Tuesday Night Ride Club (TNRC)

Lovely time and looking forward to more of the same. Lovely route especially at this time of year with the fields of wheat...thank you everyone for such a wonderful evening

Jamie popped into the shop today to say that he had fun and to thank everyone. He also mistakingly thinks you are a lovely, nice people.

Did you ask him about the flat spots on his rear tyre? I can still smell burning rubber :)

London, well not quite, to Bath Tuesday 27 July 2010

Yes l's & g's. The overnight deluxe.

Meet at Waterloo at 23:00 on Tuesday night. We catch a train out of town in the TNRC style. 30 mins later. We get off the train, and we ride our bikes, through the night and into the day. On a most splendid route.

On arrival we bathe in the roman style, eat breakfast in the english style and talk shit in the universal style.

95 miles in the legs. about 45 notes lighter in the pockets due to the train out and more importantly train back. group save/buy tickets could lighten this a bit but that gets down to how organised we are from here. so.

please only put your name down if you can definitely make it and have booked the next day off work and we can sort out group saves. it will save a fair bit on the 45 quoted no doubt. which was my single fair scenario. am too bored to do the research on rail websites. forgive me.

this will be a most memorable ride. the reccie on saturday was made out of pure blacktop wonderment.

List

1. Clintsmoker
   
2. Jonny
   
3. Wools
   4.
   

i'm excited about this.

what? one armed man wets himself

yep, i am excited too. this is gonna be a good one. with some serious vasco di gama style light of the moon/seat of pants navigating.

oh, and to add to the TNRC excitement. we arrive back in london at a different station that we set off from. that is a TNRC first of momentous proportions

there are tickets from bath to london at 9 or 17 pounds if we book sharpish. not groupsave but who cares? where we going out to? farnborough?

yep farnborough dude. or as they like to call in international circles Farnborough (All Stations). those 9 or 17 pounds will far outweigh groupsave in savings.

but if they require you take a specific timed train then indeed ensure you do. these trains are Intershitty. and bike reservations may be required.

London, well not quite, to Bath Tuesday 27 July 2010

Yes l's & g's. The overnight deluxe.

Meet at Waterloo at 23:00 on Tuesday night. We catch a train out of town in the TNRC style. 30 mins later. We get off the train, and we ride our bikes, through the night and into the day. On a most splendid route.

On arrival we bathe in the roman style, eat breakfast in the english style and talk shit in the universal style.

95 miles in the legs. about 45 notes lighter in the pockets due to the train out and more importantly train back. group save/buy tickets could lighten this a bit but that gets down to how organised we are from here. so.

please only put your name down if you can definitely make it and have booked the next day off work and we can sort out group saves. it will save a fair bit on the 45 quoted no doubt. which was my single fair scenario. am too bored to do the research on rail websites. forgive me.

this will be a most memorable ride. the reccie on saturday was made out of pure blacktop wonderment.

List

1. Clintsmoker
   
2. Jonny
   
3. Wools
   
4. Fussball
   

Oooh... will book Wednesday off.

The Spa opens at 9.00 with the outdoor thermae pool opening at 10. £14 pounds each, I think there're group discounts. I can ring up and find out once the list is fuller.

I become feverish with murderous thoughts when using the National Rail website, so if someone can find out the cheapest way to do this, and post a link, you'll have spared many lives.

ETA? I'll be kipping on the train, and back to town for a meeting at noon.

1. Clintsmoker
   
2. Jonny
   
3. Wools
   
4. Fussball
   
5. brakerino
   

oh, and to add to the TNRC excitement. we arrive back in london at a different station that we set off from. that is a TNRC first of momentous proportions

No. Some of us have done OUT Cannon St, RETURN Victoria.

^ so true. and even the whitsatable ride might have included abit of double station action

i think whitstable was:
victoria -somewhere-whitstable-victoria

i think.

Your memory tends to go when you reach an indeterminate age.

i'm not too far off that age, hence the, erm, what?

I'm 69*, dear.

*inches

i dream of one day correctly announcing a TNRC first.

STE5 - you will recognise a lot of the route dude. it was the one you pm'd about but tweaked to avoid andover shennanigans and to take in some canal into bath.

..... so if someone can find out the cheapest way to do this ....

I am very good at this: the cheapest is groupsavers book asap. Farnbrough groupsave £6.50. Trains: 23:15, 23:39 (meeting at 23:00 we will be on the 23:39 Jonny?).

Trains out of Bath: 12:13 and 12:43 every half hour groupsave £14. Groupsave from 13:13h is £9.50. Can we agree on a train now?

Who is in? I can book now. In case one or two person are not on a groupsave as well as for Jonny's recce ride I believe the group should share costs.

Categorically the fuck in! I will be milling around this here thread for updates. Groupsave me up!

good research ludwig. it will clearly pay to get organised on this one price wise.

braker - ETA around 7.30 - 8 if all rolls smoothly. certainly would hope to be there before 9.

the train i got back took 98 minutes.

i dream of one day correctly announcing a TNRC first.

You done did it already.
This ride to Bath ; )

Forgot to mention this - I had a flippin' ball on Tuesday night, folks. A pleasure as always to be riding them lanes with good peoples. I shall look forward to the next one in under a fortnight. Get in.