The Richmond Park 3-Lap Challenge

Sparky, I like your bitterness and your style. Mostly your bitterness.

Fucking you Parks Authorities!

I may or may not be in a bad mood.

I'm always in a bad mood.

They could make it that no private vehicles are allowed, so oldies and crips can still get in via taxis..

I speculate that London parks still have a continuation of the tradition of carriage drives--where the 'upper' class would take their horse-drawn carriages. I'm sure there's info on that somewhere. Of course, they have long ceased to have that purpose, as these days it's only routine everyday traffic.

Ban cars in all parks. Stop building new roads, too.

Exactly this.

And don't build on greenbelt, and don't sell off the forests, and vastly increase the amount of national parks in the UK, and increase fuel duty, and make the driving test more stringent, and introduce compulsory re-testing at five-year periods, and bring in harsher sentencing guidelines for death by dangerous driving. But I digress.

^^^ I don't build any new roads. You've got the wrong man.

^^ I don't build any new roads. You've got the wrong man.

I know your sort: out in the dark of night, silently laying Tarmac, giggling breathlessly as you spray paint line markers and install catseyes. Don't play innocent with me, sonny...

instructs workers to fetch two buckets and prepare some concrete

Anti-Clockwise___________

• 6pt - 52:31
  
• 6pt - 53:20 (F - 84")
  
• Skinny - 53:36 (G)
  
• Brain-Stew - 53.53 (G)
  
• Blue Fleet - 55.39 (G)
  
• Erik Jonsson - 56:15 (G)
  
• Bouncy - 56:21 (G)
  
• Jacobjd - 57:02 (F - 90"
  
• Sasmon 57.15 (G)
  
• IAmNotARobot - 58.13 (G)
  
• Bainbridge - 58:58 (G)
  
• joe smiff - 59:21 (G)
  
• FixedCheese - 59:23 (G)
  
• chris0 - 59.26 (G)
  
• T-V - 59.30 (G)
  
• adoubletap - 59.30 (G)
  
• Damo - 59:39 (G)
  
• Commie - 59:40 (G)
  
• FixedCheese - 59:42 (F - 74")
  
• toby.d - 1:00:14 (G)
  
• Pharoahsanders - 1:00.15 (G)
  
• dancing james - 1:00:34 (G)
  
• Hovis - 1:00:43 (G)
  
• Bouncy - 1:00:54 (F - 72")
  
• william1984 - 1:00:59 (G)
  
• Olly398 - 1:01:00 (G)
  
• vunugu - 1:02:50 (F - 79.6")
  
• shinkuu kiss - 1:03:26 (G)
  
• Rod Munch - 1:03:32 (G)
  
• edscoble - 1:03:45 (G)
  
• Wrongcog - 1:03:54 (G)
  
• willski - 1:04:30 (F - 76")
  
• edscoble - 1:04:50 (SS)
  
• Doutzki - 1:04:59 (F - 75.5")
  
• Sandy_l - 1:05:28 (G)
  
• smiff - 1:06:15 (F - 67")
  
• Sam - 1:07:06 (G) - pootle, chatting for 90% of it
  
• Damo - 1:07:06 (F) - pootle, chatting for 90% of it
  
• dst - 1:10:17 (G)
  
• Sparky - 1:10:23 (G)
  
• Sparky - 1:12:05 (F - 48:18)
  
• amey - 1:16:44 (G)
  
  
  

Clockwise________________

• Skinny 56:51 (G)
  
• Bainbridge 00.57.58 (G) (http://app.strava.com/rides/5978358 Laps 2-4)
  
• Splutter - 00.58.45 (G) http://app.strava.com/rides/25021367
  
• HÏnáta - 00:59:21 (G)
  
• muleboy - 1:00:57
  
• Señor Bear - 1:01:48
  (G)
  
• jimmyjazz - 1:03:00
  
• amey - 1:10:09 (G)
  
• webof - 1:13:15
  
  

<- Trispok of Regret award for inappropriate wheel choice
<- the FixedCheese Babybel of Speed award for fastest fixed rider
<- the EdScoble Brompton of Insanity award for fastest time on a foldable bike

Still not as fast as I'd like to be :(
Well at least not the last person overall ;)

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Tom I'm coming for you.
Get em while their down and weak.

Might have another crack at running this this weekend.

Be careful of those coppers though. There out to get ya.

Tom I'm coming for you.
Get em while their down and weak.

Haven't you got proper races to be winning or something? :P

I live and breath for the LFGSS RP3LC.

Haven't you got proper races to be winning or something? :P

What you on about, it don't get more real than this

Be careful of those coppers though. There out to get ya.

I think being chased by police might be the extra push that some of us need to get a worthy score!

Has anyone been fined for speeding in RP?

Would you have to go on a speed awareness course to avoid points? ;o$

Has anyone been fined for speeding in RP?

The gf (who has been riding for a year and who doesn't like descending) was pulled over at the bottom of Dark Hill for doing over 20mph. Got off with a warming, but seemed unnecessarily harsh given the stretch of road

you cannot be charged with speeding on bicycle only wanton and furious pedalling

What if you were on the pedals downhill?

No fury.

you cannot be charged with speeding on bicycle only wanton and furious pedalling

Not true in Royal Parks.

On normal roads the speed limit only applies to "motor vehicles".

But the Royal Parks Act is worded slightly differently and so it applies to all vehicles (pedal cycles included). So you can be charged with speeding on a bicycle where the Royal Parks Act applies (this includes Richmond Park).

Not knowing your speed isn't a valid defence either.

My record is 46mph down Broomfield Hill.