1. Sam
2. gabes
3. MA3K
4. Lebowski
5. Jonny
6. hillbilly
7. dancing james
8. pajamas
9. Shoot (if i'm around i'm there)
10. pkmpirat
11. horatio
12. tomasito
13. Ved
14. Aroogah

I'm in for this - will be geared.

Bad luck, Jacqui.

Nice one Chris, and don't worry, someone has to be ;0)

The Dolphin. Sounds good enough to me. Cheers!

I'm still paying for it...need to drag it out at some point!

I have a question. Do you guys ride fixed gear or normal road bike for this distance riding????

Fixed is the norm, although gears are welcome. Ish.

Mostly fixed dude but if you want to ride geared no one will mind (much)

Doh!

You should ride fixed... but if you choose gears, we'll all still talk to you - abit

Aroogah, "I'm still paying for it...need to drag it out at some point!"

Using that logic anyone with a car should bring it along to the ride. And heaven forbid if this was Americas policy with its nuclear arsenal, though perhaps this is the reasoning for blowing up Iraq/Afghanistan.

Right, having reccied for the last time this weekend I've made a slight change to the route. However, Bikely is being a bit of a pig and won't let me upload the new route at the mo.

I'll take this opportunity to directly quote RPM from the Camber Sands discussion, "I just think anyone planning to ride 50/14 brakeless straight outa hoxton for their first long ride will suffer". Kent is not flat, and even the first section of countryside south of Swanley is, to put it bluntly, a bit of a cunt.

Plus I'll also add that anyone planning to ride this Brakeless™ should definitely consider adding a front brake. There are several steep downhill sections on narrow roads, with many of them leading directly to a T-junction at the bottom.

Anyway, enough of the ranting, I'll add the new route when Bikely starts to play ball.

That's not logical. A bike isn't a car. Crazy fool!

Don't listen to them Aroogah. Gears are great.
This fixed thing is only for bed-wetters and artsy gayers anyway.

^gayist

^istist

Bikely now playing ball.

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/191030

I only did 17 miles this morning, Christ I need to get a new saddle! Will probably swap one off another bike for Sunday.

^^isn'tist

i was there (canterbury) on Saturday, lovely town.

Until it fills up with hipsterfixiebikers next weekend, right? : )

1. Sam
2. MA3K
3. Lebowski
4. Jonny
5. hillbilly
6. dancing james
7. pajamas
8. Shoot (if i'm around i'm there)
9. pkmpirat
10. horatio
11. tomasito
12. Ved
13. Aroogah

I'm out, need to recover

Gabes, gabes, gabes, dead to polo and now dead to Canterbury. Next thing you'll be dead to me...

1. Sam
2. gabes
3. MA3K
4. Lebowski
5. Jonny
6. hillbilly
7. dancing james
8. pajamas
9. Shoot (if i'm around i'm there)
10. pkmpirat
11. horatio
12. tomasito
13. Ved
14. 50/14

Recover from what? It's a week away..

no it's not.

it's 4 days away

hippy, you are coming to manchester. did you know this?

There are some here already you know.

Toodle pip

I only listen to you Hippy.

"Gears are great" - Book of Hippy, Chaper 1, Verse 1

"This fixed thing is only for bed-wetters and artsy gayers anyway and beware lest their white jeans shall blind thee to the way of the gears." - Hippy 2:13

:-P

So hippy, what's it to be. Sportive or Canterburytive?

wrotham hill!

pronounced "Rootum"

Not quite Wrotham Hill, that's just to the north (the main A20) where on Sunday I managed 37.6mph on 47x18.

that's pretty fast up that hill ;)

LOL. I climbed it (on gears) a couple of weeks back. From the very bottom roundabout to the very top one was 9 and a bit minutes.

It was 5 when he posted.. which is a working week.. which is a week. Eat arse.

I'm not sure about Manch now. I might be working part of the weekend yet.

Rep+

or Manchester sitting on winston's lap?

or showing my gf how to use our CMS for some urgent data entry bollocks that no one else can do?

Feck arse and more feck.

My weekend full of 11 year olds just cleared up! Would very much like to replace it with this, but...
I will be geared
I am pretty darn slow
The muscle memory is still having issues

On the plus side I am pretty determined and go a very fun shade of pink. Is anyone else slow too, or is this not a good one to start?

i am a gifted descender too

horray! I've got someone to talk to!!

Then again the thought of me riding alongside might speed you up a bit fluff.....

come and do it if you're fairly confident you'll make it!