2010-04-10 Sat - The London Tweed Run 2

Teddy and Jacqueline, thank you so much for organizing the Tweed run. It is keeping me busy gathering a nice tweed costume, looking for an appropriate bike and planning my trip to London.
I just want to say I am sooooooooooooo exited !

Link to VCC diary and stuff:- you will probably need to track down and contact a local club member to get more details tho:
http://www.v-cc.org.uk/newsflash.htm

http://www.v-cc.org.uk/events.html

Local groups up and down the country of varying levels of active participation.

They know bike history though.

Can't believe people are actually buying bikes especially for the ride. Madness.
Still need to arrange some tweed for myself, or I might just moleskin it up again...

just spare a thought for the poor little *moles *that have to suffer in the making of your clobber

^^^^i wonder how many people are building a bike for the ride?

Hey Cass, that is an intersting site, they sure seem to know bike history !

jd, you got plenty of tweedy stock at the mo? Free today and could do with some bargins

^^^^i wonder how many people are having a suit built for the ride?

tweedled

if last year is anything to go by, i am really looking forward to seeing the beautiful old bikes that have been locked away in sheds.

Just realised this is the day of the Villa v Blues game, will have to keep a tranny hidden somewhere about my person.

The pools panel would declare that a home win.

Just realised this is the day of the Villa v Blues game, will have to keep a tranny hidden somewhere about my person.

I will have to make your aquaintance.

Just realised this is the day of the Villa v Blues game, will have to keep a tranny hidden somewhere about my person.

I'd get a tandem, if I were you...

How did you get into my facebook photos???

Tandem in slow dense pack will fucking suck. For this reason I'm not bringing mine for this ride.
Must learn tandem trackstands with yer rear admiral if you're gonna attempt it...

There is a bodeans nosh up on the night before so Private Lucy can put names to faces (and poss faeces the next day)

visit the reprographics thread to sign up

places are even more limited than for the tweed ride

complaints will be duly ignored by GL and DJ

How did you get into my facebook photos???

Chatroulette.

just picked this up this morning. excellent set made by WMF. the box was damaged so i got it at a bargain price. yippee i'm almost ready :-)

now what shall i put in it.

I expect no less from you Gerald... nice.

How exactly is the event going to be limited to 400? You can't stop people cycling on public streets. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this 400 only rubbish was to satisfy the authorities. I didn't get a place due to being at work, but I'll be there.

Actually harry, 400 is not a rubbish number. It's a number that we based all the marshal requirements and event planning on. Part of the aim of the Tweed Run this year - is to prove that it can be done well and without the use of closed roads, police etc., we've worked really hard with the buroughs involved to make an event that will work and will prove that it's not necessary to close roads, freak out, arrest people etc., SO it would be a REAL shame if anyone here just decided to ruin our hard work and sabotage the event - playing into the fears of the councils and police - which would ultimately lead to it being EVEN harder to have our brand of fun in the city...

DO YOU REALLY want to live in a city like NYC was a few years ago??? I think not, at least not if you actually love cycling.

@ anyone who didn't get the confrimation email, I am currently going thru the paid list for reg, if you paid to have reg sent I can confirm you. Otherwise we'll be in touch shortly. If you want to be proactive = (please be) send me a PM with the name and email you signed up with and I will confirm.
J

It would be really interesting to hear what obstacles and 'problems' were quoted at you. I'll ask you about it on Sunday.

If anyones in interested I have just come back from Portobello and in the stalls under the bridge they have Tweed jackets for sale, not cheap £25 to £45 a go but you can always haggle.

Humanity is fucked

^^ it hurts to look at that

I hope its a bright beautiful sunny day like today then it will be fantastic cant wait for tweed run 2 as my old spoke card is looking bit shabby now!

Yay for the tweed run. Any excuse to wear my tweed outfit again....
I need some new shoes though. The ones I have are MEGA painful for some reason