marooncat
New Member
- Location
- West Lothian
magnatom said:Cry?
I'm sure you could get a replacement number on the day. I think Dayvo had to do that last year.
Phew - found them and I even still have the safety pins and tie thingy they sent with it
Pedal for Scotland 2009
- Thread starter BIGSESAL
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Phew - found them and I even still have the safety pins and tie thingy they sent with it
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
pickup1980 said:
Intending to get the bus around 7am.
I'll be wearing my CC jersey, event number 1154.
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
Mr Pig said:
Sent mine out to you now. First chance I've had to sit down and get the laptop fired up tonight!
Mr Pig
New Member
- Location
- North Lanarkshire
goo_mason said:
Got it, thank you. See you all in the morning.
Mr Pig
New Member
- Location
- North Lanarkshire
Yip. 6.40am and it's looking like a beautiful day. See you all soon.
marooncat
New Member
- Location
- West Lothian
Mr Pig said:
Yeah looking good
marooncat
New Member
- Location
- West Lothian
Ok, my day has not gone as well as planned
Bike came off the bike carrier whilst on route to Glasgow and did not survive the subsequent bouncing along the tarmac on the M8. No idea how it happened as it was sitting on the carrier fine when we left. The damage is terminal unfortunately.
So I am now back at home.... browsing websites trying to work out what I am going to get next (should be able to claim on our household insurance for it).
Hope it all goes better for everyone else.
Bike came off the bike carrier whilst on route to Glasgow and did not survive the subsequent bouncing along the tarmac on the M8
. No idea how it happened as it was sitting on the carrier fine when we left. The damage is terminal unfortunately.So I am now back at home.... browsing websites trying to work out what I am going to get next (should be able to claim on our household insurance for it).
Hope it all goes better for everyone else.
Oh no! What a nightmare. How did you get it off the road?
I'm back, showered and fed. It was good - weather was just about perfect. I'm not impressed by the catering, mind you! I only stopped at Linlithgow, so the others might have been better - but I queued for 10/15 mins, expecting pasta and sandwiches and all sorts of goodies - and got handed a tomato cup-a-soup and a dried out roll. WTF? It was really bad!
The woman serving me said the 'pasta suppliers let them down at the last minute'. I was too stunned to ask what happened to the sandwich suppliers? The real-flipping-soup suppliers? Even some margarine on my roll would have been a help!
Oh, and there was an endless line of people handing out wee bottles of milk, in case you wanted to relive school playtime.
I'm back, showered and fed. It was good - weather was just about perfect. I'm not impressed by the catering, mind you! I only stopped at Linlithgow, so the others might have been better - but I queued for 10/15 mins, expecting pasta and sandwiches and all sorts of goodies - and got handed a tomato cup-a-soup and a dried out roll. WTF? It was really bad!
The woman serving me said the 'pasta suppliers let them down at the last minute'. I was too stunned to ask what happened to the sandwich suppliers? The real-flipping-soup suppliers? Even some margarine on my roll would have been a help!
Oh, and there was an endless line of people handing out wee bottles of milk, in case you wanted to relive school playtime.
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BIGSESAL
New Member
- Location
- Neilston, Glasgow
Wow I really enjoyed it. I only stopped at Avonbridge to refill my water bottle. I know it wasn't a race but what time did you guys do it in? I finished in 3 hours 15 mins.
Sorry to hear the catering wasn't up to much in Linlithgow. I didn't actually have anything to eat there, I was already full up from all the delicious cakes and tea the good ladies of Avondale Parish Church rustled up for us. Finished about 3.15 pm, weather was just right, dry and mild, sunny for most of it.
photos...
Well I hope you all enjoyed it. It was too sunny for me and I was only taking photos! I've got one sunburnt arm and half a red face, not happy...
Martyn who runs www.mybibnumber.com is on his way back from the finish and then will start going through all the shots and getting the bib numbers, and then upload to the link above. (then just click on Pedal for Scotland linky thingy)
If you could direct anyone you know who did the event to the website, we'd appreciate it, as our information is a bit hidden away on the Pedal for Scotland website (to say the least)
I don't know yet how many shots were taken in total, but I "managed" 6500 in 5 hours! An average of 1 every 3 seconds! Hence the sunburn.
