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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@Deakus That is a major concern but I reckon I’ve a few years yet, especially if I train with her. »
Without prompting or reference to The Rules, my daughter told me that she thought her new (to her) bike would look best with white tape (the current tape is a bit tatty, the brakes aren’t ideal and the cables need replacing). She wasn’t at all discouraged… »
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@Cyclops Livin’ the dream. »
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@Bespoke To be fair to the others, the session was open to anyone under the age of 16 and to kids passing with a bike. The photographer was lying down which plays down just how small the lead out rider was. It was a bit tough on some of the older/more… »
@ped Next set of Speedplays and Bonts will be in my size! I think I’ll start her off in something she can use for cross in the winter. I know that might not be entirely rule compliant but there’s a need to match the budget to the household cycling needs. … »
@mouse The V is strong in this one. Purple. The bike is a cracker, an ebay special, Reynolds 531, Sora drivetrain and hubs, Mavic Open Pro rims, old school Cinelli quills tem and traditional round bend bars. Evil little Onza cantis, soon to be replaced… »
Strong work @frank. A hefty dose of Sambuca and dancing on Friday night left me without the stamina to last beyond the halfway point before drifting off. Everything I’ve ever read about time trialling had the DSs lying through their teeth about their ri… »
@brett Has he just gone hypoxic and run into the camera? »
@G’rilla Get the beers out and tell him if he doesn’t hurry up they’ll be gone before he’s done. »
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@ChrisL Too fucking right it’s confusing! My surname is Lawrence! »
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@ChrisO ”Je suis vegetarian” “Ah, qui, would you like ze chicken?” is probably better than being offered a vegetarian sausage, most of which are about as offensive as alcohol free beer. I’ve met a few people who claim to be vegetarian but really just dra… »
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@Deakus Haven’t got the book to hand to check but is this the photo? »
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@brett Nice article. Do you eat fish and sea food, I can’t remember from talking to you about it at the Keepers Tour. I’m a confirmed meat eater although I do find that I tend to eat much less of it and be much more selective about it’s quality and sourc… »
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Anatomy of a Photo: @frank’s hour @frank’s wildest dreams @frank’s first lap @frank’s second lap »
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@Deakus why complicate things? @chris posters can be categorised as either me (small boy in a velodrome gravatar) or not me. »
@Deakus Just to be clear, I’m @Chris, currently +1 Conttibutor but also KT12 Attendee (@frank hasn’t recoded his little orange Flandrian lions to KT13 status). @ChrisO, V-Contributor, might be my alter ego. I suspect he’s the product of my schizophrenic,… »
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@meursault Don’t you be winking emoticons at me! I rode a lot more over the winter than I have recently. To be fair the lack of summer is a piss poor excuse. We’d be waiting forever. »
@thebaron I’m waiting for the summer. »
@thebaron A good point but it seems to me that the ability to be a twat that looks down on people can be found at all price bands. Some ride shit bikes and look down on those with nice bikes as posers, others think they can ride and complain about others … »
@mouse +1. If the ownership of expensive bikes was limited to those who could truly do them justice we’d be in the shit. The bike companies don’t make pro level bikes for the pros to ride around on, they make them to sell them to the public and use the p… »
@Dr C Chapeau, nice to see that you dealt with your stead before collapsing. I’m sure @frank will be along to say that the bars shouldn’t be touching he snow, the cranks aren’t pointing in the right direction and you should have finished Sur La Plaque … »
@frank It did look like there was two of you on the track at times. Is that a bit like having two magnets on your wheel, which would mean you only did about 18.6585km? Chapeau Frank, can’t wait till you try it again on a properly Dutch Monkey fitted b… »