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

[rich p]

Looks like you will get the 300

No, I'm Spartacus

 

[theclaud]

Crikey - has anyone looked at the "It is all about the bike" page on the blog?

If Ruth sees it I'll never get her on another FNRttC. She's barely forgiven Simon over the racks and guards issue since Whistable September 2009, and still speaks his name with a discernible suggestion of haughty Germanic sneer.

 

[Aperitif]

Crikey - has anyone looked at the "It is all about the bike" page on the blog?

If Ruth sees it I'll never get her on another FNRttC. She's barely forgiven Simon over the racks and guards issue since Whistable September 2009, and still speaks his name with a discernible suggestion of haughty Germanic sneer.

Simon has not got a Ruthless streak in him - she'll be ok.

 

[dellzeqq]

do you remember those two women at the back of the 'Genteel' Ride, or the three women at the back on the ride to Bognor Regis? Or the young woman with the orange jacket on the March Martlets ride? They were all pushing about 45 pounds on chunky tyres. I think one of my failings on previous rides has been that I haven't made enough of the weight thing. The correspondence with one of the women who found the trip to Brighton so difficult (and more difficult than she expected) has made me ramp it up a bit this time.

Whisper it, but if people turn up with big rucksacks then they can put them in the mini-bus. And we will be handing out emergency rations to people who look as if they're flagging at about five miles before the halfway stop, and at Ditchling.

 

[Aperitif]

do you remember those two women at the back of the 'Genteel' Ride, or the three women at the back on the ride to Bognor Regis? Or the young woman with the orange jacket on the March Martlets ride? They were all pushing about 45 pounds on chunky tyres. I think one of my failings on previous rides has been that I haven't made enough of the weight thing. The correspondence with one of the women who found the trip to Brighton so difficult (and more difficult than she expected) has made me ramp it up a bit this time.

Whisper it, but if people turn up with big rucksacks then they can put them in the mini-bus. And we will be handing out emergency rations to people who look as if they're flagging at about five miles before the halfway stop, and at Ditchling.

 

[theclaud]

It seems that the woman in the orange jacket won't be short of gallant volunteers to help her carry whatever she brings. I'll drop her a line and suggest she pops an anvil in a rucksack...

 

[Aperitif]

She stuck in my mind because her parents were waiting for her - don't recollect her having any baggage - only Adam and I riding alongside... ...sufficient penalty!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I think I'll be Gregory Antagonistes and fit a rack to levelonoir especially.

Ruddy weight weenies, as if the weight of guards and a rack make a noticeable difference to a man of my calibre avoirdupois

 

[Aperitif]

I think I'll be Gregory Antagonistes and fit a rack to levelonoir especially.

Ruddy weight weenies, as if the weight of guards and a rack make a noticeable difference to a man of my calibre avoirdupois

I sympathise with your 'avoirdu' Greg - and I am taking the pois...bien sûr (circumflex 'u' - but I have lost that bloody thing which was published on here earlier - or late last week? Thanks Martin - changed that ta!).

"Time - no man for weights"

 

[slowmotion]

I sympathise with your 'avoirdu' Greg - and I am taking the pois...bien sur (circumflex 'u' - but I have lost that bloody thing which was published on here earlier - or late last week?).

"Time - no man for weights"

http://www.nouilles.info/keyboard_shortcuts.html ???

 

[Aperitif]

http://www.nouilles...._shortcuts.html ???

Hey Martin - thanks. Don't know where I put mine...in 'shortcuts' somewhere I expect. It's an age thing...when you get there, you'll begin to understand !

 

[slowmotion]

Hey Martin - thanks. Don't know where I put mine...in 'shortcuts' somewhere I expect. It's an age thing...when you get there, you'll begin to understand !

It wasn't my memory... I had stashed it in Favorites. BTW, I got "there" a long time ago.....

 

[rusky]

I see the ride is on the Argus website http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8325375.Riders_wanted_for_overnight_London_to_Brighton_ride/

Haven't see the paper today so don't know if it's in there too.

 

[Aperitif]

It wasn't my memory... I had stashed it in Favorites. BTW, I got "there" a long time ago.....

But you look SO young dear 'boy'.

(If our last ride's 'Birthday Boy' age is a dim and distant memory, I'll believe you. But if such a celebration is awaited with anticipation...you wear it well, and need further discussion with rich p on the secrets of Eternal pain in the Youth.)

 

[dellzeqq]

I see the ride is on the Argus website http://www.theargus...._Brighton_ride/

Haven't see the paper today so don't know if it's in there too.

blimey. I never said that stuff! Still, it's all good publicity

Next year's Martlets ride will be on 8th July - the weekend before the DD