and how much they charge :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
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and how much they charge :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Next weeks bike ride is going to be a two hour hill around High Peak with non other than our own Christopher Leigh, should be interesting :p
So there is no hope for Daz's crank bearings :D
Had a FANTASTIC ide yesterday :) About 5 kms in I suddenly had two blokes on my wheel... one said: don't go any faster or we won't be able to keep up with you... After a bit one of them took the front and the other pulled up allongside me and we had a little chat. They were also out for about 3 hours and had only just started their ride, so they took me on the most fantastically scenic ride!
Lots of nice climbs, fantastic views, past castles and abbeys it was amazing! Beautiful crisp clear day... Well cold though, with snow and ice on the higher bits... Exactly 3 hours of good, hard riding in a brilliant landscape in good company :) Felt the legs in the end, so good training too!
Funnily enough, halfway into the ride they admitted to how they came to sit on my wheel... They had spotted me in the distance once they joined the road I was one and had an argument over wether I was a bloke or a girl... As in: it has a ponytail, got to be a girl... Nah, there are so many young blkes with long hair these days, women don't ride like that... Yeah, but look at her figure... Nah, could be a skinny bloke... he/she is too fast and has too blokey a riding style to be a woman... So they had to catch up to find out LOL
Going on their clubrun on Sunday :)
Direct him back to the forum. How can we debate the impending election without his interesting insights? Currently it's being left to TH and WP to provide amusing side arguments. But the complexities of pensions is a bit dull next to arguments such as the moral degeneration of modern society, or drug taking in all forms of sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr H Tool
Thats not very complimentary, Han.
what with my crank bearings and your fantastic ride:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Just had an email to say my new frame has arrived at Wheelbase and i can collect the bike Friday lunchtime
yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I'll give you a knock next time I'm passing through Bentham on the Quermore route :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Man from Del Monte
59 minutes and 58 seconds for my 14.8 mile time trial. 1200" of climb.
First time this year under the hour. Really pleased.:)
Well done TrevorQuote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
40miles for me last night. new gearing , very nice. It was a lovely dry night, no wind.
Lots of climbing on my hilly loops.
Then in true bikie style I started to shave my legs but the razor conked out.:(.
The shame of it.
Oh by the way does anyone know wherabouts you can get those little electric shavers from ( Emm, Hann ??)
not telling what area I need that for but its delicate.
Taped paris-nice and watched it last night. Contador showing the rest of the peloton how to climb to take the yellow jersey.
Talk about fast and its only March. Wonder if Lance was watching
Some people seem to be under the misapprehension that you need to shave more than just above the shorts line for cycling :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
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Originally Posted by Dr H Tool
Defo for me
Its either smooth all over or nowt, cant have prickly parts in one spot and not the other:D
Daz, I bet Lance was watching...
No idea about electric razors, I use a proper and shaving oil...
Lovely 2 hour ride on Wednesday, took in the longest continuous climb in the Netherlands, which, apparently, is alos the hardest, then rode another climb up to the highest point in the Netherlands, where I managed to park my bike simultaneously in Holland, Blegium and Germany :) Nice blast back home on a relatively flat route :)
Off in a minute for another two hours before work... It is raining today, but still taking in three climbs. Better watch those descents...
Come on Daz, every man know's the only razor a woman uses is the one that belongs to the bloke she shares the house with! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by daz h
hope you didn't forget to moisturise? ;)
Tell me about it my daughter started to do her legs last year. Once I got her to use disposable razors I got my own back by doing my legs with themQuote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
Lol :)Quote:
Originally Posted by daz H
I won't be bringing flowers when your in having the in growing hairs removed :oQuote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Took the sensible option this morning, as I was tired from 12 hours solid working yesterday ANd it was drizzling snow... so a two hour ride over some cols became a one hour easy ride into work. Which was fortuitous, as I got absorbed into the Skil team out training :):):)
Well done HannQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
But watch those Skil boys.
No dont moisturiseQuote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
I prefer to MAN it out, I know you couldnt possibly ever understand the concept of the kind of pain a man bikie goes through. There different to womens hairs as well.
I've heard everything now :rolleyes: MAN it out, sheeeshQuote:
Originally Posted by daz h
I didnt think a long reply would come backQuote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
I know its hard to understand but its a fact. Do you know how hard it is standing for that long in the delivery room. God I mean ur ready for a sit down after all that fuss over nowt.
Pain- beilieve me ive had it:o
hmmmmm. we'll see.Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
that was the fastest reply ever on this forumQuote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
I cant eat a cinnamon swirl in that time
fruit breads a different matter thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Hahahahahahahahaha...Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Well, I am about to man it out for a couple of hours in the pooring rain... IT is 3 degress centigrade, so non chance of snow...
30 mile 3500 ft got beasted by Mounsey and the Ugly Elf and made a compete numpty of myself.
Pulled up at a junction behind a motorbike and a car, thought I would be smart and nip down the left of them, unclipped the left foot, needed one more turn of the pedal rested the foot on the pedal. Stopped at the give way line and TIMBER (had reclipped):o
Blonde bird in the car was laughing, so were my two buddies:o
Got up, reclipped again and got on with the ride.
Pride took a massive dent:o
You'll have to practice track stands Stagger to save unclipping - although they can sometime have the same sort of ending :eek:
I do think toe clips took more getting used to and ended up with more falls, especially when you were proper tightened in - a little ankle twist on the new generation is a breeze (most of the time).
Cheers AdyQuote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
PS I am only a beginner, only the 4th time in clips.
I also need to practice more on the pull action as I appear to let the downward foot do all the work.
TrevorQuote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
Evryone does that , you will be fine in a fewrides
Done it many times, practice makes perfect Stagger;)Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Love the Mudclaw cake daz:cool:
We have all had the 'toppling over while clipped in in an embarassing and ego bruising manner' Stagger :)
Had an amazing ride this am, on the clubrun with a local cycling club... did 100 kms in just over 3 hours... as they dragged me along with their A group. Apparently, I am the first person and most definitely the very first woman to have survived this unscathed, as they really rip your legs off if you go with them for the first time AND with the fast group LOL!
Serious cyclists, but also very social and lots of fun :)
Well done Hann that will give you lots of confidence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
A 2 hr recovery ride for me last night, 20mph average. Was inspired by watching El Pistollero in the Paris - Nice epic.
Def going up the hills better on the 13 - 26
A recovery ride at 20 mph? :eek: NUTTER!Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
I am having a recovery ride this am... it will be stuck in the small ring and stay there! 20 mph downhill perhaps lol
Recovery ride yesterday was a revelation... It was actually quite hard to ride so slowly that the HR was below 130... so pottered around at 24.4 km/hr average for about an hour.
This morning I rode nice and steady, took in a couple of decent climbs.. about 45 kms in 1.45 hrs :) Bit cold and misereably wet, but feeling good. Base building going quite well :)
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Originally Posted by Hanneke
what cadence are you going at ?
Tend to ride between 85 and 90 on the road, but at about 95-100 on the track...Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Today was much sunnier and warmer in East Lancs than the Yorkshire Dales! Got my Dales fix in this morning, around 65 miles up to Horton-In-Ribblesdale. 2 of us came back via Settle and pushed hard all the way back to Read where we went our separate ways. No stats, still on the winter iron with clean bars.
Did a ride with Christopher Leigh yesterday or was it Graeme Obree, he chose not to put his 67 tooth chain ring that he had had specially made on for the ride. I will will reserve my right to cast judgement at this present time, I have directed him back to the forum an we're out again next week (he is a much nicer character in person). :p
I have a rest dau today and it is all lovely and warm and sunny :(