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^^ haha ok received loud and clear, it almost sounds like I'm going to need a trailer with full artic expedition kit! I was brought up by hippies in the sticks and never had a house with central heating till I came to London in 1993 age 21 so think I'll survive if I avoid shorts,have a jumper, goretex jacket, back up full finger gloves and some of that reassuringly expensive belgium lager.

^ i was wondering whether to wimp out and bring gears too instead of my singlespeed, (can't tell from the profile how steep those hills are, they don't look long and I'm a bit of a grunter so may be able to HTFU and grind up on my 50:16) Early doors pub option sounds nice and may prove nice opportunity to warm up a bit if its proper cold, and if cider is not considered a local obligatory custom in Avebury\Wlts then this ride just escalated to bloody brilliant status, can't wait now.

oh OK, it does seem hard to believe as its so scorching now, OK then automatic lager cooling by the environment it is then, and bring a jumper too by the sounds of it, cheers chaps.

This looks ace so innity in in, bring on the druids!

Where's the nearest offy that will be open or will I have to cycle there with lagers and have to drink warm ones? ewww. I know it's cider country but I can't handle the stuff and have flashbacks to school days and it just sets off my gag reflex. (sorry too much information!) Unless of course the druids are dosed out of their eyeballs on lsd25 and sharing it out in which case it will be a different sort of experience. Anyway in regardless.

1. skive
   
2. bobbydazzle
   
3. smiff (as long as i am back to full health by then)
   
4. fussballclub
   
5. laner
   
6. 105champ
   
7. Skully
   
8. Stonehedge
   
9. Drop the Druid
   
10. pajamas
    
11. ashleyisdabest
    
12. jedininja
    
13. youramericanpagan
    
14. blue fleet
    

Old tag, Friend street off St Johns Street.

And where is this? Obviously lack of sunshine today hints this was taken earlier in the week, i managed to airbrush over the phone number on the sign in the background but potato-shopping out sunshine is way beyond me.

I think its easy enough but as some of the recent clues have been too cryptic for my addled brain here's a selection of dead easy ones so we can keep it going at a decent pace.

Not far from a Smuf TT route is an arty oasis where it could be said the only house in london with a light resides, you can tell the time by quickly dropping your trousers and get fat Americana style, though Gwyneth remains a rake so I assume she had a buckwheat shake or something.

Jeepers not got stuff to say for all of them or I'll be here all day....but the first two, the bench and chapman clamp tee I have had for nearly 20 years so they are older than some of you young student folk.

Alas not all tees have been so hardy, I have had so many tees I've utterly loved that have'nt survived the test of time, I have lost countless to hot rock/blim burns from the cheech and chong teenage years.

I also hate cheap crappy tees that go all flared at the bottom after 1 or 2 washes. I remember before I moved to London I came on a shopping trip and like a tourist went to Camden Market where I found a tee with a print of the cover of the killing joke batman graphic novel which I loved, I was utterly stoked but 2 washes later it was a flared shrunken tank top but I loved the print so much I kept the tee for years but just didnt wear it.

My favourite one is the office computer scene one as it has that soft focus 70's porn look about it, I can also imagine the forced office laughter and I like the look of the ancient puters. I know nothing about puters really but I think the this tee says otherwise as I have had a number of geeks come up to be and say oh that is an IBM yadda yadda yadda, I rememeber them.... at which point I glaze over or just fess up I've no clue what they're on about.

I also really like the barcode one but would prefer if it was a real barcode that scanned and made the super market machines go beep, preferably my beer of choice so I'm not fumbling around at the self service beeper trying to prevent rogue cans escaping from the plastic holder wrap thing that you are supposed to rip up so ickle badgers, foxes and other wildlife don't get strangulated.

My next fave is the Paul Smith foxy lady pose as it reminds me of the Charlies Angels pose.

You can also have specific purpose tees, I used ot have a FUCT tee that had a name badge on the front that had a name badge print on that said 'hello my name is satan' which I used to wear on Sundays when I lived in North London as it made the conversation with the visiting weekend god squad nice and brief.

whoops last ones didnt work, here's attempt number 2....

and finally....

and here are a few more....

You don't seem to be getting much response and I had some free time this afternoon so here are some of mine for you to get you going a bit..

You will note that I havent bothered ironing them, sorry i don't iron t-shirts, they may not even be clean but if they are any use to you do with them what you wish.

^ thanks, yes its nice to just get get up and head out from your house and see how far you can get. Yes I had lower back ache by the end, and after 241 km my normally comfortable old style leather concor felt to me like a club with a selection of 6 inch nails hammered through it. I wonder if any saddle is comfortable after you've been in it for 12 out of 14 hours, I somehow doubt it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnJk6bkjgko

Maybe i made it sound a bit dramatic, it was'nt one of those 'i'm going camping round europe with tent and billy cans dangling off the back' type ruksak but a big cycling deuter one. I am still pretty new to long distance road riding so have a tendancy to carry way too much stuff. I did get better at it, with no support car I sent parcels ahead using Royal Mail ahead of my Wales to Bristol and Bristol to London runs and that worked well.

all that was going through my mind (apart from gnats at 70kph) going down was how glad i was not to be going the other way. Shuttlebus to the top for thecycle back down I say.

