[Closed] oh hello sunny friday! big tings a gwan?

You had another crash?

Good work my man! If you're not crashing you're not trying hard enough.

I'm wearing shorts today. That is all.

Only at work until 12

then 3 weeks off!!

Lots of riding from home planned for the first 2 weeks, then off to the lake district.

New road bike and revitalised 29er to play with

Booked a couple of sailing sessions and should also be going out in a sea canoe too so quite excited really.

My three things

1) Both my kids are on holiday from nursery so lots of beach bbqs, trip to the skatepark and generally horsing around should occur

2) Our new house has got an amazing garden with lots of mature trees and plants and its all coming to life - love going home and spotting new stuff popping open every day

3) Living by the sea totally rocks in the spring and I can see it from my my house - yippee!

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Spending almost all weekend in the warm, comforting embrace of the upper deck of a BA 747 en route to Singapore.

yup, crash last week and crash again this week...

my crash last night was just plain silly, was riding along our "warm up route" through swinley and decided to practice trying to 'manual'.

All going well, popping the front wheel up, getting my heels down and pushing nicely to get a few feet of 'manual' depending on my speed, very much on a "look at me i'm a riding hero, send me your virgins for i will take their virginities using nothing by my awesomeness" type high after learning how to ride no-handed on tuesday.

(remember kids i've only been riding less than a year so everything's still new and exciting)

flat concrete road and i spot a little puddle/hole and put the power down... accelerate towards it, pop the front wheel up as i exit the hole and for some reason my arms decided (without permission from my brain) to twist the handlebars around... PANIC! i've still got my weight forward from "popping" the forks to get the front wheels up in the first place... this is all happening too quick!

i land heavy on the front wheel pointing in the wrong direction and the bike does an impression of an angry hose with water pumping through, thrashes about underneath me and throws me off the bike.

(TJ - if you're reading this then ignore the next sentence) I came down with an almight neck-snappy whack on the ground, vision goes funny and it took a while to get my vision/balance and brain back in gear.. helmet saved my skull from being cracked into a million pieces, possibly.. well it definitely took the majority of the whack and you could hear the impact a couple of hundred feet away apparently.

bloody scraped up arm, bruised hip and ankle, bloody shoulder and a distinct woosiness for the rest of the ride... but it was still awesome... i was out in the woods with friends playing 😀

Phil that is awesome... knocking yourself out makes you a better rider. It's a fact, a FACT!

Sometimes I knock myself when I'm not riding just to get the added increase in Awesome!!!

I unablekeepupsuperfityeti 🙁

(West Midlands Sunday am though) x

Riding bikes isn't all about going super fast... some of it is about having a chilled cruise to a pub.. oh and wearing tight lycra, it's always about tight lycra.

I have the tight Lycra. Mind you, most clothing is tight when you're me. 😕

Where in west midlands DD? You doing lycra or baggy biking whilst there?

bringewood uplift tomorrow; road ride on sunday.

I am the owner of a broken santa cruz and therefore have nothing to ride this weekend, so shall be doing it myself instead (need to get the new house ready for a man to come in and hang lining paper next week, so lots striping and filling).

Dear Phil,

Please do not kill yourself,

Love Torm.

Bromsgrove iDave. Lycra riding fella - in training for the Caledonian Étape in May so off the knobbly stuff till then. Unsure of a route at the moment. Hoping maybe for 40-50 with a coffee stop in the middle somewhere.

Off out soon on the CX just stuffing my face a bit, ride tomorrow possibly too but no details as yet. Sunday I must tackle the jungle in the back garden.

I'm wearing shorts today. That is all.

I am looking forward to another spanking on the road bike on sunday. Tomorrow i shall mainly be chilling in the park if its warm enough so that i am rested for sunday to avoid having to sit on people's wheels to keep up! 😯

DD, you missed a good 'recce' of the etape route last weekend!

Ah, ok, I'm having a wee jaunt around Cannock on Sunday morning

I can send you pics? 😆

About time too, thought you'd never offer - its not all about my legs you know (as nice as they are obviously!) *kills phone battery hitting refresh on the email*

Sounds like we've got a trade then... word of warning though I've had to put a t-shirt on... bloody office politics.. elfinsafety gone mad I tell thee.

Dgoab, I read about it but I'm down Brizzle way so a bit far to travel for a recce. Did the Bath 100 instead. (nearly as much climbing anyway). How was it?

I've had to put a t-shirt on

The pink one? 🙂

The mrs has blagged me to go over to 'connect' and Xbox 360 to a wireless network for her workmate on Saturday.

Sunday, road trip with a few mates to Moelfre to watch the Halo DH Series. Goin in my mates Splitty so 45-50mph all the way!

So you've had to deprive your colleagues of a topless view huh? Tsk! *waits impatiently for photo*

DD, it was good...we got round in just under 5 hours, with heavy downpours, strong head winds and roasting hot sunshine! Its a nice route, keep something in your legs for the last 10k or so...some short but nasty inclines to finish!

Nah, sorry Darcy cream Diesel one today, it's got red writing on it so if I move fast it kinda looks pink though 8)

i feel left out, do i need a road bike to be accepted back in?

