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Serk. Last night.
Tooting.

Hey! I wondered who that was. I remember thinking, "he was a pretty big guy so maybe Gav86?"

I did slow down to see if you were turning right but you went straight so I let you go. I was on my way home and hadn't had to unclip at that point. I thought perhaps the dream of a sub 1-hour Epsom-Peckham commute with no unclips would come true, but Camberwell struck again.

Had Thames Water investigating the sewers at home.

Dude, you should have called me. I love sewers.

Shit, I thought Loic was just this mild mannered French gentle giant who's into classic French and English period bikes, wears a cape and smokes a pipe. But obviously he has another life.

This is what I thought for a long time, had no idea Loic liked trix.

HA! Do you think our Loic could have been beaten up by a bunch of hambushers? No chance.

hehehe.

That's the Alwyne isn't it? I was there Saturday and thought the same thing!

I'm out The guests are stayig for the weekend instead of going to Paris. Y'all have a great ride!

I'll be doing it fixed. I'll shoot for 8.31 from Victoria as well. Mike, I'm all about some group save, but again it is a little bit unclear if I'll be doing tourist stuff with the Americans or taking in scenery with you guys.

I've been planning on doing this since I saw it on the TNRC thread. I don't know if I'll pull it off though as we've got Americans visiting and they'll want to do stuff on the weekend. If I can get free I'll be there. I've only done Surrey Hills route once, with Whitedown in the opposite direction, so this should be interesting!

I just realized I'm in America for two weeks in March so I'll miss the first TNRC. Booo

...plant yourself firmly in the saddle, engage your glutes, firmly grasp the hoods or tops, drop your elbows, and power up the motherfucker...

I tried this all the way home last night, and I never really got engaged the way you described. Perhaps I need to spend the day engaging my glutes while sitting in front of the computer.

Terribly sad news Gerald, very sorry for your loss. Let us know if you need anything.

I find all the downhills tricky in the dark.

It's almost TNRC season. Time to change that name to Night-Moe.

I find the dash down the back stretch of the WGC route difficult. Add to that the fact that you have to go down that hill just to ride back up it to the station and it makes for a very drawn out finish.

@ serk
Nothing's that tough ; )

And, according to BMMF, Surrey isn't tougher than any other route.

I'm beginning to think I understand it all now. Everything.

There's also the Cheam & Morden Hilly 50 on Saturday, mentioned a few times before. Sort of a Surrey Hills TNRC but in the oposite direction. I'm 70/30 about going, someone's leaving work on Friday and there's going to be a massive piss up.

http://cheamandmordenhilly50.blogspot.com/

Hrmmm, I could be up for this. Would it be fairly comparable to the 5-hills in difficulty?

This Friday marks the return of the Payday Pint down Peckham way. Shame I can't be in attendance.

I'm out this Friday. I'll be in Manchester. I will do a few, "We love you Manchester, Goooood Niiiight!" in your honor though.

El Guapo this morning on the north side of Waterloo Bridge. Traffic was a bit too wild to have a chat unfortunately.

And last week, OldSkoolRacer at work, where he'll soon be working and most likely making the shower queues even longer... Bittersweet :)

Great seeing everyone last night! Lovely people at Souths, I should stop by more.

Would love to but would have to get a taxi there and back which would make it an expensive exercise

Are you coming tonight Dammit? This post confused my face off.

...No worries. For people who hadn't ridden them, you all did an exceptional job. Hope Friday managed to find the Downs (with a few Ups no doubt)

Thanks Shoots! It was a great morning out (I think we got lucky with the weather). Nice to meet Gav and great riding with the rest of you. Bring on the TNRC!

Ahhh, I see, "*The OPLC says it will be able to fund the revised scheme and deliver it by June 2013" *

I must admit, I don't know anything about it so the letter above didn't make much sense to me.

Australian Senator Discusses Oil Spill Video

That's the best thing I've ever seen. I wish more engineering failure reviews were done in this style.

"One in a million"

Awesome. I'm out of town on the 26th so I'll need to get someone sat in front of a computer for me!

