FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast 19th November - Brighton 2010

[StuAff]

I'll put my hand up and say yes please, will be my first one

Remember to read the basics on the blog page (fnrttc.blogspot.com) and send the requisite details to Simon.

 

[Aperitif]

I have just about had enough of these faux bonhomie rides...but I'll have an other go - just to make sure

Besides, I heard there will be a hipster reunion in Brighton that weekend...and, seeing the date is the 17th and not the 26th has opened up another avenue for me...

Have a good trip Andrij - 'my favourite Canadian'

 

[dellzeqq]

Because you'll be taking a chance

if memory serves

2006 - 3 intrepid souls ride to Bracklesham Bay. Flying Dodo's eye freezes shut. My beard is crisp and white. I am forced to wear longs.

2007 - Six or seven of us ride to Brighton - straight down the A23, the B2036 and the A23 again. It's damned cold. I stop to wait for the others. Ten metres on a pipe had fractured, creating a sheet of ice. If I hadn't stopped we'd have been on our backsides

2008 - mild enough to be May. About 30 of us arrive in Brighton thinking we should have brought the sun cream

2009 - the BBC predicts 5mm of rain. We get 20mm - the wettest FNRttC ever. Rain bounces nine inches off the tarmac. Roads flood. Adrian and I get drenched from head to foot by the bow wave of a passing car. We sustain 12 punctures. The ride is only redeemed by the solicitude of various male FNRttCers of a certain age accompanying Katarzyna on her shopping bike. Competition for TEC places has never been so intense.

Bear in mind, particularly those of you who might be booking long distance rail tickets, that if there is a chance of ice I'll pull the ride.

I intend to have a chat with Mark at the Cabin Cafe. Our arrangement in previous years has been that if we have twentyfive riders then we can stop by - to ask him to get up so early for less would be wrong. If it is a very small ride we'll pop in to our favourite airport. If it's just shy of the 25 we'll go to the only motorway service station in England that is not actually on a motorway. The route will therefore depend on the numbers and on the weather - if it's a clear warm night we might just go for the Lower Beeding Variation. If it chucks it down it's Cuckfield and Haywards Heath.

The ride won't fill, so take your time about registering - I'll close it on the 12th

Simon C
Joe R
Jef C
Fahd C
Nicholas G
Matt C
Trevor L
Karen F
Susie F
Ian A
Stuart A
Matt L
Martin N
User S
Paul McN
Clive P
Nigel W (who will presumably wear a t-shirt, whatever the weather)
Luke C
Peter L - please get back to me
Davy S
Martin F
Gaz - please get in touch via fnrttc@yahool.co.uk
Tim D
Scott D - I need Scott's confirmation on the basics - I presume he's under 18
Marcus C
Ross C
Martin T
Rebecca T
Jonathon T
Frank P
Hannah L
Lee T
Steve vw
Charlie B
Andrew B
Ed F?
Abdikani A

 

[Aperitif]

I found this note on the floor...

"Hello everyone, my name is Talisker, and I would like to enrol for this ride as it is the only way I can get out of the house at a decent hour. It will be some time before my 'hand that feeds me' finds out I have signed up for this ride - even though he has a space-age auto-registering programme set up"

 

[rb58]

Who could resist? Yes please Simon.
Thanks

Ross C

 

[deckertim]

Tim D
Scott D - I need Scott's confirmation on the basics - I presume he's under 18

I'll take that as a compliment that I am too young to have a son who is in his 20s. He is actually 23. I will get him to send you an email.

Regards
Tim

 

[martint235]

Oh sod it. I had decided that Whitstable was my last 100 miler for the year but stick me down for this one too. Nothing but a masochist.

 

[Becs]

Turns out I'm not on call that weekend after all - count me in.

 

[Tompy]

I'm up for this one Simon.

 

[frank9755]

Me too, please!

Frank

 

[stevevw]

I am missing you lot so much I will try and get a pass for this.

 

[CharlieB]

Count me in please, Simon.

 

[ed!]

Me please!

 

[Wobblers]

The ride won't fill, so take your time about registering

Didn't you say that about the Whitstable ride??

I'll take a chance - the Brighton ride's always a good one. Please count me in for this one, Dellzeqq.

Thanks!

 

[clivedb]

As my knee didn't collapse on the way to Whitstable and my nice physio says I can carry on cycling (but no running) please count me in.
Thanks,
Clive