FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast - Brighton 3rd August

[StuartG]

What station do you travel from?

Sydenham - so I can go one station up the line into User10571-land ...

 

[User10571]

Or, at the risk of sounding radical, you could err..... umm....... ride?

 

[StuartG]

User10571 - see 3 posts up. Do you need company?

 

[User10571]

User10571 - see 3 posts up. Do you need company?

My mistake...

 

[Sketchley]

Sydenham - so I can go one station up the line into User10571-land ...

Can you not simpy go Sydenham to London Bridge?

 

[StuartG]

Can you not simpy go Sydenham to London Bridge?

Nope - not allowed on Southern's Metro service at any time ...the only legal way to do it is to take the Overground south to Norwood Junction, catch a mainline Southern service south and a FCC back to LBG. Crazy?

I'm just goin' to have to pedal dammit!

 

[martint235]

Errmm, it's not very far from Sydenham to HPC is it? Not in the grand scheme of things ie you're cycling to Brighton?

 

[Wobblers]

Hi All
This is the first time that i have ever used a blog/twitter or whatever.
I,m in Bromsgrove and one of my patients mentioned this ride and as i have never cycled intentionally in the dark, it sounds great. If you are open to new registrants then that would be great?
How do i join you up and where does it begin?

Adrian

this would be a patient with a bone sticking out of his ankle.......

I have absolutely no memory of mentioning the FNRttC to anyone medically inclined at all so I'm afraid I can't take the credit at all. It could be explained by some pain killer fuelled high I suppose but I didn't think tramadol was quite that strong.

 

[Wobblers]

Andrew has 'rock star' legs - therin lies the (marginal) difference. Mary Peters doesn't know much about physics 'n stuff either, whereas Andrew is the resident 'boff' on FNRs

Ha. There's no point trying to appeal to my better side Martin because I haven't got one.

 

[dellzeqq]

it's a pain in the arse to ride up through South London at closing time, though.

Stuart - I'd take the Oyster card and give it a go. Is Sydenham Hill or Penge East staffed at night?

 

[StuartG]

I live on the side of a mini-Ditchling and its nice to leave bottom ring grinding till later. Having said that I'd rather cruise up to HPC in my own time than chance the train with the possibility of a last minute dash up it - I'm not a dashing guy

Of course if its pi**ing down I might just chance it.

 

[ceepeebee]

Stuart - if you can get round to Croxted Road without going up the Berg it's a fairly decent run, the only fly in the ointment being Brixton High Road with all the buses and the people milling about. That apart it's reasonable though I go Gipsy Hill (downwards), Croxted Road, Dulwich Road, Effra road, Brixton, Stockwell, Vauxhall, Bridge, VBR, Grosvenor Place.

For some reason on a Friday night I always manage to sail round the Vauxhall one-way system, something I can't do at any other time....

 

[User10571]

Stuart - if you can get round to Croxted Road without going up the Berg it's a fairly decent run, the only fly in the ointment being Brixton High Road with all the buses and the people milling about. That apart it's reasonable though I go Gipsy Hill (downwards), Croxted Road, Dulwich Road, Effra road, Brixton, Stockwell, Vauxhall, Bridge, VBR, Grosvenor Place.

For some reason on a Friday night I always manage to sail round the Vauxhall one-way system, something I can't do at any other time....

Or equally, miss out the busy road experience by taking (what I believe is mostly LCN route 25) Dulwich Road, Brixton Water Lane, dog-leg across Brixton Hill into Lambert Rd, Mandrell Road, dog-leg into Crescent Lane, cross Kings Ave,Elms Crescent, Narbonne Avenue, across Clapham Common (remembering not to loiter) Cedars Avenue and the rest is Robert's your father's brother - all well signposted and wholly lacking evidence of Friday night revelry.

 

[ceepeebee]

Or equally, miss out the busy road experience by taking (what I believe is mostly LCN route 25) Dulwich Road, Brixton Water Lane, dog-leg across Brixton Hill into Lambert Rd, Mandrell Road, dog-leg into Crescent Lane, cross Kings Ave,Elms Crescent, Narbonne Avenue, across Clapham Common (remembering not to loiter) Cedars Avenue and the rest is Robert's your father's brother - all well signposted and wholly lacking evidence of Friday night revelry.

I keep meaning to try that, but, somewhat perversely I feel safer cycling round there at that time on big busy streets with more people around.

 

[StuartG]

Thanks lads - but I commuted from here to Central London for 30 years so I think I know every dog leg in the business. Especially the places I'm not going to cycle alone that time of night. Yep I've been mugged on my bike in Dulwich!

That's the problem living the better side of the hill.

I'm thinking about taking the Brommie instead. Solves all known problems 'cept Ditchling itself. Might be fun failing ...