2007-05-27 - Let's ride to Southend and then out into the sea

Mario
Roberto
Al
Mark
Keith
Stef
aidan
rkn
Cat
Toby
slamm
lycralovinaussiecnut
velocity boy
brett
photoben
31trum (if mum lets me)
Martin Rower7 (plus 2 mates if they're up for it)

i'll tentatively throw my hat into the ring will see how things plan out but it would be good training for the 60mile hilly ride i have planned for the morning of the tour.

hippy 31: Get your cast off or what? Mum wants to know :P
nope, rode to ealing hospital, gotta new one, they still couldn't see if it is fractured or not.der.had a right camp nurse fit a full new one, wanker covered the whole thumb too, had trouble riding back with a thumb stuck out at out a stupid angle, needed a piss, couldn't undo me flies, nearly pissed meself, so i took my leatherman to it .....much better..went into ealing this eve , nearly got run over by the town hall in the bike lane by some tossa in a merc, chucking a left without using his fucking mirrors........but.8^)
that is before i sawed off the thumb, .we shall see..hip, whisper me your number.....in case i go....;^)

My hospital are idiots. They fscked my scan up and kept me there all day until finally someone woke up and they ambulanced me to Charing Cross for some emergency surgery..

tell me about it, i was sent from pillar to post 6 times before they sorted it out ..

Is that a new cast or have you spray painted it ??

haha, used the same colour your gonna put that stripe on with........;^)

Yeah, it rang a few bells. I did a test spray on this old frame i had lying around, looked quite nice. Was a rough spray though, so a bit wonky...

it will; be quite hard to get it right though, you need to take your time. even though you'll probably end up with a totally red frame...;^)

hippy They fscked my brain scan up and kept me there all day
ah, that explains a few things...;^)

the forecast are saying that is going to be raining on Sunday....

in case of rain are we still going???

Light rain. Cloudy. Cool. Temperature of 10°C. Winds 10km NE. Humidity will be 82% with a dewpoint of 6° and comfort level of 8°C. There is a 40% chance of precipitation.
it was the same the day we went to brighton

unless it's pissing down i'm going

Starting to look like it's going to rain isn't it. We'll have to check the weather tomorrow really.

I'm still up for it though, on a lower gearing, and with some overshoes and a mud guard (neither of which I currently own).

31trum [quote]hippy They fscked my brain scan up and kept me there all day
ah, that explains a few things...;^)[/quote]
Trust me.. I was like this before they started poking around! :D

mareeoh the forecast are saying that is going to be raining on Sunday....
in case of rain are we still going???

I checked last night and it said rain Sunday NIGHT, cloudy during the day.
I thought you fixers were 'ard. I'll still go if it rains so long as it's not a solo ride!

Mario
Roberto
Al
Mark
Keith
Stef
aidan
rkn
Cat
Toby
slamm
lycralovinaussiecnut
velocity boy
brett
photoben
31trum (if mum lets me)
Martin Rower7 (plus 2 mates if they're up for it)
mdja

Yeah, count me in... I hope we're not going too slow, I am supposed to be back in town by 7 for a gig!

Mario
Roberto
Al
Mark
Keith
Stef
aidan
rkn
Cat
Toby
slamm
lycralovinaussiecnut
velocity boy
brett
photoben
31trum (if mum lets me)
Martin Rower7 (plus 2 mates if they're up for it)
mdja
dicki

we are getting a good number together for the ride ace

This is gonna be good, although Ted pointed out there are cracks appearing in my cranks last week and they are growing..... hopefully they'll last for the weekend :-)

Soon as I get paid, I'm going out to get a new bike. The whole lot, Andy is going to build me some wheels, and I'm on the lookout for a good frame if anyone can reccomend me one.

hope this is wrong..
tfl weather

uh-oh...

yeah i watched 3 weather reports today and they all said rain!

yeah every where says rain/light showers...

lets see on sunday morning, weather in england is always crazy so we never know...

we could do a shortened version if things look grim back home for tea

Met Office - Southend
Heavy rain during the day now but it's getting earlier and earlier so perhaps it'll all blow over on Saturday?

very windy northerly so we'll never have it against but then again we'll never have it with us