Home to Home: London to Worcester

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It scares me to think about how you did that. I hope it was good judgement, but knowing you, it may have been an algorithmic search...

You can just drag the start/destination points where you want. Distance recalculated as you move them. Piece of piss, basically.

You can just drag the start/destination points where you want. Distance recalculated as you move them. Piece of piss, basically.

shhh I like to keep a air of mystique about my skills.

My parents live in a little Suffolk village which is about 3 miles off the Dunwich Dynamo route.. I'll probably ride from there into London or vice versa sometime before the Dynamo this summer

A mate of mine had the same kind of idea, he walked from London to Brighton. But the pussy didn't start in Wanstead where he lived, he started from Trafalgar Square.

To this day we still ask him when he's going to 'do it properly', heh heh

I'm riding home to Newbury from SE London. I think thats about 90 miles.

It is if you don't stop at Newbury. 70.

great ride mashton. see you one tuesday night then;)

nice one matt, sounds like a perfect two day tour with a stop over in a decent little university town. glad you enjoyed the london to oxford bit. i can't really claim it as my route since i think it has been on the charidee calendar for a bit. good to hear of a nice bit of actual bro-mance too.

I'm from Newbury. You encapsulate many of the reasons why I left.

FAIL. For I left with you, dimwit.

How bizarre.

My folks lived in Pershore til last year.

There's a posh bike shop and an Alfa Romeo mender there.

And Toyah lives at the top of High Street. I sold her a Daily Mail when I worked in the paper shop...

Good work, Mashton!

I guess you know pinvin? i'm living here at the moment at my parents gaff, about 10 minute ride from Pershore. nice countryside routes around here.

The posh bike shop is called echelon and they do some really nice stuff.

nice, i was thinking the A44, i normally go that way when i drive, as it's a bit nicer, but does it not have some hairy dual carrigeway bits?
that hill out of Moreton is a bastard!........ and Fish Hill must have been well dodgy!
i was considering doing it fixed.... but we'll see..... i'm not sure i could handle Fish Hill fixed.

fish hill fixed, no brakes. there is a gravel trap to wipe out in...

I guess you know pinvin? i'm living here at the moment at my parents gaff, about 10 minute ride from Pershore. nice countryside routes around here.

The posh bike shop is called echelon and they do some really nice stuff.

i've got a good mate in Pershore who's started riding fixed.
he rides a black BLB frame with silver H plus sons... he's officially Pershore's first hipster.
He does loops around Bredon Hill now and then.
give him a shout if you see him.

I'm surprised I haven't seen him about as I'm always out on the push iron. tell him to look out for an S.Marco.
Thought I was the shires only fixed gear crusader...

alright Pershore rocks!

i'll keep my eye out for you.

sweet, see you when the suns out!

i did the second leg of this ride yesterday afternoon... i didn't fancy the whole way in one day so soon after the Dynamo, so got the train to Oxford and rode from there.

it's quite a nice route once you get out of Oxford, and past Woodstock. it's mostly rolling country side with a few decent climbs, and it's very easy to follow the route. it took me just over 4 hours with a couple of stops.

highly recommended to anyone who has family/friends living in that area.

Did you do that fixed, Rob? My folks are just outside Redditch, so that would be mostly the same for me.

Sounds like fun.

did it geared, i've realized how fast you can go on a road bike!
def do-able fixed though....there's only one hill that would have been a struggle if i was fixed.

Nice one Rob, I bet you enjoyed the nice descents on your road bike? The one with the hairpins is awesome.

Cheers Matt, thanks for posting this thread in the first place, as i probably would have never got round to doing it otherwise!

the descents were good, and fish hill (the windy one with the hairpins) is a bit sketchy at times... but good fun none the less. i would NEVER ride up that hill though. it is ridiculous.

I am origianlly from the WU too and would love to cycle this route - can you send me more details pls mate?

Big up the Woo! There are at least 7 fixed gear riders in Worcester that I've seen over the past 5 years. Mmm not a great ratio.

It's a start. Shout 'do a skid' at them and see what happens. They might initially be surprised at your sauce, but you could get together for some cool fixie rides. :)

I grew up in Worcester. Would love to ride home one day. And then get on a train and come straight back.

Wuss. :)