FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast - Southend on Sea 7th November

[rb58]

May join in but will drop back if I can't keep the Pace ....know the route and even the Grays One-Way system...as I grew up there ..... Not a Claim to Fame !!!!

Aha! At last, someone who knows the Grays One Way system. You have to ride back with us @Nigel182 if only to laugh when @ianrauk tries to cycle the wrong way up the A13 dual carriageway at Five Bells, closely followed by getting lost in Grays. Oh, the fun we've had on that one!!

 

[Dogtrousers]

I may tag along and then peel off somewhere and head for the Tilbury ferry (if it still exists, I haven't checked).

 

[rb58]

I may tag along and then peel off somewhere and head for the Tilbury ferry (if it still exists, I haven't checked).

It still exists, and is jolly good fun.

 

[ianrauk]

Aha! At last, someone who knows the Grays One Way system. You have to ride back with us @Nigel182 if only to laugh when @ianrauk tries to cycle the wrong way up the A13 dual carriageway at Five Bells, closely followed by getting lost in Grays. Oh, the fun we've had on that one!!

I will have you know that the last 4 times, both systems have been negotiated in the correct manner.. so put that in your pipe...;-)

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I may tag along and then peel off somewhere and head for the Tilbury ferry (if it still exists, I haven't checked).

About £2.50 for the crossing, seemed to run fairly frequently, was a bit of a sod to find last time, doesn't run on Sundays (not an issue here, but worth knowing...)

 

[rb58]

About £2.50 for the crossing, seemed to run fairly frequently, was a bit of a sod to find last time, doesn't run on Sundays (not an issue here, but worth knowing...)

Timetable

 

[Quagga]

Given the plan for my annual FNRttC ride attendance in May/June was ruined by Mr Putin's invasion of Crimea and that it would be entirely wrong to let a year pass without attending, please count me in.
E-mail will be sent shortly, although obviously should there be sightings of Russian tanks and little green men on the East coast, I may back out accordingly

 

[StuartG]

.. although obviously should there be sightings of Russian tanks and little green men on the East coast, I may back out accordingly

Wimp.

 

[hatler]

Yes please ! e-mail sent.

My first non-Brighton FNRttC. Ooo errr.

 

[Quagga]

Wimp.

I know, but i've got a new bike and I don't want shrapnel marks on the decals

 

[ttcycle]

Will be at the Rose cafe at 9 for the SMRbtL.

 

[ianmac62]

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sadd...8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,18,20,22,23&t=m&z=11

Like it? I love it! For personal reasons going back thirty-five to forty years. If I'm in a dream as we pedal along Laindon High Road ...

 

[StuartG]

Surely Northampton High street is even more gripping?

 

[ianrauk]

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Shame you missing out on Middlemead alongside Hanningfield Reservoir. It's a lovely bit of cycling road and at night I can imagine awesome even .

 

[ianmac62]

Surely Northampton High street is even more gripping?

Abington Steet - Northampton's High Street - has just been *de-pedestrianised*. I kid you not.