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      CommentAuthormarcom
    • CommentTimeApr 4th 2009 edited
     
    Hi Guys, I find London full of bullshit events, or better events for fashion victims ........socializing...drinking and first of all SHOW OFF! Apart the Alleycat there is no any fast ride for people with guts, no have to be a real race, but more like a fast every friday night around London, and I mean no traffic light and no waiting the puffs. The alleycat it's a great event, but is mainly to find the address, so let's check the drivers..NO? I mean the job of courier is to find address but is also to be a FAST driver!

    I would love to do this with other people who can afford it. The three FFF
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      CommentAuthorangeleyes
    • CommentTimeApr 4th 2009
     
    I don't think going mental ,after a full week(400+ miles) for no apparent reason is going to appeal to many people.

    Also
    People with guts?
    waiting at traffic lights makes you a puff?

    are you even a courier?
    and if so , do you have at least 4 weeks on?
    i wont even ask your age.
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      CommentAuthormarcom
    • CommentTimeApr 4th 2009
     
    the traffic light is not the point, I'm just suggesting a fast ride with other fellas. I'm not a courier now, but I have eaten a lot of dust. I'm 40 years old..if that helps.
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    it maybe cos im pissed and its nearly two in the morning, but i really dont understand your point marcom...

    'I mean the job of courier is to find address but is also to be a FAST driver!

    I would love to do this with other people who can afford it. The three FFF''

    what do u mean can afford it? what is the three fff's

    and sleep....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........
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    Why don't you go to Critical Mass and challenge them all to a race, Marcom?
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     
    ...while waving your dick about.

    that usually works and makes your intentions pretty clear from the off.
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    Marcom, why don't you throw down, and enter some real fast races with some real fast guys:

    http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/
    • CommentAuthorNIK
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     
    ^ agree, if you like the thrill of riding fast, do it properly, take it to the track or head out to the countryside (no traffic lights there) or do a proper organised race.

    cant really see the point of blasting around town unless your getting paid for it.
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      CommentAuthormarcom
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009 edited
     
    For Buffalo Bill : you're right but that is too serious for me. For the others: sorry guys I will not disturb you again, I misjudge the fact that you are somebody on the street.
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    So, Marcom in a nutshell your point is: London courier events are bullshit and we're all lightweights because no-one wants to join you on your midlife crisis " Ride to Nowhere".
    Apologies if I've got the idiot/poor english ratio mixed up.
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      CommentAuthormarcom
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     
    Hi Westcoastmess, I never say courier events are bullshit! Ok? I said the Alleycat is GREAT!!! I don't think you are Lightweight also. I don't have any midlife crisis and everyone just rush in beat me after I just suggest a friday fast friendly ride in a courier forum where i belive to find more than serious riders. I respect couriers, and if my English is not good do not mean that i attack couriers. Whatever I said it was just a way to find good and fast riders. I met a few couriers around and I always have a good chat and a nice ride, why now i have to be beat from someone who i just try to be friend?
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    Sounds like someone pretending to be foreign, for a bit of 'fun'.
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      CommentAuthormarcom
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     
    I'm Italian.
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    @ marcom
    Easy tiger. No one is trying to be nasty here, your original point/tone was a bit unclear.
    Couriers do alleycats because they A. Allow you to humiliate your workmates and B. Win you the admiration of all the female couriers.
    What you're suggesting is like waiting on the docks at Peterhead with a fishing rod, asking the fishermen coming off the boats if they want to go angling with you.
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    Hey, it's Marco, back from Italy and wanting to challenge the couriers on a race to nowhere. But Marco, you used to win a lot of the Alleycats, why you want to go and race to nowhere? Or are you an imposter trying to discredit my friend in some evil bid to eventually take over Moving target and destroy the World bank?
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    I ate a lot of dust once. Mainly because I accidentally emptied the contents of the university wood workshop's floor sweepings bag onto my parmigiana de melanzane, thinking it was breadcrumbs.
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      CommentAuthormarcom
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     
    @ westcoastmess
    The story of the Fisherman is quite close to what i suggest, I realize now that I have been I bit pretentious, so just ignore me and as I said before I will not disturb you again. Sorry guys.
    • CommentAuthordazzler
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     
    angeleyes - 400 miles? yeah right.
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      CommentAuthorangeleyes
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     
    On a busy day at city sprint i recon i would clock around 80 miles including going in and coming out at the end of the day.When you think of it really even 400 sometimes is on the low side for a 5 day week.Nowadays might be a bit less but still well above 300.And when an average pro makes about 25000 miles a year including races and training then you know what i mean that by the end of the week you probably had enough.
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      CommentAuthorPapa44
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     
    i cannot fully explain how much i love this:

