FNRttC 2017 (that's next year, folks) thinking ride thread

[hatler]

And the sidebar to the right shows : -

2016 RIDES & TOURS

• October 14 - FNRttC London to Cambridge **NOW OPEN**

 

[mmmmartin]

Thanks, @hatler I've removed that line. I'm hoping a grown-up will be along at some point to make things clear. But save the date. It's a short ride, suitable for a mini-@hatler.

 

[velovoice]

Thanks, @hatler I've removed that line.

Uh oh....

@mmmmartin The way to control what pages appear is through Layout, not be amending the page itself in any way. Simply move the page for a ride on a past date from the current year's Rides List to the Archive List and then re-order the Archive List so that the most recent is at the top.... Just sayin', like.

 

[mmmmartin]

Something told me I wasn't doing exactly the right thing but thought it better than doing nothing.

 

[hatler]

Thanks, @hatler I've removed that line. I'm hoping a gown-up will be along at some point to make things clear. But save the date. It's a short ride, suitable for a mini-@hatler.

Cool. Thank you. I'll run this one past the co-ordinating committee.

 

[velovoice]

Something told me I wasn't doing exactly the right thing but thought it better than doing nothing.

Agree! (I do respond to SOS calls. Depending on who's sending them. )

All tidied up and I've clarified the departure date & time for Xmas Night Lights, pending full details from @AKA Bob

Sorry for the thread drift. As you were.

 

[hatler]

Time for a separate thread for the Xmas Lights night ride ?

 

[mmmmartin]

Indeed. That's up to the ride leader. He has A Proper Job.
(Whereas I have been thrown on the scrapheap - in the prime of life - by the brutal captitalist system. so have time to do this sort of thing.

 

[velovoice]

Time for a separate thread for the Xmas Lights night ride ?

Indeed. That's up to the ride leader. He has A Proper Job.
(Whereas I have been thrown on the scrapheap - in the prime of life - by the brutal captitalist system. so have time to do this sort of thing.

@AKA Bob has it on his To Do List, @hatler!

 

[mmmmartin]

...with full details coming soon.

STOP PRESS: It's a Night Ride!

Note it's December 17, which is a Saturday night.
It's the Festive Night Ride to the Christmas

 

[ianmac62]

Via Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau? As our trans-Atlantic cousins probably wouldn't say, one of the exclavest places in the world.

That is fascinating. Seems that the patches of land have belonged to different lords since the twelfth century and, so strong has local tradition been, that they survived unchanged so that when the modern border was settled by the (19th-century) Treaty of Maastricht, things were just left as they had always been.

Our trans-Atlantic cousins - the ones at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) - go for "enclavated". Their work points to a doctoral thesis by Brendan Whyte at the University of Melbourne, from which ...

You'll want to pedal along the India-Bangladesh border, @srw, to go through the Cooch-Behar enclaves. Here there are several "counter-enclaves" (an enclave within an enclave) and the world's only counter-counter-enclave.

A road goes through the Bangladeshi counter-enclave (entirely surrounded by an Indian enclave within Bangladesh) from which a track heads towards some tall trees at the edge of which a pillar which marks the western point of the Indian counter-counter-enclave (entirely surrounded by the Bangladeshi counter-enclave).

Now that will be the most enclavated jute field in the world.

 

[ianmac62]

Any news, @AKA Bob, on the Festive Night Ride to the Christmas?

 

[mmmmartin]

the Festive Night Ride to the Christmas

• Midnight start. Arrive about 11.30pm on December 17. This is a

Saturday​

How could you forget this?

the halfway stop is a tad upmarket from the usual motorway services. It's all in London, distance is not great. Wrap up. It's winter.
You'll be able to catch just about the first train home - remember you'll be returning on a Sunday so the first train will probably be later than it would on a weekday. It's not a specially long night.​

 

[ianmac62]

Thanks, @mmmmartin, just wanted that final, final confirmation before getting my super-cheap senior person's advance rail tickets to that London.

Now just contemplating which train home from Euston on the Sunday from a choice of 0654, 0724, 0752, 0824 and 0855.

Do you think there will be after-ride beersies?

 

[mmmmartin]

Do you think there will be after-ride beersies?

I'm teetotal, as you know so won't have beers afterwards. The usual suspects would be a better place to ask this question, and the one about the Pope's religious beliefs and the location of ursine toiletry habits.