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9 hours ago, Mark O said:

Ah the glory of making your bunch mates hurt, dropping people and ripping bunches to bits on a reliability ride of all things. Geezo it’s a club run not a race. If that’s the mindset,  you’d all be better going out solo or in pairs and dispense with the idea of a bunch altogether. Perhaps that’s the elephant in the room.
 Make the catch, sit the hell up, look around speak to the rider next to you and just enjoy the last few miles back to Miller Street. If it screws with your detailed training plan, one has a decision to make. 
So glad I now ride with guys who have a bit of respect for each other and leave their egos at home. Helps to reduce the heaviness too 🤪

Mark 

I am also glad you have found some new playmates , maybe bring them along for a ride . 

Some people do not understand why there is or was three bunches , so why should i determine the speed of a run in a group of faster and fitter riders, if you go out with the last group which will be the fast group you should go with the understanding it will be hard because it’s the fast group, obviously we haven’t done these due to covid but in normal circumstances if you went out with the scratch group it was hard and being dropped happened, if you didn’t want as hard a ride you went with the middle group, but even that split up if caught by the fast group, that happened in nearly all the reliability rides I have done. I will be out, if there is a middle bunch great if not I will hang on to the fast boys for as long as I can . Maybe those who’s memories are not so good should come out and ride , and that might jog their memory into remembering that it’s not a social ride in the scratch group never has been.

mind you I think the 30 milers would drop me just now  

4 hours ago, Gerard Deeley said:

If the opinion is against it we do not have to do it.  Hopefully the idea of keeping a bunch together is recognised, there is no glory in leaving your club mates behind.  

Of course the glory of riding with the fast guys is making someone hurt, so would you have this bunch riding until they catch a group up the road , and then stop riding? they are not going to sit up. So it will end up either with one big first group and a small fast group or a bigger fast group that will fracture. For me I am happy giving it a go but it’s unlikely that there will be a catch on the first one as it’s a bit short 

Hi 

Not so sure you won’t end up with three groups with the fast group splitting, bu proof is in the pudding 

Re standard times , think they would need updated considerably, but you still have the problem, nobody is actually racing, and all these are races so how do you get a non racing membership to take part in races ? Plus you still have to ask the 100 odd members what do they want, as you won’t get the answers on this forum , so you will then have to poll the individual members, that then has the added difficulty of designing the questions so they are not leading and that they give you the information required so you can then design and implement what they want 

You know the problem is the club is made up of loads of different groups ( not a bad thing ) which all go out in their own separate groups  and currently Traditional Sunday Club Runs and Time Trials are not really that important to the current membership . Maybe we should deliver something different and bin testing maybe do  Timed Gravel Rides ( not races) would save the committee some time and stop trying to get a non racing club racing . At the moment we have one racing track , maybe one racing road and at best 2 doing time trials , we have more riding gravel than riders racing . So maybe we should focus our time getting all the bunches back out on a Sunday , jus a thought  

Enjoy Tenerife, wrong time for me about 10 days to late.

No problem, it’s a bag , it’s a long storey but I got the bag for nothing , and thought I might use it this year 2022 for a trip but not doing it now, so won’t need it just phone me when you want to pick it up , 07799403080 , where in Spain is he going if he’s down near Murcia he can buy me a pint for the loan as going out end of Feb 

Len i have one you can use for a year 

Len

I have one you can borrow for a year 

Saturday could be better , however you still loose a chunk of riders that ride with the bogs , so maybe every second Saturday, But what do I care as second claim member I can’t ride in them 

1 hour ago, AlanT said:

You should have joined us billy. It was really easy pace, and you could have done some extra miles at the end.

Too cold 

Not going out staying in and playing on Zwift , love the Sunday runs 

Anybody else ? Let me know as I won’t go to club rooms if nobody’s going

1 hour ago, George said:

You going to Spain? You kept that quiet? 🥱 

Yes did I not mention it , if your quick you might be able to get a flight out 

Not wanting to cause an issue with the whole club run, but I plan to be going out about 10am for a run round the coast and back via west Kilbride will be a Zone 2 ride max for most , looking to get north of 100k , depending on weather as if pants it’s 100k inside plus I need to get some endurance before Spain 🇪🇸 

20 hours ago, Iain67 said:

hey dude, get radical and join the gravel gang😆 was good to see you on Sunday Billy. glad the recovery is going well

 

Can’t afford it as like Chung it would have to be Campagnolo elkar 

I am out on a road bike tomorrow, not quite hip enough to grow a beard and ride a gravel bike , but like zone 2 road rides, because I don’t have any more zones 

Working 🤬

15 hours ago, George said:

My entry has also rolled over. I’ll be going. 

Hope your doing the 227km as you can’t pop a flandarian Cherry with anything less than full distance 🚴🏽‍♂️🚴🏽‍♂️🚴🏽‍♂️ Special tip don’t follow P.MacD wheel unless you like having a close inspection of metallic objects . 
£90 for full distance is a bit steep though 

My tupence worth

Firstly , date clashes with Renfrew bunch so you loose maybe 3/4 possible riders, second these events should be open but low key CTT events , facilities some extra competitors , lastly link the events to help members compete at national/ regional competitions, so run some tens before the CTT national 10 / and same with 25 , find another flat course that’s not the west ferry , maybe use part off the 25

9 hours ago, thejanullrichdietplan said:

Good night of racing tonight. First race was a short scratch and i did nothing. 2nd race was a longer scratch and i went with 9 to go which seems to be a recurring theme of foolishness each week   Had a reasonable gap but got caught just before the bell. Next was points race, i got a couple of 4ths which wasn't good enough. I cant seem to sprint anymore. Last was a devil - the first one ive raced since pre-Covid and eliminated about half way. Anyway enjoyable night - unlike me the Jets are all going well at the moment!

At least you can unleash your feeble sprint , all I can do is keep my tubs inflated and clean my track bike.😂

7 hours ago, George said:

Except for those times you drove to the ferry or to race a TT. Another belting post from the Laird of Hot Air. 

It’s called sarcasm, you should try it 😁

Surly driving to go for a bike ride defeats the purpose of riding a bike , you wouldn’t get me driving to go and ride a bike 😀

I see nothing is posted so no run then ,