FNRttC with Barclays Bikes
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Aperitif
Meme bar
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- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Go for it. Get debit between the teeth dz...
I will keep Boris company, along with Kulveer Ranger, and ride both of them into confrontation with as many potholes along the way as possible.
I will keep Boris company, along with Kulveer Ranger, and ride both of them into confrontation with as many potholes along the way as possible.
Andrij
Über Member
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- Thulcandra
I've been thinking along similar lines.
I like the idea of TfL bringing them back for us.
Perhaps the Southend ride, or would this be a Martletts Brighton run?
EDIT: I wonder how easily those pedals come off. SPDs would make things a bit easier. Or would that be cheating?
I like the idea of TfL bringing them back for us.
Perhaps the Southend ride, or would this be a Martletts Brighton run?
EDIT: I wonder how easily those pedals come off. SPDs would make things a bit easier. Or would that be cheating?
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
It'll be fun or torture - much the same as usual then, I'm game.
Why are The Foreign Legion bringing the bikes back?
Why are The Foreign Legion bringing the bikes back?
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
I'd thought about this as well, possibly for a Southend ride. Isn't there something about the hire period not crossing midnight though? or is it just a 24 hour period?
It could be fun, all those little flashing lights racing into Junction 31....
It could be fun, all those little flashing lights racing into Junction 31....
I've got a friend who is trying to get TfL on board.
here's my pitch
100 Barclays Bikes join the Friday Night Ride to the Coast in support of Martlets Hospice
see [url]http://fnrttc.blogspot.com/[/url] and [url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G4j9YmEAZsw/TMhOu600UmI/AAAAAAAAAe4/zKUaOCYzFvs/s1600/Slide4.GIF"]http://1.bp.blogspot...1600/Slide4.GIF[/url] TfL employees, Barclays employees and others pick up Barclays Bikes from NCP car park in Semley Place near Victoria Station and become part of the Martlets Friday Night Ride to the Coast on 2nd September 2011
The FNRttC, nominated for the London Cycling Campaign's Cycle Event of the year award, is now in its fifth year. 2011 will see a record fourteen night rides, all starting at midnight and going to the seaside for breakfast.
One of these, the second Martlets FNRttC will, we hope, raise £100,000 for the Hospice.
The ride starts at Victoria and runs down Cycle Superhighway 7 before heading through Coulsdon, Reigate, Horley, Ardingley and over the Ditchling Beacon to finish on Madeira Drive in Brighton.
The first Martlets FNRttC attracted 350 riders with many more being turned away. Our target for 2011 is 1000 riders, and the Hospice will take out advertising in the Metro and in national newspapers.
Barclays and TfL to publicise ride
TfL to deliver 100 bikes to NCP car park in Semley Place
TfL to transport bikes back from Brighton
The Friday Night Ride to the Coast is managed by the Cheam and Morden Cyclists Touring Club - with over 50 night rides to their credit.
The Martlets FNRttC is risk-assessed, and marshalled by volunteers. Support vehicles with mechanics and firstaiders follow the ride. A control centre will operate from the Martlets Hospice in Hove.
here's my pitch
100 Barclays Bikes join the Friday Night Ride to the Coast in support of Martlets Hospice
see [url]http://fnrttc.blogspot.com/[/url] and [url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G4j9YmEAZsw/TMhOu600UmI/AAAAAAAAAe4/zKUaOCYzFvs/s1600/Slide4.GIF"]http://1.bp.blogspot...1600/Slide4.GIF[/url] TfL employees, Barclays employees and others pick up Barclays Bikes from NCP car park in Semley Place near Victoria Station and become part of the Martlets Friday Night Ride to the Coast on 2nd September 2011
The FNRttC, nominated for the London Cycling Campaign's Cycle Event of the year award, is now in its fifth year. 2011 will see a record fourteen night rides, all starting at midnight and going to the seaside for breakfast.
One of these, the second Martlets FNRttC will, we hope, raise £100,000 for the Hospice.
