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  1. Are any other residents of this parish planning on taking part in this
    years Dunwich Dynamo? More specifically, if any of you are, will you be
    arriving via Kings Cross?

    If so, then I'll be the guy attempting (hopefully successfully!) to
    re-assemble a Trice QNT at around about 1850(ish).
    --
    These opinions might not even be mine ...
    Let alone connected with my employer ...

  2. "Alistair Gunn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Are any other residents of this parish planning on taking part in this
    years Dunwich Dynamo? More specifically, if any of you are, will you be
    arriving via Kings Cross?

    If so, then I'll be the guy attempting (hopefully successfully!) to
    re-assemble a Trice QNT at around about 1850(ish).

    Waves hand!

    I'm doing it. Meeting up with friends beforehand & setting off in a group.
    There's a couple of us sticking together as we cycle at the same rate: slow.
    I think we may well be lanterne rouge :-)

  3. Alistair Gunn said:

    Are any other residents of this parish planning on taking part in this
    years Dunwich Dynamo?

    Yes.

    More specifically, if any of you are, will you be

    Quoted message said:

    arriving via Kings Cross?

    Yes (from King's Lynn - we're on holiday in Norfolk).

    Quoted message said:


    If so, then I'll be the guy attempting (hopefully successfully!) to
    re-assemble a Trice QNT at around about 1850(ish).

    I'll probably be a arriving a bit earlier than that, but I'll look out
    for you. I'm riding with some of the acf contingent and leaving at 8pm.
    For my sins, and the promise of a free breakfast, I'll be on a 69"
    fixed gear.

  4. wafflycat said:


    "Alistair Gunn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Are any other residents of this parish planning on taking part in this
    years Dunwich Dynamo?

    Quoted message said:

    I'm doing it. Meeting up with friends beforehand & setting off in a group.
    There's a couple of us sticking together as we cycle at the same rate: slow.
    I think we may well be lanterne rouge :-)

    Strictly speaking that ought to be lanternes rouges. But then again
    there can only be one last so there will be one lantern rouge but
    knowing your penchant for illumination the lanterne rouge will have
    many lanternes rouges.
    --
    Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

  5. Zog The Undeniable said:
    Alistair Gunn said:

    Are any other residents of this parish planning on taking part in this
    years Dunwich Dynamo?

    Yes.

    More specifically, if any of you are, will you be

    Quoted message said:

    arriving via Kings Cross?

    Yes (from King's Lynn - we're on holiday in Norfolk).

    Quoted message said:


    If so, then I'll be the guy attempting (hopefully successfully!) to
    re-assemble a Trice QNT at around about 1850(ish).

    I'll probably be a arriving a bit earlier than that, but I'll look out
    for you. I'm riding with some of the acf contingent and leaving at 8pm.
    For my sins, and the promise of a free breakfast, I'll be on a 69"
    fixed gear.

    I may see you there. All being well, I'll be on the 17:09 at Downham
    Market, with a Pompino sporting a 72" fixed gear 🙂

    Chris

  6. On Jul 22, 5:48 pm, "wafflycat" <w*a*ff£y£cat*@£btco*nn£ect.com>

    Quoted message said:

    Waves hand!

    I'm doing it. Meeting up with friends beforehand & setting off in a group.
    There's a couple of us sticking together as we cycle at the same rate: slow.
    I think we may well be lanterne rouge :-)

    If my memories of how much my bum hurt last time serve, I may be
    acting as an unintentional lanterne rouge due to the glow eminating
    therein.

  7. Quoted message said:

    If my memories of how much my bum hurt last time serve, I may be
    acting as an unintentional lanterne rouge due to the glow eminating
    therein.


    Metanium is your friend.

  8. wafflycat said:


    "Alistair Gunn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Are any other residents of this parish planning on taking part in this
    years Dunwich Dynamo? More specifically, if any of you are, will you be
    arriving via Kings Cross?

