Sunday/Saturday morning rides to the coast

[User10571]

Without stating the obvious..... London departures anything before 08:00am (preferably earlier) on a weekend, and the roads are pretty much your's until you reach the leafy green stuff - the congregations of Asda, B&Q et al don't stir for their Sunday Service until much later.....

 

[martint235]

I'm very much up for a seaside jaunt particularly on summer weekends. I don't mind pootling along but I would want to cycle back so I'd be looking at getting to the seaside around 1pm so I'd be going for early starts too.

 

[Becs]

Without stating the obvious..... London departures anything before 08:00am (preferably earlier) on a weekend, and the roads are pretty much your's until you reach the leafy green stuff - the congregations of Asda, B&Q et al don't stir for their Sunday Service until much later.....

Solved by getting on a train to the outskirts of London. Why does to have to be to the coast? Could it just be weekend rides to somewhere nice at fnrttc pace?

 

[StuartG]

Would it be nicer to start at the edge of London (Purley/Watford/Uxbridge etc) so we get enjoying the green straightaway and maybe add the ten miles onto the pretty end of the trip we lose passing through the all-too-visible surburbs?

 

[velovoice]

Someone recently mentioned having cycled to Bognor at a steady but not frantic pace in 6.5 hours, so a 10 am start wouldn't mean that much of a late finish would it?

Yes, I believe that was Susie. I don't know if that was rolling time or elapsed time, though.

 

[velovoice]

Solved by getting on a train to the outskirts of London.

Hmm, rather not. Racing to catch early morning trains to get somewhere by a set time is what I do during the week.

Why does to have to be to the coast? Could it just be weekend rides to somewhere nice at fnrttc pace?

Yes of course! It's not an either/or thing though. New thread?
I really like the idea of doing what is essentially a FNRttC but as a daytime weekend trip, so I bumped this thread to find out if others are interested in that.

 

[Becs]

Hmm, rather not. Racing to catch early morning trains to get somewhere by a set time is what I do during the week.

Yes of course! It's not an either/or thing though. New thread?
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Would just mean the same people would have to reply twice!

 

[velovoice]

Would just mean the same people would have to reply twice!

I watch lots of threads and don't have a problem with this... There are already two (or more) different 'proposals' on offer here - which is far more confusing than having more than one thread going on - to which people can reply 'yea' or 'nay' to without resulting in confusion as to which ride they've responded about.

Sorry, but I didn't bump this particular thread with the expectation that people might pitch in telling me why I should do something else instead??

 

[User10571]

Yes, I believe that was Susie. I don't know if that was rolling time or elapsed time, though.

Elapsed.
Rolling was closer to 5.5 hrs.

 

[velovoice]

Elapsed.
Rolling was closer to 5.5 hrs.

Thanks User10571. I'm a lot slower than Susie but that's an excellent time to aspire to.

 

[Becs]

Sorry, but I didn't bump this particular thread with the expectation that people might pitch in telling me why I should do something else instead??

not telling - I thought we were brain-storming ideas!

 

[velovoice]

not telling - I thought we were brain-storming ideas!

Yes... for a weekend daylight ride to the coast somewhere...?

 

[Becs]

Yes... for a weekend daylight ride to the coast somewhere...?

Sorry I thought the people that were interested in riding to the coast would also be interested in riding to other nice places. My bad

 

[velovoice]

Sorry I thought the people that were interested in riding to the coast would also be interested in riding to other nice places. My bad

We would, we would!! I would love to do your Cambridgeshire ride - was really disappointed I couldn't make the date last summer. If you're thinking of doing it again this year, maybe start a fresh thread about that and we can all talk dates and go from there? That'd be great.

 

[Becs]

We would, we would!! I would love to do your Cambridgeshire ride - was really disappointed I couldn't make the date last summer. If you're thinking of doing it again this year, maybe start a fresh thread about that and we can all talk dates and go from there? That'd be great.

I won't be doing it this year (too much work on trying to finish the thesis!) but my Dad and some other guys in the village are going to start running it annually again as a fund raiser for Arthur Rank Hospice (they did this for 9 years - I just hijacked the route!). There will be 18 mile, 30 mile and 50 mile routes to choose from (you can add an extra 12 miles by cycling to and from cambridge station) so I will definitely post it up here when the date is finalised. I'm hoping that the mods will leave it in the main part of the forum as it's local rather than corporate charity riding!