Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
Oh yeah, K/O at 8am, so could be interesting!
FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast - Whitstable 6th June
- Thread starter dellzeqq
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martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Yep I'm torn between staying in the Waterfront to watch it or dashing home to hope to watch the recording before anyone tells me the score.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
There's a teensy hope that a young and inexperienced England side won't be over-awed by the All Blacks and will play wide, attacking rugby without fear rather than settling into the attritional attitude adopted by the seasoned campaigners that holds the ABs at bay for an hour then succumbs to a sucker punch try set up by Richie McCaw from a breakdown gather with pass to a wing.
My medication should kick in soon.
Shadow
member
- Location
- edge of the south downs
I'm not too keen on it either but was lumbered with it many moons ago. Maybe you would like one or all of us to change our last name?
a decent offer!
humbert15
Active Member
I might be up for this one. My knee seems to have sorted itself out (hurrah!) - although obviously I'm not ruling out a relapse if the weather forecast's particularly bad. It would work best for me to get a train back to Brighton from Ashford. Does anyone know what the roads are like between Whitstable and Ashford? Or, more pertinently, between Canterbury and Ashford, given the Crab & Winkle option.
the best way to get back is as follows
1. have breakfast
2. have a beer
3. have another beer
4. lose count of beers
5. ride (slowly) to Whitstable station where one might meet Mr. Pokey-Pokey or Mr. Slightly Slow, and demand something called a Groupssseavewhateverthatthingis
All this Crab and Winkling and riding to Ashord (the roads to Ashford are truly frightening, by the way) is beside the point. This is a bike ride, not some kind of penance!
1. have breakfast
2. have a beer
3. have another beer
4. lose count of beers
5. ride (slowly) to Whitstable station where one might meet Mr. Pokey-Pokey or Mr. Slightly Slow, and demand something called a Groupssseavewhateverthatthingis
All this Crab and Winkling and riding to Ashord (the roads to Ashford are truly frightening, by the way) is beside the point. This is a bike ride, not some kind of penance!
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
I'd echo what User10571 said above re the Crab & Winkle Way. However, allow at least 45-50 minutes to get from the Waterfront to Canterbury Station. Some new bits have been tarmaced in the last year or so, but at least half is still gravelly bits.
For then getting to Ashford, you can either do hills or the A28, or a combination unfortunately. The least worst option would be to head out of Canterbury, and then after crossing the A2, turn left to join Cockering Road for a few miles to then re-join the A28 by Chilham station for a mile or so, and then turn off left just before Godmersham, join Sustrans Route 18 and drop down through Wye, and then there's a shared use bridge over the M20 to then follow the A292 into the town centre.
For then getting to Ashford, you can either do hills or the A28, or a combination unfortunately. The least worst option would be to head out of Canterbury, and then after crossing the A2, turn left to join Cockering Road for a few miles to then re-join the A28 by Chilham station for a mile or so, and then turn off left just before Godmersham, join Sustrans Route 18 and drop down through Wye, and then there's a shared use bridge over the M20 to then follow the A292 into the town centre.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
You know there's a train to and from Edinburgh too but where's the fun in that?
mmmmartin
Random geezer
Whitstable-London-Brighton might be quicker than the infrequent, slow service via Ore, Hastings, Polegate, Lewes etc
humbert15
Active Member
thanks! I'll print this off and stick it on my handlebars (or perhaps save it for some light reading on the train...)
