Hell of the North (London)

Waiting for him to get back to me, will let you know.

Is anyone heading there from West London at all, that I can hitch a tail with as while I have printed out how to get there, its inevitable I am going to piss around and get lost!

PM me if you are, cheers

Ok, cheers!

Oh man , commited to work on Sunday now NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO........ Thanks a ton for the offer but "Tenderloin" enjoy the ride mate and MA3K thanks for the offer sadly I saw it a tad late :-(

@Tenderloin

PM me if you want the ticket.

Not sure what best way to swap is but I will be there tomorrow at 10.00.
If needs be I can complete the sign-in and give you all the rider gubins.

A friend has had to drop out so took their ticket/place last night.

Just seen this, sorry for that! But thanks so much for the offer!

That was amazing. Like an adventure of some sort. I never do sportives, but when I do, it's HOTN. Big up +Scoot and everyone else involved.

Absolutely brilliant, really nice and really not pricey

Really good route. That rutted field though!

In other news, I managed to add a 10k or so bonus section by carrying on a little too enthusiastically down one track (missed a switch-back at the disused station). Profuse apologies to anyone following. Picked up a p******* on doubling-back on that part too to add to the fun.

That was a lot of fun. I've never really done proper offroading - let alone on a plastic bike with 25mm tyres - and my god, I now want more. Time for the oft-thought-about CX bike.
That field was insane! As were the uphill offroad bits.
Didn't fall off, and only one puncture which was my fault really... gurned at some dude filming on his phone, and banged my rear wheel in a pothole on the second offroad sector.
Lots of very friendly riders during and at the end, putting paid to the snobby poseur reputation. Can't wait to see the photos people took!

Such a good ride !
Was really happy with how the good old Nigel handled it, it did slow me down on tarmac bits but was so much fun on the off road sections.
Will ride again !

http://pages.rapha.cc/events/hell-of-the-north-vii

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More Haribo from @Señor_Bear!

I'm not working. Someone else can give out sweeties to children.

It's RCC members first this year so any non-members will need to be ready on the trigger

Ready on the trigger for the two day sign up period ahead of the draw for places.

RCC gets 200 and is first come first serve.
Ballot on 100 for the rest. No benefit to being first.

Sign up open now....http://pages.rapha.cc/events/hell-of-the-north-vii

What could possibly go wrong?

That nice ditch near White Stubbs Lane might now be a bottomless pit and make people disappear from the face of the earth.

You not playing @amey?

Brand new route this year!

Nah .. peaked HOTN. Plus its in the north.

I can only do a couple of rides per year outside the north circular.
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-251/
http://www.aukweb.net/events/detail/16-88/

Having said that I've thoroughly enjoyed HOTN in the past. I even have a cross bike this year!

Have an extra couple four of servings of chips for me.

ThNRC delux?

Having said that I've thoroughly enjoyed HOTN in the past.

Who could forget the bolting horses!