FNRttC Night Ride to Whitstable 7th April 2017

[slowmotion]

[random fact alert]
I think that the frog path runs alongside the Thames Medway canal. During WW2, the canal was used to season timber for Mosquito bombers.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I also know this. My first FNRttC to Whistable I was with 'Teef who told me to be ready for the sprint. Unfortunately, and this is another skill, I lurked too close to the front and was picked out for waymarking

Simon did the same to me on my first Whitstable!

 

[User10571]

Simon did the dane to me on my first Whitstable!

Splchkr alrt

 

[Fab Foodie]

Splchkr alrt

Oops!

 

[mmmmartin]

I think is the 107th FNRttC. This does not include the Tours (LonJog, Normandy, Bordeaux, Lowlands, Tourette, Via Colognia).
If you add each day of the Tours, you come to a total of 149.
Which means this is the 150th ride by the Fridays.
Which is not bad.
Take a bow, Friday-peeps.

 

[martint235]

Not sure if this is against my better judgement or not (giving money to CUK certainly hurt) but I've now signed up.

 

[rb58]

Not sure if this is against my better judgement or not (giving money to CUK certainly hurt) but I've now signed up.

Gentlemen. Start your engines....

 

[martint235]

Gentlemen. Start your engines....

Oh please don't. I'm nearly 50, maintaining 25+ all the way through Seasalter is getting tiring now. We pootled it at 20 on Tuesday

 

[Dogtrousers]

[QUOTE 4724572, member: 21629"]Don't tell me it's gonna be a race.[/QUOTE]
It just means that the queue for breakfast has died down a bit when the normal people arrive.

 

[StuAff]

Only if you want it to be. Once past the last turn onto the Graveney marshes, the tradition is that those who wish to race the last seven or so miles to breakfast do. My best time is about twenty minutes.

 

[StuAff]

It just means that the queue for breakfast has died down a bit when the normal people arrive.

That too!

 

[mmmmartin]

[QUOTE 4724572, member: 21629"]Don't tell me it's gonna be a race.[/QUOTE]
Not for me, nor for 90 per cent of people on the ride. I try to linger near the back, out of sheer idleness but trying to give an aura of helpfulness should anyone suffer a mechanical. A late arrival and a leisurely breakfast for me.

 

[martint235]

[QUOTE 4724572, member: 21629"]Don't tell me it's gonna be a race.[/QUOTE]
Nay, Nay and thrice Nay!!!!! I will pootle

 

[martint235]

[QUOTE 4724620, member: 21629"]Good then. I just worried if it's a compulsory speed up or only for those who want it.[/QUOTE]
Don't worry the main ride continues at its sedately pace all the way. There were gasps of amazement as me and @rb58 shot past a couple of years ago but it's strictly admiration from afar

 

[srw]

I'd just like to mention that I was once first in the queue for breakfast. To this day I don't know how. I think it was the same day already referenced when I was among the last group to totter towards the station, just in time for a last pre-lunch drink on the train.