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Shaftesbury CC day at Hog Hill this Saturday.

Go race at 3pm (novices, non-licence holders, 4ths with no points) - only 30 mins (or 8 or 9 times up the hill!). Enter on the line - no complicated forms, promise.

Other races on the programme - see http://questronics.org.uk/Shaftesbury/reports/2010/Hog%20Hill.html

@Brave in highbury, did one Naverstock evening 10 but wouldn't mind a midweek one to go to when i cant do a friday

Shaftesbury CC - wednesdays - E83 (Mountnessing, Blackmore area)

Hainault RC - wednesdays - E16 (Stapleford Abbots - Ongar)

Glendence CC - wednesdays (not sure if every week) - E14 (Navestock)

Easterly RC - tuesdays E14

Finsbury Park CC - wednesdays - E64 (Roydon?)

Lea Valley CC - tuesdays - Hog Hill 10s

Hertfordshire Wheelers - tuesdays - E64

These are just from the London East local handbook - get a London North local handbook and you should be spoilt for choice. Get googling!

Thanks, TheCatMan. I wasn't involved in setting the date but I've alerted others to it.

No problem. Enjoy the ride round mid-Essex.

PS The cafe at the bottom of North Hill (Papermill lock) is better in my opinion.

That is ECCA festival weekend - 2 road races on in the morning and a 25 TT in the afternoon to the west of Chelmsford. I don't know your route and you may already be aware, but I suspect you might want to make sure you're not using the same roads at the same time as the events.

Full details on the [not particularly user friendly) ECCA website ...

http://www.easterncounties.org.uk/

There is no prescribed limit (except for mechanically propelled vehicles). Which appears to be the point that TheCatMan and I are both making, albeit in different ways.

It's an offence to be incapable, but, as yet, there is not test for what constitutes incapable. You may not, for example, be compelled to provide a breath / urine test, and it is not an offence to refuse one.

I guess it would be similar (or the same as) the roadside impairment test they use for drugs; walking in a straightline, finger to nose (your own, not theirs) blah blah. I doubt they would be arsed in all honesty.

Baking powder? Section 30 Road Traffic Act 1988 makes it an offence to be incapable or out of control. It doesn't make drinking & cycling illegal though.

What offence is it then?

ahhh wonderful pendantry. Drinking and driving a car technically isn't illegal either. Section 30, RTA 1988 however *does *make it an offence to cycle whilst unfit through drink or drugs. The offence is not "out of control" as you describe; it is "not capable of having proper control", a subtle and very subjective difference that could well see you commiting a criminal offence if you have a few shandies and cycle home.

Got a baby? Try baby wipes to quickly take off muck of your chain.

I use this stuff for everything - it removes marks left by felt tips from the walls :-)

Removes everything except shit from babies arses. Should I try Muc-Off on the kid instead?

Whilst it's not illegal, it's always struck me as being not the cleverest thing to do.

It is illegal. It is just not the same offence as when driving a car and carries different penalties.

+1. keep straight and all will be fine.

Ahhh, the make-believe world of perfectly level, straight and unobstructed roads. Unfortunately most of the ones I use are beset with junctions, cambers, potholes, roundabouts, bends (I know, IMAGINE THAT!!), other roads users, other road users using said road badly, blah blah blah.

If you haven't come off on ice this year it is because:

a) you were riding on 2 1/2 inch knobblies

b) it wasn't real ice (frosty bits don't count I'm afraid)

c) it wasn't a big patch of ice and you got traction back as soon as you lost it

d) you got lucky

e) you realised that minus 7 degrees overnight might lead to ice and avoided untreated surfaces or just got the bus

f) you ride a trike with a basket on the front

Most people get in under (d) and (e) I reckon.

I personally wouldn't take a hammer to a stem. I wouldn't want to be downhilling at 30+ and discover I'd introduced a hairline crack into the bit that keeps me going straight.

Geared. Fast descent, quick corners and a nasty little climb (either way round). Fixed will have you mashing it up hill, spinning out down hill and paranoid about pedal strike in the hairpin.

Or would you have the pedos running the streets

They were in "The Warriors" right?

