Wobblers
Euthermic
- Location
- Minkowski Space
Pah! I was back on the bike an hour after cracking my ribs. Okay, so I was doped up to the eyeballs on ibuprofen and didn't even realise for 8 hours, but even so...
FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast - Southend-on-Sea May 4th
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Pah! I was back on the bike an hour after cracking my ribs. Okay, so I was doped up to the eyeballs on ibuprofen and didn't even realise for 8 hours, but even so...
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
I'm on 500co-codamal and I have to say it's not working!! I will do this ride though. As well as whisky, if any doctors I know could bring adrenalin or morphine???
[Edit I actually rode home to Welling on the day]
ceepeebee
Veteran
- Location
- Some imaginary Flanders
I'll bring you one of my last 2 strong naproxen Martin - might not want to have anything else medicinal though.....
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Should be a nice aroma throughout the ride then.1823400 said:
Greetings FNRttCpeeps!
Welcome to the Southend ride, the gentlest of all our rides, through some of the sweeter parts of England’s most under-rated county, Essex.
For those of you who’ve not done the ride before, this is a rough outline......
We meet at Hyde Park Corner – in the middle of the roundabout, underneath the big ugly arch thing – no later than half past eleven. Those of you coming through Victoria Station will spot the usual crowd of reprobates hanging around outside platform 12 from about eleven o’clock onwards. If any of you are coming in to another London terminus and would like company on the ride to the start, please let me know - and, if any of you are coming in to Liverpool Street and would like to accompany a new rider to Hyde Park Corner, do please get back to me.
When you arrive at the start do please get yourself ticked off the list straight away. There’ll be a safety talk at about a quarter to twelve. Please do join in.
We set off at the stroke of midnight. We go down to Westminster Bridge, along the Embankment, past the London Eye and then through Aldgate and on to the Mile End Road which takes us to the Bow Flyover and beyond. There’s a fair bit of East London to get across, but the traffic will be light after Stratford, and next to nothing by the time we get to Romford.
There are some ups and downs at Harold Hill, and the long grind up to the centre of Brentwood takes us to the high point of the ride – about 400 feet above sea level. There’s a long descent before we head across open country. This, for some of you, will be the first taste of riding in a group down dark roads – keep an eye on what’s happening ahead of you, pass the signals back to those behind you, and don’t neglect to take in the wonder of the night sky...
We stop for refreshments at Stock Village Hall, where the excellent Tully Family will lay on the most wonderful spread. The takings go straight to prostate cancer charities.
We go on, passing the Stock Windmill, and down the wonder that is Lower Stock Road. We cross the A130 and head south along the old turnpike toward Battlesbridge, cross the River Crouch and then up and over Rayleigh, before stopping to take in the view of the estuary from Tattershall Gardens. It’s but a short schlep to Old Leigh and along the seafront to Southend. If you’re tarrying in Southend do please bring a lock.
Chris will be opening up the Rose Restaurant at about seven o’clock, and we’ll arrive soon after. Most people stay for the breakfast which he and his grand-daughters serve rapidly and economically. A few hardened road riders will ride back to London, but most of us will take the train back to The Great Wen. I’ve heard tell of drunken post-ride excesses at trendy Midtown cyclocafe Look Mum No Hands, but I’ve no memory of these events whatsoever.
If you’re returning to London by rail then there are trains from Southend Central to Fenchurch Street at 14, 29, 44 and 59 which take just under the hour, plus two additional trains at 20 and 50 that go via Tilbury and take a about an hour and a quarter. The fare for both routes is a tenner, although you can halve that with a Groupsave. They will sell you travelcards on a Groupsave. Please walk through the pedestrianised part of the shopping centre to the station – it’s only a couple of hundred yards. There are three trains an hour from Southend Victoria at 10, 30 and 50, taking just over an hour to Liverpool Street and costing more. Southend Victoria is on the far side of a hair-raising roundabout (for those of you with hair) so take care!
That’s about it – apart from the Olympics, the bit where the road is underwater, the smallest council house in Britain and the wind in the rigging of a thousand small boats…..I’ll send another e-mail or two next week when the weather forecasts start coming in.
All the best
Simon
ps. One small thing. Those of you planning on riding to Southend on a Brompton will be pleased to hear that Mary, our first ever Bromptoniste is making a welcome return. She tells me that she did not, in fact, start the handbag on the handlebars convention, but please not that it is an FNRttC rule that all Brompton riders must carry a handlebag on their handlebars. I'm hoping to borrow a ponyskin jobby......
Welcome to the Southend ride, the gentlest of all our rides, through some of the sweeter parts of England’s most under-rated county, Essex.
