hypnocracy was really about the way the Grateful Dead ran their tours and the band. Teamwork was imbued, improvisation the norm, expertise growing organically, all without hierarchy (excepting, perhaps, the key role played by Kesey and the call and response arrangements between Lesh, Weir and Garcia).
I've built a couple of teams professionally, and hypnocracy was the key - although I didn't make a big deal out of it to the bosses. No fixed arrangements, just love, understanding, a thirst for knowledge, the desire to serve and psychotropic drugs. Actually I didn't insist on the drugs.
Erhard was a rogue, of that there is no question, but he has one stroke of genius, or, maybe, luck. He worked out that if you put people in to an unfamiliar situation, bounded by a simple idea, they were more susceptible to beauty. I think it's fair to say that riding through the night does make you more aware of beauty, not just natural beauty, but the beauty of spirit that is inherent in human beings. I've tried, in a small way, to provide a narrative, a shape in to which that appreciation of beauty can be woven. I confess my aspirations were literary - I thought that I could open up a space in which people wrote about pleasure, but it didn't really work out like that. Other expressions of beauty, like pictures and friendships have predominated.
And I'm going to shut up now before I really embarrass myself. Back to TEC strategies........
It's been a while since i've ridden up Portnalls rd didn't it used to be full of potholes?
The Trike with Di2 why didn't I think of that.
The ride there were just enough hills to keep me warm.
Adam broke the ride leaders curse ...............
Oh I got to see the glasses we picked for @Fab Foodie
It was very good to see Clive B and Mark been a while lads and very nlce to meet Julie
Tims socks
Curse?Adam broke the ride leaders curse ...............
Feck!Curse?
At the midway stop we are reminded to check our tyres by the ride leader then 10 mins later we are entertained with some colourful language as the leader changes inner tubes
Ok so on the Southend fnrttc at Junction 31 we were reminded to check our tyres by the ride leader only for him to have a flat 1 minute down the road
Then on the Whitstable ride the exact same thing happens although Southend wins for best swearing
+1.Thinking back to this ride. I would be very disappointed if it wasn't run again next year. As far as I am concerned it was one of the very best FNR's I've done. A brilliant night and a brilliant ride.
Thinking back to this ride. I would be very disappointed if it wasn't run again next year. As far as I am concerned it was one of the very best FNR's I've done. A brilliant night and a brilliant ride.
That's getting into the realms of:Shoreham will definitely be in the calendar for at least one ride next year.
For anyone who can't wait, here's a live view...........
Old hat.That's getting into the realms of:
http://www.wyc.org.uk/flattened/home_webcam.php
For those who'd like to check out the weather there,,,