    If so, then I'll be the guy attempting (hopefully successfully!) to
    re-assemble a Trice QNT at around about 1850(ish).

    Waves hand!

    I'm doing it. Meeting up with friends beforehand & setting off in a
    group. There's a couple of us sticking together as we cycle at the same
    rate: slow. I think we may well be lanterne rouge :-)

    Best pof luck Helen. How's Nathan ?

    Afraid I'll be grass track racing on Sunday (78" fixed) and also
    couldn't persaude bev to ride it for our wedding anniversary (28th July
    and also 28th)

  9. Alistair Gunn said:

    Are any other residents of this parish planning on taking part in this
    years Dunwich Dynamo? More specifically, if any of you are, will you be
    arriving via Kings Cross?

    If so, then I'll be the guy attempting (hopefully successfully!) to
    re-assemble a Trice QNT at around about 1850(ish).


    This year probably represents my best ever opportunity to do this as I
    am on holiday either side of this weekend, and have no commitments for
    once. Unless the forecast is for torrential, I'm going to be there. I'm
    getting my new fixed wheel this week, but I think it's going to be
    *way* too soon to ride that over that sort of distance, so it's the
    cheap road bike or the dahon folder (probably not a good idea, although
    I have heard that people have a go at it on bromptons).

    I can't persuade anybody I know to join me, so I'm just going to have to
    get down there and see if there's a group going at a nice medium-slow
    pace I can tag along with.

    I live near Colchester, and I have an Escort van, so I was wondering if
    I could find somebody who would drive with me out to, say Aldeburgh or
    Leiston, on sat morning or friday afternoon. Then it's just down the
    road from the finish and we drive back (anywhere within a reasonable
    radius of 30 or so miles from me might work well. The van has two seats,
    and two bikes fit in the back nicely). I really want to do this this
    year, so if it comes to it, I will just have to hack it back home on the
    bike after a kip on the beach.

  10. wafflycat said:


    "Pete Whelan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    Best pof luck Helen. How's Nathan ?

    Afraid I'll be grass track racing on Sunday (78" fixed) and also
    couldn't persaude bev to ride it for our wedding anniversary (28th
    July and also 28th)

    Thanks, Pete. All luck gratefully received and clinged too.

    Nathan is mending. He did an open 15 at the weekend but was a DNF. Part
    way though his saddle did a 180 degree turn. Luckily he managed to stay
    on, but it cost him too much time and was not comfortable.

    Happy Anniversary to you & Bev.

    opps, I managed to prang myself coming back at 10pm from a cycle club
    meeting. broken clavicle, dislocated finger (popped back in at the tip)
    and a knee that will need manipulation to point straight. off to
    fracture clinic this morning to get full assessment.

    Quoted message said:
  11. your welcome to park it at mine in Woodbridge

    Chris Cowen said:
    Alistair Gunn said:

    Are any other residents of this parish planning on taking part in this
    years Dunwich Dynamo? More specifically, if any of you are, will you be
    arriving via Kings Cross?

    If so, then I'll be the guy attempting (hopefully successfully!) to
    re-assemble a Trice QNT at around about 1850(ish).


    This year probably represents my best ever opportunity to do this as I
    am on holiday either side of this weekend, and have no commitments for
    once. Unless the forecast is for torrential, I'm going to be there. I'm
    getting my new fixed wheel this week, but I think it's going to be
    *way* too soon to ride that over that sort of distance, so it's the
    cheap road bike or the dahon folder (probably not a good idea, although
    I have heard that people have a go at it on bromptons).

    I can't persuade anybody I know to join me, so I'm just going to have to
    get down there and see if there's a group going at a nice medium-slow
    pace I can tag along with.

    I live near Colchester, and I have an Escort van, so I was wondering if
    I could find somebody who would drive with me out to, say Aldeburgh or
    Leiston, on sat morning or friday afternoon. Then it's just down the
    road from the finish and we drive back (anywhere within a reasonable
    radius of 30 or so miles from me might work well. The van has two seats,
    and two bikes fit in the back nicely). I really want to do this this
    year, so if it comes to it, I will just have to hack it back home on the
    bike after a kip on the beach.

