2012-01-22 - Harp Hilly Hundred

yep great day. cheers steve for organising our group.

nice riding with you all - steve, jonny, ben, ludwig and met up with jim and hippy along the way.

got up everything fixed, althought there were a few slow grinds.

had trouble keeping up on a few of the downhills but overall a nice fast ride.

MORE!

enjoyed the beers in the pub and the blast back down to brixton.

yeah that ride back to brixton was stupidly fun :)

^ Sorry I stopped to have a go at some tw*t who tried to pull out from the left one me.

^ you wouldn't have been able to keep up anyway ben. seriously. that was fuckin stupid quick. wanted to get south to catch the second half of the big game, saw most of the first half too

what an amazing day out in the chilterns. so much better than the first ride of the year last year -the icy watership (rider) down.

really good group with skive, smiff, benjam, fussballclub and rodmunch. with a guest appearance for about 20 clicks of the man hippy himself. great to ride with you lot. seemed like everyone got the bit between their teeth and just got on with it after the puncturelicious start.

@rodmunch, we got to the station with four minutes to spare. four whole minutes. we could have sank another pint in that time.

oh, and cheers skive for all the organisation you put it into this - those GS4 don't buy themselves ;)

two offs yesterday too. yours truly when i was trying to get too close to smiff's arse. and then an epic wheelie fail by skive leaving euston. that needs to be noted.

great laughs all day. just what the legs and the soul needed.

i wasn't going to mention either crashes :)

skive's was AWESOME! i wish i had taken a picture of him on his arse, legs a kimbo in the middle of the road.

skive's was AWESOME! i wish i had taken a picture of him on his arse, legs a kimbo

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i wasn't going to mention either crashes :)

skive's was AWESOME! i wish i had taken a picture of him on his arse, legs a kimbo in the middle of the road.

gentlemen, thank you.

just checked my rear, 100k on 50psi. Done.

also:

http://app.strava.com/activities/3551247

also was nice to spot texas, pinky and polky out there. when you guys were heading to the pub was sorely tempted. but we had that final 'beast' to tame - haha - waterloo bridge is tougher

great work ben, loved the way the PMA set in and you just got on with it. didn't have the heart to tell you how flat that tyre looked when riding behind you.

Da Coach has me pencilled in for all of the series.

http://www.lesrvr.com/HarpRoadClub/chilternclassics.htm

This week might be snow no wind, looking good.

could do Ludwig, I'll email the contact and see what the deal is with route.gpx etc.

Also: thanks Jonny I'm still riding that pinch-flat repair :)

jonny's didn't hold.

mine did.

haha.

oh yeah, forgot about that. Thanks!

Route here

http://www.hemelcycling.org.uk/news/chiltern-classics-relaibility-rides-2012

Same train

that website is sank it won't let me register, can someone whack the garmin gpx route on dropbox.

jonny's didn't hold.

mine did.

haha.

mine held too. it just held some of the air dispersed on the outside.

I just snapped my chain, needed a new one anyway. Lets hope it arrives before the weekend.

can't make the ride this sunday. might get out on the blacktop on saturday though

^ I've just been told I need to be out of the house on Saturday now. Fancy doing the route then instead?

I might be out there for this but I've got the TT bike going now so it will depend on the weather a bit as to when/what bike I ride..

Weather's currently better for saturday.