2010-01-09 Sat - The Frozen Bridges - Winter Edition - VIII - West to East

i love a little sing song :-)

Why don't you organise your own ride then?
Could be called, the 'too scared to go out in the cold ride' or something.

It should be 0 degrees at 12 tonight.
I am routing around the most potentially dangerous bit.

**If you can't handle the cold, or your bike stay home. **
I think it will be a unique experience doing this ride in these conditions but in perspective, even though we've got Siberian winds this isn't fucking Moscow.

Htfu or stfu London indeed.

No need for that "fuck you" attitude MA3K because i'm just thinking from the point if someone really hurts themselves due to the cold conditions. With that many people it could be a real handful.

I'm not doing the ride because i don't like riding in the freezing cold, if i had to i would, but i don't. So there you are.

Take care out there tonight.
Anyone needing a sofa in East London tonight, just call.
Phone# in appropriate thread

Have fun,

              The BrokenBat

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Went out for a ride and having a few low BG issues, will try and catch upp with people after I have had a meal and sobered up.

1. MA3K
   
2. BRM
   
3. Owen Reed
   
4. Canary Yellow
   
5. Dicki ( aiming for 300 on the list this time )
   
6. blind dan
   7.Jacklamusica
   
7. RADIUS
   
8. BlueQuinn
   
9. mmccarthy (hopefully i'll be back from Ireland by then)
   
10. CG
    
11. Jester
    
12. Rob
    
13. Alfred Hitchdov
    
14. Mr.C
    
15. CV
    17.lyes888
    
16. Zane Chaos
    
17. LaLiLuLeLo
    
18. joe's miffed
    
19. truli
    
20. wools
    
21. Spins
    
22. Sniffysniffy
    
23. party_paul
    
24. braker
    
25. supertony
    
26. cani
    
27. 4play
    
28. last_caress
    
29. photoben
    
30. Plastic Pedals
    
31. Clara
    
32. SPARKY
    
33. rounce
    
34. 
    
35. Dropout cloaked in a cloud of my own breath
    
36. NurseHolliday
    
37. lardboy
    
38. Ronnald MacNastie
    
39. D. Generate
    
40. Edmundro
    
41. Strip My Mind
    
42. Cornelius Travellingfoot
    
43. Psy
    
44. CrazyJames
    
45. Aleksi
    
46. Kingfisher (Prob plus 1)
    
47. Library Music
    
48. JOHNNY FITZ
    
49. d14vd_h
    

50. tamu

51. bikepusher

52. Kirth

53. Sweaty + the missus

54. Sammy

55. conker

56. Passionflowers

57. Inspector Tektro

58. Chuk

59. dee-bee-one

60. Nikolai

61. slaytanic1

62. maxcrowe

63. Malibu

64. owee

65. t-4003

66. owee's mate

67. town

68. huge16

69. hoonz

70. Churchy
    74.

71. Bike Destroyer

72. czawe

73. Barneystepney

74. arnidom

75. junoface

76. Streaky Twanger

77. cupcup

78. béby

79. MuleBoy

80. crimsonape

81. Babar

82. RubberDucky

83. Jellied

84. velib

85. atk

86. gormley

87. davidg

88. selim

89. AcidHaus1

90. ziska

91. akin

92. JackFlash

93. Library Music

94. shambolic

95. jcgarcia

96. bikepixi

97. Lynx (geared tho and up for seeing 100 odd cycles running around london)

98. digs86

99. arronphoto

100. Ricochet

101. fixedandsingle

102. espresso_head

103. tommcd (newb)

104. Brave

105. xwielorybx

106. hanged_up (if I'm not working)

107. JAMIE

108. marcoisapolo

109. Bainbridge

110. OBN_Ben
     115.mrbagel

111. Marcola

112. V

113. Geary

114. richoking (first timer)

115. JAH thames

116. tofu.uu (has no fixie at the moment)

117. muse140

118. sparrow

119. keepsake

121. jonny

I'm in.

Where the fuck is everyone?

Well my BG not coming up due to the cold I think.

Sorry

Where the fuck is everyone?

