This thread is actually just an excuse to ask arellcat if she's piloting the velomobile or not?
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Which bike are you riding to POP? and are you decorating it?
(71 posts)- Started 11 years ago by SRD
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"This thread is actually just an excuse"
Already OT then.
I haven't decided.
Whichever it is will be decorated by me.
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Not decided yet. Probably the mtb, its the least "sports" cyclist bike. The more pressing concern for me is which camera and which films...
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Was thinking about it this morning. I reckon my singlespeedy one because it has widest and lowest-pressure tyres of my stable (for the setts)
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"more pressing concern for me is which camera and which films"
Indeed, my 'proper' camera is in for an expensive fix. Might not get it back for Sunday.
Should I go retro and buy a film??
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"I reckon my singlespeedy one because it has widest and lowest-pressure tyres of my stable (for the setts)"
Maybe my three speed then -
Even older than my film cameras.
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Should I go retro and buy a film??
I was about to offer one of my Olympus OM cameras but realised I've only got one working lens for three bodies (don't ask!)
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Should I go retro and buy a film??
Only if you have a film camera, they don't work in digital ones. ;-)
I am going to take my Surly. It is the most comfortable and it is stylish all on its own. If I am feeling very industrious tomorrow I might put some new bar tape on for the occasion.
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Didn't know Surly made cameras...
PM for steveo.
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I'll be on Deliah...I only have the one bike. I'm looking into getting some balloons to decorate it with. I'm also going to be wearing a panda onesie with the blue marshals vest over the top of it...suspect I'm one of the only people hoping for dry but cool weather.
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I'll be riding my red Paper Bike, hopefully with an improbably large horn.
I'd love to see a bike bus like the one they used to open the new cycle route in Nijmegen (from 0:20):
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Didn't know Surly made cameras...
I'll stretch the film over the handlebars and hope for the best.
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The white bike, although I'm also a little tempted by the kilt option if LaidBack has a spare Paper Bike I could borrow for the afternoon?
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Laid Back's Morpheus. Decoration will consist of a large hat with attached dragon, unless I come across something suitable beforehand.
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I'll stretch the film over the handlebars and hope for the best.
Build a pin hole in to the head tube?
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Probably the cross bike as the Kaff is still wheel-less, the Sunbeam is... well, y'know... and the MTB needs a new chain. Plus, I may be doing photo op stuff that will involve me tearing away from the start to a viewpoint rather than riding the actual route, and to pull it off I need to get a move on.
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"to pull it off I need to get a move on"
Won't be fast, and it'll go on for hours...
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I will be on my 'Family' bike which will be deorated with pop2 posters, children and Pandas. Hopefully that covers everything.
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"Won't be fast, and it'll go on for hours..."
I know, but I want to get there for the first trickle arriving for a wee time-lapse film as well of the crowds swelling. Must remember to have the phone fully charged for that...
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Almost certainly the Chameleon - I considered my venerable Streetmachine, but I'd rather have a nippy, nimble machine in case I'm called on to be elsewhere, not something that shares many characteristics with an oil-tanker.
Decoration - I'll see if my pinwheel is still working, but I'll definitely put on my Harrison Park feeder flag from last year, even though this year I probably have to go to the Meadows early so Mr Uberuce can boss me around.
EDIT: I'm hoping to grab a timelapse of the whole procession passing me, whereever I am sent to marshall
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Went on the mtb last year but the 760mm wide bars proved somewhat awkward. Think I'll be taking the general purpose tourer this year - which is also a mtb but with slicks/rack/mudguards. Might be taking a friend along, he lacks a bike at the moment (heathen!) but he can borrow my rat bike.
Despite normally being a helmet person I'm not going to be wearing one for this. Also going to strip some of the reflective tape off my bike, useful for nightriding unlit country lanes, maybe a bit overkill for the middle of the afternoon.
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"I'm hoping to grab a timelapse of the whole procession passing me"
Sounds good.
Presume you've got a tripod(?)
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Probably the Oyama.
I will try to dig out last years POP T shirt.
Unless I can get one of this years.Posted 11 years ago # -
Oh aye, chdot - well, I've got a base - I'll be using my GoPro at 0.5s, I though I'd just clip it to my lid, and then belt my lid to my rack - it's worked before, and lighter than lugging round a tripod on top of all the other bits and pieces...
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I'll be at the Meadows from 2pm with a cargobike full of POP t-shirts to flog (and distribute the pre-ordered ones). Stop me and buy one...
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chdot: do you want to borrow my camera? I doubt I'll have time to take many snaps.
I'll be on the footshifting black fruity, on grounds of having the most upright posture.
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@Uberuce thanks
Will PM
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Debating whether to ride with group 80" single speed with trailer or get train through. Will road ride be A89/old A8 for speed and gradient profile?
Trailer available for banner - carrying - need garden canes or similar to set-up end supports.
@SRD can bring through 155 DB and other sizes plus 155 PG
I suspect that the application of dead tree media to the fine lines of a velomobile might be a tough one to negotiate @arellcat might not be willing poster girl
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Sparebike has fatter cobble-friendlier tyres (more for the benefit of the potential child-seat occupant) but also has wider bars, is wibblier at low speed and it's trickier to mount the camera on its handlebars. Normalbike is lighter, more compact, better-geared and nippier for getting to/from. HMMM. May ziptie a bamboo-stalked demonstrative pennant of some kind to the rack or seat if I get time to make one.
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