Props to **Velocio **and TSK, organisation was fantastic (my own fault I didn't hook up with forumengers at the start, and also missed dumping stuff with van - caught up with it at Sudbury). I'd call it basically flawless arranging, mainly because TSK cared enough to phone me to call me to the coach while me and Debs (yellow jacket in coach pic) were slumped across one of the caff benches.
Any event where you get to put faces to forum names is good, let alone the legendary dynamo, the main annual ride for Londoners who think they know one end of a bike from the other. Big ups also to **Digger **and the rest lounging around the LFGSS van, a friendly lot youse is.
I may post a ride report and a few observations, mainly because other people may think mine's crap, and write better ones, and I actually enjoy reading them. I'm really interested in some of the stories of people who went off course, as very many people on the ride took wrong turns, and some didn't seem to come back, that I saw.
Maybe in a couple of years' time, most people on the ride will be Google Latituded, and Google will send you an automated text ["Wake up, you dozy sod!"] as soon as Latitude can determine that you are off-course according to a standard route plotted on Google Maps...
Props to **Velocio **and TSK, organisation was fantastic (my own fault I didn't hook up with forumengers at the start, and also missed dumping stuff with van - caught up with it at Sudbury). I'd call it basically flawless arranging, mainly because TSK cared enough to phone me to call me to the coach while me and Debs (yellow jacket in coach pic) were slumped across one of the caff benches.
Any event where you get to put faces to forum names is good, let alone the legendary dynamo, the main annual ride for Londoners who think they know one end of a bike from the other. Big ups also to **Digger **and the rest lounging around the LFGSS van, a friendly lot youse is.
I may post a ride report and a few observations, mainly because other people may think mine's crap, and write better ones, and I actually enjoy reading them. I'm really interested in some of the stories of people who went off course, as very many people on the ride took wrong turns, and some didn't seem to come back, that I saw.
Maybe in a couple of years' time, most people on the ride will be Google Latituded, and Google will send you an automated text ["Wake up, you dozy sod!"] as soon as Latitude can determine that you are off-course according to a standard route plotted on Google Maps...