Tnrc 2013

^ Heatstroke?

Vodka? I think CB's been hijacked...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/after-checking-your-bank-account-remember-to-log-o,32260/

No real reason

As if yesterday wouldn't be reason enough!

see you I hope not to BAIL :)

Looks like you need numbers. Count me in!

Should make the first train at Liverpool Street.

i'm still planning to make this - i'm mentally there..

.. more reinforcements please,

Vodka? I think CB's been hijacked...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/after-checking-your-bank-account-remember-to-log-o,32260/

As if yesterday wouldn't be reason enough!

Easy recovery ride with Fiday.

Out. Enjoy.

7/5/13 E4 Ecstacy - Chingford Station start
Liverpool St 19.18 & 19.33
Return trains: 22.25/40/55, 23.10/25.
Oyster/GS4 £6ish
Rolling 30 miles - lovely route through the local Essex lanes

http://www.bikemap.net/route/476733#...ype=ts_terrain

1. Des
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2. middleofnowhere
   
3. Ramaye
   
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5. radmichello
   
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7. Katy
   
8. absurdbird (Simon)
   
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Riding out:

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2. FridayMarch26th (ride out and back)
   
3. Alex (should be passing LMNH about ten min to 7)
   
4. Will Bitterbuffalo (riding out and back)
   
5. Rod Munch (riding out and back - FYI this is back to CR7 Will! :()
   
6. cb (riding out and back (though not with you guys, you're all cunts anyway), then out and back for another loop, before heading back through Hackney, bonking, before hoping to find a bottle of vodka and getting off my tits before heading to work - I'll be riding there and back too.)[/QUOTE]
   

In two minds, too late to go home first, so without Petzl head torch, but it's a light night right! Maybe tired from Cambs as well, gonna check Liverpool Street for encouragement..

Poss bailing now, don't wait up

Have decided it would be sensible to be good to my dodgy knee. By which I mean take it out for a pints or two.

I love this Chingford start, am just in the Italian round the corner, fantastic house red :-)

My left knee is in similar shape.
Fuck growing old.
I'm going out for a few miles now to see how it feels.
May wet the bed.

PAH!
I would have loved to come out tonight.
after 10 miles up to Kennington and back my knee feels unhappy, can't walk down stairs without wincing.
I'm going to need a sports therapist and probably a bike-fit.
Any recommendations?

^ Michael Crebbin at Complefe Physio.

Poss bailing now, don't wait up

Sorry about this. I was involved in a collision with a vehicle on the way to the station. Details withheld due to timing, however I'm okay and so is the bike. Hope you all had a good one, it was a cracking evening to be out .

(As in, I'm withholding the details)

Sorry to hear about mishaps and niggles above.

I rode out and back, and did the Ysatsce 4E route. 50 miles in the bag, 20mph moving avg on the Tixie-Fixie-Wixie according to Garmin Connect. Just enough to keep the gear ticking over. Passed the group near the foot of Theydon Mount. I think they may have had a late start or mechanicals as they'd probably done about 5 miles of the route compared to my 25 at that point... I possibly passed tika shortly afterwards.

It was lovely out there tonight. Couldn't have asked for a nicer first ride as a vet.

Fixed for the over 40s thread>>>>>>>>

But did you ride to your Vets std time?

I went off course. The faculty for navigation has just upped and left me. Is this the Post Office?

Welcome to the vets old chap. Navigation is great, if you can remember where you are going and why you are going there.

Was a good ride on the blacktop. I am going to try and sleep on a belly full of painkillers. Details to follow.

had a great night! I shouted at you Scarlett, I was late to the start and was chasing the others, soon I found them resting :)

Great ride last night, perfect evening for a spin - someone did a good job of putting that route together. Nice to see the old school of tika, purple mj and mashton out there. Shame about the spill Will and Chris, hope those ribs aren't too painful today. Very helpful and attentive driver following it has to be said.

Next ride May 21st, list up next week - may actually make it to Kent this time.

next time i'm bringing my head torch!

http://www.livefortheoutdoors.com/upload/530736/images/Myo%20XP.jpg

Nice ride.

Sorry to ditch the riding-home party on the way up that hill. I went through a set of temp traffic lights as they changed to amber and realised I'd effectively dropped everyone, but figured we'd all be splitting up from there anyways.

stopped at a set of lights on the downhill next to Friday, and ended up riding most of the way home with Rod Munch, floating through waves of jetlagged exhaustion.

made it to Kebab Kid before they shut, and woke sometime after on my couch with the TV blaring, and a half eaten Kebab in my left hand.

Wife super impressed. Naturally.

Cheers Des, ribs not too bad providing I neither move or breathe. I always get injured in May so this is hopefully the one for this year. Ride to work took a bit longer and I got funny looks doing my dogging noises along the Holloway Road.

For those not there, basically some badgers armed with magnets pulled Will off the side of the tarmac then reversed the polarity pushing Will the other way so he hit a lip on the road and was put off balance. Then a ninja badger shot out and kicked him off his bike spilling him across my path. I locked the front to try and avoid cutting him in half and went over the bars. Another badger shot out and put Will's wheel vertical just as my rib cage was coming down to earth and lined it up so it went between a couple of ribs. A lot of cartlidge is now loose in the rib cage causing some mild discomfort. The badgers then ran off into the hedgerow to check their footage of the crash and post it up on badger you tube for their friends. Needless to say these were highly trained badgers so we never saw them and they left no evidence of their ever being there.

Watch out for the little buggers, they know we are out there and they know our routes. Earlier on I saw them send a rabbit scurrying across the road in front of Zanda so we should have been alerted to their presence.

Otherwise this was a beutiful ride in warm weather on lovelly roads.

A wonderful ride last night with a really great group. Nice pace set, although I could have done with a bit more top-of-hill waiting to regroup.

It felt great to be back out on TNRC, with some old guard faces as well as the current stalwarts. That was the first time I've ridden over 20 miles for well over six months, and I don't commute any more either. I was dead chuffed to get round and get round pretty well. As a geared bonus, it seems to be a route that has more descending than climbing, which is a treat.

Bad luck to Chris and Will for the crash, but I'm really glad that it wasn't a lot worse. Hearing the call of 'car back' followed by the sound of a crash really put the fear into me. Luckily the car was an observer only.

Buzzing.