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i just want the lovely boy to bring me my dropped books and serenade me and to jump into a quarry lake and to have a cool truck driver tell me speeds...ah i LOVE LOVE LOVE that film...maybe we can watch ace movies like this at each others houses sometimes, maybe after the saturday rides or after polo or summat...

Yep totally...it's the big fundraising squat party this saturday so i was thinking of starting next sat as quite a few people are involved/should be!

sounds like a good short route to start on...maybe the first one should be realtively steady paced, trying to stay together at a decent speed with people having little sprints if they want.

It might be good to build in a 5mile sprint or something as a mini sprint timetrial? (in future?)

So, ronnie knows rides in macc, i have some rides in bolton and cheshire and a guy in hebden bridge has got rides out there- it would be nice to get the train out there now and again for a change i think and he would like some people to ride with.

YES to lycra and NO to shaven legs, though if you must Nasty....

So I'll put the word out the first of the ride's to be **

sat 14th march. Meet at Noon at Unicorn carpark (then i can stock up on bananas beforehand)**

that good?

Possible route: -

Meet in Chorlton, then

Stretford
Urmston
Carrington
Partington
Lymm
Backroads to Bucklow Hill and cross A556
Rostherne
Tatton straight
Ashley (Pub)
Hale
Altrincham
Home

Total - approx 35 miles.

right i have registered..and i registered as being part of mcr dropouts bike polo team...so if anyone else wants to play polo get in touch...think i shall go on the train and ferry

YESSSSSSSS let's enter the polo team. are people going then?shall i book in?

we are a student society and allowed to use student facilities so could get the student i bike mcr person to ask about it?

how can i measure how fast im going?

find a friendly truck driver???

hey what do people think about making it a saturday? then it doesn't matter about ris clashing or whatever? if it's a pain to do it saturday then it's fine we can alternate.

otherwise what about a nice short 30-40 mile ride round cheshire way (flat) on Saturday 7th. We could even meet at noon for rides that won't take too long like that, extra time to nurse hangover and eat breakfast etc.

after chatting to some people at mass last night we are thinking of doing it quite like a timetrial so that we are racing ourselves not each other so that it doesn't feel too competitive/so slower people can improve their own time but not kill themselves trying to keep up or not come for fear they can't keep up..what dya think? i dunno, it might be good to start like this until everyone's fitness/speed is up and then we can stick together???

i can meet you and chat about ideas of what to put and give you the bank details etc.

Community Cash Awards
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Financial assistance is available for young people wishing to conduct
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doesn't matter..you up for filling in a funding bid? if you haven't done one before i can help.

did you find any treasures?

anyone gonna go?

was thinking it might be nice excuse to go and get pissed in berlin...nasty you up for it? i know how you love that city too.

http://www.ecmc2009.com/

tickets are £25 quid for everything at the mo but they do go up. still i don't wanna go on my own...

"Non-messengers are as always tolerated at this event, although leave the excessive posing to the professionals, thanks"

you're ace

sure thing nice chris... normally have some in my bag. you out tonight? when you going to nyc? i might have a little list ;)

what time you getting there?might go now for one before mass

singlespeed crank and b/b for british threaded casing (to be single speed)wanted...defo don't need to be fancy. erm and a coaster brake hub would be lovely...

might get this if noone has one though:
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/Cycle/7/SRAM_Spectro_P5_5_Speed_Coaster_Brake_Rear_Hub/5360013900/

anyone used this particular one before..yes yes i know it has gears..i don't care...i have too many goddam trackbikes

if you want to build them yourself and use my truing stand that's fine...or sling me a coupla bucks and i'll build em for ya!

i'll be at polo on thursday and we can have a chat about that and about:

*tournament teams
*beds/sofas for people coming to tournament
*other events we've been invited to play at/ do demo's at
*making fuckloads extra mallets for the tourney and for newbies

also anyone under 25 and unemplyed or work less than 16 hours? there's some funding that i could bribe the woman with- you know offer match funding from her might swing it quicker..

love nes x x x

if i blag her into it i reckon so...we'll see. i'll arrange a meeting with her once i'm properly up and about..

no i agree but every day i cycle to rochdale or to the peaks for work and i spend it all on busy roads and then get to school and never get to ride the beautiful bits only the dirty A6...and so i kinda hate that bit of a stretch now and would rather miss it out at the weekend and start in the lovely bits...but i guess there are better ways to go, as you suggested...but yes that climb is tough,,but then never quite as bad as i imagine...it just seems to go on forever...i hate going down it more than up it too, as with all hills after a lorry in spain appeared from nowhere in front of me when i was going down a mountain...am prolly slower on descent than going up!!!

oh ok...i don't fly either but prolly gonna get the europe cycle bus express thing. it's ace. they take your bike in a trailer and bring you cups of tea and even have an online library and it's dead cheap..and only for cyclists so lots of lovely people to chat to if you feel like it (i should be their marketting manager...but it is WELL ACE)

maybe we could say some dates and between us assign some rides so people know what to expect (e.g. people without gears can come on the flat ones etc)

and maybe say how many miles too.

and a pub that people can stop at too at the end if they are too fast, or catch up to if they are slower.

maybe start off less miles and flatter then as weeks go on and weather gets better, more miles and hills!!!

Cat and Fiddle is fantastic, though I like cycling out there via the wizard as it's a decent warm up, descent into Macc is nice too.

bit scared that you consider the wizard to be a "warm up" shit what have i got myself into?!!!

i know quite a few short rides near macc (i usually get the train there so i can ride the beauty for longer)

and in Cheshire for people scared of hills/gears.

Aye, I could be up for that, as I need to get some hills in my legs as planning to do Ventoux in September. Chorlton velo do some good rides, but they start at 8am and I like my lie-ins these days.

really?!! ventoux??!! me and zero want to ride it this summer!!! who you going with??

cycling down it is a dream though