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Also a wheel and a rim. Nothing special. If you take both, you can have them.

Lewisham Cyclists had a clear out and we have a couple of old steel 70’s or early 80’s frames that are in need of too much work for us to find the time to build up. First, a Raleigh Europa, quite a bit of surface rust, in need of a fair bit of work with some steel wool and with a stem that feels pretty seized. I have released something similar with weeks soaking in lemon juice, although can’t guarantee it would work with this. Second is a Falcon, possibly an Olympic. Quite nice looking and in better condition than the Europa but with a stuck seatpost. Free to anyone who can pick up and takeaway

Haven’t read this whole thread, so this may have been posted already, and I expect a lot of you have already seen it but Emily Chappell’s article in an old edition Casquette has helped a lot of women I work with understand their own particular needs much better. https://www.casquette.co.uk/know-how/2017/4/22/saddle-lore

Thinking of setting up a saddle library in Lewisham with Lewisham Cyclists..starting with a women’s specific one..but that doesn’t help you right now. It’s such a personal thing saddle choice, hard to give advice. And even women’s specific is a bit meaningless as women are different. Although personally, I’ve always found bike setup to be more crucial for me in terms of saddle comfort. I seem to have an ability to ride on any saddle, and as long as the bike doesn’t throw all my weight back down on my bottom and the saddle isn’t too padded, or tilted upwards (some people do that you know) to squish the labia, I’m fine for hours. Don’t know if it’s just because I’ve been riding for so many years, on so many hard black plastic saddles so that my saddle contact anatomy is just immune or whether it’s the way I’m made.

Yes. It’s where CS4 should go.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/deptford-crash-cyclist-dies-after-crash-with-car-in-south-east-london-a3949036.html
Awful news. Condolences to this rider’s loved ones. We’ve been waiting too long for protected space on this road. So, so sad and angry about this

Yup. Been using a Paramo in winter for years. Bit warm for summer though

Called off your trip! Noooo!

Just back from a short trip north again. Wasn’t a Cycling trip, but I managed a day out riding the little roads south of Loch Ness. Weather extremely hot so midges weren’t that bad during the heat of the day. Beautiful little roads as quiet as Applecross used to be twenty years ago! Worth a look, lovely little lochs tucked up there. Some decent climbs and good descents.

I’ve just seen someone tweet to @TfLTrafficNews that the rider died. I hope this is a mistake.

You could do it from Inverness in a day. But I’m getting old and like to,take my time now! So break up my journeys with nice wild camps and so on. I think my favourite trips north have been my own take on an end to end, aDungeness to Durness, which ended up being nearly 2000 miles as I included tours of several Scottish islands on the way up. Hopped off the mainland on to Ardrossan, then Arran, Kintyre (peninsula not an island I know) Islay, back on mainland then Oban to Mull, then Tobermory to Kilchoan,up to Mallaig and on to Skye, after that back on to mainland and up to the north via all those peninsula roads that now make up the NC500. The Drumbeg road is one of my favourites. Running down the dunes into the sea at Clashnessie fully clothed on a baking hot day after that rollercoaster of a ride is one of my all time best days on the road. That whole road from Gairloch and detouring round Coigach through Achiltibuie,Althandhu, Inverkirkaig, Lochinver, Achmelvich (bit of a detour, Achmelvich) and then back to the main road for Kylesku, Scourie and ultimately Cape Wrath, well, one of the best tours Ive done.

The last picture is Attadale. They’ve just made the path up there wider and easier to ride. I used an OS map and my Satmap. No preloaded routes. Although that ride would look like this. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27827198

May was an amazing month up north, wasn’t it? I’ve been Cycle camping and touring most years since my teenage years up there and in the last few have begun to explore more off road routes. Partly because I have ridden near enough every tarmaced road north of Inverness several times now. And partly because the NC500 has brought much more motor traffic up there. Kinda takes away part of what makes it such a great place to ride. Last trip was a mixture of road and off. Test riding Raleigh’s 2018 incarnation of their gravel bike, Mustang Comp. Applecross, Torridon and Attadale. In bothies and tent. Would recommend heading off the beaten track if you can.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/londonbased-it-worker-knocked-off-bike-and-killed-in-hitandrun-a3862686.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true This rider has now been named. Ride in Peace, Antonio Marchesini.

We (Lewisham Cyclists/Deptford Folk) held aminutes silence at the Ghost Bike after our community bike workshop today. We run it at the Scout Hut opposite and it seemed wrong to ignore it. A couple came up to us and inquired about the victim. One of them had witnessed the incident, been part of the help and assistance in the street afterwards, but was not aware that the man had died. He was very shocked and we persuaded him to go to the police and say exactly what he had seen. I’m wondering if there were other locals who saw but haven’t given their evidence yet, because they just wandered away once the ambulance had arrived, not wanting to be in the way, as this man had done. Lack of evidence might be one reason they haven’t charged the individual yet. So, get the message out on whatever social media you can, if you know anything, go to the police and tell them what you saw.

We had also planned a ride during Bike Week, along Q1 and then into central London using all the Bike infrastructure. We’ve decided to go ahead with the ride, but stop at the site and hold a minutes silence. https://www.facebook.com/events/971490379679867/

The one at the junction with Deptford Church and Bronze St is for TJ Olatunji Adeyanju. Think I mentioned it upthread. Also a hit and run. 6 years ago. He was 17. His killer was caught. http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2013/05/family-of-cyclist-olatunji-tj-johnson-adeyanju

I was about to ask if anyone knows who put the ghost bike up. We (Lewisham Cyclists) have been discussing what to do since this happened. We hold a community bike workshop every month on the Second Sunday (this coming Sunday in fact) and will be paying our respects at the junction after the workshop at 2.30pm. We had thought about a ghost bike but would always get the family ok first. We nearly did one for the guy killed in Central Lewisham a few years back but didn’t when the family said they didn’t want it.

Poor family having to deal with reading those awful details of the incident.Some mistakes in the article though. There is no segregated cycle path on Childers St.Thats further along on Edward St. Might seem trivial, but don’t want people to start going on about how rider should have used the cyclepath.

Literally just yards from where we (Lewisham Cyclists) run our Mend and Ride Workshop. Feeling really angry about this. Just as we’re planning a vigil next week for those riders killed on Greenwich roads which aren’t that far away. And I still feel sad and angry every time I ride past the ghost Bike for the last rider killed in Deptford 6 years ago when another hit and run coward killed TJ Adeyanju on a toucan crossing in 2012. Less than a mile away from this latest tragedy. This. Has. To. Stop.

This is awful. Childers St has been an issue since council bowed to local pressure and pulled back from its original plans on Q1, which were to filter it completely. This shows absolutely why that original complete filtering was needed.

Silvertown Tunnel approved as well. Won’t help the situation in Greenwich for people walking and riding bikes.

Oh, god. This is awful. Thoughts to their loved ones.