FNRttC syndication

[User10119]

i liked cleethorpes so much i went there twice. and intend to go back, when my eldest is up to the distance, since the last little rise on the way into town was called isaac's hill, and therefore isaac must go and ride up it. Mind i once went on holiday, and what's more i enjoyed it, in grimsby. for a jazz festival....

(apologies to the grammar fans for the lack of capitals - the duff elbow precludes the use of such niceties at the moment)

 

[StuAff]

Without wishing to make your head spin with options how about a Reading to Portsmouth/Southsea. Alternative start point that is accessible by rail from N/S/E/W with less urban miles until the countryside rather like the other non-HPC started rides. I would have also suggested The Witterings as an alternative to Pompey/Southsea but the rail connections back are poor (via Chichester).

Rail connections from Chi aren't that bad. Plenty of trains into Victoria direct, Havant (and the Waterloo line) a short pootle along the A259. The Witterings have been done as an FNRttC, but cafe stops were a problem.

Reading to Southsea seafront is only 54 miles or so, though fairly lumpy with it, so OK for a full FNRttC and not just a super-speedy. Speaking with local knowledge (Uni for 4 years) Reading would however lack a certain something as a starting point, though. Good point about the rail connections though....

 

[dellzeqq]

Without wishing to make your head spin with options how about a Reading to Portsmouth/Southsea. Alternative start point that is accessible by rail from N/S/E/W with less urban miles until the countryside rather like the other non-HPC started rides. I would have also suggested The Witterings as an alternative to Pompey/Southsea but the rail connections back are poor (via Chichester).

we've done Bracklesham Bay and East Wittering - there's a youtube video somewhere of people getting on the ferry from Bosham to Itchenor en route to East Wittering. The Bracklesham Ride was on 3rd November 2006. I will never, ever forget the date. We almost died of cold. The trouble is, as you say, the seven miles back to Chichester station, but there's also the question of breakfast. The Boulevard refuses to open for us in the morning, and Calamity's is calamitous. You could make a case for having breakfast in the Beach House in West Wittering, but it's nowhere near the sea........

And Reading is off the menu. Sorry, but it's just too close to London, and far less congenial.

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View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZyJbyKH8S0
those were the days. 23 of us - it seemed like an awful lot at the time!

 

[dellzeqq]

[QUOTE 1550166"]
i liked cleethorpes so much i went there twice.
[/quote]was that the first time you'd been to Cleethorpes?

 

[StuAff]

Mind you, Pompey does have The Tenth Hole as a café, nearer to Southsea. The most fabulous breakfasts and cakes. Not sure it could accomodate more than 40-ish, which does lend it more to DZ's SuperSpeedy comment.

I'm in Pompey now and again - happy to make enquiries?

Have you been in there in the last few months? I don't know the place, but from what I can find online, new management has taken over and standards have plummeted- recent comments about the place are absolutely scathing.

 

[Aperitif]

[QUOTE 1550166"]
i liked cleethorpes so much i went there twice. and intend to go back, when my eldest is up to the distance, since the last little rise on the way into town was called isaac's hill, and therefore isaac must go and ride up it. Mind i once went on holiday, and what's more i enjoyed it, in grimsby. for a jazz festival....

(apologies to the grammar fans for the lack of capitals - the duff elbow precludes the use of such niceties at the moment)
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any excuse,Kat! you'll be saying that you can't make cakes and post them down to your poor london friends next - disgraceful!

hope you're feeling comfortable and being cosseted in appropriate fashion.

 

[Aperitif]

4th May 2007 was before the Mudguard Relations Act came into existence then! Bikes almost smacked of the CTC train ride era - such was their appearance!

 

[frank9755]

4th May 2007 was before the Mudguard Relations Act came into existence then! Bikes almost smacked of the CTC train ride era - such was their appearance!

I hope no-one is going to produce a photo of Simon - probably with long hair and 70's sideburns - with a set of shiny mudguards, are they...?

 

[Tompy]

2007?! Seems like only yesterday and I would have sworn there were more than 23 of us.

 

[User10119]

was that the first time you'd been to Cleethorpes?

indeed it was - you popped my cleethorpes cherry! mind, the list of places i've never been to is extensive. skeggy and scunthorpe for a start!

 

[dellzeqq]

Cleethorpes Cherries! I think the OP just lit the blue Touche-paper and stood well back!

 

[lukesdad]

Has Blendworth moved since Ive been away ? Im sure it used to be east of the A3.

No chance of a London to Fishguard then

 

[Aperitif]

Has Blendworth moved since Ive been away ? Im sure it used to be east of the A3.

No chance of a London to Fishguard then

...might stand an outside with 'London to AngelFishguard'...

 

[PpPete]

Has Blendworth moved since Ive been away ? Im sure it used to be east of the A3.

It still is - Stu and I were just saying Clanfield and points west of the A3 would be preferable. If you stay east of the A3 it sort of pushes you towards Havant.....

 

[PpPete]

...might stand an outside with 'London to AngelFishguard'...

but only if not wearing a short skirt....