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That looks like such hard work Charlotte, absolutely amazing.

I was very disappointed not to have spotted the ordinary, not sure how I missed it, must remember not to ride with my eyes closed.

Woo-hoo, I'm famous(ish).

Wow, slipped into bed for a quick half hour kip, just woke up now all dazed and confused, must be time to start drinking.

Brilliant ride, my first Dunwich and about twice the distance I'd ever been before.

Great to meet/ride with/wave at so many people. Especially the group the little group we settled into, Simon, Huge (thanks for the lift home), Marco and Sam (until he decided to leave us, suggesting the pace was a bit high for him but then joining an even faster group). Cheers Simon for dragging me along at pace on the alternative route we "chose" to take for the last 20 or so miles.

Marco? Bread? Oh - I see! Ha!

Preparation checklist:

Don't drink too much the night before - fail
Get a new cog for more spinning less grinding - fail
Stock up on performance gels and energy bars - fail (unless you count Sainsburys "all butter shortbread rounds")
Sort our some storage on the bike so I don't have to carry the full load in a rucksack - fail
Have a long lie in - WIN!

I've never ever been more ready for anything, ever, in my life before, ever!

May try and join up with the group meeting at Highbury Corner as it's more or less on my way, depends on what time the friend I'm riding with wants to depart so if I'm not there don't wait. (I'll be on a black SE Lager)

Hmm, someone trying to get themselves out the nursery do you think?

Excellent set of photos by the way rocksteady, hope you'll be coming on the next one.

I'm in.

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. mattty
   
3. damo (as usual need to check calendar)
   
4. wools
   
5. middleofnowhere
   

1.

1. braker
   
2. gormley
   4.
   
3. Brun
   
4. jacklamusica
   7.
   
5. Dropout John
   9.
   10.
   11.
   12.
   13.
   14.
   
6. Tom
   
7. middleofnowhere (Matt)
   
8. MURR
   18.
   
9. Sasmon
   20.
   21.
   22.
   23.
   24.
   25.
   
10. Crispin Glover
    
11. marcom
    
12. Oliver
    29.
    30.
    31.
    
13. Wibble
    
14. reeen
    34.
    35.
    

Did anyone else witness the mad overtake? Somewhere round Reigate I think. I think it was a taxi that decided to overtake a car that was overtaking us. It drove clean up onto the pavement which could only have been just about wide enough to fit and flew down it at 30-40 mph. Not as if the roads were busy, stunning level of impatience, you almost have to respect such bad decision making, almost.

Excellent, excellent, excellent ride.

Excellent organisation; thanks Oliver.
Excellent company; thanks everybody.
Excellent weather; thanks whoever.

Pure comedy charging around the service roads of Gatwick trying to find a sneaky way in. Absolute beauty of Ditchling Beacon in the morning sunshine, despite feeling like my lungs were on fire. Spinning like mad with very heavy feeling legs on the decent into Brighton. Just some of the highlights for me.

It's 60 miles to Brighton, we got a full bag of jelly babies, half a pack of cigarettes, it's midnight, and we're wearing sunglasses.

Hit it.

Sorry for your loss Ricardo and my sympathies to all those who had to witness this tragedy.

Yesterday about 7ish. 2 guys outside Costcutters in Waterloo, one Surly with white spok, kept an eye on my bike while I nipped in to get cigarettes. Cheers.

Fenders - American for mud guards.

I don't use them but there may well be wet mud on some of the small roads, under the trees, where the ground never totally dries out, decision is yours.

1) MA3K
2) Velocio
3) Pistanator
4) andyp
5) murtle
6) DMCZone
7) Hoops.
8) Cornelius Bridgefoot (wearing his cowboy chaps)
9) gizmond
10) Fluff
11) BlueQuinn
12) Zed
13) Skully
14) Big Red
15) Dangeruss
16) Balki Bartokomous
17) Buddha Fingaz
18) damo (provisional)
19) Spins
20) yeh731
21) stevo_com
22) Hermes
23) Dicki
24) alockett
25) JAH thames
26) Markyboy
27) stompy (My ribs should be okay by then).
28) miss_socks
29) jacklamusica
30) Fitzy
31) mattty
32) Joe + Geraint.
33) Mia..Cooper
34) shoots
35) Crispin MyGayLover ;)
36/ ondine
37) wools
38) Kirth
39) cliveo
40) edscoble
41) Trip
42) hillbilly
43) Deluka
44)Kyle
45) tex
46) Mania

1. Wibble
   48) middleofnowhere
   

There and other way back:

1. Wibble (road bike) - parents house then train the day after
   
2. Sam (fixed) - riding back to Ipswich to catch the train
   
3. C2 (fixed) - to Ipswich maybe :D
   
4. actualmatthew (fixed) - ride to Ipswich for the train back to Cambridge.
   
5. brett (fixed) - keep riding into sea to live in original ancient settlement.
   
6. EcoLoco (fixed) prob ride to Ipswich, may ride back
   
7. huge16 (ss) beach BBQ and beer then lift back. Hoping to put some beer n BBQ in the car for all you lot if possible!
   
8. The Seldom Killer - Fixed (46x18 or maybe 46x16 with an 18ss on the flip in case of fail). Getting a lift home with gf who is bringing the van and has assured me that she will bring some beer and stick it on ice.
   
