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One of my mates sent the following email to several mutual friends this morning;

Morning All,

I have to inform you all as Tom's friends it is our duty to prevent him wearing his LFGSS (London fixed gear and single speed) hat. The reason being it makes him look like a twat. This was the case before I even knew what LFGSS stood for.

If you've not seen it is a cross between a flat cap and baseball cap. When you have seen it you'll understand this e-mail

Your jokes are shit, damo... Hope I didn't scare Tom off... :S

I'm more likely to be scared off by the shocking condition of the pub's ales. I had to resort to drinking lager!

I'm doing the bridges ride next Saturday night, so I won't be up for an early start. Could do it if we started at midday perhaps?

BAKERS (DOZEN) LIST

1. Pippy & Mal
   
2. LongAndBaking
   
3. ANOther Judge TBD
   
4. Apploogah
   
5. PieBilly
   
6. Fruity_Socks
   
7. dmcgetdownintheapplezone
   
8. No Laughing Matter (balki and Nhatt)
   
9. Edcrumblo + Lady Liz
   
10. El Guapplo + Cox's Orange Jayloo
    
11. Momma Bagheera
    
12. tom k&ke
    

Whoops, perhaps I should have posted that I was heading off this morning.

Anyway, me and tom. got to Dorking as planned at 10, but unfortunately neither off us knew our way around at all. Various other riders pointed us in roughly the right direction, but we still ended up taking some odd routes; walking up a steep footpath and getting evils from ramblers for instance. Managed to find a few decent runs, but got the impression we missed out on the best bits.

Tom put me to shame on the downhills, I really haven't got the nerve for fast descents. Forgetting my helmet probably didn't help in that regard. In accordance with the tags, I did remember flapjacks however.

We'll have to do it again with a bit more planning, would be good to get a regular offroading day sorted like SSTC or TNRC.

1. tom.
   
2. mmccarthy
   
3. tom k&e
   

There's a train at 0902 from Waterloo to Dorking, gets there at 0950. Groupsave?

I've just converted my hardtail back from commuting duties to offroad spec, so I'd love to do Sunday.

Replace the police with roaming bike vigilantes dispensing d-lock justice to thieves and dangerous drivers.

Citygent, how about putting a big poster in your shop window along the lines of "Cyclists beware. Dickless jobsworth cunts at work!"

If you put up a warning, even a polite one, you could get done for "wilfully obstructing a constable in the execution of his duty". It's happened to people warning of speed traps

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1463472/Motorist-is-banned-over-speed-trap-alert.html

Thanks for leading the way, you certainly made me earn that burger!

TODAY

Souths (Mon 16th Aug):

1. Rebecca19804 [first post here!]
   
2. Radius happy to lead Souths
   
3. tom k&e
   

1. MA3K
   
2. owenreed
   
3. mmccarthy
   
4. lardboy
   
5. teddy
   
6. Kirth
   
7. John H
   
8. KRZ
   9.'Riva
   
9. Playmaker Glover
   
10. Zed
    
11. Tommy Mac
    
12. Joe Smith
    
13. Quinn
    
14. Daveo
    
15. middleofnowhere
    
16. Yoshka
    
17. dimi3
    19.Clockwork_Killa
    20.Johnny Fitz
    
18. Conservatory valuations
    
19. Sumo
    
20. richoking
    
21. tom k&e
    

So this Golf driver;

• Ran over a cyclist
  
• Threatened to shoot him
  
• Petrol bombed his (mates?) house.
  
  

Is he going for cunt of the year award or something?

A possible pub for afterwards might be the nautically themed Cove in Covent Garden

1. Captain Velocibeard (in spirit)
   
2. ScurvySeaGav
   
3. long joe silver
   
4. botswainanddoyle
   
5. 31ltr's rum
   
6. dubloon dicki
   
7. mashtonrubbishpiratepun
   8.arrrrPM
   9.flintlock_killa
   
8. Long John H Silver
   
9. Oooaaaark Minor
   
10. D. Gibbet
    
11. DeadMansHand
    
12. middle o' nowherrrrrrrr
    
13. larrrrrrrrdboy
    
14. Captain William Kirth
    
15. skydansarrrh
    
16. tom kaaaaaaaaaaaa&e
    

Death By Boris - CycleHire Race

Camden start point, cycle up north and do a reverse Death TT (up Swains Laine, down wests), first one to sock back in at Camden is the winner.

Thoughts?

I still fancy the Royal London Hospital to Olympia challenge. 8.3 miles, can you do it on a 22kg 60GI bike.

I was trying out a potential new bike the other day and found it to be uncomfortable on my hands. What is this indicative of? Frame to small/big, handlebars positioned wrong, not used to riding drop bars? I currently ride an MTB and haven't done any distance on drops before.

YouTube- Sonata Arctica - Tallulah

Gary Fisher Triton

Oh that does look tempting. Thanks for the suggestion.

Does anyone happen to know if any of the bikes listed in the OP have rack and mudgaurd braze ons? It's not something they think to list in the specs, and it's difficult to tell from the photos.

I suspect this will be quite difficult to do. The camera will most likely be set to 35mph - speed limit +10%+2mph. This is the guideline from ACPO.

Riding in a tight group will save you about 40% power, but this won't translate to as much of a speed increase as you'd expect. Air resistance is proportional to speed squared, which means the power required is proportional to speed cubed. Therefore riding in a group at 35mph will require the same power as riding alone at 29.5mph.

35³ x 0.6 v³
v = 35 ∛0.6
v = 29.5

I've got an idea for a ride.
Its a milage challenge-
See how far you can get in 30mins.
You must return the bike to a station to qualify.
mileage done by some means of devilry.

The most distant stations seem to be Royal London Hospital and Olympia. 8.3 miles, doing that inside 30 minutes should be a nice challenge.

And to the various people asking, the gearing is apparently 32-44-60

http://thebikeshow.net/road-test-londons-new-cycle-hire-bikes/

Spectating. Have made a ton of flapjacks and brownies to fuel those more keen than myself.

A few months back I had an accident (massive face plant) in front of a bus (no fault of the bus at all I might add) and the bus driver and passengers helped me loads, calling ambulance and police for me, anyway I tried to get hold of the footage of me landing on my face, I thought it would be possible to get it through the data protection act but the bus company said that due to regulations surrounding cctv I couldn't get the footage, just telling me my front wheel fell off and I went over the handlebars landing squarely on my face. I did do a little research and there was some things about how some cctv isn't covered by the data protection act but never really followed it up. This doesn't really answer your question but is my experience of trying to get cctv footage.

A friend of mine requested CCTV footage form a bus company after crashing into a bus in his car. Paid his ten quid as required by the data protection regs, got a cd with the footage in some whacky format, and the program to play it. He proudly showed this to us expecting it to exonerate him from blame for the accident - it didn't at all much to everyone's entertainment.

There's a google maps travelling salesman solver for working out routes like this

http://www.gebweb.net/optimap/

Feed it this list of points and it gives you 130 miles when set to walking directions, which are of course s a bit fiddly to follow.

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