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Yep, still up for this rusty 🙂
I'm bring my pads too 😳
I could be up for this- be good to ride eon the Purbecks again. Let me know where you're starting from 😉
Will see how my legs feel after the BHF london-brighton off road (75 miles) on saturday....!
Would be great to come along though!
DrP
Never been there before, will a fully rigid bike suffice or should I take the Heckler? Is there an unfit-and-struggling group there? I want to come but am ever so unfit... 🙁
Any bike will do, locals ride any thing from 5 inch bouncers to rigid singlespeeds.
One group only, as it's a social ride/gathering not a race. Pace will be whatever suits everyone. If anyone wants to go quick extra bits could be added to suit, but that's not really the point of these rides is it?
Distance likely to be about 20-25 odd miles more or less depending upon weather, length of food stops, pace, mechanicals etc. Route will be flexible enough to lengthen or shorten to suit.
Lovely, count me in then. Will you be able to give me the post code or something to get my sat nav to recognise, please?
C_G do you still want a lift down?
Hairychested - If you want you could meet me at Rownhams Services on the M27 and follow me down from there. I can lead you to free parking as well.
The 27th is the only date I can't make. My son's birthday and he's off to Uni... 😥
Sure, why not? Anybody coming from my end needs a lift?
I'm in the area at the minute and is £6.50 over four hours .But found some street parking Just as you come round the road into the Bay opposite yachey club
sat nav details
Ferry Way
Poole, Dorset BH13, UK
[url= http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hl=en&tab=wl ]Google Map[/url]
Try Panorama road or Brownsea road for parking, should be ok if your prompt (read early) for free parking
Oh and count me in
Probables so far then -
ReallyOldGit, Cinnamon Girl, Mulletus, Hairychested, oldfart, eviljoe, Dr P
Few locals likely to be turning up too. Anyone else?
I'm hoping to make it. First time down there for years.
I will be there 🙂
Knottie ?
Evening Rusty, Dave here, saw you in the Corfe Cafe on Sunday, am def on for this and can help with guiding etc...
sounds good to me Dave, i'll check in with John and Rich this week too.
Count me in for this.
I don't want to make it a what-tyre-for-Purbecks but apart form black, round and made of rubber, any other special needs? I only hope I won't need DH ones ❓
double posting, sorry
@Hairychested - the amount of sand around this time of year, a paddle tyre could be usefull in some sections! But seriously, anything allround should do the job. Conditions vary from deepish sand, to hardpack, to chalk, to rock gardenish to grassy, with a bit of tarmac thrown in for good measure. My summer set up has been a conti vertical pro on the front for some grip, and a bonty revolt on the back for a bit more speed.
Any other special requirements - plenty of cake, a slightly warped sense of humour and the ability to ignore the locals when they're miles faster than us despite being on rigid singlespeeds!
I'll be on a bouncy bike blaming the setup and tyres anyway. If my singlespeed was built-up I'd be just as fast as them, ehem...
So probables
Hairychested, C_G, Mulletus, oldfart, Lovell, RichPenny, DrP, olderthandirt, Reallyoldgit, ChrisP_ss(can't remember your username), local John
possibles
Knottie, johnners, Bat1, eviljoe, Kona-ona, oldgit, dobo, rocketdog, luke, annabanana, PeterPoddy, elliptic, buzz-lightyear, Ride Rich
Any advance on that? Possibles likely to be probables? Any +1s?
7 days to go.
can't make it, i'm going to movie mania at the national space centre 🙂
Just been reminded it's the lad's family camp with beavers so it's a no from me.
about 15 confirmed so far then,including a few locals. Sandwiches mid route and pub stop near the end, or cafe stop mid ride?
Count me in
I really should come as you will go past my house
great trails good for rigid and ss
also I insist we stop at the best pub in the world
best bring your speedos and we can go for a dip
sweet looking forward to it
we can also poach some sweet singletrack
Cafe must be in corfe model village
pub must be square and compass and then the bankes
do you guys want me to plan a route with the best local bits????
Hey Charlie any chance you can save me some stickers for next week please ? 😯
Not sure we're gonna fit that many in/outside the model village cafe, hence the sandwich proposal. Pub at the end will be the Bankes, controversially i much prefer the Scott Arms to the compass.
Shouldn't have too much trouble with the route. Got most of it in my head, and we'll just wing it a bit depending on wind directions, mechanicals and pace. I think Rich, Johnny and Dave from Ride are coming along, so guiding shouldn't be an issue. Cheers though, the more locals the better.
Just hope it doesn't rain.
The Scott arms is a harvester in discuise and an insult to a world class location. Shame on you 🙂
must squeeze in franks tank. Great bit of st
I will bring some stickers and go with the flow. Might ride the big dummy and haul big sandwiches
Probably going to be +2 Steve. The Square and Compass is the most bizarre pub I've been in, only makes it better IMO. It doesn't seem to be laid out for drinking in at all 🙂 Where is the Scott arms?
Franks is definetely on the hit list, down and possibly up depending on the route back.
Rich - Scott arms is in Kingston, out the back of Corfe, but not as far as the compass. To be fair to the compass, i've only been there a couple of times and it's been a queue for a drink each time, maybe i'll give it another go now the holiday makers have gone home. Just prefer the views and garden of Scott arms.
What time are we meeting and where Rusty?
Wife say's parkin is £8.50 over 4 hrs
Ferry 90p pls 80p for Bike
http://www.sandbanksferry.co.uk/tolls.php
Dave - meeting at the ferry at 9.30 for a 10 or 10.20 ferry. Would have made it the sandbanks car park, but it's still summer rates. Should be plenty of parking on the peninsula i reckon.
@ Bat1, Plenty of free on road parking on sandbanks peninsula, just go past the car park towards the ferry, all the roads are free. Ferry is £1.60 return with bike.
I reckon we might be up for this. I posted early on in the thread, but I'f we're free Sunday (Pending checking...!) I reckon we might come.
🙂
If [url= http://uk.weather.com/weather/10day-Poole-UKXX0113 ]this[/url] forecast is accurate then weather is looking good.
MM - Indeed, I just checked the Met Office -
[i]UK Outlook for Friday 25 Sep 2009 to Sunday 4 Oct 2009:
Across more southern areas it should remain quite settled so mostly dry and often bright. These more settled conditions may extend further north for a time by the early part of October. Temperatures by day look set to be generally near the seasonal normal, although rather warm at times in the south, especially in the sunnier spells but overnight here it is likely to become locally chilly, with overnight mist and fog patches forming across some southern areas.[/i]
😀
Better break out the mankini then..... oh, did i say that out loud?
Oooooooooh I'm getting in a tiz cos I've been injured, gradually getting back in the saddle and just so worried that people will get held up 🙁
As if that isn't enough to contend with, I keep thinking about the sea crossing and how last time just about everyone bu$$ered off to the upper deck. I don't remember using the word 'puke' 😯
Where can I get a reliable shipping forecast for Sunday please?
wouldnt mind a chilled out pub stop ride around the purbecks, had a quality beer at the compass last time, good weather and company.
Somehow though i have decided to have a look at a cyclocross race instead and may even enter on my mtb...
Cg have you considered driving to Sandbanks and meeting the others there ?Thats probably what i'm going to do anyway plus i won't leave you behind rest assured.