The Fridays Tour

[ceepeebee]

yup. Google maps has to be bullied in to doing it. What's worse, at three in the morning, there'll be people saying 'Simon - it says 'no entry'. To which I will reply.................'I've been going up this road for thirty years and I'm not about to stop now'.

ha ha - bikehike wouldn't be bullied, even using the turn off road following option, which is weird.

Here's Leg one - with 2 minor diversions for cut throughs - one at Redbourn, the other in the centre of Kettering.
http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=uhtxndspahnbqkyz
The GPSies app on the iphone is good with this and will act as a map as a back up.

Took about twenty minutes all in, if anyone wants me to try and do any of the other legs, let me know and I'll plod through, I've got a fair bit of extra time at the moment - we're in full on wind-down mode now and I've caught up with my stuff. Right now though I'm off to fit my cartridge pads to replace the stock avid pads which are apparently made of cheese.

 

[dellzeqq]

Is it true you have to pay a local 'tog to get a photo in front of either the LE or JoG sign posts?

no

 

[dellzeqq]

Took about twenty minutes all in, if anyone wants me to try and do any of the other legs, let me know and I'll plod through, I've got a fair bit of extra time at the moment

you have e-mail!

 

[dellzeqq]

Chris - that looks good with the two exceptions you highlighted. Actually you've given the game away a bit. I shall say no more.............

 

[mcshroom]

I can't do this while at work, but if there's a google map version of each route, then you can extract it as a gpx file using GMap to GPX - this may save people time on the transcription work

 

[ceepeebee]

Chris - that looks good with the two exceptions you highlighted. Actually you've given the game away a bit. I shall say no more.............

erk! sorry

 

[iLB]

no

Are you sure? It seems there is someone who owns the fingers for the post in the ground? I'm reading £10 a pop

 

[dellzeqq]

people do get suckered in to registering. We just rolled up, left the minbuses outside the expensive car park, rode in, snapped away. What are they going to do, tell you off? Mind you - the mist was so thick we could have been anywhere.

John O'Groats - it's all public road.

 

[StuAff]

There are chains and such like around the sign, rather pathetically. They don't really work as a deterrent...

 

[dellzeqq]

I see what you mean Stu. We concentrated on getting a picture of the sea and the rugged cliffs. At least we were told that there was sea and rugged cliffs, but, in point of fact, there was only mist, rushing up the cliff in a very dramatic fashion. There is (or was) a start and finish line to the landward side of the hotel and that's a decent place to take a picture. The fingerpost thing is a bit pants.

Now - without wishing to spread alarm...one weather forecasting outfit is now predicting 27mm of rain on Saturday - up from 2.3mm yesterday.

27mm is biblical. It's going to stop traffic. The boats from the Serpentine will slip their moorings and be washed up the Edgware Road. St. Albans will become an island and Woburn will turn in to a lake. All of Milton Keynes will disappear. It will leave six inches of standing water on the A6003. It will turn Bisbrooke in to an promontory, a safe haven for Belgian fishing boats. Not that I mean to worry you......but I'm purchasing snorkels for TMN and Wanda

 

[Flying Dodo]

ha ha - bikehike wouldn't be bullied, even using the turn off road following option, which is weird.

Here's Leg one - with 2 minor diversions for cut throughs - one at Redbourn, the other in the centre of Kettering.
http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=uhtxndspahnbqkyz
The GPSies app on the iphone is good with this and will act as a map as a back up.

Took about twenty minutes all in, if anyone wants me to try and do any of the other legs, let me know and I'll plod through, I've got a fair bit of extra time at the moment - we're in full on wind-down mode now and I've caught up with my stuff. Right now though I'm off to fit my cartridge pads to replace the stock avid pads which are apparently made of cheese.

I have got bikehike to do the Redbourn cut-through - but you do have to switch off follow by roads quite a bit before, so really, when your cursor is in Redbourn High Street.

If you're volunteering to do the rest of the gpx files, I'll leave you to it!!

 

[Tim Hall]

I see what you mean Stu. We concentrated on getting a picture of the sea and the rugged cliffs. At least we were told that there was sea and rugged cliffs, but, in point of fact, there was only mist, rushing up the cliff in a very dramatic fashion. There is (or was) a start and finish line to the landward side of the hotel and that's a decent place to take a picture. The fingerpost thing is a bit pants.

Now - without wishing to spread alarm...one weather forecasting outfit is now predicting 27mm of rain on Saturday - up from 2.3mm yesterday.

27mm is biblical. It's going to stop traffic. The boats from the Serpentine will slip their moorings and be washed up the Edgware Road. St. Albans will become an island and Woburn will turn in to a lake. All of Milton Keynes will disappear. It will leave six inches of standing water on the A6003. It will turn Bisbrooke in to an promontory, a safe haven for Belgian fishing boats. Not that I mean to worry you......but I'm purchasing snorkels for TMN and Wanda

This biblical deluge, is that for the leg to Bingham? I may be riding the Pino with an empty front seat if so.

 

[theclaud]

Now - without wishing to spread alarm...one weather forecasting outfit is now predicting 27mm of rain on Saturday - up from 2.3mm yesterday.

27mm is biblical. It's going to stop traffic. The boats from the Serpentine will slip their moorings and be washed up the Edgware Road. St. Albans will become an island and Woburn will turn in to a lake. All of Milton Keynes will disappear. It will leave six inches of standing water on the A6003. It will turn Bisbrooke in to an promontory, a safe haven for Belgian fishing boats. Not that I mean to worry you......but I'm purchasing snorkels for TMN and Wanda

I should forget the fancy ceramic wax chain lube, then?

 

[ceepeebee]

I have got bikehike to do the Redbourn cut-through - but you do have to switch off follow by roads quite a bit before, so really, when your cursor is in Redbourn High Street.

If you're volunteering to do the rest of the gpx files, I'll leave you to it!!

I've got days 3 & 5 pencilled in for today at some point as they're the twistingest according to experts.

After that, well, it's not like I'm busy at work...

 

[User10571]

.....Now - without wishing to spread alarm...one weather forecasting outfit is now predicting 27mm of rain on Saturday - up from 2.3mm yesterday......

Nothing serious then.