Club Riding

[Downward]

Yes.

Well, choice between my Specialized Allez 16, and.....


and....


and....


Time to get a new bike, I think.....

Gluten ! Those Hills are steep with a double.
Might take the easy way out with the triple hybrid !

 

[BrumJim]

Gluten ! Those Hills are steep with a double.
Might take the easy way out with the triple hybrid !

I'll barley feel it with my powerful legs. I'll have to wheat at the top for you with a rye smile when you finally arrive.

 

[lifeson]

Joking I wouldn't say fit ! Furthest I have ridden a bike in 1 go is 13 miles !

Will you all be on Road bikes ?

I'll be on my (winter) road bike - Allez sport double

8 ish ??

Couldn't make it 08:30 at the new island at the A456 - Grange Hill intersection? (30mins will make all the difference to me)

Seriously tempted to join you. I need one big ride before I head off ski-ing at the end of this month, and this looks like as good an encouragement to push it as I need.

Same as Downward - 6 mile commute each way (12 miles a day). No one overtakes me, so I am no slouch, but there again, there aren't many bicycle commuters around - one "scalp" only last night (almost RLJer), and none at all the night before - they all turned off before I could reach them. Suspect, though, that I'm not as fit as Mr Downward, so will probably have to arrive by car.

Come along - more the merrier, although my missus thinks I shouldn't meet up with strangers off the internet

 

[Downward]

I'll be on my (winter) road bike - Allez sport double



Couldn't make it 08:30 at the new island at the A456 - Grange Hill intersection? (30mins will make all the difference to me)


Come along - more the merrier, although my missus thinks I shouldn't meet up with strangers off the internet

8.30am is fine.

Internet strangers ? Met my wife that way !!

 

[Downward]

Ok so if your both on your road bikes I'll have to dig mine out as long as it's dry.

 

[Downward]

So anyone feels like a Saturday morning pootle in the countryside.

8.30am
Grange Road Island (A456) Grange Road Side, Halesowen


http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...2.444364,-2.044637&spn=0.002034,0.010986&z=17


PM me to swap mobile numbers.

 

[Wobblers]

Hello.

Sounds like this is in my neck of the woods! It would be quite nice to learn some new routes. I'd quite like to join you if that's all right (though it does mean getting up a little earlier on a Saturday than I'm used to!).

Cheers,
A.

 

[lifeson]

Hello.

Sounds like this is in my neck of the woods! It would be quite nice to learn some new routes. I'd quite like to join you if that's all right (though it does mean getting up a little earlier on a Saturday than I'm used to!).

Cheers,
A.

You are more than welcome

 

[Downward]

Hello.

Sounds like this is in my neck of the woods! It would be quite nice to learn some new routes. I'd quite like to join you if that's all right (though it does mean getting up a little earlier on a Saturday than I'm used to!).

Cheers,
A.

Yeah drop me a PM.

Can't reply at work though as the software blocks the PM system for some reason.

 

[Wobblers]

Yeah drop me a PM.

Can't reply at work though as the software blocks the PM system for some reason.

You have PM.

 

[Headgardener]

Deal - Prefereably an early start on the weekend ??

As long as it's not as steep as Mucklow Hill !
Doing that everyday doesn't get any easier !

When my mum was in her early twenties she and a few friends, which included my dad and thier best man, went for a ride round that area and came down Mucklow Hill before heading home to Weoley Castle. Well mum decides to ride down the hill at a rapid rate of knots with the wind in her hair and all that. Problem was there were traffic lights at the bottom at that time (early 50's) which were against her and mum went straight through them, fortunately there was very little traffic about then, but Ivan (their best man) didn't half give her a b****cking afterwards.

 

[Downward]

When my mum was in her early twenties she and a few friends, which included my dad and thier best man, went for a ride round that area and came down Mucklow Hill before heading home to Weoley Castle. Well mum decides to ride down the hill at a rapid rate of knots with the wind in her hair and all that. Problem was there were traffic lights at the bottom at that time (early 50's) which were against her and mum went straight through them, fortunately there was very little traffic about then, but Ivan (their best man) didn't half give her a b****cking afterwards.

That's a fair old ride - Must be about 7 or 8 miles to Weoly castle from here.

 

[Downward]

Hi Hope everyone is back safely. Just got the warmth back in my feet, it was a bit chilly. Nice route though and got a good benchmark. Think we did 20.5 in about 1 hour 45 mins including a couple of monster hills Total ascents were about 1500 feet.

 

[BrumJim]

Back and on-line. Had a good time - paced it much better than when I am on my own. Was expecting the run to be a bit quicker, but at the slower place, I managed to crest all the hills without running out of steam part way up.

How were you on that final spurt along the dual carriageway? I put most of what I had left into it, only to find lifeson breezing past me!!

 

[Downward]

Back and on-line. Had a good time - paced it much better than when I am on my own. Was expecting the run to be a bit quicker, but at the slower place, I managed to crest all the hills without running out of steam part way up.

How were you on that final spurt along the dual carriageway? I put most of what I had left into it, only to find lifeson breezing past me!!

Yeah like I said it was 2 extreme hills with a nice easy ride inbetween.

Yeah I think I was doing about 23mph down that Dual carriageway knowing that I would find it difficult to find another 4 or 5 mph.

That'll teach you for pointing out his pot belly !!

I think I will start to go up through Romsley on the way to work some days, cut through Frankley down to Bartley Green into Harborne. I reckon that will be about 15 miles ish.

It's all a learning process and when your just 99.9% commuting all of the time you just fall into that rut. Aim for 2010 is to put in a lot more miles and get out at least twice a month on a minimum 25 mile run.