anothersam
SMIDSMe
- Location
- Far East Sussex
I'm organising an Independence Day ride this July. It's planned for the 14th or the 21st, the final decision to be based on weather/participation forecasts, railtrack engineering works, and the reading of entrails. If you're interested, I would be grateful if you could email your preferred date to hastingshustle at gmail.com, with 'hastings' in the subject line.
While it's true that this doesn't take place on the 4th (I'm American), I note that the Queen doesn't officially celebrate her birthday on her birthday, either.
This is the route, with a few mostly minor alterations in the works. It finishes at the America Ground, a patch of land whose inhabitants declared independence in the early 19th century.
On the way we will be visiting or at least catching sight of the Crystal Palace Park dinosaurs, Down House, Chartwell, Tunbridge of the disgusting Well, Kipling country, a pyramid, and Battle, where in an alternate reality the British fought the Americans and George Washington shot an arrow into crazy King George's IIIrd eye.
The meeting place is Somerset House on the NE corner of Waterloo Bridge, down the glass-sided ramp. Start is 9am, and it will in all likelihood take all day — last time we finished at around 5, and that was with just three of us, with roughly matched abilities. The 'hustle' is chiefly for the purpose of alliteration; pace will be whatever keeps us reasonably close together. Basically, wait at the top of big hills and turns.
This is an unsupported ride. Much of it runs not too far from a railway line, if anybody wants to bail. (The Hastings line is, in my experience, cyclist friendly.) I prefer to do it on a sunny day because there are some great British views, and hills are steeper when it's gloomy.
While it's true that this doesn't take place on the 4th (I'm American), I note that the Queen doesn't officially celebrate her birthday on her birthday, either.
This is the route, with a few mostly minor alterations in the works. It finishes at the America Ground, a patch of land whose inhabitants declared independence in the early 19th century.
On the way we will be visiting or at least catching sight of the Crystal Palace Park dinosaurs, Down House, Chartwell, Tunbridge of the disgusting Well, Kipling country, a pyramid, and Battle, where in an alternate reality the British fought the Americans and George Washington shot an arrow into crazy King George's IIIrd eye.
The meeting place is Somerset House on the NE corner of Waterloo Bridge, down the glass-sided ramp. Start is 9am, and it will in all likelihood take all day — last time we finished at around 5, and that was with just three of us, with roughly matched abilities. The 'hustle' is chiefly for the purpose of alliteration; pace will be whatever keeps us reasonably close together. Basically, wait at the top of big hills and turns.
This is an unsupported ride. Much of it runs not too far from a railway line, if anybody wants to bail. (The Hastings line is, in my experience, cyclist friendly.) I prefer to do it on a sunny day because there are some great British views, and hills are steeper when it's gloomy.
