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Which bit of London will you be starting from?

Your choice will probably boil down to longer and flatter (via Hampton Court / Guildford) or direct but hilly (via Peaslake).

Business rates are a charge for a service, not a tax. If the property is empty, fewer services are being used, so the rates are lower.

I'm not disputing that owners of vacant properties should be taxed - but it would be better implemented as a land value tax, because it's less regressive.

This week wasn't a valid hills - didn't meet the minimum criteria (canonbie, photo, pub).

Still fun, though. 43.2mph max speed. Wheeeeee.

We are by the stands.

Can I suggest we meet at HHV as normal this week to avoid confusion?

It's going to be very touch and go for me. Fingers crossed.

The ditchling devil was great. So much cake.

I'm not sure how they manage to always get good weather.

Depending on which but of Waterloo you are starting at, I'd do Roupell St/Meymott St, or Upper Ground, to join the NS superhighway, then the EW superhighway.

Waterloo bridge is best avoided because of the lights at PS. Blackfriars or Southwark bridges are better options.

Hurrah.

Any idea of ETA back into London tonight?

If the weather is good I might be able to escape for this. Good knows I need a day off.

I've changed my mind. Looks crap outside.

:-(

I'll be there this evening. Rain or no rain.

(The amount of rain should decrease, too.)

My eldest is 6. If we ride to the park and back from the park and do the boring bit of path near the nearest gate, its not really a great day out for anyone.

Cargo bike? Trailler? Trail-gator?

It's pretty mad that we accept pollution and rat-running to make life easier for parents. Especially as the main beneficiaries (by volume) aren't actually parents but instead perfectly fit and healthy non-parents who could cycle or walk but prefer to save five minutes.

Being a parent of young children is only 6-10 years of your life, whatabout the other 60 years when you could be enjoying a low traffic, low polution park?

(I'm the parent of a 3 year old, fwiw, so I know how annoying and exhausting moving children around is.)

I appreciated the group's route flexibility tonight. It still counted IMO

Smallest valid hills is Canonbie, Pub - did you meet that criteria?

I'm only sorry I can't be with you.

Back to normal next week I hope.

Done as well.

Oh,Wandrer is really nice.

Took a while to process the data but it's very fun to look at:

0.021685% Earth complete
You've ridden 6995.9 unique Earth miles (out of 32260997.0 total miles).

Places you've been 10 countries

How about:

"I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else - I've never seen anyone else drive as badly as my boyfriend before."

I had my rear derailleur stolen. The buggers will take anything that's not locked up.

Look out for me and @Ruserius at the 7:30 start then!

Ti Kinesis for me, don't know what Graham is riding.

I'm probably going to need some sleep so nice to have the adjusted track. Less potential to get it wrong.

What's your start time?

WCW next weekend. There's an annotated route sheet here, courtesy of Nick: https://www.camaudax.uk/rides/lel/wcw/2019/

Are those Instagram shots satire? Or does everything on Instagram look like that?

Good day for Hugh Carthy. Don't hear much about him.

Since he's from Preston he'll probably win the next GT that happens to coincide with three weeks of freezing rain.

The fast descent to Orpington was fun and got me home before the doors were locked for the night!

Hmm. My lights have some charge left but I have no idea how much.