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afternoon, i'm riding to just past Colchester from N16 / north east london on Saturday. Anyone with a tried and tested route? My GPS is fucked so it will be iphone and printed google maps this time - old school like happy shopper

Hi hackney cc'ers,

Are you still running sunday club rides through autumn / winter? I'd like to make my road riding more fun again, and I haven't joined a club before, so planning to try a couple of slightly contrasting clubs out before joining one. Hackney CC sounds great and is just east of my abode, so I'd like to give it a go this month (away this w/end unfortunately).

Cheers, ollie

ah, gotcha, i had clicked on what i thought were forum links that sort of took me back here, but now found the proper forum. cheers :)

afternooon,

i'm thinking about joining rollap. cc and want to join at least one club ride to try before I buy, haven't joined a club before but ride a lot and don't anticipate struggling too much with club riding.

their website seems out of date, and the calendar doesn't seem to have anything in it. is there a standing weekend club ride that's still active? it mentions both north and south london rides on the club site. i'm away this weekend so would join a ride in a fortnight if one was going on.

there's a feature on strava with interviews with the founders in Cycling Plus this month, not read in full yet but looks reasonably interesting. i wasn't aware of map my ride's competitor function, 'courses', where you need to log consistent times over a given course / i.e segment, rather than one off do or die. sounds a lot more boring - what i love about strava is the immediacy and lunacy of it, totally burying yourself for a ludicrous KOM in a flat city!

there was a guy riding fixed in regents last night, grey frame with some red parts, had long hair. you RLJ'd and i was waiting for the lights to change. buried myself to catch you up once the lights went green, then drafted you when i caught you near the zoo stretch, and overtook you on the downhill bit past the embassy. would have said hello and taken my turn at the front but was fooking gasping. hello. i was on a dolan with a silly big gear on it.

anyone else unable to get on the site / log files from the app?

[csb] 48/19 KOM'ing - ridden by 112 riders http://app.strava.com/rides/20926789#374999931 [/csb]

Nice one

had a major oh shit moment when i rode home from post-work pints of Old Rosie on Friday night. dumb move, pulled off essex road because i couldn't cycle any further and fell over in a cul-de-sac. two very nice people came over to check if i was ok, realised i was trollied, and offered to walk me home. thankfully the experience sobered me up enough to get back on the steed and cover the last mile home. lessons learnt - do not cycle when battered / do not attempt slow u-turns in particular, if in this condition - do not drink old rosie.

Fucking loving the new album

Dirty Projectors - Gun Has No Trigger - YouTube

no retention + no front brake = guarantee'd death,surely, unless you're fannying around a 2mph - and let's be honest, riding that hunk of shit, you would want to go fast enough not to be seen.

19 x Sue
5 x Janet
7 x Priscilla
7 x Debby
1 x Debi
3 x Christine
1 x Susan
1 x Gill

I've got a beautiful Nelson long flap in green with honey straps. It's utterly brilliant. Thanks janet.

Bring me the head of Joe Krancki.

[B]Strava'd my crack at the Ventoux....

Euph?

I agree. It's my favourite thread here.

i'm with you too, def one of my favourites too, got all the good bits and less of the other bits of lfgss.

also i'll put the date that i'm tackling it on here when we've fixed it - prob be me and @gussio and another mate who just finished cycling across Iceland. i have zero experience of rides like this so it will be useful to go with those guys, who have both done similar before. when i do that, if anyone wants to join let me know. might be mid october, or it will be spring i guess. thinking early train out west (or drive) and ride into the night a bit, stop / sleep, ride all day sat, camp, finish ride on sunday and then train back. would be nice to do it in slower time but no holiday left!

@bare... 700c - thanks for the info - it might need 40s if the weather sets in

@doppel / @nev... record is just over 9 hours, but most people do it over 3 days! i'll aim for two days i think, try and do it in a weekend. it looks totally awesome. i don't know if you can find the feature on bikeradar, sometimes they upload them from the mags. i've been hoping to do it since first reading about it

does anyone on this thread have mtb tires fitted to their surly lht?

i want to do the cambrian way 100 mile trail through wales in the next couple of months. they did it on an lht with mtb tires in a cycling plus issue a few months back, and it looked fantastic.

i'm trying to work out what tires I should get. at the moment it has 32c conti touring plus on it., and sks guards.

my strava achievement of the weekend was getting sixth place on an mtb trail in epping on my touring bike! had an absolute hoot blasting around and sliding all over the place on it. nearly stacked it once, but managed to jump off and catch the thing as it was happening. had a packed saddlebag on the back as well. great times! http://app.strava.com/rides/20510257#367993507

thanks, very helpful

I do like hills.... but rode to faversham in kent from london recently and the severity of the gradients was absolutely ridiculous. Over 25% on some of the back lanes for short periods of time. Different kind of knackering compared to proper cols etc., sod trying to control your heart rate after a few british ramps.

a lot of weight and impact going straight to skull. it looks hilarious, if you survive it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/08/a-concept-bike-designed-for-running/261706/

bleurgh. and then click on the video and check out how much the deathtrap flexes!

Planning to ride London - Bexhill tomorrow morning on the tourer. Anyone have a good route? Not looking for the shortest distance, just the quietest roads / most rural.

Also if anyone knows somewhere good for breakfast en-route that would be valuable info!

Spotted a hilarious guy on a hybrid MTB thing at parliament square earlier, olaying eurotrance shit really loudly from his musical backpack and moving his head in time to the music. Literally lol'd. Respect for collossal twatishness, impressive. Hope to god you're 'on here'.

KOMk-what?