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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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Comments
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.