Commute from Essex / Havering area

[bigfella]

Does anyone commute from Essex / Havering area?

 

[mr_cellophane]

Cranham - South Quay

Personal Best today 15.6 miles in just over an hour 14.9 mph . I hadn't even made 13 before today. Must be the bib tights I bought in Decathlon on Saturday.

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

15.4 miles in 1hr 6 mins today-school hols=less traffic but did get caught in traffic at lower thames street
bigfella i'm probably working tomorrow if you want to follow me i leave about 7.30am

 

[MacB]

bigfella i'm probably working tomorrow if you want to follow me i leave about 7.30am

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Not easy, she flies along and has no sympathy for fat blokes, just makes them suffer!!!

 

[bigfella]

Cranham - South Quay

Personal Best today 15.6 miles in just over an hour 14.9 mph . I hadn't even made 13 before today. Must be the bib tights I bought in Decathlon on Saturday.

What route do you take?

15.4 miles in 1hr 6 mins today-school hols=less traffic but did get caught in traffic at lower thames street
bigfella i'm probably working tomorrow if you want to follow me i leave about 7.30am

Yes please, I have swapped my shift tomorrow so I start at 9:30. That will give me time to shower and change when I get in.

Can you PM me a meeting place please?

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Not easy, she flies along and has no sympathy for fat blokes, just makes them suffer!!!

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

ok come down upper rainham rd towards romford theres a doctors surgery on you left the road starts to go uphill then on your left there is a turnoff there is a sign for eastbrook riding school i'll meet you at this turnoff. if you get to the cardrome/skatepark you have gone too far. i'll be there 7.30 pm me your mobile number .

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

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Not easy, she flies along and has no sympathy for fat blokes, just makes them suffer!!!

don't worry i'll be gentle with you

 

[mr_cellophane]

I sometimes go that way, but as I start at 10:00, I am just getting up at 7:30

Did Hornchurch-Rush Green, Becontree, Valance Ave to A13 today. Went Barking, East Ham on Thursday. Still not sure which is best. Although my arse hurt going that way with all the pot holes in the Romford Road.

 

[MacB]

compared to my normal rides the A13 and A12 seemed like the devils highways to me, never relaxed once on them.

 

[Aperitif]

compared to my normal rides the A13 and A12 seemed like the devils highways to me, never relaxed once on them.

...ah! - the whiff of burning rubber, the blizzard of brake linings - the bleak ants' nests of supermarket sheds - "it's life as we know it Jim" Al...

Now, if you had gone for that family ride on Friday morning, things might be different...(hope all is ok as poss.)

 

[bigfella]

I sometimes go that way, but as I start at 10:00, I am just getting up at 7:30

Did Hornchurch-Rush Green, Becontree, Valance Ave to A13 today. Went Barking, East Ham on Thursday. Still not sure which is best. Although my arse hurt going that way with all the pot holes in the Romford Road.

10am! Alright for some! What time do you ride home? I think we will be taking a similar route but via Longbridge Road.

compared to my normal rides the A13 and A12 seemed like the devils highways to me, never relaxed once on them.

Hopefully we will be avoiding the A13, the A1306 I can cope with. After driving on the A13 in my old job and seeing the amount of motorbikes getting knocked down it didn't make it look too inviting I must say!

 

[MacB]

...ah! - the whiff of burning rubber, the blizzard of brake linings - the bleak ants' nests of supermarket sheds - "it's life as we know it Jim" Al...

Now, if you had gone for that family ride on Friday morning, things might be different...(hope all is ok as poss.)

Funnily enough I'm feeling zero nostalgia for those two roads, no matter how poetically you describe them

Still waiting to hear from Jane following surgery, hopefully she's in recovery now, fingers crossed. Crazy that we can all hoof it down roads like that and emerge unscathed yet she breaks a leg dismounting on a cycle path.

 

[bigfella]

ok come down upper rainham rd towards romford theres a doctors surgery on you left the road starts to go uphill then on your left there is a turnoff there is a sign for eastbrook riding school i'll meet you at this turnoff. if you get to the cardrome/skatepark you have gone too far. i'll be there 7.30 pm me your mobile number .

Will do, nice and early start for me then! I normally get up at 7am anyway.

I have attached a map and circled where I believe you mean - is this correct? If so, see you tomorrow.

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

Bigfella...
The chase ...thats the one.

MacB who broke their leg??

 

[mr_cellophane]

10am! Alright for some! What time do you ride home? I think we will be taking a similar route but via Longbridge Road.

Hopefully we will be avoiding the A13, the A1306 I can cope with. After driving on the A13 in my old job and seeing the amount of motorbikes getting knocked down it didn't make it look too inviting I must say!

I alternate 8-4 and 10-6. So with 15 minutes to get changed and down to the basement I leave work at 10 past :?:
The A13 CP is OK, a lot smoother than the Barking Road.
Mind the speed bumps down The Chase and the bees and the debris from the burn out car at the western end.