West cost riding for me - Glen Kinglass or Kinlochleven or something. Leaving work early and hitting the road. Just praying this weather continues!!

Phil, you've never been pushed out... I'm actually gagging to ride some dirt but I need to get some miles in for the E2E.

Darcy... you doing the White Horse Challenge?

DirtyGirl... I'm still waiting on yours 8)

*waits impatiently for photo*

Yetis are fake, so no photos exist.

How can you explain the lack of images from the sexy swinley ride?

You can't!

Muhahahaha

*smokebomb and gone*

Tomorrow I'll be doing all the donkey work for Rusty Trowel as he's finishing off my shed.

Sunday is an early morning road ride followed by lots of tea and watching Paris-Roubaix on the telebox. If it's half as good as last weeks Tour of Flanders then it should be a cracking race. 🙂

Spending almost all weekend in the warm, comforting embrace of the upper deck of a BA 747 en route to Singapore.

You have my sympathies CFH. I'll be oootside* in the sun 🙂

* In blighty, on terra firma not on the outside of your 747

Jamie - no need to get jealous... it's such an unattractive quality. All you need to do is give me your phone number and I'll add you to my naughty photo list.

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Yeti, all i can offer you today is patterned tights with ballet pumps...good enough exchange for a pic of you in your shorts or do i need to raise the stakes?

@ jamie, you are back...we were wondering where you had got to!

I forgot to record the ToF, must make sure i remember Paris-Poubaix.

White Horse Challenge...hmmm, I've heard it's a toughie. Doing the wiggle Sportive in the New Forest on Sat 16th though. (only a wimpy 83 miles...just imagining carrying my bulk for 83 miles 😯 )

Ah yes, I remember now, WHC standard entry is closed. You doing it?

All you need to do is give me your phone number and I'll add you to my naughty photo list.

MMS? Alright grandad, get with the interwebs.

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Sort of tempted but I should probably be resting. New Forest could be a nice warm up though, it's pretty flat down there, right?

DirtyG... all pictures greatfully received. 🙂

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it's pretty flat down there, right?

Yep! Though my momentum does increase avg speed on descents.

Riding bikes isn't all about going super fast... some of it is about having a chilled cruise to a pub.. oh and wearing tight lycra, it's always about tight lycra.

On that subject, I need to get myself some nice tight lyrca. Thing is I am skint at the mo, so it's baggies until further notice. Anyone know of any half decent, but cheapish stuff? Might have to wait for Aldi to have a restock.

The local riders despise me 🙁

It makes a big difference to how easy the ride is, aerodynamite aint it. The tighter the better, ask the Dirty1. 🙂

phil - FCOL your poor body doesn't have a chance to recover from one injury before you self-inflict again! Look, when you're an mtb'er you have to treat your body as a temple and worship its awesomeness. 😉

Get yerself well again and, importantly, be careful out there. 😀

What's this White Horse Challenge all about? anyone have a link please?

Oh and welcome back Jamie - we missed you. 🙂

The tighter the better, ask the Dirty1.

Its only good when its tight on fit people like yeti *swoons* unlike mr protein shake at the gym!

Jimmers, wiggle's dhb ones get good reviews for the money. Bib tights/shorts is where it's at for all day comfort though. Badgies just look wong on a woad bike.

EDIT: good reviews on wiggle's own site and in Cycling Plus. Nearly always get best value award.

Dirty you'll make a girl blush!

Just found the White Horse Challenge and that does sound a tough darkside route.

Naturally it would be nowhere near as much fun as an offroad route that I've put together that takes in [b]all[/b] the Wiltshire white horses. Hoping to do it later in the year!

I thought you didn't blush easily? 😛

I was just trying to be modest, really my inflated ego is making it difficult to leave the office!

Bristol trails straight from work tonight, then wedding tomorrow and maybe head to the mendips sunday if the hangover permits.

Sitting in the office looking at the perfect riding conditions outside sucks. Roll on 5pm.

it looks like i'm taking ma girl to a shop to buy a bike. then we may go up to the pentlands! it'll be a fun-packed day no doubt.

Rules;
1) After the first shorts wearing ride, no going back if winter raises its chilly head again next week. Shorts must be worn from this point onward until late autumn.

2) The wearing of lycra - please make sure someone (like a wife/girlfriend/partner/trusted friend) checks out your bum, I've had the misfortune of seeing too many see though garments and as I'm always at the back of a riding group it puts me off 🙂

Rule 1 came into force on the 2nd of Jan for me.

yeti you were wearing shorts at the december sexy party ride!

I know!! It was minus lots that day too! I've not worked out when Rule 2 stops being in force so I wears 'em all year round!

Oh and welcome back Jamie - we missed you.

Anyone would think I have been to Mars* 8)

Jimmers, wiggle's dhb ones get good reviews for the money. Bib tights/shorts is where it's at for all day comfort though. Badgies just look wong on a woad bike.

I did look at DHB, but heard a few rumblings about the manufacturing process changing and the newer stuff being a bit cheap and nasty.

The tighter the better, ask the Dirty1.

I really do not think I will be going that first to be worrying about aerodynamics eeking me out a few extra mph.

*I haven't. I have eaten one though.

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