fridays ride

[Rob]

9 30, butlers, join tim liquigas and me...for a gentle spin

[jon avery]

Sorry but some of us have to work! Rob ,Tim and a gentle spin don't seem to go hand in hand.

[Rob]

a story

me and tim ventured out, down to couldson, over farthing downs, up whytleafe, straight across caterham, and up succombs.....although, i didnt actually make it up.

This is the first time ever, i havent been able to ride up an incline!!!

if any of you know succombs, youll know that at the top, it gets very steep, and bends left.....well, i entered this section, and my brute force(yeah right) snapped my dura ace chain(only like 4 months old)

so i free wheeled down, and held onto tims seat post as he towed me back to butlers for emergency assistance.

was quite funny, every so often i would freewheel....you have to imagine, im in the most aero position ever, freewheeling, at like 5 miles an hour!

i went past this cafe, and it was full of builders, as i went past they were mid way to eating their egg sarnies, and just staring at me, like wtf is that weirdo doing! stupid spandex wearing queer! HAHAHA.......was a very moment!!! guess you had to be there!


and its still so coldddddd

[stevefunkster]

rob i would gladly have paid good money to see that, aero position at 5mph, that would have meant i could chalk up my second sprint win before you leave for USA, instead i have to settle with about 163/1 in your favour which is not good(for me at least) leave the losses in uk and all the wins for you new adventure.....

[sylv]

Caterham, was is that 27% hill? I rode up there the first time the other week, it was mental. Steepest I've ever been on road. Out of the saddle in lowest gear I was virtually at a standstill, my front wheel was getting twitchy and back wheel was spinning out. The road was a bit wet, a Jaguar went past, its drive wheels were spinning too!

[sylv]

Not quite 38%, but hey!

[img]http://www.bikereader.com/BR%20pics/hillpics/RABS4a.jpg[/img]

A street in a town in New Zealand that was mapped by people in the UK who didn't have a contour map!

http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/ ... hills.html

[sylv]

More pics

[img]http://ianandmanda.typepad.com/photos/oddities/baldwin_street_dunedin.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=111406&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=bdc40258ce375735e79adfe40a2c150a[/img]

[url]http://scasagrande.tripod.com/NZ3b/Baldwin.jpg[/url]

[img]http://wso.williams.edu/~ksee/nz/pics/BaldwinStreetIsSteep1.jpg[/img]