TFL Challenge Team SCR VICTORIOUS!! **POLL ADDED NOW**

Bassjunkieuk
Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
edited September 2010 in Commuting chat
***POLL NOW ADDED***

So we have a choice between 4 now:

Wheels for Wellbeing

Squeaky Chains (couldn't find a proper website for them yet....)

Companion Cycling

Bikeworks

I'll let the poll run for a couple of days so it ends Friday evening. WInner win then be decided on Saturday and I can then start contacting people on Monday. In the event of a draw I reckon it's best to divide it up.

Happy voting people :-)

TFL have finally confirmed what we all suspected........
Congratulations, your team have won!

Congratulations on winning 1st place in the London Cycle Challenge 2010. You have overcome competition from other social group teams and marked your place on the leader board. Collectively, over 1 million miles were logged, a fantastic achievement!



You have won £350 worth of Leisure Experience vouchers for your team.



Please confirm an address and your vouchers will be sent to you shortly.



We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for participating in the London Cycle Challenge. We hope you enjoyed the experience and we look forward to you taking part again next year.


Thanks
London Travel Awareness Team

I have already responded to get the vouchers out and also asked where they are valid.
Once I have more details I shall post them back but I'm open to any suggestions in the meantime!

I've also probably said this before on the original thread but it really was a huge group effort and I'm immensely proud that we could all come together and administer such a whalloping to the other teams..........not that I really had any doubt with that a team based on a bunch of people who have imaginery races on the way to work would do anything less :lol:

Excellent work people and roll on next year :-)
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Woop woop!

    :D

    I wonder what 'leisure experience' TFL can offer to 75-odd people for £350...
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  • FeynmanC
    FeynmanC Posts: 649
    How about giving the vouchers to a local charity to help them fundraise with, as LiT's right, not going to get anything for you guys with it really.

    Of course, you could always share a 705? ;)
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  • Clever Pun
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Beer!

    I agree. I wonder if beer is a leisure experience...
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  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    At London prices, might just get one round :wink:
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  • WesternWay
    WesternWay Posts: 564
    FeynmanC wrote:
    How about giving the vouchers to a local charity to help them fundraise with, as LiT's right, not going to get anything for you guys with it really.

    I quite like this idea.
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Since it's TfL, Shirley a single ticket on the tube for each participant?

    Actually, giving it to a charity sounds best.
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  • owenlars
    owenlars Posts: 719
    FeynmanC wrote:
    How about giving the vouchers to a local charity to help them fundraise with, as LiT's right, not going to get anything for you guys with it really.

    Of course, you could always share a 705? ;)

    Absolutely right give the vouchers to charity
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Well done all involved!
  • El Capitano
    El Capitano Posts: 6,401
    Another vote for giving the vouchers to charity.
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  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    FeynmanC wrote:
    How about giving the vouchers to a local charity to help them fundraise with, as LiT's right, not going to get anything for you guys with it really.

    I think this is a great idea, but think it should be something cycle related.

    Only thing I can think of is to find a blind charity that is looking to buy a tandem and then donate the prize to them(maybe they can have a raffle with with the vouchers as a first prize. If the vouchers are not via to put towards the bike, then eBay the vouchers and give them the cash that is raised.

    Unless anyone else has a great cycle related charity idea :idea:
  • leehellcat
    leehellcat Posts: 37
    Whoop Whoop !!

    Another vote for donating the vouchers to a charity. To be honest, the likelyhood of us all even getting together are slim in the first place, let alone finding an activity for £4.60 each ! :lol:

    Good work guys and girls. It was a pleasure to work with you for such a good laugh.
  • leehellcat
    leehellcat Posts: 37
    Also, just noticed that UBS seem to have missed out, did I miss something.
  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    leehellcat wrote:
    Whoop Whoop !!