BTW what is thisLondon to Broadway ride you speak of? I have UTFS but all it brings up is riders down in broadway market.

Fortnight ago did my personal distance best with a 241km ride from Vauxhall to Bridgenorth with heavy ruksak, ran out of light and legs after 12 hours of cycling, pretty pleased but bit gutted I did'nt make it all the way to my folks but that's about 200 miles.Highlight descending Fish Hill in Cotswolds, fast European style hairpins and big long run off.

Did 197km from folks in Adfa mid Wales to Bristol last Thursday ace ride, wind assisted 7hrs 45 ride time. Aimed to cycle back from Bristol to London yesterday, the shortest of the 3 distances, but was into a hefty head wind all day and by Newbury the fun of the ride had been replaced by suffering so I bailed and jumped on train back to London. Headwind apart a fantastic fews weeks of weather for cycling, sunshine galore, though 10 days in Wales in Apil/May and no rain?!...it's just not right. Also the level of roadkill I witnessed was staggering. On one 15 mile stretch whilst in Wales I saw 3 dead badgers, a fox, a canada goose, a squirrel, a dried out crusty frog, a pigeon, 3 rabbits and 2 birds too flattened to be recognised, be careful out there wildlife! All I could think of was what it would be like cycling along and hitting/being hit by a canada goose, in the scenarios i ran through it did'nt end well for either party.

Tried that this morning. Failed. Wood Street was my first guess though - at least I wasn't miles off.

Dagnamit! So close, I was in the right neck of the woods after all, it's a wonder I have'nt be run over to death as I don't even spot tags when cycling right past them. books eye test immediately

Good work getitng that Oli, that was beginning to bug and there's been a flurry of activity since, tagging back on

please somebody who knows it tag this, with all the wood hints i thought it was going to be on wood street by london wall but i went there and it was'nt, or at least not that I saw.

I've no idea and the clues are not obvious enough for thickies like me, please take it to the next level of obviousness, if thats possible.

I'm in for this but definately on gears if the likes of the col de canobie are in the route, i'd never get up there on my 50-16 without it sounding like I was in a grunt-off with Maria Sharapova and it's a family ride by the sounds so would'nt want to scare the children.

fishies

haha well done John, glad you did'nt attempt tagging after our drunken train journey on Sunday, it looks like two different bikes, hmmmmm fishy indeed...

just got in in from this ride as part of the last 4 to leave cambridge, this was my first forum ride and great time was had. BIG thanks top skully for arranging (despite his modesty at not wanting any credit), also major thanks to hoefla for the cambridge recommendations and the escort back to the station after beers at an excellent pub where i could leave my spangly bike without even locking it (a novelty in itself), you star, and to all the other riders. Also to jimbilly, stripe, and dropout for the entertaining company on the way home. hope to see you all out again soon.

No idea where the new one is, I think its about time for a clue......

testing again...

damn there's always an idiot that fails at the idiot proof, step forward me....still not embedding straight in, damn you technology...

fail again, internet 1, me 0, arse marbles, sod it i'm off to cook dinner as even i can work a cooker...

@ Oliver, I did think the title misleading at first, I did'nt come into the thread for a while thinking it was to do with some sort of anti-theft bike tagging. Having said that I kind of like how it is misleading, I like bike/bicycle are overly used in the title and that now the date appears wrong, the title is just like London and this thread, it meanders all over the place but is none the worse for it and rewards you for scratching beneath the surface. Besides we still got here anyway and hopefully many others will too and it will run for many years past 2010, you don't want to change the title every year. Also we should keep it in homage to Minh for reminding us what this sites all about, mates having fun with their bikes. Just my 2pw.

Oh and hurry up with this latest one it's taking forever, don't make me go out there, I've been resisting the urge but can't hold it off for long.....

Good work, sheeet I thought those stairs were impossible unless one of you lives there and everyone recognised it from visiting. congrats. I know the new one but will leave for someone else as work shy bods like me need to let others play. I did get some nice pics whilst out in the glorious sun today, for once I was glad I did'nt have a job.

We don't want carbon, we want

Any air hardening current projects going on?

Just for you MDCC Tester my 853 pro team Vincitore, though I thought you were all about the modern and were'nt interested in these antiquated materials?

Anyway here's my effort, I've had it since last summer but the good folk at Brixton cycles cut down the steerer for me last week so that for me counts as if its had some recent work. Sorry for rubbishly lit bedroom pic but its dark out now and by the time daylight comes I reckon we'll be on 854 and the moment will be lost.

haha kudos for the late night effort but I don't eat enough carrots to have the foggiest idea, I can hardly see the bike never mind the background.

unless this is a devious plan to get even more exercise by having to do each location twice, in which case, well done.

is it clue time already?

thats not been up long, OK maybe it is a bit tricky but its distinctive so figured one the observant crew may have got it, or at least the nanny waving architecture crew or whatever you call them.

OK then the first part of the street name is the first part of a name that often features in the c*nt of the day thread.

Well I was going to try and leave it a while but recognised it and could'nt help myself, no self restraint see.

Ickle pic was in the graffiti underpass off Lower Marsh SE1, and here's another one, lovely day to be out and about.