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[Closed] Monday Night Pub Ride – July 7th

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Buckden woods is ace

That is a matter of opinion. Your opinion is wrong.


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 5:54 pm
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Is this another circular route? Can I leave my lock at the pub, or should I leave it at Tod station?


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 6:26 pm
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How tough will this be? I pulled a muscle a couple of weeks ago and haven't ridden since so probably going to slow everyone down (Bear in mind I probably would have anyway.)

Quite tempted to jump in the car and come along


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 6:32 pm
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I'll be there. 🙂


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 6:34 pm
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Running late, still trying but might not make it in time. Struggle on without me if I don't...


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 6:35 pm
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Is this another circular route?

I hope so. I'm not going to cycle for 2 hours in a straight line away from the car.


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 6:53 pm
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Yes. All rides return to the pub 🙂
Chipps (for an ill Clover...)


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 6:55 pm
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I'm pootling up the hill.... There's some sort of LWB waymarker... I must be on the right track 😉


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 7:12 pm
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You lot and your cars! I left it at the station!


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 7:13 pm
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Missed the train, definitely out. Might see you on the hills though. I'll be the one wheezing etc.etc.etc.


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 7:28 pm
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Just FYI definitely won't be there. Hope to be more organised and make it next week though


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 7:48 pm
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Top stuff!

A little bit battered and bruised though. I'm not saying that I flew a long way in the shunt near then end... but it showed up on my Strava trace.

Zoom in about 100m from the finish 😀

http://app.strava.com/activities/163038381


 
Posted : 07/07/2014 11:36 pm
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It was a good stack - and at least it had a witness. I'd put it as a 'wrong-rutted and sliding but i-can-get-it-back to full-on out the front door' and into a hole... Gracefully done!
Nice to see everyone out. Hope the social pace wasn't too taxing for the Strava speed demons. 😉


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 12:02 am
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That was ace fun, thanks Chipps for guiding and everyone else for the good company, I had a smashing time. (Tom, beardy git on the green Cotic Soul.) 😀


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 12:17 am
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Quality stack Harry! Though it confused me a bit. Getting down the last descent, in sight of the pub, seeing a bike lying on the trail, but no rider. I presumed it'd been abandoned in the rush for the holy grail of a cold pint. Then the swamp thing emerged from the ditch. Some considerable distance away. Well... Actually... Hauled out by Chipps! Good effort! 🙂

Great ride tonight though! Cheers Chipps!


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 12:23 am
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Yeah cheers for the route chipps. Good fun that and that last descent definitely provided a few buttock clenching moments with that drop on the right.


 
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Hope the social pace wasn't too taxing for the Strava speed demons.

😳
I coped...just.


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 12:38 am
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These early Tuesday starts aren't very conducive to the late Monday evenings 😕


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 5:35 am
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if i didnt work away id have had this - can someone describe the route you took?


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 6:52 am
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Dark and rocky with a bit that made your brakes smoke.

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Posted : 08/07/2014 7:01 am
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had on, im confused. i thought you were talking about the H&H, bull hill & bucky woods etc? (just looked at the strava thing)


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 7:38 am
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H&H, bull hill & bucky woods etc?

That's next week.


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 7:43 am
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early starts

I just set off for work, but I was home at 1230 and eating reheated curry at 1:45!

Great ride, though my knee is now going blue and I need to order me some brake pads.


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 8:33 am
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Got to bed at 1.15.

Up at 5.10 😯


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 8:38 am
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...mate...


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 8:45 am
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I find post night rides, wired, with no chance of sleep, to be the perfect time to catch up on [s]porn[/s] whatever I've recorded during the last week. The stuff that would get the eye-rolling, tutting, stern look, or flat-out refusal if tentatively suggested for an evenings communal viewing

So I watched the Armstrong Lie, then weird BBC4 cycling documentary Velorama last night. With a couple of ales. Sod getting up at 5. I don't know. You lot and your proper jobs? 😀


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 8:56 am
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I was in bed by 11:45 and up at 5:40, with a wake up at 4:00 when me daughter went for a wee and shouted the house down because she couldn't get a balloon to stay on the top of the lift tower on her toy garage.


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 9:03 am
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Aaaah... the old balloon and lift tower conundrum? To be fair to her, its baffled some of the worlds greatest thinkers


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 9:07 am
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The balloon will stay there now. 👿


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 9:18 am
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Hope the social pace wasn't too taxing for the Strava speed demons

Hmmm yes, got a bit carried away last night. Probably why I ended up in a ditch 🙂

Brilliant route though. Nowt like a bit of exposed, high consequence techy-ness in the dark to focus the mind!


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 11:02 am
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<Update on the results of my "flying lesson">

Moving my head to the left is causing a noise that sounds like snapping carrots.

Will I die?


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 11:04 am
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Dunno, - ask a doctor!


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 11:12 am
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What would Jensie do? I'm not hanging about in a waiting room full of sick people coughing at me.

I'll be reet.

Holcombe Hill next week. Dead flat. Dead slow. Oh... hang on.


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 11:27 am
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What would Jensie do?

Obviously he'd shout 'Shut up neck!'.


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 11:52 am
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This is getting frustrating! Managed to get a lift sorted for the mrs so that I could come out and play - then we had an emergency at work and I had to stay on site until about 9.

Gutted!


 
Posted : 08/07/2014 12:06 pm
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