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@dogsballs
"Oh what a night!!!!" . what can i say, but i'm amazed by the number of brave souls that made it (roughly 70-80) and even more so to those that finished (roughly 43). When it was drizzling on the way down i was praying that it would clear up, but near on 4.5hrs of the total rain it did not let up once (perhaps for some of my ride home). this was also the reason for why my rims were full of water still today, wtf!?!? the costumes were amazing given the conditions, added to the fact that everyone was soaked to the bone, big cheers to those who put the effort in. It became clear early on that the treasurehunt was not going to work, so i kept on pushing the group on to the main checkpoints. I still did the random draws to keep everyone cheerful. At one stage (near pentonville prison) we lost 95% of the group and rode to marylebone station, at this stage i was ready to pack it in as we were down to a handful of people. but after returning a few phone calls, flashing lights emerged from the dark one by one and i started to think it would be finished. I think we broke the record for the number of punctures with around 20-30 at my estimate. The reason why we continued and not wait for individuals, was that the planned stops, were to be a place for people to catch-up rather than to stop at various points. I think this also gives people who get lost and place to go as well. To some extent this worked.
hope everyone who won a prize like them and it wouldn't be possible from our kind sponsors (see below). I still have a few left, that got missed with all the confusion and the fact i thought i had a brain tumour by the end (from stressing about it all). If the people concerned are happy i will pass them on to the1 yr aniversary party on 29th march (screen print from wayne, 1hr photo from ben broomfield and disk mount cog & tee from londonfixiebike, smeear caps from smeear). As mentioned, due to the treasurehunt being thrown in the bin, i thought i would reward all those hardy souls for completing the ride and re-issuing dry tickets. Enough dribbling, although I'm still trying to think how massive it would have been if it was a clear night???
My list of individual thanks
-seb for doing spoke cards
-sheep and mark for helping check course last week
-Jos from Tour de Ville
-Roberto from Roberto Bicicletas
-Scott from Archies Grobags
-Hassan from Cavendish Cycles
-Wayne for screen print
-Ben Broomfield photography
-Max from londonfixiebike
-Paul from Freshtripe
-Todd for caps
-if i missed anyone, thank you!
Bring on Monopoly Night Ride 2009!!!!