2014-09-05 WNKRRCNTs go to the seaside...

I'm a little drunk (5'7" and a half so not that little really) so I really can't work out how the tenses in that last sentence should work. Did you all understand what I was trying to say?

Hello? Any one else here?

Ah, bollocks to the lot of you, I'm off to bed.

Route sheet and this and you will be fine.

They fold down really small. I knitted myself one from crisp bags.

The more I think of it the more the "no one gets left behind" thing is the key here. You might be happy to be dropped in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night but we won't be happy leaving you there. I am not admitting a duty of care, I'm just saying that it is nigh on impossible to consciously ride away from a member of the group even if they are begging you to give up on them and save yourselves.

If you nee somebody to drop you happily for a coffee at the seaside talk to me.

yeah we would have to stick to that time - and therein lies the problem.

I'll chat with the others tonight. I still think the 10:13 from Thorpe le Soken is the hot favourite - but in the interest of greater group flexibility I'm leaning towards booking nothing at all and hoping for a groupsave option...

I don´t intend to be mean, Krystian, but yours is a bit of a nightmare first post here. Most of us will have been on some night ride or distance ride where somebody new to this kind of thing came along and slowed the whole ride down with either bike failures or body failures or both. WNKR is really for people who have some experience. Commuting just does not count.

The last time an inexperienced rider showed up for one of the evening rides (something half this length) was an all-round disaster :(

Oh, and we agreed to wing it on the train ticket front when it was discussed this evening...

See y'all on Friday...

Ok, I get your point guys. You don't know me. I believe that I can do the distance (I did before few times similar distance but not recently though) but last thing I want is to be any problem for anyone. I will try to find something easier for a start as you suggested. Have a wonderful ride :)
I think I will hang out a little at this forum since as I moved to London I don't know that many people and certainly no one I could ride with.

There is always new stuff in the Rides and Races forum. Check out the Saturday @ St Pauls thread as well - 20 to 30 mile rides in London each Saturday. Or just come along to one of the regular WNKR rides, as suggested.

So are we advance booking Train tickets?

I'm psyched about this.

I think we've come to the conclusion that we will do a groupsave at the station. Fixing the train time back is just asking for things to go wrong.

Ah, you have emerged from your high altitude oxygen tent then. How were the blood bags?

Oh, and we agreed to wing it on the train ticket front when it was discussed this evening...

That's not to say you can't book something if you wish, but I think everyone else will be hoping for a groupsave. Current prices for the 10am are £14:50 anyway, so absolute worst case scenario is it will cost another £13.70...

what he said ^

The rule stands; If you bring gears you carry the blood bags.

I'm bringing gears.

Good - because we are fully expecting you and Ludwig to go on a breakaway in Chigwell to keep the sponsors happy. We'll reel you back in 100m from the line for a sprint finish on the pier.

On route, opens at 8, 6th best restaurant in Frinton according to Tripadvisor...

http://www.cafe-19.co.uk/

Yep - that's the one I've used before, and the one I was planning to use this time (I think the others open @ 9). That's the reason the route goes passed it :)

Can we go on the pier? Do you have to pay to go on the pier? Looks a bit shit really, someone appears to have built a big yellow shed on the inshore end, but it's the 3rd longest in Britain.

I'm not sure, it was too busy to try the last time I was there, screaming kids covered in ice cream scared me away from the entrance. It was the Frinton Carnival that day and when I rolled up in lycra I was greeted like the policeman from the The Wicker Man!

The shoreline is best approached from that end though, so we can definitely try to get on it. It's a nicer ride back along the sea-front from there too...

I was greeted like the policeman from the The Wicker Man

Britt Ekland tried to seduce you?

Well, in that case I'm going to come on a rusty folding shopper & you can all wait for me at the end of every slight incline.

so no change there, then

Re. route what is wrong with descending the B170 fixies?

And balmain always took a right turn on the B1007 and then left and left into Stock.