Tyre carnage in Richmond Park

Anybody in Richmond Park yesterday? I don't think I'ver ever seen so many flats in one day - must have been around 20 guys down in four laps. I was feeling kind of smug until I got my first flat in 15 months... and I thought I was invincible... :-(

Do you find that cycling on Saturday and Sunday mornings is a constant game of 'dodge-the-smashed-glass-from-drunk-twats-the-night-before'?

I do....terribly frustrating.

It's that gritty gravel stuff they've laid down. Scared the poop out of me on the fast descent going anti too. A decidedly cyclist unfriendly move.

I heard the gravel was pretty deep in places when they first put it down. Is it starting to wash away now?

Is it thee newly dressd surface causing the problem mentioned. Or the glass problem previously mention.

i was going to go riding in richmond park today.....untill it started raining :(

Is it thee newly dressd surface causing the problem mentioned. Or the glass problem previously mention.

For me I guess it was the gravel - a sharp flint made it through my usually bullet proof krylion carbons

Richmond park is boring. They laid the gravel down to encourage people to find some more interesting rides

Surrey hills ftw

Surrey hills ftw

Timmmehhhh

Richmond park is boring. They laid the gravel down to encourage people to find some more interesting rides

Top shelf! "Ooh I've never been this way before.. what's that tree doing there.. and that stump and the deer and wow I should try riding Cross, maybe I'll give Rollapaluza Muddy Hell a go.."

We hit a long stretch of such gravel on a new road surface on the 2008 Dunwich Dynamo. It was still long before sunrise. Luckily, we didn't get any punctures but still proceeded gingerly on our skinny road bike tyres.

Has the surface settled down now?

Anyone doing some laps early tomorrow?

it's fine. has been for months

never cycled round richmond park before, dont have a road bike anymore so only ride fixed, whats the circuit like? found regents park circle to be flat so easy on fixed is richmond park the same or is it hilly?

Hilly in places. Well worth doing

blimey, a sensible answer of mr.melt

I saw loads of fixed riders in Richmond park on Saturday so it can't be that bad. From what I saw (drove round from Richmond to Kingston) there seems to be a lot of long steady slopes rather than beastly steep ones.

dont mind gentle slopes they are decent training, but dont want to be getting knackered as i dont really do it for fitness or training just like to have a nice quiet cycle... find it theraputic...

2/3 laps doing on fixed, anti-clockwise is a nice little workout

There's one short climb going clockwise and a couple of significant "bumps" anticlockwise - a great place to get in some training miles out of the way of the traffic. If you cross through the centre rather than going all the way round you can bypass that and have a nice amble (and see some deer)

just like to have a nice quiet cycle... find it theraputic...

Try to avoid the Dynamo boys then, they are london's fiercest bicycle gang.

Try to avoid the Dynamo boys then, they are london's richest bicycle gang.
Yep.

i might give it a go at the weekend... been looking forward to some leisure rides, now the whether is here its about time to get out...

how will i spot the dynamo gang? pinarellos?