not meant to be studying? 🙂
dgoab - almost an entire box of frosties and a litre of milk gone, time for a shower I think.
raddogair - i'm looking into it already!
(edited due to slowness)
You not meant to be studying?
Got about 10 pages in then my incredibly short attention span got the better of me, will just have to wing it! (and stay awake)
youporn you mean 🙂
i have some catching up to do, but i don't think cereal for my "tea" is going to do the job! *is still really thirsty, how is that possible?!*dgoab - almost an entire box of frosties and a litre of milk gone
...could not find the time to make up a good forum name.
I know, it's pitiful.
I'm thinking of trying out "Gary Neptune". It lacks [i]awesome[/i], but it does have a certain "slightly better than average" quality. No?
i don't think cereal for my "tea" is going to do the job!
It is the way forward; nice mix of carbs and protein - maybe!
Gary Neptune sounds gay. You need something megamarvellous like 'godwithabike ' or 'race or die mutha '.
Hey I thought playing the 'homebase' card was quite reasonable and manly, DIY and all that.... 😐
reasonable and manly
wrong !!!! , doing the full ride would of been the manliest thing to do, instead you chose the gay route, probably been told by the wife to do it.
Not married yet....I will be in 4 weeks though....hence the early finish. Nothing to do with my legs honest 🙂
Nuh, no manly points for wussing out with that excuse...especially as i'm a girlie and did the full route, [s]even though i came close to being broken near the end on one tiny little hill[/s]reasonable and manly
I may dream of radoggair [s]shouting[/s] telling me nicely to get on the person in fronts wheel 😥
I may dream of radoggair shouting telling me nicely to get on the person in fronts wheel
was whipping you all in shape today!!. It was for your own good and you'll thank me for it at your next race :).
Thought you were gonna end your sentence with ' I may dream of radoggair' !! 🙂
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That tide mark isn't tan, it's grime!
Aw, too slow to edit my post radoggair, but you can pretend i said I was going to dream about you, much like the 'no comment'...besides, after staring at your awesome (shaved) legs, how can a girl not dream about you?! 😀
I have teh awesome white feet, need road sandals! 8)
Why didn't I notice Druidh's special edition Oakley Legs before?! 🙂
How's the rehydration going dgoab? I still feel dessicated!
Recovery not going so well after 4 hours sleep last night... feel pretty rank! Haven't done much else other than eat/drink today...You won the cereal eating competition btw :-)have you decided to get some gears after yesterday? 😉
Druidh does have very lovely feet...