Wait, what's not good about the OPLC scheme? I'm afraid the ship may have sailed on the EUG getting a wishlist into the proposed legacy layout...

1. MA3K
   
2. Buckaroo (birth of first child permitting)
   
3. Fox (no surprise births permitting)
   
4. Sumo
   
5. Fieldcoil
   
6. ian (conker) [as long as I don't suddenly get a bun in the oven]
   
7. xanderh
   
8. laner
   
9. ftony for his whopping SECOND forum ride ever
   
10. Kirth
    
11. TheorySwine
    
12. Cafewanda
    
13. Spudger
    
14. Nigel182
    
15. JAH East
    
16. KUBAA
    
17. dimi3
    
18. ziska
    
19. somebody
    
20. louis ∆
    
21. Ark Minor
    
22. Toby
    
23. John H
    
24. Jar
    
25. Warpaint
    
26. braker
    
27. fabjodo
    
28. judgie
    
29. playswellwithotters
    
30. Robert
    
31. heavisides
    
32. sherbertflyingsaucer
    
33. imp
    
34. tommy
    
35. edmundro
    
36. bodieanddoyle
    
37. Mrs b&d
    
38. Yoshka
    
39. Extra Forte
    
40. Jogger
    
41. Skiver
    
42. Loafheads
    
43. Gav86
    
44. Dispoable
    
45. Crispin Glover (birth of massive log permitting)
    
46. Osh
    
47. Fade
    
48. BlueQuinn
    
49. Tanya G
    
50. dox17
    
51. C-bass
    
52. the-same-sky
    
53. Ramaye
    
54. d^_^b
    
55. lardboy
    
56. LittleHeather
    
57. upstart
    
58. dbr
    
59. Winge
    
60. TimHawkins
    
61. Baldock
    
62. JonoMarshall
    
63. RubyTuesday (21wk bump permitting)
    
64. betty
    
65. Eyko Sioux (newcomer here)
    
66. Salsamander (this should be fun)
    
67. Rakooga
    
68. Skydancer
    
69. rocksteady
    
70. wools
    
71. yeh731
    
72. OldSkoolRacer
    
73. Rad Michello
    
74. yasi
    
75. Dumps
    
76. crgshpprd (newcomer)
    
77. drew87
    
78. polowannabe
    
79. EEI (but only if manage to get up, as I'll be landing at Stanstead around midnight )
    
80. Ware
    
81. mortari (n00b)
    
82. Alex H.
    
83. Pad Bek
    
84. Billybob
    
85. katie-coo
    
86. arnidom
    
87. Roymund
    
88. Sorethroat
    
89. J0nathan
    
90. Penkaa
    
91. DoubtfulAce
    
92. BermondseyBill
    
93. Bob Fixe
    
94. Wicksie
    
95. Mrs. Wicksie
    
96. atticus
    
97. crimsonape
    
98. nelaii - possibly with a non forum friend if that's ok
    
99. spybot
    
100. Farmer
     
101. Tiff...this would be my first forum ride...ooh scary
     
102. Cedy first forum ridefor me too, and post birthday ride!
     
103. Lauren Amelia - first forum ride for me too
     
104. Jude
     
105. Rudall
     
106. jamestz - another first ride! cant wait.
     
107. Tommy Mac
     
108. GentlemanBear (long time member, first time rider...)
     
109. Els - first ride too!
     
110. stu pot
     
111. jcgarcia
     
     

I'm out - so I've bumped betty up to 64. Enjoy y'all!

+1 to all of the above. I go through it twice a day and have been honked/shouted at several times for forcing drivers to slow down and wait on the run up to the junction. If you're not out and in the correct lane at the start then you'll be desperately trying to cross lanes of traffic to get where you're going.

Currently they're doing road works on London Road in front of the Bakerloo entrance (bus route). I've seen several people (myself included yesterday) cycling the wrong way up against the roadworks barriers and into oncoming traffic in the last two days.

It can get quite hairy.