FNRttC to Brighton - November 27th 2009

What contrasts...sounds like you all had a very wet and eventful ride and made it out alive!

Tollers...you b4St*rd. Hope you recovered all right.

Tollers is in trouble. I'm going to have a word with his dad.....

Was better just in time to fly home yesterday. Lovely weather here so i'll see how much strength i've lost.

Are you guys certain that it's been bad this past week?

Maybe there should be an international FNRttC annually?

Tollers

You mean whenever you take a holiday to a nice warm country?

LOL....No i mean to give everyone a (guilt free) excuse to escape to a nice warm country

Here perhaps:


Although that might be a FNR along the coast

Now we know how we're getting from Newhaven to Dieppe next year.

No problem. I consider it a compliment.

The camera is my trusty Pentax Optio W60. Its a budget 10mpx compact, with some very nifty features. First among these are:

• Not really precious, so can go most places with me.
• Small and rugged enough to be taped to the front of my bike.
• Waterproof to 4 metres which means I can leave it there.
• Coldproof to subzero (though the batteries hate it).
• A timelapse mode from 10 seconds to 10 minute intervals.
• 1000 shots on a fresh battery (assuming 5mpx at 10 degrees or so).

Thus far in its life, its been hung below a powerkite, taped to the boom of various bikes, ridden the bars from London to Bournemouth, tied to my head, swum to a raft, dropped down numerous flights of stairs (thanks Ted), fed through the catflap (and again), toured northern France, and still it keeps going

I don't have many daylight shots from it, but here's one from dawn on a previous FNRttC. Not easy to frame shots like this when its mounted on your helmet, taking once every 50 seconds.

Mounting it on the bottom bracket of the 'bent means I get a nice low angle and a low ISO gives a good feeling of speed, but to be honest, beyond that all credit goes to the camera. It wakes up. It takes. It goes back to sleep. I just point it places.

Hello everyone, I've just finished reading all the ride reports and I take it the ride went well, but was a tad wet. Good to see if was still a good turn out despite the weather and that most people made it all the way to Brighton. I see no-one made it to Boxhill..., I guess if Teef and myself had been in attendance we would have definetely made the effort...

If you are all still in the mood we can cross the Humber next June without using the bridge or boats...

Ah. You're alive.

The Ladies from Hull haven't found you yet then.

Had you or Teef been in attendance, you would have found your normal strategies utterly compromised. By the time we reached Brighton, we were already saturated and would not have been able to take on any more liquids.

Hehe

Nice to see you back on here Mike. Your lady friends seemed to enjoy themselves, you might survive......

Although when we say lady friends, they did deny knowing you at all.


It does mean that you need to amend you sig line

Hi Arallsopp, did you manage to get a video of this ride?

Depending on your persistence of vision, yes.

Camera was on timelapse mode. Throw in a bit of music, squint a little, and the results are here:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkyz9RGmsh4

Excellent !

Lots of pink shorts in the video, probably just coincidence.