February's ride for food

[Tynan]

the gpx for the return is a bit bloody scanty init?

'head for ware and pick up Ian's route'?

 

[Tynan]

The warning point will be all of us shouting at you that you've missed the turning

We don't all live next HPC corner you know. It'll be a 6.45 start for me, and I'll have to go all the way back to HPC at the end.

I'm 15 bloody miles from HPC

and that route is 15 miles from me at it's nearest point, sigh, oh well

 

[HaloJ]

Aye, it's a bit of a logistics problem for long distance winter day time rides.

Still next time we do the Maldon run we'll be picking you up on route.

 

[frank9755]

We don't all live next HPC corner you know. It'll be a 6.45 start for me, and I'll have to go all the way back to HPC at the end.

You could cut the corner from Hampstead via Willesden to Acton. Nice quiet roads (my favourite summer evening post-pub route home!)

 

[frank9755]

Aye, it's a bit of a logistics problem for long distance winter day time rides.

Still next time we do the Maldon run we'll be picking you up on route.

There's no getting round it unfortunately - better to start with more daylight ahead than run out of it with 50+ miles to go until home (and with a back wheel to re-build in the dark...

). The only 'solution' is to embrace a switch to CET, get up at exactly the same time and kid yourself it is an hour later!

 

[martint235]

Conflicting weather reports so far, BBC very not good, XCWeather we might get wet as we arrive back in London....

I'll wait till Friday before deciding....

 

[Tynan]

I'm desperately tring to jiggle the finances to get the wheel rebuilt, the LBS has a rim standing by

Quite apart form the risk of the thing collapsing and the rear brakes being unuseable, I can't bear the thought of someone having to watch it trying to go round

BBC seem to say sunny spells last night although the text said rain moving into the se, tsk

I'm quite aware that a long ride has to start bloody early and that's finewith me once it's not bloody early in the morning

 

[HaloJ]

Weather wise I think we'll be ok. Metcheck and XCweather seem to concur on cloud cover and light showers. Weather Underground gives a 10% chance of rain for London during ride time and 20% falling to 10% for Cambridge. I'm quite sure it'll start a bit misty but should get better but the cloud won't become broken until the afternoon. I'm sure we'll run into some light scattered showers.

and now over to Ian for the latest sport news.......

 

[HaloJ]

We seem to be unable to get to Ian due to technical difficulties.....

In further news and just in from our Hartford correspondent Steve there's likely to be a change of route for safety reasons. I'm just on my way out but I'll check it out this evening and update you.

Abs

 

[Flying Dodo]

We seem to be unable to get to Ian due to technical difficulties.....

Strange - I though he had a lot more spare time now?

 

[frank9755]

Weather forecast now looking good!
Won't give any details as I don't want to spoil Abs' official daily weather report

 

[Becs]

Really looking forward to seeing you guys on Saturday! I won't be able to cycle back because mum's still in addenbrokes but I'm definitely up for a nice lunch! Keep me posted with an eta, I'm about a 30min ride away

 

[HaloJ]

Really looking forward to seeing you guys on Saturday! I won't be able to cycle back because mum's still in addenbrokes but I'm definitely up for a nice lunch! Keep me posted with an eta, I'm about a 30min ride away

Certainly. I've got your number so will let you know. At a guess I'd say it'd be about 12:30/1pm. I'm having a ride out now to test out a new mapping method. If it works ok I'll post up the final outbound route using it this evening.

Abs

 

[ianrauk]

Weather reports are looking better too..

 

[redjedi]

It would be nice if it stayed like it is now.

I wish I wasn't stuck in an office today