FNRttC PROVISIONAL 2012 dates

[dellzeqq]

Just going back to the MoonRiders, I notice that it's a bit ironic that if you go onto the main forum page when you're not logged in, the advert at the top is from them. So they're part contributing to the upkeep of the forum!

with a possible take of £140 a rider they can afford to!

 

[ceepeebee]

bad news - going to have to miss Felpham, which might be my favourite.

good news, I'll miss it as I'll be in France, staying right on the route of Paris - Roubaix, on the weekend it happens.
I'll be just outside St Quentin, don't suppose anyone has ridden any of the route and knows how easy/otherwise it is, I'm fancying a 100km or so blast up it the day after or so....

 

[ianmac62]

... don't suppose anyone has ridden any of the route and knows how easy/otherwise it is, I'm fancying a 100km or so blast up it the day after or so....

I've ridden the last few k into Roubaix. And the final kilometre I thought was really interesting. To compensate for the disappearance of the cobbles on much of the route, the last stretch runs up the central reservation of a dual carriageway. The central reservation has been relaid with new cobbles which, to celebrate the first hundred years of The Hell Of The North, have one hundred silver or metal cobbles amongst them, each with the name and year of the race winners. The velodrome at the end is a reminder of what velodromes used to be like. It shaped not at all like an oval; instead its two parallel straights with a very tight curve at each end. So I think, if you reach Roubaix, you'll be pleased to have packed a camera - it's a great spot for historians of cycling.

 

[Tompy]

I haven't ridden the cobbles but I've stood on them and watched Paris-Roubaix and the Tour go past. There's no way I'd ride on those buggers for longer than a few hundred meters. And my bike's a Specialized Roubaix.

 

[ceepeebee]

Looks like I've got a nice (nice? who am I kidding) 80 mile loop that will let me take in the first three or so pave sections. Seeing as it's a family holiday I can't really take the pi$$ and do the lot/100 plus miles. (also - unfit and fat)

 

[Tompy]

Even Larry Armstrong doesn't look like he's enjoying the cobbles very much.


Lance Armstrong by Tompy, on Flickr

 

[ianmac62]

Great photo of Armstrong! The cobbles on the final stretch are much kinder:

With a winner's cobble:

But the velodrome needs a lick of paint:

 

[ceepeebee]

I now realise that we've driven along that last stretch of cobble a few times when visiting the outlet stores there. Btw, anyone going to Roubaix would be highly advised to visit their art museum in an old swimming pool, it's lovely.

weird - just tried to put a picture in and it failed dismally.

 

[dellzeqq]

Great photo of Armstrong! The cobbles on the final stretch are much kinder:

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bollards!

 

[dellzeqq]

FNRttC quiz question. What FNRttC destination links 'Desert Island Discs' with the 'Zoot Suit Riots'? Answers in the form of a youtube video if you please........

 

[Sketchley]

Bognor!

 

[dellzeqq]

correct!!!!!! And great video!

 

[Sketchley]

on similar ukulele theme you might like this

 

[ceepeebee]

Ukeleles you say?

 

[Sketchley]

Snow. Snow will keep us off school again..... Curtis must be turning....