Wednesday Night Klub Run (WNKR 2014) - a bit like TNRC but not on a Tuesday

Need to blow cobwebs away. In.

2014-07-23 - Roydon

Wednesday 23 July 2014 - Roydon
37 miles of rolling tranquility with a sprint finish for the stupid. A chance to ride this lovely route while the light lasts.
Liverpool Street 19.11 (and 19.28 if needed). Return trains: 22.13, 22.30, 23.13, 23.44.

1. middleofnowhere
   
2. Ramaye
   
3. Katy
   
4. blowfish
   
5. itsbruce
   
6. Mikey
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Riding out (meet Roydon station 19.44)

1. AirTime
   
2. rhowe
   
3. Rod Munch
   
4. BitterBuffalo
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Bedwetters
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apologies for absence, bike / seat issues... ride out attempt fail!

unless a train could be caught..

19:11 cancelled. We're on the next train.

Apologies for the bedwetting. I have no excuse

Apologies for the bedwetting. I have no excuse

we waited for you and all!

thanks for the great ride matt. absolutely gorgeous sunset, and a perfect evening for riding.

Sorry Sue but I'm also out. To cut a long story short, I had to get the bus home last night and later I will be retracing my steps to work out where I locked my bike. It's somewhere in Canary Wharf, just not sure where.

Are you going to cut the short story long? I assume our idle speculation is pretty much on the money; got pissed, lost bike. We just want to hear the bit about the city boys plying you with champagne and cocaine as they took you to see every stripper within stumbling distance from the DLR.

Seems my bike has developed stationary puncture syndrome. When I went to get on the bike this morning the rear tyre was flat.

I think Mikey's bike has a rubber-mite infection which mine has now caught. Those little mites that feed on rubber and burrow through inner tube leaving tiny slow puncture holes. So long as the wheel is spinning they get all dizzy and become too nauseous to eat, so you're fine while you're moving but once you stop for long enough that their little heads stop spinning they start to feed and next thing you know... puncture.

In the words of Toyah Willcox...

Toyah - It's A Mystery - YouTube

Apologies for the bedwetting. I have no excuse

And from the future diabetics thread...

Commonwealth games opening ceremony featured many giant Tunnocks Teacakes

So that's why you missed WNKR? So you could watch giant Tunnock's Teacakes dance around a field in Glasgow? At least have the decency to go to IKEA.

Actually I find IKEA such a bizarre and disorientating experience that a troupe of Scottish biscuit based confectionery waltzing around Celtic Park would be positively soothing to one's sanity in comparison.

I had fun last night. I dunno if all you speed fiends noticed, but the sky was particularly pleasant on the final sprint section.

It was a pleasure contesting the Burney Wood intermediate sprint section in the light.

I just realised Katy subtly mentioned IKEA last night. No one even flinched.

Did I? I must have Ikea-specific amnesia.

Anyway, here's a sunset, cos YAL couldn't make it.

Hertfordshire by Brixton Kate, on Flickr

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Looks incredible. I probably would have been insufferable all evening though by stopping to take photos, talking about the beauty and transience of life, and threatening to write poetry. So lucky for all of you I couldn't make it. I know bitterbuffalo missed my disco bidon though.

Katie, you said w/r/t to ace cafe 'I always go there on my way back from Ikea.'

So I did. How embarrassing (for mentioning I**a AND forgetting I had).

Pulled some strings, I'm in for Wednesday.

Killing me soft lea? It's gonna be dry but perhaps we need more moon?

Probably not around this Wednesday after all

Could be a good opportunity for Killing me soft Lee, don't think the moon phase will be a problem, or at least taking advantage of the dry conditions is more important.

^ what is killing me soft lea, more details please....

Bit of off road, bit of towpath, bit of the Potters Bar route...

http://www.bikemap.net/en/route/949495-tnrc-killing-me-soft-lea-or-lee/

ah i has done this before.
i think i'll pass this one

So are we riding tomorrow?

I'm up for it. Anyone else? Show of hands please.

yep