Palace 19/6

[Andrew G]

I'm a no show. I have to decide before work if I'm racing and looking at the forcast it says thundery showers in the afternoon/evening. . Bugger, bet it's sunny now as well!

[kieran]

met office:

[quote]It'll be a dry start but localised heavy thundery showers will develop later in the day, with some torrential downpours possible. Some bright spells in between times though. Maximum temperature 24 °C.

[Andrew G]

Bright sunshine at the moment, but I've got to fit a new car tyre tonight anyway.

[Stu Merckx Man]

i wont be there tonight....

i was expecting it to be chucking down so i went for a training ride instead. so knowing my luck it will probably be beautiful this evening

[Andrew G]

[quote="seanieh.NearlyNewCondor©"]Will you, won't you.

The tension is killing me!

[Andrew G]

No Sean Saturday. John C "Super 25s" and co, plus poss other speed groups. There and back in time for the Nocturne.
Expect you've got a bit of DIY and decorating to get done in the near future.
Hope the Addiscombe posse (it's not just George is it?) kick bottom in the market.

[Sylv]

The view from Palace 15" into the race tonight

[img]http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/departments/PublicWorks/CapitalProjects/Projects/pictures/8056pic1_06.jpg[/img]

No need to say race was curtailed. Crash at the back of 3/4 just before but thankfully no ACC (Kieran, Adam, Simon, Richard, myself and Jon in E/1/2) hurt.

[kieran]

just checked, we managed to get in 8 laps before the race was called off, pity as a nice sized field ~ 45 riders in the 3/4th cat. Nice cycle home, not. Naturally when I got home the rain stopped

[-Adam-]

Well how frustrating was that!?

My first race back after my crash and i only got 15mins in, for a tenner! Oh well, so i actually felt ok fitness wise, maybe not so good on the bike handling though. Confidence noticably lower compared with pre-crash Adam. Oh well, it will come.

As a result for the first 7 laps i was moving towards the front, but was noticing that the track was getting greasier. As a result i decided to take it easy and let myself drift towards the back of the race. Low and vehold one lap later the crash happened on the bottom bend. If i had have been two bike further forwards i would have been down, again.

Somebody somewhere was looking down on me with a smile last night!

Anyways, the heavens then preceded to completely open. That was that, i was going to stop anyway after the crash (as im off on holidays on saturday and didn't fancy spending a week in the alps with a broken collar bone!) but so did everybody else.

Number in, back to the car. Where i sat in the boot of my car getting changed. So first race for 3 weeks and what do i forget, a bloody towel! So there i was using the the collection of slightly dirty golf towels i use as rags to protect my bike in the car to dry myself off!

Anyhow, Mainly just frustrated that it will be another two weeks until i race again, meaning a total of 5 1/2 weeks out of racing. Not good. Im hoping for a real late season charge now!!!

[Sylv]

Yes it's a shame, the rain would have made it even more exciting (but not so good when people come off in front of you) and slowed down the pace a bit which can't be bad! I think there was a bit too much of it though - riding down Crystal Palace hill in the worst of the storm afterwards was a bit scary, as even with the alloy rims I had virtually no brakes and there is a traffic light halfway down - thankfully it went green just as I approached - otherwise I would've had to resort to emergency braking measures (ie feet on the ground)!

Don't want to think what riding down the steep Welsh slopes would be in that weather.

[Andrew G]

Getting up the hill would have been even harder than normal riding against a river.

[Stu Merckx Man]

well it looks like my gamble payed off... i got a nice sunny ride on merckxtilda

[-Adam-]

[quote="Stu Merckx Man"]well it looks like my gamble payed off... i got a nice sunny ride on merckxtilda