Wanted: A rider. Teach LdnGrrl how to ride day

:P
Not tomorrow? Fri afternoon is good!

No I have A busy busy day tomorrow.

I understand your point, and yes, it works in some contexts e.g. I sometimes ride wide into blind bends on country lanes to be seen sooner by anyone cutting the corner coming the other way (more time for both parties to shift position) - more often in the daytime.

But in the particular instance I'm alluding to, it had exactly the opposite effect. I blame myself really, for forcing the other person to ride out of his skin attempting to keep up with me. Poor bloke couldn't think straight due to exhaustion ;)

Are you talking about one of our club runs, when you almost got wiped out going up on the wrong side of a hill that time? :)

great guys:

http://www.bikeworks.org.uk/

Issue is getting the bike there?

If you weren't so short I'd lend you a bike, but I think I've got 5" on you, at least.

Tut! blames small portuguese women genes

Issue is getting the bike there?

http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/silverlink/silverlink_map.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/silverlink/silverlink_map.htm

Will need to walk/pavement ride it to wembley central, and get off near startford or something. I'll look into this further, thank you!

I didn't mean it in that sense you dirty person! But thanks for the thought :)

I know ;p

A friend of mine is a cycle instructor with one of these organizations that are not getting back to you. He is lovely and said to text him so I've taken the liberty to pm his phone number to you.

Sounds like you're getting sorted but hey, every little helps.

thanks! any help is greatly appericated!

you can use one of their bikes, I said that...

Issue is getting the bike there?

you can use theirs...

Oh, I must have missed that part, I'll get in touch right now.

Are you talking about one of our club runs, when you almost got wiped out going up on the wrong side of a hill that time? :)

Ha! The perils of overtaking cars on ascents.

No, someone else this time.

Lil, as previously explained, LCC or TfL are not the right organisations to get in touch with about this.

It's great that you want to do cycle training, and CTUK will no doubt be in touch with you shortly. I think they said they'd contact you last week, which doesn't seem to have worked out, but you can expect it to be soon from now. I know it must be torture not to want to get on your bike before the training! :)

Lil, my mate, and also a compadre of Oliver, is a qualified cycling instructor. Her name is Denise, but better known as "Dinky".
I'll let her know about your needs, and see if she can help, or if she has any ideas.

This is she:

http://www.bikefix.co.uk/index.php?unique=e85dba696dde01cf856867dff5cbcc5a&get_ol_id=4&get_gl_id=5&get_sgl_id=12&get_bsm_id=1&bsm_code=words

Denise is a diamond!!!! rides recumbent and everyother wheeled thing going in London.
did my CTUK training with her in 05, bumped into her randomly at C.Mass while ago but havent seen her for ages-- if shes reading this Big up yourself!
:-)))

Ved beat me to it but try Pigfarmer

+1. LdnGrrl's being honest about her abilities, it's not ok to take the piss.

This was a genuine request for help, and the best you could do was to be an arsehole? WAC.

This is what I did - hadn't ridden for years and the few times I'd ridden in traffic in London I'd been petrified. Then bought a bike and rode it home and loved it, was absolutely fine and have been ever since. The leap of faith bit is really true, it's just making it happen.

I remember when I first got a bike in London, I had to ride it home from Oxford St. I was so terrified of cycling along all the big main roads on my way home, but as soon as I got on the bike I had a surge of adrenaline and all my fear went away and was replaced by a super awareness that I didn't know I was capable of. I've never been afraid of cycling in London after that first time.

I think that even if you are riding with other people, at some point you will have to take a leap of faith. I think that the sooner you ride down a "scary" road, the better (that is once you are comfortable on your bike). You will feel a lot better once you do.

And now you ride at like 70mph or something! Proof it can be done :)

I got my first one off a freecycler in Camden and rode back to Greenwich via the Highway, Tower Bridge and Jamaica Road at rush hour, having never ridden outside of a small village before. I was fucking TERRIFIED. I didn't get on it again for several months.

Is that on the beach at Brighton? How appropriate.

Lil, my mate, and also a compadre of Oliver, is a qualified cycling instructor. Her name is Denise, but better known as "Dinky".
I'll let her know about your needs, and see if she can help, or if she has any ideas.

LdnGrrl, I am more than happy to ride over to NW and help you get going. There is the condition however that you have to be on my team for the upcoming Rollerpaluza, I'm getting blown out left right and centre.

I'd die after 5mins.

Good thing you only need to last 20 seconds then

+1

Haha, fine!

Is that on the beach at Brighton? How appropriate.

Dunwich Dynamo, therefore its Dunwich beach. Nearly everyone that has done this has seen her, as she marks out the course with candles before the ride, and then does shepherding during the ride. She rides the DD twice each time its done.

Brighton. Pfft.