CANCELLED: Late Late delayed Christmas Night Ride to Bognor 29/01/10

[Davywalnuts]

we'll put that down to the extremely relaxed state of your thighs!

hahaha! Its cause I is from Staines, Westside! Staines men dont wear full length Lycra! Booyakkashah!

 

[Aperitif]

A Wnrttc, just before NYE's shenanigan, drunkenness and tomfoolery!!?? hahaha! Alas, with the Sig Nature ride around then as well and jetting off to Sunny and warm Thailand on the 4th Jan, I cant make any alternatives...

Please Mother Nature, be good to us!

Well, she saved a bit of time on you so the request is not unreasonable...

 

[TimO]

Strictly speaking, I partially make my decision tomorrow evening, since I'll have to pack stuff to take into work on Friday morning. In the evening I won't go home, I'll just cycle to HPC direct from work (about 1 mile). Of course, if they weather gets dire during the day, I just cycle home, which essentially is the first 12 miles of the ride!

 

[Bollo]

Apologies, but I'm bailing out of whatever's left of this one, ladies and gents. I'll have to set off relatively early on the evening, so a late cancellation would be unwelcome.

A WNRttC would work (subject to wifely veto of course)

 

[clivedb]

So, assuming the Met Office are correct and there is snow & ice, how about thinking of some alternative dates.

The next couple of Friday nights after this weekend might be tricky, so we could change this to midweek - WNRttC - Wednesday 30th December?

Another date could be to start Saturday 2nd January, although the downside to that is that on the Sunday, the trains aren't running between Barnham & Angmering, so it would mean a 9 mile pootle back to Arundel to get the train.

Any opinions?

Although the weather forecast is a bit less dire than a couple of days ago, it still looks very dodgy.

As Davy pointed out, the 30th clashes with the Sig nature ride on the 29th - at least for those of us who might need to recover!

2nd Jan would be possible for me.

 

[dellzeqq]

cloud cover now 100%. This could be a good thing. The sight of a petrified countryside could be a little dispiriting...

 

[mistral]

cloud cover now 100%. This could be a good thing. The sight of a petrified countryside could be a little dispiriting...

Not to mention dispirited petrified cyclists

 

[MacB]

this is a bugger, no frost here today and weather is glorious, forecast for tomorrow is light snow showers and sub zero overnight.

 

[Flying Dodo]

Even ignoring any possible snow drifts, in the early hours of Saturday morning, it's going to be -3 on the south coast, meaning -4 or -5 in places out in the countryside which will mean lots of nasty ice with the stuff that will have melted, so sadly, this ride is now CANCELLED.

 

[Bollo]

this ride is now CANCELLED.

Sad but sensible. I've just offed this morning on ice.

 

[dellzeqq]

......now doomed to spending Saturday in clothes shops and Saturday evening drinking fizz and dancing to 80s Europop.

 

[Davywalnuts]

Awwww, this is sad, but wise... it does mean ill be now topping my booze levels back up.. still rat arsed from last nights work do! haha!

Still, none the less, tis great shame as here in "Sunny" Staines, weather and road condtions are still very good, but Staines is only a lil blot on the uk map, but for the rest, snow snow snow and cooooolllddddddness! Brrrrrrr!

 

[mistral]

Sad but sensible.

Too true and it was a good crew you had hand picked Adam

 

[Flying Dodo]

Yes - an elite squad left going nowhere.

So the question now is, what date to re-schedule?

Earlier, I'd suggested Saturday 2nd January (but there would be 9 flat miles on top, to get to a train at Arundel), but for the benefit of Clive, we could go around Ford Airfield to revive his old family memories from there.

Alternatively, Tim had suggested Friday 22nd January.

 

[Aperitif]

(My £3 ticket...wasted... (Wasn't going to use it anyway but that's beside the point...) Might have to go to Hyde Park Corner and do circuits all night then )