martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
There's never a need for armwarmers
FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast - Brighton 3rd August
- Thread starter dellzeqq
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GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
XCWeather is also saying dry tonight at the London end, but progressively more, albeit slight rain, the closer you get to Brighton. I may chuck the Race Blades onto Red, since they don't exactly add much to the weight!
With a possible worst case temperature at the London end of 12°C near midnight, I'm not sure what to wear. I may wear the long sleeved, but summer weight jersey, and ¾ tights. I think the Goretex waterproof will need to be bunged into the saddlebag, as a totem against any rain.
With a possible worst case temperature at the London end of 12°C near midnight, I'm not sure what to wear. I may wear the long sleeved, but summer weight jersey, and ¾ tights. I think the Goretex waterproof will need to be bunged into the saddlebag, as a totem against any rain.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
It's just a shame we don't really keep lions for this purpose anymore. Watching a Dynamo run away from a lion could be quite entertaining1966026 said:
TEC duty beckons...........
GM
Legendary Member
- Location
- North of the river
Unfortunately I've had to bail out of this one, was looking forward to the ride there and back to do my first ton.
Hope you all have a great night.
Hope you all have a great night.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Tim, you have PM.
London Bridge pickup is bus station side of the station at 11. I'm fairly sure it will be signposted as Guys Hospital if anyone doesn't know it.
redflightuk
Guru
- Location
- going round in circles
Have a good ride peeps.
Well that was interesting.
It was a relatively small ride, by current FNRttC standards, less than 60 people I believe, and that seemed to help the speed. I don't know what time the leaders got in, but the tail must have gotten in before 8am.
Mechanically we've had better rides. Very near the start, someone had a crank fall off. As I understand it, this was resolved, and didn't seem to reoccur, surprisingly, since I would have guessed crank issues would most likely be terminal. We had a dry ride up until 3am-ses, and left there with a fine drizzle. Inevitably, a little further on, the rain clouds rolled up their sleeves, and really got to work on us, at times making it difficult to cycle because of the rain hitting our faces. This in turn bumped up the number of visits by the fairy from zero at that point, to seven by the end of the ride.
No issues prior to the rain, and then seven following the cloudburst, was a pretty definitive demonstration of the effect rain has on visitation likelihood.
Both the Madeira and the Edifice did their normal fine jobs of plying us with food. I managed to put away a fair amount of it, along with the mandatory cup of tea.
Travelling back on FCC was uneventful, and probably less busy than many other trains that I've taken back from FNRttCs. There seemed to be a fair amount of groups of kids at both Brighton and East Croydon stations, more than I've seen at similar times previously. Possibly that's Olympics related, but that is purely conjecture on my part.
I'm now a bit zonked, but trying not to sleep, because that'll bugger up my sleep pattern later.
It was a relatively small ride, by current FNRttC standards, less than 60 people I believe, and that seemed to help the speed. I don't know what time the leaders got in, but the tail must have gotten in before 8am.
Mechanically we've had better rides. Very near the start, someone had a crank fall off. As I understand it, this was resolved, and didn't seem to reoccur, surprisingly, since I would have guessed crank issues would most likely be terminal. We had a dry ride up until 3am-ses, and left there with a fine drizzle. Inevitably, a little further on, the rain clouds rolled up their sleeves, and really got to work on us, at times making it difficult to cycle because of the rain hitting our faces. This in turn bumped up the number of visits by the fairy from zero at that point, to seven by the end of the ride.
No issues prior to the rain, and then seven following the cloudburst, was a pretty definitive demonstration of the effect rain has on visitation likelihood.
Both the Madeira and the Edifice did their normal fine jobs of plying us with food. I managed to put away a fair amount of it, along with the mandatory cup of tea.
Travelling back on FCC was uneventful, and probably less busy than many other trains that I've taken back from FNRttCs. There seemed to be a fair amount of groups of kids at both Brighton and East Croydon stations, more than I've seen at similar times previously. Possibly that's Olympics related, but that is purely conjecture on my part.
I'm now a bit zonked, but trying not to sleep, because that'll bugger up my sleep pattern later.
