[Closed] So how many miles did you rack up in 2009?

21:50.

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The only thing I can use to compare is a solo 40 mile road ride I did in the summer, it covers about a 1000m of elevation and it took me about 2hrs. It's on the connect site somewhere. I'm obviously far far slower than you. Incidently why have you got a garmin that you dont use the facilities of?

Clearly with all the training he does he does not have the time to play about on the internet 😉

[i]Incidently why have you got a garmin that you dont use the facilities of? [/i]

Cos then it'd be up on the net for all to see and it'd blow his mileage claims out of the water! 😉

Junkyard-lol

Again, your race results certainly do not suggest someone who can do a 22 minute TT, that's not exactly slow!

Three kids and busy job = a fairly mediocre 800 miles and 37,700 mtrs of climbing...more to do in 2010 methinks!

Where are his results?

NJee - race this race that - change the ****ing record will you.

LOL! You're asking me to change the record? Well done, that's the most I've laughed in ages!

250

And just worked out I did 4542 miles and 392 hours of riding last year. November and December were a disaster - working away then 2 weeks of snow - so fell quite short of 2008.

Maybe I will manage 5000 in 2010...

EDIT - Smee/Glupton/Goan - these were 18,000 miles of pedal bicycle riding weren't they?

Yes I'm asking you to change the record - you've said you dont believe my mileage from last year - I dont really give a **** what some **** on the internet, who i've never met thinks, now shut the **** up and stop ruining my thread.

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Well - he's being a ****.

I think a bit of responsibility may lie with you for that GL. How old are you by the way?

Considering they are meant to be an adult - their ****tishness is their responsibility. I'm 33 - how old are you?

A person starts a thread asking how many miles people have done in the last year, gives their own genuine mileage, and gets slated for it. Great place this is.

Pot kettle and black Mr Smee!

" and stop ruining my thread"
ffs

 

TJ - you're an arse too.

Getting offensive now? A sure sign you have lost it 🙂

I'm 38. I think the idea of the thread is a good one, well done.
The problem is your lack of modesty; surely by 33 you've realised your talent must put you in the upper quartile of most subscribers to this site and the last thing any body likes is a willy waver who is unwilling to verify his extraordinary claims-and they are extraordinary!

TJ - calling someone a liar is offensive therefore you must have lost it right at the start.

Dasha - In my book there is no character trait worse than false modesty.

And point out where I called you a liar? I merely cast doubt on your claims.

BTW - when did you learn to drive? On the million mile thread you claimed 17 ys driving and now you claim to be 33. Which is correct?

TJ - there is no tone in internet communication - you would do well to remember that.

To answer your other question - both - you do the maths.

[In my book there is no character trait worse than false modesty.]

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7 miles a day commute, although being a teacher that's not 52 weeks a year! Fun riding at weekend, could be 50/60 on the road or 25/30 off road. A long time ago when I was 20 I won my first 10 in 22.40 on a Carlton Criterium (Cardiff 100 Milers). Just thought I'd do a bit of bragging too..

He is correct hubris/vainglory/arrogance is so much nicer than modesty 🙄 😯

For me about 5000 on the road + offroad which I never measure in miles, just time and fun..Back in the day , well nearly thirty years ago I was a bit of a racer...21 min for a ten, 55 min 25, 1hr 55 for a fifty and 4hrs 3 mins for a 100 all on a std road bike of the time....

33-17 = 16 years old? Hmmm, again, where did you learn to drive?

On ruining your thread, it's impossible to ruin something already as shi'ite as one of your threads. However you losing it up there really improved it somewhat, so be grateful!

Zokes - go count it again.

quite fancy a Garmin after all this mileage chat...

I could have sold you one...

33-17 [u]is[/u] 16, unless you're in some strange parallel universe.

(Oh yes, you are, I'd forgotten...)

Yes Zokes, but I was only 33yrs old for an attosecond...

If you passed your test on your 17th birthday (possible but unlikely - see a theme developing?), you would have been allowed to drive for 16 years on your 33rd birthday. Sure, you would have started your seventeenth year of driving but you wouldn't have finished it (again, see a theme developing?)

So you would have to be 34 to have been driving for 17 full years, no?

I could have sold you one...

aye you could have but i didnt want one at that point.

btw, the orange is growing on me...

Fat Elvis - Or it could be my 17th yr of driving...

thebikechain - Member
I could have sold you one...
aye you could have but i didnt want one at that point.

btw, the orange is growing on me...

Matches your jacket..

However you said you had been driving 17 years. Not the same thing

It does.

What garmin you got?

Or it could be my 17th yr of driving...

Which surely would mean you haven't been driving for 17 years, just 16 and a bit?

Semantics really, I know, but just checking to make sure you're not telling porkies and it's all a misunderstanding

Anyway, this really is evidence of what an utter moron you are, TJ and I are agreeing on something!

Who cares about the driving thing? Seriously?

George, Are you really 33? you looked older (no offence) in the photo. Gives me some hope for the coming year.

I'm not familiar with road riding so can't comment, but 6000 mles off road is pretty impressive too. At my solo average of about 12-13mph that would be my entire allowance of free time per week (10 hours) but in a group it's slower.

