Titter ... more of!

Which team rider turned up at a club run on his winter bike complete with lights, mudguards, saddle bag and disc wheel? If he’s to be believed, he was told to test the new product to destruction by PX Boss Dave Loughran. Mr Loughran is not a popular chappy with the club-folk that found the going a bit on the fast side on that particular club run.

Which (very) fast 10 miler emailed Testing Times to ask if we could run an article on him? Which equally fast 10 miler (ok...it’s the same one) was told to write the article himself and we’d print it? Which 10 miler obviously can’t spel ... becos we havn’t hurd from him sinc! We’ll print it if you write it :-)

Anybody else been finding the recent cold snap a bit hard to handle? After a pretty low key 2009, Ian Cammish (now a full-time time triallist believed to be stacking in 700 miles a week + evening weight training sessions to boot) had to pull out his turbo trainer when heavy snow put a stop to his relentless mile-eating. Take 1 ... 5 minutes warm up. Then, two minutes into the hard 10 mile session and the Turbo’s ‘L’ bolt breaks. DNF!
Take 2 ... change of Turbo to older Tacx version. No need for warm up ... still sweating with rage having to DNF first time around ... switch bikes etc. Second 10 mile session gets underway. Less than a mile later it suddenly gets very hard going. A quick look down suggests something’s amiss. Broken rear hub axle. DNF ... number two.
It’s not meant to be.
Showered ... then sat down to drown his sorrows with a pint of Vodka and Orange with some Christmas chocs.
In the meantime, Testing Times’ correspondent from Kent sends him this ...

Which Planet X sponsored rider was summoned to help out man the switchboards in the lead up to Christmas and got overly excited talking saddles and shapes of bottoms with very lovely lady customers?

Which team rider out-psyches his team-mates by offering them lifts to events then secretly turns their heated seating up to gas mark 10 before turning the conversation round to the fever that’s recently been hitting the bunch?

1 January 2009