London Thunder Dry Run Tomorrow

[e2djh]

I'm planning to do a dry run of the route tomorrow, just to check the timings etc, following which we will get route maps prepared and issued.

If anyone fancies a drive out, give me a shout

[doctor_darren]

I'd be up for that! Would that be starting from Ace Cafe and what time?

ttfn

Darren

[e2djh]

doctor_darren said:

I'd be up for that! Would that be starting from Ace Cafe and what time?

ttfn

Darren

sure thing mate, will be nice to have you along. I thought i might get to the ACE at about 12:30 - need to check out their famous brekkie!

[Hoover.]

I would love to come along but I think I would better off trying to press gang a few more at the revived Herts/Beds meet who I have noted are not on the list.

Hoover

[doctor_darren]

Well just been to Argos and got the recommended two-way radios, so we can test these also!

12.30pm at the Ace? Oh, thought you might have suggested something earlier than this, but I arrange things around that time. What's the plan, start at Ace, all the way in and back out to Ace?

Be grateful if you could pm me the route and I can start doing a virtual recon on my TomTom!

Darren

P.S. And the weather forecast is glorious sunshine. Oops, now I've done it!

Edited by doctor_darren on Saturday 18th November 11:23

[e2djh]

Cool, see you at the Ace 12:30 ish

[V8Cerbera]

I'd love to be there. Sadly I can't as I'm going to be asleep (I'll knock off work @ 08:00 this morning)

[e2djh]

V8Cerbera said:

I'd love to be there. Sadly I can't as I'm going to be asleep (I'll knock off work @ 08:00 this morning)

No problem Ben, you need your rest mate!

[anonymous-user]

I might shoot over to the Ace this afternoon.

[e2djh]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I'll be there from 12:30 ish to 13:15, and then again later
YHM

Well you would have if you allowed it

Edited by e2djh on Sunday 19th November 11:21

[ntel]

e2djh said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I'll be there from 12:30 ish to 13:15, and then again later
YHM

Well you would have if you allowed it

Edited by e2djh on Sunday 19th November 11:21

How did you get on Dave?

[hut49]

ntel said:

e2djh said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I'll be there from 12:30 ish to 13:15, and then again later
YHM

Well you would have if you allowed it

Edited by e2djh on Sunday 19th November 11:21

How did you get on Dave?

He probably never got past the brekkie

[e2djh]

ho-hum!
Only just got back home.

Just for a change, WHITEHALL WAS CLOSED -AGAIN!!!
I was pleased to meet up with Doctor_Darren and Supraman at the Ace, and we had a quick chat with the folks from the ACE. Despite Whitehal being closed, we have driven for four hours checking those parts of the route that we could, and that proved to be well worthwhile. My "taking notes whilst driving" skills have come on no-end, but i have yet to decipher them and write them up.

We have found a much better entry and departure route into and out of London than that i had originally planned, but for the second week in a row our attempts have been scuppered by Whitehal being closed.

We will publish teh agreed route, map and directions very soon - but if we can onlly get tehweather, this parade is going to be fantastic.

more to come later
cheers for now

[anonymous-user]

Good to catch up with you today.

Haymarket into Trafalgar Square could be interesting

I got home about 3.15. Fingers crossed the weather is like today

[hut49]

e2djh said:

ho-hum!
but for the second week in a row our attempts have been scuppered by Whitehal being closed.

It's relatively simple to predict that having a convoy of 300+ gas-guzzling, eco-damaging, rich-boy's toys rumbling through the center of ken livingstone's environmentally clean, congestion-controlled, sanitized city with lots of TV news coverage might be seen by ken and his cronies as definitely "off-message" and, since this event will have visibility through the MetroBiB upwards into the GLA I suspect we might find all sorts of unpredicted road blocks and event spoilers on the day.

Call me paranoid if you like but that's what 10 years of new labour and media manipulation does for you!

[anonymous-user]

Just a couple of pics from the Ace Cafe today.





There was a big gathering of bikes there today.