Rod_Munch

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• The Flat One with Chips

  in Midweek Evening Rides (TNRC, WNKR) • 3 days, 11 hours

  

  no fun being bedbound for the weekend..

  Who am I kidding, this sounds FUCKING AMAZING right now.

• The Flat One with Chips

  @Rod_Munch started

  Aug 15th Ingatestone Station

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• The Flat One with Chips

  in Midweek Evening Rides (TNRC, WNKR) • 3 days, 19 hours

  

  Darn - you are probably wise though, no fun being bedbound for the weekend..

• The Flat One with Chips

  in Midweek Evening Rides (TNRC, WNKR) • 4 days, 21 hours

  

  The list! I forgot the fucking list!!

  Train wanker:
  1) cgg
  2)
  3)

  Ride out pricks:
  1) Rod_Munch (from an unknown location at an unknown time)
  2) rhowe (probably)
  3) cagimaha
  4)
  5)

• The Flat One with Chips

  in Midweek Evening Rides (TNRC, WNKR) • 6 days, 22 hours

  

  if you must, but I'd prefer you switched to 42x18 TBH

• ThNRC 2019 - But for me, it was Tuesday

  in Midweek Evening Rides (TNRC, WNKR) • 1 week

  

  Wallop - https://www.lfgss.com/events/4973/

• The Flat One with Chips

  in Midweek Evening Rides (TNRC, WNKR) • 1 week

  

  38 pan flat miles up the Rodings and round the Easters. No 'spoons but a nice pub and chip shop at the end (time permitting).

  Liverpool Street 19.18 arrives Ingatestone 19.45

  Return trains 22.02, 22.32, last 23.02. There are also later departures from Shenfield which is just down the road.

  Warning: I can't guarantee Russell won't attend

  https://ridewithgps.com/routes/4943670
  
  

• ThNRC 2019 - But for me, it was Tuesday

  in Midweek Evening Rides (TNRC, WNKR) • 1 week, 1 day

  

  Anyone around/up for Ingatestone this week?

• TNRC Special - Rolling to the Stones 20.06.2019

  in Midweek Evening Rides (TNRC, WNKR) • 1 week, 3 days

  

  HAHAHA these are most excellent.

  Lucky you caught me whilst I was drinking soup with my eyes closed - one second later and I'd have been like..

  

• Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 week, 5 days

  

  Dunno about Brevet specifically but my experience is that Rapha's gloves seem to be their weakest area by some distance (I've had stitching/hole/fit/performance issues with at least 5 different varieties over the years). Admittedly most of them took a bit of a battering but I have a bag of old ones from other manufacturers that all seem tougher and more comfortable somehow... I suspect Rapha just try to make them too 'nice' without really considering that they are gonna get pummeled and filthy.

  List of issues..

  1) 'Winter' gloves that unfathomably mange to be colder than wearing a pair of thin cotton socks on your hands (don't ask how I found this out)
  2) 2x mitts where the palm detached from the rest of the glove
  3) 1x mitts where they stretched so much a gorilla could have worn them
  4) 1x mitts where the fingers are ridiculously tight (same size as the gorilla ones)
  5) Full finger ones where the stitching fell out on 3 fingers and 2 thumbs
  6) Waterproof gloves that leak
  7) Reflective detailing that vanishes after a couple of washes (not exclusive to their gloves, how come others can make this stuff last 'forever' - i.e on my 7 year old, 1000x washed Gabba?)