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'Hell of the Ashdown Forest' cyclosportive ride.
A 100km and 50km option the 100km having approx 2000m of climbing.

I was marshalling the outgoing riders just South of Four Elms, after the last outgoing rider went past I shot off to take some other pics at Ide Hill and Star Hill.

Here are my favourites from the set;Hell of the Ashdown set any names to faces let me know and I'll add them.

This because it shows best the gradient of Star Hill

This one because her smile really makes the photo

and this because you can just see why most riders are looking to their right, the view over Bough Beech reservoir.

No good it was all slobberry, I had to reclean it with this one
NSFW: Screen cleaner

My screen is getting a bit thin I think I'm wearing it out though ;)

Anyone riding the H of Ashdown, I'll be a marshall down near Bough Beech see you there

TheBrick(Tommy) Hell of Ashdown looks good. I have already promised myself to the night ride so sunday is out but I may do the 50 km ride on saturday together with the 15 mile to the ride and 15 miles back should make a good bit of training.

Anyone fancy doing the

Invicta 400k

Chiddingstone Causeway 403 km 17th May 2008

with me?

send me your entries
gwan, gwan, gwan you know you want to :)

Brooklyn Jack Crank Every time someone converts a beautiful classic road frame a fucking puppy dies and three angels beat the shit out of a child.

"such is life"

I just need a fork, I have a couple of 700c forks in the shed just have to see if they upset the geometry too much :)

BringMeMyFix Calshot's not for the feint-hearted :O

(closest thing to a wall of death you're ever likely to ride on)

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Like that :) you can actually ride the bank horizontally it's great fun.

I have just aquired a 50s Claud Butler 531 frame from a friend, it's handy being a lanky bast**d with short friends :-D :-D

This will be built up to replace my Raleigh that just broke recently :-)

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Eno or a magic gear here for magic gear

Fixie FAQs

Any of you doing the Catford Hell of the Ashdown, I shall be helping at the start and a control somewhere so |'ll see you there.

There are also a few other reliability rides in the area most weekends worth a look

January 13 2008
West Kent Road Club
Horton Kirby Cricket Club, Franks Lane, Horton Kirby, Kent.
85km starting from 09:00 and 45km starting from 10:00
Note: the HQ will close at 14:30 as there is another event at the venue that afternoon.
£5.00 entry on day

January 20 2008
CC Bexley
Horton Kirby Cricket Club, Franks Lane, Horton Kirby, Kent.
100km and 50km starting from 08:30

January 27 2008
Catford CC
Knockholt Village Hall, Knockholt, Kent
10km ("Hell of the Ashdown") and 50km ("Devil's deTour") starting from 09:00hrs
Route: http://tinyurl.com/ysyotq
£8 in advance; £10 on the day

February 3 2007
VTTA (Veterans Time Trials Association)
Bethersden Village Hall, Bethersden, Kent. (near Ashford)
50mls and 33mls starting from 09.00hrs

February 10 2008
Old Portlians CC
Halstead Village Hall, Halstead, Kent
100k starting from 09:00hrs and 68k starting from 09.30hrs

February 17 2008
Sydenham Wheelers
Knockholt Village Hall, Knockholt, Kent
110k and 70k starting from 09:00hrs

I couldn't find the prices for most of the events, but based on previous years they are likely to be around £5.
Tea/coffee/cakes etc available at the HQs.

That looks like a threadless BB that was used to replace the original push fit one, aswell as my 69 steel lugged Lambert I have a later 70's Aerospace lugless one with deathfork just before they were bought out by Viscount.
The BB on that takes the cartridge bearings shown in an above link and is held in with circlips, apparently these had a tendency to fail at the circlip groove hence the replacement type.

Google Francis Thurmer of 'Hard to Find cycle parts' he does a BB that is basically a tube that tightens up on itself and works for threadless or damaged thread BBs

Lifted from ACF reg number :)

It was wet, there was a select band there, but I am heartily sick of seeing taxi drivers deliberately drive into cyclists. This one, K922LMP, had previously collided with a chap who caught up with him on Waterloo Bridge. There was a full and frank exchange of views as the taxi was hemmed in by cyclists, but after the taxi drove off again, within 100 yards he quite deliberately drove into a cyclist while travelling at some speed (20ish mph). The cyclist was knocked sideways, but didn't fall off, and the taxi sped down the underpass at Lancaster Place and that was the last I saw of him. Maniacs like that should never be allowed to operate anything more dangerous than a sewing machine.

ps Happy New Year

You should have gone as we left the start it stopped raining and with all the buildings up there you don't notice the wind.

The groups got split as one lot stopped on the bridge as a cab ran into someone but nobody hurt, we got back together down Oxford street :)

A few fixies up there, one I have seen on here black frame green rear wheel and short flat bars but didn't get the chance to say hello and a guy on a yellow frame, imagine velocity boys Bob Jackson after a hard life ;)

We turned off before the finish for beer and pancakes.

Came across this elsewhere a lost of bike jumbles
http://www.bikejumbles.co.uk/

or the more of a cheap seconds than jumble Cyclepromotions

One less bike
:-( R.I.P my Raleigh :-(

I was on my way to the Boxing Day ride at Waterloo when a seat stay snapped at the seat tube weld, I turned to nurse it home and with 3 miles to go the other one snapped and the back end dropped and the chainstay cracked aswell ::)

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no it's not a flying gate frame :-)
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aidan [quote]Fixedwheelnut finally showing signs of improvement :)

thats great news.....im sure im not the only one who hopes the improvements continue..[/quote]

She is home for christmas

still not back to normal but good enough to care for at home

Merry Christmas all of ya
Farting Elves

Just looked at the pics :) sorry I missed it, my youngest seems to have a thing for me not going on LFGSS rides she has been in Hospital last three weeks, a different one each week finally showing signs of improvement though, see ya on the next one :)

I went for a Canon A570is in the end, Park Cameras seemed to be the cheapest deal :)

Spotted a couple of fixies this morning whilst walking from Waterloo station to St Thomas's Hosp,;

A white Bianchi approx 9.30 shortly followed by a black Dolan and locked up outside the Evelina Hospital was a plain purple Colnago with Chrome forks and yellow taped bullhorns, anyone on here?

Old Cyclo chaintugs found at bike jumbles for a couple of quid a pair or a fekkin fortune on E-Bay

eggpie

seperated at birth :D

A friend and my brother-in-law both have the Canon 400D and I have used it at my nieces christening for them it is an excellent user friendly camera, unfortuneately out of my price range.

I have been borrowing cameras since mine packed up the day before the TDF and I'm looking at a compact replacement with this in mind Panasonic DMC-FX10 what are the experts opinion on that??

Charlotte is a good strong rider just did PBP earlier this year but on gears not fixed, she rode a 200km Audax with me on her fixed once, BBill might remember her from that one he was on the same ride :)
She has a new Mercian fixed it's a beaut'

Mr Beaver Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJm1eVCiv50