N2R - FGSS to Brighton - 11th Nov - 9AM Hyde Park Corner

thats tru hippy i was being a tad lazy. maybe that'll teach me to carry less shit next time

Flickwg - can you save me a spoke card, please? I sweated through mine.

Ta.

of course stompy, i'm gonna try to get them laminated, when i can get out of the house when my knee is better

Yeah flickwg, it was only asphalt at speed you hit, bloody luxury, kids these days..
In my time I would cycle to and from Brighton and I was bloody grateful to get run over by HGVs.
Asphalt, if only we were so lucky, in my day roads were made of steel with four inch spikes.

:p

And we had to ride Penny Farthings made of matchsticks.

And the trousers you had to wear were made from that surface on the side of matchboxes, so you had to stop more often to put your bike out than to change punctured tires (that in those days were grown from seeds so fixing a puncture could take up to 5 months). :)

You had seed tyres? If only..
Mine where made of moss cultivated from the dank underside of stones, my puncture repair kit weighed 80 pounds which I had to carry on a rack made of braided human hair. This was during the war you see and you just couldn't get the Italian ones made of pasta.

asm It's not the winning, its the taking part!

...it's not the taking part, it's the sense of futile despair...

you're despairing futile-ly then, i take it?

Yep... I need to stop spending money and start riding my bike!

more pics, a bit quicker than i got them up for the hallowe'en ride. enjoy!

pictures

(sorry, they're not in order - yet)

Great shots, nice one!

where's object's top tube protector?????

nice photos flickwg and doca.

dogsballs where's object's top tube protector?????
Don't worry. It's back on the bike again which is currently more than can be said for me. The doctor thinks I'll be off the bike for 2-3 weeks, I've taken that to mean bikepolo on Sunday ;)
Does anyone know if crutches are allowed to be used as polo mallets?

what did he say was wrong? just a bump/graze and a bit of a pulled muscle, or something worse?

Yeah. I basically got told off for finishing the ride. It's a lot more swollen than it was, but the x-rays showed that nothing was broken (Bar my will to live during the 5 hours in A&E). I've been given some antibiotics and a tetanus shot and told to take pain killers as and when needed.

In reality, I think it'll be alright in a day or seven, I can't put any weight on my leg yet as it's feels like the joint is pulling in all the wrong places but I think that is likely due to the swelling impeeding the movement rather than anything else more sinister.

Still. At least I have people at work bringing me cups of coffee ;]

Great fun as always people. Well done all who made the trip out of the smoke. A personal lesson was to eat more, it's not so much the mileage as the length of time you are out BMMF was talking about that at one of the stops to I grabbed a banana but should have grabbed a bit more food. Need another long ride plan for now.

doca. Why are you taking photos of a Brazilian crotch?

Two possible rides for January?

207 km

http://www.aukweb.net/cal/calsolo.php?Ride=08-943

114 km shorter version.

http://www.aukweb.net/cal/calsolo.php?Ride=08-84

Hey Hey! 26th of Jan is AUSTRALIA DAY (http://www.australiaday.gov.au/pages/index.asp)

Out west, where the cool people live. I like. :) You wanna do it? I could ride from home.. add another 50k or so I s'pose? Road bike. Need to fit guards. Cold :)

There's also sportives and stuff I'd like to have a crack at next year.. White Horse Challenge (http://www.whitehorsechallenge.com)
The French ones, etc. Too much bloody organising but if anyone wants to have a go at some of these it'd be simpler with shared organisation..

def up for the white house challenge. You could see the oxon one (the oldest) from where I grew up. Road around there on mbt loads as a kid. I grew up about 2 miles from Shrivenham, the farm my dad rented was just out side Shrivenham, which is in Oxfordshire not Wiltshire as the website states, retards. Anyway enough reminiscing about my childhood spent shoveling shit and getting kicked in the head by cattle.

If I did the 26th of Jan one I think I would take the train as it would be adding about 55 km each way. I supposee it would round it up to a good 300 km ride, but 100 of that through London is not that apealing.

i find roberto's euro-fluro cameltoe slightly disturbing.
not because of any repressed latent homosexuality on my part but a fear of Timmy Mallet clothing.

The Dragon Ride in south Wales is a great sportive, next year's date is 15th June.

Hard, long hills.

Dragon Ride on BikeRadar

I've just realised that 50x14 is around 93 gear inches.

Sam Hard, long hills.

shudders

And it's in Wales which means bikeontrains which means paininthearse which means angryhippy which means.. Hey, I wonder if Caspar will drive us there?

Hippy, I have up to class c driving licence so we could hire anything up to about 17 tone lorry to get a crew plus all your food to Wales.