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How was your cycle commute?

stavros said:
I went up a hill this morning that was one of those which doesn't look hard but really drains your legs, and when you analyse the route on a map you realise it was quite a decent gradient.
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There's a weird one near me on the local railway path - about 1km.
A gentle climb of about 3 percent for 250 metres that my legs usually enjoy, and I can often find the power to nip around slower people, but then there's this flat section for 500 metres where no matter what I do with gears and cadence, my legs turn to jelly. Then another 250 metres at 3 percent which is challenging, but distinctly preferable.
The steep bits are probably done on 38 / 34 x 26 = 29 inches..
It's a controversial diversion made for the ring road which the council described as a "barely perceptible gradient".

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I just made a very dull video of a key part of it from footage I recorded on Sunday 8th April 2012 :-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH5RdwLdPwM
 
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MAMIL, MGIF - all these acronyms piss me off. People are too lazy to even type these days, and they are thrown out as if you're supposed to know what they are, making the reader do all the hard work and google it.
It's damn rude in fact!
 
its up there with 'lycra clad' and 'two wheeled menace' and all the other lazy tropes sloppily bandied about by anti cycling trollumnists.
 
gentlegreen said:
I can't see anything wrong with MGIF, SMIDSY and SMIDGAF.
It happens to all cyclists all the time.
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Yes, but what the fuck are they?
You're not making yourself understood very well if people have to go off and use google if they want to know what the fuck you are talking about.
And then it usually refers to a shitty stereotype
 
You're adept with language and those things happen to you all the time. Just how much trouble is it to learn a handful of acronyms ?
 
weepiper said:
What the FUCK



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eh, NAW

I mean seriously, what a load of patronising WANK. Is anyone going to be encouraged by this twaddle? :confused::mad:
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I'm trying to work out what the heck it's supposed to be . Does that bike have down tube shifters? What is she riding into? A windsurfer??

-baffled-
 
a_chap said:
I'm trying to work out what the heck it's supposed to be . Does that bike have down tube shifters? What is she riding into? A windsurfer??

-baffled-
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She seems to be on a roof - in winter.
I suppose the saddle is low enough to have her feet on the ground, but I'm guessing the front wheel is clamped somehow.
 
Lovely weather for a ride today but I was supposed to be cooking Sunday dinner so I kept it to just 200km. Slightly delayed by (yet another fucking) puncture.

More drivers than usual were prepared to pause a moment to wait for a safe overtaking opportunity instead of crossing the double white lines on the approach to bends or brows of hills. Which was nice :)
 
My flu, though relatively mild, is going right up to the wire.
I decided against even cycling a few miles to the shops - so that's a full 7 days where the most exertion was going a few hundred yards up to the supermarket for supplies.
But I have been getting better each day, so unless there's something hideously wrong with my immune system, I should be OK to cycle in tomorrow.
 
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