Tour of Hampshire CC Ride - 4th April

[DJ]

Two meeting points from what I can make out:

1. Meet at Kingston Bridge (King's Head Pub) at 8.
2. Meet at Staines BR at 8.3oish / 9ish

Then we all go down to Fleet.

Guess somebody will have to write a considered Post with all the details. I'm out of the office now (scarpers off fast)

No! One meeting point for those coming down from London meeting up with you CoG and the three from West London, Kingston bridge (Kings Head pub)

The London lot are not cycling to Staines we are all meeting up at the bridge. Then carrying on from there! (Unless I have got this wrong) do we have to go through staines to get to Fleet?

So meeting time at the windmill on the common is 0730, and meeting time in Kingston is 0800 one group is to wait for the other group who ever is there first. We should get to Fleet by 1030.

So the London lot are (I think)
Dj
Origamist
tdr1nka
radius
topcat1
ilovebikes
arralsopp
potsy

Correct me if I am wrong!
Yes and Heavy rain???????

 

[Davywalnuts]

You dont have to go through Staines, but I will be, as the A30 is the easiest route for me and am not cycling out to K'town to come back past the same way. The A30 is a straight road basically to Fleet! The differance between coming to Staines from K'town and then going there or going there the shortest way from K'town is only 2 miles.. Up to you lot..

 

[redjedi]

Going through Staines or going direct from Kingston is very little difference.

The Staines route means it's very easy getting to Fleet, straight down the A30. The Direct route from Kingston looks a lot more complicated unless someone knows the way.

I think it would actually work out quicker from Staines.

I'm easy either way (but if we meet in Staines I can get an extra 1/2 hr in bed )

 

[DJ]

Big Edit, Ok Davy is right, just did some more googling and by going to Staines and down the main road we will actualy save ourselves about 6 miles in distance and a lot of hastle reading maps.!!!!!!!

So while I real my neck, in and sit eating a little humble pie!!!,

Here is the latest,

So arrangements as above, in terms of meeting Cog on Kingston bridge, and then we go on to meet Davywalnuts,redjedi and aperatif in Staines at the railway station.

Cheers.

 

[MacB]

can I take it that this means djtheglove has been demoted from chief navigator?

 

[DJ]

can I take it that this means djtheglove has been demoted from chief navigator?

Just trying (maybe too hard) to do some organising!!

I think we are getting there now though.

 

[dellzeqq]

Ach! How are you supposed to stick to that on the descents?

yes you are. It's a park.

Some little while ago I designed a building that will stand close by Wimbledon Chase station. However.....I've heard that the credit crunch may have done for it. Still - there's another one just up the road!

 

[Davywalnuts]

Unless you all aready know the route from K'town to Staines, this way is the one I do a few times a week, very flat, except a slight incline past Thames Water in Hampton, so mind the mozzies there http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&s...0856,-0.498312&spn=0.006916,0.021887&t=h&z=16

Hope this helps!

 

[dellzeqq]

I've always used the Lower Sunbury Road. When the mist is on the river it's a delight.

 

[Davywalnuts]

I've always used the Lower Sunbury Road. When the mist is on the river it's a delight.

Aye, its nice along there, but its a pot hole and mozzie hell right now.. Much more picturesque however..

 

[Aperitif]

If you were going a sort of 'quick route' from Kingston Bridge, how about following Hampton Court Road, over H/Court bridge and turn right into Hurst Road (lovely houses to see)- pass the reservoirs,arrive at Walton, cross the lights into Oakland Drive towards Weybridge, Addlestone - with a nice hill - Chobham Road,- bit bumpy B3121 to A319, Bisley "BAM!!! BAM!" - Bagshot Road B311 to Frimley, then a bit of the A325 towards Farnborough, turning right at Cove Road B3014. Follow the road ahead - to Cove and onward, then left A3013, to pick up the railroad tracks to Fleet.

 

[Radius]

yes you are. It's a park.

I didn't say "are you?", I said "how are you?", meaning given the steepness of one of those hills it would make for some heavy brake-feathering on the way down, something I'm sure the London Dynamo boys don't do...

 

[Radius]

Oof just rushed out (erm....do we say rushed 'on' for online now?) and ordered a waterproof jacket (at great expense ), hopefully it will arrive in time, paid extra for delivery as well

 

[dellzeqq]

I didn't say "are you?", I said "how are you?", meaning given the steepness of one of those hills it would make for some heavy brake-feathering on the way down, something I'm sure the London Dynamo boys don't do...

apologies. But, yes, you use your brakes. And, no, the London Dynamo boys don't. But that's because they're a bunch of posing nitwits.

 

[Radius]

apologies. But, yes, you use your brakes. And, no, the London Dynamo boys don't. But that's because they're a bunch of posing nitwits.

Alles klar, Herr Kommissar! And yes, I think we both agree there RE Dynamo boys