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Cool, thats good news, thanks Andyp.

I'll dig out the route.

Yes please Hoefla.

I did a 63 mile test-ride yesterday to see if I could escape East Lundun's evil clutches and make it out to the M25 boundary using a mixture of Greenway and 7ven's route. Yey, I did it. Started at '3' (where I live) and and turned around at about '1' o'clock on M25, but via Stratford and the Olympic Park. Slowly beginning to find my way around that area, the Greenway is blocked by some 'works' near the Olympic Park and there were a lot of diversions because of a big event there but I managed to get around it in the end.

Had my packed lunch just off Lea Bridge road in park chilling out watching the world and Cormorants going by, s'nice :)

Duh! The shutters on the Live and Neutral are there to stop the Electricity falling out of the socket when not in use. Wasted electricity all over the carpet is a bad thing and is difficult to hoover up.

I thought eni foole kno that :)

Awesome, thats the sort of help I need, thanks as always Backstop and 7ven.

I 'discovered' the Greenway on Saturday.... having ridden past the Beckton end of it about a zillyun times without taking note (duh!) of it's directness in getting me from (say) North Woolwich to Lea Valley Towpath pretty quick and straightly (new word?).

Tempted to do midweek now that I can, yey! Flipside is I think I can't take a full sized Scobswell on the train back to London during peak hours or such like.

Evenin', I'd like to try Dartford to Cambridge, fixed.

I rode an 82 mile loop last week and survived without blowing up or catching fire so I'm hoping this ridewithgps route isn't hiding anything from me.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/23231191

Idea is to ride to Cambridge, eat some food,drink 1 Beer, catch a train back to Kings Cross then ride back to Dartford after looking out the train window for an hour or so thinking "owwww, my legs ache, maybe I'm too old/fat/daft doing this kind of thing".

Could any of you who've ridden it a few times tell me if there's a flaw in this masterplan, please?!

...or caught on the fence whilst trying to escape?

Scobswell continues to amaze.

He did this yesterday, all 81.2 miles of it, thats a PB for distance for me. Don't worrry, Scobs didn't do it on his own, I had to show him where to go....

In touring mode, note the rack Ed (and a packed lunch in the cool bag), style bonus! :)

I've never ridden this far out West Lunnun before, this is Bulls Bridge I think.

3 amazing things in this picture in order of amayzingness.

1. Scobswell
   
2. The Thames
   
3. A mahoosive white boat
   

Ta, it was really nice to be riding next to the water for so long.

This is what I did yesterday.

Yey! I finally did it, Thursday was a good day to pick.

Propered knackered, did it on Scobswell, Fixed. PB for total distance in 1 day, 81.2 miles all in as its over 30 miles there and back just to the start point for me at Limehouse Basin.

Brilliant. What's the plan for the Dawes? Turning it (him?) into a chair?

After a lot of thought, I'm letting nature give him a cuddle. He's going to 'integrate' with nature via a big Passion Fruit bush at the bottom of the garden. Art innits! My GF approves too.

S'funny but I tried to remove the BB from the Dawes and keep it as a spare, I removed one side and a load of rusty water came out, our-Ed was right... its rusting from the inside, yucky.

Hee hee, we nobly resisted the urge to 'tear da roof off duh suckha...' being gentlemen cyclists in our 50's.

Scobswell went out with a new mate today, he's now 'besties' with Freddie Falcon.

Remember that work mate I took out for a little ride a few weeks back? Well, he reckoned he was up for another ride this weekend after he's borrowed a bike from mate that he says is much more comfortable for him, a Falcon off the peg SS'er. I suggested aiming for Parliament Square cos both of us are Parliament/George Clinton fans, arf.

He did great, we rode this...

and made it with ease...

Good fun ride out.

Doh, sorry for broken linky, I don't know whats going on there. Photochucket seems to be be having a funny turn at the moment, I'll see if I can amend.

Re - Sources. A laptop and quality DAC make for a handy trouble free source when you've managed cram 6 PSU's, a 2 man-lift power amp and set of gigantic speakers into the back of a borrowed car! Over the last 11 years of going these types of get togethers I've used LP, Laptop, SB Touch and CD. Sometimes it depends on what others are bringing to a 'compare and contrast session' and other times physically what we can fit in the car.

FWIW, for LP/vinyl playback I use a SL1210 and a 60's Lenco at home in addition to a Vortexbox running Logitech Media Server to 2 SB Touch's, 3 SB Radios and Rasp Pi with a HiFiberry piggy back class D amp and DAC.

Variety innit's.

Wha?! :)

Click the link below to see it in action! I was pleased it didn't catch fire...so I did a happy dance .... :)
http://s195.photobucket.com/user/davethebass1/media/CIMG0090_zpsbcc7ba2f.mp4.html

Yey! I've just spent last Saturday and Sunday with him and a good few other tweakers up in Yorkshire listening to various DIY HiFi stuff we and he'd made for the occasion.

http://simonsnewadventuresinhifi.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/audio-meet-owston-10th-june-2017.html

Hence the reason I didn't get out Scobswell last weekend.

Alan?

Excellent, ta Backstop. Glad to hear a midweek is 'do-able', my current employ finishes in 4 and a bit weeks time and I'm free n easy until the next 'career-opportunity' comes up.

I tried the loop last Saturday, started off OK at Limehouse but boy-o-boy did it get busy coming up to Camden, got about a 1/4 of the way round, liked it (apart from the amount of other folk thoroughly enjoying the scenery and the weather). I made a mistake trying it on a sunny Saturday didn't I?!

I'll try it again though but this time on a weekday.

I tried to do that Regents Canal loop that got posted in the rides section here on LFGSS today but had to abort at Camden as it was sooooooooo busy, the world and their brother n sisters (plus Jonty and Jemimah and their dog 'Trixy-Bellend') were out enjoying the towpath too, meh. I picked a bad day. I'll try again when they're all back at work and I'm not.

So I just took Scob's for a zig-zag wanderer trek in the end, lovely weather for just peddling and enjoying it. 60.6 miles in all,not bad for me.

RoboPoo.

Its worse than pidjjun poo so says a bloke down the pub!

Nah, they're not in Dartford yet as far as I know, the 3 I saw on Sunday were 2 up by The Cut and the other one in Lewisham.

I think other robots come and poo on your bonnet if you mess with one of 'theirs' :)

I took Scobswell back to London for this weekends fun run.

He enjoyed looking at London's famous flamable sinking buses whilst the pilot enjoyed a Ice Lolly at Lambeth Pier...

...and on the way back home we saw 3 of them 6 wheeler takeaway robots, it was like living in the future!

Lovely 51.6 miles of fixed-fun. Awethumne (still).

I'm out of work in 5 weeks time so I'm hoping the weather will be dry and lovely then. I'll be doing the loop on Scobswell, he's fixed and wears 700/32 Gatorskins.

That sounds super, thanks Mespilus.

Thanks for posting that route. I'm very tempted to have a go at this but I can't do it this Tuesday, meh.
Does anyone know if there's any cafes or such along the route around the halfway mark? I'm going to have the munchies by that time as I've got to factor in the 17 miles just to get to the start point at Limehouse Basin as I'm out in Dartford.