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Default London to Brighton bike ride next week (blatant plug for me!)

blatant plug on

Any one travelling from London to Brighton who does not have any other
means of getting back to London contact me. I can take 2 bikes in my
London taxi.

I usually start work between 7 and 8 p.m. so you can have the whole day
in Brighton. There will be a charge for the service but it will
definitely not be the full fare! Price depends where you want to get to!

blatant plug off

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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:51:59 +0100, Barry Salter
wrote:

Southern - Cycles will be banned throughout the Southern network all day
on Sunday 19 June 2005.


Which, as I've posted elsewhere, is a massive over-reaction, and will
nicely stuff up the journeys of anyone who relies on train+bike who
may well be travelling nowhere near either London or Brighton, nor the
route of the Ride.

The Ride have organised alternative transport - this doesn't help
anyone who wishes to travel for other reasons.

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Barry Salter writes:

Yup, as the new trains don't have a brakevan, so there's nowhere to
safely stow the bikes. Good innit?


sensible
Sounds bleeding stupid to me. The trains are virtually empty at weekends,
so who's going to care?
/sensible


Ah but, in this litigation-mad society that we now have, who will pay if a
'regular' passenger gets injured by a badly-stowed or falling bicycle? I
suspect that that is what is behind the decision.




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Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
(Huge)typed



Mike Hughes writes:

blatant plug on

Any one travelling from London to Brighton who does not have any other
means of getting back to London contact me. I can take 2 bikes in my
London taxi.



Are those wonderful trains the PT weenies are always exhorting us to use
refusing to carry the cyclists back again this year?



Fraid so. They're also banning bicyles on many other trains in the South
of England and on Thameslink AIUI.

The Rail Passenger Committee (Southern England) looked into this last
year. We were assured that everybody taking part had been informed that
trains could not be supplied and lorries were put on in their place to
take them back to London. However 1,000s of bikes still turned up at
Brighton and RPC monitored the chaos that was caused and the disruption
to other non-cyclist passengers. This year Southern and Thameslink in
particular are trying to prevent cyclists from going to London for the
start and returning late afternoon evening because the scale of bikes
that take part is probably in the 10s of 1,000s it will be monitored
again. Their is a real problem here, the event has grown to a massive
scale with both official registered riders (who have no excuse for not
knowing the lorry arrangements) and many more how cycle along with the rest.

Chris Fribbins
RPC (SE) Member (until committees abolished at end of July)
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Huge ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

cyclist-hater
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. So cycle back, if it's so
bloody marvellous.
/cyclist-hater


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Barry Salter ) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

Southern - Cycles will be banned throughout the Southern network all day
on Sunday 19 June 2005.

Thameslink - Cycles will be banned on all Thameslink trains operating
between London Blackfriars and Brighton all day on Sunday 19 June 2005.
Cycles will continue to be carried between Bedford/Luton and London
Blackfriars and between Wimbledon/Sutton/Carshalton and London
Blackfriars


Madness.

Abso-****ing-lute madness.
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