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Welcome to the pleasure dome! The easiest and quickest way to meet is to come to any or all of the drinks which are scattered around London, with Monday South, Tuesday Central, Wednesday East, Thursday West. Check the General category for locations on the day. This concerns broad bike chat, discussions of rides and anything going, basically. See you there.
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HI!
If youre landing on the tuesday... and up for laughing a lot, seeing some idiots trying to ride fast (TT), some alright grub, getting drunk, seeing hill billys belly and ginger body in a pair of bib shorts and forgetting how you got back home... come to east drinks.
Lots of us there to chat crap to and more than enough suggestions for rides and activities to do while in London.If youre lucky, our man above (50/14) will probably offer you some amazing guided tour... he must be good at it by now.... fiddy?
See you at east drinks, if not west drinks and if not that, more than likely central drinks and failing that polo on sunday.
Shinscar
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Whatup! I'm a New Englander (sort of), been in London for 2 years, no plans to leave, so welcome to my adopted home.
It'd be easier to answer some of your questions on where to go if you could tell us what neighborhood you're staying in.
The biggest pearl of wisdom I can offer is: don't bother converting prices here into dollars. As a general rule of thumb, anything that costs 1 USD in Manhattan will cost 1 GBP in London. Even before the dollar fell so much, back in the good ol' days when GBP-USD was around 1.5, it was already sob-worthy.
So just resign yourself that you'll be going home a helluva lot poorer than you came, pretend all the prices are quoted in dollars, and have a good time :-)
I don't know Atlanta at all, but a lot of clubs and stuff in London are quite relaxed in terms of dress code. What kind of music do you like? There's quite a range to choose from here (unlike Manhattan, which seems to be purely hip-hop). Not sure if there are many places that don't charge a cover though...
P.S. Padded cycling shorts are called padded cycling shorts in Englishese. :-)
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If you see a black cab with it's light on, wave at it for good luck.
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There is also the "Grand Slam", the preserve of the hardened drinker (erm cyclist) where you visit all the social events in the space of one week.
As you can see from the enthusiastic response to your thread, LFGSS are a very welcoming bunch. I'm sure that you will be bought the odd pint at any of the drinks that you visit.
You may have to put up with the odd jibe about your gears though.
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HI!
If youre landing on the tuesday... and up for laughing a lot, seeing some idiots trying to ride fast (TT), some alright grub, getting drunk, seeing hill billys belly and ginger body in a pair of bib shorts and forgetting how you got back home... come to east drinks.
Lots of us there to chat crap to and more than enough suggestions for rides and activities to do while in London.If youre lucky, our man above (50/14) will probably offer you some amazing guided tour... he must be good at it by now.... fiddy?
See you at east drinks, if not west drinks and if not that, more than likely central drinks and failing that polo on sunday.
Shinscar
Shinscar, you just managed a full reply to a post without abuse. This may be a first. -
Welcome mate and just remember, we don't all talk like the Queen and we don't bleach our teeth!
Oh yeah and we don't all support Manchester Utd!
Just some of the misconceptions I encounter whenever I go to th US :-)
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whats up, fellow Americans. a good guy from Brooklyn is coming next week, and we are going to have an un-employed ride that you could join, as well as other ruckus that will end with at least 3 people in the nick (thats jail)
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few more misconceptions
we do all live in castles.
yes we all know john smith
no we are not all irish
our beer is served chilled and it will knock your head off unlike the sex in a canoe beer your good selfs supply us.now enjoy and do try to see some of this fair country other than just london. get out to wales for a couple of days. head to the coast. just enjoy yourselfs
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On a more serious note I'd defo recommend taking a weekend stroll on the Southbank from Waterloo to Tower Bridge. Take in some great sites and offers some decent galleries, exhibitions, places of history/interest etc....The Hayward, Tate Modern, Borough Market, Clink St Prison, London Dungeon blah blah.....
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. get out to wales for a couple of days.
Are you fucking pissed??!
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On a more serious note I'd defo recommend taking a weekend stroll on the Southbank from Waterloo to Tower Bridge. Take in some great sites and offers some decent galleries, exhibitions, places of history/interest etc....The Hayward, Tate Modern, Borough Market, Clink St Prison, London Dungeon blah blah.....
then go for a ride with me as i live less in a 5-7 min walk from all of those places. hurrah for yuppie-dom
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London Dungeon?!
Are you fucking pissed??!
its what they call my basement, its TGs new venue
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If you're a sceptic then you'd take pleasure from The London Dungeon, FACT!
Don't forget they'll be tourists and that's what tourists do. I'm in Paris and I've done more in 2 months than what everyone in my office has done put together, going to places they'd never heard of let alone visited
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marry i have to go tent shoping, want to come?
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Greetings from the dirty south! (Of the states, that is.) My spouse and I are headed to England next week for a week in London and a second week in surrounding environs for fun, culture (Eddie Izzard says the history all comes from Europe...) and getting to know a new city from a bicycle saddle. Although the fixies are staying home, hopefully British Airways will treat our road bikes with enough care that they'll still be usable when they arrive. Obviously, we're going to want to spend part of our time being stupid American tourists, doing all the typical tourist things. (British Museum, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, London Eye, Hyde Park, Changing of the Guard, holding up traffic while walking barefoot across Abbey Rd, etc, etc, etc...) When we're not doing that, we want to explore the city, meet new and interesting people, learn how to ride on the left, and find some pubs where you can get a tasty pint whose price won't make you cry if you happen to earn your wages in US dollars. (And perhaps even find a place to go dancing that has no cover charge and a come-as-you-are dress code. Is there much overlap between fg/ss lovers and enjoying going out dancing over there? There is here in Atlanta.)
We're looking forward to a 25-degree (Fahrenheit) temperature drop, a complete lack of ugly southern accents and just having a general blast. If anybody has insider ideas of where to go and what to do, or would like to take us for a ride, we're all ears. We arrive 7am London time on Tuesday the 29th. We'll have limited internet access but we'll be checking back here periodically. So say "hello!"
P.S. If I accidentally happened upon any odd British colloquialisms, I apologize profusely. I keep waiting to stumble into a linguistic time bomb like the difference between British pants (USA: underwear) and American pants. (Britain: trousers, right?) What do you call padded bicycle shorts? Anyway, any offense is purely accidental.