2009-09-05 Sat 10am - Leaving East London Ride

OK, following some requests, we'll be doing a ride themed around 'getting out of East London'--eastwards. There are really mainly two ways, and we'll be taking one of them out, and coming back by the other.

This will be a gently-paced social ride that will wait for everybody and that will have plenty of piss-up refreshment stops at attractive boozers travellers' inns out in the countryside, starting with the estimable High Beech tea hut. OK, so that's not an inn, but I promise we'll hit some of those later on.

We'll meet outside Tour de Ville to leave at 10am on Saturday the 5th September, 2009. The approximate route will be London Fields-Lea Bridge-High Beech-Theydon Bois-Toot Hill-Matching Green-Great Dunmow-Blackmore-Navestock-Chigwell-Lea Bridge, to finish up at the Princess of Wales at Lea Bridge.

Route here:
[ame]http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Leaving-East-London-ride-5-9-09[/ame

Approximately 67 miles.

List:

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. Peter Carter
   

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. Peter Carter
   
3. Bendix
   
   

could do with learning how to get out without using the A13

Hm, will you be able to get to the start point at Tour de Ville without using the A13?

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. Peter Carter
   
3. Bendix
   
4. Agent Quinn
   

Hm, will you be able to get to the start point at Tour de Ville without using the A13?

I'll probably get there via Canterbury or something.

[QUOTE=BlueQuinn;845154]1. Oliver Schick

1. Peter Carter
   
2. Bendix
   
3. Agent Quinn
   
4. JOHNNY FITZ
   
5. david h
   

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. Peter Carter
   
3. Bendix
   
4. Agent Quinn
   
5. JOHNNY FITZ
   
6. david h
   
7. CV
   
   

Hilly?

Hilly?

No.

Definitely not.

No, not at all.

Sorry to disappoint you. ;)

There is the slight drag up to High Beech, the climb out of Theydon Bois, some undulating bits of road around Toot Hill, and some ups and downs towards the end of the ride, coming back into London. Palmerston Road up to Buckhurst Hill (right at the end) is also a bit of a climb, but it's not very hilly at all for most of the route.

No.

Definitely not.

No, not at all.

Sorry to disappoint you. ;)

There is the slight drag up to High Beech, the climb out of Theydon Bois, some undulating bits of road around Toot Hill, and some ups and downs towards the end of the ride, coming back into London. Palmerston Road up to Buckhurst Hill (right at the end) is also a bit of a climb, but it's not very hilly at all for most of the route.

Yeah CV there aren't any hills in Essex, you'll be fine ;)
But Ollie, Palmerston road is a BIT of a climb?! you're far more hardcore than me mate! i'd be walking up that hill without gears!

It's not even a BIT of a climb. More of a false flat. But tired legs at that point might argue the toss.

I don't get why you're leaving East London..

It looks another nice ride....but I will be in holiday.

Have fun.

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. Peter Carter
   
3. Bendix
   
4. Agent Quinn
   
5. JOHNNY FITZ
   
6. david h
   
7. CV
   
8. Spudger
   

I don't get why you're leaving East London..

We're coming back. ;)

It's not even a BIT of a climb. More of a false flat. But tired legs at that point might argue the toss.

Oh, come on BMMF. It's more like a shovelful of sand. Honestly, your aversion to bumps in the road is just astonishing. ;P

Yeah CV there aren't any hills in Essex, you'll be fine ;)

Well, contrary to popular opinion, Essex is of course not flat. On this ride, we'll be climbing out of the gently-sloping Lea Valley and then dropping down into, and climbing back out of, the valley of the River Roding, which is a bit steeper.

But Ollie, Palmerston road is a BIT of a climb?! you're far more hardcore than me mate! i'd be walking up that hill without gears!

It has a fairly gentle and even gradient, except for a short bit at the bottom. It does go on a bit, but it's not as if we're doing it under race conditions. We'll be able to take our time.

You don't have to walk up that hill if you don't have gears--just get one of those fixie-skidder bikes. They don't have gears, but you can still ride up hills on them. ;P

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. Peter Carter
   
3. Bendix
   
4. Agent Quinn
   
5. JOHNNY FITZ
   
6. david h
   
7. CV
   
8. Spudger
   
9. Stix
   

It looks another nice ride....but I will be in holiday.

Where's that then?!

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. Peter Carter
   
3. Bendix
   
4. Agent Quinn
   
5. JOHNNY FITZ
   
6. david h
   
7. CV
   
8. Spudger
   
9. Stix
   10.BD
   
   

Thanks for setting this one up OS. Either it's perfectly timed or I've assisted in your decision! I especially like how much notice you've given everyone. We're all that bad at organising that we need this much time to put a ride in!

[quote=Bike Destroyer;850609]Where's that then?!

A great place for cycling....but I will be there with a car!

More on this.

If you have never ridden out of London’s E numbers before and you don’t know your Chingford from your Chigwell and have never been to the Epping Forest tea huts , then this is the ride is for you

The idea for the ride is to show the people on the forum the main routes from East London out to Essex . Now these routes are usually only divulged to members of the various east London cycling clubs as part of the club's occaisonally bizarre initiation rites . Showing them to non member is frowned upon; you don’t know what I am risking just by mentioning them.

Oliver , were we coming back via Buckhurst Hill?

I was going to suggest Chigwell

Or shall we do that on the next version?

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. Peter Carter
   
3. Bendix
   
4. Agent Quinn
   
5. JOHNNY FITZ
   
6. david h
   
7. CV
   
8. Spudger
   
9. Stix
   10.BD
   
10. Cabbage
    

Oliver , were we coming back via Buckhurst Hill?

I was going to suggest Chigwell

Or shall we do that on the next version?

Chigwell, then Buckhurst Hill, I thought.

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. Peter Carter
   
3. Bendix
   
4. Agent Quinn
   
5. JOHNNY FITZ
   
6. david h
   
7. CV
   
8. Spudger
   
9. Stix
   10.BD
   
10. Cabbage
    
11. wools (yay!)