2012-08-25 - Shakespeare Ride (cancelled)

Ooh, if you move it to Sunday, then I could ride up to Northants with the Bletchley ride, and back with you lot. Just about.

In. I will be on my New Gears, but I will not wearing a ruff.

You will, no doubt, be as smooth as you always are.

Ooh, if you move it to Sunday, then I could ride up to Northants with the Bletchley ride, and back with you lot. Just about.

once i have my olympic orders, then I will know x

I have to reschedule this ride til after the olympics now, too many commitments. tentative date is sat 25th august.. i've also checked train times for sunday can't get to stratford til noon and 2 changes, meh.

so prefer early start on saturday.. marylebone station for 0700hrs gets in around 0900hrs. train ticket is £25 each (less with a group save).. this ride will take about 7/8 hours

So is/will this ride like, *definitely *need to have gears? Because that's racist if you ask me.

Good to see 50/14 getting the miles in.
He's riding to Bletchley and back on the same day.

So is/will this ride like, *definitely *need to have gears? Because that's racist if you ask me.

if you can ride up knowle hill and whiteleaf on 44/18 and make it all the way to london's famous london i'll buy you a pint

#can'tsayfairerthanthat

Good to see 50/14 getting the miles in.
He's riding to Bletchley and back on the same day.

ha, what a legend.. we have changed the date to saturday 25th august mind..

if you can ride up knowle hill and whiteleaf on 44/18 and make it all the way to london's famous london i'll buy you a pint

#can'tsayfairerthanthat

Last time I checked I did the Muur on 44/16 so I'm sure I can manage some silly bump near Bristol without a problem #talkingmajorshit

Last time I checked I did the Muur on 44/16 so I'm sure I can manage some silly bump near Bristol without a problem #talkingmajorshit

i love it when you talk dirty...

i love it when you talk dirty...

Ha, the memories of Flanders come flooding back.

Love the sonnet Al. Amazing!
+1

thanks skydancer technically not a sonnet.. a poem no less..
i am drafting another, about a jealous mistress,

happy days ;-)

^ So autobiographical?

;)

Ha ha!

Ah yes, the first love we never stop loving.

Mine was a pink Apollo.

it's about my titanium goddess (full of character and a great ride) and the carbon whore (no personality, no feeling, like riding plastic)..
btw my first love was an italian beauty called concetta.. sexy 531c tubing, flame red, chrome forks, 8 speed
i really miss her, i am sad now ffs

ok - now our posts are back-to-front!

sorry about that.. I re-posted x

the perfectionist poet :)

I may well be up for doing this ride in August. However you will want to double check that whatever train company it is will actually take us and our bikes. Some train companies have started saying they are not allowing bikes on trains in and out of London at any time of day from beginning of Olympics to end of Paralympics.

ha, what a legend.. we have changed the date to saturday 25th august mind..
Interesting. I can probably make the 25th of August.

i need to limit numbers to 6 for the train journey we need to meet, no later than 0645 at marylebone station expecting 20mph average on the road, loads of hills over +120miles route.. some are upto 20% climbs

i will speak to chiltern railways about bikes for Saturday 25 August

^ Makes me think that I ought to have gears if I try and attempt this #sensiblenotracist

my mistress' eyes filled with contempt,
vacant sun-days now with carbon whore;
before cobbles o'er cols with litespeed past,
when we cranked, and climbed a wheezy breath.

Saved only for winter run and daily grind,
no more glint, see I in her lusty frame;
a work horse she, not show pony be,
of common scent of lube and grease

plastic bike for plastic folk, says she,
nodders on the road take heed;
peds in suits at lights, make way;
for Golgotha the Crucifier and me,

from clicky freehub, by heaven i think
a love spoke true, belied with false compare;
be'twixt carbon whore and Ti goddess;
envy, knows where a heart should rest.

I wish I could do that^

envy, knows where a heart should rest.