FNRttC FNRttC to Whitstable 5th June 2009

[ChrisKH]

Simon

Regrettably my childcare plans have fallen through and I need to be back home by 7.30 am on Saturday, so will not be able to make this ride. I have toyed with doing the ride part way and returning via the first Tilbury ferry but it's a bit of a risk if I get lost on the way back to Gravesend and I don't make the first boat.

Apologies, to Sig and the others. I was really looking forward to this.

Sig, try and team up with Wowbagger and Spangly Socks for the Liverpool Street/HPC stretch. Sorry about this.

 

[dellzeqq]

I think we'll have four bents, including a three wheeler. I'll probably lead a bent tendency by the roads, rather than on the canal towpath, and meet up at Lower Higham, because getting the bents through the Sustrans Gates From Hell will be nigh on impossible. The road route is pretty spiffy, so the degree of deprivation is slight.

 

[TimO]

I think we'll have four bents, including a three wheeler. I'll probably lead a bent tendency by the roads, rather than on the canal towpath, and meet up at Lower Higham, because getting the bents through the Sustrans Gates From Hell will be nigh on impossible. The road route is pretty spiffy, so the degree of deprivation is slight.

That sounds like a smart move. If the route is anything like the one we did on Sunday, there are a couple of places where a trike would be utterly stuffed.

What's the cat's current thoughts? Looking at the forecasts it's not as nice as it was.

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

shame you can't make it chris , anybody cycling back gravesend way as i quite fancy going on the ferry back to essex,i don't think i have time to do aperitifs tour of the south coast

 

[Aperitif]

shame you can't make it chris , anybody cycling back gravesend way as i quite fancy going on the ferry back to essex,i don't think i have time to do aperitifs tour of the south coast

-I was only joking! I'm too scared of leading you astray again Sig. As for the ferry, images of Jules Verne are already springing to mind - I dare not venture on water with bike. 13:00 in Bromley is the cut off time (notice that Andy - one hour 'grace'...)
I did propose to Sittingduck that he drop everything, well, nearly everything, and accompany you because suddenly he knows his way everywhere.
Weather changeable by the weekend too - according to the bouffant featured presenter on Sky weather prancing back and forth with nimbus streaking past in the background...
it's mouseketeer time

 

[GrumpyGregry]

fwiw. my plans for the return home by bike are going to be entirely weather dependant. wimp? me? but of course.

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

i don't mind being led astray

looking back it was quite amusing [for a while] i didn't say anything at the time but i was starting to feel quite ill but just thought i was very tired,but don't know if you remember, my daughter had been throwing up all day well i spent the next 2 days doing the same

 

[dellzeqq]

I would hazard a guess that confidence is being exuded

if that's what you call it, it is, and mostly on the carpet. I've told him about eating mice, but he simply won't listen.

Metcheck is now showing no rain, but a headwind. I'm going to wait until this afternoon. If it shows big rain there'll be a round robin e-mail to elicit cancellations - I don't want to be the proud owner of twenty bacon sarnies from Andy's Cafe.

 

[ChrisKH]

i don't mind being led astray

looking back it was quite amusing [for a while] i didn't say anything at the time but i was starting to feel quite ill but just thought i was very tired,but don't know if you remember, my daughter had been throwing up all day well i spent the next 2 days doing the same

I didn't feel unwell at all the next day. I just couldn't walk.

 

[dellzeqq]

Sig - you have mail. We'll sort something out.

 

[Andrij]

if that's what you call it, it is, and mostly on the carpet. I've told him about eating mice, but he simply won't listen.

Metcheck is now showing no rain, but a headwind. I'm going to wait until this afternoon. If it shows big rain there'll be a round robin e-mail to elicit cancellations - I don't want to be the proud owner of twenty bacon sarnies from Andy's Cafe.

When have you ever seen cyclists leave food behind?!
Cyclists = plague of locusts

 

[dellzeqq]

When have you ever seen cyclists leave food behind?!
Cyclists = plague of locusts

you're quite right! Silly me...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

In the event of big rain (projected and/or actual) what's the form? Do the grizzled ones don rain wear and proceed as planned? Do the really grizzled ones dress as usual, in lycra and sans mudguards, and proceed as planned?

 

[Andrij]

In the event of big rain (projected and/or actual) what's the form? Do the grizzled ones don rain wear and proceed as planned? Do the really grizzled ones dress as usual, in lycra and sans mudguards, and proceed as planned?

Swimwear. Goggles, snorkels and flippers optional.

 

[MacB]

Would appreciate some serious advice re kit for a wet night ride as not done one before