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Having got myself lost again, thanks to the local authorities deciding to close byways because the deem it unsafe for me to go around diggers etc working on the new pylons, I had to take the road home.
Fortunately/unfortunately (missed the offroad part home) I had to go down hill most of the way, so into the big ring and pedalled like mad. Rounding a corner I saw three roadies pedaling away.
Nipped around the outside of them with a polite"afternoon" and carried on hoofing it home. Going down the final two miles or so to home, just about pedalling out I became aware of a presences behind me.
The three roadies tucked in making the most of my wind deflecting prowess.
It made me feel big and clever
Were they cycling abreast? You should feel big!
This sounds a lot like the behaviour of people who "commuter race".
That's the upside of being a biffer
*awaits the stream of comments from roadies saying that you're a bad person for enjoying such simple pleasures and they must have let you overtake out of pity*
good work dude!! i love those little things that make you smile when you're out on a bike, even if its as simple as getting past the wall and finally catching up with mates who appear to be much fitter than me 🙂
Ha i was well and truly overtaken the other night, and at the time i was going for it big time. The twonk made it look effortless as well 😀
OP makes me LOL. At him.
Were they cycling abreast? You should feel big!
Yes, but only two.
what aftershave were you wearing?
roadies love a bit of Old Spice.
move over steve peat and mark cavendish, you are my cycling hero now.
You "won" because you are heavier and therefore go faser downhill than the ssvelt flyweight toned athlete you overtook well done sir celebrate have a pie and some cake 😉
Got [url= http://www.phased.co.uk/index.php/blatherings/26-motivated-by-average-speedand-a-tandem.html ]done over by a tandem [/url] the other night
OP makes me LOL. At him.
Have you ever thought of going the whole hog and communicating only in abbreviations? 😉
I overtook some roadies a few weeks ago.
My excitement was only slightly dampened by the fact that several of them overtook me again as soon as the road started going up hill and they were all wearing club kit from a town about 30 miles away, so presumably they were half way through a 60 mile ride, while I had only left home 5 minutes before.
every pedal turn is win in motion!
Any half-way fit chap on a road-bike could leave even the fittest MTB rider in the dust if he wanted
I suppose it could be a sort of compliment, having a panting, red faced mountain-biker trying to get past when you're bimbling home from work or out for an easy spin.
Bonus if you can get a bit of a tow too 😉
Perhaps they just wanted to eye up your bum?
Perhaps they just wanted to eye up your bum?
I imagine the sight of it would encourage them to want to go off-road
A few years ago in Cambridge I was on a pub crawl and riding an old Raleigh Shopper. I passed a roadie who didn't seem too impressed by my speed and grace (or should that be drunken flailing and frantic bell ringing as I went past him?)on such a beaten up old bike. He proceeded to sit on my wheel as I upped the pace. I think he was feeling quite smug with himself right up until the point where I swerved around a bollard and he went straight into it. In my defence I hadn't noticed the bollard as I was too busy trying to see what he was up to. That'll learn him; never draft a drunk on a shopper.
DavidB - MemberGot done over by a tandem the other night
As for the tandem riders, can someone please tell me it was down to some basic physics.
Its basic physics - downhill a tandem is much faster - someone who understands physics worked out the terminal velocity is 50% - 60% higher.
You have similar rolling resistance to a solo, similar wind resistance but twice the mass so you go much faster downhill ( force pushing you down is doubled but friction the same). Similar effects on the flat but its less noticeable.
One tarmac slope I have gone down on the solo I hit over 40 mph trying hard, over 50 mph not trying on the tandem. The solo had hit terminal velocity the tandem was still accelerating at the bottom.
A few nights ago I overtook one of those old boys you see occasionally, looks about 100, sinewy legs browned by the years, old bike, minding his own business, I got past him...eventually, on a hill. The moral victory was definitely his.
I daren't look back for ages, just in case...
The three roadies tucked in making the most of my wind deflecting prowess.
See they do this, but they never return the favour. Asshats.
I officially and unequivocally love TandemJeremy
In Morzine a few weeks back we'd got up early and ridden up the climb to Avoriaz. Coming down the otherside, (through the goat village) chatting away with my mate when these two downhillers in matching team tops overtake us. We both looked at each other then followed in hot pursuit down the mountain, us on the road tucked in and them taking every cheeky offroad shortcut over the hairpins... big grins at the bottom especially as it was only my 2nd road ride ever 🙂
I'm sure the mentality of the roadies was to use this epic case of small man syndrome as a lovely tow home after a gentle afternoon century... 😮
LOLS @ GaryLake
why not just hang out at the last mile of an Iron Man triathlon in your running gear, you'll be like an olympian
Krag - I went down the very same road a few weeks back when the lifts closed at lindarets 😀 about 20 of us ragging down there, got a bit carried away taking the inside line round the hairpins, totally forgot I was on the wrong side of the road 😳 Could've ended nasty.
why not just hang out at the last mile of an Iron Man triathlon in your running gear, you'll be like an olympian
That would be a good laugh.
Must have been done before.