FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast in aid of Martlets Hospice 3rd September 2010

[dellzeqq]

Blimey, nice one.
The London town midnight traffic is not going to know what will hit them.

hence the Sloane Square start. Can you imagine what it would have been like at HPC?

 

[Tompy]

hence the Sloane Square start. Can you imagine what it would have been like at HPC?

You would have been stood in the road holding up the traffic for a very long time indeed.

 

[dellzeqq]

You would have been stood in the road holding up the traffic for a very long time indeed.

I'd have had taxi tyre tracks all over me. Sloane Square should be very much easier, and, in any case, I'll probably stand back and let the professionals do the business.

 

[Tim Hall]

I'd have had taxi tyre tracks all over me.

"Tonight Matthew I'm going to be Jimi Hendix"

"Well that's lovely Simon. And what will you sing for us?"

"I thought Crosstown Traffic would hit the spot."

 

[StuAff]

Nice one indeed. I'd have made it 304 if I could.....oh well, there's always next year's.

 

[Aperitif]

Good call, Tim!
We live in sheltered times...
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Jimi Hendrix was a sometime resident of the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan - trust the ride leader to litter the event with allusion.

 

[dellzeqq]

Accidental allusion, but Crosstown Traffic is my all time favourite Hendrix number.

As for the Chelsea Hotel - few hotels make death part of their marketing

It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning on in 1953, and where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols may have stabbed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, to death on October 12, 1978. http://www.hotelchel...com/history.php

 

[dellzeqq]

Those of you who are local to Hackbridge will have spotted that the bridge over the railway is closed. As in no way through.........

Now - the bridge is due to re-open on the 2nd. I'll be doing a recce on the day of the ride, but have to say that 'Plan B' is crap. So - those of you with psychic energy to spare might think of channeling it in the direction of the A237....

 

[mangaman]

Well, I've signed up with the fancy online booking system. I'm not sure that the phrases "Nocturnal Extravaganza" and "static marshal" sit too well together, but by all means put me down for the thrills and spills of standing around and pointing on the corner of Short Straw Lane for five hours. Don't say I don't know how to have a wild time...

Did it work Claudine.

I tried to just give them some money (as a fellow static marshall - I'm backing (and practising) my staticity, and it's holding up OK)

I tried to donate as a rider - for obvious charitable reasons and entered a Dante-esque circle of hell on the Martletet's website, involving endless and gratuitous refusal of them to accept my home phone number.

In the end I gave up. I plan to go to Brighton at the end anyway and give them a few quid cash in hand in exchange for a beer.

I didn't quite trust their website

I've probably already donated about £200 without realising.

PS - my favourite static marshalling position is the 1st chap, who marshalls "Mitcham toilets". Imagine the glamour?

 

[rich p]

Did it work Claudine.

I tried to just give them some money (as a fellow static marshall - I'm backing (and practising) my staticity, and it's holding up OK)

I tried to donate as a rider - for obvious charitable reasons and entered a Dante-esque circle of hell on the Martletet's website, involving endless and gratuitous refusal of them to accept my home phone number.

In the end I gave up. I plan to go to Brighton at the end anyway and give them a few quid cash in hand in exchange for a beer.

I didn't quite trust their website

I've probably already donated about £200 without realising.

PS - my favourite static marshalling position is the 1st chap, who marshalls "Mitcham toilets". Imagine the glamour?

I gave up after emails and phone calls to their IT and Simon sorted me out.

 

[mangaman]

I gave up after emails and phone calls to their IT and Simon sorted me out.

Thanks Rich - I'll probably see someone from there in the morning I guess and stuff their pockets with purses of gold and silver instead.

(Or offer to by them a half of bitter shandy - whichever is cheaper)

They do need their website sorting though. After trying your hardest to give to a charity and being snookered by their technology, it must put off a lot of potential donors. It pissed me off.

I wonder if they know?

 

[dellzeqq]

Thanks Rich - I'll probably see someone from there in the morning I guess and stuff their pockets with purses of gold and silver instead.

(Or offer to by them a half of bitter shandy - whichever is cheaper)

They do need their website sorting though. After trying your hardest to give to a charity and being snookered by their technology, it must put off a lot of potential donors. It pissed me off.

I wonder if they know?

I know it's not perfect, and I think that we'll have a good look at it before 2011.

 

[dellzeqq]

If it is not re-opened in time, and can't even be walked over, wouldn't a small detour, right down Hackbridge Road, Nightingale Road, left into Strawberry Lane, right into River Gardens, left Butter Hill to come back out just before the lights suffice?


This would be a bit marshal intensive though.

true - 3 marshals at a minimum and almost a mile extra - we went by way of North Street this morning

We went down there today and there is a very cheesy pedestrian way through, covered in glass. The Contractors can look forward to a week of phone calls.

Great new variation at Dr. Bike this morning. Front and rear brakes pretty damn good, but front disc brake pushes wheel way to one side. QR one 360 degree turn away from the wheel falling out of the frame. Tighten QR. Witter on brightly about staying alive. Think catseyes, Reigate Hill.

Two kids about 13 came down. 'Are you Dr. Bike?'. 'You can call me Simon'. 'Dr. Bike, can you look at these gears, there's something wrong with them'. Hanger bent through 45 degrees. 'Aren't you a little young to have a kiddy seat on the back?' 'It's my mums, I just crashed it'. 'So you want me to fix it so you're mum won't know you've had her bike away'. 'Oh go on Dr. Bike!!!! Please!!!'

 

[StuAff]

Witter on brightly about staying alive. Think catseyes, Reigate Hill.

Oh yes, I do...not that I can actually remember them!

 

[StuAff]

Two kids about 13 came down. 'Are you Dr. Bike?'. 'You can call me Simon'. 'Dr. Bike, can you look at these gears, there's something wrong with them'. Hanger bent through 45 degrees. 'Aren't you a little young to have a kiddy seat on the back?' 'It's my mums, I just crashed it'. 'So you want me to fix it so you're mum won't know you've had her bike away'. 'Oh go on Dr. Bike!!!! Please!!!'

Smart kids.......