Slow Rides For Unfit People - Rutland ROAD Ride Sun 9th Sept

phoebian

Well you know what, as I have always wanted to do some form of long distance event type ride. It's gone into my favourites and I will speak to my superiors about having some time off lol.

Why the hell not???????????

Frostys

http://www.votwo.co.uk/votwo2007/events ... .php?i=102

Thats the link to the website see what you think.... I'm also doing the Ridgeway end to end mid to end of April if you are around

phoebian

Probably have to sit that one out as I start 3 weeks leave on the 19th of this month. But I'm definatly interested in the Votwo ride, may aswell start with something mega lol. Gives me a couple of months to work on my stamina

stumpym4

Frostys wrote:

i'm doing it as a warm up for the VoTwo South Downs Challenge 2nd weekend in May

Me and a mate rode the south downs way about 12 years ago , we did it over 3 days and that was hard going .. we parked the car at winchester train station and got the train from there down to east bourne , where the sdw starts and rode back ..
dont know if id fancy doing it again though ?
we did it early in the year and some of the bridlelways were well chewed up
Think it could be a cracking ride IF you get the weather right

Tony

phoebian

I'm seriously considering doing it, I've emailed Mencap about it and will be finding out this week if I can have a couple of days off around the weekend.

stumpym4

If there was enough interest , i may be up for it again ?? ..
You never know ?

Tony

phoebian

If i can get confirmation of time off then I will do it deffinatly.

Cheshley

well, 60 miles on the road bike yesterday and apart from a little achyness in the thighs when walking upstairs today, I'm fine!!!!!!!!

Miracles do indeed happen

sparrowlegs78

I've been out today for a play in the woods ......videoed a bit of it too, just awaiting on hubby compressing it so I can upload it to photobucket.
So we can have out own vids at Llandegla
Caz xx

rottitera02

sparrowlegs78 wrote:

I've been out today for a play in the woods ......videoed a bit of it too, just awaiting on hubby compressing it so I can upload it to photobucket.
So we can have out own vids at Llandegla
Caz xx

Give us a shout when uploaded Caz sos i can have a peep and see the quality of vid, i might get one for myself, did you say they were around £12...?

sparrowlegs78

It's really good quality, the sound is good on it too, you can hear me puffing and panting like a fat git in an upstairs pieshop lol.
The camera costs £2.98 and the post and packaging from China is £9.99
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT
this is the one we got, it's only dinky, about the size of a fag lighter.
Caz xx

rottitera02

Can you fix it onto the bars with the bracket ???
How did you fix it on Caz ??

sparrowlegs78

I fixed in on my lid with it's rubber holder and 2 cable ties, it was looking in the right direction, but coz the holder is rubber it was a bit bouncy.
I've got another 2 hard plastic brackets that came with it to try yet...going to do another test run using one of those this week.....it's all trail and error with the fixings, the cam is spot on for the money.
You need to get a class 6 micro memory card for it as well.
we got one of these
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT
and it gives a nice flow to the recording
Caz xx

rottitera02

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm............very interesting!!!!!!!!


I don't have an account with ebay, do you think you could grab one for me with the 8gb card and i'll send you a p/order Caz...?

sparrowlegs78

I think I can do that for ya.....it could take nearly 3 weeks to arrive though so I wouldn't ask for any money til I had the camera delivered ...the stuff gets stuck in customs lol
Caz xx

Cheshley

evenin dudes

rottitera02

sparrowlegs78 wrote:

I think I can do that for ya.....it could take nearly 3 weeks to arrive though so I wouldn't ask for any money til I had the camera delivered ...the stuff gets stuck in customs lol
Caz xx

Nice one Caz.........yer a good 'un, don't let anyone tell you otherwise...

Will of course pay you any postage to send it me unless it arrives just before the llandegla trip, you could give it me then an i'll sort you out cash.......':D'':D'':D'

rottitera02

Cheshley wrote:

evenin dudes

Evening 'young' sir, how are we ??

sparrowlegs78

Cheshley wrote:

evenin dudes

Good efenink our 60 miles on a road bike and still sane friend
Caz xx

sparrowlegs78

rottitera02 wrote:

sparrowlegs78 wrote:

I think I can do that for ya.....it could take nearly 3 weeks to arrive though so I wouldn't ask for any money til I had the camera delivered ...the stuff gets stuck in customs lol
Caz xx

Nice one Caz.........yer a good 'un, don't let anyone tell you otherwise...

Will of course pay you any postage to send it me unless it arrives just before the llandegla trip, you could give it me then an i'll sort you out cash.......':D'':D'':D'

No worries, I'll get his nibs to order the stuf asap
Caz xx

kangaroo

good eveing to you to

rottitera02

Hey Chesley, remember you said in your initial post title about not being able to do any of the rides in the mags......well guess what, i found a route done by MBR which was in the same area we rode in the peaks......apparently one of their 'epic' routes covering some of the route we did.

kangaroo

i still want to try mbr's killer descents loop of ladybower

rottitera02

kangaroo wrote:

i still want to try mbr's killer descents loop of ladybower

You mean this one........

http://www.thewoollybacks.co.uk/Routes/ ... lassic.pdf

phoebian

Ill go

Cheshley

rottitera02 wrote:

kangaroo wrote:

i still want to try mbr's killer descents loop of ladybower

You mean this one........

http://www.thewoollybacks.co.uk/Routes/ ... lassic.pdf

Fekkin mental, the lot of ya are fekkin mental!!!!!!!!!!!!

rottitera02

Cheshley wrote:

rottitera02 wrote:

kangaroo wrote:

i still want to try mbr's killer descents loop of ladybower

You mean this one........

http://www.thewoollybacks.co.uk/Routes/ ... lassic.pdf

Fekkin mental, the lot of ya are fekkin mental!!!!!!!!!!!!

You started it........we'll finish it.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sparrowlegs78

Roo, why not go and and ride DOWN Jacobs ladder, I bet that would float your boat
Caz xx

Cheshley

sparrowlegs78 wrote:

Roo, why not go and and ride DOWN Jacobs ladder, I bet that would float your boat
Caz xx

yeah, it's a hell of push up it!!!!!! I should know

kangaroo

not that one
i think this is the one im after

http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=cjelvqrhusssuwgo