In the pub where any sensible person would be!!!!!!!!!!

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Class! Are you still in there hippy?

Nah, we're at home now. We did a bit of a "I never knew that about London" + pub crawl and I'm now toast.

well I hit the midori. Its class with diet lemonade.

Honey & Lemon Strepsils dissolved hot water and vodka

^ Oooooh, think I might just make myself one of those.

Fuck me.
Cold but no ice to be seen. Regret taking the heavy arsed tourer now.
Bailed after waterloo bridge with nurseholiday to hit up burger king.
Cold sucks your energy like i couldn't believe, annoyingly as soon as i'd eaten i was full of beans again.
Poor turnout at the start and we dropped like flies along the way..
To those who completed and caned it the whole way i salute you.

caned....in almost all senses of the word.
i feel as though i was smoked through a corncob bridge-pipe.
fooking excellent. when's the next one?

What an amazing ride. Shame about all of those that didn't turn up but it was definitely their loss. Other than the cold the conditions were perfect. Not a drop of rain in sight, which to me, in England, is brilliant!

I look forward to a slightly warmer bridges ride next time, and Ed, bring the fixed next time and don't drop out. I didn't even realise you two had gone!

I feel like a fool for coming geared on fat tyres with silly low pressure.
Good for pottering, not bridge bashing in the cold.

Shame on me for bailing.

whew, home, thx for the directions juan, made it no problem.

my head feel like it made of rubber and my heart beat is causing me to rock back and forth.

i did not lean.

Edward - its cool. respect to Liz as well. Ended up at Bagel Bake in Brick Lane for a well earned salt beef bagel. Absolutely knackered on the way home. Roll on the next one!

saturday/sunday is to be very cold, i'd love to come along, but i can't see myself enjoying the blizzards.
Isn't it wize to defer the ride to a later date ?

Why don't you organise your own ride then?
Could be called, the 'too scared to go out in the cold ride' or something.

It should be 0 degrees at 12 tonight.
I am routing around the most potentially dangerous bit.

**If you can't handle the cold, or your bike stay home. **
I think it will be a unique experience doing this ride in these conditions but in perspective, even though we've got Siberian winds this isn't fucking Moscow.

Htfu or stfu London indeed.

No need for that "fuck you" attitude MA3K because i'm just thinking from the point if someone really hurts themselves due to the cold conditions. With that many people it could be a real handful.

I'm not doing the ride because i don't like riding in the freezing cold, if i had to i would, but i don't. So there you are.

The ride date was set, this is the time I have free and I thought it would be fun to experience that ride in the snow.
Moving dates around messes everything up.

People make their own decisions on whether or not to come, as you did, the responsibility for their safety and comfort lays squarely at their own feet.

Last bridges somebody got pedal-strike on a perfectly dry corner and busted themselves up, I waited for the ambulance with them and then caught up with the bunch.
Tonight, save for one puncture, passed without incident.

The comment stands, if you can't handle the cold or your bike(specifically in these conditions was the subtext), stay home.
Don't project your expectations and limitations onto others.

As I'd seen from the past few days when I'd been out riding, except for a few back streets all this talk about iced-up roads was overblown. The only bit I was unsure about was between Barnes Bridge and Hammersmith, so we skipped it. No big deal.
In the end there was a bit of ice on the paths and on the roads margins, nothing that stopped a great ride.

42 started the ride, 32 finished it as people found the exit closest to their homes.

It felt like one of the early forum rides as everyone who was there seemed more interested in having a chat and actually riding together than seeing who could pull the longest trackslide or run the most pointless red light and pose and tart about on their 'fixies'.

Nice to catch up with a few people I haven't seen in a while, cheers to all who came.

I thought it would be fun to experience that ride in the snow.

...and it was, thanks for the ride.

shame no pix!

You can borrow some of mine.. same night so it counts, right? :)

42 started the ride, 32 finished it as people found the exit closest to their homes.

um, just felt bit tired and stopped at tate britain then ate sth, still got to the end cos i live in cannon st. ^ nice riding experience, stunning London night, thanks.