The Fridays Tour

[Aperitif]

....for a beautiful butt ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/......

It's awful for you to be the joke of everyone's butts, Stuart. And you take it like a man..splendid!

 

[AKA Bob]

Considering we are enjoying a stunning British summer I am doing a re waterproofing wash tonight in anticipation! I'm not trusting those forecasts after Whitstable!!!

 

[Sketchley]

that's no way to speak to Mr. G!!!!!

We should be ok for tyres. I'm fitting new ones to our bikes, which means that there will be four or five 4Seasons tyres in the van.

Anything a little bigger than 23s, i run 28s but have spare 25s should I bring them.

Fitting new callipers next week shall I pack the old?

I have a spare front wheel if you want me to bring that along.

What about tools, a Workstand or a Track pump?

 

[Sketchley]

We'll have new tyres. I'll look at the brake blocks, and probably replace them. The transmission is pretty new, and currently well-adjusted (and is high spec). I'll clean the chain and relubricate it (and probably bring lube with us).

I will try and make sense of the instructions for the disc brake, and try and locate a replacement disc. We've got replacement pads. The instructions promise me that replacement brake fluid is easily available from corner garages (but not from bike shops).

Anything else?

And I'm with Simon on clean shorts every day. A full body stretch regime at the end of every day, a cold shower on my legs and a 20-minute walk every evening should take care of the muscles.

I have four pairs of shorts for the trip, hopefully can wash them mid week. Plenty of @rse cream too....

As for stretching this might sound odd but a group stretch at the end of day and / or in the morning might be a good idea if anyone has experience of running such things.... I'm not sure my usual post cycle routine of beer and chips is going to cut it....

 

[rb58]

Beer and chips is all you'll need!
I have a brand new fold up Gatorskin (25) somewhere which I'll be packing. And some wet lube. Other than that, I'm just taking the saddle bag I take on any other long-ish ride. From DZs email the other day, we seem to pass plenty of cycle shops which can supply other bits if needed I'm sure.

 

[Mice]

With apologies for quoting the Daily M... Is this what happens when Davywalnutwhips is unavailable http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...end-Charlie-Britains-airworthy-Lancaster.html

Mice

 

[mmmmartin]

Why don't we just save time by taking a spare bike each?

I was thinking of packing my shed, actually, which would save lots of time because it contains all my other bikes, which we could then use as our own bikes wore out. Thus far I remain unsure if the lawn mower should come alomg as well, you never know, we might need a patch of freshly-mown grass to sit on and have lunch.

 

[dellzeqq]

Anything a little bigger than 23s, i run 28s but have spare 25s should I bring them.

Fitting new callipers next week shall I pack the old?

I have a spare front wheel if you want me to bring that along.

What about tools, a Workstand or a Track pump?

there'll be a track pump on the van. I wouldn't bother with spare 25mm tyres - if you have a split and have to throw a tyre away, then you'd use one of the spares as a stopgap. If you ride on 650s then a spare would be good

there's a bit about tools upthread - I'll have a box of stuff in the van, but people can bring along tools that are particular to their bikes. Chain links are good.

 

[srw]

We crossed France on the (other) tandem - 1100 miles or so. We were carrying a complete bike's worth of tools and spares, including gear and brake cables, chain links, even a replacement chainring in case the one we had on was geared too high.

In fact the only things we needed were:
A spare inner tube
Tyre levers
A spare tyre. Since the one round my middle was the wrong size, we had a folding one.
A spanner when we discovered that the folding tyre was slightly fatter than the usual tyre and fouled the mudguard. We didn't have one the right size.

I may dig out the brake and gear cables, on the grounds that tandem cables are a little longer than solo bike - but I don't know if the nipples are right, and they'll travel in the van. Otherwise it's just tubes, levers, and a multitool.

 

[CharlieB]

As srw has alluded to (thank you!) in the Southend 29/06 thread, I am the other FNRttC'er who is raising money for hospital radio.
We're not a high profile national charity, but the work we do in Northwick Park Hospital is, I think, quite worthwhile. Having been a volunteer there for nearly 29 years, in a patient visiting and radio presenting capacity, I'm hoping to raise £1,000 for them on this venture.
My JustGiving page is at www.justgiving.com/charlieslonjog, and I also have a JustTextGiving option, by texting LJOG66 £1 (or 2,3,4,5 or 10) to 70070. Every and any donation will be personally acknowledged.

Thank you!

 

[dellzeqq]

We crossed France on the (other) tandem - 1100 miles or so. We were carrying a complete bike's worth of tools and spares, including gear and brake cables, chain links, even a replacement chainring in case the one we had on was geared too high.

In fact the only things we needed were:
A spare inner tube
Tyre levers
A spare tyre. Since the one round my middle was the wrong size, we had a folding one.
A spanner when we discovered that the folding tyre was slightly fatter than the usual tyre and fouled the mudguard. We didn't have one the right size.

I may dig out the brake and gear cables, on the grounds that tandem cables are a little longer than solo bike - but I don't know if the nipples are right, and they'll travel in the van. Otherwise it's just tubes, levers, and a multitool.

If we didn't have the van I'd take nothing more than I take on a night ride. Multi-tools, spare tubes, tyre levers, chain link, chain tool (which has come in handy) and Tim O. The van affords us a luxury we wouldn't otherwise have.

 

[srw]

To keep them in the same place, here is the link for R's donation page:
Cycling for the Friends of UCLH: www.justgiving.com/LonJoGforCityBeat
R is chair of the Friends of UCLH, who are also trying to refurbish a now very out-of-date hospital radio studio for their hospitals.

Charlie and she were comparing notes in Gravesend last weekend - hospital radio regularly comes in at number 3 in the listening figures, and close behind TV stations.

 

[ianmac62]

Who managed to recklessly schedule the Fridays Tour in the decisive part of the group phase of the EURO 2012, by the way?

We really have to make sure that we'll be able to watch all the three England games of the tournament.

And the really important fixtures, of course. :-)

The really important fixtures will be released when we're between York and Durham. I'm talking League Division 2 fixtures, of course. Real football. And local interest, too, as York City will be in the Football League for 2012-13. Now when will the Cobblers be playing at Bootham Crescent?

 

[Sketchley]

Struggling to fins a SkySports pub in Bingham showing the rugby on the first Saturday (There is one but it's on dodgy estate out of town). Emailed the pub down the road from Yueng Sing (A Camra pub no less) but they haven't responded.

From http://pubfinder.sky.com the Royal Oak Inn Main St, East Bridgford looks nearest and is a 2.9 mile ride. Anyone interested in join me if so I'll make enquires about if they are shown the rugby and bike parking etc...

 

[StuartG]

You may be alone Sketchley. I'm thinking even a live manned Martian landing will not keep most folks awake yet alone get 'em on a bike till DZ tries to tip us out of our comas on Sunday morn ....