England : London Sunday London ride

[User10571]

Most of the clocks here are savvy enough to change themselves - CH timer excepted.

 

[User10571]

Fab morning out with you peeps.
Thanks muchly for your company

 

[Mice]

Question asked at 8am: What am I doing getting up when it's -1 Outside? Answer: Sunday London Ride!
-1 is cold. I kept hoping the temperature would at least climb up to 0 degrees by the time I got out of bed but it didn't. Off to Hyde Park Corner to meet User1314, Flying Dodo, Rebecca Olds, User10571, Topcat1 and TimO. We headed eastwards with Greenwich as our destination.
Down to Parliament Square and over Westminster Bridge to cycle along NCN4 which travels along the Thames. The signage is a bit rubbish from time to time, often includes flights of stairs and indeed raised pavements.
There is something about cycling in London. The architecture, the people just going about their business, how you see things from a completely different angle, so uniquely - a cyclists view. And in great company.
We reached the Maritime Museum Brewery for lunch. It really does brew its own beer (if you are into beer). It was a real amble about, followed by great banter and catching up with fab peeps.


I took some pics https://picasaweb.google.com/108733...&authkey=Gv1sRgCOTLod_m_7bxYg&feat=directlink



Mice

 

[topcat1]

everyone's wearing pink these days

i decided to get a couple of miles in along the river then shot home

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62382682@N07/sets/72157633132521574/

 

[topcat1]

you been on the juice again?

 

[clarion]

Well well well, courtesy of a delivery driver making a colossal mistake, I am unexpectedly available on Sunday. I'm up for a bit of a ride, though I am rather unfit. And I will need to go in to work in the afternoon to set up some PCs.

 

[clarion]

Ah. I guess that a lot of London regulars are on their way to Banbury today. May not want a trundle tomorrow...

 

[wanda2010]

...... and some may be doing The London Classic tomorrow

 

[clarion]

Well, I ain't up for that. I want summat more flatterest than them thar hills.

Any road, I'll be at HPC for 10am, and I'll see who turns up.

 

[ianrauk]

Sorry Peeps...not about for this.. going to crack on with April's 100 miler with the decent weather we are having right now.

 

[wanda2010]

Well, I ain't up for that. I want summat more flatterest than them thar hills.

Yebbut there are plenty of rest stops along the way

 

[clarion]

Errr... okaaay. Enjoy that then

 

[clarion]

Well, that were all right.

 

[arallsopp]

More than so, I'd say, but then, I had better company than you.

Nice opportunity to see if the VM can:
- be social (just about)
- pootle (surprisingly well)
- turn through bollards like an upright (by the skin of its teeth)
- handle a variety of surfaces (yes).

Not the ideal bike for an SLR. Its too noisy to chat, and keeps finding downhills where others are pedalling. Speed profile is all wrong, and whilst its fast on the slopes its slow as hell to get away from a cafe

Great to see you though, as always. A very pleasant thirty something for me.

 

[clarion]

All bikes are slow away from cafes.

Sorry for the Comedy Off Road, but, really, you should see the sections of Southwark's traffic engineering which I managed to avoid!