The Fridays Tour 2012

[dellzeqq]

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Back in posts 5, 15 and 80-something, offering cake and food and stuff
[/quote]which I'm hoping to take up.

 

[User10119]

Jolly good

 

[Landslide]

there's a bit of discussion chez DZ about the optimum luggage quotient (c TimO). One of us thinks spare shorts, spare socks, spare vest, tools and, if you really are going to stay at the best places, spare cycling top is it. Another of us has some kind of Queen of Sheba fantasy, with forty elephants bearing ball gowns, Prada shoes, lipsticks and the like. And, in the absence of elephants, there would be luggage ghastliness.

I thought Lady DZ seemed like a highly practical type when I met her.

 

[StuAff]

I thought Lady DZ seemed like a highly practical type when I met her.

+1. He's only complaining because he gets to carry it.

 

[rich p]

Well quite. He used to be able to get away with all this nonsense when Susie was The Babe in an unseen Mrs Mainwairing way. Now we know her it doesn't work the same way.

...now she's a handsome woman of mature years apparently

 

[dellzeqq]

...now she's a handsome woman of mature years apparently

you're very brave....................

 

[Aperitif]

...now she's a handsome woman of mature years apparently

Who, Susie? My, my. Marinyork's description of this charming belle is getting around the forum. Shocking. Do you think that is wise of him to have described her in such a way?
He's toast I reckon.

 

[dellzeqq]

And what was the value of the contract?

well somebody put a tenner through my letterbox this morning.............

 

[wanda2010]

Guys, I'd like your advice.

I currently have a hybrid and a compact road bike: hybrid for commuting, etc and the roadie for FNR/long rides. Should I attempt to find a tourer for this trip, or could I cannibalise the hybrid (or its proposed replacement, Islabike-Luath)?

Considering my lack of inches and pennies, not sure tourers exist for little'uns, but will start the search.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Guys, I'd like your advice.

I currently have a hybrid and a compact road bike: hybrid for commuting, etc and the roadie for FNR/long rides. Should I attempt to find a tourer for this trip, or could I cannibalise the hybrid (or its proposed replacement, Islabike-Luath)?

Considering my lack of inches and pennies, not sure tourers exist for little'uns, but will start the search.

Bar ends on the hybrid maybe?

 

[dellzeqq]

Guys, I'd like your advice.

I currently have a hybrid and a compact road bike: hybrid for commuting, etc and the roadie for FNR/long rides. Should I attempt to find a tourer for this trip, or could I cannibalise the hybrid (or its proposed replacement, Islabike-Luath)?

Considering my lack of inches and pennies, not sure tourers exist for little'uns, but will start the search.

Wanda. Help is at hand. It may not be the kind of help you thought you needed, but that's your problem, not the help's problem.

Do nothing until you have spent time with Her Nibs.

 

[StuAff]

Guys, I'd like your advice.

I currently have a hybrid and a compact road bike: hybrid for commuting, etc and the roadie for FNR/long rides. Should I attempt to find a tourer for this trip, or could I cannibalise the hybrid (or its proposed replacement, Islabike-Luath)?

Considering my lack of inches and pennies, not sure tourers exist for little'uns, but will start the search.

Wot Simon said...but with that in mind, I think you're looking at it the wrong way. You'll want the Trek for this (definitely the best option at your disposal). Get the gear to fit the bike, not the other way around.

After last week's sham, more keen on this than ever...it's unfinished business.

 

[wanda2010]

Wanda. Help is at hand. It may not be the kind of help you thought you needed, but that's your problem, not the help's problem.

Do nothing until you have spent time with Her Nibs.

Thanks for making me chuckle. Work was getting a little fraught

 

[GarethG]

I have just seen this thread.

I have been thinking about doing LEJOG and London to Paris. If i could do it with a great bunch of people (some of who i met on FNRTTC that would be even better.)

I will keep an eye on this and try and keep the dates free

Gareth

 

[Wobblers]

Guys, I'd like your advice.

I currently have a hybrid and a compact road bike: hybrid for commuting, etc and the roadie for FNR/long rides. Should I attempt to find a tourer for this trip, or could I cannibalise the hybrid (or its proposed replacement, Islabike-Luath)?

Considering my lack of inches and pennies, not sure tourers exist for little'uns, but will start the search.

You don't necessarily need a tourer. I'd suggest you use whichever bike you find more comfortable over long distances - any little niggles can become Big Issues after a day or two in the saddle!

Though... at the risk of ex-communication from the Church Of Legg, I would suggest that a long wet day is less unpleasant on a bike with mudguards than one without...