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June 6, 2013 at 7:44 am #25911
Clover
MemberGreat nights riding by all the Dynamos, proud to be wearing the club shirt.
Sort of enjoyed the 25 mins of pain, in some perverted little dark corner of my crazy mind.
Now have a problem, been looking at the prices of TT bikes !!!!June 6, 2013 at 2:31 pm #25913The Slinky Otter
MemberGo Dynamos!
Gutted I couldn’t make it. I’ll be there for the next one – I’ve made a note not to go downhill racing a few days before it.
I’ve even got a tub of goose fat to rub over myself. I’ve heard that helps right?
June 6, 2013 at 2:56 pm #25914Clover
MemberSlinky, if the next TT evening is as hot as last night with all that gooses fat you should crisp up lovely. YUM !!
June 6, 2013 at 6:30 pm #25915Roger
MemberLooking at the points..or lack of them..we could have done with Celia and Kim participating to bring home the bacon..sorry the bacon and the lentils…the only other alternatives would be a) change our ages b) change our sexes c) change our bikes..oh no that hasn’t worked either…
June 6, 2013 at 6:46 pm #25916celia
MemberI’m tapering! Was wishing I was there though 😉
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Love The Rain, Live Your DreamJune 6, 2013 at 6:58 pm #25917Roger
MemberWhat’s tapering?
June 6, 2013 at 7:16 pm #25918celia
MemberYou’ll have to read my blog on Sunday;-) Its stressing out that I’ve not done enough training, having panic attacks, and not being able to get to sleep!
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Love The Rain, Live Your DreamJune 6, 2013 at 7:33 pm #25919Morganite
MemberResults are here, we are bottom of the pile
June 6, 2013 at 7:46 pm #25920Sweaty Eds
MemberAll those that didn’t attend last night missed a real insight into another side of cycling.
Obviously, there were a few very talented competitors, their names were spoken in hushed tones as they arrived.. ‘Isn’t that Peter Lloyd over there?.. Is that Ollie Simon?.. Oh God, there’s Nick Brown, do you think he saw us.. ’ that sort of thing, but a real eye opener was the range of bikes on show. There were some amazing machines, tubeless tyres, disc wheels, tri-bars, pointy helmets, everything. We Dynamos came mostly on regular road bikes, except Flapjack who, as usual, rode a Mark 1 Dandy-horse fresh from the museum and Beloved Chairman Rees who rolled up a brand spanking new Stealth Black Scott which prompted Huw’s phone to go into meltdown as he frantically speed dialled Pembrokeshire Bikes demanding that they send the very latest models of everything to Neyland immediately. But the real surprise was Roger…
Let me explain. When I was a boy, my dad, who was a bit of a handyman, used to build my brother and I bikes from old frames that he’d found on the tip and various odds and ends he picked up cheap. This meant our bespoke bikes were certainly one of a kind and he could generally be relied upon to update our steeds to keep pace with whatever accessory was in bike vogue at the time. Well, I remember just after the Raleigh Chopper hit the streets that my brother and I wanted the Chopper style handlebars. My dad could only find one set of Chopper bars and these he put on my brother’s bike, I had to make do with something my dad called Cow Bars. Basically, the Cow Bars were similar to today’s mountain bike handlebars, but much, much wider. To this day I have a spookily long arm span in relation to my height, a quirk that more than one medical professional has put down to me having to frantically grapple for the brakes whilst my arms were doing the splits. Anyway, the Cow Bars experiment was quite short-lived due to an unfortunate incident where I managed to scratch both my dad’s and our neighbour’s cars simultaneously. My brother’s Chopper-style bars, on the other hand, proved a huge hit and lasted considerably longer, in fact, I’m not sure he would ever have taken them off if he hadn’t impailed his little boys bits on said bars after suffering a speed wobble on Thornbury hill whilst showing off to his mates by standing on his saddle. After this brush with Social Services my dad took the fertility-threatening bars from my brother’s bike and put them on the top shelf in his workshop. And that was the last I thought I’d see of them,.. so imagine my surprise when I saw what Roger was riding on Wednesday night.
