Rural leisure jollys
This is a adapatation of the game played by commuters on bikeradar website silly commuting racing
Read the below link before reading on or you probably won't get it.
http://www.bikeradar.com/fitness/article/bikeradars-guide-to-silly-commuting-racing-29908
As I do not live in a metropolitan and commuting to work is not an option (shift work sucks)
I have adapted the game to fit a more "rural" style because lets face it nothing the *rural community love more than a good hunt!
*Rural in this case meaning anyone not living in london or simmilar citys
The game has much of the base rules of the city game, there is still a food chain system and much of the same rules apply.
Name of the game is still to gain rep and all but not during a commute
You must pick your steed and work out your starting points as per the original game changing steed will reset points
You will earn points and loose points in the same way as the original game
(overtaking someone who is higher on food chain, losing for someone below you)
You will have 45 minuite "safari" session where you must go out, and scalp (overtake,drop) as many as possible, any scalps done after 45min do not count, you must look like you are out and about on a leisurely jolly ( the bank holiday family sort), so that still means no looking like your going to blow an extra hole while trying to scalp someone.
There is no commute just 45 minuites of hunting for your trophy's.
There is no team work, no pairing up it is every man for himself, you can all go out as a group and go seperate ways or do it solo (you're sick minds), poaching each others trophy's is fair game (life's not fair), but stalking other competitors isn't allowed.
Rules and points that apply as below:
The food chain: where do you come in the system?
1: Scooters
2: Roadies with shaved legs*
3: Proper rapid singlespeeds (real men, messengers, tarty shiny fixies)*
4: Roadies with hairy legs*
5: Faux singlespeeds (fakengers, dirty/functional bikes, silly eggbeater gears)*
6: Touring bikes (mudguards)*
7: Fast hybrids*
8: MTBs on skinnies*
9: MTBs on knobblies
10: Bromptons/collapsing bikes
11: MTB full-sus on knobblies
12: Shoppers
13: Shoppers with wicker baskets (or picnic baskets)
14: Electric bikes
*Pedal Adjustment:
Flats: +1. Toe Clips: 0. Clipless/SPDs: -1
Bonus points:
Scalped by a tandem - 10 points
crashing and taking out an entire peloton - 40 points ( plus a go home penalty)
Scalping scooters + 10
Taken away to A&E - 30 ( you crazy fool)
Capturing your scalps on video an extra 1 point per scalp
The Rules: Rural leisure jollys
No dangerous manoeuvres. Don’t be a danger to others or yourself. Falling off causes pain to you and others around you, and you lose yer points!
Don’t ride like a c*ck, we’re all just having fun!
No passing at lights/ junction/crossings. All passing on open roads only.
Filtering in traffic is null and void (you know if you’ve dropped someone fairly, and haven’t turned off afterwards)
Pavement passes – either you or the target is void
Show no pain – unless your face is just like that
Copy and paste was nessesary because I wanted the foundations of the game the same and it should still be safe and not a death ride.
Let me know how you get on leave your name score and county!
have fun
S11
Sunday 8 May 2011
Wednesday 4 May 2011
Sportive
OK
It is now about 2 week until I embark on my sportive I signed up for over 3 months ago, I will be taking part in the southern sportive around the south downs on the 15th of may http://www.southernsportive.com/index.php?go=sunday&page=event&eventid=110515
Now this means I will be doing 133km ( around 88 miles I think) in 5-6 hours, I hope I do it in around 5 hours 20 but seen as the most distance I have covered before is 50 miles on my work MTB and 30 or so miles on my road bike I am now a bit worried.
I signed up for it because I wanted a target and an event to try and not wanting to jump into racing a sportive sounded good, so I found a local one and signed up. I had three choices of distance Short, medium and full, I am the sort of person who doesn't do things in half measures I didn't want to turn up 23 years of age on a full carbon road bike and do a short distance in my head I was thinking "Man the F**K up!" and so chose full distance thinking I was just going to man up and power through.
So here I am 3 weeks of road bike experience before doing a long distance ride around a pretty hilly area...
Nice
but I will be going and I will finish but so far that's as far as my targets have gone, to finish and enjoy it.
