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Old Git

Essex yacf
« on: 15 October, 2011, 05:03:18 pm »
hi.. is Essex yacf a closed group of friends or is anyone welcome to ride with you.

I am in the Brentwood area and looking for people to ride with. My club riders are mainly into time trials and I am now looking for more relaxed long(ish) rides, with time to chat and enjoy it.

JohnT
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FatBloke

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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #1 on: 15 October, 2011, 05:18:46 pm »
Quote from: JohnT on 15 October, 2011, 05:03:18 pm
hi.. is Essex yacf a closed group of friends or is anyone welcome to ride with you.

I am in the Brentwood area and looking for people to ride with. My club riders are mainly into time trials and I am now looking for more relaxed long(ish) rides, with time to chat and enjoy it.

JohnT
Having ridden with them, trust me, anyone is welcome!   ;)
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Wowbagger

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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #2 on: 15 October, 2011, 05:23:43 pm »
Anyone can ride.

We tend to be two groups, the Mid Essex crowd based in Witham and its environs, and Auntie Helen and myself, plus anyone else ho wants to come along. AH and I meet most Thursdays somewhere between our abodes (Colchester / Southend) and we ride slowly (rarely do we average over 11 mph) and occasionally we meet with others on Saturdays for "WARTY" rides. Our rides tend to be punctuated with tea and cakes, and pubs for lunch.

The Witham crowd's activities are mostly nocturnal and they too like to visit pubs.
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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #3 on: 15 October, 2011, 07:55:49 pm »
What wowbagger said!  :thumbsup:

I (mostly) fall into the mid-Essex yacf camp: nocturnal activities very much a fixture!

Anyone's welcome on our outings - always good to hook up with more folks in the area.

The mid-week pub evening rides tend to see us meeting at a pub, rather than riding together (mostly we're coming from different directions), although often we have two or three folks coming from Witham.  In the past we've had a station rendezvous at either Witham or Chelmsford for rides, which we could easily resurrect on occasion.
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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #4 on: 15 October, 2011, 08:02:45 pm »
The 'Mid-Essex Mid-Week Nocturnal Series' thread is where plots are hatched... often at the last minute...but getting in early with a suggestion of a good pub should stir up some interest.

A little group of us ride out from Dunmow on a Wednesday to link up with the Witham-ites [and also on other evenings too], but it can be a bit more of a training ride and often I'm the only one that stops for a pint or several :thumbsup:. But then I'm not up early the next day for a long commute.

Come and join us, JohnT; we ride with anyone, even people from over the border [River Stour] and that London. [See our Christmas thread - all welcome too!]
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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #5 on: 15 October, 2011, 08:12:52 pm »
I should add that we usually have a christmas outing (thread also in the Rides and Touring section).

Xmas do

We have also undertaken the odd cycle camping jape:-

Freeze your bits off camping

California...

Peddars Way camping

(I suspect there will be a FYBO2 thread sometime soon)
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Jurek

Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #6 on: 15 October, 2011, 08:16:05 pm »
As one from out-of-Essex who has participated in rides with them I can tell you they'll ride with anyone.

Having said that, be prepared  for them to shoot you, throw your body in the nearest ditch, eat your bike, whilst listening to what common parlance describes as 'house music'.

Consider yourself to have been warned  :)


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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #7 on: 15 October, 2011, 08:29:59 pm »
What kind of haircut do you prefer?

Come on out one Wednesday, we could have a Viper/ Wheatsheaf trip.

I have noticed The Three Elms (Chignalls) is pushing itself as a special cider pub, perhaps we should call there sometime.
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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #8 on: 15 October, 2011, 08:31:34 pm »
I'd definitely be up for another Three Elms visit.  Don't let me drink the landlord's special Bourbon this time though.
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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #9 on: 15 October, 2011, 08:35:51 pm »
The Viper is a splendid suggestion. That's but a short ride form Billericay so what about it one Wednesday?
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bloomers100

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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #10 on: 15 October, 2011, 08:47:53 pm »
For sure old chap, but I think we should migrate back to the main thread when we're ready.

I am proud that we now warrant our own ID!  :thumbsup:
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Old Git

Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #11 on: 15 October, 2011, 09:36:25 pm »
Quote from: Wowbagger on 15 October, 2011, 08:35:51 pm
The Viper is a splendid suggestion. That's but a short ride form Billericay so what about it one Wednesday?

yes that is a short ride for me too.. I am up for that let me know when

JohnT
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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #12 on: 16 October, 2011, 11:56:02 am »
Quote from: Oaky on 15 October, 2011, 08:31:34 pm
Don't let me drink the landlord's special Bourbon this time though.
Didn't realise I should have been discouraging you from that particular tipple  :P
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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #13 on: 16 October, 2011, 12:01:28 pm »
Quote from: JohnT on 15 October, 2011, 05:03:18 pm
hi.. is Essex yacf a closed group of friends or is anyone welcome to ride with you.
Hi JohnT, I think the more important question is - would you want to ride with us?? 
Of course you are more than welcome to join us, as others have already said. Look forward to riding with and/or meeting you in a suitable refreshment venue  :)

p.s. I'm one of the Withamites refered to.
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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #14 on: 16 October, 2011, 12:25:06 pm »
JohnT, as Wowbagger said we often ride not too far from you (start at Billericay or Shenfield or Wickford). Are you allowed out in the daytime?
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Old Git

Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #15 on: 16 October, 2011, 08:11:14 pm »
Quote from: Auntie Helen on 16 October, 2011, 12:25:06 pm
JohnT, as Wowbagger said we often ride not too far from you (start at Billericay or Shenfield or Wickford). Are you allowed out in the daytime?

AH,
   Yes I am allowed out in daylight hours, but often finish in the dark ;D

i will keep watching this site for details of any rides

JohnT
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Re: Essex yacf
« Reply #16 on: 16 October, 2011, 08:15:29 pm »
I'm away for a few days from this Thursday (back the following Tues) so I won't be out then. Also, if people do choose The Viper for a Weds evening, perhaps they could decide not to this week because I won't be there.
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