9. Sasmon - Fixed or geared - haven't decided yet (staying with some friends in the country)
   
10. Clever Pun - Geared - cycling onto ipswich I think, train back to london
    
    

There and coach back:
1.stompy (fixed) 57x17. Front brake.

1. broker (fixed)
   
2. clefty (road bike)
   
3. Soul (road bike)
   
4. Shazam (fixed)
   
5. mo_mo (fixed)
   
6. steves (fixed - probably)
   
7. mjs110 (road bike)
   
8. Crispin Glover (fixed and brakless)
   10, 11. Sparrow + friend Duncan (2x fixed)
   
9. Steff (road bike, probably)
   
10. CheBeef (roady)
    
11. Aroogah (Geared)
    
12. horatio (geared)
    
13. tika (i don't know yet)
    
14. tonythetiger (geared)
    
15. Cohen (sturmey-archer!)
    
16. Hoops (geared)
    
17. photoben (fixed)
    
18. VeeVee (maybe and if maybe, definitely geared)
    
19. Jaygee (fixed)
    
20. middleofnowhere (fixed 46/16 with 46/17 ss on the flip for when the pain starts)
    
    

There and back:

1. hillbilly (road bike)
   
2. object (road bike)
   
3. Oliver Schick (road bike)
   
4. Scott not Scot (fixed)
   
5. Tricity bendix (fixed)
   
6. Greenbank (fixed)
   
7. Radius (road bike)
   
   

Not going there at all but layed back cocktail in hand, on a beach in the south of france / croatia:

1. Slag (fixed!)
   
2. shoots
   
   

Going up the aisle to get fixed

1. murtle
   
   

Drinking all murtle's beer while he gets all soppy:

1. hippy
   

Here are my two attempts, one with Palace one without, it does become very northish without them.

I've also stuck in Orient as we'd be so close it would be rude not to.

With: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2918787

Without: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2918937

On the one without I've stuck in the bonus of Fisher Athletic's old ground.

Oh, and we get a trip on the Woolwich ferry, I assume bikes are allowed on the ferry.

Nodders were pretty well behaved on my normal route, just Hyde Park getting a bit messy, nearly had a head on with a chap who was a bit too focused on watching the pretty horses instead of where he was going. Quick shout brought him back to the present with a nice swerve. Must have been such a novelty for him spending his commute being able to see more than the sweaty armpits of his fellow tube riders.

1. Pistanator (EFC)
   
   1. Damo (DCFC)
      
   2. cliveo (CFC)
      
   3. villa-ru (AVFC)
      
   4. dicki (LFC)
      
   5. dovoneil (AFC)
      
   6. Clever Pun (LFC)
      
   7. PinkGottiMobbs (THFC)
      
   8. Cornelius EderFoot (THFC)
      
   9. Spins (LFC)
      
   10. Aleksi (Dinamo Tbilisi)
       
   11. alockett (1 FC Koln)
       
   12. eyebrows (WHUFC)
       
   13. Jimmy Piercy (THFC)
       
   14. Slag (AFC)
       
   15. Soul (WBAFC)
       
2. Middleofnowhere (AFC)
   
   

As dicki says, it's your gig Pistanator, you own it now so pick a date and stick it in the calendar.

Some will be able to go, some won't, everyone will whinge and argue but a ride will happen.

OK, I thinks this makes sense, in this order:

START:

QPR
CHELSEA
FULHAM
CRYSTAL PALACE
MILLWALL
CHARLTON
WEST HAM
SPURS
ARSENAL

Then a few beers/kickabout...

:-)

This makes perfect sense to me and by my estimate comes in at around 50 miles. How about a swift half in each teams favourite pre football pub on the way?

A night ride, to Brighton, on my birthday? How could I not?

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. gormley
   
3. coppiThat
   
4. damo (hope i can make this one)
   
5. Broker
   
6. Steff
   
7. Middleofnowhere
   

Day before yesterday while pegging it up the Tottenham Court Road.

Give a big kick to catch the lights at Goodge St only to find the cog ain't on tight enough and it just zips round. I'm thrown off balance and go into a death weave back and forth across the lane till I can hold it no longer. Big scraped knee and I'll be walking funny for a couple of days yet.

I have a similar but not quite so noisy problem as to OP.

I haven't checked this by measuring or asking anyone who knows but my chain, which I believe to be 1/8, seems much wider than the teeth on my chainring. As far as I can tell the noise is being generated by the chain moving laterally across the chainring. What seems to make the difference is that I've got the chain tension too high which causes a slight twist in the chain where it sits on the chainring causing it to ping across rather than just slide.

I've just been too lazy to sort it but as I got a slow puncture this morning I'll prob get round to doing something about chain tension at the same time.

This is the route through the park I take...

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2777992

It's great in winter when it's clear but recently it's becoming a nightmare. Nearly got taken out this morning by an oncoming roadie who suddenly appeared from behind a wobbling nodder, had to do a quick swerve off the cycle path or it would have been messy. I'm starting to fancy taking my chances with the agro taxi drives at HPC.

Those wireless jobs can be a bit prone to interference. Mine seemed to be badly affected by police radios, outside Scotland Yard it once told me I was doing 105 kph, I'm fairly sure it was mistake cos I was locking the bike to a lampost at the time.

Here's my pics...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fortyfoursixteen/

Enjoy

Good photos, here are a few poor ones...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/middle-of-nowhere/sets/72157617313096387/detail/