2014-0517 - Tweed Run 2014, I feel the need for tweed

went rushing round town today for a tweed - didn't get a thing so need to ransack the wardrobe tonight for something tweedy and summery - if not it's a trip round london tomorrow to get something else - should be fine :S

thank you very much for the offer but adey has offered to lend me his feather which should fit me like a glove and i've got the brompton for kelly now

thanks!

t

No worries. Glad you are sorted. See you on Sat.

Say hello if you spot me - I'll be on a penny.

Wish I'd seen this thread before I forked out on outfit hire yesterday. Doesn't matter, look awesome.

I shall be marshalling! See you all on Saturday, see you fellow marshalls I haven't met yet tomorrow :)

Spent today doing ridiculous things to my bicycle. Turned my road bike into a porteur bike. Fat tyres = win.

went rushing round town today for a tweed - didn't get a thing so need to ransack the wardrobe tonight for something tweedy and summery

You don't have to be wearing Tweed. Vintage looks are the idea, but some of the most impressive people on recent years have been choosing creative looks that had other histories than Tweed. Some people dress up like 40s rockers, Vello one year had both a bike and an outfit that made him look like some French WWII black marketeer.

double denim it is!

I looked more like a poacher on the first couple of rides... and certainly not very dapper.
Made no prep so far, I'll manage.

You don't have to be wearing Tweed. Vintage looks are the idea, but some of the most impressive people on recent years have been choosing creative looks that had other histories than Tweed. Some people dress up like 40s rockers, Vello one year had both a bike and an outfit that made him look like some French WWII black marketeer.

yeah but it feels like a cop-out if you don't have a little bit of tweed, sorted it now, found an old tweed tie, bag and hat to go with a full blue outfit, i think this will probably be our last one for a while so last ditch effort at looking like a gent ( i need a shave)

In 2012 I wasn't wearing a single piece of Tweed. Had some vintage checks (but not tweed material) and a vintage hat, but the trousers I was wearing - which matched the rest of the outfit - were actually brand new brown-cotton chinos from Ted Baker.

23ºC tomorrow! Perhaps I won't be wearing the full three-piece...

Have only just started considering my outfit for tomorrow - torn between this (want to), the LCC protest ride (feel I ought to) and doing sweeeeet FA (what I prob need to). Also haven't arrange to ride with anyone :(

I didn't even realise how soon this was. I only messaged Teddy beginning of this week!

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Are you going MG?

No way. I was way too late to get involved...90% football thread means you miss a lot.

I have a BSA shopper complete with basket that you are welcome to borrow.

(like this)

Oh I love that model! If I wasn't trying to have fewer bikes that's the next one I'd get :)

Thanks marshalls!

A day full of great memories.. high fiving LCC riders by parliament square/Westminster was genius planning, call it luck.. Also the crowds at borough market. Well done Ted and the Tweed Run team

#marshallingbonus

I'm utterly sozzled. Great day as ever.

I haz photochariot photos. To follow...

Amazing day

Great day. It always feels like a forum ride... Great to see our friends from the North, especially Lucifer. Thank you co-Marshall's and contributor's for a jolly fine day out.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/sets/72157644669776576/

I spent the day cycling around with cocktail kit on my back. And spent the evening making cocktails for my marshals.

Great to see you up and about Bruce yesterday. Glad to hear all those cocktails were for others too. Take it easy fella and enjoy a bit of R&R.

Great day as always. Excellent piloting skills of the photochariot by Ed, and good working with you Matt. A mountain of 1690 photos to sift through now, but I put up a couple yesterday here:
http://www.benbroomfield.com/Public/Tweed-Run-London-2014

I need emperor Ted pic as my background.....

http://www.callotype.com/p715151839/efc2629d
Lucifer dear, I think you should give that back....