Tuesday Night Ride Club (TNRC)

If the "Lighter Later" campaign continues to gain support, most of our fucking rides will be in daylight anyway :(

You want to concentrate it and hope that both light sources are kicking out light in the same wavelengths and phase, I'm guessing. Otherwise you'll have negative effects.

I'd ask this in "any questions".

Black light. Sweet! Flouro TNRC ftw.

seeing how this has turned into a parent toddler club......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLbUH2c2W44

You want to concentrate it and hope that both light sources are kicking out light in the same wavelengths and phase, I'm guessing. Otherwise you'll have negative effects.

I'd ask this in "any questions".

Different wavelength would be fine and would not completely cancel. This all assumes light as wave (Huygens) rather than photon particles (Einstein).

I recommend 'In Search of Scrodingers Cat' as an easy to read text skimming the surface of both arguments and the duality where light is both a particle and a wave.

Different wavelength would be fine and would not completely cancel. This all assumes light as wave (Huygens) rather than photon particles (Einstein).

I recommend 'In Search of Scrodingers Cat' as an easy to read text skimming the surface of both arguments and the duality where light is both a particle and a wave.

^this

I'm willing to guess that I'm further down that road with that plan than you Mr Smoker. Precious little riding in October and November none in December and half way through January and I'm still wearing my Christmas plump.
I've also got the weight of doing LE to JoG in July to get in shape for. Come February/March I'm going to have to have some miracle race fitness plan or the cave will be from Cornwal to Scotland.

*
the near tropical jolly along the pilgrims way, the summer breeze sighing on our thighs as we cycled with gay abandon over hill and down dale.
seems but a distant memory.
halcyon days.....*

i'm not relishing the pain cave visits required to get back to some kind of fitness either.
LE to JOG? lol a world of pain

Different wavelength would be fine and would not completely cancel. This all assumes light as wave (Huygens) rather than photon particles (Einstein).

I recommend 'In Search of Scrodingers Cat' as an easy to read text skimming the surface of both arguments and the duality where light is both a particle and a wave.

Duality of light? Is that like duality of man?
YouTube - Full Metal Jacket Born to Kill/Peace Button Duality of Man

It reminded me of that line too.

I love 'nam films. Especially that one.

Have you been to the Beckton Alps then?

No! I had no idea!

Is it actually worth visiting though? Can you recognize the landscape/buildings?

Erm, it's sort of worth visiting, but I wouldn't go alone. I went with Faith - we rode all the way along the Greenway (interesting in a London historical sense). The Alp's at the end. It's very desolate, and in disrepair. The path that winds up the Alp is cracked open and warping, and all the undergrowth has started to become overgrowth. The old alpine style wooden viewing platform looks like it sustained bomb damage in 'nam. A few bits of old dry ski slope evidence are scattered here and there. The view is panoramic, but not pretty. I hadn't seen FMJ recently enough to comment on whether anything's familiar in that respect.

So, that's a yes really. Unless you have something better to do.

No! I had no idea!

Is it actually worth visiting though? Can you recognize the landscape/buildings?

No, on both counts.

Ok, perhaps a little harsh, if you like ex industrial landscapes you can ride down the greenway and climb the remaining Beckton Alp, which served as a ski slope for a while, to survey the desolate brownfield site. It was the Beckton Gas Works (rather than the Alps) which were filmed and I think they have been pretty much eradicated.

if you like ex industrial landscapes

They're my favorite type of landscape.

I think I'll pay a visit in the summer.

For the full bleakness experience you want a dark and threatening sky with a chill wind blowing right through you, carrying the faintest echo of the thousands of voices of the men that toiled there across the years to bring warmth to London.

I went down that way on Sunday but I was a bit pressed for time so didn't get any Essex mountaineering in.

No, on both counts.

Ok, perhaps a little harsh, if you like ex industrial landscapes......

...and the smell of human faeces! i worked in a school down that way and the sewage works are nasty business. The greenway is a sewage pipe covered in tarmac. Fuck that for a bridleway

Fuck that indeed.

Exedown is a desolate place on a lonely Wednesday night. So much so that I decided to ride it twice. Last time I went up there (2nd Jan) it was like I'd never ridden a bike before. This time I took it easy on the first ascent, and on the second went one and two sprockets smaller at various stages.

Basically what I am saying is "roll on the 2011 season"!!

I'm still a fat overweight cunt though.

ok. is this week sometime too short notice? doesn't need to turn into a piss up.

Has this been resolved yet?

How about next Tuesday? (nudge, nudge; wink, wink)

the cave will be from Cornwal to Scotland.

Hahahahaha! Can i join the cave?

TNRCers I thought you might appreciate an update on my ongoing relationship with Ikea.

I visited on the evening of Wednesday 12th, with Tori, to pick up some final baby stuff. We're due on the 6th of Feb so are fully on red alert right now.

As we finished walking around and neared the tills, my right foot started to hurt a little bit. By the time I got home, it was really quite painful.

To cut a long story short, I have been in pain ever since, with a couple of trips to the doctors, who initially diagnosed some kind of soft tissue damage. Oh no, it now turns out that I have got a stress fracture in my third metatarsel which is now in a bright orange 'walking' cast. Obviously the timing of this injury is a disaster.

Given that, last year, a trip to Ikea ended up with me having a bout of Olecranon Bursitis (swellbow) and now this; I recommend that you avoid the place at all costs.

Pissed off.

You can't say you weren't warned before of the perils of IKEA!

Bad luck, Matt. Hope you heal quickly.

I had my money on a quick reply from you Andy. You never let me down :-)

Thanks mate, I appreciate it.

How hard can birthing and baby care be with only one usable leg?

It'll be the care of Tori that'll require two usable legs.

Good luck for the coming weeks Matt. Heal up then Man Up.

bites teeth don't make any leg over gags...