You are reading a single comment by @Brommers and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@Brommers
TBH, if I wasn't doing the BHF ride, I'd probably also chose a different route. With different start and finish points. I actually rather enjoyed the atmosphere though, even if it was a bit Noddergeddon. The sound of graunching gears at the beginning of every climb, as badly-indexed gears were forced into ill-timed changes was deafening. And one chap did ask why I wasn't freewheeling downhill, in tone which suggested he thought I needed to learn how to ride a bike.
Still, the Girl Guides' cakes were rather good, and the restaurant at the Brighton Grand was very good.