Pain in the backside train issues.

[Racing roadkill]

I’m planning this month’s imperial century challenge ride, and my initial plan has had its metaphorical balls kicked, by ‘engineering works’ on the train journey part to the start. I’ve found a way around it, but it’s a bit of a Jip. Why the hell the train people have decided to do this, on a very busy main route, on a Saturday ( rather than Sunday ) is beyond me. Anyway, we shall see. If this works, it’s one for the ‘scrapbook of crazy ideas on a bike’.

 

[BurningLegs]

Come on then, what are the plans?!

 

[Racing roadkill]

Come on then, what are the plans?!

Riggghhhht then. I was going to get a train to Woking, from a station about 4 miles away, ride to LMNH in Old street from Woking, then the 80 odd miles from Old street to home. Unfortunately the train from that station is bolloksed, by engineering works, which means I have to take an around the houses route to Woking, from a station 10 miles away. I’ll also have to trek up to the Velodrome in London to make the mileage work.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Why the hell the train people have decided to do this, on a very busy main route, on a Saturday ( rather than Sunday ) is beyond me.

Just think of the uproar if they tried to do it on a Wednesday

 

[Racing roadkill]

Just think of the uproar if they tried to do it on a Wednesday

Wednesday would be better

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Wednesday would be better

For you maybe

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What kind of bike space do your trains have?

 

[Racing roadkill]

What kind of bike space do your trains have?

Full carriage, or 2, 3 bike space carriages.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Due to the train shenanigans, I’ve decided to do something totally different today instead. Unfortunately the Garmin decided it wanted to go home after 15 miles, fortunately I spotted it early enough, and only ended up adding 10 miles to the outward leg. I’m just refuelling at a ‘spoons, then I’ll get the homeward leg completed👍 To be fair, as soon as I punched the Garmin, and re started the route, it’s given me some ( extremely mucky ) but nice quiet roads to get to the stop point ( Littlehampton ).

 

[Blue Hills]

Which spoons?
How is it?
My Garmin has them all stored.
Confession - sent from outside sandbach spoons, fully loaded, after much train joy.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Which spoons?
How is it?
My Garmin has them all stored.
Confession - sent from outside sandbach spoons, fully loaded, after much train joy.

The George Inn in Littlehampton. Great burgers in here.