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Drink for all marshalls at all stops will be on me.
I suggest we end up @ the Nags Head in Walthamstow Village....
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Lee Bridge Rd roundabout (Whipps Cross)
ps. Nags Head sounds good. Peter, can you PM the route?
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And I'll be heading across from Ladbroke Grove for west types if you want to ride out
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This is about to be posted. Just need to check I ve got the L and R s in the right order.
The parts where I am going to need marshalls most of all will be the turns for High Beach, the turn for N Weald, and the turns for Matching Green.
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1) Peter Carter
2) ian (conker) [even if it pisses down]
3) Nigel182 (Defo in no matter what the weather day booked off Work).
4) Fox (as long as it doesn't piss it down)
5) Dimi3
6) Shoosh (possible)
7) Spybot (ish)
8) Jimm
9) Upstart (almost definite...)
10) Theoryswine (ditto)
11) ah1976 (as long as it doesn't piss it down)
12) betty (if I get the day off work)
13) jcgarcia
14) boggle
15) laner
16) CV
17) deluka
18) Quaddie
19) ziska
20) edmundro
21) wools
22) middleofnowhere
23) ms.chris
24) Dumps (up for a longer one)
25) George Sportif
26) Buckaroo
27) tom k&e
28) Sumo (hopefully with my new bike built in time)(if not bwakeless)
29) Darius
30) richoking
31) tofeelthefire (will be my second forum ride ha!)
32) Rich
33) Lynx probably fixed
34) Polowannabe - fixed
35) Hartxander - fixed and on a misson to meet essex girls
36) Simon (chsee)(SS)
37) EEI (probably geared, because don't want to go braklez)
38) Jogger -maybe geared, maybe fixed, maybe....
39) nneil
40) sorethroat -
**The Joy of Essex, Saturday October 16th **
Lots of you have signed up for what will be a lovely ride. The weather looks good and the trees are turning golden in the forest.Starting point, the Whipp's Cross roundabout, south side at the bus stop next to the TA Centre.
**We meet at 9.00 and leave @ 9.15. **If you are coming from Hackney , then the best way to get to Whipps X is to ride down the Lea Bridge Road from Clapton. The Whipps X roundabout at the very end of the Lea Bridge Road . Here turn right and go around the roundabout and you will see the bus stop on the S of the roundabout . Or you can use the pelican crossing opposite the TA Centre and walk around the corner to the meeting point. The post code is E10 6EA.
The Route.
These are the directions to Matching Green and back . Anyone who has ridden the Dunwich Dynamo will know large parts of it.Leave Whipps X Roundabout and then ride up to the Waterworks roundabout and cross over the N Circular. This is a busy roundabout, so if we are split up we will regroup on the other side.
Then follow the road to Woodford Green where we turn L @ the junction and then take the A104 though Woodford Green and onto Epping. After 2 miles we enter Epping Forest.
At the 1st roundabout in the forest (the Robin Hood) **turn LEFT **at the sign for High Beach and ride into the forest. At the first junction, after a small hill **turn RIGHT** and then ride on up to High Beach. Go past the pub at High Beach and head for the green tea hut. **This is the 1st meeting up point.**After stopping for refreshments at the tea hut, we carry on past the hut but after 500m and at the 1st junction **turn Right ** and ride on through the forest to rejoin the A104. Before rejoining the A104 to Epping there is a junction and a road to cross.** Here turn RIGHT towards the roundabout which you can see as you turn. Turn L at roundabout, past the petrol station and take the road to Epping.**
Ride through Epping , as you leave the town you will go past a green on your left and up a small hill. **At the top of that hill there is junction and a set of traffic lights. Turn Right here for N Weald. Gothrough more forest, under the motorway and then enter N Weald Village. Go past the Golf course and on your Left is the War memorial. This is the 2nd meeting up point.**
Carry on through the village and out to the Talbot roundabout (A414) junction**. Go straight across here and you are in the Essex Lanes. **
Ride on and at** 1st junction turn Right – **follow the signs for **Moreton , carry on till **you see the 1st sign for Matching Green and then follow that road N to Matching Green. This is the 3rd meeting up point.
Lunch and the return journey.
At this stage (20 miles) we will ride to the pub @ Moreton from Matching Green (follow the signs). Or we may go to the Farm Shop @ Ashlyn’s which is 200m from the Talbot Roundabout (Turn L and head in the direction of Ongar) this is usually a busy road so be careful here.
After Moreton or the Farm shop, we retrace our steps and ride back the way we came through N Weald, Epping, the Forest and Woodford. I suggest we again ride back via High Beach, but you can carry on down the Epping Road ( A104 ) to Woodford instead as that’s quicker.
**Getting to the Nags Head – **
This is the final pub stop. At the Whipps X roundabout ride back onto the Lea Bridge Rd and take the 2nd turning on your Right into Shernhall Street, that’s opposite a car lot.Ride up Shernhall St for 500m and turn Right at Church Lane. At the top, opposite the Church, turn Left and there’s the pub. After that you are on your
Own….General Points
The Epping and Woodford parts of the route can be busy- so single file is often best.Look out for Horses in the forest.
If there’s a car coming from behind the group then call out to alert the riders in front know. “Oil up!” is the warning to use.
Be courteous to others and salute all cyclists.
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Not in my club you can't.
EEI
edmundro
ziska
Sumo
TheorySwine
sorethroat
lynx-
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The Joy of Essex- Saturday 16th of October
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@Peter_Carter
Oh, and if i am the sweeper bike can people refrain from bring archaic technology like 27" wheels, woods vavles and cottered nonsense unless they bring the spares/tools to sort it.
Fond memories of the lucozade bottle and gaffa tape tyre boot on Dantes bike a couple years back when his 300yr old tyres exploded horribly on the essex lanes....