FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast York to Hull 9th September 2011

[StuartG]

Oh - I see it is the same company as First Capital Connect - the one least likely too!

Bad luck, short stock or not be able to pay their leasing/servicing bills? Nice to know. I guess East Coast as the public rescuer of the NatExpress disaster would be well placed to take over if they failed. Except I've experience equipment shortages with East Coast. Makes Southern/London Overground look almost efficient ...

Share price is holding up though:
http://www.firstgroup.com/corporate..._client_id=2899&ir_option=SS_GRAPHS&period=1Y

 

[LucyBP]

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Lucy,

if you feel you can trust a random stranger off the internet (some of this lot have even met me, I'm fairly trustworthy!) and depending on when you and said bike are arriving in York (because I will be going out to work somewhere around 7:30 or 8) you could maybe stash it at ours. 10 minutes ride from the station, no secure bike shed so the bikes just live in the living room Feel free to drop me a message if it would help.

CL
[/quote]

That's really generous of you CrinklyLion! (A little toooooo generous......) (Just kidding, your bikes are probably way more valuable than mine).

I have no idea yet when I'll be arriving into York, but I'm betting it will be too late for you as getting to York for 8 would require me to be awake at a devastatingly early hour. I'll be based at York University for the day so I don't think it should be too difficult to get to with my bike from the station and I'm sure there will be SOMEWHERE to store it, just a question of sorting it out ahead of time so I don't have to worry.

Thanks anyway though!

See you on the ride!

 

[dellzeqq]

our breakfast stop will be at Cafe Pasaz Bar/Bistro

http://www.cafepasaz.com/

 

[CharlieB]

For info - by dint of turning up at Kings Cross in person, I managed to get today, including bike res's;

KX to York on 13:08 for £14.60 (means I have 8-ish hrs kicking about in York, but hey, it's a nice place)
and
Hull to Doncaster on 11:23 and Doncaster to KX on12:35 for £19.50

 

[Mr Bunbury]

I have no idea yet when I'll be arriving into York, but I'm betting it will be too late for you as getting to York for 8 would require me to be awake at a devastatingly early hour. I'll be based at York University for the day so I don't think it should be too difficult to get to with my bike from the station and I'm sure there will be SOMEWHERE to store it, just a question of sorting it out ahead of time so I don't have to worry.

There are masses of Sheffield stands all over the university, like these for example. If you really want to leave your bike inside, most of the colleges have sheds and you should be able to leave a bike in there by sweet-talking a college porter. As it'll still be the vacation in early September, the porters may be a little thin on the ground.

 

[Canrider]

What Mr Bunbury said, and Lucy, please check your in-forum messages.

 

[User10119]

For non CTC-members who want to get affiliated membership through the Fridays to do this ride, what would the deadline be?

I may have recruited a (very) newbie. My l'il sister, who came out on her 1.5 speed (slipping SA hub) shopper and did a 25-odd mile night ride (which was 10 miles further than her previous longest ever ride!) with me and the EldestCub and an assortment of others a couple of weeks back, is tempted.

To the extent that we're going to look at a shiny new hybrid for her tomorrow......

Dellzeqq, you'd approve of her. She carries absolutely NOTHING, not even a drink, on rides, preferring to delegate that task to her sherpa!

 

[dellzeqq]

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For non CTC-members who want to get affiliated membership through the Fridays to do this ride, what would the deadline be?

I may have recruited a (very) newbie. My l'il sister, who came out on her 1.5 speed (slipping SA hub) shopper and did a 25-odd mile night ride (which was 10 miles further than her previous longest ever ride!) with me and the EldestCub and an assortment of others a couple of weeks back, is tempted.

To the extent that we're going to look at a shiny new hybrid for her tomorrow......

Dellzeqq, you'd approve of her. She carries absolutely NOTHING, not even a drink, on rides, preferring to delegate that task to her sherpa!
[/quote]cheque by 28th July should do it......

 

[phantasmagoriana]

I still need to sign up for this...as I'm not a CTC member (keep thinking about it, never got round to it ) I may as well go for the £12 option rather than the £37 option.

As I need to join the Fridays too, can I send a cheque for £13?!

 

[Aperitif]

I still need to sign up for this...as I'm not a CTC member (keep thinking about it, never got round to it ) I may as well go for the £12 option rather than the £37 option.

As I need to join the Fridays too, can I send a cheque for £13 + eventually, a cheque for £25, which will get me a stellar jersey, more stellar than my avatar is?!

FTFY

 

[Flying Dodo]

Star quality.

 

[dellzeqq]

I still need to sign up for this...as I'm not a CTC member (keep thinking about it, never got round to it ) I may as well go for the £12 option rather than the £37 option.

As I need to join the Fridays too, can I send a cheque for £13?!

twelve quid, made payable to 'CTC' - there's a link below that will take you to the blog, and then on to the registration page

 

[User10119]

I think you may well be getting such a cheque and a registration email in the not too distant future.... we went out to my corner shop yesterday, and collected her new bike so that if she comes she won't have to ride the 3 (if you're lucky) speed shopper. Said new bike has no rack. And I bought her some nice barends for it. She might have jumped up and down in the street like a little kid!

 

[TimO]

Simon, assuming there's still space for this, can you put me down please?

Since I haven't done a ride up t'North for a while (the last was the Not a "Friday Night Ride" to Whitby), I feel I should wander up there and do a ride, and I'd quite like a chance to cycle over the Humber. I did the Severn Crossing earlier this year (for the YACF Not a Royal Wedding Camping Weekend), and that was fun, even if it was blowing hard enough that I (i) actually couldn't make an movement against the wind at one point & (ii) was seriously worried about the risk of being blown over the barrier!

My current cunning plan is to drive up to York on Friday, quite possibly meet up with User10119 at Chez Crinkly (presumably with mandatory loading up with Cake), and depart with you all as per norm.

I'll then get the train back from Hull to York, collapse in a hotel, get a nights sleep in, and then drive back on Sunday.

Now, to more important matters, where should we get hammered on Saturday, after the ride. Hull or York?

If anyone wants a lift up to, or back from, York (or more likely, both!) I'll probably have room in the back of my car for another bike. Alternatively if you've got your own bicycle carrier(s), I can carry more, but I only have the one carrier, and it'll be loaded up with my bike. Anyone else's bike will have to go in the back, with the rear seat down, and since it's a fifteen year old Corsa, most people's bicycles will need to take their wheel(s) out to fit (I know mine does, but my bikes tend towards larger than most people's!)

 

[velovoice]

Following Simon's e-mail today, I'm a bit confused about trains... do I need London-Hull return? Or London-York and Hull-London (2 singles)?