The Ouzo

Pre work active recovery

you seem to be a magnet for cars. Insurance must love you.

There are/is 1 or 2 gents that do this on our morning rides. I’m not a fan at all.

My spread sheet says, based on avg weekly mileage, I'll finish on 9380, but if we break that down to avg daily mileage it predicts 10649. (since I found out you can link a spreadsheet to intervals.icu I've been geeking at numbers a little bit)

Early morning ride with @Dexter-morgan and the group for the LBS. Did a few km extra to pip my total for the month over 900km. My biggest month ever.

that pic wont look as cool with a GS parked there.

Pre work solo ride

having wasted many hours on golf courses doing just that, I can assure you that this only ticks the box that says "i tried something different that was not a mall display" Golf days are piss ups and ego stroking days, you dont sell cars doing this.

I suspect CL is just getting the word out there so the community can be on the look out.

Have started joining the group from the LBS who like to ride at the crack of a sparrows fart in the morning. Done a few rides with them, still getting used to the dynamics, but it’s good fun.

That is them. Used to fatten up on Russian and Chips often when I worked in Kempton.

Sorry it’s Olympia cafe. Monument rd Kempton park

the motor industry has been having a tough time since Covid, and budgets are being cut everywhere. But if you want your brand to gain traction, sponsorships like this are the way to go. Suzuki has gotten it right over the last few years, sponsoring everything everywhere, and their sales show it. Well done Ford.

you should work in retail and see the requests you get. Things like "why arent you open on christmas day, I wanted buy my wife a car" or "can I come on sunday to see your cars" We forget that the people working at these places are human.

I call that a win

With Aspire installed v20.3 (I think thats the version I've got) is very buggy, crashes often.

I'm going to have to get this sorted before Winter, or maybe even before CTCT. Garmin reports it was around 10deg this morning. I took the 130 off of charge as I headed out the door, 1 hour in and it tells me battery low, I check and its on 20%. It did last until the end of the ride, but clearly its on its last legs.

Played a little with it last night, changed the skin to the Kodi look which I prefer. Also found how to stream live TV, watch a few minutes of Formula E. Still has a bit of lag here and there.

Following on from this, but completely off topic Check this out https://www.artofmanliness.com/style/shaving/how-to-shave-with-safety-razor/ I've been using a safety razor for 15 years now and its the best thing I ever did, none of these fancy razors from your article ever gave me a proper shave. To bring it back on topic, I guess its the equivalent of going single speed

Installed last night. It took a very long time. Also seems very sluggish, but it may still be doing its thing in the background because of the fresh install. I didnt play to much because 3/4 of the way through the install the wife came through to watch TV, so I got it to the point where we could stream one of the series we've been watching and left it at that. Will play some more tonight.

This is the first in a while that I'm looking at this thread on my laptop at home, youtube is blocked at work. I have not opened the clip, but based on the title screenshot, is it bad that I can tell you that she is standing infront of Olympic Cafe in Kempton Park ?

I highly doubt this is a big reason for the decline in numbers, it may factor in an extremely small percentage of reasons.

Mine is through work, its tailor made for our company, but unfortunately only offers 2 very limited options, which quite frankly are rubbish.

ah yes, Crew is the one I'm using right now.

never felt like this was a problem, have had the odd small group coming through on their second lap telling people to keep left, but nothing that bothered me, The one that did bother me was not even a single alphabet rider, he was from the soup mix at the back. Was 2017, riding with my dad. We were keeping far left up Chappies, this chop comes past us shouting keep left. Only to pull over around the next bend and then repeat a little further up.