there have been a few rides to brighton and a few nightrides to various places (other than the dunwich thang), at one point it seemed like brighton was yearly but to my knowledge there hasn't been one in a while. i've floated the idea to a few people and got a fairly enthusiastic response from people who weren't about or just didn't attend previous group rides. seeing as i'm just a part-timenger i'm not really into the dynamo this year though maybe another fear and loathing in the greater cyclist community could be on the cards...

anyways, i'm going to ride to brighton one night this summer, probably on acid, definitely with a bunch of mates/messengers/exengers- seeing as most of you are at least one of those and many are two i thought i should float this here.

who's up for it? should we get enough of us should we think about a support wagon (i know it's only brighton but it means if someone takes a tumble we don't need to involve the authorities)? input welcome- dates etc.

i still cant believe the official london to brighton ride sold out so quickly, in day apperently! how on earth can a ride sell out? its ridiculas, i was so looking forward to it, why dont they just let more people join thus raising more money for the british heart foundation, it would only need a few extra trains on a sunday night. Having said that a night ride does sound like a great idea, good way to beat the heat, thou you do miss out on the pubs en route.....

i like the idea. will we be riding slowly?

Hey Sleeps. Count me in, brushing cobwebs off the green machine as we speak!
Oh hang on, maybe I could get hold of a tandem and B could come along too, just for old time sake...

"rolling to the stones has a rep for lycra, testosterone and vegan cake. "

It's a yay from me.(weather permitting,I'm not doing any rain)

you lot r rackin mad!

DD is 4th of July this year, I believe.

If i can make it over i'd love to do another Bighton Run.
When you get a date sorted i'll let you know...

okay, dates i absolutely can't do: anything before the 23rd may, 20th june, 18th july. i think we shouldn't do the weekend either side of dunwich which leaves:

30th may
6th june
13th june
edit: just seen steff's post- maybe 27th june
25th july

votes please boys and girls!

targetbot- poll function? pwetty pwetty pwease

27th would be best for me.

who's up for it?

Do you reckon this is doable on a fixed (68 GI) ? I've been on a few nightime missions but never one this long and I don't know what the hill situation is either. Secondly I'm fairly sure I could get my mate on support car duties if we can cover the petrol and get him some weed.

27th June ist gut ja. Diaried.
I'm riding Becky's road bike, simply because my knees have still not quite recovered from the old fall-into-the-engine-room-bilges escapade in february. Also de Ditchling beacon is deeply unfashionable.

Lookin forward to it.
S

I've got a better idea. Some of us are talking about riding over the cascades next summer. Fancy doing that?

Fuckery! Can't do the 27th, I've just found out Clare's working Glastonbury and she's wangled me a guest pass. So I'll be IN a field on acid while you'll all be NEAR fields on acid. And this after I missed the dynamo/Nelly's stag do last year because some selfish "friend" needed me to dress like a lion tamer and shout at his wedding. Why do people insist on doing nice things to me when I want to cripple my limbs?

Perhaps this is the place to start discussing the resurrection of the SuperCow next year? Or attempting the NederCow?

And what are the cascades, Nhatt?

Cabbie Judas...

Supercow?

Nononononono

No.

Definitely not.

SleepyJesus... reuniting ye olde club AY would involve bringing Alan along in a box and shouting at him until the rest of his hair fell out or he had a nervous breakdown, whichever came first. Also at some point Gollum would have to crash into a tree, I'd have another fight with Timmy, pigeonboy would have some protracted moonie love affair or other and a certain friend of ours would have to return from the other side of the globe just so's the pair of us could quit just because we felt like it. And someone would have to bring the entire Wong Kei with them so we could abandon the whole adventure halfway through and go for noodles.

What a lovely thought.

11th July fine by me.

"we could just call alan up in the middle of the night?"

He'll never sleep again. Yes. Lets do that.

No support vehicle I'm afraid, he's sold his car to buy a bike!

Basically the situation is that after years of smashing my knees up from skateboarding they are not in the best of shape, Pentonville Road is probably the steepest gradient I can manage before they start failing me. It's a fucker because my leg muscles are blatantly up to the test it's just my knees that fail me . Also I have still yet to scale Muswell and Highgate hill, most of the time I get halfway up and think 'Fuck this I could walk at the same speed and save my energy'. Based on this evidence of my pussyness whad'ya reckon my chances of making it to Brighton are?