Cycling to a restaurant

[Tim Hall]

Could be a tough way to choose a restaurant

Ah. I thought the restaurant was already chosen and you just had to turn up. So choose a restaurant closer to you...

 

[Tim Hall]

Go have a quick ride around the area in which you are planning on dining? Lots of restaurants and racks in the City for example...whether you can actually see the bike from your table is another matter...just take 2 D locks...or eat outside and pray for nice weather

Or train and Boris Bike.

 

[vickster]

Or train and Boris Bike.

Simpler or train, walk, tube, bus....

 

[Tim Hall]

Simpler or train, walk, tube, bus....

Yebbut the coolness of rocking up on a Boris Bike Santander Cycle and clunking it into the docking station right outside the restaurant is not to be sniffed at.

 

[Bodhbh]

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/ironman-in-2016.193165/

Oh dear talking about telling you how to suck eggs.

Good luck with the Ironman!

 

[vickster]

Yebbut the coolness of rocking up on a Boris Bike Santander Cycle and clunking it into the docking station right outside the restaurant is not to be sniffed at.

Hmm as long as it's not whacking it down with rain...

 

[mjr]

i definitely wouldnt be able to cycle for an hour and a half after stuffing my face and drinking lots of wine! youre very brave lol

Why the heck not? Do you eat and drink so much that you can't walk?

Yebbut the coolness of rocking up on a Boris Bike Santander Cycle and clunking it into the docking station right outside the restaurant is not to be sniffed at.

+100 cool points if you ride it into the dock in sight of your fellow diners, but minus several million if you mess it up, bounce off the dock and land on the floor

 

[Tin Pot]

Go have a quick ride around the area in which you are planning on dining? Lots of restaurants and racks in the City for example...whether you can actually see the bike from your table is another matter...just take 2 D locks...or eat outside and pray for nice weather

Yeah I would do but it's well out my usual way. I had a look at the Enoteca de Luca on Watling Street but nowhere to lock up, Black & Blue outside Waterloo has a fence/rail you can see from the tables, but nothing really grabs.

Requirements
1. Bike security
2. Good wine
3. ...

 

[Tin Pot]

i definitely wouldnt be able to cycle for an hour and a half after stuffing my face and drinking lots of wine! youre very brave lol

Ah no, I think I'll cycle there train back. 4hrs on the bike is enough for one day, 2hrs not enough

It's not a one off, as the sun has come out the after work socialising requests have started rolling in. In my mind I roll up Italian hipster style as though it's nothing, quaff some wine and espressos and elegantly disappear into the night.

Reality is Ill rock up covered in sweat, roadkill and rain, argue with restaurant staff about my bike/getting in and then probably get arrested, drunken brawling trying to get my bike on a train at midnight.

 

[Tim Hall]

Reality is Ill rock up covered in sweat, roadkill and rain, argue with restaurant staff about my bike/getting in and then probably get arrested, drunken brawling trying to get my bike on a train at midnight.

Just a perfect day.

 

[raleighnut]

Just a perfect day.

Ah no, I think I'll cycle there train back. 4hrs on the bike is enough for one day, 2hrs not enough

It's not a one off, as the sun has come out the after work socialising requests have started rolling in. In my mind I roll up Italian hipster style as though it's nothing, quaff some wine and espressos and elegantly disappear into the night.

Reality is Ill rock up covered in sweat, roadkill and rain, argue with restaurant staff about my bike/getting in and then probably get arrested, drunken brawling trying to get my bike on a train at midnight.

Got the T-shirt.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I'd just get the train and have a drink stuff cycling home half scooped

I see
I don't drink, so cycling home is not a liability

 

[Tin Pot]

Stuffed my dinner suit shirt and shoes into a Crumpler and biked in - weighs a ton!

We'll see how well it fairs at the dinner tonight.

 

[mjr]

Stuffed my dinner suit shirt and shoes into a Crumpler and biked in - weighs a ton!

We'll see how well it fairs at the dinner tonight.

Did you find a restaurant with good bike parking? I found some with racks outside but that's not great until it's warm enough to eat outside.

 

[Tin Pot]

Did you find a restaurant with good bike parking? I found some with racks outside but that's not great until it's warm enough to eat outside.

Not yet, tonight is at a golf club so fairly private.

I've delegated responsibility for identifying a restaurant next week to someone else . Still happy for suggestions though.

I think I'll ride in a trisuit and just don a polo and trousers when I arrive.