My target was 10,000km too and i passed it on Wednesday morning, a good feeling.

I have targeted and passed 12,000km in previous years but I found I was doing a lot of junk miles* just to hit the target.

So this year i focused on more quality rides rather than quantity. I think I achieved that balance with some monster (250km) rides as well as two trips to the alps (one MTB and one road) and three days riding in Italy in June.

*junk miles in this instance meaning times I rode just to meet the target, I wasn’t benefiting from the riding in that it wasn’t making me fitter, in fact it was wearing me out. I wasn’t even enjoying the ride either.

This just meant cycle commuting to work three or four days a week rather than four or five days a week.

EDIT: not bad for a 52 year old

Argentinian player gets a three-year ban for tackling the referee, yeah, the female referee…

Report and gif here that ~I can’t manage to embed but here’s the still pic

please, it’s FUBAR.

nice stones reference there edlong. Wooh, wooh!

It was Bill Hicks

albeit is a nice word to use and even though I like using it, whenever I come across it in a piece of text my brain always reads it as a German word/pronunciation i.e. “Al-Bite”

michaelbowden – Member
MTB-Idle – Member
I have the pleasure of being on Southern trains (Ewell East to London Bridge).
Small world 7.58?

Oh and why was the ticket office/waiting room closed & locked this morning?

I mainly cycle commute but if I’m not cycling (like yesterday and today when i’m out boozing in the evening) then I am usually on the 7-25 but have been known to get the ‘lazy boy’ 7-58 ;)

Two weeks you say. Wait until you have been doing it for ten years.

It will take time for your body to adjust, in the meantime take a rest day here and there.

Ensure you are fully hydrated. Especially in this cold weather it’s easy not to drink enough water. It doesn’t have to be while commuting, just during the day.

I have the pleasure of being on Southern trains (Ewell East to London Bridge).

Worked in the City for 20 years but have been relying on trains since I was aged 11 (41 years ago) and used to travel to school on the train.

It’s one of the reasons I cycle commute to work.

not much to add except that must be a horrible experience. Some good advice already provided

My favourite quote is:

Winston Churchill – Member

“The trouble with the internet is that you can never believe anything you read on it”

spare kit at work for emergencies is the answer, even if you only use it once a year it’s still better than walking around with no keks

Watching a programme about something I love (cycling, not Jodie Kidd) being ruined by being given the reality TV treatment, including the falsehoods, the pretend crises, the look at me celeb stuff, the bad cycling?

No thanks.

and you could say that SPR is loosely based on fact too.

cos, well the D-Day landings deffo took place (not seen them as subject to any conspiracy theories yet) and the Niland brothers existed too.

It’s a film/movie. Of course parts of it are made up but the key thing is the battle scenes. I’ve fortunately never been involved in any but they seem the most realistic and terrifying.

biglee1 – Member
biglee1 – Member
I went to see it at the cinema when it came out. The local branch of the NVA, normandy veterans association was in the foyer with a collection. They will have made some pile of cash while that was being shown!

Phew! I thought you meant the North Vietnamese Army there for a moment.

Great film.

Watched it at the cinema when it was first launched. With the surround sound and the generally deafening level of audio in local cinemas and not knowing what to expect I think I held my breath for the first twenty minutes!

no idea, I have the standard virgin media super hub router

I have both types, they both do the job.

Pick them up pretty cheaply too

EDIT: TP link wired type (from comet/PC world) which are plugged into the socket in my youngest boys room and he runs a lead from this into the back of his desktop.

Then I have a separate wireless one (bought in Costco) plugged into the landing socket where there is usually a wifi black spot. Extends the wifi around the rest of the house very effectively

a flounce

stilltortoise – Member
Wondering if it has an upper and lower cut off?
Maybe. I’ve done a 150m ride with just shy of 10 hours in the saddle, but would definitely be more than 10 hours elapsed time. If I’d taken 10 more minutes maybe I wouldn’t have got one.

Boom! 10 hrs 15 minutes moving and probably 13 hours all told including ferry crossings etc

as per the graffiti I spotted in East London on my commute a few weeks ago

The T34 just off the Old Kent road is a more accessible relic, in fact I can include it on my daily commute if I really want to

https://www.strava.com/activities/719130234

EDIT: It’s in Mandela Way Ashley, more on Wiki

Does anyone use waterfall methodology anymore? It’s all about Agile now.

Rubber_Buccaneer – Member
Well, I’ve been to Hastings and I’ve been to Brighton
I’ve been to Eastbourne too….

So What?

(top quoting there R_B, top indeed)

Forty years ago last month? That would have been my 12th birthday. I remember it well.

I was riding a Raleigh road bike or ‘racer’ as we called them at the time. Purple coloured frame and 3 speed Sturmey Archer gears.

