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Just got an email from TfL about the Elephant to CP Quiet Way
Comments to Lambeth Council

Odd one as I am reasonably local and I can't work out why they would route cyclists up (or down) narrow/busy Gypsy Hil) rather than the already (wide and) quiet College Rd to CP. Not being as masochistic as some of you, I know what I'd rather go up

Perhaps the feudal landlord that is the Dulwich Estate will have none of it

Just got a thing through from CTC in which they are plugging the Stay Awesome T shirts...
Pre-ordering closes tonight but it seems a fiver from each sale will go to the Cyclists Defence Fund

Not afiliated to the makers, though am in the CTC
Linky...
http://road.cc/content/news/170186-stay-awesome-tees-last-chance-pre-order

That's another wee bugbear of mine...
Superhighways going in to get rider levels up... But finding somewhere to lock your steed is no easier when you get there

Clearly, motorists rage is making life for the cyclist more dangerous.
I can't help thinking that their rage is being exacerbated by the measures designed to keep cyclists safe: segregation reduces road space for the "entitled" and so when there's no segregation, the cyclist is the focus of each moment of their delay and thus of their anger, or simply much more vulnerable to the angry/distracted/delayed/those feeling "deprived" of time or road space

On a 64 Condor. Struggle below 62. Tallish. fattish, and not too bendy...

Good luck with the sale. It's stunning

Make sure the bead of the tire on the side you seat first is central around the rim of the wheel rather than to it's edge. This gives you a tad more slack on the final quarter of the "near" side. I've found tyre levers less effective than bloody strong thumbs...

And when you've done I have a Schwalbe marathon tire onto a Brompton wheel you can do;)

So many short people with nice bikes for sale

Why use a crossing when you have a baby as a human shield from big red buses and 40 tonne pantechnicons?

Cornelius
Poss to do with Hammersmith Bridge shut (southbound tho)

Positive vibes being sent your way.

I've seen someone taking photos in that area before...

There's certinaly a drop-in session on both Wednesday and Thursday mornings for "over 40s and Ladies". Meant to be the basics etc but Weds has got quicker so the Thursday has been added.
9am at HHV

And....Tube-commuter-zombie-apocalypse

A pedant writes....
It was Rowntrees, now Nestle, making the choccy orange in York

Sugar Puff smell in west London (Southall way). And bad chemical paint over by the Lea Crossing/ Canary Wharf

I had a Fratello frame that I bought off Fleabay. It was at BonVelo in HH when the water main burst so once the insurance was sorted, I got a new replacement. Will dig out a pic

Surely the revolution would be changing the law to be more Dutch. Ergo, unless provable otherwise, the accident was the drivers fault. Might reduce the need for segregated lanes, be far cheaper, and may focus driving habits. But perhaps not

Presteigne... We came up through Monmouth single track road all the way to the Neals Yard dairy at Dorstone. Turned right, Eardisley, Kington, Titley, Rodd and into Presteigne. Then follow the sign for the cemetary!
Then
Bedstone, Kempton, Totterton and on up The Bog

Very quiet roads but some steep stuff (and I tend to avoid that - I was on a Moulton and they do hills as poorly as me!)

Further up, we did
Gars tang, Lancaster canal, Silverdale, Milnthorpe, Ambleside, Grasmere, back of Thirlmere, B5322 then over Mungrisdale to Hesket as a day
Hesket, Carlise, Gretna, Langholm, Innerleithen as a day
Innerleithen - Perth
Inverness
Brora (via Nidd bay ferry)
However, getting to Garstang from a night near Malpas wars a bit grim via Warrington, Orrell and Preston and being Lancahire, it rained

Good luck - I enjoyed the planning a load as well as the ride

One of the Sky Jags tore past me on the Autoroute today near Reims.
It was black and blue, not a sign of the yellow.
Like everyone else, I passed the Bora team (bus)

Impressed you got your 6 month old bodyboarding

That's the one over the Moorfoots. Stunning road and decent surface too!

There's a weird buddhist centre in the middle of nowhere but oddly enough has a caff doing really good cake!

Someone on here asked yesterday if Froome was sick going up the Alpe yesterday... looked like he has a fair old cough on him at the mo - several times he was hacking one up

owl
I put this in the Rides/Routes thread too in case you miss it...

If you're aiming for a hill or two on your LEJoG, Presteigne and The Bog should be in there somewhere... Shropshire/Welsh borders way

And Carlisle to Edinburgh is lovely over the Moorfoot hills.

Aim for Hesket Newmarket in the northern Lakes... Stunning pub/library/internet caff/postoffice/ brewery in the middle of the village (and next to a decent B&B!)

I did A9 to Helmsdale and then northwest over the Strath, 37 miles of nothing. Stunning cycling but for cattle grids. Think it's on your map above - N/S road just west of JoG

Oh, and if I have one regret from my ride, it's not detouring to Lizard/Dounreay points to cover North and South, as well as west. I grew up near Lowestoft so have no desire to cycle there again!

When Porte lead them into Dutch Corner yesterday I think he deliberately put a couple of wiggles on to make the crowd step back a bit

owl
If you're aiming for a hill or two on your LEJoG, Presteigne and The Bog should be in there somewhere... Shropshire/Welsh borders way

And Carlisle to Edinburgh is lovely over the Moorfoot hills.

Aim for Hesket Newmarket in the northern Lakes... Stunning pub/library/internet caff/postoffice/ brewery in the middle of the village (and next to a decent B&B!)

I did A9 to Helmsdale and then northwest over the Strath, 37 miles of nothing. Stunning cycling but for cattle grids. Think it's on your map above - N/S road just west of JoG

I will watch football and get some of the tribalism in that but spitting at anyone is low. Spitting at someone pedalling their lungs out up a mountainside is beyond me. It can't be "team" loyalty as teams change regularly. Can it be "rival rider" loyalty? Nationalism? Or contempt for (believed) doping ? - which given things like the Astana DS is a bloody joke.

Sorry, beyond me...