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So meet just before , to start at 17.00 for a couple?

I think I'll have a nice kit surprise when I get in, so might head out later to test the fit weather depending... I finish work at 16.00, so will be out from about 16.45?

When I was buying ALL THE CYCLING SHOES I was riding up and down Gurney Road at least once a week to collect various packages - it's really not that bad unless you get stuck at the roundabout and have to go into it really slow.

I did not...

Oh I see. In that case that's what all of the rides I've ever been on have been! The ones that leave/left from the Dandy were just in vague directions ending up back at the shop, which used to work quite well.

Not sure if/when we'll start doing them again as @jakjakjak's no longer Dandy affiliated/sponsored.

I've been trying to come up with some sort of inner city crit loop for ages, but I just don't think the roads are right for it. We don't have any big enough roads that aren't the ring road(s), so you'd either just have to blast round there a few times, or get stopped and lights/junctions if you venture 'inside'. I'm up for riding if someone can devise something though!

They are indeed.

I certainly didn't. The excitement from the news that my fancy summer kit it on its way was quickly banished by the cold and the grey. Crazy summer socks got pushed firmly back into the drawer too :(

From CP.

Grand, see you in the morning then!

Are we still on for the morning then? Looks a bit of a rainy forecast - not that I'm bothered about getting wet, just thought I'd make sure there was a group-HTFU mentality?

1-BN
2 - thross

Ah fair enough - I guess the photo is taken from slightly below - it looks as if you'd be arching your wrists, but if you're not then don't worry!

You will fall at least once. Potentially more. It's a right of passage.

It's looking like a proper road bike! How are you finding clipping in and out?

Not to go all internet bike fit, but if you fancy some tweaking I'd probaly rotate the bars down a few degrees and move the hoods a tad higher to get a flatter transition; your wrists will be glad of it!

OK, no probs, two rides in one week was optimistic for Norwich!

I finish at 16.00 on Thursdays instead of 17.00 on Wednesdays, so that would work a little better for me too.

Unfortunately I won't know if I can make it until the time's right on top of me - I'll text you as soon as I know either way though!

Do you want mine if they are actually a pair?

Got some really really beaterish black ones you can have? Not even sure if they're actually a pair...

Yup, tomorrow it is. I've got to cover some work for an absent colleague tomorrow afternoon that might mean I'm out too though, all depends on how quickly I can get things to press!

Yeah, as Jules says, Gas Hill averages at 19%, peaks at 21% for a couple of metres according to MMR. Only 250m long though, so just under half the length of the Ringland one!

The rudimentary elevation chart on MapMyRide suggests the little hill on the current route is at 7% for 200m anti-clockwise, and would average 4% for about a km clockwise (incidentally only maxing out at 5%, despite looking steeper).

The turn off onto that crest maxes out at 20%, and the whole climb is ~500m. 1eme Categorie by Norfolk standards.

I finish work at 17.00, so earliest I could really manage would be meeting at 17.45?

Reverse sounds fun; I've mapped out a longer (8.5 mile) harsher figure-of-8 taking in that really steep crest for those masochists among us too, which I might have a go at soon. Will recce it solo first before I suggest a group effort though, just in case it's bitterly horrible!

Yeah I'm happy with that little bench as a meeting place if the rest are @jakjakjak @BareNecessities?

Bugger, just remembered I've got a haircut booked for 16.45 on Thursday. Can we make it Weds? Or I can just drop out...

Thursday is very good for me, as I finish work at 16.00 :)