2011-07-10 NEW DATE - Sun 10am - Ladies Windsor Ride

All set for tomorrow?

I have a bunch of the maps printed out, spoke cards are about to be laminated.

See y'all at 10am at Richmond station - just outside to the right in front of Costa. My number is zerosevenninehundred twosixeighttwozerosix.

Woop! T4ny4 is ensconced in the house and planning on coming tomorrow, and have talked Guapo & my friend Caroline into coming! I have to install the front brake caliper on the Somec and she'll be able to ride a bike that doesn't lose the front wheel and fork if you lift it up too fast by the handlebars!

Awesome!

C reckons to give Aram the directions to our house, and they'll go to the pub!

alas i may be out. the reason is cake-related. but still, sadface.

hope the weather is glorious and you have a reet good time.

Morning all, weather's looking good so far! Now let's see how many 'just in case' items I can pack :-).

well the sun is slowly breaking here looking forward to it
See you all soon !x

Almost 17 deg outside already! Don't forget suncream and bottles of water.

alas i may be out. the reason is cake-related. but still, sadface.

hope the weather is glorious and you have a reet good time.

You'll be missed :-(

Have a fantastic ride - it's a great day for it. So sorry I can't make it.

Hi y'all,

I haven't the energy to ride today, but hope you all have a good one.

Anyone heading to Souths tomorrow? I fancy a celebratory pint!

Hi y'all,

I haven't the energy to ride today, but hope you all have a good one.

Anyone heading to Souths tomorrow? I fancy a celebratory pint!

I'll be there for my inaugural 'proper southie' Souths :)

moi aussi. shall we have another go at the dress rehearsal?

Absolutely. I bring frocks, jayloo'll lick your fingers...

Welcome south Tanya!

WAHOOOOO!!!! SWEEEEEEEET FREEEEEEAAAKIN' RIIIIIIIIIDE, YOUUUU GUUUUUUUYSSS!!! Caroline enjoyed herself, we managed to pick up Guapo from the Prince Regent, and I'm home on the couch by 7. Aaaaahhhh....

On the train home, I was asked by a 4 year old if I wanted to be his sweetie. AWWW! lololol He was asking us what all our bikes were called and I said mine is Leifje, which means "sweetie" in Dutch.

'ey, J, careful what services of mine you volunteer me for!

so sorry i missed the ride. have some bronchial thing and wanted to rest up. hope you all had fun. show us some photos!

I'll be there for my inaugural 'proper southie' Souths :)

Absolutely. I bring frocks, jayloo'll lick your fingers...

Welcome south Tanya!

Hmm, I wander how quickly this might get confusing..

Anyway, from this tanya, I'd like to say thanks for organising this. Just got back now, sorry about the train confusion at the end. Wanted to say that it was a really nice ride and much appreciated.

p.s this is the tape L&W http://www.kinesiotaping.com/

Thank you LongAndWinding for organising a brilliant ride, and for making the amazing spoke cards! Was great to meet everyone.

A small number of photos are located here

Thanks guys ... for lovely company, and a lovely day out!
Thanks for the tape link Tanya, will definitely check it out!

Some more pics here ...

Quote of the ride ... "I'm an American and I need LOTS of ketchup"

Thanks for organising L&W.Great ride, nice pace and great company - and no punctures even on the gravelly bit!
Don't worry about the train mix up, we were about to go to the pub over the road to wait, when they started closing up the station - the train we got was the last one! So we ended up waiting on the platform and getting straight on, which proved a good idea as several other people with bikes were trying to get on shortly afterwards.

Fantastic ride - beautifully organised (no wonder it took 6 hours to recce . . .) So glad you got on the train at last. Thanks so much everyone for a really great day!

Bottom quite sore today - must get out on my bike more. Was wondering if we shouldn't have a string where we embed gps routes for all our rides, then if just a couple of people want to go at short notice, there would be a fantastic ride for them to pick? Mind you - I am probably volunteering work for someone else as my ride goes from home.

Have thought of an easier way to do it - if we upload the rides to Garmin Connect, then we can include a link on here and people can just download it (although they probably need to have a login to Garmin) - then we can include a quick description of the ride to help people choose.

If anyone wants the route in a format which I understand can be converted to Garmin, etc, then I can mail it across - I don't think that we can link to uploadable files from the Forum - I tried when I was setting out the route.

This is the link to the map file I had in my Garmin yesterday

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you can export this to all sorts from gpsies, including .tcx which meant i could put it in as a course and follow it. It's a good site for creating routes that you can export to work with pretty much anything.

I'll upload the route recording from the garmin tonight if I have time.

Jayloo, I think you were/are after a Carradice Bagman q/r sport? *Wiggle have them for a shade under £30 as opposed to £43 seen elsewhere.

Like the others, fab day yesterday with great company. That little boy on the train was lovely. A player in the making I suspect :-)

Clefty, after dithering for ages, I've now ordered the lowsaddle longflap via Margaret @ Carradice. Yay!

*at least, I hope what I've ordered is the complete item!