ThNRC 2016 - Thursday Night Ride Club

(DaRK - Donnerstagabend Radfahrer-Klub)

We're back baby!

The first rule of ThNRC is read the rules .

The second rule of ThNRC is READ THE RULES .

So, it's that time of year again, evenings are stretching out and the temperature is soaring (well, not so much soaring as plummeting), time to grab the rusty old steed out of the shed, half inflate the tyres, tape a pound-shop torch to the handlebars and wobble off into the night.

Ludwig, stop stealing Matt's user account.

Exciting times.

Current plan is the trad season opener, Surrey 5 Hills, on the 17th March, and the "full" season opener will be Roydon a fortnight later.

Could be very cold on the 17th, tho at this distance it's anyone's guess what the weather really will be like. I'll post up the ride as an event when I can be arsed and we'll make a go/no-go decision a day or two before the ride.

Here's to another glorious year of riding by torchlight! Well done for keeping the train rolling MoN.

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See you at Roydon for ride too

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Yes! What a time to be alive.

not sure i approve of the choice of day, but do approve of Roydon so may drag my fat, asthmatic self along.

Just to confirm the tradition

Ride one is Surrey (cold and wet, very few turn up)
Ride two is Roydon (dry and warm, hundreds of riders perhaps up to a dozen)
Ride nearest the longest day is Ingatestone, but a slightly different route each time.

Ride one is Surrey (cold and wet, very few turn up)

True, but I think some people are overly scared of the hilly ones. All the routes are doable fixed by most regular riders. The hilly routes are shorter so we usually have plenty of time to get round (5 hills often gives us the longest pub time of all routes). You will not be in the company of super-human cycling cyborgs (except @Rod_Munch and he reigns it in while he's with us) in fact I've just come out of hibernation so I can GUARANTEE you will not be alone in your suffering in Surrey.

Hmmm, suppose I should get round to posting up the ride now.

Here you go, feast on this...

http://www.lfgss.com/events/1555/

he reigns it in

'reins'

So if this is called DaRK, why isn't that in the thread title?

I genuinely thought they were the same word (control and power as a common theme) and now you've gone and reined on my parade.

So if this is called DaRK, why isn't that in the thread title?

I was going to call it DaRK but I realised I would spend the rest of the season explaining it to people. Also was a little worried that some might think we were up to no good if we kept going on about DaRK rides.

It's the old thing with English homophones, the number one problem in English spelling and grammar education (or lack thereof). They sound the same but are derived from different roots. It's worth looking through a list of them at least once:

http://www.learnenglish.de/homophones/homophones.html

On the plus side, homophones make bad puns much easier to achieve.

I was going to call it DaRK but I realised I would spend the rest of the season explaining it to people.

I daresay people would be able to spot the connection between thread title and first post.

Also was a little worried that some might think we were up to no good if we kept going on about DaRK rides.

Darken TF down. :)

This'll need explaining at some point.

You will not be in the company of super-human cycling cyborgs (except @Rod_Munch and he reigns it in while he's with us)

Ha, my 5 week old daughter is actively de-cyborging me as we speak. I'll be lucky to make it round I reckon (I bonked after 30miles last week!)...

Congrats!

Not on the bonk though, that's just sad.

Ah, was wondering when the official announcement might be. Congrats.

I bonked after 30miles last week!

it's only 31.5 miles and the last 1.5 are downhill, you'll be fine (I haven't ridden 30 miles since last year).

Oh, oh, oh, look what's just gone up...

http://www.lfgss.com/events/1627/

How exciting!!!