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thinking we'll definitely have to break into smaller groups, maybe send people off with a half an hour gap in between.
Just a note, be polite to the police and anyone else whose part of the organising of the marathon you come across, we got by with a wave, a smile and a good morning to everyone in uniform. Made for a good morning.
anyone know what time exactly they start closing off the roads and putting up the barriers?
If the official website's correct, then between 7 and 8, depending on the location.
Unfortunately, the road closure timetable they provide doesn't look like it's been updated since 2006.
http://www.london-marathon.co.uk/site/content/file/Road%20Closure%20Leaflet%2006(0).pdf
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1.Brothers Chug_It
2.Ved- Cornelius Marathonfoot
- Skully
- Tomasito
- PinkGottiMobbs
- miss_socks
- Broker
- fresh (bout time somebody respectable was at number 10!)
- Crazy James (so crazy he messed up the list!)
- Oliver Schick
- emab
- photoben
- damo
- George Sportif au leau preau
- JOHNNY_TANG_888
- jimbilly.
- Spins
- Hovis Brown
- kx.001
- pajamas
- coppiThat
- veLLo
- Guerillaphoto
- Aleksi
- wibble
- tika
- Gina
- Gloves
- Crowbar
- Barbados
- texas
33.Jung - Clefty (i saw her on here earlier, but she got deleted)
- beth (i'll try but most likely will fail, so consider me invisible)
- gormley
- Sasmon (I take it that this is not a race?)
- supertony007
- wickerman
- Cornelius Marathonfoot
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My first forum ride and I absolutely loved it. Great route and a great bunch people. A big thank you to all involved for making it such an awesome evening.
For what it's worth, I thought it was a pretty fair pace. Brisk but comfortable - and I'm far from being the strongest of riders. I think any slower might have been a bit chilly and, for me at least, less fun.
I was actually really impressed with the number of people who took the time to hang back a bit to make sure that those behind didn't get lost - they certainly saved me from ending up in some of the less-explored parts of West London.
It's a shame that despite this people still got dropped. I think the suggestion that there should be more pre-arranged stops (or even just the same number, but more widely known about) for people to catch-up would really help.
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I have the opposite experience - the minicabs drive like bellends, but "civilian" bellends. You can generally predict what they'll do in the same way you might for a delivery van or a bus. The black cabs really seem to think they have a special dispensation to do whatever the hell they please, and as far as I can gather from watching them in action* the police concur and leave them to it.
*I lived just off Oxford Street for several years, where the highest densities of police and black cabs intersect. I never saw a black cab stopped for dangerous or careless, but I saw a LOT of other cars pulled over on slim pretexts.
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Unutterable, black-cab driving bastards. Consistently the worst, most arrogant and downright dangerous people on the roads (and there's some stiff competition out there from London's bus drivers).
Yes, there are a considerate, polite, good humored few, but the majority need pistol whipping with their wretched, over-charging meters.
Racist? Yep, the ones who aren't busy being date-rapists invariably are.
Sorry for the rant, but having been knocked about (quite literally) a few too many times by these twats - not to mention suffering more than my fair share of 'why this country's gone to the dogs' speeches when I've bee forced to sit in the back of their insufferable, bike-hating machines - I am well out of Hackney Carriage cheer.
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Thanks for sorting out the list wickerman.
Pleasure. Glad I didn't manage to cock things up with my first post.
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- lurker103
- nosferatu
- dicki
- Velocio
- towtow
- thecrane
- fllc
- alockett
- wibble
- mmc"no jacket required"carthy
- sorethroat
- Harry
- fresh (if I'm free)
13.5 dovoneil - villa-ru
- yeh731
- miss_socks
- hoops
- jaygee & VeeVee (together as one)
- Spins
- BlueQuinn
- Mann1e
- wickerman
- Ombre
- veLLo
- moog
- Jung (provided new wheels are go)
- philjay + 1
- CrazyJames
- coppiThat
- owenreed
- STE5
- Anrias
- P!mp
- MattS
- twelve
- marcoisapolo
- The Joker
- Charco
- Rik
- George Sportif
- wools
- emab
- Pistanator
- Bernie
- gizmond
- Dilworth
- letrekk
- hillbilly
- Persian
- cake
- Don Cornholio
- wilda
- dylan
- tommy
- ondine
- purple_tom
- marco
- cengiz
- superDean
- keanu.. the fast
- damo.
- chatters
- Skiver
64/65. asm/crhm - Mobidog +2
- Eyebrows (+1)
- Mielie
- Broker
- RENE
- gormley
- Vinylpimp
- Deluka
- kattt
- Markyboy
- Kipsy - just to up the average age of the group (though I'll skip if its teeming down again)
- dante
- ive2dogs
- Magpie00
- samS
- jaimes
- S/J
- Dangeruss
- juicebox
- (the apparently hasty) Khornight
- (the always right) Nick-Nack
- NYLON
- Mattty
- d14vd_h
- Johnny fitz
- (((toughknuckles)))
- lurker103
+1
Fantastic movie.
Beautifully shot, perfectly cast, sublimely gifted actors (especially the children), funny, shocking and often deeply moving. Even the soundtrack's pretty special.
Go see it now, before Hollywood re-makes and ruins it.