2014-04-26 London to Bath (Not a TNRC Affair)

Would be keen but marathon running the next day :-(

Wimp

looking like a great group, I'm going to ping a few more souls, see if we can't bump it up a little more...

Think I can make this.

social pace or silly pace bruce!?

Silly. Silly silly, since fixed silly.

Do it Skully, the farnborough group won't be silly. Braker keeps the pace stable, like a metronome.

Oi! You calling me fat?

Silly. Silly silly, since fixed silly.

Fair enough, but I suspect everyone else will be on gears :)

Oi! You calling me fat?

No I'm calling you sociable.

Fair enough, but I suspect everyone else will be on gears :)

Hmm. I'm not exactly match fit at the moment and I have nothing with gears (nothing complete, anyway). I guess I should start from Farnborough.

I've ridden between Bradford on Avon and Bath both by the hilly route and the canal path. The latter is picturesque but can be a bit crowded on a nice day. I recall seeing one guy on a cargo trike - big, front-loading Tamar-style thing - and thinking it must be awkward to navigate through some parts of the path; as I passed him I realised that the route had probably been dictated by the girl sitting in the front on a big pile of cushions, reading a book, glass of red wine in the other hand.

Really hoping I can get up to requisite fitness to join the fast group. Seems a relatively flat route...

Really hoping I can get up to requisite fitness to join the fast group. Seems a relatively flat route...

it's a very flat route, and I'm not /very/ fit...

Fast group it is then.

**Start point 1: Farnborough Station (12-14mph)

**1. T4

1. hats
   
2. 
   
3. Dr Cake
   
4. middleofnowhere (fixed)
   
5. Ultracrepidarian
   
6. wools (FUCKING AY)
   
7. KT Bee (I think maybe the fast group KT?)
   
8. bape victim
   
9. braker
   
   

**Start point 2: Trafalgar Square (16-18mph) **

1. BenJam
   
2. middleofnowhere (geared)
   
3. Rod Munch
   
4. Nick
   
5. Steve
   
6. Howard
   
7. vunugu
   8.croft
   
   

Start point 3: Ealing (20-25mph) & Return, obviously, ~400k + getting lost

1. hippy
   

Only just spotted this. I optimistically put myself in the fast group...

**Start point 1: Farnborough Station (12-14mph)

**1. T4

1. hats
   
2. 
   
3. Dr Cake
   
4. middleofnowhere (fixed)
   
5. Ultracrepidarian
   
6. wools (FUCKING AY)
   
7. KT Bee (I think maybe the fast group KT?)
   
8. bape victim
   
9. braker
   
   

**Start point 2: Trafalgar Square (16-18mph) **

1. BenJam
   
2. middleofnowhere (geared)
   
3. Rod Munch
   
4. Nick
   
5. Steve
   
6. Howard
   
7. vunugu
   
8. croft
   
9. Hovis
   
   

Start point 3: Ealing (20-25mph) & Return, obviously, ~400k + getting lost

1. hippy
   

Start point 1: Farnborough Station (12-14mph)

1. T4
   
2. hats
   
3. 
   
4. Dr Cake
   
5. middleofnowhere (fixed)
   
6. Ultracrepidarian
   
7. wools (FUCKING AY)
   
8. KT Bee (I think maybe the fast group KT?)
   
9. bape victim
   
10. braker
    
    

**Start point 2: Trafalgar Square (16-18mph) **

1. BenJam
   
2. middleofnowhere (geared)
   
3. Rod Munch
   
4. 
   
5. Steve
   
6. Howard
   
7. vunugu
   
8. croft
   
9. Hovis
   
   

Start point 3: Ealing (20-25mph) & Return, obviously, ~400k + getting lost

1. hippy[/QUOTE]
   
   

Nick has dropped out due to . Looks like we've a good group of 7-8 though. 1 more and we've a whole team...

Wow this weather is lovely at the moment... it can only get better. Looking forward to this and the IoW!

I'd completely forgotten about this

now i'm remembering

tonight I will try to remember to leverage leave pass

just so I'm clear - I've never quite understood (not) TNRC speeds quoted.

is 16-18mph:
1) try and pootle along at 16-18 on anything +/- 3% gradient, or is it;
2) ride at 20+ then faff about and throw a hill in and end up with a strava average of 17mph

because they are two very different things.

TNRC/WNKR standard is supposed to option 1)

that's what I was afraid of.
I'm too much wanker to be a WNKR.

:(

Zanda, i'm thinking that'll be an average speed for the whole route but tbh I know you'll be fine so why worry?

I think zanda just doesn't want to go slow?

I'm toying with the idea of joining this, esp as I'm local to Bath. If I was to do it fixed, what's the ballpark for an appropriate gear ratio? It's a pretty flat route, no?

I'll be on 66" in the slow group.

I'm toying with the idea of joining this, esp as I'm local to Bath. If I was to do it fixed, what's the ballpark for an appropriate gear ratio? It's a pretty flat route, no?

It's very flat and very doable fixed, along as you keep away from the 20mph speed demons.