For those of you who’ve not done the ride before, this is a rough outline......
We meet at Hyde Park Corner – in the middle of the roundabout, underneath the big ugly arch thing – no later than half past eleven. Those of you coming through Victoria Station will spot the usual crowd of reprobates hanging around outside platform 12 from about eleven o’clock onwards. If any of you are coming in to another London terminus and would like company on the ride to the start, please let me know - and, if any of you are coming in to Liverpool Street and would like to accompany a new rider to Hyde Park Corner, do please get back to me.
When you arrive at the start do please get yourself ticked off the list straight away. There’ll be a safety talk at about a quarter to twelve. Please do join in.
We set off at the stroke of midnight. We go down to Westminster Bridge, along the Embankment, past the London Eye and then through Aldgate and on to the Mile End Road which takes us to the Bow Flyover and beyond. There’s a fair bit of East London to get across, but the traffic will be light after Stratford, and next to nothing by the time we get to Romford.
There are some ups and downs at Harold Hill, and the long grind up to the centre of Brentwood takes us to the high point of the ride – about 400 feet above sea level. There’s a long descent before we head across open country. This, for some of you, will be the first taste of riding in a group down dark roads – keep an eye on what’s happening ahead of you, pass the signals back to those behind you, and don’t neglect to take in the wonder of the night sky...
We stop for refreshments at Stock Village Hall, where the excellent Tully Family will lay on the most wonderful spread. The takings go straight to prostate cancer charities.
We go on, passing the Stock Windmill, and down the wonder that is Lower Stock Road. We cross the A130 and head south along the old turnpike toward Battlesbridge, cross the River Crouch and then up and over Rayleigh, before stopping to take in the view of the estuary from Tattershall Gardens. It’s but a short schlep to Old Leigh and along the seafront to Southend. If you’re tarrying in Southend do please bring a lock.
Chris will be opening up the Rose Restaurant at about seven o’clock, and we’ll arrive soon after. Most people stay for the breakfast which he and his grand-daughters serve rapidly and economically. A few hardened road riders will ride back to London, but most of us will take the train back to The Great Wen. I’ve heard tell of drunken post-ride excesses at trendy Midtown cyclocafe Look Mum No Hands, but I’ve no memory of these events whatsoever.
If you’re returning to London by rail then there are trains from Southend Central to Fenchurch Street at 14, 29, 44 and 59 which take just under the hour, plus two additional trains at 20 and 50 that go via Tilbury and take a about an hour and a quarter. The fare for both routes is a tenner, although you can halve that with a Groupsave. They will sell you travelcards on a Groupsave. Please walk through the pedestrianised part of the shopping centre to the station – it’s only a couple of hundred yards. There are three trains an hour from Southend Victoria at 10, 30 and 50, taking just over an hour to Liverpool Street and costing more. Southend Victoria is on the far side of a hair-raising roundabout (for those of you with hair) so take care!
That’s about it – apart from the Olympics, the bit where the road is underwater, the smallest council house in Britain and the wind in the rigging of a thousand small boats…..I’ll send another e-mail or two next week when the weather forecasts start coming in.
All the best
Simon
ps. One small thing. Those of you planning on riding to Southend on a Brompton will be pleased to hear that Mary, our first ever Bromptoniste is making a welcome return. She tells me that she did not, in fact, start the handbag on the handlebars convention, but please not that it is an FNRttC rule that all Brompton riders must carry a handlebag on their handlebars. I'm hoping to borrow a ponyskin jobby......
Becs
Veteran
- Location
- Old Hatfield (it's nice honest!)
Take ibuprofen in between the codamol doses. Your pain is mainly inflammatory in origin so you need something with more of an anti inflammatory action like ibuprofen (or naproxen, diclofenac etc). The combination of that and the paracetamol in the codamol will work together and should give greater pain relief. The codeine in the codamol will make your brain feel less pain but won't treat the cause, and it will make you constipated so it might be worth getting some lactulose/senna too!
redflightuk
Guru
- Location
- going round in circles
careful, Martin. She'll have you entered for the 2.30 at Towcester next!
are you saying that Hertfordshire is the most under-rated county in England?
I think he's just declining to supply the handbags...
redflightuk
Guru
- Location
- going round in circles
This corner is.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Ha ha ha! - he's sure got the long face and pricked ears...something like that anyway.
And constipated?
Fellow riders have always known he's full of sh'it' anyway, so this is a potentially hazardous event. (Bring an extra large rucksack in case Stu - it works wonders for the roses)
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
I take meloxicam for the inflammation bit.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Naproxen = way to go! Meloxicam is like headcam - just prolongs the agony. 
