Tour of Hampshire CC Ride - 4th April

[DJ]

...probably be enough to get you to John O'Groats!

Now that would be a thing, (on the phone to missus) "Sorry love will be a little longer than intended"!!!!!!

I reckon I would be like a cartoon character and just keep pedalling across to the Orkney's or Scandinavia or somewhere!!!!!

"just stick it in the oven love" I'll be back soon!!!!

 

[Auntie Helen]

I reckon I would be like a cartoon character and just keep pedalling across to the Orkney's or Scandinavia or somewhere!!!!!

Do you have a handy bike-to-pedalo conversion kit?

 

[topcat1]

Hello all, i'm considering doing this ride (weather pending) .
Can we have a roll call please and who's riding down from London?
dave

 

[DJ]

Do you have a handy bike-to-pedalo conversion kit?

Now there is an idea, Patent pending I shall consider it!!!!


I reckon if I could find a handy trike it would be easier, might have to put some ballast under my bum though

 

[Auntie Helen]

You can always have a go of my trike as Ianrauk did... It was amusing watching him going slowly up hills as I whizzed ahead on his whizzy bike!

 

[Aperitif]

Hello all, i'm considering doing this ride (weather pending) .
Can we have a roll call please and who's riding down from London?
dave

I'm hoping to do this - nearest flipping ride to me and I might have to work! Your experience and ability to discern the best pastry refuelling stops will come in handy for the wannabe hardcore peloton Dave...come on down. Straight line from Kew Bridge to Fleet more or less...5 mins with wheels like yours!

 

[DJ]

I'm hoping to do this - nearest flipping ride to me and I might have to work! Your experience and ability to discern the best pastry refuelling stops will come in handy for the wannabe hardcore peloton Dave...come on down. Straight line from Kew Bridge to Fleet more or less...5 mins with wheels like yours!

Oh! I hate to admit it, the man has such a turn of phrase.

Basically I think he means, you will put s all in the dark. TC

 

[Aperitif]

Don't mean that at all - just that topcat1 is good company in a gang of like-minded folk all doing their best, and he would add to the enjoyment of the day!

 

[DJ]

I know, I was only joshing, I didn't know what I was on about last night!

Hopefully I am going for a blusterry ride with TC today.

 

[Aperitif]

He'll stuff you...full of cake! Have fun.

 

[Auntie Helen]

Hi folks,

Think I'm going to bow out of this one. It's an awfully long drive and quite a hilly ride so I think I shall trundle around somewhat closer to home. Sorry to miss you all though! Enjoy your mile munching, you mad people who are cycling there and back from London!

 

[DJ]

Shame Helen, You shall be missed, I won't know where the back marker is now, as there won't be the sound of cycling chat coming from the rear!!! Oh that's not meant to be rude BTW


Talking of which, is the Windmill on the common, a suitable rendesvous for the riders in that area? Then set off down to meet others in Kingston.

 

[Auntie Helen]

Shame Helen, You shall be missed, I won't know where the back marker is now, as there won't be the sound of cycling chat coming from the rear!!! Oh that's not meant to be rude BTW

D'you know, the last group ride I was on I wasn't the back marker! Maybe there's hope for me yet. I shall miss y'all of course, particularly those kind gentlemen that periodically push me up hills (djtheglove and tdr1nka).

You lot won't want cycling chat anyway, you'll all be gasping for air after your 600-mile ride on that day. Madness!

 

[MacB]

D'you know, the last group ride I was on I wasn't the back marker! Maybe there's hope for me yet. I shall miss y'all of course, particularly those kind gentlemen that periodically push me up hills (djtheglove and tdr1nka).

You lot won't want cycling chat anyway, you'll all be gasping for air after your 600-mile ride on that day. Madness!

that's a shame but appreciate it is a long way to come, though I think back marker spot will be mine, regardless. Unlucky for them really as I'd make a great wind break at the front, just a bit too slow Drafting at 10mph probably isn't their idea of fun!!

 

[Bollo]

that's a shame but appreciate it is a long way to come, though I think back marker spot will be mine, regardless. Unlucky for them really as I'd make a great wind break at the front, just a bit too slow Drafting at 10mph probably isn't their idea of fun!!

I'll be keeping you company as the lanterne rouge, although in my case I'll be using words like "recovery", "intervals", "training plan" and "riding smarter" to give the false impression that I could ride faster if I wanted to.

I'm bringing the 'all-the-gear-no-idea' road bike on the 4th as I've decided to ride from Winch, otherwise I'd have brought the Thorn ST for you to try out, MacB. Sorry. I hope your recent concerns about expenditure haven't affected your bike-buying plans? Something iMotion-9 equipped wasn't it?