Last minute rides

No night rides for me either...have to be up bright and early to job hunt.

Weeeeak. Tom, you working at the mo? I'm normally free in afternoons. Road bike is out of action at the moment so will be riding fixed.

All cycling kit in the washing machine now

You got one of these?

Tom, you working at the mo?

I am not. I am filling my weekdays with targetted sessions of tedium, normally around 2/3pm. Alternating between park laps (both Richmond and Regents) and hill reps (College Rd and Greenwich environs). Nothing fun, nothing longer than an hour or two, but it gets me out of the house.

May I join you for some of the Greenwich located hill sessions?

Yup. Will give you a shout (on here because my phone is buggered again sigh). Nothing today because of planned afterworkering :)

I've got a spare unlocked old Nokia and a vodafone locked new nokia if that helps...

I've got a spare handset now, it's the sim that's fucked. Tried to transfer my old number across - it's successfully pulled it from O2 but somehow nuked my giffgaff one upon arrival. I'm stuck somewhere in their customer services queue awaiting resolution. Have been since Friday.

Ended up going for a random 2hr jaunt around SE London. From Peckham to Forest Hill, Catford, Eltham, Blackheath, few laps around Greenwich, Lewisham, New Cross, Camberwell and finished it off with some laps of East Dulwich before heading home. Just been reading about Canonbie on the other thread and gutted I didn't know about it before heading out!

It's such a lovely day and I've the afternoon off. Anyone wana ride down to Brighton or do a Tunbridge wells loop?

^ am
Just riding home
Now.
Pm if you want to come. Leaving SW around midday.

Will be off doing 100k in the chilterns tomorrow if anyone fancies it

http://www.lfgss.com/post2673259-131.html

route:
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Hi everyone, new to london, not so new riding fixed in Lille, north of France, I have been looking for a thread where you can say "hi who's up for a ride this afternoon?" (I was used to that kind of forum in france) and here looks not so bad I guess...

If Sunday is sunny I'd be pleased to have a little tour outside inner London.

Anybody fancy 60 miles Saturday morning on gears? I was planing on down to Brighton (because I'm SW and it's convenient) and getting the train back.

open to suggestions though, would be nice to be shown some new routes (SE especially)

This weekend is a must for last minute rides. The weather is glorious!

**Next Sunday (4th March). **

I'm intending to ride to this event which is at Weston (near Hitchin).

There is a small jumble sale and a timed ride of about 5 miles. There is more info on the VCC website.

I hope to leave Willesden at about 7.30.for a steady paced ride of about 35 miles each way. I'll go up the old A1 (now A 1000 and B197) which is a fairly easy route, generally without excessive traffic once you get North of Barnet. Let me know if you'd like to come.

I should mention the weather forecast is for heavy rain, and if it's correct I shall listen to my body and stay in bed. However things could easily change over the next three days, so lets keep our fingers crossed.

This Sunday sees a ride tracing The Fleet River, I've recieved a very long-winded email from Lewisham LCC group. Long and short of it is that it starts at Bermondsey Sq at 10am. Could be a great introduction to London for anyone new, an excellent ride for the kids, history buffs and London Bores.

A reminder that Lost Rivers returns this Sunday with: The Fleet - The Oliver
Twist Edition.

The fleet has two sources high on Hampstead Heath, we follow the eastern
source up and the western source down, from London's' Highest point, expect
a few hills.

The Lost Rivers Crew have excelled themselves with this ride, we question
whether Nelson swam where tubes once stopped and go angling in Kentish Town
as we head north. As usual we examine the names given to streets and
neighbourhoods that reflect national events as much as the existence of the
fleet, we examine the lessons learnt from railway disasters and go head on
with the greats of British poetry as we float our boats.

Slavery and its' abolition, or rather the course it took to get there, is
our history topic of the day before we start our return journey, and follow
in the history of the Peasants' Revolt, where it started, and where it ended
further downstream, while we pop in to the local Parish lock Up and
understand why Fleming made Goldfinger the bad man.

Brickworks, ponds and some observations of the theory of tittlebats lead us
southwards, we examine not only the case of not only the last woman to be
executed in this county, we look also at the case of the penultimate victim
of the executioner, which is far more convincing.

The Fleet flows onwards towards the Thames as we follow it through Gospel
Oak and into Camden, a short ride above it and more murders await, a very
clear case and a question over a postcard.

Further along we look at the poor, the lunatics and the simply incapable,
question if things have really changed while we look at the family tomb that
inspired the design of our postbox, we may even stop to pick some oakum.

Kings Cross has changed significantly over the last few years, yet the
course of the fleet leaves its' mark in the shape of the new ticket hall,
and we use the film world to look back in time.

The Fleet widens as we head south, more springs, more leaks, railways and a
football club as we enter Oliver Twist land. We follow Oliver around the
contours of the fleet as we visit the locations that Dickens wrote about,
and explore how a leading hospital ended up next to a slaughter house what
that has to do with a malarial swamp in Rome, and why it was a prime
location for burning at the stake, leading nicely to being hung drawn and
quartered.

The executioner's bell rings loudly as we pass Newgate and on into a world
of Blackfriars, Whitefriars and the mysterious death of the Popes Banker
nicely round up our journey on the religious and crime front as we reach the
Thames.

So much more than can be written here, and as always, it would not be a lost
rivers ride if we did not see or hear the Fleet as it rushes beneath our
feet.

Bermondsey Square

10am 4th March

Bill Owen

Oh, apols for the stupid formatting in that.^

Anybody up for East London - Southend, train back around 4, today, fixed, stopping at the pub at Stock for a swift half... very mellow pace, about 65 miles.

Any other Skivers free to join? Want to leave via Whitechapel/Viccy Park /Leyton about 11.

I see you lurking JD

Skully, would be very interested in the route that you took for that ^^

Does anyone fancy something fixed this afternoon? I'm free from 2pm and so up for a ride in this sweet Friday weather.

One last futile bump.

https://www.lfgss.com/post2776570-739.html

LFGSS: home of bedwetters.

who wants to go for a spin tomorrow morning..ishhh send me a priate im going from souths (crystal palace, to down the river to beckton direction i want to discoer the woolwich london rier sides.

i've woken up stupidly early and i'm heading out from richmond park to do a quick loop to box hill and back if anybody wants to join - club run pace, coffee stop if anyone wants to
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I'm heading to Richmond Park after work, 5:30 departure from Victoria, planning two or three laps geared but not too fast if anyone fancies it.