2007-07-14 - The Bridges I - East to West

Honestly, I don't think the canal is a good idea. very narrow. I already find it hard to ride just by myself, let alone in a half drunken state with 30 people at night. Also populated with drunks and other unpleasant characters. prefer open road

less shouting more cycling less shouting more cycling

The canal idea was suggested for a Sunday morning, in the daytime, sober.

Still, I've ridden the Grand Union a few times with the gf and the bridge underpasses are only a wide enough for one bike.
It's quite cool for a quiet trundle along but I'm not sure a crazed bunch of alcohol-starved fixers would suit canal path rides.
You'll need bells according to the tow path user guide thingie too :) "Two Tinks"
Are the paths closer to the city much wider than the ones out west?

Well done mareeoh and MA3K for leading the ride, it needed someone like you to pull the group togerther at time e.t.c.

Oh and a stoke of genius on primrose hill with badriders bike, I don't know how you two kept your patients that ugly dude was getting on my tits.

Well done everyone that turned up one of the things that made it was the number of people. Well done all.

What happened on Primrose Hill? It sounds like Blair Witch or somethin' :)

more like southern comfort or the film with the wierd banjo playing dude in .... deliverance

It is always very strange being around at 6:00 on a sunday morning, on the way back to Plumbstead I saw two of these randomly abandoned on the side of the road!

lazarus got up and walked
it's a miracle
or they were shooting a scene from little britain !

"yeah i know"

Yeah but no but yeah!

TheBrick(Tommy) Well done mareeoh and MA3K for leading the ride, it needed someone like you to pull the group togerther at time e.t.c.

Oh and a stoke of genius on primrose hill with badriders bike, I don't know how you two kept your patients that ugly dude was getting on my tits.

Well done everyone that turned up one of the things that made it was the number of people. Well done all.

it was well funny when that gezzer sat down near you and kicked your beer......you were like "watch out!!".....haaa

Ma3k where are your photos?!

I don't have Flikr, I will add them to the start of the next bridge ride post soonish.

who was this weirdo then?

a mate of someone on here?

someone on here?

some hanger on?

henry, the mild mannered janitor?

the last one!

No, he was loitering with intent in Primrose hill at 4 AM with a bunch of his thug mates, playfighting alpha-male bullshit.
He must have been the runt of his group, he had a Ralpha London fields hat on so to his friends he was the eccentric one who liked bicycles and weird shit like that.
He just took a unhealthy intrest in badriders custom-jobby and wouldn't leave off banging on about "give us a ride mate" and you know if he'd set off down that hill you'd not see him again less you chased him down and d-locked him off the bike.
Just don't need that shit at 4-5 in the morning.

in other words he was a complete prick

Yeah.

I don't know if anyone remembers but the end of his charm offensive was something along the lines of "give us ago or I'll stamp all over your green rims until they are all crumpled" or something with that jist any way.

there was more of us then them....and we had the slight advantage of having a large amount of d locks and chains:)

you are all very benevolent..

not sure I'd be so forgiving myself...

yeah i agree, i saw that guy , noticed hi coz of the rapha cap...
what happened in the end? he just made a scene then walked away like a jack russle?

He kept going away for 2 minutes and then coming back to do it all over again.
Eventually we all left!

All the beer was gone.