The Fridays Tour

[PippaG]

Please Mr dz, for the correctness of record keeping, please to note that myself and the Sultan of Brunei AKA adamski (all will become clear when you clap eyes upon his new! shiny! bike!) are not going as far as York, but only the first night/day ride to Bingham. TYVM.

 

[StuAff]

For you, Stu, the train and bus beckon.

Fair enough... unless there are enough people to make getting a taxi to Inverness reasonably priced, I'll probably go for the Wick-Edinburgh-Southampton option anyway, Wick airport's only a mile and a half from the town centre.

 

[dellzeqq]

aaahhh!!! Alarm clock going off in daughter's bedroom. Let's see what emerges. Do I get points for cleaning up the cat sick from just outside her door?

 

[Aperitif]

Fair enough... unless there are enough people to make getting a taxi to Inverness reasonably priced, I'll probably go for the Wick-Edinburgh-Southampton option anyway, Wick airport's only a mile and a half from the town centre.

You'll be getting on your own wick then, Stu!
£4k bare = £5k with the wheel upgrade passim
...as long as the sick is not from the 'cool cat' within. When he comes to and says "Hey daddy-o, got any spare clean pants", well...

 

[dellzeqq]

well, there's no sign of movement. I've just discovered the empties downstairs, so they might have a bit to sleep off.

Susie came up with the most fantastic line. 'I don't think he's her boyfriend, I think he's her drug dealer'. Clearly trying to finish me off.

 

[srw]

Wilcox duo accommodation now all booked (we think...)

Phew! I didn't fancy the bus shelter option...

 

[Sketchley]

well, there's no sign of movement. I've just discovered the empties downstairs, so they might have a bit to sleep off.

Susie came up with the most fantastic line. 'I don't think he's her boyfriend, I think he's her drug dealer'. Clearly trying to finish me off.

Has he appeared yet, the suspense is killing me.

Slow day at work today can you tell? I really should be writing some code.

 

[iLB]

Teenager? tsk i wish! To clarify the coach would be booked for Sunday June 24th? I foresee problems for my health if we got there a day late.

He sounds like a fine young man.

 

[dellzeqq]

Yes. Leaving early. I mention this because there is no sign of movement from the kid's room. I appreciate you young people need your sleep, but we will want to get on our way.

And, given your rather generous timetable I doubt you'll be late. In fact, at your age, I'd have been early. But, then again
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg-Ycc-yKqY

 

[dellzeqq]

I need some help. Can anybody direct me to a website or programme that will calculate how many feet of climbing there will be on a stretch of road?

 

[Sketchley]

try mapmyride.com it has elevation feature not sure about feet of climbing (I'll have a look) plus you can save the route so we can add to Garmins later......

Edit: Yes it does do climb data.

 

[srw]

Mapmyride does it. So does bikehike. So do any number of websites. But they all give different answers. If you express the climbing across the course of a day in Ditchlings, and use a consistent source to work out what one Ditchling is, you'll get a comprehensible answer.

[edit] one quick calculation on bikehike later - Corbridge to Jedburgh along the A68 is 5.4 Ditchlings. Which doesn't really seem so bad, since it's over 20 times the distance of Ditchling.

 

[Sketchley]

For example I believe this is one of the stages. Click on climbs took me 5 mins to do this by the way...

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/66040686

 

[dellzeqq]

Mapmyride does it. So does bikehike. So do any number of websites. But they all give different answers. If you express the climbing across the course of a day in Ditchlings, and use a consistent source to work out what one Ditchling is, you'll get a comprehensible answer.

[edit] one quick calculation on bikehike later - Corbridge to Jedburgh along the A68 is 5.4 Ditchlings. Which doesn't really seem so bad, since it's over 20 times the distance of Ditchling.

And the rest!

Thanks. I've calculated three different routes from a junction south of Newport Pagnaell and Bingham. The answer isn't the one I expected, but it's conclusive. The shortest route has the least climbing. And the best breakfast opportunity

 

[Flying Dodo]

So a triple whammy then!