  12. in message <[email hidden]>, Pete Whelan

    (') said:

    opps, I managed to prang myself coming back at 10pm from a cycle club
    meeting. broken clavicle, dislocated finger (popped back in at the tip)
    and a knee that will need manipulation to point straight. off to
    fracture clinic this morning to get full assessment.

    Ouch! Bad luck.

    Less beer, next meeting!

    --
    [email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

    ;; Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

  13. Pete Whelan said:

    opps, I managed to prang myself coming back at 10pm from a cycle club
    meeting. broken clavicle, dislocated finger (popped back in at the tip)
    and a knee that will need manipulation to point straight. off to
    fracture clinic this morning to get full assessment.

    Quoted message said:



    :-(

    You were one of my options for getting to the Lea Bridge Road...I can
    never remember it.

  14. Zog The Undeniable said:
    Pete Whelan said:

    opps, I managed to prang myself coming back at 10pm from a cycle club
    meeting. broken clavicle, dislocated finger (popped back in at the
    tip) and a knee that will need manipulation to point straight. off to
    fracture clinic this morning to get full assessment.

    Quoted message said:



    :-(

    You were one of my options for getting to the Lea Bridge Road...I can
    never remember it.

    I ride it like a moth, and follow the tail-lights

  15. Pete Whelan said:

    your welcome to park it at mine in Woodbridge

    Thanks Pete - I'm still tyring to persuade the other half to come and
    pick me up on Sunday morning, which would be the best option. She's not
    keen, and any concessions I might have to make have to be weighed up
    against the prospect of the ride back 😉

  16. Pete Whelan said:


    I ride it like a moth, and follow the tail-lights

    A meuth? A meuth raading eye baike?

  17. "Pete Whelan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    Best pof luck Helen. How's Nathan ?

    Afraid I'll be grass track racing on Sunday (78" fixed) and also couldn't
    persaude bev to ride it for our wedding anniversary (28th July and also
    28th)

    Thanks, Pete. All luck gratefully received and clinged too.

    Nathan is mending. He did an open 15 at the weekend but was a DNF. Part way
    though his saddle did a 180 degree turn. Luckily he managed to stay on, but
    it cost him too much time and was not comfortable.

    Happy Anniversary to you & Bev.


  18. Quoted message said:


    opps, I managed to prang myself coming back at 10pm from a cycle club
    meeting. broken clavicle, dislocated finger (popped back in at the tip)
    and a knee that will need manipulation to point straight. off to fracture
    clinic this morning to get full assessment.

    Quoted message said:


    Good grief, Pete - that's a bit of a drastic measure to avoid taking Bev out
    to dinner at a nice restaurant on your anniversary!

  19. "John Hearns" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Pete Whelan said:


    I ride it like a moth, and follow the tail-lights

    A meuth? A meuth raading eye baike?

    With a menki on its sholdur?

  20. Alistair Gunn twisted the electrons to say:

    Quoted message said:

    Are any other residents of this parish planning on taking part in this
    years Dunwich Dynamo? More specifically, if any of you are, will you be
    arriving via Kings Cross?

    Well I almost missed the event completely due to get hopelessly lost
    *twice* in North London, however thanks to the efforts of a very nice
    policewoman I did arrive near the start just as a bunch including a
    Speedmachine set off - I thus quickly tagged onto the back!

    Got briefly mistaken for Dave Larringtonm, by someone on a Fujin SL,
    around about 11PM. Made it to feeding station about 0240, forgot to look
    at the time when I got to Dunwich!

    Concluded that the ICE QNT is a complete pain to get around using public
    transport, and thus may have to continue my habit of buying a recumbent
    every 12 months in a 4th year!
    --
    These opinions might not even be mine ...
    Let alone connected with my employer ...

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