Krap Dnomhcir

In a bid to make Wayne (who’s currently in Oz, lapping up the sun, the b@stard!) feel like he’s missing out on some serious training, the Grupetto bunch hit Richmond Park.

Two Steve’s, a Ricky and myself did a few laps. Much more interesting than solo laps – thanks guys. Ended up with 96k on the clock (7 laps) and without a typical club run cake stop I was in the odd situation of experiencing a calorific deficit! Argh! It hurts!! 🙂

Not only that, I sat in a pub with three drinkers and only consumed 2 pints.. of Pepsi! We came fifth in the music quiz.

Training commences..

BBC Richmond Park

Back from Poland now and surprisingly not adding too much to my ninety-something kilogram frame. Some self-control does exist in me after all?!

Mind you, we did return with 4 bottles of vodka, some of Mal’s mum’s cooking and enough chocolate to sink a small Asian nation’s entire navy fleet so the damage isn’t totally done yet.

Back on the bike I headed out to the top-secret training facility, known to some as Richmond Park. Bit sad, but I wasn’t really up for solo navigation of the Chilterns or anything more mentally challenging. So, RP it was. While out there I spotted another lfgss member and ebay bike nutter Roberto. We cut a few laps together before he had to bail whereas I had lights so I grabbed a couple more laps. I lost count of my laps when we changed direction but it worked out to be 71.7k mostly sitting in the 130-150 HR bracket (E1) for aerobic base building. I have no formal training plan at the moment so I’m just going to be getting in the miles as they say.

Speaking of Roberto, if you want to buy a track frame, he has a sale on now. Be quick as lfgss members are already drooling over them!

robertobicicletas.co.uk – track frame sale

Happy Holidays All!

Santa Bike

How PC is that? “Happy Holidays” Ha! I’ve been in Inglund too long.

Enjoy your xmas and your nye. I’m off to Polska with Malwinki for a few days.

When I return I will have a new bike (and most likely a serious vodka hangover).

L2P or London 2 Paris or Londres-Paris

Londres-Paris header

Whatever you want to call it, I have paid the ?100 entry deposit and plan to ride from London to Paris in late June 2008.

Now, embarrassment is one way to kick-start a training regime, not one I’d recommend but, err, too late, let the training commence!

Roller races lasting 20-30 seconds are one thing but what about riding 600k over 3 days complete with rolling road-blocks, leader’s jerseys and a tonne of fit buggers to ‘race’?

This certainly isn’t a cycle tour and the more I read the website the more I’m forced to think about some serious hard riding. I guess this will give me something to write about 🙂

Read more about the Londres-Paris here:

londres-paris.com website

roadcyclinguk.com – l2p 2007 ride report by richard hallett

Roller Race Wrap Up

rollapaluza IX

I think I proved Simon Jackson’s theory about getting faster the more you ride the rollers by being the exception to this rule! The guy timing my coughlafying run had to be woken up to stop the clock.

Bugger it, even without qualifying, I had a huge laugh last night cheering until hoarse at the riders I knew, especially Scarlett who made it to the final and almost won save for the last 50-100m!! Damn! Drat! Blast! Job well done Rollapaluza and crew!

Danzel’s Rollapaluza IX video

LFGSS thread with pics, chatter, etc

Full Results from Rollapaluza 9

Rollapaluza IX-Mas Party (Updated)

Rollapaluza

Rollapaluza IX-mas party in association with LondonFGSS.com December 15th

7pm – 2am

Waterloo Action Centre

14 Baylis Road

London SE1 7AA

Entry: ?5.00 plus ?2.00 to race

A classic Rollapaluza night of Rock and Roller Racing.. an Open event for all London Cyclists. Roller Racing, bands, DJs and BEER!

Qualifying from 7pm

Deadley Treadleys playing live plus DJ’s:

Jono, Slamm, Teenslain, J:Miah, The Living Graham Bond, Steve McColl

See www.rollapaluza.com for more details.

Don't buy Endura socks

I don’t give negative product reviews very often.. oh yeah.. that’s because I don’t give any product reviews very often!

Here’s one: Don’t buy Endura socks (I got mine from Wiggle). They are too damn thin. I wore a hole through mine in a single ride from London to Brighton (~80k). The other pairs now have holes in them from a few commutes.

Twatster.. rides!

Specialized Langster 2006 Twatster

Built this up yesterday after Dale got me some Fuji bars and a cog that was surely salvaged from the Titanic’s engine room!

It’s brakeless at the moment so it’s only done a couple of nearby shopping runs but I have a brake ready to fit. The cog is slipping (not good brakeless!) so I need to show it some hippy love (that’s 95kg + gravity + anger + muscle power) before smacking the lock ring down with something (the ancient cog has a sticky-outty lip that stops me using my DA lockring tool – doh!).

Initial thoughts: It’s low. The saddle to bar drop is greater than on all my other bikes so I can’t see myself in the drops much. Even with kinda heavy wheels it’s fscking light! It’s ugly (although Mal seems to like it) and it should blend in with commuter bikes at work, which was the main aim for this machine. With the cog slipping and no brakes I’ve not ridden it hard yet but I reckon it’s gonna be pretty damn quick. Slave to the NJS and 531 need to embrace the teknology! 🙂

Specialized Twatster Pics

FixedGearLondon MASH Almost Official Premiere

MASH SF Food Bike

Thanks to fixedgearlondon.com for putting on the Almost Official Premiere of MASH.

Surprised at the turnout actually – seemed to be loads of people there. The bike stack in the hallway was certainly full of lovely bike bling! Can’t wait to see pics 🙂

Enjoyed the flick (you can see some of it on the mashsf.com site). Bummed I had to bail early. FGL Headquarters are quite close to work so I might have to pop in for some important err “part acquisition” 🙂

MASH SF London Premiere Crowd by falasunn

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