My parents had bought it for me earlier that Summer after I passed the 11 plus to get into the local Grammar school and I had enjoyed riding it all through that long, hot, summer school holiday of ’76. What a time.

It was at least another 12 months before I converted it to an off road machine with some ‘tracker’ handlebars and knobbly tyres.

seeing as my workplace is a global Bank I’m guessing that they’ve got that sorted. It’s only this site I have an issue with.

The Ship and Shovell[/url], just off Trafalgar square.

Olde worlde style pub, great beer, good food, quiet upstairs room if you want.

Oh and get this there are TWO pubs (linked by underground cellars), one on either side of the narrow street.

(and yes, i get the potential issues with meeting up with mates when there are two pubs but you can see into one from the other, that’s all part of the appeal)

mrlebowski – Member

Met numbers etc.

Armed officers etc.

I was on the 5-45 pm from Waterloo to somewhere in Surrey on Friday night and sat down at random in an empty seat only to see a mate of some 47 years acquaintance sitting opposite me.

After the usual catching up etc. I asked after his mum as she has been ill and in hospital and commented on when how my mum had gone visiting his mum he had been there too.

Oh hi, my mum says, I hope you haven’t got your gun on you she said in her totally unaware kind of way. Well actually… he said, I dare not leave it in the car and opened his bag to display his VIP protection squad tools of the trade.

We laughed at this and he lifted the side of the rather large jacket he was wearing to indicate that he was tooled up on the aforementioned packed commuter train too. Useful jackets these he said.

(don’t worry, we spoke in a sort of code/intimation way so that we both knew what we were talking about without alarming the rest of the train).

Anyroad up, that’s slightly off the point. I’m not an America-hater, I’ve had many happy holidays there and have many relatives there too but as I heard many years ago, America (and it’s society) is the only country to go from rise to fall without an intervening period of civilisation…

riding along Embankment last night. this is one busy place full of cyclists, cars, buses, taxis etc for those of you that don’t know it and it’s like a race track.

Riding through the pedestrian crossing that was featured on that video a few weeks back of the pedestrian/cyclist interface and there are people riding in that kind of traffic with no lights.

I queried this with one girl who was in all dark clothing and had no lights on. After removing her headphones (of course) she said that yes, the batteries had run out on her lights.

Strange…

Kev, a mate of mine (yeah honestly) used to be a big Subbuteo fan. He organised leagues and tournaments and had the cloth pitch nailed down to a nice half inch thick piece of MDF which he would lay on the floor to play.

All was well until he went for a particularly tricky shot that was on the other side of the pitch. He moved forward and put his weight on his knee which happened to be half on – half off the edge of the board.

As he played the shot his knee slipped off the edge of the board and twisted and he was in agony.

To cut a long story short after a doctor/hospital visit he ended up being on crutches for about four weeks.

When people asked him how he did it he would explain about the Subbuteo but got the pee ripped out of him so much that he just started saying “I did it playing football”.

dogmatix – Member
Best drive in I know of in the UK is the KFC on the A127 at Basildon

is that part of Bas Vegas or further along?

Probably not what you are looking for but I love it

Me and my main road riding buddy love a good challenge. In the past we’ve ridden L2P in 24 hours, a lap of the M25 and L2Bruges in a day.

We are leaving my house in Epsom tomorrow and heading 78 miles to Portsmouth. We are booked on the 11-15 ferry to Ryde (no pun intended) and then doing a 75 miles loop of the IOW.

Catching the 7pm Ferry back to Portsmouth and train back to Waterloo.

Weather forecast looks good with probably a nice tailwind for much of the ride. Should be a good day out.

Boom!

Me and my main road riding buddy love a good challenge. In the past we’ve ridden L2P in 24 hours, a lap of the M25 and L2Bruges in a day.

We are leaving my house in Epsom tomorrow and heading 78 miles to Portsmouth. We are booked on the 11-15 ferry to Ryde (no pun intended) and then doing a 75 miles loop of the IOW.

Catching the 7pm Ferry back to Portsmouth and train back to Waterloo.

Weather forecast looks good with probably a nice tailwind for much of the ride. Should be a good day out.

Oh and then Epsom to Leith Hill and back on my MTB on Sunday followed by a visit to the Bridge on my season ticket to watch us play the scum.

work connection here, permanently freezes and get the Aw snap page in chrome then have to kill pages and start again.

frankly it makes the forum unusable. no other site does this. Ever.

VW Tiguan here. Had it 14 months and done 9,000 miles so far.

Filled it up twice during that period and the reminder just came up yesterday that it needs refilling again at some stage during the next 1500 miles.

a great add-on indeed. It shows how most of my rides in Southern England are pan-flat but here’s the highlights from a lift-assisted day out in PDS in July

I have no idea who either of these people are apart from being a right couple of winkers