Audax "Givens"

[Martin]

it will always rain on any ride which does that stonkingly beautiful bit through the Forest of Dean

[red marley]

Reminded of this today after early season audaxing in cold wind.

You will inevitably feel the need for expulsion of nasal effluvia when riding into the wind. After blocking one nostril and blowing out through the other, you imagine you have left a neat snot-bullet on the ground behind you. The reality is that you have a shoulder covered in the stuff and a facial decoration somewhat reminiscent of this.

[Cudzoziemiec]

When uncertain which road to take at a junction, it's always the one going most steeply uphill.

This isn't Audax or even cycling specific.  I successfully used this method to find my way around Bristol as a student.

Jeez, is there anyone on this forum who has not, at some time in their life, been a student in Bristol? Anyway, in Bristol everywhere is at the top of a steep hill. Except for Cabot Tower, obviously.

[arvid]

Jeez, is there anyone on this forum who has not, at some time in their life, been a student in Bristol?

Yes. I'm pretty sure I have never been in Bristol.

[Hot Flatus]

I have

[SandyV]

Jeez, is there anyone on this forum who has not, at some time in their life, been a student in Bristol?

VeloYellow's PhD is from Bristol

_{And his daughter was born there}

[Cudzoziemiec]

More and more are coming out of the woodwork ether! 

[citoyen]

Back to audax givens...

That person who overtakes you just before the top of the climb is a timid descender and you will be trapped behind them all the way down the other side, thanks to lack of suitable passing places. By the time you reach the bottom, you will have no brake blocks left.

Mind you, I'm sure they also curse me for being such a slow climber. 

d.

[MSeries]

Back to audax givens...

That person who overtakes you just before the top of the climb is a timid descender and you will be trapped behind them all the way down the other side, thanks to lack of suitable passing places. By the time you reach the bottom, you will have no brake blocks left.

Mind you, I'm sure they also curse me for being such a slow climber. 

d.

It's why they try to be at the top first, so you can't drop them on the descent.

[L CC]

Reminded of this today after early season audaxing in cold wind.

You will inevitably feel the need for expulsion of nasal effluvia when riding into the wind. After blocking one nostril and blowing out through the other, you imagine you have left a neat snot-bullet on the ground behind you. The reality is that you have a shoulder covered in the stuff and a facial decoration somewhat reminiscent of this.

This is what I refer to as the slobbery dog look. Boy it's attractive.

[Hummers]

If you set out to do a faster time on <insert ride name> you did four years ago, riding a bike you pulled out of the council tip as opposed to your new more expensive steed,  then prepare yourself for disappointment.

H

[Redlight]

If you set out to do a faster time on <insert ride name> you did four years ago, riding a bike you pulled out of the council tip as opposed to your new more expensive steed,  then prepare yourself for disappointment.

H

But your new, more expensive personalised hand built carbon fibre steed will not make you any faster because you drank too much beer and ate too many chips over the winter months while it was being built.

[Bledlow]

Jeez, is there anyone on this forum who has not, at some time in their life, been a student in Bristol?

Yes. Never studied anything except the flavour of beer there. But I did share a bed with a former Bristol student for a few years. Does that count?

[Weirdy Biker]

The info is a lie.

[Mr Larrington]

The info is a lie.

If it's there at all.