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Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
यह अच्छा है वहाँ एडम - बहुत से लोग आप को पूछने के लिए उनकी तस्वीर ले अगर आप के चारों ओर लटक रहे हैं!
rb58
Enigma
- Location
- Bexley, Kent
Actually cancel that. Just seen the forecast temperature for the morning. I'll take the 9.30am option...
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ttcycle
Cycling Excusiast
I haven't been on one of these for ages...lack of cycling in general independent of the Sunday mob but it would be good to get these back of track. I'd echo Martin's sentiments- my experience of SLR has been Greenwich based and they've come a long way since then.
Maybe it's worth stating what people want from the rides or are expecting as regulars (if such a term exists?), as is the case- each ride will differ and some things will appeal to others more than others so we're not going to get consensus but if it ain't working - let's know why and maybe we can get some other folk leading rides around- there can always be multiple sunday rides going on too that suits different needs and requirements.
Maybe it's worth stating what people want from the rides or are expecting as regulars (if such a term exists?), as is the case- each ride will differ and some things will appeal to others more than others so we're not going to get consensus but if it ain't working - let's know why and maybe we can get some other folk leading rides around- there can always be multiple sunday rides going on too that suits different needs and requirements.
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ttcycle
Cycling Excusiast
I'll start
What is the average miles on one of these now? I don't keep track of this as much as I used to.
I live less centrally then I used to when these first started so have to be up earlier to get to HPC - I'd personally prefer a slightly later start but understand the constraints of Pumpkin Hour (or roast envy!)
I like the idea of Windsor- haven't been there in ages and have some found memories of the last CC ride I did that went there with Teef's fantastic raffle.
I tentatively could lead a ride- not done that before and don't have GPS gadgetyness but wouldn't mind taking the mantle to give it all a mix up
What is the average miles on one of these now? I don't keep track of this as much as I used to.
I live less centrally then I used to when these first started so have to be up earlier to get to HPC - I'd personally prefer a slightly later start but understand the constraints of Pumpkin Hour (or roast envy!)
I like the idea of Windsor- haven't been there in ages and have some found memories of the last CC ride I did that went there with Teef's fantastic raffle.
I tentatively could lead a ride- not done that before and don't have GPS gadgetyness but wouldn't mind taking the mantle to give it all a mix up
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
यह अच्छा है वहाँ एडम - बहुत से लोग आप को पूछने के लिए उनकी तस्वीर ले अगर आप के चारों ओर लटक रहे हैं!
Very good!
Are you trying to curry some favours?
arallsopp
Post of The Year 2009 winner
- Location
- Bromley, Kent
Sorry, I meant footer. Infact, I even thought I wrote footer. My phone disagrees. Then again, my phone disagrees with most things. It definitely disagreed with being dropped into the loo last week (a day on the radiator, and its well in body if not mind) and before that, it disagreed with being ejected from my pocket at 30mph in anerley. Tech... who'd have it?
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
'In your hands', Andy, phone life is a little knockier.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
I'm up and very hungover. Will see how I feel at the top of Shooters Hill
Good to meet you Chris and glad you enjoyed.
Got to HPC at 8.45. Did half a lap of the park when I saw 'teef heading in the opposite direction. He turned round and we headed for a concession for the first on the road coffee # 1 of the day.
Martin, Ross and Chris where at Wellington Arch. So a bit of banter and we were off toAlly Pally the Olympic Park. On the road coffee # 2. There was no human queue but the coffee making queue was a little wait. Ross wisely circumnavigated this by ordering tea. Chris had what looks like one of the best pieces of cake I have seen in a long time.
So off to the Woolwich ferry where we froze our tits off, sarf of the river. Goodbye to Ross and Martin. Myself, 'Teef and Chris headed back to Hyde Park for on the road coffee # 3 and to have a quick listen to the bile that spews from the old blond haired fascist lady at speakers corner. The record hasn't changed.
Cheerio to 'teef, which left myself and Chris to head for home. We hit Exhibition Road, the first time I have cycled it since it has been made ped friendly. Looks nice but cars still rule unfortunately.
Fulham, Putney and Wimbledon where I said cheerio to Chris which left me to pootle home on my own.
75 miles on the clock. Not that cold really, sun tried to break through the clouds a couple of times but without success.
Got to HPC at 8.45. Did half a lap of the park when I saw 'teef heading in the opposite direction. He turned round and we headed for a concession for the first on the road coffee # 1 of the day.
Martin, Ross and Chris where at Wellington Arch. So a bit of banter and we were off to
So off to the Woolwich ferry where we froze our tits off, sarf of the river. Goodbye to Ross and Martin. Myself, 'Teef and Chris headed back to Hyde Park for on the road coffee # 3 and to have a quick listen to the bile that spews from the old blond haired fascist lady at speakers corner. The record hasn't changed.
Cheerio to 'teef, which left myself and Chris to head for home. We hit Exhibition Road, the first time I have cycled it since it has been made ped friendly. Looks nice but cars still rule unfortunately.
Fulham, Putney and Wimbledon where I said cheerio to Chris which left me to pootle home on my own.
75 miles on the clock. Not that cold really, sun tried to break through the clouds a couple of times but without success.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
"Well that was a load of crap!"
