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Rapha London Co. Ride: Essex
If you are not familiar to the county of Essex, with its rolling landscape, oak trees, Kestrels, boy racers in lowered Hondas and girls with too much fake-tan lotion, then you'd do far worse than to acquaint yourself on a ride north-east out of London, through the tranquil suburbs of Leyton, Chigwell and over towards Epping Forest and beyond.
No over-extended sentence can do the region justice, and for a handful of us at Rapha, this is our local riding manor. On Wednesday the London office downed-tools, as they say, and made a trip eastwards from Newington Green, Islington, for a gentle 50kms to the Leather Bottle in Ingatestone ("gentle" for the most part anyway). Four punctures and a coke stop later we were eating as much as the flustered pub staff could manage to cook for 40 plus cyclists. Thanks to everyone who rode out, especially Ben Brown for organising (geezer). The Essex County motto is "many minds, one heart", without being overly sentimental, I'll drink to that.
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- RT @IonaNiDhalaigh: Yahhh mountain jersey in the bag!!! Nice one @mike_cuming!!! @raphacondor http://t.co/GrGqSL0Kgl
- RT @CondorWarehouse: Nice to see the @raphacondor JLT team bike on display @campagnolosrl HQ with so many top pro teams http://t.co/5CgE0tY…
- RT @anpostras: GC after Stage 4: Bialoblocki,, McConvey, Guldhammer, Handley, Pelletier-Roy, Hunal, Simon Yates, Fodor, Roger Aiken, Archbo…
- Spare a thought for @Porterelliott who punctured out of the yellow jersey group, when will he get some luck!
- Took the @anpostras on today. Didn't quite pull it off. @RichHandley90 4th on GC and @mike_cuming in the KoM jersey.
- Tour series update from Stoke up on the site http://t.co/aVdcnGnkOX
- RT @elstopbanana: Here's Kristian House @raphacondor at last night's @TourSeries picture by Sue Howlett Great racing! @SoTCityCouncil http:…
- RT @sticky_bottle: Meant to say, to be eligible for the @raphacondor team car compeition you have to be a stickybottle twitter follower!
- RT @sticky_bottle: OK folks; nice morning for it. To win a day in the Rapha Condor JLT team car on the Rás last stage, Sunday, just retweet…
- Third team overall for the Men in Black at Stoke last night in the @TourSeries
Commentaires
Michael Conway
17th March 2011 05:07pm
Chavélo LOL!
Ian Winfield
18th March 2011 12:00pm
Gods own county.
"The Only Way Is Essex"
Where else can you hit quiet country lanes in less than hour from central London.
Matthew Harris
18th March 2011 05:26pm
Surrey.
Joe Hall
18th March 2011 05:55pm
Sussex.
Ben Brown
18th March 2011 06:00pm
Scotlandshire?
Graeme Raeburn
18th March 2011 06:03pm
Kent?
kieran young
18th March 2011 06:08pm
Rutland
Joe Hall
18th March 2011 06:16pm
Warwickshire?
Alan Johnson
18th March 2011 07:23pm
Next time guys head out to The Viper in Mill Green - defo a cyclist friendly pub and great food!
Cam Smailes
21st March 2011 07:16am
Mmmmm I am missing the pub food and English Country Side Rapha
Ling Lee
23rd March 2011 09:19am
missing the fun!
Joe Hall
23rd March 2011 12:54pm
Cam! Ling! Hope you are both well. Please have a pint on me/us (Rapha)… All the best.