Ride to Brighton

[Graham O]

All,

Myself and Sean are planning a ride to Brighton on Saturday 18 July with a couple of chaps from work. We'll be heading down via ashdown forest and returning the usual way up over devils dyke. I reckon it will be approx 120 miles or so all in.

We'll be meeting at 08.00 at GB's. Anyone out there interested in tagging along..

Pace will be very steady as its will be a long day...

Ta,

Graham..

[Robbie Dread]

That's sound good i mite be interested if it's not fast.

[Graham O]

Robbie.. Good to have you along.

The pace will be an average 15 - 16 I reckon..

[Robbie Dread]

Coolllllllll

[Snoop Doug]

Enjoy the ride dudes.

Mrs Snoop, me and a bunch of mates will be in the 8 bells in Bolney celebrating 17 years of happy marriage. It's en route if you fancy a pint of Harvey's

[jon avery]

Damn!! I always miss the Brighton runs, i'll be in Mudeford Dorset

[Dan_K]

[quote="jon avery"]Damn!! I always miss the Brighton runs, i'll be in Mudeford Dorset

[jon avery]

Don't get me wrong Dan i love Mudeford, we go there a lot, we are lucky that the Misses parents have a holiday home there But i always seem to be away when someone is running a Brighton ride

[Alex S]

Coincedentally, theres about 40 people from LFGSS.co.uk (london fixed gear + singlespeed) going down that day aswell, but they will be setting off a little later than you.. in fact you might only see them when you are coming back if they choose to pub crawl it!

hmmm.. id quite like to see someone do the last descent to brighton fixed with no brakes

[Graham O]

Looks like we are defnitely going tomorrow. We'll aim to leave at 08.10 or so from gb's....

Robbie - r u still coming along ?

if anyone else is interested, just come along. You will need food and probably a waterpoof for the way back...

[adrian]

If I can get out of the house in time, I'll be there.

[Robbie Dread]

Sorry guy's can't make it tomorrow got some work on can't get out of it,have a good one on me blessssssssssssssssss

[Graham O]

As sean says...a crackin day in the saddle. Brighton and Back via Ashdown forest. Before we left, I kinda felt that we might be pushing it a bit by heading over ashdown forest but the route was really good. I love climbing up to the top of ashdown forest as the views at the top are amazing. Anyhow, once we left there we headed through some really beautiful lanes towards lewes. The lanes were luckily quite sheltered from what was quite a tricky crosswind.

Anyhow, once we had negociated the road from lewes to the bottom of the beacon and climbed over the hill it was plain sailing into brighton.

The route back was aided by a south westerly wind which helped us along. At one point we were cruising at 30 mph just spinning the gears on the flat...cool...

I gotta say that sean has come on in leaps and bounds. Once we got onto the club run route, he was ticking out 20 - 25 miles per hour on the front with no issues.....keep it up sean...

I felt quite good on this ride. I ate quite regularly, drank loads and span the gears all day.



Good stuff...thanks to all.....can't wait for the next adventure...

[Marky Mark]

Sounds like a very social day, well done folks. I would of joined you but I decided to drag my friends son out on his first ever CR.

Well done Sean on the tonne, great imagination on taking the picture... cool.

All the best Marky Mark

[jon avery]

Bit of a camels toe going on there Sean