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

You'll be lucky with Oxfam nowadays, mccarthynm. It's as if tweed munching locusts have been through the place - your best bet is ebay, but don't expect to find a bargain anymore!

If anyone's interested, there was quite a nice three-piece tweed suit (complete with matching braces) in the Trinity Hospice charity shop on Putney High St late last week. Not my size unfortunately.

I've got some tweed plus fours, brand new and unworn, which were sent to me by mistake when I bought mine last year. They're a size 34 waist but are a snug fit on my slender cough 32 hips. Free to whoever wants them, with pick up from Norths at some point.

If you then sell them on, I wish nothing but herpes on your sick, soulless existence.

First dibs gets, simples. No fucking around and clogging my inbox up with PMs either.

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I~ will take em

All yours mate. I'll let you know when I'm about and you can have them.

2nd dibs

3rds.
arse.

Hi, the facebook group has been deleted (by facebook) and I take your criticisms on board. I have also deleted all comments referring to said group on facebook. I was going to change the name, but anyway if it pissed people off that much then maybe it's for the better. Perhaps I needed a bit of sense knocked into me, and I thank you all for doing that. Can you please remove my name from the internet though?

Obviously, my behaviour was extremely uncivil and I understand the reasons behind your revulsion. I have a bit of a temper sometimes and do stupid things. The group was created as a space for people to organize similar events. I was thinking of maybe even contacting the organizers to see if we could raise money to give for their pool to the official event. This all happened as I cooled off and started to feel a bit stupid. Of course now I sound like I'm trying to portray myself as a saint, which, given the irritation I have caused, is hardly accurate!

The new facebook groups don't allow people to join without an invite/requesting an invite. They're mad, mad mad! But yeah, it doesn't exist anymore so I suppose it's all by the by.

Again, may I ask that my name be removed from the posts on these forums? In the name of genteel civility? And again, I'm sorry to have made people so upset.

-The horrible reactionary

Edit: apology accepted

I only just checked the thread. I'm apologizing here because I'm sorry, because I don't know the organizers and where else am I supposed to contact them? Did I not apologize enough or something? Sheesh.

My volunteer email has been rejected by the recipient domain : ( Jacqui help! can i email elsewhere?
Fran

You can volunteer at Nial's wedding.

If I had seen some of the criticisms on this board earlier I would have deleted the group then and there. Really had no idea it would stir up so many emotions. Nobody contacted me or anything to say they'd been that ticked off.

I'm trying to be civil, to do the right thing and say I was being an idiot.

I also didn't mean to imply the organizers were sexist - just that there aren't as many ideas on the website for women. It would be nice to know where to get a pair of old-style bloomers. But anyway, I'll shut up now and stop apologizing.

You can volunteer at Nial's wedding.

you cheeky bugger. I most certainly willbetheer

I'm rather appalled that people hereabouts got their tits so in a tangle about an alternative group springing up. I mean Jesus guys - *don't use social media if you don't want people to be social FFS*. What was proposed was a regular ride in London, explicitly NOT on the Tweed Run dates. What on earth is wrong with that idea? and what did you expect to happen?

Or are Tweed Run PLC now the only organisation in London with a mandate to organise fashion-based cycling events?

Frankly having sweated blood to get an entry I feel rather put off the Tweed Run now, it does not leave a good taste in the mouth to see this sort of bullying and character assassination by those claiming to 'defend' the Tweed run going on. 'General Lucifer' - what a gent you are sir (other four-letter words may apply, but I'll with-hold judgement as I don't know you in person).

Guess what y'all - there WILL be rides organised that are not the Tweed Run. They won't focus on 'Tweed' - a fabric now rather tainted with the whiff of two-wheeled elitism and 'We were here first' hubris. Had the Tweed Run orgs seen the pent-up desire and actually, y'know, communicated with those helping tap into/steer it, maybe that would see what I think we all want to see - more people on bikes in London. But no - we get nasty sniping and name-posting with the clear intent to see others say/do bad things to fellow cyclists. This is just shameful. The motoring lobby must be laughing their heads off. Let's limit cycling in London to 450 hand-picked weirdos, once a year. No way do we want more, spontaneous, diverse groups. We only want Official Approved Sanctioned Organised Rides to Set Locations in an Orderly Fashion.

