A good sunday

what a good singlespeed weekend. Theo and Matt completing the downs link singlespeed to the sea (and return) and myself and 2 club members going over to chobham common and doing a loop.this was my ride

i am dissapointed i could not make the downs link ride though. got a night ride this week with Big colin and doing the Bucks classic 30k loop with a ride up to denham from the malt shovel. then its the Big trip to Spain with the club
                                                                        

Then there is Matts and Theos account:

Number one in an (hopefully) infrequent series.

The “Downs Link” is a cycle path on a disused railway line that links the North and South Downs Ways.

The West Drayton Single Speeders decided to use it as a route to get from Guildford to the coast at Shoreham. As we didn’t have a lift back from Shoreham we decided to ride it in both directions, a distance of about 70 miles.

For some reason both Peter Manley and Dave Walford had urgent business elsewhere. So only theo and Matt actually rode. Now those of you have ever ridden a single speed MTB will know that they are quite limited in the top speed department, so this this was going to take some time.It can only be described as a “Good training ride”. Every twenty minutes or so something exciting would happen, like the track would bend slightly or we would come to a gate.

Apart from that it was characterized by:

• Monotonous flatness
• Monotonous straightness
• Monotonous cadence
• Monotonous speed
• Ride time 5:45
• Average speed 19.1 km/h

Marginally more interesting than the turbo trainer or Hillingdon, but imagine doing either of those for 6 hours. I’m not sure either of us was actually that physically tired, I think we were more like hypnotized by the ride. So kind of quite fun, in a Zen-like way.Now we’ve finished we are actually quite tempted to do it again sometime.
Oh yes we will !