Tuesday Night Ride Club '09

Let's not forget Bedfordshire's contribution to the ride. Best supporting county.

haha, i thought we crossed a county line at some point but due to geography fail couldn't for the life of me think which one.

beds. and time for.

smooth. no drama, just turning the pedals in the countryside as the sun goes down. that's what it is all about at the TNRC. That ride is on the list that kinda looks like this in terms of gradient difficulty

1. surrey hills
   
2. kent
   
3. chilterns
   
4. herts
   
5. roydon
   
   

thanks to bmmf for the leg work and great to see Tom out there spinning to glory. as for the next ride i'm thinking a) a different kent ride b) surrey hills or c) a new essex ride any votes?

Let's take it to the Peak District.

not enough dark hours yet. let's wait till november for that one

I'll be riding out and back.

Did the (big!) hedgehog get across the road unscathed?

blinded possibly

I concur, great ride - thanks to BMMF for leading the way, and everyone for stopping whilst I de-cramped, thanks for the fizz pop, and looking forward to the next ride.

Interesting facts of the night:

• The significant climb of the evening with a lot of gravel on the road is called 'Gravel Hill'.

• jonny's knowledge of Madonna's early-career repetoire is not sufficient to trigger mirth when a discography based current affairs pun is offered up like a sifted nugget of alluvial comedy gold.

Sounds a good night.

Happy to sort out another Kent route if needed. Ultimately it would involve at least one hill, the only way round that is to catch a train down to Paddock Wood to Kent's flat lands, home of the hop fields. But that's a 50 minute train journey from London.

Shame I missed this. I'll be back. Aste La viste or whatever. Whats the next one

Excellent evening all round and a fine route by BMMF. WGC looked a fun place...

The hedgehog definitely survived the TNRC, whether it got its arse into gear and made it across before the next 4x4 is another matter.

Tim, here's the bikely link to that Essex ride I was talking about - kicks off from Shenfield and does a long loop round Chelmsford.

[ame]http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Essex-50m-loop[/ame

Loads of trains to Shenfield but Its almost 90k, so probably too long for an evening ride. I normally add some bits on to take it out to Maldon, but may have a recce and see if some corners can be cut off to bring it down to TNRC size.

bum. gutted i missed this.

Sounds like a great route, and the train stations suit me down to the ground, alas I needed a dose of Swains last night, so Norths drinks won the day.

Worth letting you guys know that next week it is the Norths Drinks birthday, and word on the street is that people will be celebrating by putting in some times for the Death TT.

I'm [st]relieved[/st] pleased that went well. Good riding from the bunch. Tight as my buns.

And now I've organised a ride more recently than 2007, I'll hopefully not get dissed by lndngrrrrrrl and all the other 'lfgss: the next generation' people, for being a passé non-ride organising blot on velocio's utopian cyberscape. Or whatever.

Tuesdays are the new [st]black[/st] red.

he he

@ sam - a new kent ride with hard hills would be great. we could do with another ride near the top end of that list. make it 25 - 30 miles with 2 / 3 big mummas involved :)

@ des - cheers mate, will get back to you on this

@ sasmon - i'll be there for sure

@ hedgehog - I don't know if i was dodging you because you would blow my tyres out or because you were so damn cute, waddling across the road like that

Nobody belived me about the frog then. It was there honest! Looking a bit like a stone. Lucky animals last night.

Didn;t know you had cramp too Tom, we could have comiserated about that. My double whammy of Dr Pepper and Coke at the station fixed it.

BTW did anybody notice the light pretty low in the sky as we approach our last pause, where we rejoined the route out? What was that?

Last night ROCKED! Special thanks to Balmain and clintsmoker for generous towing and hanging back for the fat slow guy towards the end. Seems like 30 miles at this kind of pace is where I flag.

Sounds like a great route, and the train stations suit me down to the ground, alas I needed a dose of Swains last night, so Norths drinks won the day.

Worth letting you guys know that next week it is the Norths Drinks birthday, and word on the street is that people will be celebrating by putting in some times for the Death TT.

Sounds like a challenge. Just don't tell BMMF

@Skully - there's all kinds of weird air traffic associated with Luton Airport [/Lorraine Chase][/showing my age] around those parts.

@mikec - I'm about 2 months off being ready for that ;)

Something tells me you won't need much training to put in the fastest time amongst the North London drinkers

bum. gutted i missed this.

Yeah... but just think of the gains from that gym session.

and now, back to cycling:

Last night is what TNRC is all about.
Beautifully simplistic route, taking in some stunning countryside, traditional wildlife and largely by-passing a truly horrendous blot of a town. All at a pace befitting of a BMMF lead-out.
Thanks for making it a (borderline) "classic" Scarlett.
TNRC sponsored by Hope and now Power Shots - stay out there!

i am sad that i missed it too...

Seriously though we should actually approach Hope.

@ sam - a new kent ride with hard hills would be great. we could do with another ride near the top end of that list. make it 25 - 30 miles with 2 / 3 big mummas involved :)

31.5 Ok? Could amend if necessary.

[ame]http://www.bikemap.net/route/260779[/ame]

Takes in Star Hill and Bayleys Hill (Ide Hill's infamous cousin).

If you ran it in reverse it would be fucking hard, although I would change the route slightly to avoid a dodgy right turn while climbing. It would then include the ascents of Ide Hill Road and Sundridge Hill (definitely a leg breaker).

There's a train to Otford from Victoria plus also one from Cannon Street that arrive within 5 minutes of each other at approx 19:50. Two hours riding time gives trains every 20 mins or so with the last being shortly after 23:00.