205 miles in a day (Tommy Godwin Challenge) - the Discussion thread
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Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Good luck to him, hope he does it
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Well done to anyone who could be bothered to plough through it.
Too close typed, far too long, and as has been said, the content is dreadful.
He may score highly as cyclist, but he's useless as a communicator.
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
I thought that page did the job well. He won't be there on a social call, he won't have time to do anything besides shower, eat and sleep.
You're not really being a 'host' - as it says, you would be a 'pit stop'. Best make that crystal clear from the off...
You're not really being a 'host' - as it says, you would be a 'pit stop'. Best make that crystal clear from the off...
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
If anyone I know of can do this, it's Steve. I'll be donating at some point for sure.
And as for that host page on his being a bit unfriendly, I see it more as exceedingly honest and matter-of-fact. If you're the kind of person who reads that and thinks 'no thanks', you weren't right for the job in the first place, no reflection on yourself or him. Like the solo riders on RAAM, he's going to need patience, understanding and firm TLC, and it's not going to be an easy job for anyone. He's stated exactly what will be required of hosts, and quite right too.
And as for that host page on his being a bit unfriendly, I see it more as exceedingly honest and matter-of-fact. If you're the kind of person who reads that and thinks 'no thanks', you weren't right for the job in the first place, no reflection on yourself or him. Like the solo riders on RAAM, he's going to need patience, understanding and firm TLC, and it's not going to be an easy job for anyone. He's stated exactly what will be required of hosts, and quite right too.
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Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I think he should attempt it on a heavy steel four geared bike like Tommy Godwin used.
mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
- Location
- Egremont, Cumbria
The first time I met Steve was at a YACF hostelling weekend in Kildale in the North Yorkshire Moors. He rode up on the Saturday from Milton Keynes to meet everyone and join in for a few hours. Slept for a couple bit and then set off back home to MK in the early hours of Sunday morning. At the time it was -10 degC overnight - cold enough to kill the primer fuel pump in my car outside.
He's a very hard rider, and if there's one person who could make this work then I would say he is him. However he is not a media person and I'd bet that as the team fall in line over the next few weeks a lot of the rough edges will be knocked off that site.
He's a very hard rider, and if there's one person who could make this work then I would say he is him. However he is not a media person and I'd bet that as the team fall in line over the next few weeks a lot of the rough edges will be knocked off that site.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Site won't load for me now so perhaps the process has already started.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
I feel gubbed and in the mood for grub and a kip after a hundred miles let alone 200, a wash is a bonus to be honest. He's welcome at Casa RM if he'll have us.
luckyfox
She's the cats pajamas
- Location
- County Durham
Shush you moaning Minnie!!I'm not thinking whether it's possible, more 'why?'
Snow/ ice, wind and illness and just the dread of having to do it in February once the mindless drudgery sets in! [ Being so cheerful keeps me going!]
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Fair play to him, the "volunteers" bit has been rewritten and is now much better. I wish him every success in this insane challenge. Doubt he'd want to come to Glossop though, keeping it flat has got to be the way I would think
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It does have a subtly different tone now, doesn't it!
The thing is - I can't help thinking of the original requirements list when reading it ... I wonder whether someone else made the changes?
frank9755
Cyclist
- Location
- West London
I guess reading posts like these ones makes me realise why we have a second rate PR man who doesn't seem to stand for anything as prime minister!
Steve is a guy who works in a warehouse and has no pretentions to literary prowess. He is a hero in the UK long-distance cycling community, both because of what he has achieved and the unassuming and understated way in which he has gone about it. He never has a bad word to say about anyone and he has helped countless riders to achieve things they would never have done without his advice, encouragement and support, via things like the group 600km ride he organises each year for people stretching themselves by stepping up to that distance.
To keep going on about about perceived flaws in the first draft of his website just feels like nit-picking in the extreme, and to do it when the nits are no longer there, seems to miss the point by a light year and be uncharitable to the point of being a bit weird.
Steve is a guy who works in a warehouse and has no pretentions to literary prowess. He is a hero in the UK long-distance cycling community, both because of what he has achieved and the unassuming and understated way in which he has gone about it. He never has a bad word to say about anyone and he has helped countless riders to achieve things they would never have done without his advice, encouragement and support, via things like the group 600km ride he organises each year for people stretching themselves by stepping up to that distance.
To keep going on about about perceived flaws in the first draft of his website just feels like nit-picking in the extreme, and to do it when the nits are no longer there, seems to miss the point by a light year and be uncharitable to the point of being a bit weird.
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