FNRttC The Fridays tour 2014

[mmmmartin]

Two inners each is good. We had five deflations: four were due to ill-stuck patches, one to a thorn. All were on Alex's bike - but not all his inners.
This rate - one per 600k ridden I think - shows we did have, overall, pretty good surfaces.

 

[AlexB]

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.799330666767485&type=1&l=1f36d2ae52 this is my album of photos from the ride. It's a public link, so anyone can see them.

 

[mark c]

Thanks for sharing your photos, looks like you will all be in for a great time in June.

 

[Gordon P]

I was very happy with 32s on my Galaxy but we were carrying our luggage ourselves (panniers & a bar bag in my case so I had quite a bit of weight) whereas you will have the Benefit of Ian so take your bike which is best in terms of speed & comfort. There are no mountains but I recall some drags & undulations in Normandy that will require some concentration. All were rewarded by views &/or descents!

 

[mmmmartin]

There's a post from me on the conversation asking you to email me your hotel bookings so I can work out a luggage delivery schedule and discuss it with @ianmac62 when he gets back into the country.

 

[mmmmartin]

TEAM!
@ianmac62 is now planning routes for luggage pick up and drop off, we we need to know your hotels.
@wanda2010 I have lost or deleted info re your hotels, so would be v grateful if you could resend it.
Also - I know @Snail Bait was going to roomshare with you butmis not now coming, but as Cathy G has joined, a chum of @Andrew Br, will you be rooming and if so, where?
Also, @Ian at fleet ditto re hotels.
Finally, a list of who is coming is on the convo.

 

[mmmmartin]

Sorry - it is not there yet should be there in a few minutes i'm trying to add some information

 

[Andrew Br]

Hi Ian/mmmartin.

Helen and I are staying in all the same hotels as you including the night before we set off.

CathyG is sharing with wanda.

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[mmmmartin]

Excellent, many thanks.

 

[wanda2010]

Email with accommodation sent.

 

[redfalo]

Who is going to be responsible for arranging the facility to watch England's group games in the quattro-annual excitement and disappointment fest?

Let me take care of this!

 

[redfalo]

The gig is yours.

It will all end in tears.

 

[redfalo]

I know that. I have done this a few timed before.

This brings back memories of my first multi-day cycling, which I did in the summer of 1990. On July 4th, I spent the night at Darmstadt youth hostel. So did a busload of English tourists. We were all watching THE GAME in the breakfast room. I was smoking at the time, rolling my own. After the game, a shattered Englishman asked me if I could roll him a ciggy, which I did. It was a really really weird evening, I have to say.

 

[redfalo]

Annoyingly, the kick-off to the first England game will midnight French time on Saturday night. Not sure if anything (bar our hotel room) will be open in Domfront at that time. But the fixture is a real cracker of course, and I know some strange people who quite often start bike rides at that time of the "day". Second England game - against Uruguay, another cracker - is on Thursday, 9pm. A more sociable time, an the next day will be shortish, if we take the train for the last leg into Bordeaux.

 

[Andrew Br]

It will all end in tears.

Probably not for you (or at least not so soon).

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