February's ride for food

[HaloJ]

The Herts boys are taking this route back

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/297818

Not a bad route for the london crew either with a good split point of Hertford for East and West folk.

I'm game for that. The route I was going to put up had us blipping straight down the B1368/B158 straight into Ware ready to pick up Ian's suggested route.

Abs

 

[Becs]

I can bring sloe/damsen gin to warm everyone up if necessary :-)

 

[StuAff]

Overtrousers in the bag- though I'm probably going to end up wearing them for the trip to the station. At work for another 3 1/2 hours then home and bed ASAP...

 

[martint235]

Have a good ride everybody!!! And Stu, remember the wheels should be perpendicular to the ground!!

 

[StuAff]

Have a good ride everybody!!! And Stu, remember the wheels should be perpendicular to the ground!!

Both me and the bike are perpendicular 99.99% of the time. I will nonetheless endeavour to improve on that percentage

 

[zigzag]

thanks for kind words guys, my hip is almost ok now and ready for tomorrow. blue bike was inspected at evans, nothing worth fixing (couple degrees of mech hanger bend were restored by pulling rear mech outwards). i'll be on my commuter tomorrow anyway (and it's quite dirty, but if Ian rides in front, that shouldn't bother him).

And Stu, remember the wheels should be perpendicular to the ground!!

this applies to me as well after last sundays "slide show"

 

[HaloJ]

thanks for kind words guys, my hip is almost ok now and ready for tomorrow. blue bike was inspected at evans, nothing worth fixing (couple degrees of mech hanger bend were restored by pulling rear mech outwards). i'll be on my commuter tomorrow anyway (and it's quite dirty, but if Ian rides in front, that shouldn't bother him).



this applies to me as well after last sundays "slide show"

...and me after last weeks pedestrian collision and slide. My bike will also be wearing the "regularly used" look.

For those heading onwards after Hertford then this is the suggested return route. Riding with Steve's posse and then breaking away and using Ian's route all the way to London Bridge. I left it on the North side of the brdige so Stu can easily edit it for his journey to Victoria. I'll be breaking west at the 504 and tackling Muswell Hill before the home straight.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/298011

Abs

EDIT : For those interested this is my home route breaking from the one above. Not so sure about climbing Muswell Hill after 110 miles and the elevation profile makes it look worse. http://ridewithgps.com/routes/298035

 

[StuAff]

I won't be editing it, or even downloading it due to work & early start, but if someone's got it on an Edge 705, I can get a copy that way. I should be OK to get back to Victoria from London Bridge anyway, just about know the way.

 

[Tynan]

routes!

I've only done tracks so far

what's that about about a 38% incline?

poke Muswell Hill, I'll be peeling off at some point before crossing the North Circ on the return leg, I think I know it from there

otherwise I'll see you all there v bright and early

 

[HaloJ]

the 38% is a glitch out Cambridge way. At least I hope it is!

Stu I'll edit you a Victoria copy and save it onto my Garmin for ya. Just a quick question the current return leg adds about 10 miles onto the journey than B-trunk route I was going to suggest. Is this ok with those continuing on after Hertford?

Abs

EDIT : Tynan, the above links can be saved as Tracks as well as routes.

 

[StuAff]

Fine by me, if it's smoother flatter or both then it won't hurt the time too much. Should be more than enough in hand to make the train/rugby viewing location/whatever.

 

[martint235]

thanks for kind words guys, my hip is almost ok now and ready for tomorrow. blue bike was inspected at evans, nothing worth fixing (couple degrees of mech hanger bend were restored by pulling rear mech outwards). i'll be on my commuter tomorrow anyway (and it's quite dirty, but if Ian rides in front, that shouldn't bother him).



this applies to me as well after last sundays "slide show"

Well you'd better keep it upright too!! And it may be greasy out there.....

 

[redjedi]

I can bring sloe/damsen gin to warm everyone up if necessary :-)

+ towels and dry socks please

Big question is....do I put the mudguard on?

 

[HaloJ]

What's a mudguard?

 

[Tynan]

as a proper working rider I shall have front and rear full mudguards plus rack plus pannier plus lights