Bank holiday weekend?

[Davywalnuts]

Cor, all those new bikes.

I can't justify spending £1k on a bike. 95% of my cycling is commuting through London with a monthly CC ride.

My current two steeds will have to do.

With all the hassle and constant buying/changes I have to do, give me your fixie anyday!

 

[Aperitif]

"Acqua saPony"... how apt!

Did you notice your seatpost has a bit missing from the back?

 

[Davywalnuts]

"Acqua saPony"... how apt!

Did you notice your seatpost has a bit missing from the back?

Cor blimney govnor, check your rhyming slang! Very apt indeed!

Dear dear... dont worry dear child, I will show you how the hidden seat pin works!

 

[Sittingduck]

Your new frame may suit me Davy

 

[Davywalnuts]

Your new frame may suit me Davy

No no no no no!! You are not having it!!!

 

[clivedb]

Can I check current arrangements? Is Mike's crew still leaving St Pancras at 9 to cycle to Windsor? I am hoping to join this ride but need to check train times from MK to Euston.

 

[Aperitif]

http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=863833&postcount=22

Hello Clive - here's mike's post with his proposed timing...subject to leaves on the trees, snow etc. I'm going to meet up with topcat1, sig, handbag, alinee, mikinee, stevevw, (only coming because he likes a crash) meee, cliveeee - possiblee, (and Marilyn?) collect redjedi on the way out via Brentford?, Davy (if he hasn't raced ahead to get the coffees in...~)

 

[Aperitif]

So. I have been thinking about what might be nice.
www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=17694

This ride will take in Burnham Beeches & Stoke Common, Dorneywood, Cliveden, Cookham, Bisham Abbey, Littlewick Green, Bray, Maidenhead town to get across the Thames, to Dorney (spiritual home of 'Yenrod'), Eton Wick, Eton, Datchet, into the Royal Park via a naughty slope, circuit of the Park by Smiths Lawn (where the toffs will be playing with their fillies - three finals of Polo I am led to believe), through the Savill Gardens and across, down, round, take a look at Windsor House from a view down Long Walk, cut out of the Park and into Windsor to rap with 500,000 tourists.

Starts at the Train Station and ends adjacent. Add in the allez retour from London and it is 180km spread over the day...another 100 miler +
2000 feet of climbing. Passes by several stations too - if it is more convenient.

I'm going to check it out early on Saturday - just for fun.

Credit to the person who took the photograph - from flickr

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

right.. have be given the ok for this although it was more an 'ok,if you have to' ,can't blame him,we had a very nice week away in Dorset,I went back to work monday and have been working 12/14 hr days while the kids have been driving him mad , I will just have to be extra nice / helpful for the next couple of days

Anyway
Topcat1 what time would I need to get to the station for us to get to St Pancras in good time?

 

[mistral]

Lurverly route Teef

But unfortunately we seem to pass directly through some urban wasteland ....

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.....

Whereas Clive up in MK, has grazing but only concrete cows

 

[redjedi]

I just clicked on the elevation data. My legs are aching already.

I also see you've thrown in a few dead ends for that true Mouseketeer experiance

 

[mistral]

Hi Sig, hope you can make it.

Right here go's from my big red AA atlas, it's the one I photocopied the other week:-

From Liverpool Street you could turn right down Bishopgate, then right onto Threadneedle Street to the Bank then up Poultry, Cheapside, Newgate Street, Holborn Viaduct thru Holborn Circus onto Holborn, then swing a right onto Grays Inn Road and follow all the way to Kings Cross, St Pancras.

That's my recommendation as an "out of towner", I await someone who knows town better than me to suggest otherwise....

Hope to see you Mon.

Cor blimey guv'nr, when did you do the knowledge me old china plate etc. etc. ©Dick van Dyke

Careful Mike, you're spending so much time down in the smoke you'll be a southern softie before you know it.

 

[MacB]

that route takes in a mile or two of my commute, around White Waltham

 

[redjedi]

Cor blimey guv'nr, when did you do the knowledge me old china plate etc. etc. ©Dick van Dyke

Careful Mike, you're spending so much time down in the smoke you'll be a southern softie before you know it.

I think he knows his way around London better than me, and I've lived here for 12 years

 

[mike e]

that route takes in a mile or two of my commute, around White Waltham

that route takes in a couple of hundred mile or two of my commute as well....