Think I will go buy some cream and an ice pack now so I can help the doctor find my buttocks after 5 hours..
S11
It is now about 2 week until I embark on my sportive I signed up for over 3 months ago, I will be taking part in the southern sportive around the south downs on the 15th of may http://www.southernsportive.com/index.php?go=sunday&page=event&eventid=110515
Now this means I will be doing 133km ( around 88 miles I think) in 5-6 hours, I hope I do it in around 5 hours 20 but seen as the most distance I have covered before is 50 miles on my work MTB and 30 or so miles on my road bike I am now a bit worried.
I signed up for it because I wanted a target and an event to try and not wanting to jump into racing a sportive sounded good, so I found a local one and signed up. I had three choices of distance Short, medium and full, I am the sort of person who doesn't do things in half measures I didn't want to turn up 23 years of age on a full carbon road bike and do a short distance in my head I was thinking "Man the F**K up!" and so chose full distance thinking I was just going to man up and power through.
So here I am 3 weeks of road bike experience before doing a long distance ride around a pretty hilly area...
Nice
but I will be going and I will finish but so far that's as far as my targets have gone, to finish and enjoy it.
Think I will go buy some cream and an ice pack now so I can help the doctor find my buttocks after 5 hours..
S11
Tuesday 3 May 2011
First road bike
So!
As mentioned in last post being new on Monday last week I picked up my first ever road bike and have to say fell in love straight away.
I looked at so many options from steel frames to titanium frames, giants, treks , kenesis , cube , felt.
This list would go on forever, it was difficult deciding as my ultimate aim was something I could train and race on with the ultimate goal of racing competitively, I asked peoples opinions on each bike and of course got a different answer every time.
I came ever so close to buying a trek 1.5 ( or similar) but in the end decided that if I was going to splash out on a road bike I wanted something that wowed me not just something that was borderline, I thought to myself that if I got something I found did the job but amazingly dull I would probably take less of a liking to the sport, maybe this is false but I figured it was my bike my money and I didn't want to mess around.
In the end I had it narrowed down to a wilier izoard xp or a trek 1.5, two price ranges but also two very different bikes as I found out.
I tested the Trek and found it to be a good ride overall, pretty nippy but something didn't feel right about the geometry for myself, I asked to see the wilier while still not knowing what it was or how it looked all I had was a price tag.
I was shown around to the wilier and at first thought I was taken to the wrong bike I double checked the price tag and thought to myself " this looks like it should be twice the price", it looked the real buisness I mean I imagined what a good looking road bike was and this was it for me.
I test rode it and it didn't take long to fall in love, it was quick, light, responsive and well fast before this I was used to my off road Trek MTB which was light and nippy but I found myself hitting speeds that terrified me going down hill as I looked at the V-brakes praying they worked better than they looked.
On returning to the bike shop I explained that the geometry felt a lot better, I am a tall guy coming in at around 6 "2 but most of which is torso, for my height I don't seem to have particularly long legs, this I was advised was benefit of the Italian bikes that they were a different fit to say the Giants and such.
I was sold put my deposit down and counted down the days until I was able to collect it.
So it has been about a week since I picked it up and it still hasn't disappointed, I have been using a free app on my phone to track my miles over this week and speeds ( when it doesn't mess up), it uploads the data to a website at www.endomondo.com and people can see my profile and my rides, it's not bad for a free app tho does have issues sometimes such as once clocking me doing 734MPH which while my bike is light and fast I did not achieve sadly.
You can see my profile here http://www.endomondo.com/profile/719711 however any rides done before 25/04/2011 are not part of my new cycling and are just me goofing around on my MTB.
I don't know if the rides i'm doing are good but at the moment i'm more worried about getting miles under my belt than having super fast speedy times.
S11
As mentioned in last post being new on Monday last week I picked up my first ever road bike and have to say fell in love straight away.
I looked at so many options from steel frames to titanium frames, giants, treks , kenesis , cube , felt.
This list would go on forever, it was difficult deciding as my ultimate aim was something I could train and race on with the ultimate goal of racing competitively, I asked peoples opinions on each bike and of course got a different answer every time.