@ catman - thanks for the word up. been away for the weekend so will get a good look at your info and change the route. this is small fry for the TNRC as problems go ;)
will we be seeing you out there?

Unlikely, I'm all out of proper lights - waiting on wiggle for a delivery.

No moonlight + silly little flashing commuter light + over 20 mph = bad idea.

Enjoy the ride!

Tiny URL don't like it for some reason, here's the ugly version..

**Cooksmill Green, Highwood, Chelmsford, Essex ** Click here to toggle the full works details View full details in new page ** 07/09/2009 (estimated) - 11/09/2009 (estimated) ** Map roadwork From Roxwell Telephone Exchange Along Cocksmill Green To Junction With A414 Ongar Road West Works state: Planned work about to start Works promoter: BT Impact: Moderate - delays likely Last updated: 28-Aug-2009 Notice details

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                                Roadworks details                                                                                   Road location (NSG):                    Cooksmill Green, Highwood, Chelmsford, Essex


                                                            Location description: FROM ROXWELL TELEPHONE EXCHANGE ALONG COCKSMILL GREEN TO JUNCTION WITH A414 ONGAR ROAD WEST           Works on:  -                                                                            Works date:                 07/09/2009 (estimated) - 11/09/2009 (estimated)                                                     Works type:                 Major                                                                   Roadworks authority:                Essex                                                                               Works promoter:                 BT                      

                                                                                                                    Traffic management: Road Closure                        Works ref: BC005CC9W000000000002399                         Last modified: 28/08/2009           Last updated in Elgin: 28/08/2009

Loving your work Clint; great mid-Essex route. Takes in most of my training routes and passes within 1/2 mile of the ranch - should be nice and quick if it's dry.

However, hate to be a killjoy but I noticed a road closure sign today on the A414 at the point I think your route crosses it (Cooksmill Green). Just googled it and it looks like that particular part of your route may be impassable... http://tinyurl.com/ny5wn7 . You are going anti-clockwise right?

An alternative route is to carry on down Highwood Road to The Causeway instead of turning left at Wyse's Road, then cross over the A414 at the RAB into Writtle, Right at the next RAB, take the first left, then turn left at the T junction (Victoria Road) and on to Newney Green . From there you have a couple of options to rejoin your route.

As I said, this is home turf for me, if you need any more info PM me.

First view of Ventoux... 531.

Amazing huh. Rode it last week, my research in the weeks leading up to it to led me to some rubbish forum or other where some guy was pontificating about the Ventoux and how it wasn't much to look at from ground level. I can only conclude he was bullshitting and has only seen it in books. The place is awesome - I love the way you see the whole mountain from miles off, like some kid's drawing, a big triangular thing plonked down on the earth. The stretch in the woods will haunt me forever. Enjoy - and go wide at Chalet Raynard - its the only flat bit for 21kms! My humble opinion is that Galibier is harder by virtue of how difficult the last 8ks or so are after 20k odd of climbing - the bit in the woods on Ventoux is however quite mental. It is splitting hairs of course - one incredibly difficuly climb being slightly more difficult than the other incredibly difficult climb!

Hope the Leffe doesn't bite you on the arse tomorrow :-)

It has. It has indeed.

Offended.

Brakeless with no retention.

Is it worth watching? I've had it on DVD for years and not gotten round to watching it.

Just surfing the music channels with the missus - gonna try and persuade her to hit 906 onwards in a few minutes...

Where in the alps you going? Massif des ecrins?

No shit! I will not be doing the business as a consequence.

@ VanUden - this weekend is prime riding weather. Go and out and swallow some flies :).

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leffe

Has anyone else tried putting one of your wife's sanitry towels down the front of your lycra shorts in the winter to try and stop knob freeze?

Just me then?

Gorgeous

No. It was a serious question. The tacx, at least the one I own, is designed to be used with their skewer - its a fair bit bigger than a normal QR skewer and fits the retaining holders perfectly.

I'm guessing, being as you are talking about a track bike, that you may not actually be using said turbo trainer as per manufacturers instructions. RTFI.