I'm Heather from NYC, coming to London for work next Wednesday and staying until the 29th.
I'd definitely like to get in on this ride to see the city and meet you guys!

17. asm if i'm in London with cock in hand

Oh ha comma ha comma ha.

will you be bringing a bike over?

Apropos speed:
It is a casual ride, with emphasis on sticking together, we only do fun little sprints over the bridges and then re-group on the other side.

I am going to bring some walkie-talkies this time so I don't shout so much. (Audible sigh of relief goes up in the background I'm sure)

And to those who were on the last ride let me say: Westminster Bridge Is Mine !

yes! I am going to bring my IRO fixed-gear. I could NOT live for 2 weeks without a bike!

Possibly screwed it up in the Barnes-Hammersmith off-road wilderness, but for anyone in doubt:
Les Ponts Marque Deux

obviously, correct me if I'm wrong...

Will be nice because we can gradually assemble at Kew from whenever o'clock, and central London's roads will be clearing out as we approach through the night.

ending in the east!


goddamn it

damn, i gotta pull out it's my birthday the day before and am going out with friends, then saturday, g/f has got something planned..........hmmmmmmm, what would you do?????

Missed the last one (East to West = good). Deffo make this one.

1. mareeoh
2. MA3K
3.Stompy
4.nimhbus
5.aidan(nothing better to do!)
6.hippy's imaginary friend (murtle....8^)
7. dt
8. hippy (westie cnut wants in & #8 and was sick of waiting!)
9. steves (greenwich finish - yay!)
10. TheBrick(Tommy) (greenwich finish - yay!)
11. photoben
12. jv
13 mrvista .i live in epsom so either ways a trek! but after the fun of the first how can i say no?
14. OCD
15. brett
16. slamm
17. asm if i'm in London with cock in hand
18. smeear and Rosie (i may be a green man though, not sure yet)
19. RPM !
20. Wayne_f14
21. Build (if I'm in the Country)
22. natureboy
23. badrider (promise i won't bring rapha no teef)
24. siman
25. punkpixel
26, The other Aidan
27. Samsonite
28. danger! joel
29. Smeear (w product)
30. Heather
31. Mouse (west to east - damn)

Finish your lovely birthday meal and say "Right, I'm off - sorry, gotta see a man about a cog..."
Or perhaps not. Sorry, not much help!

Bring your GF.

brett, that off-road stuff was funny-as-fuck.

We will be doing the foot tunnels as well this time, coo..

Put me down as a possible :)
1. mareeoh
2. MA3K
3.Stompy
4.nimhbus
5.aidan(nothing better to do!)
6.hippy's imaginary friend (murtle....8^)
7. dt
8. hippy (westie cnut wants in & #8 and was sick of waiting!)
9. steves (greenwich finish - yay!)
10. TheBrick(Tommy) (greenwich finish - yay!)
11. photoben
12. jv
13 mrvista .i live in epsom so either ways a trek! but after the fun of the first how can i say no?
14. OCD
15. brett
16. slamm
17. asm if i'm in London with cock in hand
18. smeear and Rosie (i may be a green man though, not sure yet)
19. RPM !
20. Wayne_f14
21. Build (if I'm in the Country)
22. natureboy
23. badrider (promise i won't bring rapha no teef)
24. siman
25. punkpixel
26, The other Aidan
27. Samsonite
28. danger! joel
29. Smeear (w product)
30. Heather
31. Mouse (west to east - damn)
32. Fixedwheelnut

Where is the start? and what time ?

I suggest a good place to meet is on the small green on the south side of Kew Bridge. It's where we finished last time.

Start is around midnight, I think, although meeting times could be arranged earlier at intermediate locations and then have feeder rides.

Walkie Talkies anyone?

sure you guys want to start in Kew this time?
I don't mind but if we start in the East again, same as last time, we could go to the pub before. Don't know many pubs in Kew. It also seems more fun to me to ride the bridges in the west when you are still more awake. But I obviously go with the majority...

Cans on the green...

Nah that is the point, we went east/west last time.

Closer to the time someone will put up a map. Plus where we finished last time in Kew there was a pub on the green. Assemble there from 10 (or earlier) set off for 12.

This is the route we took last timeLook up a few posts..

This is last rides route:
Saturday Night Ride 14th July - The Bridges

We will be meeting up on the other side of the bridge at point 33 (Kew green) then heading back to town.
An easy and quick way to get out there would be to follow the map (backwards) I have just posted.

Have walkie talkies, will bring walkie talkies.

ending in the east end of london? are you mad? they have Rippers there!

....and its past my bedtime.

hmmm.. are we allowed to get on a train to the start? haha.. the ride itself is just about scary for me, but riding from deptford (pretty much where it's supposed to end!) to Kew and back seems way out of my ability hehe..

another deptford-ite! looks like we'll soon be able to rival the west london posse! maybe we should do a southeast start ride ..... at least its a quick ride home ;-)

heh.. I've noticed a lot of fixies around deptford.. last week I was buying food at the indian take away and the guy queueing in front of me also rode a fixed wheel..

i know jefefelipe is deptford - same street as me....

yup, just found your posts on another thread.. I'm in deptford strand and this other guy was somewhere on plough way. There's also someone on ebay selling a pair of powergrips who rides a fixie and lives in SE8. He also said he's on here, but I don't know his username.. West London posse? pfff.. there's more of us in SE8 alone! :P

jv is new cross - bought my steamroller...i think he tried powergrips

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We are not doing the Rotherhithe tunnel: no one likes it apparently (see first bridges thread)
We will go through the Greenwich FT South-North then the Woolwich FT North-South which lines us up for a nice ride back to the finish: Observatory Park (Greenwich hill).

im in se4....not far from deptford bridge:)

? deptford bridge, what is that?

hear hear on the rotherhithe tunnel - its shit!!! prob not as bad at that time of night tho... i think the idea of doing both foot tunnels is very cool......100 stairs at each end of both tho!

the se posse grows....

That is part of the fun, this is not a weekend ride in the country :D

Yeah the Rotherhithe is shit, bad air from all the trapped exhausts, single lane, fast traffic - Lets do the Blackwall tunnel as well.

I rode through the Blackwall tunnel once by accident when I first came to London - Harrowing.

And I had to climb up a motorway embankment when I got to the South side.