Meeting fellow cyclists

[Eribiste]

make it mandatory to wear a CC jersey
Cheers Ed

I always wear my CC jersey on organised rides; not seen another one yet though.

 

[Donger]

I always wear my CC jersey on organised rides; not seen another one yet though.

I've been a member for over a year and I still haven't seen anyone mentioning how they got hold of them!

 

[Dave 123]

The RSPB has around 1 million members. My sister in law used to be fairly senior on the magazine. Only a small % of members were active bird watchers and the RSPB liked it that way. Their nightmare scenario was all the members deciding to go to a reserve all at the same time!

Could we muster up a 30,000+ people informal ride?

 

[young Ed]

I've been a member for over a year and I still haven't seen anyone mentioning how they got hold of them!

if you want one just post a thread up asking how to get them, it's not all served up for you
Cheer Ed

 

[wxbull]

I'm out on my own 90% of rides, as I like to combine it with a couple of pub/food stops, and a football match a lot of the time. Am off to Lanzarote with my brother in June though, so I wont be on my own there.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I've been a member for over a year and I still haven't seen anyone mentioning how they got hold of them!

Afaik they haven't been produced for a couple of years, you need to wait until Shaun commissions another batch.

 

[BigAl68]

The last few were randomly raffled a few months ago. I would love one as you can't even have enough jerseys

 

[totallyfixed]

Predominant arguments for not riding with others
Loner - [I was told by someone once that most members of forums are shy introverted loners in real life]
Prefer to ride alone - see above
Grumpy git - see above
Not fast enough - how do you know?

This is not going well .

 

[potsy]

Met many good people over the years I've been on here (and totallyfixed)

Even though I have semi-retired from all cycling forum rides I am still in touch with a few of them away from here, one even helped me to get a job last year when I got made redundant

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Not fast enough - how do you know?

Well, I did say I have tried forum rides

 

[Dan B]

Could we muster up a 30,000+ people informal ride?

Some of the more popular FNRttCs seemed to be about that large

 

[Hacienda71]

There haven't been many rides around here in the informal rides section recently but quite a few of us meet up via pm etc. Maybe some of us should arrange more open rides as they always seem well subscribed around Manchester. It is much easier hooking up with people you have ridden with before though. You know roughly how fast and far they like to ride and how they ride in a group.

 

[ColinJ]

I spend most of my riding time alone but I do actually like riding with my fellow CycleChatters - well over 100 now (though I have lost count of the exact number). That even includes the pre-retirement @potsy! (Maybe it was something I said ...? )

If any of you fancy coming along on one of my forum rides, keep your eyes open and come on down (or up)!

PS The next one is fast approaching - my signature link below will be advertising it for another week or so.

 

[Turbo Rider]

I'm just quite a misery really...can't wait to get away from people most of the time...I'll occasionally bump into people on my rides to and from work though and the occasional moments are more than fine...a quick hello and I'm off...plus I've got young kids so weekend rides are out for now...suppose I might cheer up and have more time at some point in the future.

 

[totallyfixed]

Well, I did say I have tried forum rides

A good forum ride is never too fast, or shouldn't be....