    "What you're suggesting is like waiting on the docks at Peterhead with a fishing rod, asking the fishermen coming off the boats if they want to go angling with you."
    • CommentAuthordazzler
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     
    even if you did 30 jobs each job would have to be 2 miles in distance plus 10 miles each way in to work and back. i'm not sure.
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      CommentAuthorangeleyes
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009 edited
     
    bear in mind you are not doing straight lines, and quite often a single job will take you further out and add to the mileage more than you think.Plus all the 'dead' miles you have to cover up.2 miles for a single average job including the dead mileage to pick it up its not that hard really.Then again depends what type of jobs you are likely to get.Mind you Bishopsgate to Holborn is easily more than a mile in a straight line, and usually that's not even half the distance for a typical ec2 to w1.You and i get used to clocking miles and after a while the routes look so familiar that you think nothing of them, but they all add up in the end.I did clock 100+ once when i used to have an onboard computer and that was in a busy day when i was at Mercury.Long jobs,long pick-up distances but not so many in number (around 30).I was surprised to see that myself.
    At a contract in the city the number of miles i was clocking a day was around 30 including coming in and going back from Limehouse -opposite docklands- and doing 9 times a day noble st to 155 bishopsgate and back.In terms of cycling that was max 1 hour put all together.I still can't believe i was making nearly 30 miles a day.It felt like 3 to me at the time.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009
     
    marcom,I will race you.I am the alleycat king of London but do not be scared.I do not wait the puffs.Meet me friday at the Foundry.We can do much the FFF's.
    I can afford it.
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    1 hour to do 30 miles in London. Mate, you are wasted as a bicycle messenger. Chris Boardman only managed 32 miles in 1 hour on a velodrome.
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    Ha!
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009
     
    Yeah but he managed to moan 40 times while he was at it.
    Chris Whingeman.
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      CommentAuthorangeleyes
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009 edited
     
    ok maybe 1 1/2.Not much more than this.
    Whos C.Boardman?

    Thats the average speed Bill, which means he will start slow , built up and then fall again.It is not a constant speed.On the other hand i could sit on my ass for 45 minutes before i blast from Noble to Bishopsgate down at London Wall.No more than 2 minutes and thats including any traffic lights.

    P.S i know am wasted as a bicycle messenger, nothing new there.Don't most of us?
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009
     
    chris boardman

    my guess is that you don't actually use a measuring device and hence the claim of 30 miles an hour (or even 20- 30 miles in an hour and a half average) is wrong. i know cat 1 racers who go out into the country side who average 19 miles an hour and are proud of that. no one can match that pace on london roads. i call shenanigans!
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      CommentAuthormarcom
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009
     
    @ overdrive
    mhhh.. you just want to take the piss of me and laugh with your mates..!!??
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      CommentAuthorangeleyes
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009 edited
     
    Did i say i ride a continuous hour at 30 miles??????Of course its an approximation.I said i would blast for 2 min max down at london wall and back again every 45 min.Sometimes i ll do it in 2 min sometimes in 4,5, and so on.Depending on the mood etc.I was using a computer at that time till it got nicked (lasted for a week).Commercial rd is generaly a straight line with a couple of traffic lights in between i could do city to home in 10'.

    What are you ppl smoking?I want some too.

    Thanks for the enlightment sleepy.You dont happen to know the next lottery numbers as well do you?

    30mph more or less as far as i am concerned is not that hard to reach and maintain for at least 2 min, so there.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009
     
    @marcom
    Yes,I was trying to be funny.Sometimes I am actually funny.In these times of global financial meltdown I find a little light entertainment enables us to cope with eviction/starvation/bailiffs and general survival worries.
    Dont be offended,we're all off to hell in a handcart.
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    is that how you say it in this country? I always say "to hell in a hand-basket"
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      CommentAuthorPapa44
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009
     
    i once went 60 miles an hour on my bike. admittedly i was holding onto a van at the time. try doin that on yer fixie
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009
     
    i'm going to hell in a handbag. :cool:

    p44- that sounds pretty damn hairy, i've held onto trucks on my cyclocrosser but that was purely to get up mountains and we barely hit 25 i reckon.
    • CommentAuthordazzler
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009
     
    April 24th fff ride
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      CommentAuthormarcom
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009
     
    24th fff ride sounds good for me

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