100k Isle of Wight Randonee - Sunday May 4th

http://www.kingfisher-caravan-park.co.uk/ no idea what it's gonna be like but it looks reasonably conv and doesn't seem to want to force us to book for a whole week

cool hopefully catch you some where on the way round.

Bit shit if loads of places were asking for a week!

Was quite a good ride in the end, by the time we'd cycled to the ferry and got lost on the way to the first check point we managed 73 miles...

The hills were just about manageable fixed though coming down blackgang I looked a wee bit like road runner.

Didn't see any SS or fixed riders though? All carbon fibre or mountain bikes

well done mate! bet you're glad you got the 18t on.

i'm currently sitting inside working at a computer. pure torture.

good ride that. wicked to circle the island with our very own Tommy and a few old friends. kelvin sorry not to see you dude - but then we started a couple of checkpoints back from you (yarmouth) so v unlikely unless you were really chugging. it was a good ride yesterday and good to continue the tradition - that's five years in a row for me, fourth fixed.

nah worries jonny a random friend of a friend I invited when drunk came with us and wanted to get home as fast as possible, which spoiled some of the chance of the lgfss meetup.

I figure the other way round is harder though

I'm sorry I couldn't make it. Did 20+ miles walking the South Downs on Saturday and my legs wouldn't have handled it.

I went up to Richmond Park this afternoon and did laps as a penance.

Well done to the guys that did it.

Good w/e. Thank for the putting up with me Jonny.

Pics up some time later today.

shame I missed this one, but was in Wales. Look forward to seeing the pics.

tommy and me at around the 63 mile mark with the last of the climbs out of the way

on the lymington to yarmouth ferry

the view

job done

jonny, looks like a lovely day. Nice.

Is it me or are there 3 people in this shot? You, Tommy, and a random ghost.

sorry, that is Rob in the background. he had a wicked 18 year old mercian road bike. it had gears though so didn't mention him initially ;)

Oops forgot to get the pic off my camera last night. Must remember.

No W.I tea photos Jonny?;)

That clime in the background was i.m.o the best of the entire ride, smooth rode gentle and long gradient, real place where you can smoke anyone on gears.

just for you tommy, tea from the whitwell W.I ;)

That looks stunning jonny. And 100km falls within my strike zone. Will have to remember this for next year.

i forgot to take any, was too busy wheezing and wolfing down jaffa cakes.... that climb you're the top of was a bit of a nightmare.

The onen that made me laugh was in the centre of cowes, with a great long descent into it took me five minutes to pshcye myself up for it zoomed off down the hill and just rolled to the top of the climb

Jonny burning it up the hill.