FNRttC The Fridays tour 2014
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Ian at fleet
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New to all, still trying to sort out an avatar, anyway I have booked le ferry so I am tres happy to be coming along. I have gone for the ferry which lands me in Quisterham for 10pm 13/6/14. Ibis hotel just outside terminal up in time for the meet on the saturday. Having done the later ferry many times and knowing that you get woken over an hour before ferry docks, I felt the difference in costs for cabin v hotel there wasn't much in it.
Ian at fleet
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Slowly getting the hotels booked, the only location I had trying to find a room was Domfront, I have booked Belle Vallee, sorry Ian but it's a little out in the sticks.
ianmac62
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- Northampton
No worries!
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mmmmartin
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ps i'm liking the avatar
Ian at fleet
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- Selling Near Faversham
Thank you, only one that "fitted", all my bike themed ones were too big?
It will be remembered when we hit the first bar in Normandy
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mmmmartin
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Team,
Suggestions please, for a fourth person to come on The Recce.
The Recce will be Gordon and me. Alex has volunteered to come along because he wants to do the route but cannot make the dates of The Real Thing. I know you are all keen to do the thing en masse, obvs, because it is much more fun that way, but we wondered if you knew a suitable person who might like to join the recce and share rooms with Alex: he has a recommendation from Dellzeqq so is obvs a fine fellow, v sensible. The Recce dates are: cross Pompey-Caen the night of Friday May 9, and stay in the same towns as The Real Thing so we ride the same roads at the same time of the week as The Real Thing. Gordon and I are entrusting our bikes (wrapped in the thinnest of thin plastic see-through sheeting) to the tender mercies of EasyJet on Sunday May 18 (which we may come to regret) because there is no better way of getting back that we can see.
The Recce is a very different thing from the fun-filled, frolic we'll enjoy in June - if a road is unsuitable for a group of 20 cyclists we'll have to ride back and find a better route, there is no support van so you carry all own luggage (which makes for hotel rooms festooned with drying shirts each evening) and if you are poorly there is no van to flop in, and routes have to be explored to find loos, coffee stops, lunches, shopping, picnics, etc. So we anticipate riding to more villages than the minimum that will be ridden on the actual event. I'm aware that this is turning into the sort of (apocryphal) ad that Shackleton placed for his South Pole attempt ("Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.") and it won't be that bad, but nor will it be a picnic. And you have to pay for yourself which is likely to work out at about £600. But is should be fun. Anyone reading this thread has probably already signed up for The Real Thing - but they may know someone who can't make these dates but could make the recce.
Thoughts?
Suggestions please, for a fourth person to come on The Recce.
The Recce will be Gordon and me. Alex has volunteered to come along because he wants to do the route but cannot make the dates of The Real Thing. I know you are all keen to do the thing en masse, obvs, because it is much more fun that way, but we wondered if you knew a suitable person who might like to join the recce and share rooms with Alex: he has a recommendation from Dellzeqq so is obvs a fine fellow, v sensible. The Recce dates are: cross Pompey-Caen the night of Friday May 9, and stay in the same towns as The Real Thing so we ride the same roads at the same time of the week as The Real Thing. Gordon and I are entrusting our bikes (wrapped in the thinnest of thin plastic see-through sheeting) to the tender mercies of EasyJet on Sunday May 18 (which we may come to regret) because there is no better way of getting back that we can see.
The Recce is a very different thing from the fun-filled, frolic we'll enjoy in June - if a road is unsuitable for a group of 20 cyclists we'll have to ride back and find a better route, there is no support van so you carry all own luggage (which makes for hotel rooms festooned with drying shirts each evening) and if you are poorly there is no van to flop in, and routes have to be explored to find loos, coffee stops, lunches, shopping, picnics, etc. So we anticipate riding to more villages than the minimum that will be ridden on the actual event. I'm aware that this is turning into the sort of (apocryphal) ad that Shackleton placed for his South Pole attempt ("Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.") and it won't be that bad, but nor will it be a picnic. And you have to pay for yourself which is likely to work out at about £600. But is should be fun. Anyone reading this thread has probably already signed up for The Real Thing - but they may know someone who can't make these dates but could make the recce.
Thoughts?
Michael Adu
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- SW9
Yes Tacey
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mmmmartin
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The excitement mounts. @Gordon P and I are 
scratching our heads and coming up with some pretty spiffing routes in and out of the larger towns: some involve riding alongside pretty rivers inside the town, and where the centre is worth visiting we'll go straight through the middle.We've almost broken Google Streetview with overuse. The route into and out of the larger towns will be absolutely nailed to the last inch. We think we're pretty much there. The recce will be the final arbiter, obvs.
In one place where the maps suggest we have to follow a bloody huge dual carriageway we think we've found a
quiet, tarmac, pretty riverside route.
Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance
scratching our heads and coming up with some pretty spiffing routes in and out of the larger towns: some involve riding alongside pretty rivers inside the town, and where the centre is worth visiting we'll go straight through the middle.We've almost broken Google Streetview with overuse. The route into and out of the larger towns will be absolutely nailed to the last inch. We think we're pretty much there. The recce will be the final arbiter, obvs. In one place where the maps suggest we have to follow a bloody huge dual carriageway we think we've found a
quiet, tarmac, pretty riverside route. Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance
Andrew Br
Still part of the team !
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- Chorlton Cum Hardy
Do you know how you think you've done something ages ago and then you realise that you haven't ?
mmmmartin; the money for Helen and I should be on its way to you.
Sorry
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mmmmartin; the money for Helen and I should be on its way to you.
Sorry
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lilolee
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- Maidenhead
Yeah damn, me too. Cheque on the way.Do you know how you think you've done something ages ago and then you realise that you haven't ?
mmmmartin; the money for Helen and I should be on its way to you.
Sorry
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