2011-04-03 Sun - Cambridge ride. Fixed-wheel bicycle required

Take kings x train, get off at finsbury. 10min ride from liverpool st.

Ah all cool then

Huummm, just noticed this. Might be up for this, haven't done Cambridge for a while and it was my first longish forum ride. Just have to check a few things first.

eh? surely kingsx is closer to liverpool st than finsbury park?!

anyway trains are ok. the fast ones don't stop at finsbury park (or anywhere).
if you're hanging about, the last fast train is 22.20, the last last train is 23.14

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Well yeah, but I live right by finsbury.... ;)

Huummm, just noticed this. Might be up for this, haven't done Cambridge for a while and it was my first longish forum ride. Just have to check a few things first.

do it

1.Skully
2.Skive

1. jayloo (maybe guapo, university paper depending)
   
2. betty
   
3. jcgarcia
   
4. Damo. Maybe.
   
5. jaygee
   
6. middleofnowhere
   
7. bikegang
   
8. atticus
   
9. Fox
   
10. Stix
    
11. sherbertflyingsaucer
    
12. crimsonape (possibly + 2)
    
13. Blackfoot
    
14. Upstart
    
15. Shinigami
    
16. murtz
    
17. mattty
    
18. ian (conker)
    
19. fussballclub
    
20. smiff
    
21. *FRANK
    
22. KT Bee
    
23. Oliver Schick
    
24. stripe
    
25. mortari (maybe)
    
26. laner
    
27. Sumo
    
28. T4
    
29. TheorySwine
    
30. Kirth
    
31. Birthday boy braker
    
32. Stonehedge (Bringing the ruckus, whether I have the ruckus in my possession or not)
    
33. fluff
    
34. Fieldcoil
    
35. Bobby Dids
    
36. Samuelson
    
37. villa-ru
    
38. ms.chris
    
39. Photo Jim
    
40. pootsmanuva
    
41. FridayMarch26th
    
42. Edmundro
    
    

Best put myself on the list, pretty much convinced myself I want to do it, might do it back to front on my day off next week.

1.Skully
2.Skive

1. jayloo (maybe guapo, university paper depending)
   
2. betty
   
3. jcgarcia
   
4. Damo. Maybe.
   
5. jaygee
   
6. middleofnowhere
   
7. bikegang
   
8. atticus
   
9. Fox
   
10. Stix
    
11. sherbertflyingsaucer
    
12. crimsonape (possibly + 2)
    
13. Blackfoot
    
14. Upstart
    
15. Shinigami
    
16. murtz
    
17. mattty
    
18. ian (conker)
    
19. fussballclub
    
20. smiff
    
21. *FRANK
    
22. KT Bee
    
23. Oliver Schick
    
24. stripe
    
25. mortari (maybe)
    
26. laner
    
27. Sumo
    
28. T4
    
29. TheorySwine
    
30. Kirth
    
31. Birthday boy braker
    
32. Stonehedge (Bringing the ruckus, whether I have the ruckus in my possession or not)
    
33. fluff
    
34. Fieldcoil
    
35. Bobby Dids
    
36. Samuelson
    
37. villa-ru
    
38. ms.chris
    
39. Photo Jim
    
40. pootsmanuva
    
41. FridayMarch26th
    
42. Edmundro
    
43. hillbilly
    
    

You convinced me smiff.

Out :(
Was really looking forward to this but am now booked to go snowboarding.

1.Skully
2.Skive

1. jayloo (maybe guapo, university paper depending)
   
2. betty
   
3. jcgarcia
   
4. Damo. Maybe.
   
5. jaygee
   
6. middleofnowhere
   
7. bikegang
   
8. atticus
   
9. Fox
   
10. Stix
    
11. sherbertflyingsaucer
    
12. crimsonape (possibly + 2)
    
13. Blackfoot
    
14. Upstart
    
15. Shinigami
    
16. murtz
    
17. mattty
    
18. ian (conker)
    
19. fussballclub
    
20. smiff
    
21. *FRANK
    
22. KT Bee
    
23. Oliver Schick
    
24. stripe
    
25. mortari (maybe)
    
26. laner
    
27. Sumo
    
28. 
    
29. TheorySwine
    
30. Kirth
    
31. Birthday boy braker
    
32. Stonehedge (Bringing the ruckus, whether I have the ruckus in my possession or not)
    
33. fluff
    
34. Fieldcoil
    
35. Bobby Dids
    
36. Samuelson
    
37. villa-ru
    
38. ms.chris
    
39. Photo Jim
    
40. pootsmanuva
    
41. FridayMarch26th
    
42. Edmundro
    
43. hillbilly
    

warrants a :) surely?

:d

Cab you add me. Oh and my gearing confirmed is: 46 : 18

Add yourself.
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Take kings x train, get off at finsbury. 10min ride from liverpool st.

It's Finsbury Park, not Finsbury. Ironically, there are overground trains running between Finsbury Park and Old St*.

*Old St, which is in the borough(/district) of Finsbury. History: the people of Finsbury, a slum-heavy borough back in the (olden) day, were taken pity upon by the authorities, who granted them their own greenspace a little way away, due to them having none in their own locale.

I live in Finsbury. You live near Finsbury Park. Get off my fucking land.

