HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Yip it sounds like a plan. My Bianchi has never seen the train so it looks like it could be the Thistle Marches option.
Forum ride - Central Scotland
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
My Ridgeback has its quite easy to get a bike on the train particualary with the newer trains. Usually there's a door or more thats marked with a bike symbol, inside is a rack with corrigated rubber arms that goes under or over your top tube and straps to secure the bike. Its a bit like a Sheffield stand but instead of comming vertically out of the ground it come horizontally out of the wall. With the trains I've been on I've never had to book just, I just turned up and travelled. Once however (between Perth and Kirkcaldy) on a Sunday there wasn't enough room on the train and I had to wait for the next one.magnatom said:Neither has my Ridgeback, (not quite as posh as Bianchi is it!). I'll have to start a new thread asking how easy is it to get a bike on a train.....
OT I googled Thistle Marches and this came up, not the shopping centre I was expecting
'scuse me for butting in but I'm new here. Congrats on getting a date/time/route agreed. It's taken you eight whole pages of debating and I can't help but think that for future rides you might want to consider an easier way -
Go to http://www.aukweb.net and look at the Calendar. Select Scotland only and you'll see all that is on offer (at this time of year, not much). So if you wanted a 100km ride, leaving from next to a train station in central Scotland, you'd pick "The Forth Finale" on the 2nd of November. Being an Audax, it'll cost you £4 each. For that you get someone else working out the route sheet and laying on tea/coffee/cake at the start/finish. Bargain, and much less hassle than trying to agree a route.
Go to http://www.aukweb.net and look at the Calendar. Select Scotland only and you'll see all that is on offer (at this time of year, not much). So if you wanted a 100km ride, leaving from next to a train station in central Scotland, you'd pick "The Forth Finale" on the 2nd of November. Being an Audax, it'll cost you £4 each. For that you get someone else working out the route sheet and laying on tea/coffee/cake at the start/finish.
Bargain, and much less hassle than trying to agree a route.
jassy-x
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Bonnybridge, Scotland
......hey we're no debating....we're chatting, is that no whit this forum lark is a' aboot ????....Valkyrie said:
...see what you've just done then..added another page on.!!!!!!!!
..appreciate the link....so are ye coming or whit..???????
Noodley
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Valkyrie said:
I am planning on being in Englandshire on Forth Finale weekend, riding the routes I was supposed to be riding this weekend before the Lurgy struck
Good to see you over here as well BTW, there are quite a few Scottish members. Your knowledge and experience will be of benefit
jassy-x
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Bonnybridge, Scotland
.......Valkyrie said:
jassy-x
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Bonnybridge, Scotland
....I take it you are old Audax buds then...????Noodley said:
Noodley
Guest
jassy-x said:
Enough of the 'old'!
Yes, Valkyrie and I have ridden together a few times, although he has much more experience than I do with long distance events, and he rode Paris-Brest-Paris last year. Nutter.
He's good to ride with, and if he sticks around here should be a real help to others.
<He'll be due me a pint next time I see him for that...>
