2008-10-15 - The Bridges V - East to West

Was that the smash outside the pub on the way to Vauxhall, looked pretty major, hope you're OK. Did you smash into the back of someone?

mobidog, smashed into me.

face, shoulder, elbow and knee have good road rash. just realised under my beard my chin took a scraping too. the strap on my bag tore most of the skin off one of my nipples.

thankfully I had taken off the new tweed jacket before it happened!

Does anyone know who the lil kid showing some crazy bike handling skills?

Yeh I saw him, doing wheelies & jumps... impressive stuff. I guess you gotta start early

**@ Slaytanic:
**What happened man!? Too much beer again.
When we arrived at the end you seemed very pissed and was slurring your words.
All you was going on about was 'how much fucking air' you'd pumped into you rear tyre! ha ha!
Me and Jim ended up racing all the way home at the front.

Where was the smash Slay, what happened?

nothing too serious, hit the side of an incoming van. i dont remember much apart from moaning on about losing my phone in the road. two falls this week...the third could be death. should start drinking kaliber.

I loved the way our very own Mr Tanic looks up at the paramedic and tells him
"Its aaright mate, you see the thing is. I've just had a few brews"

well.....super gutted i had to veer off at vauxhall, but after that crash my shoulder was just too fucked.
just got back from A&E, and i some how managed to break my collar bone AND crack my shoulder blade in two, trying to sleep last night was fucking agony, but i got the codeine now, and i'm feeling pretty sweet. No riding for 6 weeks though.
thanks to all who helped me out, hippy jaygee dandyhorse fluff and the rest.
BIG thanks to elguapo for my massage, it enabled me do a couple bridges at least.
hopefuuly the next one isn't such an epic fail on my part!
maybe see some of you at souths tomorrow.

hahaha!! the shit I say when i'm pissed! I'm usually ranting on about metal and how my dad saw black sabbath in 77

shit, sorry to hear that, Rob.
impressive effort, nonetheless!

well.....super gutted i had to veer off at vauxhall, but after that crash my shoulder was just too fucked.
just got back from A&E, and i some how managed to break my collar bone AND crack my shoulder blade in two, trying to sleep last night was fucking agony, but i got the codeine now, and i'm feeling pretty sweet. No riding for 6 weeks though.
thanks to all who helped me out, hippy jaygee dandyhorse fluff and the rest.
BIG thanks to elguapo for my massage, it enabled me do a couple bridges at least.
hopefuuly the next one isn't such an epic fail on my part!
maybe see some of you at souths tomorrow.

holy shit!! how did that happen?

I was right behind ya pal, the whole sorry incident is still quite fresh in my mind. If it's any consolation, it looked rad.

this is what happens when you try and race hippy, and don't look out for the biggest fucking pothole this side of Afghanistan!

Awesome ride last night guys, fucking massive.
No problems at all to the guys who Dave and Rob who needed patching. Just glad I was there to be able to help a little. How are the injuries? Dave that lump on your head was fucking massive. How you feeling today?
When's the next ride? Woo!

well.....super gutted i had to veer off at vauxhall, but after that crash my shoulder was just too fucked.
just got back from A&E, and i some how managed to break my collar bone AND crack my shoulder blade in two, trying to sleep last night was fucking agony, but i got the codeine now, and i'm feeling pretty sweet. No riding for 6 weeks though.
thanks to all who helped me out, hippy jaygee dandyhorse fluff and the rest.
BIG thanks to elguapo for my massage, it enabled me do a couple bridges at least.
hopefuuly the next one isn't such an epic fail on my part!
maybe see some of you at souths tomorrow.

Holy shit! You really did it, didn't you? So sorry man. You hit the ground like a ton of bricks! I wouldn't have guessed you had broken bones. Right at the beginning too. Drag. Sit on the toilet and have a glass of water and it will all be fine ;)

Sorry the video is on the piss but it seems in keeping with the nights antics. ANother great ride loads of friendly faces and jollyness. More chocolate next time. Awesome ride back into town made even better by apple struddle and Ribena and Brick Lane. I counted about 115 people passing the camera and there where a few coming up the steps. Considering that was the last bridge and a few folks had parted company I think we must have been about 130 strong at Trafalgar Sq. Looking forward to seeing you all soon.
YouTube - From out of the darkness


ride back to east was great, i had to depart direction at the foundry though, didn't have the time to shout bye!

solid and fast ride back!
how many miles do you reckon it was from kew to roughly foundry?

you worms dant make the sense

Thanks - I'm drugged off my box.

About 10 miles, on top of the 22 from Tower Bridge to Kew. I'm not that good at maths but that's got to be nearly 30 miles in total.

Nice to meet everyone last night, fuckin rad ride. Apparently we didn't take the best route back east (Up Notting Hill) saw people we set off with just finishing bagels at Brick lane! Picadilly's definately the one in future.
Nic to meet all the Northies and Easties amongst many.
See you all soon.
Who was the american/canadian (Don't want to offend anyone!) who slammed on the slimy curb once we got west? That was pretty bad!

Great ride, Great bagels & Great people. oh except Ray

racist.

I am sick, again, so won't be able to make it. I was so looking forward to showing you all how to ride like a messenger too.
Hope you all have a good time.
Hippy: I'll catch up with you one day.

You weak fuck! I wasted precious brain cycles looking out for the wigan bag!
Expect a HTFU from me whenever you post now bitch.
Typical bloody unreliable couriers.. ;)

racist.

RayCyst

how is it all ''downstairs"

EPIC FAIL ALERT!
My fucking seat clamp bolt snapped at westminster bridge. surprisingly nobody had a spare seat clamp bolt with them...
was having a blast aswell

Oi! I'm the forum fat bastard. You're treading on my turf sonny jim!*

*Bugger dude. Hope you didn't get an arse full of seatpost.

Who was the american/canadian (Don't want to offend anyone!) who slammed on the slimy curb once we got west? That was pretty bad!

|³|MA3K, our illustrious leader, feeling the wrath of the mulch.