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Rain rain go away....

Postby Antloony » Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:52 pm

Well looks like saturdays CR is going to be a complete wash out, cold and with high winds according to every weather forecast I've seen to date and I for one dont relish the prospect of getting soaked to the skin so this could be the 1st CR I'll have missed since starting last november. :cry:

Therefore does anyone one in wonderfull ACC land fancy a ride out on sunday as its looking the better option for staying dry and the winds will be lighter.

Start off at 9.30 say from CSS and depending on who turns up etc can pick a route from there. Not looking for a mad thrash, a steady 18's type speed will suffice.

If there are no takers I shall go off on my own and be Billy. :wink:

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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby kieran » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:18 pm

Hi, you could always join me for an early cycle Sunday morning down to the SCCU 25, I'll be leaving forest hill area at around 4:30am so passing CSS at around 5am :? :?
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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Kees » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:08 am

Hi Ant

Up for this on Sunday if tomorrow is a washout.

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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Del » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:05 pm

Hi Ant,

Andy K and I are both ready to join up for this.

I've just had 5 days walking along coast paths in South Devon, followed by lots of food and drink (insert fat b***ard smiley here), so I need to get back on the bike and get some miles in. How about a loop out around the Surrey Hills? We could start on the CR route, then swing out around Dorking, Leith Hill, Holmbury Hill, Peaslake (maybe the wonderful Barhatch Lane?), Shere, Ranmore and Box Hill. There's a cafe at Shere, plus places for food and drink at Peaslake and Box.

Weather doesn't look good tomorrow. I've done ice, snow and howling headwinds in the last month or two, so I will make the CR if it's not too bad, but the forecast deluge may be just be too much.
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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Stu Merckx Man » Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:53 pm

crikey ! it does look like it will be grim out there.

nothing to stop a good training group ride though! :twisted:
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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Ivor » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:08 pm

ahhh but a great man once said:

[quote="Andrew G"]We're not made of sponge so I'm sure we'll be okay


on the other hand... he's not venturing out on saturday either. :D
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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Antloony » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:20 pm

Ok so forecast still looking dreadfull for tomorrow plus Im off out tonight so will give tomorrows CR a miss.

Del, Kees and co plus anyone else who cares to come along and join in the fun I shall meet you at CSS at 9.30 on sunday for a tour of the Surrey Hills (hope someone knows the route :wink: )


Stu I'd love to join you training group guys but wouldn't want to show you up......by beng so far behind I'd embaress you all.

Orv, I ignore everything Mr G says about being a sponge, you can squeeze a sponge to make it drier, try squeezing your head to see if it works :shock:

See you sunday folks.

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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Del » Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:54 pm

Excellent ride today guys. Just over 65 miles on the clock for me when I got home.

Andy K and I met up with Ant, Brian, Kees and Jason at CSS at 9:30. Headed out on the CR route to Leigh, but carried on through Holmwood Common and North Holmwood to Dorking, then up the Coldharbour side of Leith HIll, through Holmbury, over Holmbury Hill and down to Peaslake, passing many London Dyanmos and Kingston Wheelers on the way.

From there, it was on to a rather more expensive cafe (tea room) at Shere, where cake was around £2.00 a slice (would have bee cheaper to buy a whole cake for £5.50) and tea was served in "lovely" china cups from a pot, rather than ACC mugs. The tea was quite dear.......I'm sure one fo the other guys will be along to tell you the price later. I don't think I'll be allowed to choose the cafe in future, but I assured them they were all hand sewn tea bags and Brian thought they'd probably all been hand perforated as well! :?

From Shere, it was up the North Downs (Coombe Hill I think?), up Crocknorth Lane on to Ranmore Common, down to Westhumble, and then a thrash up to the top of Box Hill, where we met Huw and Amy, demolishing cake and tea at the cafe.

After an agreeable chat. we all headed for home as an 8 piece group, except Andy and I split at the top of Pebble HIll to head South to Reigate and Horley.

A nice hilly work-out in agreeable company. All agreed that we ought to do this more often, maybe even as a CR variation on Saturday?

As a postscript, Ant was climbing like a demon today and then told us that he'd given up smoking 20 a day last October. I'm currently trying to find out what he was smoking! :wink:
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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Antloony » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:30 pm

Good right up there Del, just beat me to it.

As Del said excellent ride today, weather was a bit dull when we started out but it just got better and better untill we were bathed in glorious sunshine for the last few miles putting a smile on everyones face......well the smailes came once we'd got over the shock of being fleeced so much for the tea and cake. For the prices we were charged we should have been allowed to keep the chinaware and teapot :shock:

Highlight of the day was being flagged down by a cigarette wiedling maniac oap who parked up his car after overtaking us and came running accross the road to us and started mumbling on about some cycling website or other, Andy seemed to enjoy the chat though :wink: . It is nice to see that they allow the average village idiot to drive though.

Felt good today, had my climbing legs on and felt comfortable just easing away from everyone once the going got steep, not something you'll hear me say very often.

Glad I held off and went today and not on yesterdays club run. Needed to get some hills in my legs and today was the perfect day for it. Hopefully repeat this soon either on a saturday or sunday, made a change from the club run, something we all agreed was no bad thing.

Cheers for a great day chaps. :D
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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Kees » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:55 am

Great day out guys. Have a good week.

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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Ian A4size » Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:38 pm

Lucky duckys at shere...AKA the mortgage tearooms, or the fleece!
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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Marek » Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:37 pm

It always makes me laugh how cyclists complain about the price of tea and cake, but go out and buy bikes and parts made out of carbon fibre for significant sums of money.

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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Antloony » Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:43 pm

[quote="Marek"]It always makes me laugh how cyclists complain about the price of tea and cake, but go out and buy bikes and parts made out of carbon fibre for significant sums of money.

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True this maybe be Marek but its because we spend so much money on expensive carbon fibre parts that moneys so tight and we have to watch where the pennys go. :D

Lets face it though, £4.85 for a small slice of cake and a thimball full of tea is a bit steep.
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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Marek » Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:12 pm

Hmm, if only that was true. I have found that because you can afford a new bike it means that you must be able to afford either something equivalent or more expensive to buy for your other half.

So, when saving for a bike you actually have to save up enough money to buy two bikes as you will need what I have termed 'conscience funding account'. Unfortunately for me my new bike purchases over the last couple of years meant that my 'conscience funding account' took a massive hit this year and therefore the new wheels I had planned are still in the shop. Am happy to say though that we have the pleasure of a new Kitchen being fitted, its not made of carbon fibre so I think it looks cack though.

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Re: Rain rain go away....

Postby Michelle » Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:24 pm

Keith's conscience fund DOES actually have to buy two bikes :D

Just got new shoes (v bling) and new peadals.....perhaps it's because Keith's new wheels are on their way!

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