Tnrc 2012

That was brilliant

Here's the route on Strava

Fail for me, sorry to hold you up ladies and gents. Home safely after a night on the tube. No hum, luckily I have all new derailieurs and levers to go on the Benotto, will bring forward the respray and take her back out in as new cond. yummy.

Glad to hear to got back well fella, look forward to seeing her all nice and shiny!

Great way to spend the evening, have been itching to get off my arse and out in the saddle!
(my first actual tuesday night ride :p )

That was fun - lovely evening for it

Home safely after a night on the tube.

That's good to hear - we ate (one of your) fig rolls in your honour on the train home.

KT your avatar reminded me of my encounter with Burt the little owl, such cool creatures owls
(and the long eared just chilling in teh background)

The route's a lot of fun when it's dry, dusty, and you hit it at tempo. I'm hoping to get a chance to ride it that way towards the end of August…

You better work on that. I might even ride fixed. Grumpy was spot on so. I really did not want to do this route again. But it was absolutely brilliant. A full moon, wheat fields with dear running into the forrest and cows on the road at Tawney and hardly any cars af all. Thank you everybody.

Fail for me, sorry to hold you up ladies and gents. Home safely after a night on the tube. No hum, luckily I have all new derailieurs and levers to go on the Benotto, will bring forward the respray and take her back out in as new cond. yummy.

What happened?

What happened?

snapped/bolt came off my rear 'rail. I had to convert to SS (oh the shame) but the chain kept jumping around. Was too lazy to adjust chain tension so pootled home.

What happened?

The material did not last that far into the ride for Ben to need a taxi; even so Des tried. Bad luck Ben, you were missed at the beers.

Really nice night's riding, thanks all. Great to see some new faces out there on a Tuesday. Bad luck Ben - one of those things (that seem to happen to the Benotto). Was talking in the pub about a TNRC ride to take in some tamac etchings out Box Hill way - will put together a new 50km ish Surrey hills route for next time.

That's good to hear - we ate (one of your) fig rolls in your honour on the train home.

The Fig Rolls of death. Originally passed from Ramaye to Benjam when a split tyre ended his ride before he'd even got on the train. Beware whoever has them now, they're cursed, cursed I tell you.

And those "Beware Cattle" signs that always made me chuckle make a lot more sense now.

Bad luck Ben - one of those things (that seem to happen to the Benotto).
meh, when you ride a 32 year old bike shrugs

Was talking in the pub about a TNRC ride to take in some tamac etchings out Box Hill way - will put together a new 50km ish Surrey hills route for next time.

which etchings? :)

BTW Des, happy to plan a route and recon. I'm quite familiar with the SW area as I know you are too.

we ate (one of your) fig rolls in your honour on the train home.

they were chris' and I agreed to pay him £15 per Fig roll. You can pay him next time.

^ No problem - will offset against the £16 per fig roll transportation charges.

So I really wana get out on some hills next time... wondering what to do. I'm thinking I could loop a route from Effingham Jn down whiteddown, into dorking, over box hill and back. How does that sound?

Boo!

Are there any problems with bikes on trains to Effingham?

They u turned the ban so it was only last weekend

In that case,

Effingham Jn down whiteddown, into dorking, over box hill and back.

Sounds cool.

Quick and dirty but how about something like this...

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1529302

^ I like it Mat, all the best bits of the widow maker with box hill and then ran more. Think of a name for it :)

Boo!

There is still a bit too much of the A24 in there for my liking. Cutting down Longbottom Rd is a possibility but it cuts a lot of 'lympic course out. We could cut through the residential bit which seems to be labelled Givon Grove.

Good ideas there - I was thinking something like this...

http://www.bikemap.net/route/1749803#lat=51.268284077357&lng=-0.379685&zoom=12&maptype=ts_terrain

Picks up the nice part of the olympic route around staples lane and has a few new sections from regular tnrcs. Left turn from effingham junction for a change. I'm not familiar with the down section of the loop from the top of Box hill to Westhumble though (which i guess is where we need to go) - don't know how much fun that would be at night with a group. The rest of it is all nice lanes. My thoughts anyway.