Any queries, questions or advice for future events please get in touch. (and yes we are thinking of doing downhill shots B), but it does open a few problems for us, and also riders going downhill tend to have their heads down more, than when going up.)
Cheers
Dave
Well I hope you all enjoyed it. It was too sunny for me and I was only taking photos! I've got one sunburnt arm and half a red face, not happy...
Martyn who runs www.mybibnumber.com is on his way back from the finish and then will start going through all the shots and getting the bib numbers, and then upload to the link above. (then just click on Pedal for Scotland linky thingy)
If you could direct anyone you know who did the event to the website, we'd appreciate it, as our information is a bit hidden away on the Pedal for Scotland website (to say the least
)I don't know yet how many shots were taken in total, but I "managed" 6500 in 5 hours! An average of 1 every 3 seconds! Hence the sunburn.
Any queries, questions or advice for future events please get in touch. (and yes we are thinking of doing downhill shots B), but it does open a few problems for us, and also riders going downhill tend to have their heads down more, than when going up.)
Cheers
Dave
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
DaveH said:Well I hope you all enjoyed it. It was too sunny for me and I was only taking photos! I've got one sunburnt arm and half a red face, not happy...
Martyn who runs www.mybibnumber.com is on his way back from the finish and then will start going through all the shots and getting the bib numbers, and then upload to the link above. (then just click on Pedal for Scotland linky thingy)
If you could direct anyone you know who did the event to the website, we'd appreciate it, as our information is a bit hidden away on the Pedal for Scotland website (to say the least
I don't know yet how many shots were taken in total, but I "managed" 6500 in 5 hours! An average of 1 every 3 seconds! Hence the sunburn.
Any queries, questions or advice for future events please get in touch. (and yes we are thinking of doing downhill shots B), but it does open a few problems for us, and also riders going downhill tend to have their heads down more, than when going up.)
Cheers
Dave
Dave - there was a flyer for your website in the goody bag handed out at the finidh line, which will hopefully help people find you!
Oh, and I hope you got some good shots of us in our CycleChat jerseys...
HonestMan1910
Über Member
- Location
- Winchburgh
Great day out and sorry to have ruined the day for MaroonCat
So nice to meet you guys and don't know how the split happened so quickly , but felt really good and just kept going until Winchburgh where my wife, m-in-law, s-in-law and the kids were waiting to cheer me on. Stopped at Kirkliston for a refreshment and then onto Victoria Park arriving at 1353hrs, 3hrs 38mins i think.
The food stops looked horrendously busy, well marshalled event and a great reception in Edinburgh.
Hope to meet you guys again and enjoy your company a little bit more.
B)
So nice to meet you guys and don't know how the split happened so quickly , but felt really good and just kept going until Winchburgh where my wife, m-in-law, s-in-law and the kids were waiting to cheer me on. Stopped at Kirkliston for a refreshment and then onto Victoria Park arriving at 1353hrs, 3hrs 38mins i think.
The food stops looked horrendously busy, well marshalled event and a great reception in Edinburgh.
Hope to meet you guys again and enjoy your company a little bit more.
B)
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
A great day, great weather, great company, stopping off to use Mr Pig's cludgie, no cakes, disappointing nosh at Linlithgow Palace (cup-a-soup, a dry roll, bananas and Tunnocks Caramel Wafers), BhoyJim having a very painful off after Magnatom toe-poked a traffic cone into his path (and saving his noggin with a now-dented helmet), Scoosh turning up at the pub in time to buy a second round - and since HLaB wasn't there with his GPS, we didn't get lost.
Oh, and Magnatom has a story to tell about the guy who gobbed on him and then squared up to him before we even got to the start line. What can I say? The man's an aggro-magnet B)
A few pics will no doubt follow soon.
Oh, and Magnatom has a story to tell about the guy who gobbed on him and then squared up to him before we even got to the start line. What can I say? The man's an aggro-magnet B)
A few pics will no doubt follow soon.
