Tnrc 2013

As long as we can do it up hill I'm cool with that.

I know...but I am hungry for powermeter dataz : /

Oh dear, BMMF will be spinning in his grave.

(one of these days that joke will catch me out badly)

I'm in. Will update list tomo when on work computer

(assuming my knee is alright after today)

TNRC 27/8/2013 Essex Ride Ingatestone (60k)

Ingatestone

train from liv street 19:18
return trains at 22:32 & 23:02

1. Ramaye
   
2. Howard - FRD*
   
3. Blackfoot
   
4. YAL
   
5. AirTime
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• Full Roadie Douche
  

TNRC 27/8/2013 Essex Ride Ingatestone (60k)

Ingatestone

train from liv street 19:18
return trains at 22:32 & 23:02

1. Ramaye
   
2. Howard - FRD*
   
3. Blackfoot
   
4. YAL
   
5. AirTime
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6. Rod Munch (Riding Out)
   
   
   

• Full Roadie Douche
  

rod munch riding out = standard

do you not work these days?!

I worked 12 hours a day for 10 years - it's payback time...

http://stickerish.com/wp-content/themes/mio/sp-framework/timthumb/timthumb.php?src=http://stickerish.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/AwwYeaWithText.png&h=120&w=205&zc=2&q=100&a=c&s=&f=&cc=&ct=

i don't think i paid for the train on the surrey 5 hills.

who do i owe after the groupsave ticket fk up situation? upstart or howrad (the rucksack man)

On that note I assume we are splitting the GS saving by five? Looks like someone will need a full price ticket.

the full price ticket can be bought with my network railcard - that might be able to get a third off

Goodstuff.

I think we all (who were on the Surrey Hills ride) owe some cash to Upstart and Howrad.

Standard meeting point at Liv St is behind the information desk outside the ticket office. Best to wait till people have arrived before buying tickets so no danger of duplication. Please arrive in plenty of time, at least 15 mins before train if you can.

That said, I won't be going on this one. Try and enjoy it anyway.

Oh, and there is a good spot to stash beers to collect on the way back to the train, Ramaye will point it out, won't put the location on here in case the locals are scanning this thread in order to steal your drinks while you're riding.

I don't recall beer stash location, isn't Ingatestone chippy and pub at the end?

Usually, after the inevitability of getting lost, we're a bit short on time for the pub. Perhaps time for a swifty or to grab some chips, but for extended drinking time you need a few tins for the train.

Pick up a few beers from Budgen's and leave them behind the little electrical junction box thing just the other side of the motorway bridge.

Of course they'll be nicked now I've effectively informed the Essex mafia.

Sorry to be missing out tonight, enjoy!

Wetting the bed, bigstyle.
Looks like a great evening for it..

TNRC 27/8/2013 Essex Ride Ingatestone (60k)

Ingatestone

train from liv street 19:18
return trains at 22:32 & 23:02

1. Ramaye
   
2. Howard - FRD*
   
3. YAL
   
4. AirTime
   
5. 
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6. Rod Munch (Riding Out)
   
   
   

• Full Roadie Douche
  

Ride so far.

Beautiful evening with GS4 meeting Jim at the station. Almost immediately my Garmin starts to play up but no worries as Jim has the route. Little did we know that his is set to French Countryside mode and soon takes us on a route that can best be described as agricultural. This is more than my poor seat post can handle and the clamp finally gives way (it needed replacing after the Dun Run so lesson learnt). Realising it is dead I let Jim's comedy Garmin get us back to some Tarmac before making my excuses and bailing back to Ingatestone. Should only be about 6 miles but once more my Garmin decides to be unreliable and after about 7 miles I realise that not only am I heading to Ingatestone vie Chelmsford but that I also have a double puncture. I fix those (patch front but the rear was a new tube job). I reroute myself onto the route again and pick up the ride in. Now enjoying a pint in the finish pub, only 20 miles on the clock but at least I will get home. Next train in ten minutes.

What was really spectacular was watching the harvests, several fields with little mobile factories running along them. Truley magnificent marvel of heavy machinery.

Update post brainwave. I've padded out the clamp with a bit of beer mat to see if that gets the clamp bolt onto some good threads. So far so good.

Update post brainwave. I've stopped off at the pub. So far so good.

#doingitright

Almost immediately my Garmin starts to play up but no worries as Jim has the route. Little did we know that his is set to French Countryside mode and soon takes us on a route that can best be described as agricultural...

Sorry about your seatpost Ramaye! And just to rub it in the ride ended up being really lovely after that, ahem, odd section... :(

However, according to the route posted up-thread, we went the 'correct' way!

Turn left off Norton Lane (onto something even google doesn't know the name of) > join Willingdale Road and follow it to the junction with Fyfield Road. And here is that junction...

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Aha... so these 3 routes all include the agricultural bit...

www.ridewithgps.com/routes/446294
www.ridewithgps.com/routes/407249
www.bikemap.net/en/route/279148-tnrcessex/#lt=51.80352&ln=0.33714&z=11&t=0 [I used this one as it was in your original post]

and this one doesn't...

www.ridewithgps.com/routes/758871 [I'm guessing your Garmin has this one on it...]

Lesson learned. I have a cellar full of seatposts though if you need one!?

Hail Rod Munch, Hail. You are a beast as Howard correctly put it last night. Hope you got back alright.

Thanks for leading us out Rameye but shame your seat post gave up after that off-roading section we went on. Fun though it was i don't think i'll be including that section next time i head out that way. The novalty soon wore off as i had only just swapped out my comfy brooks for a more streamlined firmer saddle and by the end of that stretch my ass was in pieces. Still is actually!

Anyway it was a fantastic route and with Rod Munch setting a fast pace (read beast) we got round in no time. Even got a bit of a scare half way round when we turned a corner and saw a massive deer in the middle of the road. Thank god we slowed down in time and it found a gap in the bushes to jump through. At one point i thought it was going to head right for us!

Ha! Excellent work, we always get lost on this route, nice to see you all keeping up the tradition.

Just to echo what's already been posted - that was quite a ride! Cats, Deer, Tractors - all the usual encounters except, thankfully, the greater spotted Chavmobile. Roads were pretty much deserted. Awesome. Bike is still in shock after the little off-road section, as is my rear - I'm not sure that's what Fizik had in mind when they designed the K:1.

Le Garmin Trace:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/366633601

I might be responsible for that. I think the original route had a fault In it which just never got corrected.