I came ever so close to buying a trek 1.5 ( or similar) but in the end decided that if I was going to splash out on a road bike I wanted something that wowed me not just something that was borderline, I thought to myself that if I got something I found did the job but amazingly dull I would probably take less of a liking to the sport, maybe this is false but I figured it was my bike my money and I didn't want to mess around.
In the end I had it narrowed down to a wilier izoard xp or a trek 1.5, two price ranges but also two very different bikes as I found out.
I tested the Trek and found it to be a good ride overall, pretty nippy but something didn't feel right about the geometry for myself, I asked to see the wilier while still not knowing what it was or how it looked all I had was a price tag.
I was shown around to the wilier and at first thought I was taken to the wrong bike I double checked the price tag and thought to myself " this looks like it should be twice the price", it looked the real buisness I mean I imagined what a good looking road bike was and this was it for me.
I test rode it and it didn't take long to fall in love, it was quick, light, responsive and well fast before this I was used to my off road Trek MTB which was light and nippy but I found myself hitting speeds that terrified me going down hill as I looked at the V-brakes praying they worked better than they looked.
On returning to the bike shop I explained that the geometry felt a lot better, I am a tall guy coming in at around 6 "2 but most of which is torso, for my height I don't seem to have particularly long legs, this I was advised was benefit of the Italian bikes that they were a different fit to say the Giants and such.
I was sold put my deposit down and counted down the days until I was able to collect it.
So it has been about a week since I picked it up and it still hasn't disappointed, I have been using a free app on my phone to track my miles over this week and speeds ( when it doesn't mess up), it uploads the data to a website at www.endomondo.com and people can see my profile and my rides, it's not bad for a free app tho does have issues sometimes such as once clocking me doing 734MPH which while my bike is light and fast I did not achieve sadly.
You can see my profile here http://www.endomondo.com/profile/719711 however any rides done before 25/04/2011 are not part of my new cycling and are just me goofing around on my MTB.
I don't know if the rides i'm doing are good but at the moment i'm more worried about getting miles under my belt than having super fast speedy times.
S11
Monday 2 May 2011
The first!
Hello!
So this is my new blog, never done a blog before so the quality is going to be poor but purpose of this blog is so I and anyone who is interested can see my cycling development from a novice to where ever it takes me!
I will set some goals for this year (2011) but will add them in another blog when I have decided what they exactly are.
From the start i'm 23 years old and live in south of England and work full time, no kids live by myself so plenty of time spare for training, instead of the usual hours on the xbox!
My level of fitness I would say is at best weak to average I ride a lot as part of my job on a mountain bike but in no way is it training more just drifting around.
I have a slim build but am pretty tall coming in at about 6"2, I have asthma and have done since birth it is controlled but I still need my inhaler, I also have dyslexia but this only effects my blog writing skills and no excuse for poor cycling performance sadly!
Most of my info I get is from internet from good sites like www.bikeradar.com and http://www.roadcyclinguk.com/
I don't know what others think of the sites but I have found them pretty useful.
with blogs to come I will talk about of course my bike and choosing it, why I have taken the sport up and just a general trail of my thoughts around the sport and my progression.
Hope you enjoy!!!!!!
S11
So this is my new blog, never done a blog before so the quality is going to be poor but purpose of this blog is so I and anyone who is interested can see my cycling development from a novice to where ever it takes me!
I will set some goals for this year (2011) but will add them in another blog when I have decided what they exactly are.
From the start i'm 23 years old and live in south of England and work full time, no kids live by myself so plenty of time spare for training, instead of the usual hours on the xbox!
My level of fitness I would say is at best weak to average I ride a lot as part of my job on a mountain bike but in no way is it training more just drifting around.
I have a slim build but am pretty tall coming in at about 6"2, I have asthma and have done since birth it is controlled but I still need my inhaler, I also have dyslexia but this only effects my blog writing skills and no excuse for poor cycling performance sadly!
Most of my info I get is from internet from good sites like www.bikeradar.com and http://www.roadcyclinguk.com/
I don't know what others think of the sites but I have found them pretty useful.
with blogs to come I will talk about of course my bike and choosing it, why I have taken the sport up and just a general trail of my thoughts around the sport and my progression.
Hope you enjoy!!!!!!
S11
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