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Shall I post [b]the[/b] pic? 😀
Ummmmmmmmm - no thank you! 😆
Is it too late for me to join the merry gang?
It sounds like we are going near a place I know well!
Of course you can join us WCA 😀
WCA is wearing a thong???
Do you need photos?
no i'm not bulimic
I'm local too (Romsey) would be great to . . . alas already booked Crow Hill xc.
. . . . damn
I love cinnamon too . .
WCA - please leave the thong at home cos you might frighten the ponies 😀
I will be riding without a thong on then
Final details will be posted up within the next couple of days.
But ... confirmation from the man himself ... WCA will NOT be wearing a thong. However, he may be riding a shonky bike without a helmet 😀
I have a 20 mile route that I can send to anyone once I work out how to get it out of the Rides.gdb file. It starts at the second car park on the right once you leave the A31 for Burley.
You leave the A31 and head towards Burley. There is an obvious car park that is normally full on the right. About 300 yards further along the road is another larger car park entrance. I suggest we meet there as it is bigger.
Is there a final decision on meeting place/time etc for Sunday?
Oh, it's this weekend coming? Silly me; I thought it was last weekend just gone, you were on about!
I've not been very well.
Poor rudeboy.. All confused.
What's the plan?
you do now soton is only 70 miles from london rd dont you 😉
so it's only going to be a one hour journey one and half top 😉
Don't talk shit, Juan. Even with Ollie's driving, ittul take over two hours. You're forgetting; we don't live on the very tip of South West London, we live in the East. This involves A2-M25-M3. A total of around 120 miles. Add in a brekkie/fuel stop at Clackett Lane, you're talking 2.5 hrs, roughly. It's a 2 litre VW, not a 6-litre V12 Mercedes, ffs.
Then, there's another 20 mins or so, when I get a bit confuddled, and mis-read the directions.
Add in another 30 mins for me to get ready, and we might as well just come 3 weeks before, just so's we can be on time.
And it's next weekend, so there's not enough time.
One hour journey. 🙄
Someone have a word with him, please...
I shall be posting up final details tomorrow once my pretty little head has decided what they are 🙄
RudeBoy - as your ex-fiancee, I know you are just being damn lazy cos you normally love these rides 😀
Shall I have a word with Ollie?
No, have a word with Juan. He seems to think ittul take us only an hour or so, to get from East London to the New Forest. Crazy man.
I don't think Ollie will be up for it. We went out on Saturday, to the South Downs.
How was the South Downs? How's the injury now?
Juan - stop causing trouble! Ollie doesn't drive like WCA!
South Downs was nice. There was cahs and everything. Ollie tried to stroke a cah, but it ran off. Some bugger had been graffiti-ing the sheep!
We saw some nice pylons, and some burnt out microwaves. I fell off, going down a chalky slope. Done me leg in. Think I've ruptured a stomach muscle, too, although it may be a hernia.
All that chalk, right, it's trillions and quadrillions of fossilised bodies of tiny little sea creatures. Mad.
OK but have you actually de-stressed? Get well soon and don't forget we have a Chilterns ride on 21st June. Auntie C_G will look after you 😀
De-stressed a bit, yes. Just hope the off-licence downstairs does not in any way get robbed again.
£160, they got. £160 quid. And they could face 7 years inside, for armed robbery.
For £160...
London? You can keep it! Not that it's any better in the Shires these days.
Well ollie neeeds to improve his driving...
Door to door from mine to the very center of london (little France) it's a 55 min journey.
Plus you dont need to stop for fuel or food, are you a sissy or what 😀
However next time ask you ex to give us a bit more of a warning 😉 I'll try to make the trip
The problem is that the local sherrif in London Village is a bit backwards, and seems to think it's not safe to have the pig farmers and hop gatherers drive at over 30mph. So even though it's only a little place it takes AGES to get out of, and they all stare at you as you leave, muttering "There be dragons! Leave it be!" and when you try to return "Begone! Outzider!"
And of course the roads are so bad that even the town blacksmith can't keep all the carts working properly for long, and is so busy he's been skimping on fixing the little bridge over the stream, you know, the one that lifts up to let rowing boats out.....
ROFLMFAO at peter...
Wander to clean the screen from coffee
Weather forcast looks a bit nasty right now....
🙁
Peter come over here it's very sunny and I want to ride with someone for a change 😉
The NF is quite sandy so drains well. A little rain between now and Sunday will just dampen the dust.
It's the deluge on the day that concerns me. I can't be bothered with rain this year.
It could well change before then, though. 🙄
Well ollie neeeds to improve his driving...
Door to door from mine to the very center of london (little France) it's a 55 min journey.
What, from Southampton? What a load of bollocks. Southampton to the centre of London, is 69 miles, in a [u]straight line[/u]. Not by road or anything, in a straight line. As the crow flies. So, you're talking about a journey of say, 80-90 miles or whatever, in 55 minutes? Yeah, right. What were you driving, a Bugatti Veyron?
