StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
Well, sounds about right for this lot...they don't simplify when they can complicate!!
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Well, sounds about right for this lot...they don't simplify when they can complicate!!
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
Probably for the same reasons he thinks £59 is a reasonable fee, that people need luggage, and to have it conveyed to Brighton, and all the other bumf. Because cycling is so hard, isn't it? Let alone cycling at night.....
Indeed. And I didn't even know quite how difficult it was until Mr Moonrider explained it all!
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
. Come on Stu, there has to be a business opportunity in there for you!!!
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JohnTCC
Active Member
- Location
- Brentwood, Essex
No room for ball gowns, sorry....
Why do you want a gown for them.... mine fit nicely into bibshorts
JohnTCC
frank9755
Cyclist
- Location
- West London
It was a very good effort but, on balance, I still think Andy Allsopp does better videos of night rides
I'll see your Kings Cross and raise you Hilltop Lane southwest of Chaldon. Who was it that wwas always trying to get me to take the ride that way? Before he broke his hip?
http://www.mapmyride.com/s/routes/view/road-cycling-map/united-kingdom/tottenham/50210406
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
Ha ha.
It also seems a tad cruel, if not uncharitable, to get the Moonriders down to the sea front, and then make them climb back up to the racecourse.
It also seems a tad cruel, if not uncharitable, to get the Moonriders down to the sea front, and then make them climb back up to the racecourse.
rb58
Enigma
- Location
- Bexley, Kent
We could have a special edition FNRttC shirt made with the legend 'I'm riding for free, FNRttC' on the back. The shirt would be cheaper than an entry to the Moonlighter gig anyway. 
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
I guess they get a decent breakfast! It seems to me that the entire thing is based on getting people to the halfway stop at Ardingly and the finish within the shortest possible time, by starting off the fastest riders last.
When John B, who occupies a position of some responsibility in Brighton asked how the BHF could make the ride safer I said 'start them all together, but with the fastest riders at the front'. It reduces the chances of a bike to bike crash, by reducing overtaking. We started the last Martlets ride by controlling the pace to Mitcham - and, even with the controlled pace, the racing snakes made their way to the front. When they were unleashed the ride simply spread out along a nigh-on six mile straight road. The Moonriders seem to be planning on the maximum amount of overtaking somewhere between Ardingly and the Beacon - as in that downhill bend just beyond Ardingly that tightens as it goes left (they'd be much better off taking a right turn down College Road at Ardingly and missing out Lindfield altogether).
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
Although with their crazy starting times, everyone will finish at once! So really big queues for breakfast.
And I wouldn't want to be driving near Ardingley, going the other way at the same time. You just know the speed merchants will be overtaking on the other side of the road.
Hey ho.
There must be something positive about the ride. Do they do a jersey?
While there will be speed merchants the majority of the ride will probably people who have not done that distance before astride some of our finest gas pipe engineering. There is nothing more dispiriting when struggling gainfully up Turners Hill et al to be scalped en mass by lycra missiles.
At least on the FNRttC we do feel and care about those who wouldn't make it without support and encouragement. That's part of the magic - as many of the regulars can remember their first FNRttC as something well beyond their comfort zone.
And having done one, becoming addicted ... that's the point - is it about cycling for yourself or money for others?
At least on the FNRttC we do feel and care about those who wouldn't make it without support and encouragement. That's part of the magic - as many of the regulars can remember their first FNRttC as something well beyond their comfort zone.
And having done one, becoming addicted ... that's the point - is it about cycling for yourself or money for others?
