Tuesday Night Ride Club (TNRC)

Not sure. I haven't seen the 2011 handbook yet. Have you heard something?

Happy New Year everyone. Now I finally have a road bike, and my fixed is off the road, I'm looking to be joining these rides. Really want to start doing some decent mileage regularly.

Does anyone have a suitable front light I could borrow to start with? I'll provide my own batteries. Looking to invest in a decent front light (I'm thinking my Flea isn't going to be powerful enough), but funds are low until some of my clients pay me.

Now I finally have a road bike, and my fixed is off the road, I'm looking to be joining these rides.

Does anyone have a suitable front light I could borrow to start with?

Fail. Squared. ; ]

However, having said that, it'd be great to see you out there Ben.
You've got until March to save for a light. That's 6 weeks. 10 pounds a week will get you what you need. As for the gears - well if that's what it takes = (

we might have to have a dads special at some point

This.

Happy New Year everyone. Now I finally have a road bike, and my fixed is off the road, I'm looking to be joining these rides. Really want to start doing some decent mileage regularly.

Does anyone have a suitable front light I could borrow to start with? I'll provide my own batteries. Looking to invest in a decent front light (I'm thinking my Flea isn't going to be powerful enough), but funds are low until some of my clients pay me.

Even if you're not doing huge amounts of night riding it is still worth getting a Hope Vision 1 - makes a pretty sweet light for general commuting. And you never know when the zombie apocalyse is coming, where its AA compatibility may allow you to loot batteries from supermarkets years after the mains power has been cut.

6 weeks...

I am still split between this and football.. after last nights immense display in the middle of the park, pulling the strings, bossing from D to D, shifting up gears on the attack, dictating the pace.... picking apart the opposition, penetrating the holes in the defence etc etc

it's swung back to football, it's a sweet 30 mile ride (15 either side) and I am a few wickets short of full fitness.. looks like retirement is put back a year. TNRC will have to wait

Congrats Sam, good luck on hammering home that routine.
nice name also, I caught wind of twin boys born oop north whose surname was Still. their mother called them Sid and Stan... fucking brilliant eh!
National records shows some kid got named ~Malteser last year. and whilst at C&W I met a fella who decided to name his kid when he saw him.. inspiration would take hold.
His son was born very sick, bright red and with a squashed head and shoulders.. so he called him Rocket.. i shit you not.. PURE 531

@photoben - or less £. A couple of 2xAA torches from Dealextreme, 4 high capacity batteries from Vapextech, 2 mounts (cheap or homemade) - approx £25 (plus recharger). Or even one torch and 2 spare batteries (~100-150 lumens) would cut it whilst riding in the very well lit bunch/line. So a tenner less.

But yeah, a Hope Vision 1 is a sound investment, and if you ask around, someone might have one secondhand. I flogged mine to Sam*.

*do we have to start calling him Sam (Sam) - like pj (pj) - to differentiate?

I ate that sandwich.

do we have to start calling him Sam (Sam) - like pj (pj) - to differentiate?

I like to call him Sam Senior cos he woz on the forum first

That's a bit arsh, ow's that poor sandwich ever armed you?

Ok, Junior. But then again, you are older than me, errr I think.

Apologies if you're not!

That's a bit arsh, ow's that poor sandwich ever armed you?

It just wasn't very 'filling.

Crikey bikey, 6 weeks to go?

Thassa bit good.

Ok, Junior. But then again, you are older than me, errr I think.

Apologies if you're not!

I was always the Junior once, then all of a sudden I was the old bloke in the office. Scary.

But you have a beard, a proper one too!

Just got back from the E4 Ecstacy route. Rode it with Hyperbole, about 2hrs 45mins door to door.

I fucking love night rides.

Nice. But it's Wednesday. Not quite as good as doing it last Tuesday ; ]

Ahh right. I thought it had started again. Think I can save up for hope in time.

Cheers.

Ever since the TNRC Surrey/Kent epic, I've been finding the reach on my bike a little uncomfortable and I've had a tendancy to hold my bars on the bit just behind the hoods (BMMF we need that diagram you posted elsewhere). I'd always thought that this was a lack of fortitude as my reach had been nice and comfy before and checking my profile on reflective surfaces such as black 4x4's or mirrored windows, the reach didn't look wrong.

Having crashed on ice last weekend, I tore through my winter bibs that I first wore when riding the TNRC epic.

Riding the E4 ecstacy route in comfort again last night in a pair of non bib winter tights (with bib shorts underneath of course I wouldn't be caught dead in half shorts ;) ) I realised that the upper body on the winter bibs I was previously using was obviously too tight and putting a strain on my back. I later verified this when I got home.

Naturally my performance on last nights ride was a big improvement to other recent rides.

That's how awesome last night was.

^ STE5 is BMMF in disguise and I claim my five pounds.

Do I get £5 if you're wrong?

My Max Daddy has finally been returned by the kind people at Exposure who fixed it at no cost. So I'll be over lit for the 2011 TNRC season as I was in early 2010.

^no such thing^

@STE5 - click image:

That's not what I was thinking of, but I do need it given I currently have about 40mm of spacers with a 120mm 7 degree stem.

I was thinking of the diagram showing the name of each part of the bars.

Oh, that. Can't remember if that was on here or the other forum I in which I no longer post.