FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast 21st March - Burnham-on-Crouch via Junction 31

[slowmotion]

@dellzeqq , this hill of which you speak...is it Portnalls Road or Turners Hill ? Or worse?
I feel the need for some mental and spiritual preparation before the challenge. A new cassette too.

 

[theclaud]

the village is about 35m above sea level

 

[ianrauk]

@dellzeqq , this hill of which you speak...is it Portnalls Road or Turners Hill ? Or worse?
I feel the need for some mental and spiritual preparation before the challenge. A new cassette too.

The best preparation is to not think or worry about it.
Just ride your bike.

 

[Wobblers]

There's no need to boast about the Welsh hills you know...

 

[dellzeqq]

the hill is over a km long and rises 87 metres. Susie sailed up it.

 

[StuartG]

the hill is over a km long and rises 87 metres. Susie sailed up it.

College Road, Dulwich like?
Or is the Rotherhithe bit just a feint?

 

[slowmotion]

The best preparation is to not think or worry about it.
Just ride your bike.

I have just removed the 11-27 cassette and replaced it with a 13-29. I await my fate.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I have just removed the 11-27 cassette and replaced it with a 13-29. I await my fate.

I'll soldier on with just the one gear.
Much less to think about.

 

[dellzeqq]

I'll soldier on with just the one gear.
Much less to think about.

College Road, Dulwich like?
Or is the Rotherhithe bit just a feint?

tougher than College Road - but not by much

 

[slowmotion]

I'll soldier on with just the one gear.

So will I...the 29 tooth one.

 

[Tim Hall]

The best preparation is to not think or worry about it.
Just ride your bike.

I'm sure Charlie the Bikemonger does a sticker expressing such a sentiment (more or less).

 

[User10571]

The. Hill.
Was first mentioned on page six.
We're now up to page nine.
The effect has been extraordinary.

It's a hill.
We rode / walked it in the early hours of last Saturday morning.
No one died.
But.....
But...... but...... but....
Teh content of these last few pages creates mischief in what passes for my branes.

Mischief of the Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy kind.
For example: (and I know that it is really, really wrong of me to even think about this...)
But.....
If, for instance.....
I was to cook one of you a wonderfully tasty meal.
One of the best you've ever had.
You'll love it, and wolf it down.
Only it contains poison.
Which makes you really ill.
But I'll nurse you back to health.
For which you'll be really, really thankful.
And really like me.
Then.
When you're back to full health....
I'll cook you a wonderfully tasty meal.
One of the best you've ever had
You'll love it, and wolf it down
Only it contains poison..........
Which makes you really ill.
But I'll nurse you back to health.
For which you'll be really, really thankful.
And really like me.
And so the dubious circle continues...

It's the same with hills.
I've told you about a hill I had to walk (parts of).
DZ has called it 'a monster'
Susie has made reference to it.
The forum alarm bells and sirens have been ringing, with red lights flashing ever since.
To an extraordinary extent.

It is a hill which most of you will ride up with ease.
Some of you will ride it with some effort.
A few of you might walk parts of it.
I did. (I was riding fixed)
It'll not kill you, or lose you your credibility or fertility.
In no way will it detract from the rest of the ride.
Which is superb, and easy, and predominately flat.
And, as DZ says, the view from the top is breathtaking.

What's not to like?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

We have to talk about something, so The Hill, as it is now known, will have to do.

Precisely.

 

[rb58]

The. Hill.
What's not to like?

Just got the fixed back out of the shed.....

 

[User10571]

Just got the fixed back out of the shed.....

That's the spirit!