London Calling

popstar

DKenny+Redman 3rd car.

Plan for Afan, meet up at Glyncowrg at 9.00-9.30 set off. Would give plenty of time for riding and lunch. Only true Sunday warriors would ride even more after Lunch, and most probably that would be -Le serious business.

Myself leaving home at 6.00!

Redmans

deadkenny wrote:

I'm over in Woking so Sandhurst is on the way so could share a car if I get myself to your place. I've PM'd my number.

Actually, just realised you're the guy who I meant to meet up with around SH or Swinley some time last year but we never got round to it .


Sunday - don't mind what time. I believe Cooldad was thinking of doing SH Sunday also.

Ha DK yeh thats me been out of it for a while il give you a ring tommorrow..Thanks for the lift Bud.

cooldad

SH Sunday not too early. 10/10.30 ish? thel33ter is being dropped off at my place in the morning.

Walking Bottom?

Anonymous

Sounds good to me. WB 10 to 10.30.

thel33ter

Sounds good.

Rode the Touq 12:12 race course today, did it in about 45 minutes, which is a decent time, according to a Wellard racer also saw a guy who has a photo in the new 2011 Whyte catalouge,

This guy


and there was a 7-8 year old on a top end Kona hardtail with an orange X.0 groupset :shock:

And on a side note 07 Marin Wolf Ridge or Gary Fisher Fat Possum with fancy paint... :?

cooldad

I like the fancy paint. General Lee yeeha.

cooldad

Marin is pick up only in Yorkshire. Long walk.

thel33ter

cooldad wrote:

Marin is pick up only in Yorkshire. Long walk.

He'll box it up if I arrange a courier.

cooldad

http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/products.p ... 1893&rs=gb

Take a look - only diff i can see is the saddle.

cooldad

deadkenny wrote:

Sounds good to me. WB 10 to 10.30.

Let's say 10, but will see you 10.30. Haha.

10.30 - nice relaxing Sunday morning, hopefully you can remember the bit Richard took us to with the pond. Really enjoyed that bit.

cooldad

Anybody else on for SH tomorrow? So we know who to wait for.

thel33ter

cooldad wrote:

http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/products.php?plid=m1b2s24p1893&rs=gb

Take a look - only diff i can see is the saddle.

And the forks, and the size, and the brakes, and the groupset, and the non droppy seatpost... shall I continue :roll:

Plaisir

I am there for SH tomorrow! What is the postcode for SH WB? Hope I'm not too late posting this!

Anonymous

cooldad wrote:

10.30 - nice relaxing Sunday morning, hopefully you can remember the bit Richard took us to with the pond. Really enjoyed that bit.

Hmm, I was losing all sense of direction by that point!. Think it was between Leith and Holmbury St Mary. Which would mean from WB going up Holmbury, down the other side and maybe up Leith, play about there and then try find the way back via the pond. Really not sure of the route though.

Hoping to have energy enough for Afan the next day!

cooldad

Hi Plaisir

Not sure of postcode, but it's here:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=walking ... =en&tab=wl

If you go to Peaslake, head out with the bike shop on your left, go past The Hurtwood Inn the carpark will be 100m or so up the road on your left.

Will pm you my number just in case.

cooldad

Duh

Hurtwood Inn postcode is GU5 9RR. Just up and on the left from there.

Anonymous

Forecast for Afan today isn't too bad now , but tomorrow is still much better so was the right choice

Anyway, today is for Surrey Hills.

popstar

I suppose you lot in SH had some fun. It's always interesting to see what is the slowest speed possible sliding over a pesky root. The slower the better. Surely you finished early in preparations for Afan?!

Anonymous

You know our Surrey Hill adventures always turn into an epic

Well, finished about 3.30 I guess, and plenty of stops. Managed to find the route we did last week which was cool.

Bit concerned about my headset though. Gave it a bit of a service yesterday and now things aren't right. Though it wasn't quite right before but seems worse now. Will have another bash tonight but don't want to take it to Afan if it's unstable.

Redmans

Is anybody still going..? looks like il be going to swinley

popstar

Could always tune it up at Glyncowrg bike shop.

Shame I couldn't join you lot, but anyway it did rain ... so probably didn't miss that much. Really very curious how does Plaisir rides these days, suppose on same levels as Gregsd. Does Cooldad outsprints Thel33ter on climbs now? The man has got real six pack now, instead of milky belly*.

thel33ter

popstar wrote:

Does Cooldad outsprints Thel33ter on climbs now? The man has got real six pack now, instead of milky belly*.

Great joke man, 10/10

Only rained for about 10 minutes while we hid under a tree fixing Plaisirs chain and rear mech.

Plaisir was keeping up on the climbs, 50+ miles a day will do that to you. He also was pretty close to me on the downs, managed to crash a few times though, and killed several trees.

As for me, no crashes

thel33ter

@Deadkenny

Have you made sure you put the right bearings on the right side, because sometimes the top and bottom ones are different sizes.

Anonymous

Hmm, good point. I didn't check. They looked the same to me. I'll strip it down again and try again.

Anonymous

Oh well, bearings identical. Reassembled and like yesterday no play in it at all. Still something I'm not doing right given it crushed the plastic shield thingy when tightening the headset. Or maybe it's just a rubbish headset.

Anyway, good to go. Just may have to keep tightening it and watch for crud getting in the top without the shield bit.

So, Afan on then? Not keen on the early start but anyway.

supra-man

ok early wake up...tomorrow see you guys there at 9 am ... in these cases i dream oof a car that drives it self

Redmans

Hey Guys ill be there tommorrow DK im gunna text u now.

Atz

DK - Make sure the preload is right, there's a lot of making sure you lean on the forks a bit to take up the slack before you tighten the stem

Black

What was Surrey Hills like being when I touched down at Gatwick
Wednesday afternoon, the weather was 10/10 total crap.

cooldad

SH was fine. Few small muddy pools, but that's all.

Excellent ride. DK got the route sorted, Plaisir snapped his chain and ate some trees.

Thel33ter didn't fall off. But he did forget his helmet so wore mine - gave me an excuse to ride 'carefully'.

And I caught up with Plaisir twice on Barry's when he stacked it.

Rounded off with a late lunch in Peaslake.

Pretty good day.