The BHF London to Brighton

It certainly wasn't at the daytime event. In fact, there was no sign of it being enforced at all.

I'm doing my first night cycle this year - really need to get a geared bike sorted out in time! Else, it's 60 miles on an ancient BSA... yikes

Any one doing this this year?
Im planning on riding from Rochester to London then doing the L2B before riding home would be cool to do the L2B leg with some people other than RCC

I'm on the night ride.

I'm doing it with the work crew, but our time slot is 8am, so basically we will be stuck in traffic and most like behind people pushing their bikes up hills...

I'm doing it with work people too, got the 7.30 slot but might try to leave earlier. Ho, let's get a pint on the beach!

I'll try to catch up to hopefully make it just after 12pm, technically we can have a quick pint/ice cream pending weather! ;)

Are you there for moral support Ho or did my last ride to Brighton give you a taste for the 9mph average speed?

Probably going to be more around 5mph with my start time! Also hopefully my new roadie will be here so I can stretch the new gals legs on the open road,

I'm going with my work group - but they've all booked an 8,30 start!! Which means that a long ride will take even longer, and we probablly won't get in till 3.00 ish.

Taking the Pomp out for her first ride in public - did a 30 mile training ride today in the rain and she didn't let me down :-)

I'm doing the night ride with work...i believe we are booked to start at 10pm or 11pm...anyone else doing it on fixie?

I'm doing the LtBday ride with some coworkers on Sunday. Doing it fixed, like last year. Plan is to drive down tomorrow morning, drop the car off in Brighton, ride back to London tomorrow afternoon, and then ride back down on Sunday.

Ive never heard of this ride, is it a new one?

Nope, been going for years. It's basically a massive wobbly nodderthon for people who think that riding the 55 miles to Brighton is the achievement of a lifetime. Quite good fun, even if it did take us 9 hours to do the journey last year.

9 hours? who the hell did you bring that brought you down to a crawl?

The 28,000 other people getting in the way, I suspect, along with (probably) stopping at the odd pub en route.

I'm solely tempted to go just to see how ridiculous it'll get.

45 minutes to do half a mile at one point due to the 'traffic control' at a junction - cyclists filling the road for as far as the eye could see. A few pub stops, some long stops for cakes and nom-noms, waiting for some people to trudge up Ditchling Beacon, many traffic jams of bikes at the lights in London, a broken chain, 3 punctures and one person getting lost. Oh, and stopping to laugh at one roadwarrior who managed to go over the handlebars going uphill. Like I said, it's quite fun, but it ain't fast.

I find it difficult to handle unless leaving at six am, when it's quite good fun.

Oh, and stopping to laugh at one roadwarrior who managed to go over the handlebars going uphill.

I think I remember you mentioning this, still can't picture it!

8am start for us. Nodder central. The bloke coming off uphill was quite funny. He was trying to race me, so I stood on the pedals to kick off for the top of the hill. He did too, and in the process threw himself over the bars. Still don't know how he managed it.

^ Lol, actually looking forward this now! what a way to spend a sunday morning to have the longest ride to brighton...starting at 8am too.

Well, if you see someone on a red On-One Macinato wearing a red merino top saying '9 Stone Buildings' then do say hello...

A mate of mine is doing this ride but wearing a doctor's stethoscope with a microphone inserted in it recording 3 minute clips of his heartbeat which are uploaded in batches to https://soundcloud.com/jonny-helm for a live-ish audio stream. If people make BHF donations he's giving out recordings of the "highlights" of his heartbeat with some other of his music as well...

Yes, I am partaking. As Directeur Sportif of Team Carlos-Weltschmerz, I was on the ball and bagged us a 6.30 start. We have a trophy and everything.

Our team Code of Conduct & Ethics decree that members wear jerseys that pre-date the Festina Affair. I'll be wearing an ONCE top dating back to 1996. Anybody who turns up in a comedy Foska jersey is instantly dismissed from the team, with no right of appeal.

http://thekindnessoftrees.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/sponsor-team-carlos-weltschmerz-please.html