Badgers in heat - Epping Forest Summer rides

Yisssss

Not an option for some of us.

Yours is a special case. From now on, you can ride to Highams Park and catch the train.

Yesterday. No time to open the box yet. Will be wrenching this weekend.

Feck. Overground closed that weekend. Am I the only one who missed that?

http://content.tfl.gov.uk/track-closures.pdf

I'll lead a peloton from Peckham.

Looks like Ponders End is the next best option

Overground: New Cross Gate to Shoreditch High Street

Head to Liverpool Street - 9:30am train to get to Ponders End for 10 and then a short pootle to Chingford.

Will we die on the Lea Valley Road on the way there? Narrow, little overtaking space and lots of suburbanites...

I usually go past Ponders End on the way there. You can ride on the ( deserted ) pavement across the reservoirs and then it's just a case of going up Kings Head Hill and then negotiating the peds on Station Road.

Roads fine, I do it twice a day.

Happy to join that peleton

It's perfectly fine but not part of the route I take.

I normally go Tower Bridge, Springfield Park (either via Bethnal Green -> Homerton -> Towpath or straight up Kingsland Road), Walthamstow then a nice off-road route into the forest from there.

Edit: It's been a while since I've taken that nice off-road route so it may well be a bit of an overly-scenic route... Unless @Dom or @spotter are coming and meet us at Springfield Park

My boss has just told me I have to work :(((((( The one saturday of the YEAR!

I'm in and looking forward to it, missed the last one and determined not to miss this one.
Just finishing my new bike now, a Singular Gryphon, it has temp tyres to get it rolling and I'm now only waiting the proper tyres to arrive.

Remember, there are two rides.

24th of September and 1st of October.

ok, thats perfect

just bought a cx bike so yeah. in.

24th Sep

BN
Doctor_Cake
Howard
Ramsaye
fasih
xkittyx
iorekah
Aroogah
Ricochet
jesm
TomvanHalen
YAL
ninelives
Shoosh
7Üp ?
mmccarthy
Dom ?
pops ?
branwen
dicki ?
stedlocks
Farcuss
Big_Poe
blowfish ?
malandro ?
motter
Bullheart
pit
MetalMelly - date dependent
dangeek
psg1ben
skinnylegs
benp1
Hulsroy
Raoul
plagways
bikes_knob
Brameses
TheShipwright

1st Oct

BN
spotter

Bedwet

IR

Don't add anyone else, it'll be romantic.

I'll bring my saw..

I'm never incorporated a saw into romance before... congrats?

Tell him there's a 'family' engagement that you've had pre planned for months.

It's purely ceremonial.

Hmm. I may need to be on the October ride. We'll see.

I might have remembered where I'm going by that one.

packs flare gun