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I Had such a great time.
Had to cycle back from Victoria and by the time I got to Golders Green I seemed to hit some sort of wall. I was unable to go any further until I had a mars bar and some lucozade. It was also raining kind of freezing hailstones on me at that point too.

Eighty miles in all and 4 pints. I have a feeling I will be a little sore tomorrow.

Great to meet you all

lol. I am on my way to Evans spitalfields in the next 10 minutes or so

Hi Horatio,

Try and make it to the Brighton tomorrow. Even if you can't change the sprocket you have an excuse to push it up the hill as, from what I have heard, sounds like it will be almost impossible on 48:16.

Perfect excuse!

Pop Tarts are dangerous.
My friend almost burned down his parents house with one when he was younger.
A flaming pop tart flew out of the toaster, hit the curtains and set them ablaze!

You can also hospitalize yourself from third degree burns to the mouth if you are stupid enough to eat them straight from the toaster.

Lethal things!

You are not wrong Lebowski.
The only reason I came in was because my best waterproof jacket and my favourite cycling top were left here from the other day and judging by the weather I will probably need them. May slope off early

you lot are useless ;P

Us North Londoners are just too cool to get it together and organize things

Sounds good.

I have developed a cold over the last three days. I am sitting here eating the biggest bowl of fruit ever. I have drunk cider vinegar, honey, lemon, neurofen. You name it I am taking it. I think I have the better of it now as I am back at work and am 95% confident I will be fit for tomorrow. I will be major pissed off if I am not up for it. Can you PM me your number in case I haven't made a full recovery by tomorrow morning. I will phone you at about 7 if I can't come. If not and more likely I will see you at 7.15

i agree that the flask is a staggeringly good pub, but it's out the way for most and the climb might put some off.

If you go straight up Highgate Hill its not too bad. And think of the thirst and sense of reward when you get to the pub

mongrel, the woodman is ideal for me. Lets say 7.15 - 7.30 depending on how fast you want to cycle to west end?

Mongrel,

Do you want to meet up somewhere North and ride down to Hyde Park together?

That doesn't look great.
But they aren't always right so fingers crossed

Lets hope the weather is like that shot too.
Anyone have a link to a reliable forecast. The bbc is pretty much wrong 90% of the time

I agree, the flask is perfect. Lovely beer garden, completely safe for bikes. And downhill all the way home for most people

The idea of the Flask at the top of Highgate West Hill has also been touted up a couple of times. Then you'd have to earn your beer through 2 mins of sweat and pain ;o)

camden is one spot i'm 110% aware and actually take it easy, too many stupid peds walking everywhere.

Yep totally agree. Cycling in London requires different attitudes/styles in different towns.
You need to be able to alternate depending on where you are and not just road conditions and time of day.

Whats the deal with this. Where can I get tickets/more info etc?

This looks great I am in for this

I bet they just threw the bike in the canal afterwards. I used to see these little bastards do this shit all the time when I lived round there.

That looks like a nice route.

From Wikipedia: "Close to Ditchling Beacon is a small spur known as Blackdog Hill, which is reputedly haunted by a headless black dog."

Night ride, perhaps?

I wanna see the headless black dog. Lets make sure we include this hill en-route

Great idea. I have had similar thoughts for a while now.
'The survivalists guide to London Cycling' or something.
Don't use cycle lanes ( mostly )
Never undertake lorries.
Use the wing mirrors of cars to look at the driver.
Use (clean) cars in front as mirrors......

Im sure we could get something really good going

Glad I found this thread as I was about to start a new one about these idiots.
Forget bendy buses being the danger on our road. These guys are the real deal when it comes to reckless endangerment of cyclists. I don't know where they have come from, or what skills you need to be one of these retards. Suffice to say, one of them is now driving around with a rather large dent in his passenger side door. Coming up to Old Street round about from City Road this morning. I take a left at the roundabout but stay in the outside lane cos I need to take the right down singer street to get to my work. Anyway, Its pouring with rain ( what is it about rain that makes people unable to drive?), there is a bus on my in inside. Hes on my right. But he is pulling straight into my lane literally squashing me between him and the bus. If I hadn't given him an almighty kick ( I was going fairly quickly 15mph+) I would have been pushed under the buses wheels for sure.

I have read previous threads about adrenalin and rage, obviously I was angry, more scared actually as anger and fear are almost physiologically identical. But I decided to keep going after a few choice words of stay in your lane you fucking cunt. Are you fucking blind etc etc.

Just to repeat these guys are CUNTS. Stay well clear of them

Yes very true.

I was having this conversation with my friends in the pub on Saturday night. The efforts of our cyclists really shows up the footballers for what they are. Don't get me wrong. I love football, but most of the players nowadays are just a bunch of overpaid prima-donnas who wouldn't recognize real effort and achievement if it slapped them in the face.

And yes. The media in this country do seem to prefer it when we loose.

How about the disused railway track which leads from Frinsbury park to Highgate via some old disused stations. Dont know if this is accessible at night but having loads of us bombing it up that track would be a great laugh. Weather permitting

Hi Object you seemed to have removed some of us. Or do you know something we dont? ;)

I am also wondering about gearing. I am more used to riding 48:17. I have been riding 48:18 the last couple of weeks getting used to a low gear for the hill. But I don't like it as much. I seemed better suited to the slightly higher gear. So I guess it is a trade-off between whether I want to get up the hill with relative ease, but be spinning a bit higher than I would like. Or go with my preferred gear and 'struggle'? up this hill. I mean how hard is this hill anyway?

Add me to this. Really want to compete but have never been anywhere near a track

doing induction the saturday before
1 Chris Crash
2 Skullhead
3.Splatbucket
4.aido
5.Cornelius Blackfoot (if I haven't done the induction in the weeks previously)
6.flickwg, but i doubt i'll get my arse to hern hill that early in the morning

1. Object, provided I look at my diary and don't suffer froma an attack of apathy.
   
2. lappiesza (whatever happens)
   
3. runtime
   
4. mikec