The Fridays Tour

[Flying Dodo]

Cycling in Beds is the stuff of dreams.

You must have some weird dreams!

 

[wanda2010]

@ Simon, having read the reports, I'm wondering if 4 tubes will be enough for the trip!

Susie, I'm very impressed.......... and encouraged

 

[mmmmartin]

Just had v exciting email from Dell. Am as excited as an excited thing that has a particularly exciting reason to be excited.

 

[clarion]

I'm sensing a faint undertone of excitement in the last post.

 

[StuartG]

2012 may be the first FNRttC tour but its also the 100th anniversary of Kathleen Ferrier's birth. After Dell & Susie's windy weekend experience they might appreciate this as the LonJoG theme:



Stairway to Heaven for the Jedburgh climb?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I can't decide which bike to take...

the black 'un is alloy with carbon fork, quicker but more nervous, has toe overlap, has cross top levers, has 'racing' triple, 700c x 28's, hasn't been ridden for a few weeks, and is Campag Veloce.
the green 'un is alloy with steel fork, more forgiving when riding tired, has better more consistent (disc) brakes, has lower gearing via a trekking triple and wider spread cassette, 700c x 37's, has just been on a four day mini-tour in Scottishland and is what I'm commuting on this week, and is Shimano Sora/Deore.
the fixed is steel with a steel fork (only joking folks)

they both fit perfectly are both be brooks'ed for and aft.

Thoughts folks?

 

[Aperitif]

One that you'll not fall off of?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

One that you'll not fall off of?

I don't own one of those.

 

[Aperitif]

I don't own one of those.

"Flamin' Nor I" Just pack a kilt, Greg - you'll be ok on either bicycle. Is the green one the lovely EBC one? Go for that!

 

[dellzeqq]

2012 may be the first FNRttC tour but its also the 100th anniversary of Kathleen Ferrier's birth. After Dell & Susie's windy weekend experience they might appreciate this as the LonJoG theme:



Stairway to Heaven for the Jedburgh climb?

we are going past the hall in which the young Kathleen first thrilled audiences on our way to Morecambe. But, yes, you're right. Blow The Wind Southerly has got to be our song.

 

[rb58]

I can't decide which bike to take...

the black 'un is alloy with carbon fork, quicker but more nervous, has toe overlap, has cross top levers, has 'racing' triple, 700c x 28's, hasn't been ridden for a few weeks, and is Campag Veloce.
the green 'un is alloy with steel fork, more forgiving when riding tired, has better more consistent (disc) brakes, has lower gearing via a trekking triple and wider spread cassette, 700c x 37's, has just been on a four day mini-tour in Scottishland and is what I'm commuting on this week, and is Shimano Sora/Deore.
the fixed is steel with a steel fork (only joking folks)

they both fit perfectly are both be brooks'ed for and aft.

Thoughts folks?

Comfort above everything else on this occasion I'd say. That's my thinking anyway, which is why I'm 80% decided it's The Blue bike for me. So for you, sounds like the green one.....

 

[dellzeqq]

I can't decide which bike to take...

the black 'un is alloy with carbon fork, quicker but more nervous, has toe overlap, has cross top levers, has 'racing' triple, 700c x 28's, hasn't been ridden for a few weeks, and is Campag Veloce.
the green 'un is alloy with steel fork, more forgiving when riding tired, has better more consistent (disc) brakes, has lower gearing via a trekking triple and wider spread cassette, 700c x 37's, has just been on a four day mini-tour in Scottishland and is what I'm commuting on this week, and is Shimano Sora/Deore.
the fixed is steel with a steel fork (only joking folks)

they both fit perfectly are both be brooks'ed for and aft.

Thoughts folks?

light and lissome is best, like your good self, Gregster!

 

[srw]

2012 may be the first FNRttC tour but its also the 100th anniversary of Kathleen Ferrier's birth. After Dell & Susie's windy weekend experience they might appreciate this as the LonJoG theme:

Ply her with enough cider and our very own contralto may be willing to serenade us atop a Northumbrian hill.

(And would it be excessively pedantic to point out that a wind that blows southerly may actually be a wind from the north?)

 

[StuartG]

And would it be excessively pedantic to point out that a wind that blows southerly may actually be a wind from the north?

Yes

 

[clarion]

It might be pedantic, but it is surely wrong.