2009-10-10 Sat - Circle Line Ride (Meet 21:30, Depart 22:00)

Oh and well done to the bear. Would like the number of your tailor please.

i believe you are the guy i saw struggling with said problem and i asked if you needed help.

I wasn't part of the ride (wish i was) but had to escort my lovely girlfriend home.

Will deffo be on the next ride.....nice to meet you.

Yep, that was me. I meant to put a "Thankyou" in the post, as I appreciated that you stopped. Hope you had a good evening with your lovely girlfriend.

A big thank you to everyone making it such an enjoyable ride.
It's the first time I have ever done anything like this and totally out of charachter for me.
Awesome to see so many bikes taking control of the road and a lot of confused onlookers.
A total departure from being a sensible middle aged father, I feel like I am 18 again !
it is extremely addictive !!

My god that was a jolly good bimble through ones local town..
Had a fooking blast! cheers to everyone that helped to organize and direct.
Loved the sprint sections although my ratio didn't (38/16)
all in all i have a wicked time, and my mate had a video camera taped to his bike so il try sort out some footage soon

There were a few weavy wavey folk forgetting to look over their sholders, shame on you!

Haha I just found a few cuts on my knee, I kinda spilled it 5 minutes from my door after a cycle home that I don't remember.

Haha I just found a few cuts on my knee, I kinda spilled it 5 minutes from my door after a cycle home that I don't remember.

You meen you don't remember coming to the gay club with me a getting bummed by three men in the toilet?

You meen you don't remember coming to the gay club with me a getting bummed by three men in the toilet?

Wow it was a better night than I thought!

good ride everyone!

enjoyed the underpass sprint too. i have always wanted to ride through that.

nice balls on the bear

epic skid at one of the junctions cruiser guy.

my chain broke around aldgate, so i had to drop out there. luckily i had spare links and breaker with me, so no walking required.

london by night. nice.

What a cool way to spend your Satdy nite. Was great to meet loads of forumengers I didn't aready know, or had only met once or twice.

It's not as jovial being the leader as it is being back in the pack so big thanks to Ma3k for organising and leading the ride, and controlling the pace very nicely.

I think this was fairly 531epic and up there with the bridges ride, maybe this will be a nice way to break up the time between the summer and winter bridges? It's about half way inbetween.

Great ride, great people. A cracking time!

cheers john good work mate. i hear you had no sleep, either, so thanks.

fantastic night, well done/thanks to MA3K for organising & leading. enjoyed it all.

anyone got any photos? i saw a few cameras knocking around.

to top off a great night, when we got home a man had shat himself/on the street, thrown up and passed out on our doorstep. it was grizzly.

and dimi3, sorry to here that, hope you're alright. where you near the junction of clerkenwell road & st john street? saw someone pulled over/talking to the fuzz, you?

Good fun if not a little stoppy. Sprints were good and Euston Underpass is always a blast.
There were so many new faces it was good to see all the lurkers come out and ride.

+1 To what Owen said about 'wavy folk', it's was sketchy at times with lots of people weaving all over the place. If you are going to ride in a big pack, you need to be aware of the people around you and look before you change lanes.

Anyway. great work as always John, was fun being in the lead group for most of the way.

Hello to the new people I met, sorry to the people I didnt get to say hi to.

Another nice social ride, enjoyed the sprint sections too, here's one from the first rest stop (Note the words on the sign at the top)

Haha just saw this, I can safely say that copious volumes of Guinness and Baileys do impair your riding skill!

And where the feck was Corny?!

Another awesome John Ma3k joint. Big thanks to him for organising. Seems his rides are the ones to beat.

Also +1 to comments about sketchy riding. I saw a few too many instances of close overtaking on the inside and whole lot of turning without looking over shoulders. The latter should be second nature, peeps...

Oh and thanks to Harry Major for nearly taking me out. You crazy bastard. Hehe ;)

Great night out, no rain, minimal drama, woman in a bear suit(cute), didn't lose too many people, got to hear Big-Big ring 10 and 1.

All in all good clean fun although I had to neck 3 cans of fake red-bull prior to setting off as I hadn't slept the previous night.

Next time will be anti-clockwise.

On a big ride like that there will always be a lot of waiting up to do if you are up the front.
The emphasis on social is important so anybody would feel welcome to bring their girlfriends/slower friends who aren't really athletic.
I incorporated two sprint sections in to enable the faster amongst us to spin their legs.

Looking forward to seeing some photos.

MA3K should change to the MACK-DADDY.

Yet another ride I missed, due to working early this morning - but MA3K seems have to added another legendary ride to the forum goodness.

Well done......again.

MA3K should change to the MACK-DADDY. ...

No I shouldn't..
But thank you.

Great ride - thanks for organising, MA3K.

Stuck my photos on flickr with the tag lfgsscircle, if others want to do the same with theirs. I reckon the bear was Tynan, as my shot came out all blurry...

Good times..First forum ride!

Enjoyed the Euston underpass,good to neck it through with other people!

see you next time

Great ride, Mr. MackAttack. Thanks to all, especially NurseHolliday.

Also +1 to comments about sketchy riding. I saw a few too many instances of close overtaking on the inside and whole lot of turning without looking over shoulders. The latter should be second nature, peeps...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pu4atg6Kow