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As for the weather.
It's lovely and warm here, but it seems to be raining greenfly.
Vast swarms of the fuckers.
Hit thirty mile an hour on a descent and you really know about it.
It looks like I've been eating broccoli, from a distance. Close up, you can see the green between my teeth moving feebly.
Grim.
Fuck aphids! Had LOADS of them on the way home yesterday. It must be mating time, I've never seen swarms so big! I was covered in the fuckers.

So long as there is no overzealous conductor by the bike carraige when you get on, you'll be fine. but sometimes they will make you wait for the next train if the bike spaces are all taken.
Why did they say you can't book a ticket?

hold on a cotton pickin minute, does it leave Oxford sat p.m then? ...Im getting interested
you can borrow my hope l.e.d. 2 if you wants it?
Yes leaving Oxford Saturday evening, and arriving at the beach in Christchurch sometime on Sunday morning. Would be great if I could borrow the light, but won't you be wanting it if you do the ride?

Transport worries. Are there worries?

You can also just book your ticket online and then give them a ring to book your bike on (no need to actually prove you're getting on the train). And then they post out the reservation for your bike.

It's a bit annoying that you can't reserve a bike space online.

The current obsession with combining two words does my head in, eg. jeggings, slankets, sporks, bromance etc.

Fuck off immediately.
Or worse, taking the first couple of letters from first and surnames to make a 'new' and 'original' name. Like SuBo ...

Also, sticking "gate" on the end of everything any time there is any sort of scandal. Fuck Off!

I was joking. The only person I race is myself or the clock, depending on how you look at it.

That is freakin' awesome!

That discussion needed no more participants...

I haven't cycled 100 miles in a looong time and this will be my first overnight ride, so could be convinced to bring gears...

I never lose when I race people, swoop up behind and then POW I'm gone. But sometimes people pass me when I'm not racing. It's not like they're better than me, I'm just not racing...

elastic bottomed jeans?
What the fuck!? Is that like joggers but made of denim?

http://www.dorsetdash.co.uk/
19th June. I'm signed up for it, still need to order a decent front light...

I think the rules are a little contradictory, whenever the safety car is out on the last lap it will always pull into the pits just before the chequered flag, and cars will always cross the SC line, so if they were to continue waving yellow flags the message would be clear. Waving green flags tells the drivers "game on". Mistake by the FIA or whoever is telling the stewards what flags to wave?

Given that the safety car had pulled in, they were past the safety car line when the overtake occurred, and the stewards were all waving green flags (see below quote from F1 website) , I'd say it was a fair overtake.

Green flag
All clear. The driver has passed the potential danger point and prohibitions imposed by yellow flags have been lifted.

Same thing??

120 miles with around 8000 feet of climbing in under six and a half hours for a gold time ... Who's coming to the pain cave?

If you need to save that much weight, put it in the support car!

Sounds hardcore!

I need more long weekend rides. New Forest a few weeks back whetted my appetite for sportives so will be signing up for a few more, also need to get out with the local road club next time I have a free weekend. Hopefully will have more to report in the future!

You don't want to visit the pain cave when you're riding home from work.

Nice job, that is pretty fast.

Cheers. Most of my riding at the moment is getting to/from work so like to push it a bit every now and again.

Just finished 107 miles / 7000 ft of climbing. Having difficulty walking, talking and not eating everything in sight.
The best thing about doing long ride: The massive amounts you can eat when you finish without feeling bad about it :D

Massive photo, sorry...

Halfway there:
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1280&pictureid=7929
Got new bar tape, brakes, and seat post on the way. The wheels could do with a bit of a clean, too. Would prefer silver rims but would also prefer to keep the cost down. Nicer cranks also on the wish list.

Friday counts as the weekend.
Awesome. Fastest ever ride home from work. 30 miles with just over 1000ft climbing in under an hour and a half. Lucas will be disappointed to know I didn't go to the pain cave, just the feeling-a-little-tired-but-suprisingly-good-for-the-end-of-the-week cave.

I haven't been out riding this weekend, can I tell you about my ride on Friday instead?

Not water bottles... *Bidons. *Nicer, but a bit pricey.

Matthew Lloyd wins by over a minute, don't tell Hippy...

I could be up for this, probably would prefer to do the shorter route but could be convinced to do the longer if I had some one's wheel to sit on company.