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2014-06-21 CCG/CCE meet at the Falkirk Wheel

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  • Started 11 years ago by Darkerside
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  1. Darkerside
    Member

    To launch Gembo's great idea; a joint ride between CCE and CityCyclingGlasgow, meeting somewhere in the middle. The Falkirk Wheel was proposed, along with midsummer's morning next year - Saturday 21 June. It's a long way off, but hey, let's be optimistic.

    Just a diary placeholder for the moment, but if we can get enough interest we could run a couple of routes out - a slow family-friendly one along the canal, along with a faster on-road route for roadies. And possibly a multiple cake stop route for audaxers...

    Parallel CCG thread

    Posted 11 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    As long as the plan isn't to arrive at dawn!

    Although...

    Posted 11 years ago #

  3. sg37409
    Member

    I like CCE, but I also like CCG, so which ones best ?
    Only one way to find out....
    </harryhill>

    Posted 11 years ago #

  4. twq
    Member

    Nice opportunity to see the Kelpies

    Posted 11 years ago #

  5. Darkerside
    Member

    @sg37409; some kind of canal-edge-brinksmanship competition is presumably in order.

    I'm assuming CCE will elect Uberuce as their champion.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  6. DaveC
    Member

    Nah, Smudge has access to SA80 5.56 rifles and bayonets. Weegies Glasweegens have access to broken bottles of Bucky.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  7. steveo
    Member

    Not sure what scares me more... :D

    Posted 11 years ago #

  8. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Uberuce. Big Hammer. Who needs Thor?
    Smudge. Uzi 9mm. Who needs Arnie?
    SRD. Can spin really quickly*. Who needs Wonder Woman?
    Dave. Can bodge anything. Who needs Iron Man?
    Anth. Tall and blonde. Who needs Peter Crouch?

    Hang on. That last one doesn't work. Damn.

    *this may not be true, but I sense a PY spinning on the spot competition.

    Anyway, based on the above I believe CCE wins the Harry Hill fight challenge... ;)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  9. DaveC
    Member

    Anth. Tall and blonde. Who needs Peter Crouch?

    Err... is that a statement just about your hair colour?? ;O)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  10. SRD
    Moderator

    who is this 'anth' character anyway?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  11. EddieD
    Member

    The best way to do it would be for the respective groups to start in the other city, meet in the middle, and then carry on back to their homes (that way we should have the wind behind the entire journey and look tougher than our weegie rivals friends).

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  12. kaputnik
    Moderator

    @EddieD nice idea. See if Edinwegians can escape Glasgow faster than the Glasburghers can escape Edinburgh!

    Meet wherever it is that we happen to cross, see who got the furthest?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  13. chdot
    Admin

    Then a construction competition??

    http://www.finchandfouracre.co.uk/model-kits/falkirk.html

    Posted 10 years ago #

  14. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    What's the point in the model if it doesn't rotate? Sheesh!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  15. Arellcat
    Moderator

    If it's pencilled in for June 21st, that being the usual date of a hopefully-to-return York event, perhaps it should be called the Falkirk Rally.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  16. chdot
    Admin

    http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/arts/news/home-of-kelpies-among-most-artistic-scots-places-1-3286298

    Posted 10 years ago #

  17. wingpig
    Member

    Bumpity.
    Kelpies are a bit closer to here than there, but could be included on a looping route.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  18. DaveC
    Member

    Is the Dumbarton Run still on? Isn't that supposed to be this day also?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  19. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Is the Dumbarton Run still on? Isn't that supposed to be this day also?

    Last I heard, Sam was proposing to move it 1 week later.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  20. algo
    Member

    I'd like to try and come on this if I get permission- but it might be an idea to fix the date in the title of the thread if that's possible? (says 24th June)

    Posted 10 years ago #

  21. gembo
    Member

    Looks like four weeks this Saturday. I should hopefully be back to full fitness. Long slog on canal but flat. I am in.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  22. spytfyre
    Member

    tempted but would the wee ones make it that far I wonder...

    Posted 10 years ago #

  23. Focus
    Member

    Visited the Kelpies for the first time on Sunday during a 70 mile ride. And they truly are impressive:

    Posted 10 years ago #

  24. gembo
    Member

    @focus, shots look great. We are putting the film that Walid Salhab made of their construction on at our cinema in Balerno tonight. Main feature blue jasmine. Returns available, ask for Gembo at door of church hall.

    Last night we showed a local man's film called life loses his book? It was very very sweary for our largely silver screen demographic but it made American hustle seem quite tame.

    Spytfyre - is maybe possible for older children to cycle one way then get train back. Stirling train stops at Camelon, one suggested site of king Arthur's castle but then so is Dumbarton rock. Falkirk high and Falkirk grahamston are other stations with connections.

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  25. Focus
    Member

    Thanks, just taken on my Samsung Galaxy SIII, but it's got a good camera for a phone one. The hazy sun in the clouds made the task easier.

    I'm not usually a fan of large structures dominating the skyline but I can easily make an exception for such a work of art.

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  26. Darkerside
    Member

    This is happening, even if it's just me cycling to Falkirk on the 21st...

    I've just started to coordinate the Glasgow side of things — as the senior forum I'm hoping you can rustle up a route between yourselves :P

    It's about 30 miles from the Meadows to the Falkirk Wheel. We can make a Wheel/Kelpies/both decision over the next week or so.

    Can someone volunteer themselves as routemaster from your side of things?

    My plan in a sentence: cycle across, meet, picnic, frisbee etc, train home.

    PS: I've asked chdot to sort the date in the title...

    ADMIN EDIT

    Done!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  27. wingpig
    Member

    I can definitely make it from Edinburgh. It's on the kitchen calendar and my half of the grandparents will be up visiting.

    "Thanks, just taken on my Samsung Galaxy SIII, but it's got a good camera for a phone one. The hazy sun in the clouds made the task easier."

    I'll try and dig out and post my 320*240 video clip of the wheel going about a third of the way round from my first visit to it in about 2004, taken on a Nokia 6230. I stopped filming it after that as it was clearly taking far too long and I was hungry.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  28. wee folding bike
    Member

    Management might drop us at Croy and meet us there later or at Falkirk.

    Or it might rain and she will ban out door activities.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  29. gembo
    Member

    I intend to join Edinburgh party at hermiston. Will look out for kingfisher until you arrive?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  30. wingpig
    Member

    Would a kingfisher still be visible through orange-lensed sunglasses?

    Posted 10 years ago #

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