FNRttC Night ride to Whitstable, April 22nd, 2016 (Starting at Tower Bridge)

[Dogtrousers]

Anyone got a track of Friday's route - I'm curious about the riverside bit at Greenhithe.

Here

(THere's a bit of a gap at Gravesend where I switched off to preserve battering during a wait, and forgot to switch on again)

 

[rb58]

Anyone got a track of Friday's route - I'm curious about the riverside bit at Greenhithe.

It was the same route, just a different re-grouping spot which you can see on @Dogtrousers track at mile 19.

 

[User10571]

It was the same route, just a different re-grouping spot which you can see on @Dogtrousers track at mile 19.

Ah! Gotcha. Thanks.

 

[jefmcg]

You can even watch it in action!

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer...LIdhaCSEZvwUhgYAFIQVtCCHfxQMhVOkOIUt_BCE&s=EE

(I'm the pale blue circle that starts late and doesn't avoid Erith)

 

[Mehmet]

Thanks all for a fantastic ride! My first FNRttC after a few years of trying to convince myself to do one, was a fantastic experience. I think I left my legs somewhere on the Graveney Marshes...the ride into Whitstable was a slow, painful one. As was the ride to the station.

Big thanks to Tim, the Tail End Charlies and the Wayfinders, and everyone I spoke and rode with...you all helped me keep my cranks turning!

 

[mmmmartin]

great to have you @Mehmet and thanks for the subs

 

[ianmac62]

... the return was much worse, 8 1/2 hours of various trains, including what seemed like a random tour of central England, doubling the journey time ... View attachment 126010

Good to have met you @EatSleepRideRepeat and didn't we have fun folding non-folding bikes on the train from Whitstable to St Pancras.

@CharlieB ... How you managed the whole nights ride in shorts and fingerless gloves I will never know ...

Did you spot the young man who did the whole ride in jeans and wearing no gloves at all? Turned out he was the other Eddie C!

... I see someone did it on a Roberts Roughstuff! Believe me, they also deserve a bit of awe. ... So, to the woman who rode the Roughstuff, "Cheers".

This was indeed Miriam, an honorary Northamptonian from Putney, for whom this was her first FNRttC and, indeed, her first ever ride at night-time. That Roberts has been to some places! Here's two photos (courtesy of Alex) of (1) the front forks having been welded back together after fracturing near Montevideo and (2) the Uruguayan welding team - who usually do cars. They welded the forks back together using a piece of scaffolding pipe for support. And still got the disk brakes to work.

 

[arallsopp]

Looking at my Strava, we managed to average 17mph on the last 10km in to Whitstable in that headwind, I was glad of Charlie's tow for most of that!

...and thanks to which, I can see exactly where I missed you.

So who won the customary sprint for breakfast then??

...me, per above, by about 80 minutes

 

[User10571]

17mph av across those marshes into a headwind is formidable.
Does Strava speak with forked tongue?
Hmmm?
Just asking.....

 

[Flying Dodo]

Can I just say that The Fridays isn't, or shouldn't be becoming, the sort of club that worries about people riding up hills at 2mph?

Exactly.

I think my slowest speed is 3.5 mph up a hill. I can't go any slower as I fall off. I can go considerably faster if I want to, but any speed on a bike (or off, pushing it) is fine.

 

[velovoice]

Forward movement. It's all good.

 

[jiberjaber]

17mph av across those marshes into a headwind is formidable.
Does Strava speak with forked tongue?
Hmmm?
Just asking.....

We were like a pro-peloton with poor Charlie doing all the work at front and us waiting to pounce..... (which we never did...) lol it was a tank emptying effort!

 

[newfhouse]

We were like a pro-peloton

Hardly

with poor Charlie doing all the work at front

This bit is true. And the Brompton rider tucked in behind me was admirable. Good fun.

 

[CharlieB]

17mph av across those marshes into a headwind is formidable.
Does Strava speak with forked tongue?
Hmmm?
Just asking.....

My Garmin data's showing about the same. There were about four of us going hell for leather to be first in.
Chapeau to Mark on the 2 speed Brompton, for it was he mentioned above.

 

[jiberjaber]

OK, 16.7 mph average rather than the rounded up version.....

It was the about the same speed coming back out but I was a bit more broken then and we did a fair bit of stop start in the town.