London and Home Counties Cycle Chat Rides 2010

[TheDoctor]

I'll do one in early June.
Redjedi and redflight UK might find the route familiar, for the most part.
How do we feel about Sundays? I could do one with extra cake stops if it was a Sunday...

 

[Auntie Helen]

I'll happily do one again, CoG, although I need to check on the wretched railway engineering work situation as they're digging up the track again at the moment. Maybe May?

 

[Auntie Helen]

How about Saturday 8th May? I have already prepared an 'Essex Is Flat' ride which is a mostly flat pootle around the Tendring Plain, but I might try and come up with something with a bit more variety.

 

[mike e]

Hello all and sundry,

A Northern perspective for what it's worth...

Prefer Saturdays, on a Sunday the earliest I can arrive into Kings Cross is 11:47.

I like Steve's idea of User's ride meeting up with Simon's...?

I am usually on holiday for Easter so might not be able to make that ride...

Something in July to meet up with the TDF, nip across to France / Belgium to watch some cobbly riding...?

Large it to the Tourmalet...(transport may be required)

A daylight ride from Hull, so you can see all what you will miss in the dark...

A 2nd leg of MY's Strines ride?

Happy planning everyone, look forward to seeing you all on a ride.

 

[TheDoctor]

Just to merrily confuse the whole issue, I'm thinking of doing Dells TNRttC in July, and overshooting slightly. That's the one to Newhaven, Dieppe and (in my personal case) Paris and back on Eurostar. If I could get tangled up with the Tour that would add to the mayhem. Especially if I was on the Brommie.

 

[Aperitif]

4th April is Easter Sunday. Might that limit pub availability for lunches?

I eggspect so...

 

[Aperitif]

I'll do one in early June.
Redjedi and redflight UK might find the route familiar, for the most part.
How do we feel about Sundays? I could do one with extra cake stops if it was a Sunday...

These Lundun Northish events shall be known as "Herts and Minds" series...

I think ride organisers should be on unfamiliar territory when they conduct their rides..I always am!

 

[TheDoctor]

OK - I'll lead a ride around Teefs part of the world, he can lead my one. That makes perfect sense!!!

 

[iLB]

I wouldn't mind leading some poor southerners into the peaks and showing some of the 'best' hills the area has to offer, all the while regailing you with stories of how the derbyshire area was covered by tropical seas 350 Ma ago during the carboniferous period, as a result of derbyshire having once been located just above the equator!

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

I'll do one in early June.
Redjedi and redflight UK might find the route familiar, for the most part.
How do we feel about Sundays? I could do one with extra cake stops if it was a Sunday...

Can't do sundays-skateboarding and elderly parent duties

 

[Aperitif]

OK - I'll lead a ride around Teefs part of the world, he can lead my one. That makes perfect sense!!!

But I have no idea where I live! However, I do know the way to somewhere I don't know.
The 2010 series of rides will take place on a Saturday then, although they may neither have started, or indeed ended on a Saturday!

This year I am appealing for everyone to be sensible and realistic.

Tony, you do know that Eurostar has a fair sized area for outsize luggage ie: bikes, because I did moot the idea of a continuation to Paris then return with Clivedb among others - which would mean you could take a grown up bike.
Too much to think about at the mo but it is a good thought.

 

[clivedb]

I'm missing the cake too, oh, and everyone else!

Why not join the nocturnal dash to Bognor next Friday, weather permitting?

There's been too much cake, etc, and too little riding, so for me it'll be more of a wobble than a dash to Bognor.

 

[ianrauk]

yup... good idea

What about 'teef's idea about FOLLOWING the M25?

 

[Aperitif]

I'll work up a "plan"
Bring a caravan - it'll be too long a ride for just a sleeping bag!

Alternatively, we could all go on one of User's 'rides' and have a lie in!

Second only to his brother's famous cycling friendly restaurant/bar which was conveniently closed when we passed through Stanley Spencer country on my sorry, topcat1's Bank Holiday Ride - which, incidentally, is a good read! http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=41980 *
Plenty of ability mix here so, if you are 'lurking' and want to come - just post something here and join in! (Your pin No. is a good way to make friends quickly, followed by supplying cakes - it's easy! )

*WARNING. Includes the word 'Cock' with graphic detail...

 

[mr_cellophane]

What about 'teef's idea about FOLLOWING the M25?

I started to do the London Loop which is effectively the M25 as a footpath. Unfortunately I found that much of it is not suitable for anything other than a full mountain bike so I only did 3 sections and skipped the rest of the 104 miles.