Now I've personally put many thousands of hours into organising cycling events, so don't fans be giving me the 'organisers are holier than thou / beyond reproach' line. There is a right and wrong way to engage with communities, and using the big stick instead of talking first was not a good move.

There was no need to call in the Facebook police, and certainly no need for what's gone on here.

'nuff said. Pedal on. I'm not getting into a flame war here either.

Mike

quoting this because I think you should read it.

THis really pisses me off. I have ridden the last two tweed runs and they were great days with great organization.

Last year I was a little miffed that what had started out as a nice forum ride was limited and lots of forum folk couldnt to the ride. BUT, Teddy and Jaquie put in a huge ammount of efort to make the ride happen that was the first un-escorted ride of that size in London. There had to be a limmit and that was that. That people outside the forum wanted to join in was a suprise (but a good one) and some people on here complained. I would say that most of those who rode the first forum tweed ride also made it onto the second one last year.

This girl is pissed off that she didnt get on the ride. SHe knows nothing of its oragins (originaly planned to be a few people in tweed riding to High tea in Highgate before a hundred people signed up and teddy turned it into an amazing large scale event within three or four months) and stands a chance of pissing off the awthoraties jepodizing the tweed run for next year.

Enjoy the ride people, I hope you all have a fantastic day. I will do a tweede runny (due to naming rights) down in Auckland on my own on the same day by donning the limited tweed I brought with me and riding to a tea shop for a cuppa.

Doffs hat to Teddy and Jaquie.

*This girl is pissed off that she didnt get on the ride. SHe knows nothing of its oragins ... and stands a chance of pissing off the awthoraties jepodizing the tweed run for next year. *

um...firstly, that's pure supposition. I saw NOTHING in what was written that suggested she was 'pissed off' at all. everyone who missed out was disappointed. Instead of bitching, she stood up and said 'Hey, hows about we organise something else? something regular?'

As for 'jepodizing' future events - that's utter fantasy. Are you telling me London cyclists are so scared of exercising their legal right to ride on roads they pay for that they will cower and stay away, and hurrah the bullying of those who want to ride, just in case someone thinks to penalise someone else who also rides? Utter nonsense, and not to be stood for.

Doffs hat to Teddy and Jaquie.

I see nothing in suggesting another ride in London that does anything but applaud and magnify their efforts. When another regular fashion/vintage-themed ride emerges (as it will) the participants/organisers will, to some degree, be standing on the shoulders of giants. Good. Everyone over that? No reason to hate? Hope so.

People, it's just a bike ride. It'll happen next year, maybe even in Autumn. There are plenty other rides on the forum too. Come to Cambridge, organise your own rides with your friends, cross the channel into Europe. Is the tweed run really worth getting that stressed about? There was no preferential treatment, fastest finger first. STOP YOUR BLOODCLUT CRYING!

Wow, I've only just caught up with this thread. Not sure what to say. Clearly more people need to think of interestingly-themed rides that hit the headlines all around the world and are once- or twice-in-a-lifetime experiences, just to satisfy the huge hunger for such events that clearly exists. Well done teddy and Jacqui. Jacqui may know this line:

"Die Geister, die ich rief, die werd' ich nicht mehr los ..." :)

i might go up to the oxford tweed run in early May, as i was not lucky in the applications for the London one. if i'm still planning on it nearer the time, i'll see if there's a posse up for going

Clearly more people need to think of interestingly-themed rides that hit the headlines all around the world and are once- or twice-in-a-lifetime experiences, just to satisfy the huge hunger for such events that clearly exists.

Fubu http://www.lfgss.com/thread60379.html

Denim http://www.lfgss.com/thread60421.html#post1984427

I wouldn't be surprised if tennis got some love.

Lets have an alternative denim ride in london

people need to htfu, all this whingeing has as much merit as not being invited to someones birthday party at the age of 7

How do I register for this ride? It says its full.

Balki i think it's just marshals that have to register. if you just want to ride, turn up at the start.

#theyseemetrollin'

Tartan is the next tweed