Anybody here from Essex?

Newbury Park these days.

brentwoods full of good country roads around ingatestone and that area. most of the good routes around there are off road really though

I am reppin' Colchester! Its a really cool town, but I have only seen 2 fixies and the rest are people that go to the sixth form, running freewheel create bike shitters! If anyone wants to go for a ride then I am totally down; I usually resort on going out on road rides at 53-12, which gets a little awkward when I roll up in my jeans and a t-shirt :)

There is this
http://www.lfgss.com/thread51510.html

A journey into Essex- do you want to meet up?

I would so be doing that if I could get to the start :/ Oh, and I spotted a Sirius with green B43's with matching anodized parts with BLB stickers all over it yesterday. Still only the 3rd fixie I have seen in Colch, he most definitely shut me down on my Mongoose!

Train to Stratford , then be naughty and take the Central Line to Leytonstone and you are at the start.

That could work now you put it like that, I might have to now cause it sounds like its going to be a great ride!

Originally from Saaaaaauufffend, now out in the chiltern hills

Used to ride up and down the seafront when i was younger, and crazy rides to upminster and some woods near there somewhere (a real long ride when your a kid)

off topic a bit but are they really holding the olympic mtb near hadleigh castle? I used to ride there all the time, learnt to drift an mtb there - oh happy days

Colchester

Colchester

Sick! What bike you ride bro? I might have seen you about

Morning!

Just moved to Chelmsford a couple of months ago, originally from t' north....

At the mo riding my Giant, but have a Peugoet frame to play with.

Southend/Westcliff

I'm from Essex but left 11 years ago, been a lot of places since but in Berkshire now.

I'm from Brentwood and cycling is one of the only things that keeps me sane in this area!

I tend to do a nice low-traffic, flat route through Blackmore--> Writtle--> Fyfield-->Ongar--> and back to Brentwood.

Saw quite a few cyclists between Blackmore and Writtle today, couple of them on fixed.

Not too far from me. I'm not far from Elm Park, although I can never find anywhere nice to ride.

Basildonk!

Where do you ride then?

Today - Hammersmith > Upminster. Watched the football the old chap and returned Upminster > Hammrsmith.

Thats a fair old cycle, I need to get back on it again. Lost touch in the past year what with work, I have the Kentish Killer coming up so need to get a few rides in to get used to it!

Yeah, just pootled along and looked at all the development that's occurred/is occurring along the route. Fascinating really. Realised that some of the truly less than desirable places I used to frequent as a youth really were awful.

Impressed to see that the cinema in Ilford (which became a venue for gigs) is now a gigantic curry-house. Genius!

Romford Dogs has survived too, but it still has all the redeeming qualities of Satan's rectum.

Haha, yeah. I sometimes cycle from Brentwood to Central London and people always shout some bollocks at me whenever I'm riding through Romford including: 'Bicycle wanker,' 'Get a life!' and unfortunately some racial epithets. Really gotta move to London!

Bicycle wanker and get a life? Jesus. I didn't do badly today - whilst filtering I got called "fucking prick" and then I got called "cunt" by some blind tosser who decided to turn left without signalling in his Dad's Mercedes so I growled and whacked the bonnet as I went past.

We should have a little ride into London soon. Anyone up for that?

I'm only 10 mins from Upminster.

I'm from Upminster, but live in Hammersmith. If this happens, I'll get out to you guys and ride back in. You lot can ride back out.

Sounds good to me, have Thursday off next week so planning to do something then.