2011-04-09 Sat - The London Tweed Run 3

Fantastic day out - huge thanks to the organisers and marshalls. And love the penny farthing cam film.

I was riding so my boyfriend came to watch the ride go past on Old Street and said it was great seeing how chilled out everyone was - all the drivers were just smiling and watching us go past.

I only got one good pic -

Thanks to everyone who made a fantastic day possible for both Patricia and me. Ted and Jacqui, the marshalls and the musicians. There must have been dozens of other helpers. You all deserve a huge pat on the back.

Yesterday was amazing, it's difficult to say anything that hasn't already been said but yes Alex was a fantastic leader and put so much into it, thank you, the other marshalls were great, as Laner said it was tiring but very rewarding. I'm so glad I did it, and not just because racing to the front repeatedly was a good warm up for the London Classic today ;)

Thank you Jacqui and Teddy for the clearly massive amount of organisation that was involved.

It was great to have the bus at Lincoln's Inn Niall, really added to the atmosphere and the send off was a pleasure.

It's all been said before but WOWZA what a fantastic day!! I had such fun. Thankyou so much Ted, Jac et al. Hi to Jessica, Peter and the gorgeous Megan whom I met in the WMC. Roll on 2012...

So fustrated I cannot make it, especially when I've been looking forward to it all year.

glad to hear everyone enjoy it.

'Cannot'??

You're a day late!

Some of my pictures here:

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/736360362

Once again... Utterly wonderfull Tweeding with you all.

Does anyone have any info on the mental little grey bike thing? Never got close enough to ask the guy due to his zooming around like a fly.

I think he was the highlight of the day for me...the level of frenzied effort involved in him speeding through the pack in those pantaloons was amazing!!!!

Was that the back to front mini penny? I loved that guy!
Charlotte got a picture of it on her blog.

And his dancing at the tea shop was unreal.

Does anyone have any info on the mental little grey bike thing? Never got close enough to ask the guy due to his zooming around like a fly.

If I read Charlotte's blog post correctly (linked above), then I believe he is a manufacturer of penny farthings.

Does anyone have any info on the mental little grey bike thing? Never got close enough to ask the guy due to his zooming around like a fly.

he got lent it by dashing tweed, the bike is made by abici

http://inhabitat.com/abici-launches-ultraportable-update-to-historic-italian-velocino-bicycle/

Had a wonderful day, thank you Teddy, Jacqui et al!

Is anyone else still sporting taches and ridiculous beards for tomorrow's commute? I'm down to a tache now and just don't want to get rid of it, feels so smooth and aerodynamic after 3 years of beardiness!

Teddy, Jacqui & the Marshals, I doff my cap off to you all. Superb, fantastic, awesome!

To all the participants, (sadly amidst a few post registration protests) I guess the fact that we were all waiting on-line half an hour before formal registration, stands testament to how badly we wanted this and it showed on the day. How fantastic to see everyone and meet some truly awesome people.

Special highlights for me:

• Meeting the gent who travelled the globe on the penny farthing
  (you have the coolest helmet! ;-))
  
• Dude on the reverse Penny Farthing, you rocked.
  
• dmczone's 3rensho......lushty to f*£k :-) you can share my d-locks any day!
  
• corny's random banter at the start (and the Denim) !
  
• Mr lunch and his lovely missus - a true Scottish brother & mother, sorry we didn't party on till the wee hours heart was there, the head said no... :-(
  
• Clever Pun - Mark you rock! nuff said, good to properly meet you at last.
  
• Wicksie and pals - my new love being alcoholic ginger beer, thank you!
  
• Completely missing Ewan!!!!!
  
• Missing the GP quali?!
  
• Scary loz – Hello sir! Hope to see you around
  
• OSR & Chainbreaker – You guys just make me lol......
  
• hip-hop tap dancer at working mans club, tres groovy!
  
• Free booze.....
  
• The Family Walrus – lovely kids and beautiful hand built bike frames...envy :-)
  
  

And lastly/finally.....

• The fact that Mrs Sniffy aka ‘rubyshoes’ thought this was the 5th best day of her life!!!!??!!! :-)
  
  

Truely superb!, a day I shall never forget. Once again, thank you Teddy, Jacqui, Marshalls, and everyone else...hope to see you all next year!

need to see more photos please - I didn't have a camera with me!

I had loads of photos taken of me but i still havnt seen a single one!

I had loads of photos taken of me but i still havnt seen a single one!

I should think they will suddenly appear in their droves tomorrow!

... I made a little time lapse film from atop my penny farthing handlebars which you may want to see. It's on my blog at www.velopoly.com where I've written a bit more about all the fun I had yesterday.

great little film. Did you notice your cast shadow when we were riding east? Really cool

I had loads of photos taken of me but i still havnt seen a single one!

Yay! thank you sir.

xanderh; I've put a few (not found one of you yet, tho') up on my flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/booksnake/sets/72157626470674980/with/5607860172/

More forum 'faces' to follow.

And there are lots going up by the www.bicycleimages.com trio!

Better (slightly over-sharpened with that ghastly Flickr's algorithm)

Hahaha! you have given me grey hair and wrinkles and steve buschemi eyes! pipe is very genuine tho