Today's Ride

[KayOs]

Some road and track
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Those are some strange looking Leopards, sure they're alright?

 

[fennec]

Waiting for trains
Work commute, 13 mile round trip every day

 

[al-onestare]

Chilly feeling 10 degrees, 10-12 steady E breeze. High broken cloud. Not quite as epic sunrise as yesterday but still pretty, pretty, pretty good

Behind me:

 

[2manyoranges]

Today - no ride - work
Yesterday - no ride - work
Monday - no ride - work

Bollocks

 

[W7Ford]

Not a very exciting one, but important for me. A few weeks back i came pretty close to losing a finger in a power tool accident, so I've been unable to ride post op. Stitches are now out so I ventured out on a gentle circuit. All went fine, but uphills where you naturally pull on the bars were a bit tricky.

 

[2manyoranges]

Aargh - home accident or work accident?

I had a friend with half a thumb. Or half a thumb off, depending on glass half full etc. He would not say how he did it. Then one day he opened up.

‘Lost it when I was a safety officer doing a demonstration. Vertical centre turn lathe. About two hundred very thin slices. Not something you could sew back together. Finding the pieces and then getting them in the right order would have been tricky…’

 

[W7Ford]

Aargh - home accident or work accident?

Home, I got careless with a router table. I'm very grateful to those that sorted it out for me. I winced at your friends story!

 

[2manyoranges]

Home, I got careless with a router table. I'm very grateful to those that sorted it out for me. I winced at your friends story!

Hope full function is returning …

 

[2manyoranges]

Hope full function is returning …

I’ve got another one from the same team as the guy with the half-thumb. Another member had a scar running down from his right eyebrow to his chin. A wide scar. One of those scars which look like it was obtained from the use of a razor in a bar fight in Glasgow. After a week or so of the team working together, we were in a bar and I decided to say ‘how did you get that? It looks like one from a razor cut in a Glasgow bar..’. He grinned and said ‘funny you should say that…I got it from a razor in Glasgow during a bar fight…’.

He was an innocent victim, very late at night, a very crowded, dark and very loud bar and everyone well lubricated. Suddenly something went up either side of him, a number of people suddenly up and fighting and he was just in the middle. He thought someone passing had pushed him in the jaw and simply made sure he leaned forward and out of the fight…only to have one of the two women he was with look at him, scream, and faint. He genuinely wondered what was going on in the mayhem only for the other woman to say ‘my god half your face is off…’ and he then saw all the blood streaming out…the cut had been so clean that he had felt pressure from the cut but no pain .. no idea that he had been cut, or so seriously. But it was quite a sewing job for the A+E medics….

Anyway…back to Today’s Ride….

 

[db95]

Late posting yesterday's ride since eating bacon sarnies and watching only fools and horses took precedence over uploading to imgur when I got home Quick early morning lap, sun made an appearance along with some pretty terrible headwinds.

Had been getting some on/off wrist pain the last week or so which I figured was probably due to the stem being very short/tall at 50mm/30 deg, swapped it for a Cube stem which I believe is 75mm/6 deg then went and put 60km on it. Felt a lot better but I feel like I'd benefit from something slightly longer/taller. Hit my favourite route which is the Hart to Haswell line on NCR1 which was looking very autumnal.