FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast to Southend-on-Sea 30th April 2010

[Bollo]

Is this ride full now?

Hi Jay!

Don't think I've forgotten you sidestepping last year's Burgess Hill nonsense......! There will be retribution!

 

[TimO]

Is this ride full now?

If you're still trying to get on this ride, then you need to contact Simon via fnrttc@yahoo.co.uk. If it is full, this will at least get you on the standby list.

 

[Kablinsky]

DAMN IT! My first post in 10 months and you're on my case within minutes.

I look forward to the retribution. I've had 6 months off the bike due to ankle injury that just wouldn't clear up. BUT I'M BACK NOW. . . and fatter fitter than ever.

Hi Jay!

Don't think I've forgotten you sidestepping last year's Burgess Hill nonsense......! There will be retribution!

 

[Kablinsky]

Thanks. I've sent the mail.

If you're still trying to get on this ride, then you need to contact Simon via fnrttc@yahoo.co.uk. If it is full, this will at least get you on the standby list.

 

[iLB]

looks like i'm making a last minute trip home this friday to do a road race on sunday to visit my family...

will consider the implications of doing a fnrttc on my chances of getting points on sunday over the next few days...

 

[Aperitif]

iLBunking off to play bikes...

 

[Cayopro]

I didnt realise these rides had limit !! Has it been reached and how many are taking part ? Looking forward to meeting up with the few I met a few weeks back.........as was talked into this fnrttc !!!!

 

[TimO]

I didnt realise these rides had limit !! Has it been reached and how many are taking part ? Looking forward to meeting up with the few I met a few weeks back.........as was talked into this fnrttc !!!!

There are a number of factors which limit the size of the ride, I'm sure Simon will be along shortly to correct me if I get this wrong.

I think Simon wants to make sure that there are enough people to do jobs like way-marking and TECing, as well as be throughout the ride to catch any problems as early as possible. I suspect this doesn't limit the size of the ride too much, since he probably always has a suite significant number of "old timers".

More importantly, the locations that are used for the half-way stop (aka 3am-ses) and breakfast, can only take a certain number of people. If we do get some inclement weather, and there was a smattering of showery rides last year, you can't really have people standing around outside for an hour whilst others are indoors eating bacon butties and drinking tea. If the halfway stop (and probably to a lesser extent the destination) can't take and feed the full ride then things aren't going to work.

Since this ride has it's halfway stop at a service station (on the North side of the Dartford crossing) it can take quite a lot of people. The Rose in Southend-on-Sea can also take quite a few people if the upstairs is opened up, so I think Simon is entertaining the max for this ride at around 75 people, and I think that's about the number of people that he's got.

Other rides have smaller midway stops (eg Andy's Cafe in Rochester for Whitstable, and the Cabin Cafe in Faygate for the Brighton/Bognor routes), so are limited to something more like 60 people. Even with that number, it's often quite a squeeze to get everyone in, and does require some shuffling around to give the late arrivals somewhere to sit after those who got there first have finished (and having been at the end, as a TEC, more than once, I appreciate it when people do give me a chance to sit down for a while to drink my tea).

 

[Aperitif]

The two Tims and me make the ideal three-piece suite! Enough to cushion the blow anyway...

 

[Speicher]

I always enjoy the blow by blow accounts* of these rides, but no need to take it literally.

* Also the photographs. Particularly the videos which are excellent.

 

[dellzeqq]

Adrian C
Stephen B
Chris B
Davy S
Sarah M
Andrij B
Susie F
Barry J
Olaf S
Ian A
Andrew H
Dan B
Matthew S
Ally McB
Christiane S
Martin F
Edmar G
Adrian M
Claudine C
Clive B
Steve W
Tanya G
Chris KH
Lee T
Andrew A
Andrew B
Andy M
Dave F
Mark F
Clive P
Steev D
Rachael W
Stuart A
Stuart G
Helen H
Marilyn B
Jenna St. J
Clive P
Tim O
John E
Daniel P
Lesley P
Howard S
Pippa G
User10571 B
Sean B
David F
Paul R
Matthew B
Kevin P
Mark W dm
Kim W
Janie K
Philip W
Paul R
Mark C
Owen K
Nigel H
Thomas F
Ross C
Peter R
Rufus I
Nadia B
Andrzej S
Alastair R
Daniel G C
Colin S
Eoin D
Chris R
Tim D
Dom A
Francois McD
Jill J
Charlotte B
Andy A
Donna G
Dave J
Tony F
Neil G
Julian N
Allesandra P
Emily P
Jules H

and that's about it. Sorry.

 

[TimO]

The two Tims and me make the ideal three-piece suite! Enough to cushion the blow anyway...

Heah, you try and write a load of blurb like that without making the odd typo, and whilst trying to recover a server with RAID array issues.

:troll:

 

[Aperitif]

Didn't consider it a typo Tim - more a compliment! I sacked all my servants years ago - don't have those issues any more. 'Honi soit qui mal y pense'

 

[Auntie Helen]

Weather forecast now for heavy rain

 

[StuAff]

Weather forecast now for heavy rain

BBC says so, Metcheck says it looks OK. Too early for real accuracy yet, and anyway, should be nicer out than November was....