Guided rides around Epping Forest ( aka Follow the strange tall man into the woods )

How easy is it to get to Epping Forest from Central London? I fancy coming along when I'm back in Reading.

Have you finished building the Gary Fisher 29er?

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Have you finished building the Gary Fisher 29er?

I've yet to start it, I need to acquire a front wheel. Should make a start next weekend all being well.

These guys ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ should know their way around pretty well by then, so they can guide you :-)

I'd be happy to ride from central to save additional train fare dorrah, how far is it?

http://goo.gl/maps/q2aW4

You can ride nearly the whole way canalside - about 20 miles from paddington.

I find riding along the Canal frustrating on the way there because I can't go as fast as I would like but it's a fun way to take it easy on the way back,

It's pretty quiet from Epping to Victoria park and vice versa but agreed the central bit can be a horror-show.

The route I posted would be my fastish route which uses a small portion of the canal up from springfield park.

Howard, +1 for the Jetwash. The guy at stow station wanted to do it for nothing as "practice"!

The dirt

Untitled by 40 skid patches, on Flickr

Nice photo^

^^ You starting a compost heap there Indra?

id be up for tagging along. Been riding about there most weekends on this:

Canalival this weekend, and moving to walthamstow the following. Weekend after that tho im golden.

We mostly ride around in circles and get lost. Be good to do something organised!

Be good to do something organised!

^ Oi!

moving to walthamstow

My condolences.

id be up for tagging along. Been riding about there most weekends on this:

Canalival this weekend, and moving to walthamstow the following. Weekend after that tho im golden.

I'll sadly be gone by then, but my apprentice rangers can give you a guided tour :-)

Next stokey mate, minus the horrendous rent. £1000 a month for a 2 double bed, doubling the size of our current flat in canonbury (£1500pm) and gaining a decent sized garden.

Only adds 3 miles on to the commute.

Plus nice and close to epping forrest! You should visit walthamstow village, you may be pleasently surprised. I certainly was.

When the gf initially suggested it my first reaction contained expletives.

My condolences.

Only kidding - I grew up in Walthamstow and spent the first 20 + years of my life there.

I feel I've earned the right to insult the place when it managed to produce a degenerate like me ;-)

http://www.walthamstowtourism.co.uk/index.html

Walthamstow village is where you WILL get mugged.

I second this. I was mugged on the way to school in the village. My lunch money got jacked :(

I once went on a date with a guy who used to write his address as 'Sunny Walthamstow'. He was odd.

'Sunny Walthamstow'.

The irony being that Walthamstow is actually a huge underground network of caves.

Just ask whatok.