Tuesday Night Ride Club (TNRC)

shit i look awful!!!

I will be joining you all soon... When my arse stops hurting...

Nice pics Tim.

Spectactular ride. The car-free section in the middle of the night.... heaven.

Appreciate the group waiting for me at Farnborough. The rear puncture in Woking (i think) took forever to fix. I was pretty cooked by the time i arrived.

Tim/Jonny - huge thanks for an amazing night ;-)

Oh, and coincidently, I had my 1st Builders Bar @ Condor before this ride.
They currently have BOGOF on boxes of dem.

Not possible I'm afraid. The ISS isn't visible again until 9th August.

Says here http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=Canada&region=Ontario&city=London London: ISS Sat Aug 07/04:51 AM. We should be able to see it on the way to Brighton then?

Good to see there was no need for the Garmin, well done you route plotters and star navigators.
Anyone know who I can pick the Garmin up from?

big thanks for lending it though martin. ludwig has it safe and sound.

No pics of wools in his banana hammock? I've been on tenterhooks here.

I must admit, for a while I thought it was an elaborate ploy to set up an excuse ("I'm out, can only find banana hammocks for curved bananas and mine's straight", etc) for him to bail at the last minute.

Don't think so, Ludwig. I was using Maidstone as the sighting spot. Using Brighton it also has the 9th as the first spot, so (I assume) the ISS is too far north to spot it the further south you go.

he spent an awful lot of time in the steam room where it was difficult to tell what he was wearing and all cameras were rendered useless .

can anyone please remind me of the 3 kent ride routes. or is it just two? brain still a bit sleepy, thanks

I must admit, for a while I thought it was an elaborate ploy to set up an excuse ("I'm out, can only find banana hammocks for curved bananas and mine's straight", etc) for him to bail at the last minute.

No way was I going to bail on this one. Can I lose the rep now already?! Gahd! :)

I had a lot of fun out there on them lanes. Massive props go to jonny for preppin' that bad boy. Cannot fault the route in the slightest. Smooth, winding country lanes, the occasional lump, long, fast descents, bit of canal path, fuck all cars for the vast majority of the ride, awesome riding buds...the ride was the epitome radness. Full English (although not so full) and spa were an awesome way to end it all. And the sunshine in Bath...oh the sunshine on that rooftop pool. Two words. Fuck yeah!

two words Fuck Yeah summed that up beautifully mike.

loved this ride. a perfect group of ten through the night through villages and counties that none of us knew anything about. des asked where we were at the half way point. none of us had a clue. of course i knew the route from notes and that all went smoothly.

i have a favourite bit of that route and i loved it last night. but the part that will stick with me was the mist/fog cold section just as day was starting to creep up on us.

and i can't get enough of that aquaduct in the brassknocker basin.

big thanks to the nine for the perfect company. and thanks to STE5 for sharing that route which was only amended to avoid andover and to take in the five mile of canal path into bath. cheers to des, cynthia and ludwig for easing all the ticket purchasing.

tim, great call for a place to overnight to. that spa experience was well worth it.

a couple of us bathing in our lycra shorts - dropout perfectly in his bibs.

roll on next tuesday.

and then plans for the next deluxe.

oh, and wicked to see scarlett and mashton at the set off. congrats matt too.

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@clintsmoker - just 2. Use the 'search this thread' tool at the top right, and search for 'maps' or 'routes', or even 'metadata'.

Is mashton pregnant?

Or are you just digging his taste in tanktops?

Sam, next Tuesday night we will just have to miss the last train and get lost till 05:04h to see it! :-)

it's official- mike did dunwich and then the bath ride. respect and tag lost

was there a kent 3?
i vote for a return to the widowmaker, the debut run this season. jonny you called for kent II. what says you all. need to post this quick i suppose

I'm so annoyed I couldn't make this, sounds perfect. Glad the route worked ok. Missing Andover was a good plan, it's a misserable place with confusing roads.

There was no Kent 3. Maybe you're confusing it with 'The Kent 6'.

We haven't done Kent 2 for ages. Not since 'The Kent 6'.

Is mashton pregnant?

Or are you just digging his taste in tanktops?

Both, for sure. The main reason for me not coming on the ride was that we had some pregnancy related scariness over the weekend which meant there was no way I was going to leave Tori on her own. As excuses go, I think it's a weiner.

So glad it went as well as it sounds. A perfect ride by all accounts and definitely a testament to the general awesomeness of TNRC. Gawd bless y'all.

We haven't done Kent 2 for ages. Not since 'The Kent 6'.

Tru dat. It was so long ago that it was pitch black on the first climb of the evening.

^^congratulations again (it's *all *scary, and never stops).

^surely that's the casting vote for Kent 2. Straight from the Kentish horse's mouth.

might just be. now have i got the energy to set it up.