Waifs & Strays

[quote]Tuesday, December 25, 2007
2512 Ride

LCC Ride Family Easy&Short
Date: Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Time: 10am/11am
Place: Cutty Sark Gardens/Southwark Needle
Description:Our Sixth. Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich, and 11am at Southwark Needleat the south end of London Bridge. London's quietest day of the year. A slow and sociable exploring meander round central London in very good and diverse company. Drop out whenever or stay on for a late lunch up Edgware Road and maybe a pub after. Barry 07905 889 005. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contact: Barry Mason
Telephone: 07905 889 005
Email: info@southwarkcyclists.org.uk

Date: Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Time: 10am/11am
Place: Cutty Sark Gardens/Southwark Needle
Description:Our Sixth. Meet 10am Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich, and 11am at Southwark Needleat the south end of London Bridge. London's quietest day of the year. A slow and sociable exploring meander round central London in very good and diverse company. Drop out whenever or stay on for a late lunch up Edgware Road and maybe a pub after. Barry 07905 889 005. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contact: Barry Mason
Telephone: 07905 889 005
Email: info@southwarkcyclists.org.uk

doh!

RPM there's still a fukin car or two in the background..

it's never deserted, even on december the 25th (I am a non believer so don't acknowledge the christian festival)

it's not Christian, is it, it's originally bleedin pagan appropriated by the church

bloody hell its just a holiday!

semantics aside, I don't "do" what the majority of British people do on Dec 25th

apart from eat a lot (sometimes) but I do that anytime I have a day off

Technically the 25th isn't a pagan holiday,
The winter solstice on the 21st however - You'll find me at sunrise by the sea on the southcoast and at sunset on parliament hill.

at least we can then look forward to longer days

Object17 Technically the 25th isn't a pagan holiday,
The winter solstice on the 21st however - You'll find me at sunrise by the sea on the southcoast and at sunset on parliament hill.

Are you going to ride down to the south coast, straight from the AGM meet up? Cool idea, if you do, we could all wave you off :-)

Object17 Technically the 25th isn't a pagan holiday,
The winter solstice on the 21st however.

the pagan celebration on the 25th was to celebrate that you had made it through the shortest day and could look forward to making it through winter. it was a big feast, i understand.

wasnt it on the lunar calendar or something anyway?

mashton [quote]Object17 Technically the 25th isn't a pagan holiday,
The winter solstice on the 21st however - You'll find me at sunrise by the sea on the southcoast and at sunset on parliament hill.

Are you going to ride down to the south coast, straight from the AGM meet up? Cool idea, if you do, we could all wave you off :-)[/quote]
I do want to ride to brighton again. Preferably with a little company though.

fc9k wasnt it on the lunar calendar or something anyway?

Seconded. It was a floating date, that said Christianity did approximate it for their own holiday.

i might be up for a ride to brighton. a friend has just taken over a bike shop down there and i want to visit him.

and buy all his stock ;)

he is looking to start importing specialist downhill frames from brooklyn machine works, i wonder if he can slot in a track frame or two. just for testing purposes ;)

dogsballs i might be up for a ride to brighton. a friend has just taken over a bike shop down there and i want to visit him.
Which shop?

i keep on forgetting, it's the one i think sorta near the pier, on one of the main streets paralle to foreshore, one block back. i think. i need to contact him anyway, so will find out.

Let me know and I'll drop in and see him next week :]

dogsballs he is looking to start importing specialist downhill frames from brooklyn machine works, i wonder if he can slot in a track frame or two. just for testing purposes ;)

Definately the coolest make in mountain biking in my opinion, their bikes make me want to start downhilling. They also do a fixed wheel bike now which I'm not overly keen on, but all thier other bikes are cool as.

S.N.S has a BMW track frame, it is unorthodox looking but I quite like it, and Scott clearly does.

I imagine it is an amazing bike, all their other bikes get top reviews. 2 or so years ago someone had what looked like one of the first ones over on fgg, he was mates with the guys who own BMW and he made it himself, I think this bike was the start of them producing them. The list of this guys track bikes and other bikes was incredible, it sounded like he had a museum of bikes in his house!

downhill racer

track, luv the colours, not!!

ah, scott's collection of brooklyns

After due consideration I'll be shunning the LCC ride as it sounds a little slow paced.

I want to tear around London in a way that's not possible the rest of the year.
I'll be unable to get onto FGSS much between now and the 25th so email me if you're interested, Object17 [at] gmail [dot] com

The plan is for a 10:30ish start, once I know who is coming I'll work out a suitible starting/meetup point.