Really strange request

millymoose
millymoose Posts: 117
edited September 2009 in Road beginners
Don't know if anyone can help, but I need to get 4 riders plus bikes from Caterham up to Parliament Square on Thursday morning by 7.30.

We are joining 75 others on a charity ride to Bruges and our lift has let us down.

I have tried a couple of local cab companies but no joy.

Any views/comments/helpful suggestions much appreciated

Comments

  • Grazy81
    Grazy81 Posts: 196
    Worse comes to the worse get the train in or stay overnight in a hotel
  • millymoose
    millymoose Posts: 117
    Trains don't take bikes at rush hour!!
  • AidanR
    AidanR Posts: 1,142
    Cycle there. It shouldn't take much more than an hour depending on how much kit you have.
    Bike lover and part-time cyclist.
  • GMRK
    GMRK Posts: 22
    millymoose wrote:
    Trains don't take bikes at rush hour!!

    I think it's only trains arriving at London terminals between 7.00am and 9.00am or departing from London between 17.00pm and 19.00pm, I've taken a bike into London on a weekday morning at 6.30am before.

    It's sometimes better to pretend you're not all together and spread between carriages as well if there's more than two people.

    You can see cycle policies for the network operators here:

    http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/passenger_services/cyclists.html
  • Grazy81
    Grazy81 Posts: 196
    GMRK wrote:
    millymoose wrote:
    Trains don't take bikes at rush hour!!

    I think it's only trains arriving at London terminals between 7.00am and 9.00am or departing from London between 17.00pm and 19.00pm, I've taken a bike into London on a weekday morning at 6.30am before.

    It's sometimes better to pretend you're not all together and spread between carriages as well if there's more than two people.

    You can see cycle policies for the network operators here:

    http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/passenger_services/cyclists.html

    I have taken mine in between those times aswell so i think you should be ok as long as your train arrives before 7 and that will give you plenty of time to get to parliament sq

    What time are you leaving there as i work 2 min walk away from there.
  • millymoose
    millymoose Posts: 117
    We leave at 8 - down to Dover then leave Calais Friday morn to the Menin Gate for the last post.
  • DomPro
    DomPro Posts: 321
    Thats hardly a strange request; there's some guy in Buying Advice asking how to get 50kg of honey.
    Shazam !!
  • millymoose
    millymoose Posts: 117
    Must bee a sticky thread then
  • Grazy81
    Grazy81 Posts: 196
    millymoose wrote:
    Must bee a sticky thread then

    Ha ha nice one
  • Grazy81
    Grazy81 Posts: 196
    millymoose wrote:
    We leave at 8 - down to Dover then leave Calais Friday morn to the Menin Gate for the last post.


    Well if you see some guy checking out all your bikes and also looking quite ill that will be me so give me a wave lol

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