CycleChat Ride - 2 May - Manningtree/Colchester/Tiptree (i.e. north-east Essex)

[Auntie Helen]

Sorry Auntie H, I've got to cancel, my many apologies!

Davy I'm crushed! I was going to get hold of some white SPD stilettoes and change my name to Tracy just for your Essex Experience!

 

[Auntie Helen]

For 'girlie GPS' read no GPS!

I did Great Bromley to Thundersley prior to GPS, thus my occasional deviation off the optimum route. It's much easier now I have a little breadcrumb trail to follow, even if BikeRouteToaster occasionally routes me down narrow footpaths and across ploughed fields.

Have you considered driving to somewhere near the start of the ride, like most normal people would choose (so that excludes most of the CycleChatters!)

 

[Davywalnuts]

Davy I'm crushed! I was going to get hold of some white SPD stilettoes and change my name to Tracy just for your Essex Experience!

Add some hot pants and I might re-consider... hehehe :?:

 

[ChrisKH]

I did Great Bromley to Thundersley prior to GPS, thus my occasional deviation off the optimum route. It's much easier now I have a little breadcrumb trail to follow, even if BikeRouteToaster occasionally routes me down narrow footpaths and across ploughed fields.

Have you considered driving to somewhere near the start of the ride, like most normal people would choose (so that excludes most of the CycleChatters!)

Yes, am thinking about this.

Davy, I'll be wearing cycling shorts if that's any motivation. :?:

 

[Auntie Helen]

If you want to drive, and make a full day of it (and still get your century in), it seems like there might be a bunch of hardy souls cycling a century with me (tacking on 40ish miles after the main ride). Probably best for those to drive to my place beforehand so we get a quick 6-10 miles in before everyone arrives on the train.

 

[Davywalnuts]

Yes, am thinking about this.

Davy, I'll be wearing cycling shorts if that's any motivation. :?:

!! Essex girl hot pants are not cycling shorts, being filled by the male kind!! LOL!

 

[Auntie Helen]

Well I will probably be wearing cycling shorts too but I fall short in so many ways from the traditional Essex Girl Ideal that you'd probably do better gazing at ChrisKH's legs. He, at least, is a genuine Born & Bred Essex Person, I'm only a Bred one.

 

[Aperitif]

Sorry Auntie H, I've got to cancel, my many apologies!

Am out now that friday night for a close friends b-day which will involve copious amounts of beer and kebab.. Infact, its safe to say Ill still be in a vegative state around the same time you all finish your tour! Albeit am sure awake, just, while aperitif is still cycling back...

Who said anything about 'back'...it might just be 'onwards and upwards'

So, Davy, Monsieur Murdesnoix,() you are expected to be in a 'vegative' state eh? No change there then! I'll be vegetative as usual - because I don't eat meat or fish.
Actually, it's a pity you can't make it because you could have got your personal best - 43 pee-pees in 400kms...not to worry (I wont be
In fact, the best part of returning is with you...chavs in Hounslow line us up like skittles - I'll miss that!

Have a great party and enjoy yourself!

 

[Aperitif]

Is anyone game enough to work out if I'll break a 100 if I cycle to/from Benfleet for this ride? I need some form of motivation (for the 100). And a reason to ask for an AWOL card from the Missus.

We'll work on it Chris - Hyde Park Corner at 3am or so..? Actually yours to Billericay is straightforward, then onwards to the tour. By the end of that you'll be able to get trains back with mileage aplenty under your belt. Not sure which way I'm doing it yet - early days...

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

I wouldn't mind trying for the 100 , I was so close with the sarfend ride ,89 miles, if i hadn't of had to get back to do parental duties i would have pootled around for 11 miles

 

[Aperitif]

I wouldn't mind trying for the 100 , I was so close with the sarfend ride ,89 miles, if i hadn't of had to get back to do parental duties i would have pootled around for 11 miles

We should have toured the delights of Basildon for a bit longer Sig! Punishment knows no bounds on a CycleChat 100-miler! ...alas, no Walnutmeister, the sugar junkie

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

Aperitif , i forgot to thank you for my present.....the lovely map of Basildon

 

[Aperitif]

Aperitif , i forgot to thank you for my present.....the lovely map of Basildon

Don't mention it.

()

 

[ianrauk]

Aperitif knows how to wow the laydeeeez!!

Aperitif , i forgot to thank you for my present.....the lovely map of Basildon

 

[Aperitif]

Aperitif knows how to wow the laydeeeez!!

Yeh - cool eh?