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I feel I got off lightly with just unshakable cramp for the last 5 miles I did!
Next time I will definitely eat real proper food with nutritional value the day before and not wash it down with as much beer and wine. Probably.
Cheers DrP and everyone else from slow Tim and non-puking James
And Mike, hats off for hitting 90km/h on Strava. I know we were slowing you down, but I didn't realise quite how much 😉
🙂
Strava does come up with some old billy bolx at times. Garmin Connect reckons 40.5mph which would be more likely.
DrP what's wrong with those shorts? 😉
The shorts only revealed their true greatness with a dose of direct sunlight Mike. 😉
Jeeze.. 😯
Well done all for actually doing most of it, if not all.
Kinda glad I had nephews to look after TBH, quick ride in the morning then watching the big boys race the classic on the big screen in Town.
T'was a baking hot day.
😮
pictonroad
The shorts only revealed their true greatness with a dose of direct sunlight Mike.
It's all becoming clear 🙄
Twasn't the heat and dodgy corner shoppe pasties that caused your malaise, it was 4 hours of riding behind me! 😆
Next time the only bikes allowed will be blue Arkose 4's and Tripsters
Fine. I'll organise a steel only ride shall I? You can take your non-ferrous bikes and throw them in the channel.
Where they wont rust..... Bugger.
And I thought we had something special Mike. I really did......
And I thought we had something special Mike. I really did......
You'll always have the shorts...
DrP
Oh, and only Toby and Mike witnessed my comedy "stick in spoke OTB" moment that naffed up my wrist and broke a spoke!!
Slightly nervous blatting down the surrey hills on 27 spokes!!
DrP
😆 😆
Oh dear this conversation has returned to the gutter, from whence it came!
Didn't look very nervous to me....
A broken front wheel, slipping seatpost, knacked wrist and an asthma attack didn't seem to slow you up too much DrP....
You guys are mental.. 'Only' 225km!
Batshit crazy.
Respect! 😀
Maybe I'll take the Jake the Snake and join you next time..
Any chance of a re-run before the end of the "summer"?
90p for a curry pasty . Thought that was abit cheap, but as they contained all manner of nasty bacteria glad I didnt partake.
I didnt get lost on my way back either, although my crib sheet had disintigrated by Gatwick .
Dez can go on the next one, seeing as Im not allowd on my placcy bike
Rob
Give the guy a break Rob...They were 99p...... 😉
DrP
[i]Dez can go on the next one, seeing as Im not allowd on my placcy bike[/i]
I'll then have a spare gnarmac bike I could lend you 🙂
Sounds like a proper adventure! Tragedy, euphoria, doomed heros pleading to be left to die (ish), then crawling home (ish), cheering crowds, brushes with authority, and a last minute plot twist with the supremely fit expedition leader succumbing to illness prompting a cavalry rescue. Who saw that coming?!
Sorry I missed it! I had a lovely weekend eating, drinking and showing friends round local trails.
Hope to make the next one. I'll be on Toby's Team Fe.
🙂
Made me chuckle Ed!
Get next year's in your diary (sometime in august...likely pride weekend again, though I'd like to aim for the ride 100).
DrP
And we haven't even gone into detail on the 'characters' we encountered at Palace Pier.
Have to say I'm not in any rush to repeat being hit upon by two drunk / hung over guys at 7:15 of a Sunday morning!
They were ladies Mike.
Weren't they??
DrP(ee behind the phone booth)
You will go flaunting yourself like that Mike...
pictonroadYou will go flaunting yourself like that Mike...
Well if you've got it...... 😛
On a more serious note,
Ian, that external battery pack appeared to have done its job. My Garmin didn't switch off at all and looked to have had a fair bit of battery left. The connection was a bit ropey though.
Can't remember where I dug that USB cable up from but I've brought decent OTG cables from [url= http://www.lindy.com/ ]Lindy[/url] in the past. (Their UK site doesn't appear to be working atm).
Poking around Strava it looks like you loop back up on to the road at Cox Green and use a track to the W of the old railway line. [url= https://www.strava.com/segments/8193665 ]Zoom in here[/url]