-
Do you still want me helping you with this, Gareth?
-
Thanks for the offer mate, but with no compulsory checkpoints I think I have everything covered.
All I've got to do is get myself from the Forum to Jurnets bar before the first competitor finishes.
Why don't you ride with a team of AlleyCat newbies and help them to navigate around the city.
-
Why don't you ride with a team of AlleyCat newbies and help them to navigate around the city.
Well I do prefer winning... but I'll consider it.
-
I'm a Norwich newbie... I could become very lost very quickly
You probably will become very lost, very quickly, because being the sneaky and devious bastard that I am, I have deliberately mixed up the order of the clues on the sheet to give everyone a fair chance of winning, and thus preventing it just becoming a linear race that favours only the fast and the furious. You may have to stop and plan your route at some point during this AlleyCat to prevent the possibility of covering the same ground more than once, twice, or maybe even thrice.
On the plus side, a competitor may already know the answer to a question, therefore negating the need for them to visit a particular landmark given in a clue. A team of NUCA fresher girls new to Norwich sat down at the beginning of the last AlleyCat and used Google search on their smart phones to gain 3 of the answers required and saved themselves about 2km of pedalling.
-
Annoyingly I've got something else on that night.
On the plus side, a competitor may already know the answer to a question, therefore negating the need for them to visit a particular landmark given in a clue. A team of NUCA fresher girls new to Norwich sat down at the beginning of the last AlleyCat and used Google search on their smart phones to gain 3 of the answers required and saved themselves about 2km of pedalling.
Surely this defeats the whole point - the pedalling is the fun part!
-
Absolutely not! it gives riders of all abilities the opportunity to compete fairly from; young college girls on heavy sit-up and begs, ladies on commuter hybrids, midddle aged men on full-sus BSO's, right through to riders on lightweight go faster roadies & fixies.
Joe won the last Norwich AlleyCat because he took a few minutes to plan his route and then pedalled fast and furiously, visited all the landmarks bar one, answered all of the questions and passed through the task checkpoint. As a point of interest all of the competitors missed at least one question or landmark, but across the range of individual and team competitors all of the questions were answered and all landmarks were visited.
-
Joe won the last Norwich AlleyCat because he took
a few minutes to plan his route and then pedalled fast and furiously, visited all the landmarks bar one, answered all of the questions and passed through the task checkpointperformance-enhancing drugs.Corrected.
-
One week to go until the October AlleyCat folks!
-
We had 21 take part in the last AlleyCat. I am unsure about how many for this AlleyCat, to date only 10 have confirmed, but obviously I'd like a lot more to take part. So please pass the word.
-
Only a few hours to go now!
-
I hate that unpredictable rain....
-
let's go kill that guys~~
-
I think I must be getting old, my back's gone out... I got five of the clues before it really started hurting. I need to be stretched out on the rack!
Damn, we wondered where you'd got to! Heal up.
Tell us who won.
Sparky
onelessfixie
adamrejzl
Jozzle
jdp
colr
Mark_Cult
TallestMan-
Post a reply
About
Norwich AlleyCat 26th ocober 2011
Posted by
A Bicycle treasure hunt around the historic City of Norwich.
Wednesday 26th of October 2011
***Where: ***Assemble at the Forum, Millennium Plain, Bethel Street, Norwich NR2 1TF
W*hen:* 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start.
Finish at Jurnets Bar, Wensum Lodge, King Street, Norwich NR1 1QW
There are no compulsory checkpoints to pass through on this Alleycat.
The winners will be the first individual and the first team to hand in a correctly completed task and question sheet to me in Jurnets bar.
Open to all and free to enter; this Alleycat should take you approx 90 minutes and there will be the usual naff prizes.
*** To successfully complete this Alleycat you will need; a pen, a pocket torch/flashlight, and a digital camera/camera phone. It would also be a good idea to have a Map or an A-2-Z of Norwich with you to help with navigation. ***
*** As this Alleycat will be conducted on the Roads, Streets and Cycle Lanes of Norwich, you are strongly advised to have your bicycle equipped with working front and rear lights.***
Please note: There is free parking for the duration of this AlleyCat at Wensum Lodge for those competitors bringing their bicycles into Norwich by car.