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Wow. That’s great : )
Late 80s, like steppy graphics, that stretchy type was in everyone’s toolbox (I think LetraStudio was the first software package that could do this interactively - gawd ask yer dad). Actually looks new and refreshing!
Thanks for organising this : )

Cheers @Alex_B - I’ve nibbled at some of this (middle section joining at Otford) before. I’d happily do this again, but maybe joining from a point where the train deposits me to south of London (hey! could be Otford!) but it’s a Sunday dependent thing.

Basically: This or a version of /or/ Stayer to the south coast = yes.

My only issue with Sundays is the sketchy railways (can see nothing bad for that weekend tho). Is Saturday not an option? It definitely makes the transit from N19 to Brockley a lot faster!

OKAY. I am 100% keen on that Stayer route, but will turn up for either one, out to Kent, down to Sussex. All good!

All of the above are good for me. The only wrinkle in the Brighton run is working out the logistics of my current work/life situation, but that’s for me to negotiate.

Stayer includes the Downs Link, I think? I’ve got bad memories of doing it south-to-north last autumn and it being a couple of hours video loop of path/trees/cockerpoo. There’s not much drama. [Edit to remind myself I was also toting way too much luggage - work/life things]

An alternate take on long/flats is to do Three Bridges and the old trackbeds out to East Grinstead and down to Eastbourne. [edited to add a komoot link [edited to remove negatroidery about Eastbourne]]

https://www.komoot.com/tour/517513503?re­f=itd&share_token=a7JBKpDmlDB4wIZmXUEqkP­c491X5vSiY0f2BMyBR7z4B853i7s

I've put 700x32 tyres on to illustrate sizing

thanks for reaching out, will circle back expeditiously

(or do I mean ‘adverbing’? damn)

someone verbing ‘solution’ on this call.

Cheers! Looking at refurb’d Fenix models now.

Thanks all. Much appreciated!
I want the ability to track swims/rides/activity - not bothered about personal stats so much. Literally “how long was I doing something/how far did I go?”.
The battery on the Vivoactive with GPS on wouldn’t give me a day, so something with a bit more heft is needed if I’m going back to a Garmin!

what’s the current Garmin choice for swim trackage? I never replaced my Vivoactive 3 and feel I need a device to give me a sense of ‘swam more metres than yow (yesterday)’ while I recover my lungs and endurance.

I have no fitness and my lungs are squashed but I could join for some of that … maybe I’d rendezvous at Hoddesdon and see where I get to.

Requirement for this thread should now be everyone has to change their name by deed poll to the destination OTHERWISE WHAT IS THE POINT?

I’d also thought about a noodle around the ex-airbases around Cambs - lots of childhood memories of being shunted around in a mint green mk2 Escort, by my grandad who had even less conversation than I do and no clue how to entertain a 9 year old. Waterbeach, Mildenhall, Alconbury, Wattisham…

I found the Halfrauds* blue tape works really well.

*Tony Bliar of New Liebour sent me there

Guards b0rked you say? I have a scratty but functional set if you need?

looks like a SA coaster brake there?

that’s pretty much everything I do know about her.

Except: squeaky gates = canti brakes. #makeuthink

Harder than it looks! I keep forgetting to photograph my food : /

This.
I bought a cx bike with TRP Eurox cantis and they’re a ‘need five hands to set up’ nightmare that seems totally unnecessary these days. But worse, the pad fitting is a modern version of that old Shimano LX interface. Bleargh.

Have a Deore LX (9-speed touring) which I think I paid FIVE POONDS for?
Located in N19…

Ah. ‘bit’ to describe a skit. Forgot about that one. I was awake at 4.45 with the anxiety spins. This will pass.

Two BBC R4 Today contributors starting their bits with “So”.

Twitter users who start their boring normie bullshit with “Lads”.

[inevitable THIS YOU pic of me wearing a Hitler t-shirt starting a RoughStuff post with “so… lads…”]

Just signed up to Instagram to follow off-world. Arrrghh.

I’ve been mulling something out in Oxfordshire to mark the 40th anniversary (Saturday 29th July) of the release of Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.
For me, I’d like to try to find the sources of the FX used on the tracks (church bells, a squeaky gate, &c) which were gathered around South Stoke, Moulsford, Goring, Streatley. I may nibble at it before then- a big circle out there and back /or/ combine with some other trails from a train journey out of London.

Never seen that before. That’s interesting.
(also, I run a Motolite reversed for a straighter cable run).

This is the answer!