Back in July I tried to nominate this site for an LCC Best Cycling Facility
Award. Why not, eh?

Three months later I get an email (see below) asking for a more detailed nomination. I replied saying I was too busy and she should HTFU and and have a look at the site herself.

However, if anyone is inclined to do the work for them, please feel free to jump in. Here is the email:

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From: vols 1 vols1@lcc.org.uk
Subject: RE: Awards
Date: October 07, 2008 11:38:01 AM BST
To: David Shannon

Dear Dave

Thanks for your message, sorry for the delay in replying. If you want
the judges to consider your nomination for the London Cycling Awards,
you will need to provide them with more information. The judges will be
making their decision based on how well the nominated schemes or
initiatives meet the specific criteria for each category. The criteria
they will be using are available on our web site here
http://www.lcc.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=1164.

You would need to provide the judges with a description of how the web
site meets the criteria and the name and address of the organisation or
individual to be credited for the award. You are also invited to submit
accompanying material with the nomination, such as photographs or
testimonials. You might want to include screen shots of the web site,
rather than 'photographs' as such.

Best wishes,
Liz Reiner

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Shannon [mailto:daveshannon@mac.com]
Sent: 22 July 2008 16:53
To: Office
Subject: Awards

My nomination for Best Cycle Facility is:

The London Fixed-Gear and Single-Speed web site:

www.londonfgss.com

3,097 members and counting

It is informative, entertaining, useful and anything else you want it to
be!

David Shannon

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I would stick it in the 'Best Workplace Cycling Initiative' category, at least while I'm working.

Lets bombard them with links to the best posts, polo, social, cultural events and ride threads.

Second thoughts, even better send a load of abuse. Let's NOT get nominated.

Lets bombard them with links to the best posts, polo, social, cultural events and ride threads.

Second thoughts, even better send a load of abuse. Let's NOT get nominated.

That would be so Hipster to not get nominated!

If the smeear fits

Oooh get you!

OK - should I sent an email saying: 'please, on no account consider the site for any award and forget you have even heard of its existence'?

Ahh, the old double bluff . . .

OK - should I sent an email saying: 'please, on no account consider the site for any award and forget you have even heard of its existence'?

My god, we would be so god damn hip if we didn't get nominated.

If the smeear fits

can't rep :(

Get nominated...then turn it down due to it's un-hipness.

Get nominated, win, then accept the award via satallite from LA, where we're busy working on 'other projects'.

Back in July I tried to nominate this site for an LCC Best Cycling Facility
Award. Why not, eh?

Three months later I get an email (see below) asking for a more detailed nomination. I replied saying I was too busy and she should HTFU and and have a look at the site herself.
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David, it's a very good idea to nominate the site. If you still want to follow it up, you should do this under 'Best Community Cycling Initiative'--the 'Facility' category is for physical infrastructure.

The request for more info that you received from the office is because we get a lot of nominations and we simply don't have the volunteer time to follow them all up. The judges are provided with a pack containing the information that you give. I shouldn't think that it would be too difficult to compile this info, as detailed above, between a couple of willing and knowlegeable forum members, if you don't have time? Guidelines here: http://www.lcc.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=1164

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Criteria for Best Community Cycling Initiative

This category will recognise community groups or organisations who best implement a program or project to involve the community in cycling. The winner of this award will have developed the initiative in order to:

 improve and increase interest in cycling
 support and encourage people to try or take up cycling

Please include relevant photos and testimonials, along with a brief description (one side of A4) of the initiative and how it meets the criteria. You should include the numbers of cyclists involved and the dates and locations of any events relating to the project. Where appropriate, please provide evidence of an increase in cycling activity, preferably in the form of a before and after comparison.

In addition, please indicate the name and address of the organisation or individual to be credited for this award in your nomination.

The deadline for nominations is the 24th October--Friday week.

The sorts of community projects that usually get nominated tend to be based around religious groups, ethnic minority groups, disability groups, schools or local areas and often address social exclusion (and obviously achieving inclusion through cycling), widening participation, and so forth. However, I don't see why a web-site shouldn't be worth a nomination--it's still not such a widespread way of organising a community, but this site is clearly very successful at that--plenty of events, social rides, etc. It would be important in a nomination to demonstrate how this works, perhaps using a few examples.

For instance, how many new people are taking up cycling around London because they like FGSS bikes and the scene around them? I'm sure there are some. Even if this seems less worthy than, say, cycling for disability groups, the judges may well be impressed by it.

Happy nominating,
Oliver
LCC
(Please note that I'm not involved with the London Cycling Awards in any way.)

I think we should nominate UniCack.

It is very amusing that we could possibly win an award for being a London cycling facility when we're virtual, and what is physical (the server) is located somewhere in Missouri.

I was looking at some stats earlier, wondering if the site has suffered as a result of my being busy at work, and the answer seems to be no... which I guess is good.

A few choice stats:

• 1.9m unique pages were viewed last month
  
• 180k unique visitors came to the site last month (if you access from home and work, you're counted twice)
  
• 46% of all of that is traceable to within London... so London has generated 900k unique pages, and 80k unique visitors in the last month.
  
• We're using 90GB of bandwidth every month for the web pages (and images, etc).
  
• We're sending around 50k notification and alert emails (approx' figure, that stat comes from the mail server report which approximates each day and then aggregates the approximations... rounding errors abound).
  
• We have 4,500 members, of which 3,400 are 'active'... meaning that they've used the site within the last month.
  
  

Anyhow, the forum is massive and keeps growing. It's kinda scary.

I'm hoping the prize to the competition is one of those Park Tools pizza cutters. As such, I think it would be ace to stand a chance.

Plus then I could be in a photo like this:

Plus then I could be in a photo like this:

you get to own a small child of colour?

I like this photo, they look as if time has stopped.

I wish I could stop time, if I was there I'd run around undoing people's shoelaces and grasping the breasts of unsuspecting wenches..

ha ha!

if i could turn back time, i'd take back all those words that hurt you, and you'd say...

I like this photo, they look as if time has stopped.

I wish I could stop time, if I was there I'd run around undoing people's shoelaces and grasping the breasts of unsuspecting wenches..

ha ha!
You'd go for a feel of MissElectricBlueTop, and find no nipple in her stomach folds!

I'd leave her alone

I like this photo, they look as if time has stopped.

I wish I could stop time, if I was there I'd run around undoing people's shoelaces and grasping the breasts of unsuspecting wenches..

ha ha!

If you ran around with time stopped you would graze your face on the static air.

Just a warning, that's all.

I'd leave her alone

All in all it's a bad buffet, best pickings been had long ago, we are scraping the bottom of an already well scraped barrel here although the bloke in the tie looks good for a bum.

If you ran around with time stopped you would graze your face on the static air.

Just a warning, that's all.

You should get out more. And not come back... :>

You should get out more. And not come back... :>

I would but I am working on a time stopping machine and its giving me a terrible rash.

If you ran around with time stopped you would graze your face on the static air.

Just a warning, that's all.

not whilst I'm wearing The Mask Of Time..