Velominatus: Chris
Order: Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 Attendee
Location: The Cambridgeshire Flatlands
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42 year old father of three living in Cambridgeshire and working in London. I've always been into bikes but it wasn't until 2011 that I got my first road bike. Childhood and early teens were all about BMX in Hong Kong, Late 20's to mid thirties were the wilderness years, Got back into riding bikes when I borrowed a mates MTB for a weekend and ended up a fully fledged DHer but there are no hills round here so road bikes have taken over although I'm still but a novice without many miles in my legs. My wife travels with work a lot so much of my mid week riding is on the rollers and the kid's sporting interests tend to clash with the local club rides. I've also been indulging in a spot of Rule 12: 2011 Cannondale CAAD8 105, 2006 Cannondale Prophet, ???? Redline Flight Pro (Standing around watching the kids ripping up the BMX track gets a bit dull so I'm building it up from ebay parts) Had a 2007 Marin Quake as well but sold that to fund my attendance at KT13
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@xyxax Is that a euphemism for “It’s becoming common knowledge that I frequent the public conveniences in the park near the house of commons”. »
@Buck Rogers If only it was performance enhancing, I’ve had to work from home a few days this week which predictably ends up with me getting bored and eating all the unhealthy snacky things. More a Schelck/Contrador affair than Pharmstrong or Riccardo Ric… »
@Buck Rogers Sleep is vastly overrated. Anyway, I’ve peed in a couple of bottles, labeled them Wiggins and Hesjedal ant popped them into the post to fat Pat and little Heiny. There’s bound to be enough shit in my system at the moment that they’ll both g… »
Hardly a surprise but Wiggo has pulled the plug. Maybe it’ll stop raining and dry up now. »
That felt slightly funereal, the amount of time time they gave to footage of Wiggo being brought in by his team rather than replays of Cav making everyone else look slow. »
@Buck Rogers Apparently Duran Duran and Crowded House are with nibbles, mis communication from Race Radio Ga Ga I think. »
@Buck Rogers @strathlubnaig If the reports of him having a chest infection are true it wouldn’t be a surprise if he did pull out tonight. Might be lacking in character but riding without oxygen is a bit of a bitch and he won’t get better if the weather ca… »
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@Bespoke To be fair, I think Wiggins is at the extreme end of the lanky cyclist spectrum but I don’t think it’s anything new as far as his road career is concerned. Bear in mind that these are early season (Roubaix) rather than at the back end of a … »
@ped Jeez, if we’re going to get all scientific about nutrition, say goodbye to dull… »
@Chris Hnrr, hnrr, he said but. »
@Bespoke Er no, but do feel free to carry on picking out words that look like their meaning might be bottom related. »
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@Pedale.Forchetta She walks in beauty… a word of warning, mildly NSFW. »
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@Steampunk Yes and it’s not pretty. »
@mcsqueak Not sure how you ‘mericans come up with such sweeping generalisations given that only one in ten of you will have travelled further than the distance between your lazy boy and double doored fridge and of those who have, it was only visit your… »
@ped Fuck that, please don’t. Heaven forbid that we might get into discussions based on scientific fact. One of the things that sets this site apart is that it is not populated by internet warriors claiming extensive expertise in the subject of the da… »
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@Nate I’d say you’re probably right in that there is some countersteer but it’s minuscule. Round here it’s too flat to spend any time descending and when I do it tends to be a fairly subconscious process (a good thing too given the complete lack of spare… »
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Hesjedal: I can’t put my finger on it, but I just don’t feel myself, there’s something missing… »
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@Nate I may not be the most practically minded but I had worked out the need to have the same number holes at each end of the spoke. I’m just not sure about the practicalities of using hubs that are designed to have a nipple at the hub with rims that are… »
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@motor city Ha, yes, some very funny shit. Came across it yesterday. »
If Rigoberto was a doper surely he’d be able to sprint a bit better than he did at the Olympics. Maybe not well enough to beat Vino but certainly not as badly as he did. »
@frank That’s a good point. Bit pedantic though. “I read on twitter that…” “I heard that…” or “It has been communicated to me in one way or another, the specific method of such communication being completely and utterly fucking irrelevant, that…” Ta… »
@frank The Dutch. Doping. Bike Handling Skills. »
@Buck Rogers When I heard on twitter that someone had fallen off the edge of the mountain I’d assumed they meant Hesjedal rather than a spectator. Turns out that it was rather worse for Ryder, he disappeared off the face of the planet. »
@Don Amedo This was a Stage 10 specific VSP in addition to the main Giro VSP. »
@ChrisO Spot on. Unless visibility is poor, an alert driver will spot a cyclist regardless of the colour of kit. If the visibility is poor a truly bright flashing light (angled properly) will do far more to make you visibly than a YJA especially when you … »