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Last night my 09 Kona Honky Took was butchered by some thieving pillocks. They took the seat, seatpost, handlebars, deaurailler, and snapped the chain.

I was just wondering how much you lot reckon it would cost to rebuild?

Wotcha. Just wondering how long the current waitlist is? I only just saw the thread, am really interested in seeing the movie but it looks like all the tickets are already taken.

Noob here. Live just down the Kinglsand Road from the Butchers - might well head down and say hello.

How will I recognise you lot?

Brilliant! It's on the drop out.

Nightmare...

Just checked my pannier rack and it turns out that I've lost the screws for the rear dropouts.

Would any kind samaritan happen to have appropriate screws or even, at a stretch, a spare pannier rack that I could purloin for the weekend?

1. braker
   
2. edscoble
   
3. youramericanlover
   
4. Soul
   
5. Eamesy
   
6. Yasi
   
7. Iknowhowtowhistle (If I'm good enough to keep up)
   
8. poots
   
9. Duroy
   
10. Cafewanda (as Iknowhowtowhistle)
    11.pt maybe, might just catch you at the beach
    12.
    
11. Raymund (i did this trip once but on a bmx should be better on my current bike )
    
12. Jim
    
13. Stonehedge II
    
14. CelesteGreen
    
15. Hairnetnic
    
16. Clubman
    
    

Am definitely in. See youse tomorrow morn on Richmond Green. I'll be the chap with the Kona Honky Tonk panniered up.

Bit of a noob here - no prior experience on LFGSS rides - thinking of tagging along for most of the journey (peeling off to a different final destination come the New Forest).

Is there any kind of humiliating LFGSS 100 Club initiation ceremony which I should know about beforehands?

Am sorely tempted to give this a stab but the distance is a little intimidating.

Would anyone be riding down to Richmond from the Stoke Newington / Dalston area?

It looks like I'm not going to be able to make this on Sunday. Will forward skive's pm (with his ticket details) to you Rossi75.

I wouldn't mind a ticket if one's going spare...

noob here

What is TNRC?

Cheers! Yeah, that descent is fierce - almost more worrying than the climb when you're coming down it.

Hopefully we'll get a chance to meet properly in the near future at a ride or some drinks things.

Hmm...missed the last couple of eats - are there April plans?

Could do with a good pizza...

Residual jetlag enforced a stealth lie-in for me yesterday morning so I turned up super late (2pm!) and rode the whole route on my tod.

Was still brilliant fun though. Also, thanks very much for the peeps who cheered me as I rode back down Canonbie Road (ID - I was wearing a green bianchi top and riding a sky blue Kona Honky Tonk). It was much appreciated, although, knackered as I was, all I could manage by response was a perfunctory thanks.

I'm still new here and don't know many folks but it'd be great to ride with some forum peeps on the next outing.

That looks good. Might well give it a go this weekend.

Stay in Beylogu. Wonderful place. Also, watch Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Iklimier and Uzak. Wonderful films...

Either side. It's certainly easier going South than North though.

[crossed wires]

Yeah, but let's be honest, that's (Crouch Hill) a piece of piss. The main thing about the hill is the psychology. That's why Highgate West Hill is such a killer. You think you're almost there then it turns 90 degrees right and kicks up several times over, at the very moment that you're praying for some kind of respite. In contrast Crouch Hill levels out once you've broken the back of it.

The West Hill is far more tricky than Swain's Lane for my money, for that very reason.

Well if anyone fancies making such a ride routine, would be more than happy to do the minimal planning/coordination involved. Seems like a Monday night sort of ride to me generally though could be proved wrong. Also, as a bonus, there's a score of good pubs on the way that no doubt would appreciate the custom.

Many thanks to the Mod for consolidation. Was wondering if my thread/post had a more natural home and apparently it does.

Yes

So...was a bit bored post work today so went out on my own designed London-centric hill bashing jaunt which goes a bit like this:

Crouch Hill - Muswell Hill - Highgate High Street - Swain's lane x2 - Hampstead High Street x2.

Now I reckon the second, Muswell Hill, is the most challenging that you can find in London. Have done Canonbie Road but it doesn't have quite the length to really feature as a pwoper candidate.

Would be interested to hear if others have other suggestions because am looking to step it up to the next level.

(and, no, I ride geared - 2009 Honky Tonk - not fixed, so maybe this ain't the place to go asking, but what the hell, what harm can it cause?)

Was it kebab meat, or was it the monstrosity known in Edinburgh as a "king rib"? That is, reclaimed pork meat formed into the rough shape of a rack of ribs, then coated in BBQ sauce and deep fried (which gives it an outer "skin" of crispy, reclaimed minced pork).

Proper prime Doner Kebab meat. I can't remember if it was ladled on the freshly deep fried pizza afterwards or plunged into the deep fat fryer with it.

Never came across "king rib". Sounds intriguing.

I lived in Edinburgh for a few years and a friend of mine, a good Kentish lad, went a bit native and developed a taste for deep-fried doner kebab pizza suppers. I had one once. It was pretty good.

Haggis is wonderful stuff. There should be more of it in general.