2009-01-24 Sat - The Tweed Run I

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120470684

no but some alright pics nonetheless. or did i get my places mixed up.

sorry if i missed something.

Yes, that seems to be where the rumour started (caption to the last picture). But you'd expect someone to have taken a picture if it happened, wouldn't you? People have so many cameras these days, I really can't imagine them missing this moment.

The number of cyclists in the D.C. Tweed Run seemed awfully small.

The female rider in the pink top (DC Tweed ride) is a stone cold stunnah.

The number of cyclists in the D.C. Tweed Run seemed awfully small.

in the report with interviews they mentioned something about a hundred participants unless i heard wrong, i'll have to listen to it again.

more pics here

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=167582334462&ref=ss#/photo_search.php?page=1&oid=167582334462&aid=-1&auser=&view=all

actually the reporter said 'hundreds' of participants.

Ah there we go, that's better, the photos in the first link doesn't seemed like there is a lots of them.

reporter are quite sketchy sometime, look like 50 at best.

I'm still in awe at how good our was, for the first tweed run ever, we got it spot on with great outfit, bike, location, ride, number of people etc. here's hoping the 2010 will be better.

I think some of the Washington people are hoping to come in 2010 to join the original Run

My girlfriend is currently knitting me a tweed waitcoat in preparation for The Tweed Run II. Now to find a matching suit. My mum works for Oxfam and has been keeping an eye out for months but nothing yet. I may have to resort to the old fashioned method. Also thinking that I might see if the advertising bike outside the local butchers is up for borrowing.

lol, i got called a rube.
what jokes.

ahhh hah ha, I just wrote a response.
what a cunt I am.
especially the last bit, considering I'm not even English!

anyway multigrooves you couldn't come on the london ride but you managed to go on the washington ride eh?................poser!!

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^^ brace yourself

Any word on the date for the 2010 Tweed Run yet? It'd be good to get booked on the train down when the cheap fares come out in a few weeks. "Early March" does suggest a specific date (the 7th?) - a week earlier would still be February and a week later is mid-March...?

You can get advance fairs on most train services (www.nationalrail.co.uk) up until a few days before the date of travel so I'd say don't sweat it just yet hombre..

Ah, but there's a few cheapie £10-ish fares if you book months in advance - plus I want to nab a couple of cycle reservations asap...

loving the eagerness graeme, but we are still fully three months away from this, Teddy ted I have no doubt is working hard on this, to make it a supremely enjoyable event, but is probably in negotiation with various people about the dates which are good for them. I think you'll just have to cool your jets until the official date is placed up.
and as we've learnt fromthe long rides out to oxford/cambridge et al, there are generally weekend group saver fares, so if yu round up a larger group you can spread and lower the cost.

look forward to you looking splendiferous in tweed.

Okey-dokey - thanks! Just need to decide on whether to do it on a penny farthing or a proper bike - bit nervous about riding my penny through London traffic...

What time did it finish up last year?

yes, sorry. dates are still up in the air. some exciting plans afoot, and we're sort of prisoner to availability dates at the moment. should know more after a meeting this friday.

we're planning on starting it earlier this time, so that we finish up in daylight. that said, i'm not sure that i'd ride a penny farthing 15 miles through london.

Found these on t'interweb. Cheaper than Rapha and more authentic:

http://www.forgeofbeaulieu.com/mens/mens-breeks.html

Other items including tweeds. I particularly like the shooting socks but they are alittle pricey.

graeme have a word with charlotte, she and a couple of friends ride penny's round london, think they'd be the best people to talk about riding farthings around ye olde london town
http://www.londonfgss.com/member482.html

ps. not sure how you'd get it on a train, probably one of the reasons you're thinking about booking early.

Hmm - maybe I'll do it on one of these new-fangled safety bicycles this time and on an ordinary the year after.

(I believe you can take pennys on trains as a normal bike - they are no longer - just a bit higher...)

graeme have a word with charlotte, she and a couple of friends ride penny's round london, think they'd be the best people to talk about riding farthings around ye olde london town
http://www.londonfgss.com/member482.html

For the avoidance of doubt - I'm in. Definitely coming. Wouldn't miss it for the world.

Tweed run TV on BBC2 right now. Alan Bennett's A Day Out - an Edwardian cycling club go out on a ride.

Tweed run TV on BBC2 right now. Alan Bennett's A Day Out - an Edwardian cycling club go out on a ride.

looks good. sadly not available on the iplayer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCgF3l9pKQo

The tweed run looked like jolly good fun, I'd love to join in the next one.

What kind of speed were you averaging for the last one? As I'm sure my mrs would be interested in joining too, but her bike is a heavy as fuck Raleigh Twenty (3 speed, naughty I know but the gears are hidden away inside the SA hub!) would the pace be too much?