What was the greatest ride?

We did a ride maybe 6 moths or so after that incident where we planned to bypass Gatwick. It started pissing down before we'd even reached Croydon, and, as everyone was soaked and freezing, we decided to end the ride at Gatwick and train it back. While we were hanging around at the back way in, discussing whether we would be allowed in, the police turned up and actually invited us in. They said it was clear what we were up to, and we were welcome to use the facilities.

After a hot drink and a rest, a bunch of us decided that the weather was clearing, and we might as well carry on.

That was the ride with Josh on the travellator that @Chalfie mentioned...
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/163839/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21944846@N00/albums/72157623767705834/

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The Essex or Nuclear Bunker Ride courtesy of @Oliver Schick.

Two more memories of that ride:

Coming across the Cowboy Festival in the middle of the Essex Countryside
The accident in Buckhurst Hill and the man dressed in a chicken suit who got out of their car to help us.

This one, the guy on the deck got a wheel caught in a groove in the road and did his collarbone. The chap in the chicken (donkey?) suit was actually a doctor on his way to a fancy dress - at least that's what he said.

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I've not read it all, but surely the dalston dynamo.

V good

Waifs and Strays, often the best bit of Christmas Day for me.

Freezing cold, warm welcomes on quiet london streets. Lovely way before the food coma to come.

If I had to one, I'd go for the one that didn't happen, the one that never was......

Took my kids out for a Christmas morning ride around central this year.

Such a lovely way to start the day.

Sadly I was late to the party but the my first forum ride was a blast!

https://youtu.be/va0TUtUmv1I?si=g1h0xKbp2fvpZsIU

No mention of Teddys alley cat of sorts?

Any of the Overnight to Brightons, the Lights rides that ended deep into the darkest hours of the night with a salt beef bagel, Camber Sands, a really small one to Cambridge with Fiddy and a lovely ale at the end overlooking Mill Pond, my first DD where I busted my knee and ended it in the passenger seat of a transit van

That’s my photobucket account, I assumed it was long gone, good find

Camber we my first, not sure if we’re talking about the same one but was absolutely scorching and the peloton was struggling, most bailed at Rye for pies and pints at the maybe The Old Bell

It's all coming back to me.

The rider came off as his 19mm tyres, remember them, got caught in a crack in the road.
Yes, it was a horse. Don't remember his claiming to be Dr.

A list of memorable rides from my time on here.

I still have PTSD from the Brighton ride where I have never been so cold and wet

The Cambridge ride where someone made the worlds first folding NJS bike while stacking it.

@Fox 's (?) ride out to Essex and Sizewell (?) and St Peter on the Wall church was just lush.
Edit: Bradwell not Sizewell

And then obviously I'm still waiting for @spotter to do another Midnight City ride

What about the st pauls rides?

Every single TNRC and derivative - that is the true spirit of the forum right there.

Damn right.

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Weirdly the link popped up in my browser autocomplete. Great memories!

Was that the chap that crashed as he was fasting for religious reasons and just blacked out or was that on another Essex ride? I remember he did his collarbone as well.

^^^ what a photo! (screen grab)

Chapeau.

It was!
Being Ramadan he'd not eaten or drunk all day.

Thanks. Rode out from Battersea night before, nearly arrested as police were staking out the course from the bottom of box hill all the way down the back. Had to stash the paint and hide in the bushes twice.

The Essex or Nuclear Bunker Ride courtesy of @Oliver Schick.

'Leaving East London', thread here:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/152284/

I'd go for The Spiral Ride in 2013. Still feel a sense of fulfillment to know that I've visited every London borough by bike. I think it may also have been my first century too. Though as I didn't have a Garmin or whatever in those days, I don't think I knew at the time. 12 years ago, Christ.

London to Shoreham was a good one IIRC, ended in Brighton of course. State of that place!

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Seeing one of those Helly Hansen long sleeves immediately transports you back to the 2010s