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Yes well. We'll meet at the forum anyway.

If anyone knows anyone who'd be up for marshalling, send them my way. Just had one drop out so in need of 3 folks.

Not in a strop. Only a bit of fun innit (long as the snow doesn't last)?

Sparky: Always said 6 for a 6.30 start didn't I? Changed to meeting at forum as the Cycle Norwich guy said forum when he plugged it and also there's not much space to gather outside the bike shop.

Mark: a) there will be some prizes, I was kind of joking about supplying your own prizes & b) its for charity ffs!

Any other constructive criticism (apart from the fact I spelt prostate wrong)?

To steer us back towards where we think the track might be, here's the update I just sent out through the Facebook event, for the benefit of any non-users.

The momentous date is nigh. Moustaches are being twirled, bicycles of all sizes greased and lubed. Ladies and gents, rev your legs.

A little heads-up for the festivities then..

We will gather at the Forum at 6 on Tuesday. Ride sheets will be circulated, upon which will be easy clues to the location of 7 checkpoints around the city.

The starting pistol will be fired* not earlier than 6.30, and we will scatter to the four winds**. Get to a checkpoint, get your ridesheet marked by a marshal, and continue to the next checkpoint. Any order is acceptable.

Once you have 7 marks, ride on to the Bicycle Shop, and victory***.

Some manner of prizes, ranging from frivolous to marginally useful, will be presented in one or more of the following categories at the aptly named Handlebar, downstairs in the Bicycle Shop itself:

WINNER
RUNNER(S) UP
BEST MOUSTACHE (REAL OR OTHERWISE)
SARTORIAL EXCELLENCE (yes, dressing up is mo' definitely encouraged)
HAVER OF A GREAT TIME

To avoid disappointment it is recommended that you bring your own prize, to present to yourself in a category of your choice.

LEST WE FORGET, this is a fund-raising event. Many of us have sported moustaches for the month of Mo, with the aim of a) making us look funny and b) raising awareness for men's health issues, particularly prostrate cancer. A modest charge of £2 will be levied for the aforementioned ride sheets, but any further donations would make us all feel better about ourselves - and there will be a collection box at the Bicycle Shop after the ride.

Many thanks, hope to see you on Tuesday, and congratulations for reading all the way to the end****.

*Metaphorically. No actual pistols will be fired. Please leave your firearms at home.
**The best wind is the one at your back.
***The only condition for victory is returning with bike and body in one piece. You may, however, wish to separate bike from body when you arrive.
****This is not the end. THIS is the end.

I THINK I SO FUNNY

Dude.. just.. dude..

What size?

Whoa, you're blowing my mind, man..

Hey, stop talking about me like I'm not here! A Movember cap would be awesome, maybe with a 'tache motif?

Massive rep to Streetlife Cycles for getting involved and pledging a prize or two.

Posters now up in Streetlife & the Bicycle Shop..

Checkpoints - check (ish).

We're almost rolling.

Bring it!

Aye well if I have no joy, will do silly/edible/drinkable prizes. Would be nice to have some engagement from our LBSs but I guess it is short notice. Had I not had such an interesting month I would have got the ball rolling earlier.

I clearly do not have it at all under control and would appreciate any assistance sourcing prizes/recruiting marshals..

That said I am going to have a busy lunch-break today, have printed a few of the posters out (having correct the spelling) so will drop into a few places and see what I can rustle up.

Is there a route or prizes sorted yet?

Checkpoints pretty much sorted, no prizes yet though. Beginning to regret putting that on the poster. Maybe should have made it small print. Any ideas?

Perhaps the gyratory route is the wrong plan. I will get bikely out in a bit and have a tinker.

Thinking each stop would be a pub, if only to keep the volunteer marshals happy.. 3 recruited so far.

I was thinking that the marshall would send them to the next point in a circular route, and then as long as the points were roughly equidistant from the start point, each route would be more or less the same (dependent on the route taken of course).

Now I was thinking that this would throw the whole "moustache shaped route" thing out the window, but if you look at Team B's route..

Not moustache shaped you say?

Ooo, point-to-point as in checkpoints are revealed one at a time, as you go along?

I was thinking reveal all the checkpoints at the start, make it more about the riding and routefinding than map-reading and searching - but actually that sounds like a pretty good idea. Give each team a random first checkpoint, then the marshall at that point writes down their arrival time and tells them where the next point is..

Get involved gents. We need riders, marshalls.. oh, and those prizes I mentioned..

So is this actually a race/competition or "just" a group ride as was discussed earlier?

It will be a point to point race, the route of which should roughly describe a giant moustache over the face of Norwich (maybe).

It will be competitive, and there will be prizes.

Facebook event here.

Classic album.

The track that really made me crank on the last Fri Night Ride I came on:

YouTube - Ed Rush & Optical- G Force Jesus

I AM HERE TO DO THE DEVIL'S WORK

The story so far (I may have cheated a little). Click me to donate ALL YOUR MONIES.

I'm still good with Fridays when I can make it. And Earng will be out with us when she HTFUs..

(Yes I know, I'm in Venice and posting on here, epic fail..)

@Kernowsibley - what's the tape?

That front mech above arrived from eBay, was supposed to be new, but has a bit of grit and grease on it. Nothing bad, still shiny, and would clean up to look brand-spanking, but it's a tad annoying. Is there anything to be done in these circumstances, or do I just ignore it? It was only £19.99 posted.

I'd say buff it up and suck it up at that price. And give the seller negative feedback for not doing the buffing before he wrapped it up.

Alright Ali, was glad to see you and your bike back together on Dereham Road the other night. First time I've heard of a bike being stolen and then returned.. did you ever find out what happened?

Brighton

Beautiful. What camera/film?