    Another vote for donating the vouchers to a charity. To be honest, the likelyhood of us all even getting together are slim in the first place, let alone finding an activity for £4.60 each ! :lol:

    Good work guys and girls. It was a pleasure to work with you for such a good laugh.

    Screw you all!

    I want my £4.60!

    Not really, +1 for the charity donation
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    My initial thoughts for the voucher where to see if we could hire a velodrome! Herne Hill do hire for £65 per hour (weekend rates) but the site does say thats for groups upto 15 in size however larger groups can be accepted.

    This of course could pretty much exclude all the non-London residents members of the team.

    As for donating to harity if that is the decided course of actiont then I'm happy for that, it's a democracy after all :-)

    Not to familiar with cycle-related ones off the top of my head but there is one that I have heard of in my local area that runs Saturday sessions for visually impaired riders at a local running track. They came up on the Croydon Cycling mailing list as they where looking for volunteers to ride the various tandeem/specially adapted bikes and I was considering putting my name down.....
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  • ketsbaia
    ketsbaia Posts: 1,718
    +1 for the charity donation.

    Wouldn't mind a crack at Herne Hill, but given 'the flyer' has gone back to the manufacturers and it would exclude our *ahem* non-London team-mates, I think the charity option's the way to go.
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  • biondino
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    If you do go the charity route, let TFL know in advance - it'd be great publicity for all concerned and perhaps they could match your gesture, something like that?
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Over 1 million miles? From our team? Come on! Surely some creative accounting going on there!
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  • ketsbaia
    ketsbaia Posts: 1,718
    biondino wrote:
    If you do go the charity route, let TFL know in advance - it'd be great publicity for all concerned and perhaps they could match your gesture, something like that?

    With the budgetry squeeze they've got on at the moment, I doubt they would. But you never know...
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  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    Headhuunter wrote:
    Over 1 million miles? From our team? Come on! Surely some creative accounting going on there!

    All the teams together.
  • Clever Pun
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    biondino wrote:
    If you do go the charity route, let TFL know in advance - it'd be great publicity for all concerned and perhaps they could match your gesture, something like that?

    certainly worth a punt, good idea

    didn't want beer anyways :cry:

    Herne Hill was also a good idea, maybe we can set up a scr track day? and when I say we I mean someone else
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  • richred_uk
    richred_uk Posts: 167
    +1 for charity here - like the tandems for the blind idea - or alternatively are there any charities that 'recycle' bikes for kids and other needy people?

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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    Charity.


    I see these guys out in Bushy Park sometimes:


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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    I tell you what, if some of the SCR guys start leading people round on tandems, it would be a white-knuckle ride they'd never forget. There will be carnage on the Embankment!
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  • itboffin
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    Clever Pun wrote:
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  • stuaff
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    +1 for the charity. I'd have only done the miles anyway :)
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  • further
    further Posts: 52
    Congratulations!

    Bit cheeky as seen as I wasn't involved but if you do go down the charity route maybe you would consider donating to Squeaky Chains, a London-based project supported by St Mungo's, the homeless organisation.

    There's some information with an address towards the right of the page at the link below.

    http://www.bigissuescotland.com/public/magarchive/751_17-20_September_2009.pdf

    It gives homeless people and others from other disadvantaged groups the chance build their own bikes as well as their confidence and get skills for employment etc. It's a fantastic enterprise.
  • OldSkoolKona
    OldSkoolKona Posts: 655
    +1 for charity and making it cycle related
  • lardboy
    lardboy Posts: 343
    How about Wheels for Wellbeing? Cycle charity that gets people with disabilities onto bikes?

    I spoke to them at the bikefest in Brockwell, and was a little blown away by what they do: getting blind people on tandems, people in wheelchairs onto specially modified trikes, etc. They get bikes built on a regular basis, using specialist frame builders, as standard bike stuff doesn't work.

    They'd make good use of the vouchers, I'm sure, and any publicity would be great for them.
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  • rml380z
    rml380z Posts: 244
    +1 for a bike-related charity.

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