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Once you're a member, you just turn up and ride, on the understanding that you help lead rides or volunteer in other ways. Some ride leaders ask people to sign up in advance on this forum to control numbers, but there's always the option of more than one group if there are too many people. There are club rides most days, except generally Mondays and Fridays.

There are often drop outs on the day so keep your eyes peeled (and up your reaction time?) Good luck!

Hopefully you found it OK, just by the cat on Holloway Road, not far from Archway roundabout

The meeting point for this intro ride is Whittington Park on Holloway Road as shown above, not Regent's Park.

There were plenty of us at 8am. If you are a new member, you should really come to 8am laps rather than 7am as you need a high level of fitness and skill in riding in a group for the 7am laps.

Is anyone up for doing the long route at B pace? I've been cycling again for a couple of weeks so hopefully can keep going over the long route, though I won't have done more than 5okm recently beforehand. +Franc +JoeS +daygo30 ?

I've signed up for 117 miles since I had a free entry, can always downgrade on the day. I'm still hobbling around and will be away on holiday (where cycling was never part of the plan) so won't be able to cycle until September so I'll have to see how fit I can get for 24 Sept in 3 weeks back on the bike. Would be nice to have some company as long as you two don't want to smash it

Are you still doing this? Anyone else? I won a free entry on 20 July and heard of this a few hours before I was knocked of my bike by a careless driver. My knee is still too stiff to allow me to cycle but I hope to be back on the bike in time to do this so it would be good to team up if anyone is up for a B pace.

Well done to those of you turned up, hope to see you out on a club ride soon. Sorry to those of you who didn't get a place, we had a lot more no shows than usual this month, not sure why ....

Some pictures from this morning. Thanks for a great ride, hope to see you on a club ride soon.

Well done everyone. Sorry I had to rush off, just made it in time. As +MikeMC says, do join a group skills session or come along for 8am Regent's Park laps. If you want more hills, there's always Wednesday evenings.

Hi Sarah, I would definitely like to come on Weds 5 Oct, thanks Stephen

Thanks for remembering me. I can't make tomorrow but hopefully the following Wednesday

Hi Sarah +justretch sorry I can no longer make tomorrow, but I'd definitely like to attend a future Wednesday,
Stephen

Sarah
yes, please thanks
Stephen

Hi Sarah +justretch
is there one this Wednesday lunchtime, and is it possible to bring my bike inside the venue (i.e. not worry about locking up)

Stephen

Possibly, keep me posted, thanks!

Thanks. Unfortunately, Wednesdays are my favourite ICC ride of the week so I won't be joining you unless you ever do another day

I can't make this, but I would be interested in any future sessions

Yes, Zoo at 8am, introduce yourself as new

If you have some experience riding in a group you could try 8am Regents Park laps, followed by 9am coffee. There are many groups of different paces. Just make sure you tell the leader of your group that you are a first timer.

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I've just sent it to you. If you can't see it, let me know

Based on my long experience (i.e. one ride, at the beginning of this month) drop outs happen overnight so if you keep the morning free you may well be lucky!

I agree with +GrahamP - what you want is likely to evolve as you cycle more. I restarted cycling in 2007 and have bought 6 bikes over that period. I now have 3 bikes (1 written off in a crash, 1 had to be replaced by Halfords after poor set up/service, 1 I sold on e-bay for about 40% of its RRP). I'm very happy with all 3 of them but, given what I now know, I could have 2. There are so many subtle variants that it is hard to know what you want until you try and of course what you want changes in time.

I also agree with the price point void and I think there's also one from £1000 as so many bikes are priced at £1000 to meet the requirements of most cycle to work schemes so there's not much available for a bit above £1000.