Thursday Night Ride to the Coast April 9th

[dellzeqq]

for list see next page...

three withdrawals so far - understandable given the forecast...(later edit) which has now improved! Hooray! All it took was a few prawns and some chicken poached in pink champagne (I'd run out of white wine).

 

[Aperitif]

I'm very particular about my Big Breakfasts, when I have one. They consist of:

A pint of fruit juice.
Two large mugs of hot tea.
4 large sausages
one rasher of thick bacon
Piece of black pudding
Fried egg
Fried tomato (half)
some beans
hash brown
mushrooms

with brown sauce amd mustard

Followed by berries, orange, pineapple, apple and grapefruit segments mixed with yoghurt in a large bowl.

See if the Sarfend cafe can provide that for, say, a tenner. Be well impressed if it does.

Crock - more power to your gut...but how are you going to mop up the residues? Surely, bread and butter, with absorbent, gummy white bread is a must?
It might be an idea to email the café and give warning...

 

[dellzeqq]

it's all a question of timing. Apparently. And we have a C+M member with us!

 

[TimO]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned earlier, but it looks like the trains from Southend Victoria are buggered, since there's a bus journey in the middle of the way back to London. Southend Central trains to Fenchurch Street look OK though.

 

[Andrij]

Weather is looking better. Maybe it'll be time to dust off the sandals...

 

[MacB]

I've spent 12 years watching forecasts with regard to playing golf, swop sports and waht am I doing again?

 

[dellzeqq]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned earlier, but it looks like the trains from Southend Victoria are buggered, since there's a bus journey in the middle of the way back to London. Southend Central trains to Fenchurch Street look OK though.

indeed it has. The Southend Central trains are four an hour, so we should get away in decent time. There are a couple of people who live in East London, and a few more who live in Southend, and we have some returning by bike, so I'd imagine that we'd have 40 or so spread over five trains.....

 

[dellzeqq]

Mike e
User10571
Richard C
delthebike
Tim O
Cllr. Greg P
Adrian C
radius
Flying Dodo
davywal-nuts of charcoal
Marna G
Pete G
Mista Preston
coruskate
ilovebikes
ChrisKH
Aperitif
SigSilverPrinter
McBludgeon
Helen B
Tom McD
Peter W
Laura B
Clive Bn
Barry T
topcat1
Jonathan C
Matthew S
Des O'D
Simon P
Louise L
Brian P
aralsopp
Marilyn B
Chris By
Philippa G
Jack F
Charlotte B
Liz N
Pete B
Carl W
Eddie C
Kathy P
Tim P
Tom E
Dave J
Andrij B
Alan L
Simon C
Jane D
Katsura I
John G
Jane G
Graham H
Lesley I
Robert I
Ronee I
the Mysterious Pavel
Tourist Tony

the weather forecast is showing small amounts of rain, and higher temperatures than hitherto. So all is good. Ish.

 

[Shrimp_Stu]

Hi, I'll hopefully by out on the local roads on Friday morning - might see some of you if I'm about. I usually hit the seafront cycle lanes by 8am as part of my loop.
Unfortunately, being relatively new to cycling I'm not up for this TNRTTC (especially as I suffered my first crash last weekend ). However, I am tempted by the next FNRTTC to Southend would make an alternative commute home I suppose!

 

[Aperitif]

Hello 'Shrimp'_Stu...I think a good one would be for you to try a run to the home of the oyster - at Whistable. Then we could all 'seafood' at breakfast...

 

[ChrisKH]

whats the best route from liverpool st station to HPC?

ChrisKH - what time are you coming in from essex? maybe i could meet up with you.

cherry cake anyone

Sig. You have mail. Always up for cherry cake!

 

[dellzeqq]

ChrisKH and Sig - if you arrive at Liverpool Street at 10.30 you will see a gentleman who looks like Santa Claus. He will be riding a tandem. He will meet his stoker - a slender young woman of surpassing beauty and fierce intellect. They will guide you to HPC, if you wish.

 

[ChrisKH]

ChrisKH and Sig - if you arrive at Liverpool Street at 10.30 you will see a gentleman who looks like Santa Claus. He will be riding a tandem. He will meet his stoker - a slender young woman of surpassing beauty and fierce intellect. They will guide you to HPC, if you wish.

Sounds like a good plan dellzeqq. Sig you can come into either station then. Happy to meet you at either.

 

[Flying Dodo]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned earlier, but it looks like the trains from Southend Victoria are buggered, since there's a bus journey in the middle of the way back to London. Southend Central trains to Fenchurch Street look OK though.

Well that's annoying. When I checked on the C2C website yesterday, it assured me there weren't going to be any engineering problems at all.

Train companies - pah.

 

[TimO]

Best to check this sort of thing on the National Rail website.

There is a Search page.