Anyway...I digress, congats on the hefty mileage. I wish I had trails on my doorstep. 🙁

Give a give a give a give a give a garmin. That ad did my head in....this thread would be far more effective.

ISBI - Seems to me a number of threads that you start seem to go this way. Usually pretty entertaining though.

What you belming about now?

Oh dear, about to blow a fuse again?

S_F - if these people ever met me they would know they were well wide of the mark too. It makes me laugh though.

Zokes - I dont blow fuses - calmest person out there.

Really?

Care to explain your outburst a few posts back then? Calm balanced people don't usually resort to multiple swear words and insults in arguments unless they're losing them, badly.

I'm Surrounded By Idiots - Premier Member

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Zokes - I dont blow fuses - calmest person out there.

You are amazing! You certainly don't come accross very calmly on here - quite the opposite in fact.

Remember a few of your greatest hits;_

"Zoofighting"

"Beardie weirdy cyclist got in my way"

"I drove a million miles in 17 ( 16???) years"

Yes - Really.

I though the thread needed a wee outburst to liven it up a bit. It didn't start as a troll, but if people turn it into a troll there is not a lot I can do to stop that now is there?

I for 1 am relly enjoying this good bait guys keep it up.

The internet amuses me.

Smee, are you Peter Mandelson?

Because he's the only person who I can think of who is capable of talking so much utter tripe, and then believing it.

TJ - Zoo fighting - Guy ran to pick up my child when they had fallen over - I stepped across them and they bounced off and fell. An uncontrolled action would have been to **** them one.

Beardy touring dufus - Uncontrolled action would have been to just blast past them without regard for their safety.

Million miles - I wouldnt expect a guy that doesnt drive to understand how someone could do that sort of mileage.

Do you get it yet?

zokes - Member

Smee, are you Peter Mandelson?

I suspect he is from "through the looking glass"

When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

I know you did not drive a million miles - the maths simply do not add up

So now you are calling me a liar. Make your mind up.

Are you calling me, someone you dont know, a liar?

No - I am calling you a fantasist.

I am sure you believe this stuff but the rest of us don't.

The million miles is so obviously untrue

Leave the poor chap alone, you all seem to have more of an insight into his life than he does...

So TJ - What other special powers do you have apart from knowing more about my life than I do?

And you are calling me a liar...

Also, dont you think I've got a certain aura about me.

TJ is the font of all knowledge dont you know!

I can count. You really want to get into it again?

16 yrs to drive a million miles. = 62500 milew a year every year since you p[ast your test. Thats 170 miles every day of your life since you were 17.

Where have I called you a liar? go on = point to it.

TJ - is it really that difficult to comprehend? Use your special powers to think it through.

I used to be a parcel courier for my family haulage firm...

TJ - there are many ways to call people a liar.

I'm going to put my neck out here and perhaps many will disagree with me; I think perhaps we have found the great British hope.If we can all just give him a bit of encouragement, he'll come out of his shell and Adidas, Sky and BC will unite with him and we'll have that fabled British TDF champion.

Dasha - I am sensing that you are a little stressed.

Yes I know you were a courier for a few years - how many at what mileage? What else did you do to clock this enormous mileage?

Can you please point to where I called you a liar?

I used to do a round trip from Glencoe to Lincoln every weekend for a year. I commuted Annan to Glasgow for a while, I commute from Walkerburn to Glasgow in the car and guess what - I was a driving Instructor too. Parcel courier was for a number of years doing 80-100k/yr.

And as I have already said - telling someone that you don't believe them is in effect calling them a liar.

Can you see a stress aura yet?

Yup - and that does not add up to a million miles ore even close to it

I understand you George, I feel your passion; I realise now I was wrong-It all makes sense now.

Yes it does.

And you must be looking in the mirror if you're seeing a stress aura.

Smee - its pish and you know it. I am laughing and not in the slightest stressed. I shall stop prodding you now.

Enjoy your fantasy world. I thought jeremyworld was strange but smeeland is a very odd place indeed

I'm seeing the dreams I had, I thought once it would be me on the podium. I'm sadly far too mediocre, but If I could help you achieve your obvious raw talent and destiny then in a small way i could bathe in that reflected glory. Don't give up on me.
Your number 1 Fan X

Dasha - you'll need to join the back of the queue. I already have a fanclub.

TJ - It's all banter - I'm sure we would get on really well in the real world. I'll Maybe give you a push up a hill at the Puffer. 😀

All those miles in a van & all those miles on a bike (well, last year anyway) Did you say you have kids?
**** me, where DID you find the time? Do you never sleep?
You didn't answer my earlier question either!! Can I have your autograph or what?
I knew a bloke like you once. He said his mate had made a mountain bike with 72 gears, & that was in the early 90's.
Your'e pi$$ing yourself laughing though aren't you?
I am!! 😆

As Long as I'm number one

I shall look forward to it. I ain't gonna challenge you to a race thats for sure

You can have my autograph if you want it, but you'll have to come for a ride at Inners to get it.

And on that note I'm off to drink beer and learn some physiology.