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London to Brighton
matty808:
Reckon i'm gonna try it on a more suitable bike....the romance of 50 odd miles on the Ripper would prob fade at around croydon.
CD17:
I done it last year on a Mtb, 4hrs 7mins, but it was hard work :(
But well worth doing...
& thats me in the Red Cannondale shirt ;)
showtime:
i did it on my old Torker 280 in '92 !
skyways & comp 3's humming all the way (pumped em up nice & hard) :daumenhoch:
to be honest it wasn't that bad, we were overtaking people all the way down there & as long as you just keep going you'll be fine, had to push it up the Beacon though :(
BMX'x are better for climbing than you think but the Beacon is a monster of a hill, it takes half an hour to push your bike up it :shocked:
i reckon we could have got up it if we hadn't done 50 miles on Knobblies in 44/16 to get to it :idiot2:
you'll love it, when we did it we got loads of support & cheers from people on roadbikes & MTBs as nobody was really even riding BMX in 92 let alone dumb enough to do London to Brighton on one :idiot2:
i think it was58 miles that year, the routes always vary a bit but we still made good time
we were dropped off in London about 6 ish & bypassed the official start by riding out of the way a bit (the wrong way ::)) & just got going as the others from work were all on faster bikes & we wanted a bit of a head start
funny thing was we were worried about getting there in 12 hours as the van home left at 6pm so we were just thinking "oh well it doesn't matter how hard it is we got all day to do it" but NOBODY from work caught us up :shocked:
our hour headstart was enough & we just spun away & got down there before mid day (including a couple of stops for nosebleeds & puking etc) and beat the lot of em :daumenhoch:
then they were accusing us of getting the train, w@nkers :tickedoff:
we did it & it was easier than we thought, but we never did it again ::)
well not until '99 on my cannondale when i popped my knee on Turners hill, fair bit of pain the rest of the way :'(
QUADROPHENIA:
--- Quote from: wish id kept my TA on March 09, 2007, 07:57 PM ---I done it last year on a Mtb, 4hrs 7mins, but it was hard work :(
But well worth doing...
& thats me in the Red Cannondale shirt ;)
--- End quote ---
i stopped and had a ice cream there, bloody yummy to
matty808:
Cheers Showtime! That's sort of bringing me back round to the BMX plan again. ;)
And cos i live in Brighton, there's the added incentive of having to get home whatever the pain...
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