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Train ticket booked from Clapham Junction to Woking. Anytime Day Single £4.55 (£6.90 w/o railcard). Intending to catch 07:00 train to arrive in Woking at 07:26 but it's an "Anytime" ticket so like I said before no problem if we miss it.

NNW wind
WSW travel direction

Almost a perfect crosswind. Shouldn't slow us down much, but will still get a lot of wind chill.

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/dayforecast.asp?zipcode=Woking&day=5

RAWR

in, as long as all participants are suitably equipped, clothed, nourished, fit and have done rides of 100miles plus.

Shit...

This Saturday the 27th we are doing a ride from London to Bournemouth. The route will either be the one in the first post (probably) or along the A30. I would prefer the one in the first post.

Pifko has a train which arrives at Woking at 07:27 or Waterloo at 07:53.

I would rather not fuck about riding out of London as it's a fucking slow shitty stop-start pothole pollution fest. I say we get up bright and early and get the 07:00 train (arrives 07:26) from Clapham Junction to Woking and meet Pifko there. The train ticket is £6.90 (or £4.55 with railcard) and can be used on ANY train, so no problem with missing train. Pifko doesn't mind waiting a little bit.

Gonna be dark by about 4pm and so I think doing 110 miles most likely against a strong prevailing headwind starting about 07:30 is not unreasonable. Who's in?

Edit: Weather forecast is 7C, sunny with 9mph headwind. Although I wouldn't be on that being accurate 7 days in advance.

I finish at 6:30, I'll find you in the ship somewhere?

Kristian said he doesn't finish uni until "8 or 9". I'll be there a while tonight though, I have to give him his gloves and arm warmers back anyway. :P

What time are the beers?

BTW, collectively we had 5 punctures in to and from Paris.

All Continental tyres.

I know this information will please you.

6

1 in Sophie's GP Sport
3 in your gatorskins
2 in my gatorskins

If anybody want's to do this again you can get much cheaper eurostar tickets if you clear your cookies and set your home country to be australia or new zealand.

Basically, for some reason eurostar assume that English people who want single tickets must be travelling for business and charge more. If you set your country of origin to be somewhere outside europe you can get singles for ~£25.

Also, the £20 bike fee guarantees that your bike will get to st.pancras within 2-3 days, this means that you don't have to travel with your bike. However it also means that your bike might not be on the same train as you so don't count on that.

When I last took my bike on it they had two ten-bike trollies and plenty of room so my bike came with me on the same train.

Saturday 27th November:

16:13 - 17:34 - Australian price 50 Euro, UK price £45.50

Can't get it to work for me.

*Please *get the Orca looking ones.
Out of stock, sorry to disappoint you.

Next time I will have two major enhancements. Firstly I will have an actual waterproof jacket. Secondly I will have this uber bib:

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/castelli-fulmine-wind-bib-tight/

Temperature range: 0° - 12°

:D

Was just looking at the monthly weather forecast for a potential 2nd attempt.

So beers, when, where? Thursday night?

oh no matt what happened?!

Shall we organise celebratory beers now we are all back in blighty and dry?

+1

Today brings new meaning to the words cold and wet. Saturday has been downgraded to 'damp' and 'chilly'. Fucking 30mm rain, 25 mph wind and max temp 6C. Oh and no waterproofs. Apparently my nose was purple just before we abandoned. Still in Dieppe.

I usually use weather.com

Tonight (Newhaven): 12mph headwind (SW) gusting to 28mph, light-moderate rain
Tomorrow (Dieppe): 17mph headwind (SW), moderate rain
Monday (Dieppe): Light rain

http://www.weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/UKXX0274
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxdetail/FRXX0224?dayNum=1

And if anyone needs a hand in Paris I'll be about all weekend, probably playing at being a roadie in the mornings. Maybe an off-roadie if I can be arsed to fix the mtb...anyhoo, I'll be about.

Awesome, thanks a lot. Who knows, we might have a snapped chain or broken BB or freehub... touches wood

RIGHT - NICE GUY UPDATE. If anyone gets to Newhaven, and is in the shit/needs a tube/tyre/something my house is about 2 minutes ride from the ferry port. If you need anything, someone will be in. let me know.

*dinner not an option
Wow, awesome. Almost missed your post. Thanks man.

bummer arducious.
next time.

actually i proposed our next cycling epic last night - london to brighton on boris bikes, in full lycra.

How about the Top Gear style bike challenge? Doing the ride with a £50 (excl. post) bike off ebay/gumtree.

I'm out. No one else cycling back on Sunday and don't fancy getting lost in France on my own!

Have a good ride guys, I'll keep my eyes peeled for the next one!
:( Eurostar not an option? I'll probably be up for a Fri - Sun trip in about a month's time, the knee should be better by then. Just sending an email to see if anyone else is crazy enough to come at such short notice.

Booked train from London Victoria to Crawley 17:32-18:10.

Nice spot.

I just realised that I set up a viewing for my flat tonight... /facepalm

I can probably make it for 8pm though?

Who designed it, Salvador Dali?
It has "Made in Italy" on it in 3 places, so I'd say it's more likely to be a Michelangelo.

Each to his own? We can just meet at Redhill... Like I said, I probably won't have time to ride it all.

Put some electrical tape on the saddle clamp. Done this loads of times for the same reason - never a problem returning.
On the clamp or on the rails? Cheers

It's not my ass that's too big... ;)