Wednesday Night Klub Run (WNKR 2015) - a bit like TNRC but not on a Tuesday

Obligatory sunset pic plus the puncture spot:

also found that enjoyable, and feel much better for it today (if a little tired, and legs a little sore in places!);

will ride again, ☺

^ you managed to make that horrible bridge look amazing. If I ever get married, you can take the photo's...

Chilterns route up,

Bring me by Beacons

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/9311430

anybody fancy (re-)visiting these parts?!

noting train times for Tue 21st or Wed 22-Jul,

19:05 London Euston [EUS]
Platform 8

Hemel Hempstead [HML]
Platform 3
19:36

0h 31m

has the controller(s) decided upon Wed. night's venue yet?!

it's very last-minute this season!

almost appropriate for the last-minute rides thread!

note that the weather forecast for the Chilterns looks dry for the evening, but could ride that route any time,

Looks like the mysterious controller has abandoned us so I've posted Wednesday's ride.

'Fraid it's not the Chilterns route Howard, as I haven't recce'd it.

Welwyn... https://www.lfgss.com/events/912

fair enough, would be happy to recce. it with you of an evening sometime before it gets too dark in the evening - as it was a much nicer route with more of it visible by sunlight (!),

just in case anybody wants to join the green tyre-wallers

{currently radmich, @Ramsaye, @Rod_Munch; room for more..!)

ps., see this as bad news (for anybody who prefers looking out of a window instead of looking at adverts),

This is what the new Overground trains will look like,

For regular users of the Liverpool Street to Chingford, Chestnut and Enfield lines, the recent switch from regular old train to part of the shiny London Overground network may have gone relatively unnoticed.

But change is coming, people - well in 2018 at least - and here's the first glimpse. TfL have just released this mock-up of what the new fleet of Overground trains will look like when they hit the tracks in three years' time.

The ancient old chuggers will be replaced with 45 fancy Bombadier four-carriage Aventra trains which, much like the slick trains on the rest of the Overground service, will have air conditioning, walk-through carriages and improved disabled access. Woop! The whole thing is going to cost a whopping £5.7 million and the trains on the Barking to Gospel Oak lines and Romford to Upminster will also be replaced.

I don't think they're going to be burying the Enfield town line in a tunnel somehow. They've already rebranded the stations and started cleaning and rebranding the existing trains. Every station has a member of staff on the platform and well, that's about it so far. They're going to be redoing the station nearest us, improving the street around it etc.
Since the line runs right past the end of our garden I'm hoping the new trains are at least no noisier. If the service gets faster/more frequent I guess that's a bonus in some ways.

The previous owner said the trains got quieter when they replaced the steam ones.

Chestnut

Well, thank goodness they won't be on the Cheshunt line, then.

If the weather looks like it's behaving on Wednesday I cd be persuaded by an off-week ride

L☺

apologies WNKRs but a little out of kilter with the schedule what with the bonus edition(s) of late, when's the next (official) WNKR?

@middleofnowhere, was hoping we could arrange a recce of that Chilterns route sometime (sunny of an evening), BmbB, ☺

me too..

Also, did a really nice ride out of Baldock on Saturday - a shortened version cld be perfect WNKR fayre. May try and reccy something

guess those passengers had to perhaps suffer a loss of fresh air at the expense of glass windows restricting their being in the outdoors,

the new trains will feature the conditioning of air, so no fresh breeze, ah modernity... {sigh}

bring me by horses anyday, ;-)

good to see new route suggestions (as we do seem to replay the golden oldies rather a lot!), but you also gotta get @middleofnowhere to recce it first (!), and there's a queue forming (!),

routes for @middleofnowhere to recce,

1. Bring me by Beacons
   
2. Buzz with me by Baldock
   
   

(although what with Ladies First, could stand aside if MoN fancies Baldock more than beacons!)

Ah, I'm not in a hurry and I think it would be better earlier in the season. Next year ...

@Rod_Munch, either Open Pave puncture number 3, or maybe puncture repair number 2 didn't go so well (!),

fixed Open Pave puncture #3, another small flint, this time from a lap up to Norths (!),

ready for Wednesday, but how are your legs feeling @middleofnowhere, is it gonna be a late call?!

I think it will all hinge on the Birthday party Tuesday night and how badly hungover he gets.

I have wrangled a noon start on Weds so will no way be out in time to ride.

I'm out this week, getting drunk instead.