L's and G's

Jonny and clintsmoker are glad to announce the Tuesday Night Ride Club. For those of you who bought your lights for the Dunwich Dynamo and don't want to leave them on the shelf gathering dust we welcome you all to a fortnightly ride in the dark. Fear not, we are thinking along the lines of returning home for tea and medals for 1 am rather than a 120 miles and two days off work.

We envisage riding fortnightly in the surrounding countryside accessable by a short train ride if necessary.

to set the ball rolling we have two rides planned already.

16th Sept - The 5 hills in Surrey ( 30 tough hilly miles)

30th Sept - Much Hadham (leave east london, halfway to cambridge and back 50 flat easy miles)

we'll post the rides individually soon but leave comments if you are interested and if you have any suggestions for future rides.

thanks people and look forward to rolling with you

Re Surrey Hills, 48x16 a little ambitious?

willo, if only i knew what your thighs looked like!!!!! i don't know about the experts but i think you need to be aiming for 70 gear inches. there are others on here who know more about it than me. I ride a 42 x 16 and i wouldn't like to go any higher on that front ring but then i've got girl's legs. (clintsmoker speaking not jonny who can turn a more powerful ratio)

Great initiative guys !

Sounds great, not in town next week but join you on the 30th

in like flynn, not sure about the 5 hills might need to do some winter training to get the legs into shape, but definitely up for longer rides, sounds like fun

down with this shizzle. night rides are fun

ill be there on 30th and any future ones (nothing getting in way of course)

gutted i missed hilly ride, always fun playing cat & mouse up a hill with the usualy suspects!
(unitl you blow)

liked it so much i used it on the phone to my bank "i've had it up to here with this shizzle!"

Tuesday 16th September

meet at platform 3 for the 7:23pm train to effingham Jnct

arrive in time to get a ticket and some snacks etc

need to ride at a good pace to get the 11:24pm back to waterloo or we're riding home!!

I've put both these in the Events calendar.. which makes my chances of turning up 0.001% more likely. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing :)

now that's funny. if I can escape from the missushizzle i'd love to go.

'tis a good thing Hippy, 'tis a good thing indeed

I want to get involved in more forum rides. I haven't been on one yet but I did put my name down for the Docklands one last night and I'd quite like to put my name down for a few more. This Tuesday night ride thing sounds like fun but I'm a bit worried about the distances involved. I'm gonna have to categorically say no to the 5 Hills ride though. There's no amount of hardening the fuck up that will get me through that torture! The only riding I do is the daily commute to work and a few casual miles around Bethnal Green/Hackney in the evenings and weekend when bored/off to see mates. So...the 30th Sept ride sounds doable...I think. I hear you're not the sort of peeps to let the weak fall behind and forget all about them but, equally, I'm not expecting anyone to wait until Thursday afternoon when I'm recovered after having collapsed in a sweaty heap Tuesday evening. Any suggestions as to how many miles I should be doing in the evening to get ready for these longer rides? I can do the 6miles to work and the 6miles back home easily but that's with 7hours of sitting down in between. Or is it way too soon to be attempting something like this? 30th Sept is pretty damn close.

Cheers!

Oh really...? *resists temptation to post picture of own legs*

Count me in for the 30th! Wish I could make the 16th too, but I have a prior engagement with Ditchling Beacon.

wools,

if you don't get to do much many miles don't worry too much . the ride on the 30th is a beginners to intermediate ride and you will be okay. just know that the distance will push you physically and mentally but you'll be okay. you will need padded shorts, snacks, water, lights,puncture repair kit etc.
Have no fears on this one though and it will be great to see you.

@clintsmoker - Cheers for responding fella. That all sounds good to me. Especially the beginners to intermediate part! Looks like I got me some purchasing to do though. Namely padded shorts and proper lights. I got those little LED Backupz things but I gather something a lil more heavy duty will be required yeah? I'll put me name down when a dedicated Much Hadham thread pops up. Will be cool to meet y'all also!

yeah wools,
lights can be purchased for around 80squid on wiggle or cycle surgery do a rechargeable unit for the same price made by cateye. plenty strong enough. normal rear lights suffice. you know the padded shorts story is the same as most of life.......the more you pay the better you get but again i reckon they are out there for 20-40squid easy enough. as far as i'm aware most of the lads and lasses wear skins under cut off trousers

Now this sounds like a good idea. Nice one clintsmoker and Jonny. I hope to join you in the Surry hills on the 16th, if not deffo the 30th.
Well done lads, well done!

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Nice !
Hope Vision on order...
will be joining this one real soon

i'm in for tuesday. see who ever at waterloo. might have to ride gears as i've got a flat pedal stuck-on one fixed and 48x14 on the other....neither remotely suitable for those hills.

nice one clintsmoker, you know i am in. for all of it. see you and anyone else that can make it, at waterloo tomorrow dude.

yeah let's put these hills to the sword again. hope to see a few faces at the station at 7:15

anyone need a number mine is 07908967736 call it if you are in need of help etc

New to riding with you guys and gals, ok if I ride with you through the surrey hills ? I finish work in time to get a bite to eat and can meet you at Waterloo 7:15.

roger dodger purple mj, get along - meet near entrance platform 3 around that time

work is manic and lights haven't arrived so going to give this a miss but will be up for the one next fortnight

Quality riding again out there on the hills. those of you who didn't make it......you missed a good one.
felt tougher than usual as I had a slight throat infection and jonny had only just got back from taming the pyrenees.
great to see Martin out there for the first time. Nice one mate, awesome stuff!!!
made it back for the 11:03 so that says it all really

[COLOR=black][FONT=Trebuchet MS]Thanks for making me feel welcome Tim and Jonny good to meet you both, I had a great time and was in need of a good session out and this ride didn’t disappoint! I will definitely keep an eye out for other rides & look forward to meeting a few others from here. Thanks again much appreciated cheers, mj.[/FONT][/COLOR]

nice one purple_mj, good to have you out there dude, and nice bit of kit you are riding there too. you should defo look out for more rides and try and get to the track this Sunday - will be a good day.

catch ya again soon.

much hadham ride list

details: tuesday 30 th Sept 2008
meet at stratford tube and rail station east london over by the taxis, at 8pm

follow Jonny and Tim all the way to Much Hadham about 25 miles out then turn and do the 25 miles back. average speed to be about 18 mph so you do the maths L's and G's. back home in time for tea and medals.

couldn't be easier. flat as a japanese girls breasts . this ones for the wimps and commies amongst us! bring decent lights, snacks, tubes, etc

1. jonny
2. clintsmoker

thanks for the gentle reminder

1. jonny
2. clintsmoker
3. claus

Might well be coming - just need to check diary and riding buddy.

J Dub, Clint... good stuff for getting this underway... had a read though.

I may well be up for the roll. ;)

1. jonny
2. clintsmoker
3. claus
4. Gustav