Manchester - Llandudno: Saturday May 13

[doughnut]

Now I'm praying for a real thunderstorm just outside Piccadilly to get my bike properly cleaned.

 

[theclaud]

Have you fixed that creaking pedal or the shrieking freewheel?

I brushed some of the sand off. Will that do?

 

[I like Skol]

You'll fit right in in the Northern Quarter providing you're riding some weird fixie and can grow a decent beard by this evening

A beard, I'll be there in about 45 minutes so will see what I can do......

@I like Skol ....are you cycling there???
I can't remember the situation for locking the bike outside as I'm usually well pissed on a pub crawl by the time I get there tbh

I will bring a lock for you

I saw the bike racks on google view and will be carrying a heavyish lock thanks anyway.

 

[theclaud]

My beard is not really coming along too well. Can I still drink beer?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Hi folks. I think I'm going to have to drop out again for the second year running.

I had a bastard cold come on during the night. Have been in to work but had a bit of a rough day and I think riding a century tomorrow probably isn't the best idea.

I'm really sorry @nickyboy. Hope to catch up with you again in the not too distant future.

 

[Wobblers]

Have you fixed that creaking pedal or the shrieking freewheel?

I've got a creaking Canondale which would rouse the dead from their slumber throughout the whole of N. Wales, or a mildly creaking Planet X with a stunningly loud freewheel (that may be the shrieking freewheel you were complaining of last year).

Which one would you prefer?

 

[Wobblers]

Now I'm praying for a real thunderstorm just outside Piccadilly to get my bike properly cleaned.

Funny you should say that: it's now pissing down with great vigour here in fomerly sunny Tranmere. No thunder, though.

Could I politely request that you desist from the praying?

 

[gavgav]

Hi folks. I think I'm going to have to drop out again for the second year running.

I had a bastard cold come on during the night. Have been in to work but had a bit of a rough day and I think riding a century tomorrow probably isn't the best idea.

I'm really sorry @nickyboy. Hope to catch up with you again in the not too distant future.

Oh no!! There are loads of people coming down with it at work this week, must be some bugs about.

 

[Crackle]

I've got a creaking Canondale which would rouse the dead from their slumber throughout the whole of N. Wales, or a mildly creaking Planet X with a stunningly loud freewheel (that may be the shrieking freewheel you were complaining of last year).

Which one would you prefer?

I'd prefer you to ride well behind me then unless the wind is very strong from behind, in which case, in front.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Oh no!! There are loads of people coming down with it at work this week, must be some bugs about.

Doug and Jen are sniffing and sneezing too so I suspect we might have picked it up on the plane home.

I've only had 2 colds this year and both have come on just before planned century rides. I rode through the last one and wished I hadn't afterwards.

 

[Crackle]

Hi folks. I think I'm going to have to drop out again for the second year running.

I had a bastard cold come on during the night. Have been in to work but had a bit of a rough day and I think riding a century tomorrow probably isn't the best idea.

I'm really sorry @nickyboy. Hope to catch up with you again in the not too distant future.

Sorry to hear that Phil.

 

[theclaud]

Hi folks. I think I'm going to have to drop out again for the second year running.

I had a bastard cold come on during the night. Have been in to work but had a bit of a rough day and I think riding a century tomorrow probably isn't the best idea.

I'm really sorry @nickyboy. Hope to catch up with you again in the not too distant future.

 

[gavgav]

Doug and Jen are sniffing and sneezing too so I suspect we might have picked it up on the plane home.

I've only had 2 colds this year and both have come on just before planned century rides. I rode through the last one and wished I hadn't afterwards.

Yes planes are perfect places for bugs to spread, in the re-circulated air. You need to be fully fit for a century ride, not worth the risk.

 

[gavroche]

Latest forecast: SSW 17mph winds. Get those legs warmed up!

 

[nickyboy]

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