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Is one big problem that more traffic wants to access the motorway below than travel over flyover, is this right? Maybe signage and satnav could be altered to send more traffic to the A13 junction.

A far better solution would use the wasted space on the "roundabout" or in reality the inefficient crossroads. If traffic lights hold motor vehicles before the slip roads rather than the current point, a separated cycle path next to flyover could go straight across junction, motor vehicle lanes shifted to the left therefore remove all left turn conflict, and synchronise cycle straight across phase with motor vehicle access to motorway on opposite corners.

As boris said about henleys corner the current solution just screams fuck you to anyone trying to walk or cycle there.

the bike represents that well enough itself

that thorn is a sheldon brown bike!

http://sheldonbrown.com/org//thorn/

@ Jah Tim/Chainbreaker

There's just the small matter of an FNRTTC to Southend hence my hesitation.

do both!! i'm doing both… got to go to bed now though to bank some sleep

1. Hairnetnic
   
2. hats
   
3. TTM
   
4. roolbg
   
5. O'Shane
   6.pt
   
6. Chainbreaker- dependant on Dunwich denouement
   
7. Dropout.-provisional (last year was memorable)
   
8. Dumps
   
9. velorbi
   
   

trying out their coach/truck back to bristol

I hope everyone who did the Velonotte last night/ didn't get too wet/cold.

Thanks to all of you who marshaled.

Nice to meet you yesterday oat44 - sorry about not noticing you while I was having a heart-to-heart with Digger! You find your t-shirt OK?

good fun but so wet, swept up a few punctured people at the back, then found about 100 people off track in victoria park, fortunately zebra strapped to bike like a beacon and eventually all got onto canal path in right direction

Any plans for a big trip? Or just building for fun?

its totally for summer fun!! only plan so far is for dunwich dynamo, want to strap a speaker on the front rack

thanks for replies, not sure about some mudguards, VO or Giles Bertaud? now put the decals on and a new chain and cassette (11 - 30, 8 speed, with a 48/34 crank, and 9 speed bar ends in friction setting) bit frustrating can't shift both deraillers at once... must plan ahead!! Ed what pressure would you recommend running the tyres at, its at about 50psi now, but i think thats too high?

That was my first audax, nice sociable ride and good day out, stayed pretty dry until being at pub at end, several pints later and it was still pissing down, damm accuweather promised it would clear, so only had to ride an hour home in the sort of weather I'd feared we'd have had all day!
And great to meet Ed, here offering pencil to note down a letter w on said card:

Where to get 650b tyres now? They seem to have gone from planet x annoyingly.

anyone there yet? can anyone confirm that there's a hog roast?

eco velo had a lot about the sam hillbourne a while ago, they had an orange one with moustache bars…http://www.ecovelo.info/2010/06/27/long-term-road-test-rivendell-sam-hillborne/

and I guess lovely bike would be somewhere to look too http://lovelybike.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/born-for-hills-review-of-rivendell-sam.html

I'd have loved one but… i got the cheaper and much plainer velo orange polyvalent from fresh tripe, it does have a quite nice lugged fork at least.

I love that map page… different colours for multiple journeys on the sameroute would be nice, heres mine makes getting the gamin worthwhile!

and further:

Did you sell this jacket?

Thanks

I've got the L sized one thats a bit too big for me if you're after one.

Do you ride past Vauxhall in mornings? I think I paid you a 'nice bike' compliment a couple of weeks ago. I hope you use another lock and not just the above if it's alone regularly.

possibly, ha ha about that lock it does look feeble, think I was shopping for heavy stuff and didn't want to carry 2kg of yellow lock as well.

Not totally sure I need this bike, but got some 650B wheels last year and ran them on a Long Haul Trucker, found the grand bois hetre ride amazing but the braking was terrible as the pads only just reached the rims… so thought I'd use up a box of spare parts on this:

but it looked ugly with xt mtb gears and cranks, so I got some new cranks, gears and stem and got this:

and today was first proper test ride!

Velo orange parts: frame and forks, headset, rims, seatpost, cages, cables, front rack (and rear if can fit it), nitto noodle bars and stem, and the rest is shimano and stronglight.

Lumitec retro front dynamo light and bar tape to fit next.

Do you live in Tooting?

no brixton… spotted you at balham waitrose before!!

its nothing to with red lights itself… if it wasnt red lights, it'd be filtering, or parking or riding 2 abreats… oh wait…
anyway if 2000 people are killed each year by people on bikes I'd disagree… the elephant in the room is the domination, intimidation and bullying by people as soon as they get in a car…a hundred or so people are killed each year whilst on the pavement, not even crossing the road, just walking along the pavement FFS

getting closer to pulling the trigger on the lynskey

good man, heres mine, given it a clean:

bought because I wanted disc brake road bike for fun rides…
and this is my idea of a practical bike… weighs a ton even unloaded and rides like a tank :-)

lovely bike, thought it looked good with the black seatpost and wheels too.. what are the mudguards, stainless?

Velorbi, how does your Lynskey ride? Have you put panniers on it, and if so, how is it for heal clearance and load carrying?

Where are you based, what size did you get?

ML, no panniers or rack yet, just s carradice bag. the chainstays are pretty long though. Ride is very smooth, but i'd attribute a lot of that to the wheels, had some dt swiss hubs and rims put together with cx-ray spokes

Nice… I'm putting together one of these at the moment, grand bois hetre tyres are so nice, only issue how do you clean the sidewalls of brake gunk?

Am struggling to decide if this is the next bike that I need. Disc brakes, rack and mudguards, potential for larger tyres, a little bit more upright...

When hydraulic levers become more common place they could be fitted as an upgrade.

It appears it would be robust and fairly idiot proof.

Any reasons not to buy it? Any other alternatives?

enigma? or burls? I've got that lynskey ^^^ it was identical geometry to the custom frame spec I'd drawn up and chain reaction had my size in stock… it is indeed very lovely to ride, bit like a steel frame… not cheap as you say... wheels and frame and forks alone best part of two grand

small reasons not to buy: cable routing makes mounting rear lights tricky without a rack, and mudguard mounting is a bit a of a bodge at the rear

Yay ^^^^^^^^

Though really this ride doesn't need a leader, we all know the way and it's short.

definitely... just publicise wheres open to meet for breakfast after…

Did anyone else see the motorbike cop giving some family a telling off for jumping a red on the way to the start? About half way down park lane... I had some sympathy as it seemed to be a closed road.

Pretty heavy handed it seemed to me.

yes, he was a jumped up prick, like too many of the motorbike police… I saw him do the same to a girl and told him to stop picking on people… this was right near the exit from the park on the closed road.

He then moaned about having to be there on his day off blah blah… think he thought he was policing a football crowd not a load of quiet, well behaved people protesting getting killed for trying to use an efficient and non polluting way to get around.

New app reviewed

This ^
There must be someone else to push forward as a replacement? It's all very well saying don't use AL but people are more likely to consider this if not motivated by JG actions, if there's another option immediately available.

this one?

https://www.hailocab.com/