Cycling Breakfast at St Paul's

WesternWay
WesternWay Posts: 564
edited June 2010 in Commuting chat
Just popped into the cycling thing at St Paul's. Breakast and stuff, all good :-)

Bike checks if you want them. The five-o were there with a selection of broken bike locks, the cycle hire people were there.

I liked it. Did YOU go?

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  • VespaTrek
    VespaTrek Posts: 72
    what is it exactly?
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  • WesternWay
    WesternWay Posts: 564
    IT is a bunch of tents and stuff just in front of St Pauls

    Starbucks are giving out coffee.
    Muffins and Bananas and Joice and stuff is being given out
    Odds and sods of stuff being given away (bumbags, reflectives, bottles)
    Some lorries for you to sit in and see how much of the road you can't see
    some videos
    safety checks
    The cycle hire people

    Just a bit of a rah rah cycling is good thing
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Eh? Where's this? I've a mate by St Paul's who I meet for breakfast sometimes. Would be good to un-nerve him by surrounding him with lycra.
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    "Exactly."
  • WesternWay
    WesternWay Posts: 564
    cjcp wrote:
    Eh? Where's this? I've a mate by St Paul's who I meet for breakfast sometimes. Would be good to un-nerve him by surrounding him with lycra.

    Immediately in front of the Cathedral
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Cheers
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Dammit I was there this morning! No bike though...
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  • Specialized Needs
    Specialized Needs Posts: 802
    WesternWay wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    Eh? Where's this? I've a mate by St Paul's who I meet for breakfast sometimes. Would be good to un-nerve him by surrounding him with lycra.

    Immediately in front of the Cathedral
    Is this just for bike week, or is it something totally unrelated?
  • hells
    hells Posts: 175
    cool, if this is going to be there tomorrow morning I will be going there for my supper after tonights night shift. What time does it start? I am on a 1900-0700 so hopefully finishing 0730-0800.
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  • WesternWay
    WesternWay Posts: 564
    Think it was just today.

    I park my bike in the racks art Bank and there was a thing attached to my handlebar last night telling me about it.
  • Wrath Rob
    Wrath Rob Posts: 2,918
    Sounds good. How did you find out about it? Was there a group organising it? Free coffee and food makes me want to attend the next one!
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    There were posters up at work here, though I work 1min from St Pauls so hardly surprising we'd get flier drops when it's so close
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    Booo, missed that. I work a few mins walk from St Paul's. Who organised it?
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  • BlackandBlue
    BlackandBlue Posts: 1,467
    I was alerted to it by a chap holding a placard at the north end of Southwark Bridge. I modest detour for me. Thought it was a good idea and a lot of cyclists were very interested in understanding the blind spots around HGVs.

    Pretty decent breakfast too - choco muffin, coffee, OJ, banana.
  • Aidy
    Aidy Posts: 2,015
    Bah, I'd have detoured if I'd known.

    Always seem to manage to miss these cycling breakfast things.
  • itsbruce
    itsbruce Posts: 221
    notsoblue wrote:
    Who organised it?

    Yes, an answer to that would be good. Googling for this is not returning anything useful.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Found a site with more info about the free breakfasts here.

    Here is the info if you can't be arsed to click the clicky:
    Tue 22 Jun
    7.30am-9.30am Narrow St near Grapes pub (Tower Hamlets Wheelers)
    7.30am-9.30am Colebrook Row / City Rd (Islington Cycle Action Group, ICAG)

    Wed 23 Jun
    7am-9am London Fields (Hackney Cyclists)
    8am-10am Ossulston St (Camden Cyclists)

    Fri 25 Jun
    8am-10am 42 Amwell St, Lloyds Dairy (Unpackaged / ICAG)
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    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
  • rml380z
    rml380z Posts: 244
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Found a site with more info about the free breakfasts here.

    Here is the info if you can't be arsed to click the clicky:
    Tue 22 Jun
    7.30am-9.30am Narrow St near Grapes pub (Tower Hamlets Wheelers)
    7.30am-9.30am Colebrook Row / City Rd (Islington Cycle Action Group, ICAG)

    Wed 23 Jun
    7am-9am London Fields (Hackney Cyclists)
    8am-10am Ossulston St (Camden Cyclists)

    Fri 25 Jun
    8am-10am 42 Amwell St, Lloyds Dairy (Unpackaged / ICAG)

    Couldn't get the clicky to work, but I'm looking forward to two breakfasts on Tuesday and Wednesday :D
  • Specialized Needs
    Specialized Needs Posts: 802
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Found a site with more info about the free breakfasts here.
    From that blog:
    Real cycling wrote:
    And there was the now-familiar HGV Experience (right). Here, cyclists are invited to go up in the cab of a lorry while police cyclists (in this case, the City's only two women cycle officers) sneak up on the inside so you can clearly see that they're invisible.

    So, if those cyclists go on to become HGV drivers, this will definitely help save lives.
    :)

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