Fixed Gear London's London to Brighton ride

Perfect, right then, thats what im doing on Saturday!

Just did London to Brighton today, under 5 hours with plenty of stops running a 72". Brilliant!

So who here has made it up Ditchling Beacon fixed?

bit of a headwind today?

yep, it was windy alright, most noticeable after i'd dragged my ass up that damn Beacon heading into Brighton.

3 or 4 of the l2b got up ditchling beacon out of 22

Route?

roberto and i made it up at the same time, some dude with a london A-Z jersey made it up, and the dude with the green t-shirt did too.
i can't wait till i get my bike rebuilt, i'll defo do the l-b ride again.

Same route as the big ride a few weeks back... http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/BHF-London-to-Brighton-2004

lpg - What gearing were you running to make it up? - Or are you just nails?

46 x 16, i think its round 75 inches? not sure.

75? that would that you are just hard then :-)

hard? i'm diamond-coated diamond....:p

lpg can get up a vertical cliff he's better than lance on the hills

I've done it twice on a 68" gear :)

Did you cycle together as a group, or did you split into peletons to avoid problems with traffic (if there were any)?

Bump of the year.

Cycled as a single group.

Yay!

Did anyone take the train home?

Call them, they will find a series of small walls and be able to tell if trains were used.

Yay!

Did anyone take the train home?

On that journey I think nearly everyone took the train home.

Cool, were all the bikes allowed on one train?

no, some had to be posted/couriered/ferryed back :)

Cool, were all the bikes allowed on one train?

i can't speak for this specific case, but southern trains are technically only allowed 4 bikes or something like that in the specific bike part. but i have rarely had problems taking more, it depends on the guard, e.g. on a couple of occaisions the guard has refused to let more bikes on/put the bikes in other spaces but this has usually been at peak times.

Alright thanks for the advice, I'm doing this saturday with at least twenty others and we want to avoid being stranded in Brighton...although I secretly want to.

my first proper ride with the forum ( well apart from a highgate hill thursday or two ) really nice day out loads of sunshine fish and chips down on the beach

great ride

it's nice to bump a few of the earlier threads once in a while see what things were like back in the day

dave you should choose one old thread a week and bump it

Not a bad idea... we can sit around with a pipe and speak of days gone by.

I nearly bumped a really old thread last week, but someone else had just bumped something old and been pounced on, so I thought better of it.

isnt it a preferable idea to bump an old, relevant thread, if you want to continue the subject? its not like they are from 1967 or something...
so many stupid new threads being started.......
(edit, half the things they are talking about are from 1967 though.)