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Friday night Oxford-London, 17th August 2012
rogerzilla:
If the Dunwich Dynamo didn't give you a touch of the never-agains, here's the Friday Night Ride to the Smoke, "the warm one". These are run at new moons to avoid the FNRttC and also because we usually look at the sky out in the wilds and go "My God! It's full of stars!"
Leave Oxford railway station (warm concourse, toilets, amusing middle-class drunks) and ride to Paolo's Cafe* in Acton for breakfast. A couple of big hills and miles of flat stuff. Water meadows, mists, badger attacks, the spiritual experience of crossing 8 lanes of M25 at dawn and did I mention amusing drunks? Food stop at 24-hr Tesco after about 40 miles (comfy chairs in the cafe area, although you have to eat what you can buy off the shelves), buy one of these if you want a hot drink, it's ribbed for your pleasure.
Train tickets from London cost about the same as a Ginster's and a bottle of Frijj. Who's in?
*Paul isn't Italian but he's very friendly. New menu with options such as "The Scaffolder's Breakfast", which would slay anyone of a weak constitution.
Andrij:
Hmm... the night after I return from 3 weeks of cycling abroad...
I'm a 'maybe'; and I'll even buy a ticket this week. Worst case scenario, I'll try to join you for breakfast - sounds like "The Scaffolder's Breakfast" is my kind of challenge. :)
mattc:
Statistics say that something will get in the way of this ... but I hope to make it.
marcusjb:
I've yet to make one due to real life always having something in the way - but, so far, this is looking good for me - Brompton World Championships on the Sunday, so a Scaffolder's Breakfast sounds perfect.
I will be there.
PaulR:
Pretty much every ride I set my sights on these days ends up being impossible due to other commitments. But I will persevere and express my genuine intention to come on this ride. We'll be too late for the Perseids but will be heading back to the season of true astronomical night, with the sun actually properly below the northern horizon for a bit.
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