England : London 40th! Ideas for a LMNH area family ride on Sat 18th Oct?

[AKA Bob]

@arallsopp you are aware of the big TUC march taking place on Saturday forming around Blackfriars at 1100am before heading off to Parliament and ending up in Hyde Park for a rally in the afternoon. This may effect your route in and also your Birthday ride route?

 

[Aperitif]

Trust the Old Bill to come along and spoil things... Been a long time since I had a Raleigh in Hyde Park. (It wasn't Sir Walter either, before anyone starts...)
Make sure you don't get a salted if you decide to take a break on the ride, all.
Here's a picture of the TUC outside the Ritz, on a recent march...

 

[arallsopp]

@arallsopp you are aware of the big TUC march taking place on Saturday forming around Blackfriars at 1100am before heading off to Parliament and ending up in Hyde Park for a rally in the afternoon. This may effect your route in and also your Birthday ride route?

Cheers for flagging it. Hopefully we can avoid too much disruption (or cause some of our own). The route is fluid (aka unplanned) so we should be able to accommodate diversions.

 

[topcat1]

Happy birthday Andy, i'm working today so may pop round to LMNH later..ish

 

[topcat1]

I missed the cake and i missed the ride but i got to meet the family Arallsopp.

Even better Abs was there with Andy i missed User


have you seen Andys bike?

 

[topcat1]

aHsk5tNUfm

 

[StuAff]

Lovely day. On account of assorted demos and other disruption, route for the ride was to be decided on the day. Small but perfectly formed turnout. @AKA Bob proved to be an able impromptu ride leader (the odd U-turn excluded). After a gentle pootle around town, through Hyde Park, over east to the poppies at the Tower, including Titus's highly amusing take on architectural discourse, back to LMNH, where we were fortunately impeccably timed to meet Evey and junior Allsopps. More guests, including (unless my memory is failing me) cousin Dan, of November 2009 FNRttC fame (bibshorts when everyone else was wearing every layer to hand). And @HaloJ and @Martok (YAY!). Great to see you two again. Andy was crowned, Evey once again produced a top-notch bit of cake (which not surprisingly rapidly disappeared). People gradually dispersed after much nattering and consumption of splendid nosh (excellent pie and salad). Birthday boy and Abs were hammering round on HMS Queenie when I left...
Oh yes, HMS Queenie. What a magnificent beastie...30kg of Rohloff-hubbed recumbent tandem epicness. Turning circle seems to go into the next postcode district, progresses at a stately pace, though Andy was riding solo for the most part- I bet it was a lot quicker with Abs stoking!

Also some very nice bike porn in LMNH's window- Tom Donhou's 100mph attempt bike (102 tooth chainring!!), and a Colnago C40, very nice condition and for sale at a mere £2k.
Thanks everyone!

 

[redfalo]

A bit too late, but nonetheless wholeheartedly best my best wishes. I could not make it, as I was on a plane on Saturday but I hope you had a great party! Looking forward to seeing you soon.

 

[HaloJ]

That recumbent ride was awesome! I'm particularly proud to have been associated with @ianrauk due to my powering out of the corners.

Really lovely to see you all, it has been too long! Happy Birthday once more @arallsopp and hope to see you all early November, this time on two wheels. x

Abs

 

[topcat1]

https://flic.kr/p/oM4W7i
Can anyone guess which Enterprise that is on Andys' shirt? (series or movie?)

 

[clarion]

A great day, a great ride, and I got to meet HaloJ at last!

The weans were great, and the cake was a masterpiece.

I'm not normally a monarchist, but King Andy sounds OK, doesn't it?

 

[HaloJ]

https://flic.kr/p/oM4W7i
Can anyone guess which Enterprise that is on Andys' shirt? (series or movie?)

It's the NCC-1701-A the angled nacelles give it away. The pre A version had round nacelle tips. The B through E don't have remotely the same body shape as the original series classic.

 

[ttcycle]

hope to see you all early November, this time on two wheels. x

Abs

Ah, so you've posted up- now you must ride - Brighton or Southend?

 

[arallsopp]

Party was excellent. I rolled onto the driveway late, still wearing the birthday crown, towing an empty seat, but accompanied by an enormous smile. Thanks all for coming. And for those that couldn't make it, many promises of Southend were made.