Roger’s travails with his Orbea are well documented, no carbon left in Spain to build the beast, infuriating rattle when travelling over 20mph (not really a big problem for him, that one), inability of said Orbea to wait for teammates etc, so it wasn’t really surprising that he decided to ride the time trail on his winter bike. What was surprising was the fact that he had decided to swap the shopping basket at the front for my brother’s old Chopper handlebars, not only that but, rather ingeniously, he’d turned them over and fashioned them into extreme tri-bars in the hope that they’d offer him some aerodynamic advantage when in the tuck position. The use of a couple of old colostomy bags from the failed He-poo experiment as elbow supports was inspired. I’ve got to be honest, I’m not sure exactly what benefit he gained from his ‘tri-bars’. When he passed me, on the other side of the road during the actual time-trial, he seemed to be struggling to stay in control with his hands gripping the upturned Chopper bars down by the front axle and his nose rubbing on the tyre, still, the slight seepage from the colostomy bags certainly made life difficult for the queue of cyclists looking to overtake. Graeme Obree eat your heart out.
I understand he is looking to create a homemade aero-helmet in time for the next round in a fortnight. A word of advice for anyone with a pet armadillo living in the Greater Princes Gate area, best keep them in for a couple of weeks.
Last night was fantastic, bloody well done everyone who took part. I’m really looking forward to the next round.
June 6, 2013 at 8:34 pm #25921Roger
MemberMock my tri bars by all means but I believe they helped me to within 5 seconds of the man mountain and Dynamos TT champion Clover….I’ve thought of another method of accumulating points…if we’ve lured Nick Brown into membership..surely can we utilise grant money to lure a brace of Colemans,maybe a Simon,a Cornish or a Lloyd? Which would be more expensive buying in talent or several sex change operations ( gender reassignment surgery for those who’d prefer precise medical terminology ) ?
June 6, 2013 at 8:52 pm #25922stevepedrocymru
MemberGreat effort to all! I had a prior engagement but will be there next time to do my best! Probably not the right place but who do I contact to get a club shirt?
Go Dynamos!!!
June 6, 2013 at 10:11 pm #25923ValleyMan
Member(With aplogies to Stato) If it is any consolation, Dynamos averaged 2.15 points per rider to only 2.09 by the Aces.
A very inciteful comment from Roger mind you on the way forward, but you did overlook the EPO and transfusion options. Will have a word with Kim and perhaps once Celia has finsihed tapering (to what excatly one is bound to ask) we will be in a better position to move up the rankings.
Shirts are avialable from Kenny at Fossa Sports
Keep up the creative writing Sweaty.
June 10, 2013 at 7:24 pm #25941NickB
MemberGlad you all enjoyed it so much. You don’t have to wait until the next inter-club, you can do any of the Wednesday night TT’s. Just turn up and pay your £3. The courses vary from week to week and meeting places/courses are on the velo website. Here is a list of the events:-
VELOS EVENTS 2013
Date
Day
Time
Distance
Event12/06/2013
Wednesday
19:00
10
Redberth19/06/2013
Wednesday
19:00
10
Neyland – INTERCLUB26/06/2013
Wednesday
19:00
15
Redberth03/07/2013
Wednesday
19:00
10
Neyland – INTERCLUB10/07/2013
Wednesday
19:00
15
Redberth17/07/2013
Wednesday
19:00
10
Bangeston20/07/2013
Saturday
07:00
10
Pembroke Dock – OPEN20/07/2013
Saturday
13:00
Hill climb
Milton – OPEN21/07/2013
Sunday
07:00
15
Redberth – OPEN24/07/2013
Wednesday
19:00
15
Redberth31/07/2013
Wednesday
19:00
10
Bangeston07/08/2013
Wednesday
19:00
10
Redberth14/08/2013
Wednesday
19:00
10
Bangeston21/08/2013
Wednesday
19:00
15
Redberth28/08/2013
Wednesday
19:00
10
Neyland04/09/2013
Wednesday
19:00
Hill climb
Milton11/09/2013
Wednesday
19:00
Hill climb
Milton18/09/2013
Wednesday
19:00
Hill climb
MiltonJune 10, 2013 at 7:25 pm #25942NickB
MemberSorry for the poor formatting, it didn’t look like this in the preview window.
June 10, 2013 at 7:52 pm #25944ValleyMan
MemberNick
Thanks. Do you have a link to somewhere that shows the actual routes? (the Milton Hill Climb needs no introduction….)
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