'Totally Wyred' - a flattish imperial century from Whalley on Sunday 1st April.

[I like Skol]

Is there not a Costa Coffee or Starbucks nearby???

By the way, I am hoping to join you for this ride, I just need to find the right moment to 'pop the question' as it were. I should know in the next day or two

 

[ColinJ]

Is there not a Costa Coffee or Starbucks nearby???

It's not exactly the big city, you know!

Okay ... For those of you who are desperate - there is a McDonald's 1.4 miles along the A671/A59 from Spring Wood (link). Frankly, I would rather not bother, but it is there if you want it!

(If anybody knows of somewhere in Whalley that would be open at 09:00 on a Sunday morning for coffee and/or bacon butties, please speak up.)

By the way, I am hoping to join you for this ride, I just need to find the right moment to 'pop the question' as it were. I should know in the next day or two

Go for it!

 

[Steve H]

It's not exactly the big city, you know!

Okay ... For those of you who are desperate - there is a McDonald's 1.4 miles along the A671/A59 from Spring Wood (link). Frankly, I would rather not bother, but it is there if you want it!

(If anybody knows of somewhere in Whalley that would be open at 09:00 on a Sunday morning for coffee and/or bacon butties, please speak up.)


Go for it!

The butty van in the layby where we will be picking Shaun up from????

 

[I like Skol]

It's not exactly the big city, you know!

Damn you, you country boy hicks!

 

[ColinJ]

The butty van in the layby where we will be picking Shaun up from????

I don't know if that will be open either but it isn't exactly handy for people meeting in Whalley since it is over 7 miles away!

 

[potsy]

By the way, I am hoping to join you for this ride

Knew it was too good to be true

 

[ColinJ]

Knew it was too good to be true

I'm fine with it, as long as he doesn't do that nonchalant whistling malarkey behind me when I'm grovelling up any steep climbs ...

(Thinking about it - the last time, I was actually grovelling up a mere 2% drag! )

 

[Pennine-Paul]

Well Shauns talked me into joining you on this,
Well as far the cafe stop/Blackpool area and getting the train back

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Well Shauns talked me into joining you on this,
Well as far the cafe stop/Blackpool area and getting the train back

i was just about to put that up but you beat me to it. i'll be riding with paul from my house to blackpool and getting the train back. i'll have 150 miles from commuting in my legs by then and i imagine i'll be trashed and i'll still have done 65 to 70 miles by then and paul will be on 80 to 90 miles.

 

[ColinJ]

Okay Shaun and Paul. It wouldn't make much sense to come all the way to the cafe with us because that is 55 miles from Whalley, but then you would have to do 25 miles or so back to Blackpool. I suggest that you do 39 miles with us until we hit the B5269. Then either you turn right with us, do 2.5 miles to have an ice cream with us at Bonds of Elswick then turn round and do 8.5 miles back the other way to Blackpool North station (a total of 50 miles from Whalley) or you decide to skip the ice cream, turn left and ride 6 miles straight to the station (a total of 45 miles from Whalley).

 

[Pennine-Paul]

you decide to skip the ice cream

I dont think thats an option

 

[ColinJ]

A bump up with the latest rider list:

• ColinJ
• Steve H
• potsy
• Alun
• Edge705 (from Whalley to cafe at Knott End)
• wormo
• skudupnorth
• bromptonfb + Pennine-Paul from Whalley to Elswick
• aJay + buddy Pete (will meet us at Whalley in good weather, down the road if not, and with us as far as Scorton)
• Littgull

Possibles:

• italiafirenze (not looking likely)
• oldfatfool (if weather is okay)
• Globalti (maybe?)
• tubbycyclist (if weather okay, and may also ride to and from Whalley!)
• Calum (if he can get a lift)
• al-fresco (fuel costs too high)
• rusty bearing (if weather is okay)
• totallyfixed + Helen (subject to sufficient recovery from injury and illness)
• I like Skol (subject to his one-day travel visa receiving official stamp)
• PaulB (only if he gets other stuff done before Sunday)

I make that from 12 to 20-plus which is quite a few riders to keep an eye on. If Kevin (tubbycyclist) does make it, then I'll have a backup navigator. Just in case he doesn't, will those of you who are definitely riding the whole route and have GPSs please download the full and shorter route files from my first post - cheers! I'd like someone with a GPS at the front and someone with a GPS at the back so there is less chance of somebody getting 'mislaid'.

Fingers crossed that this glorious weather lasts until Sunday!

PS we will need small change for the toll bridge. I don't know how much it is, but it shouldn't be much. We can sort it out at the ice cream stop beforehand.

 

[skudupnorth]

I will meet you at Whalley Colin like i did last year,are you coming down the hill towards the roundabout ?

 

[potsy]

I will meet you at Whalley Colin like i did last year,are you coming down the hill towards the roundabout ?

Yes we are Skud, though we can wait for you to climb the hill then set off if you want the extra practice
Trying to decide which bike to use for this one, normally the Secteur no question, but the relative flatness compared to our other rides means I might use the Tricross which is comfier
Could stick some 25's on it but then it wouldn't be so comfy

 

[ColinJ]

My new wheels are due to arrive tomorrow and if they do I'll be getting my Cannondale ready, hoping that it stays dry at the weekend. I've hardly ridden it since the century ride last year and I'd like to get out on it again.