I set off in good time and was immediately delayed by some old bloke cyclist weaving across the A5 like some drunken Dodo, and didn't get to HPC until 08:37. I pootled here, I pootled there, I pootle pootled every...'Hello Ian'. We rode around Hyde Park a couple of times. That was just a pain - going past all those empty flats at One Hyde Park, no peds to 'Oi!', or traffic to run the gauntlet with - it was upsetting.
We stopped for a coffee at the Serpentine. What a disaster. There was no queue and I got served immediately. The bloke behind the counter asked me about anger management while he gave me change. I nutted him and we sat watching the world go by, offering directions to passing tourists. Even the foreigners were out to interfere with my ride dammit!
After a luxury 'Serpee' (bloody toilets at that café were just too clean for my liking) we rolled back to Wellington Arch and had to suffer seeing a load of horses huffing and puffing (you know what Ross, LongMartin and Chris are like if they have had to ride for more than five minutes continuously...) and the the Household Cavalry.
We set off for Olympica - milky sunshine doing its best and we struggled against the three or four pedestrians doing the 'photo me' stuff in the road outside Bucking Hampalace (bloody tourists - they spoil a ride) and it was awful to cruise along at 18-20mph on that torrid surface that is The Mall.
It was a drag getting to Pudding Mill Lane - must have taken half an hour or so...even the road safety attendants were courteous, wishing us good day - I was getting sooooooooooo frustrated.
And then. More coffee. Four hours it took to get served- well, it seemed like it but might have been five minutes...even the observation tower was looking interesting.
The rest is history. The cruise ship, the gentle roll back into Londonville at 20 - 25 mph - not a car in sight - ba$tards. Just to top it all off - more coffee. All three of us queued - to make it look busy. It was about 1pm ish by now and we watched some shouting at Speakers Corner before splitting.
Oh, and we got invited to an exclusive screening of an epic adventure. A film crew did a 'day in the life of' about a bus driver on the Olympic site, who had been doing the same route every day for four years. Part of the film was about her in the Olympic pool, swimming the distance of her bus route. (I think) She must be fit! Semra Yusuf is her name (forgot I had the programme in my pocket!)
69.48 of your earth miles for me, and probably could have exceeded 100 - the weather made it too easy today.
Thanks to Chris, Ross, Martin and Ian for making this Sunday London Ride so awful. Get well soon Paul, and I hope everyone who fancied it enjoyed their ride, wherever they ventured. I did.
I set off in good time and was immediately delayed by some old bloke cyclist weaving across the A5 like some drunken Dodo, and didn't get to HPC until 08:37. I pootled here, I pootled there, I pootle pootled every...'Hello Ian'. We rode around Hyde Park a couple of times. That was just a pain - going past all those empty flats at One Hyde Park, no peds to 'Oi!', or traffic to run the gauntlet with - it was upsetting.
We stopped for a coffee at the Serpentine. What a disaster. There was no queue and I got served immediately. The bloke behind the counter asked me about anger management while he gave me change. I nutted him and we sat watching the world go by, offering directions to passing tourists. Even the foreigners were out to interfere with my ride dammit!
After a luxury 'Serpee' (bloody toilets at that café were just too clean for my liking) we rolled back to Wellington Arch and had to suffer seeing a load of horses huffing and puffing (you know what Ross, LongMartin and Chris are like if they have had to ride for more than five minutes continuously...) and the the Household Cavalry.
We set off for Olympica - milky sunshine doing its best and we struggled against the three or four pedestrians doing the 'photo me' stuff in the road outside Bucking Hampalace (bloody tourists - they spoil a ride) and it was awful to cruise along at 18-20mph on that torrid surface that is The Mall.
It was a drag getting to Pudding Mill Lane - must have taken half an hour or so...even the road safety attendants were courteous, wishing us good day - I was getting sooooooooooo frustrated.
And then. More coffee. Four hours it took to get served- well, it seemed like it but might have been five minutes...even the observation tower was looking interesting.
The rest is history. The cruise ship, the gentle roll back into Londonville at 20 - 25 mph - not a car in sight - ba$tards. Just to top it all off - more coffee. All three of us queued - to make it look busy. It was about 1pm ish by now and we watched some shouting at Speakers Corner before splitting.
Oh, and we got invited to an exclusive screening of an epic adventure. A film crew did a 'day in the life of' about a bus driver on the Olympic site, who had been doing the same route every day for four years. Part of the film was about her in the Olympic pool, swimming the distance of her bus route. (I think) She must be fit! Semra Yusuf is her name (forgot I had the programme in my pocket!)
69.48 of your earth miles for me, and probably could have exceeded 100 - the weather made it too easy today.
Thanks to Chris, Ross, Martin and Ian for making this Sunday London Ride so awful. Get well soon Paul, and I hope everyone who fancied it enjoyed their ride, wherever they ventured. I did.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Though all my arrangements today performed a serial collapse - 9:30 at HPC being only the first failure of the day, I did pass the 3 Cyclechatters on their return ride at about 12:30 on Tooley Street - though by the time I'd figured out who it was, it was too late to shout a hello.
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