Ha, no way, I never knew that. You learn summat every day.
waves pitchfork at the landed gentry

The former Finsbury town hall is on Rosebery Avenue, really near Amwell Street and Exmouth Street.. Apart from some road signs, really one of the few remnants of the old borough. Scarlet knows this I'm sure.

Exmouth Market / Scarlett

Fixed.

Thanks, Schixeh.

We still have Finsbury Circus and Finsbury Square, of course, plus Finsbury Library under the Finsbury Estate on St John's St. I feel more like I live in St Lukes (the eastern part of Finsbury), although some might go by the political ward, which is Bunhill. But then again I'm on the border of Bunhill & Clerkenwell, and don't really feel an affinity with either.

Fuck it, I live on the Wenlake. That's as general as I'm going to get.

just started using this site
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/314112

the main deviations are:

• going through London Fields, I guess this may be bad idea with lots of people
  
• Epping Forest, I don't know the area but the official park map shows that as a secondary road so should be surfaced. Will try and recce it, I love the idea of going through the forest..
  
• Stanstead Abbots: I just want to cycle down Kitten Lane :) but there may be a blind corner issue at the bottom, anyone know it?
  
• Hormead to Barkway on the unmarked roads, surfaces look okay from google (current tendency towards smaller roads where poss)
  
• I've added the DNA path - asphalt surface - and the Coe Fen paths at the end, these are a gravelly surface so might not be suitable
  
  

anyway, just messing around with maps. not wishing to tread on anyone's planning toes... going to make some dinner...

1.Skully
2.Skive

1. jayloo (maybe guapo, university paper depending)
   
2. betty
   
3. jcgarcia
   
4. Damo. Maybe.
   
5. jaygee
   
6. middleofnowhere
   
7. bikegang
   
8. atticus
   
9. Fox
   
10. Stix
    
11. sherbertflyingsaucer
    
12. crimsonape (possibly + 2)
    
13. Blackfoot
    
14. Upstart
    
15. Shinigami
    
16. murtz
    
17. mattty
    
18. ian (conker)
    
19. fussballclub
    
20. smiff
    
21. *FRANK
    
22. KT Bee
    
23. Oliver Schick
    
24. stripe
    
25. mortari (maybe)
    
26. laner
    
27. Sumo
    
28. 
    
29. TheorySwine
    
30. Kirth
    
31. Birthday boy braker
    
32. Stonehedge (Bringing the ruckus, whether I have the ruckus in my possession or not)
    
33. fluff
    
34. Fieldcoil
    
35. Bobby Dids
    
36. Samuelson
    
37. villa-ru
    
38. ms.chris
    
39. Photo Jim
    
40. pootsmanuva
    
41. FridayMarch26th
    
42. Edmundro
    
43. hillbilly
    
44. Winge
    

I would also suggest the more straight forward route out of town along the A104. It's the Dunwich route and the route we used for the Cambridge College Canter last year so we know it works.

We could put in the High Beach detour (as used by Peter Carter's leaving East London ride), it's nice and there's a tea hut, but the turn off is at the Robin Hood roundabout a bit further up. Beware of following lines on google maps in Epping Forest, they are not all roads, some of them are barely paths.

The DNA path at the end looks like an excellent alternative to the crappy route in using the A10 to cross the M11.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/85405

I have a friend who works in the Finsbury Health Centre which is tucked away behind Farringdon Road near the Roseberry Av crossing. The building is a "modernist masterpiece" designed by Lubetkin (of the London Zoo Penguin Pool fame). As well as the building itself being architecturally significant the Health Centre is also viewed as a model for public health care provision which became very influential when the NHS was later set up. How much longer it will operate as a health centre is uncertain. As a grade 1 listed building the necessary renovations are difficult to finance under current NHS financing strategies.

1.Skully
2.Skive

1. jayloo (maybe guapo, university paper depending)
   
2. betty
   
3. jcgarcia
   
4. Damo. Maybe.
   
5. jaygee
   
6. middleofnowhere
   
7. bikegang
   
8. atticus
   
9. Fox
   
10. Stix
    
11. sherbertflyingsaucer
    
12. crimsonape (possibly + 2)
    
13. Blackfoot
    
14. Upstart
    
15. Shinigami
    
16. murtz
    
17. mattty
    
18. ian (conker)
    
19. fussballclub
    
20. smiff
    
21. *FRANK
    
22. KT Bee
    
23. Oliver Schick
    
24. stripe
    
25. mortari (maybe)
    
26. laner
    
27. Sumo
    
28. rhowe
    
29. TheorySwine
    
30. Kirth
    
31. Birthday boy braker
    
32. Stonehedge (Bringing the ruckus, whether I have the ruckus in my possession or not)
    
33. fluff
    
34. Fieldcoil
    
35. Bobby Dids
    
36. Samuelson
    
37. villa-ru
    
38. ms.chris
    
39. Photo Jim
    
40. pootsmanuva
    
41. FridayMarch26th
    
42. Edmundro
    
43. hillbilly
    
44. Winge
    

spoke with skive about this in the effra a couple of weeks ago. it is on the radar as always like the london to cambridge roll. just waiting for diary to settle

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I... oh, just nevermind.

How flat is it in reality?

Running gi of 81 may not be the greatest idea.

Excuse to visit friends.....in wisbeah/march area...maybe and weather dependant......as I'm a grumpy fucker when wet.