provisional 2013 FNRttC Calendar

[mmmmartin]

Just out of interest how far is the York-Hull ride? Do you take a wiggly route?

Like all FNRttC events, it starts at midnight and finishes about 8am. It's flat. Very flat.

 

[thom]

Is there the possibility of ever doing a longer route to the Bristol Channel ?
I wasn't on the Southwold run but maybe such an escapade would be a similar distance ?

 

[ianmac62]

All lovely. Many thanks, DZ!

 

[dellzeqq]

............not really. We've got a South Wales ride, and we've discussed routes from Birmingham, but, in my view, it's a long way (136 to Weston) for not a lot. Susie, Claudine and I went that way this summer and, to be frank, I'd far, far rather go across Essex and up through Suffolk than ride through Berkshire and Wiltshire

 

[martint235]

Is there the possibility of ever doing a longer route to the Bristol Channel ?
I wasn't on the Southwold run but maybe such an escapade would be a similar distance ?

There's usually a ride from London to the start of Cardiff - Swansea. It's on my provisional plan for 2013 along with the ride to York that I missed in 2012

 

[dellzeqq]

Just out of interest how far is the York-Hull ride? Do you take a wiggly route? - eg over the Wolds? I ask because I have have family in Driffield, so adding on Hull-Driff after breakfast could make this one to put in the diary - bike logistics & distance permitting. (or even Driff-York-Hull-Driff, depending on my fitness in April)

we go via Goole, Garthorpe, the A18 bridge, Flixborough, the Humber Bridge - about 72 miles

 

[thom]

............not really. We've got a South Wales ride, and we've discussed routes from Birmingham, but, in my view, it's a long way (136 to Weston) for not a lot. Susie, Claudine and I went that way this summer and, to be frank, I'd far, far rather go across Essex and up through Suffolk than ride through Berkshire and Wiltshire

Fair enough - I guess if Reading CTC ever did one, it would be possible to prepend a London->Reading bit and do most of the riding in the dark.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Like all FNRttC events, it starts at midnight and finishes about 8am. It's flat. Very flat.

Ta.

I was thinking more about distance than duration. I think it's only 40 miles or so York-Hull by the shortest route. If the route is very flat then I guess it goes a bit more round the SE of the Wolds (sort of towards Howden) rather than straight line (through Market Weighton ish which would be a bit lumpier).

EDIT: But I see Delzeqq's answered my question anyway. Thanks everyone. I'll probably be there for this one.

 

[Tim Hall]

Did I get accused of being la di dah the other day?

No. Your accuser included some helpful asterisks.

 

[StuartG]

November 15 BRIGHTON via the Edifice

Could be a spectacular night ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/26/new_comet_may_outshine_moon/

 

[mcshroom]

Ta.

I was thinking more about distance than duration. I think it's only 40 miles or so York-Hull by the shortest route. If the route is very flat then I guess it goes a bit more round the SE of the Wolds (sort of towards Howden) rather than straight line (through Market Weighton ish which would be a bit lumpier).

EDIT: But I see Delzeqq's answered my question anyway. Thanks everyone. I'll probably be there for this one.

This is the route we've taken the last couple years: -

http://ridewithgps.com/trips/945190

 

[dellzeqq]

This is the route we've taken the last couple years: -

http://ridewithgps.com/trips/945190

Marcus - did you climb up the rigging of the Humber Bridge?

 

[mcshroom]

No, I haven't checked the profile over though so does it do that?

 

[dellzeqq]

looks like it. That first 78km has got to be about as flat as flat can get.

 

[mcshroom]

I've just had a look and the GPS came up with the same height gain as the mapped route. The amplitude is pretty low, as that graph is only between 0-100m, but apparently it undulates a bit more than you'd think. The big lumpy bits are at the end(past Flixborough) and the bridge is a bit of a climb, , and account for over 300 of the 585m, but the rest is a metre here and a metre there with gradients well under 1%. It all just seems to add up