The ride starts at Victoria and runs down Cycle Superhighway 7 before heading through Coulsdon, Reigate, Horley, Ardingley and over the Ditchling Beacon to finish on Madeira Drive in Brighton.
The first Martlets FNRttC attracted 350 riders with many more being turned away. Our target for 2011 is 1000 riders, and the Hospice will take out advertising in the Metro and in national newspapers.
Barclays and TfL to publicise ride
TfL to deliver 100 bikes to NCP car park in Semley Place
TfL to transport bikes back from Brighton
The Friday Night Ride to the Coast is managed by the Cheam and Morden Cyclists Touring Club - with over 50 night rides to their credit.
The Martlets FNRttC is risk-assessed, and marshalled by volunteers. Support vehicles with mechanics and firstaiders follow the ride. A control centre will operate from the Martlets Hospice in Hove.
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Davywalnuts
Chief Kebab Taster
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- Staines!
As in were "sponsored" by TfL with free usage of their bikes as a PR way so we dont have to pay for the hire cost?
I take it there would be a limit to numbers and only fitter, capable riders of shifting two tons of steel around would undertake the ride?
My only question would be if I could fit my pedals to the bikes as I find riding on a flat pedal impossibly difficult and also I can only get my waterproof over shoe covers on cycling shoes, not trainers, which am sure applies to all here, so the weather will be a factor..
Otherwise, am in!
Oh, will Kelly Brook be coming too?
I take it there would be a limit to numbers and only fitter, capable riders of shifting two tons of steel around would undertake the ride?
My only question would be if I could fit my pedals to the bikes as I find riding on a flat pedal impossibly difficult and also I can only get my waterproof over shoe covers on cycling shoes, not trainers, which am sure applies to all here, so the weather will be a factor..
Otherwise, am in!
Oh, will Kelly Brook be coming too?
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
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- South Croydon
Great idea. i have some contacts at TFL if you need them.
It's a funny thing - like Gaz I know people at TfL, having served on two committees with them, but when Debby suggested going to their advertising people I thought 'that'd never work, what can they do for us?'
Then Debby simply told me to dream up the event based around the FNRttC. I'd never thought about it in that way before, and it just clicked. I wrote that schtick out in about five minutes. It's a long shot, but then I never dreamt that NCP would come across with a car park.
It's called contra-marketing. The bikes are really neither here nor there, other than as photo-fodder. It's about Barclays and TfL getting involved and bringing the ride to the attention of a different audience, and attracting a different type of rider. I'm certainly not going to ride one of those things to Brighton, but I can imagine young fit things, the triathlon types, seeing the TfL and Barclays involvement and thinking 'this is pukka'.
Then Debby simply told me to dream up the event based around the FNRttC. I'd never thought about it in that way before, and it just clicked. I wrote that schtick out in about five minutes. It's a long shot, but then I never dreamt that NCP would come across with a car park.
It's called contra-marketing. The bikes are really neither here nor there, other than as photo-fodder. It's about Barclays and TfL getting involved and bringing the ride to the attention of a different audience, and attracting a different type of rider. I'm certainly not going to ride one of those things to Brighton, but I can imagine young fit things, the triathlon types, seeing the TfL and Barclays involvement and thinking 'this is pukka'.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
...and we do it in blond wigs and ill-fitting suits, talking cr*p along the way.
Anyone got a wig and a suit? The rest I can manage.
Anyone got a wig and a suit? The rest I can manage.
As in were "sponsored" by TfL with free usage of their bikes as a PR way so we dont have to pay for the hire cost?
I take it there would be a limit to numbers and only fitter, capable riders of shifting two tons of steel around would undertake the ride?
My only question would be if I could fit my pedals to the bikes as I find riding on a flat pedal impossibly difficult and also I can only get my waterproof over shoe covers on cycling shoes, not trainers, which am sure applies to all here, so the weather will be a factor..
Otherwise, am in!
Oh, will Kelly Brook be coming too?
That's you out then....
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StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
Great idea. Shame I won't be around to see it!
