Sunday Ride - 3rd August

[Andrew G]

Forecast is saying poss the odd light shower so I'll be at GBs at 9, just bring a rain jacket just in case.

[Dombo]

may join you. if so I'll be there b4 9 and waiting.

[Snoop Doug]

Turned up ready to go. First social ride for yonks. Turns out I wasn't feeling too sociable . Tail end of cold plus humid breezy morning = turn back for home quite soon. Got home with a measly 17 miles in an hour 15. Hope the rest of the group had a great time.

Snoop

[Andrew G]

[quote="Snoop Doug"]Hope the rest of the group had a great time.

[Antloony]

Good write up Andrew. It really was like Carry On Cycling out there today.

Sams bike was going no where, despite many attempts to free the chain we had to give up. Locky, Sylv, Mark? and John Avery left Jon and Sam, Jon was going to leave Sam somewhere safe and then ride back to fetch his car.

Comedy moment of the day, watching Mr Avery topple over onto the grass verge when forgetting to unclip, one minute he was thewre, next he was gone.

Hope Mr X (cant remember his name either sorry) is ok, his helmet had a lovely split in it, no wonder he was complaining of dizzy spells, a real reminder that its always worth wearing a helmet.

Ride back for us 5 was thankfully uneventful, saw Marco and gave him a shout as we steamed into Croydon giving at a fair pace.

Not the best days cycling Ive ever had but certainly different.

[Jon C C on a Bianchi]

Bimey!

I hope the bloke who crashed (Barry?? Baz??) is OK. It could have been so much worse - he ended up over the other side of the road - thank *#*@* there wasn't a car coming the other way. The helmet was pretty wrecked and certainly saved him from worse injury. An accident out of nothing. I was riding behind. Straight road. Good surface. He appeared to lose it momentarily, swerved into Rob, tried to correct, hit and appeared to go off almost sideways.

BTW

Thanks to everyone who tried to shift Sam's chain, absolutely stuck solid. What a carry on!

anyway...

we starting walking, stopped a cyclist who told us that there was a station at Dunton Green about a mile away. Started raining. A sorry sight - carrying the wheel and frame. Really nice bloke stopped his van. A cyclist who had a BIanchi in the back! A couple of minutes later there were three Bianchis in the back and we were being dropped off at Dunton Green station. Yippee!! We were home at 1. 35.

Removed the cassette but unsurprisingly given the fact that it was wrapped around a crash barrier and wrenched repeatedly by Addiscombe's finest the chain's slightly mangled and needs replacing.

An interesting ride. Let's do it again next week.

Cheers

Jon

[quote]Let's do it again next week

[Dombo]

Great ride, thanks for organising Mr

Once Barry was safely in the ambulance and we'd stripped his bike four of us set off up Star Hill and back to Croydon. Met a couple of mtb-ers at the top who were training for a Crystal Palace - Reims charity ride and stopped for a chat. While chatting, some c*** in a silver car deliberately passed too close and smacked me in the a*** with his door mirror, which luckily was sprung and came off. No real harm done, Pyrenean adventure last month having numbed said organ. He didn't stop but I then found his mirror lying in the road and did a Basil Fawlty on it, jumping up and down on it until it shattered, in case he returned to find it

Childishness over, three of us (not sure where our fourth got to) then returned to Croydon via Bromley road without further mishap. Stiff headwind along the A23 slowed things down a bit, (wondered how I'd averaged 27mph from Coulsdon to GBs earlier) but all told a great day out.

[quote="Andrew G"][quote]

You need to adjust the cage stops Jon to stop ot happening again, and get Sam to clean his cassette and chain . Silly question but it's not a 10 speed shifter with a 9 speed mech is it?

[Marky Mark]

Bloody hell fire, It sounds like I was the only one not have an accident this weekend. I've ben out on the mountain bike death run again and survived.

Hope all turns out for the best, any news on the broken one?

[Marek]

I presume GT85 is something similar to WD40 and is a degreaser. This is meant for taking grease off. So use this to clean the chain, then use water to clean the GT85 stuff off, as you do actually want a bit of lube on the chain. Once this GT85 stuff is off dry the chain and then put on something like a dry wax lubricant, White Lighting or something similar. Just put a drop on each link. Your chain will stay a hell of a lot cleaner, I clean my chain and lube after every 200 miles or so.

Sounds like your adjustments should do the trick.

Cheers

Marek....

[Andrew G]

As Marek says it's a dry wax lube you want. Finish Line is another one and both that and White Lightening are good, some shops sell one others t'other. They'll probably tell you which one is better depending on which one they stock .
[quote]I don't know what to do about Sam and his filthy chain

[Jon C C on a Bianchi]

[quote="Andrew G"]
Just Sam's? Is your one a vision of cleanliness then .

[Snoop Doug]

[quote="Andrew G"]Silly question but it's not a 10 speed shifter with a 9 speed mech is it?

[jon avery]

How is the guy who fell off? I've seen him before but dont know the name.