You've not thought this through, have you, Juan? 🙄
Peter, we have big metal worms that go under the ground, here!
erm when you enter the M3 london is 70 miles away there is a straight line between the two cities, the M3 ;-). Add a couple of miles for southampton [i]intramuros[/i] and aonther couple of miles for london intra-muros.
I have done it couple of times and the 55/65 minutes tag is spot on.
I know that it takes about an hour to get to heathrow but when i have gone to putney it has take 1 and a half hours to get there as its so slow once you are in london.
RudeBoy - Just hitch a lift with the black helicopters that fly low along the Thames, you will be here in no time. The offer of bed and board on Saturday for you and Ollie is still open.
I have managed Southampton to Canterbury in under 2 hours and that is further east than you are. That was in a 1.8 jap crap car not the Merc. I actually commuted there each day for a week.
Right. According to a quick very rough estimation on Google Earth, the journey is 77 miles, from the centre of Southampton, along the M3, onto the M25, then the M4/A4, the A3820, then the A40 to Maida Vale. Bearing in mind, the actual distance will be a few miles more, so 80+.
The National Speed limit is 70mph, and less in built-up areas. Factor in traffic, etc, and you're talking about a fair bit more time.
So, according to your claim of 55-65 mins, you'd have to be tooling up the motorway at speeds well in excess of 100 mph. I'm sure it's do-able, at 3 am, with clear roads, but I think you're talking out of your arse, quite frankly. What would your average speed be? Urban and motorway driving, with a bit of traffic, would be what, 50mph? Possibly a smidgen more? So, an 80 mile journey would be more like 1hr35 mins. I'd say you'd be lucky to reach the M4 in one hour. And the rest might take up to an hour more, even longer, depending on roadworks, traffic, etc.
You've come to this battle woefully unprepared. To think that you could possibly take on the mighty RudeBoy, is just absurd. Now behave yerself...
blimey all these excuses to not make a ride! and here's me trying to think how i'm gonna ride in plaster.. (admittedly it is about 25 mins from here)
why would I want to go on the M4?
Get in the car at juan's house. Then drive off. 5 minutes later you're on the M3 😉
45 minutes later (driving at 130kmh) you're into M3/M25 juncion. You don't have to get out of the M3... Then it's all straight line. And on a sunday morning there is no such thing as traffic.
See school boy error... You've use a computer rather than your brain... That is why you'll never be able to beat me.
I tell you what for the BB I'll show you live with ollie's car it's doable;)
I have managed Southampton to Canterbury in under 2 hours
Yes, but you're not right in the head. Besides, you're tooling along motorway for virtually the entire journey. Once you get into London, your average speed drops dramatically. It's taken us 30 mins to get through the Blackwall tunnel, ffs.
Southampton-Canterbury is roughly 135-140 miles. In order to achieve a time of two hours for that journey, you mustuv been going some way over the NSL. Granted, no-one actually travels at 70, but even so, that is still pushing it.
It was before I lost my licence I admit.
Get in the car at juan's house. Then drive off. 5 minutes later you're on the M345 minutes later (driving at 80mph) you're into M3/M25 juncion. You don't have to get out of the M3... Then it's all straight line. And on a sunday morning there is no such thing as traffic.
Ah! So, you're claiming 55 mins, to Maida Vale, from your house? By your own admission, it takes 45 mins to reach the M25 junction. Corect me if I'm wrong, but this is now a total of 50 mins. You're telling me, that you managed the next 25-30 miles in 5-15 minutes? In London? Care to explain how you managed that? Bearing in mind, you average speed would now have to be 120mph or so?
My case rests, M'Lud.
well that is a typical journey if I cruise at 150kmh then I make the 55 minutes. But I tell you what 😉 you get your driving license first and we speak about it later 😉
On the other hand if you don't want to ride because the new forest is more than 10 miles away from london and that scares you you dont need any excuses 😉
Plus M3/M25 to london is certainly not 25 miles 😉 eventually 25 kms...
I have managed Southampton to Canterbury in under 2 hours
I used to work in London Village. I had lodgings in Ilford, and I used to drive home very regualarly. To amuse myself I used to do calculations in my head as I drove: MPG, average speed, arrival time, that sort of thing. As such I always noted the exact time I started the journey.
I once did Ilford (From when I joined the dual carrigeway) to our house in Hockerton, which is a little village just north of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, in 1hr 59mins. In a 1 litre Fiat Panda.
IIRC that was something like 148 miles. giving an average speed of over 70mph (Which is a lot harder to achieve than it sounds) and the last 10 miles is through Newark, then on the A617.
I won't tell you how quick I can do the 50 miles to Gosport from Farnborough on the motorbike now, but it's all A-roads and I've beaten that average speed.
😀
Plus M3/M25 to london is certainly not 25 miles [;)] eventually 25 kms...
It's 25-30 miles to Maida Vale. Measure it, you numpty.
Accept defeat. You're just embarrassing yourself now. Quite why you made the incredibly foolish decision to take me on, is beyond me.
Silly, silly Juan...
I once did Ilford (From when I joined the dual carrigeway) to our house in Hockerton, which is a little village just north of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, in 1hr 59mins. In a 1 litre Fiat Panda.
Did the car ever work again? 😯