Miserable b*ggers

[Deleted member 35268]

I even waved at a little toddler on her bike, tough it may have been her dad on the chopper that got my attention

 

[Dec66]

Is that The Ride of the Falling Leaves?
If so, I have done it - a few years ago - very good it was too - pasta at the end at Herne Hill Velodrome?

That's the one. I've done it the last three years, each one in glorious sunshine, I don't know how they manage to fix the weather.

The longer route is flipping hard work, but you always feel "right, cracked it now" when you've go up Sundridge Hill (forgetting what's coming up just past Cudham).

 

[Blue Hills]

May have been the longer one I did.

Wasn't in the best of shape at the time and I remember thinking as I struggled up a particularly bad hill "Hell, I'm paying for this"

It was a very modest entry fee though and was a nice and very well run event - top marks to the Paragon for running it.

To tell the truth I once fancied buying their top (very good design by the standards of these things) and enquired about it - but turns out that it is not available to mere mortals - you have to be a full paid up member and go through an initiation rite involving lots of lube or something.

 

[Dec66]

There's some nasty climbs in there right enough, especially the never ending one going past Chartwell, just after you've done Toys Hill and dropped down. I felt like cr@p after doing that last time around, and knowing that Sundridge Hill was 10-15 mins away on the other side of Westerham.

I like Penge's kit better I'd join Penge CC if I didn't have commitments which stopped me going on club rides. I used to live over that way and I like their ethos.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I often see Paragon out and about. I've never tried saying hello to them, so I don't know what their response would be. I did get close-passed by them a while ago. An "on your right" would have been nice. But what really upset me was the speed that they were going. They were positively zooming up a nasty lumpy surfaced gradient that was sucking the life out of me. It shouldn't be allowed. I put a curse on them.

 

[Blue Hills]

Never heard of Penge CC - off to google check it's kit in a mo but maybe you are being ironic?

Clubs can be strangely protective of "outsider" wearing their kit.

I find it very odd.

What is the ethos of Penge?

Always meant to try to get out for a ride with Anerley - the world's oldest?

 

[Blue Hills]

I often see Paragon out and about. I've never tried saying hello to them, so I don't know what their response would be. I did get close-passed by them a while ago. An "on your right" would have been nice. But what really upset me was the speed that they were going. They were positively zooming up a nasty lumpy surfaced gradient that was sucking the life out of me. It shouldn't be allowed. I put a curse on them.

Maybe someone should post the kit pic up - then when any forum member spots them out and about they could just be given a great big hug and sloppy kiss?

 

[martint235]

There's some nasty climbs in there right enough, especially the never ending one going past Chartwell, just after you've done the easy side of Toys Hill and dropped down. I felt like cr@p after doing that last time around, and knowing that Sundridge Hill was 10-15 mins away on the other side of Westerham.

I like Penge's kit better I'd join Penge CC if I didn't have commitments which stopped me going on club rides. I used to live over that way and I like their ethos.

HTH.

 

[Tim Hall]

London Dynamo do similar even requesting that, should you let your membership lapse, you don't wear the kit any more.

Or set foot in Richmond Park ever again.

 

[Dec66]

HTH.

You are Blazed AICMFP

 

[Dec66]

Never heard of Penge CC - off to google check it's kit in a mo but maybe you are being ironic?

Clubs can be strangely protective of "outsider" wearing their kit.

I find it very odd.

What is the ethos of Penge?

Always meant to try to get out for a ride with Anerley - the world's oldest?

The ethos of Penge CC? Or the ethos of Penge?

The former; friendly, family oriented club. With a nice kit. No, I'm not being ironic, it really is, in my opinion.

The latter; not sure, really. I lived on the Beckenham side of Kent House Lane

 

[Inertia]

There is a thread where everyone says hello to everyone else everyday. You could try there.

Sounds awful.

 

[Dogtrousers]

The ethos of Penge CC? Or the ethos of Penge?

Location of the notorious Penge Bungalow Murders

 

[Smokin Joe]

Location of the notorious Penge Bungalow Murders

Solved because a very clever barrister knew all about blood.

 

[Tim Hall]

Solved because a very clever barrister knew all about blood.

And without a leader.