@HankChief. That’s a very kind offer. I will need to clear this with mrs stiltskin & I’m not sure it will be a yes. When do you need to know by?
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Ride to the sun
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Posted 1 year ago #
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@acsimpson. Unfortunately double centuries are definitely not my thing
Posted 1 year ago # -
@Stiltskin - Van leaves around 2pm tomorrow, so by then.
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Hi HankChief I’ve been given the ok, so I’ll take you up on your offer. Thanks a lot. Is there a dm facility on this forum or do you want my e-mail/phone number so we can arrange where I deliver the bike.
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Have sent you my number via DM here. See 'private messages' just above the topic heading above.
Posted 1 year ago # -
A crazy plan has been hatched, and if everything works out I'll be riding RttS tommorrow. If it doesn't.. well I haven't quite finalised that part of the plan.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Team CCE
(Or something)
Posted 1 year ago # -
Absolutely cracking night in perfect conditions.
Well done team CCE.
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All hail the Bananaman!
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Set off (it would seem) quite late so sadly missed a) Bananaman, b) food at the Moffat chippy (everything sold out by the time I got there around 11:20) and c) piper at the top of Devil's beeftub. But the tunes were still playing at the Crook Inn.
Cracking experience flying down from the top of the Devil's beeftub (nearly bested by doing Fairmilehead to Morningside without hitting a single red light).
Am intrigued when most people set off, I started around 8:20 and definitely felt I had missed the boat - but I still made it to Crammond an hour before sunrise.Posted 1 year ago # -
Most folk set of before 8. A largish group of Cramond locals set off just after 8. The front of the group got there about 2.30 which seems a bit too early. I was at the back of the group and got for there about 3.30, plenty of time for a bacon roll and beer before enjoying sunrise.
Hankchief/Bananaman was at the Crook Inn until 2. I hear he did a great job keeping the local kids entertained.Posted 1 year ago # -
Everyone seems to have left Carlisle very early this year. We set off at around 8:20 as well & I think we were amongst the last away. I got the last chip portion at Moffat. We were still well early for the sunrise.
Thanks again to @HankChief for the use of the banana van to transport the bike.Posted 1 year ago # -
@vladimpala - I must have missed you at the Crook - I was there all night from set up around 9.30pm to close down at 2am
I agree there seems to a trend towards an earlier start times, probably unnecessarily given this years tailwind. There were very few people setting off after 8pm and when I left at 8.30pm the car park was bereft of cyclists.
The piper started at 9.00pm and was only a young lad, so it was quite a shift he put in but alas he ran out of puff before we ran out of riders.
The local kids at the Crook were great. They'd been at the Community Quiz and then started playing rounders* in the back carpark. I was roped in to join them, but my sporting prowess was limited by hardly being able to see the ball in the gloom and being dressed as a banana...
Once darkness decended they got glowsticked up and hit the dance floor. I get the impression that they will remember the night fondly :)
The cafe at the Crook Inn really is lovely - currently only open 11-3 Fri-Sun over the Summer while they look for an operator...
They had a busy night selling teas, coffees and massive slices of sponge cake to the florescent masses.
The vibe/ sunrise at the seafront was great this morning with at least 4 brave souls going for a swim.
#MakingMemories
Posted 1 year ago # -
Sounds like a vintage year, does help if hot dry and tailie.
@acsimpson and I set off about 8.30pm a few years back but got a big tow from Ronde so in Moffat in plenty of time for chips but queue very long.so I just scrounged chips from telly woman but that was cut from the edit.
Midges were ferocious that year.
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@HankChief - clearly I wasn't looking hard enough!
Checking Strava I see I left at 8:24 - I didn't see any other riders until I passed a group waylaid by the puncture fairy not far north of Gretna (couple of Ronde jerseys amongst them and a chap with a pink Sam Brown band on). They caught me sometime later (north of Lockerbie?) and I took a wee tow for a mile or so before I saw sense and let them disappear into the distance.
It wasn't until north of the Crook Inn that I started to see riders in any sort of number.
Anyway, it was a cracking night for it - the stuff memories are made of.Posted 1 year ago # -
Didn't see any off you but good video on rtts.
Simon does loads of good adventure cycling videos so worth a mooch around too.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I'm in foreground of the closing scene, filmed from the annoying whiny drone. I don't think I'm recognisable though (orange jacket and knobbly knees).
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As it happens I also play an even smaller* staring role in this video.
*My back appears for a fraction of a second.
Posted 1 year ago # -
What a great Ride to the Sun again this year.
No rain. Manageable midges.
Met and chatted to @acspimpson, @HankChief, @Greenroofer and Steve (whose current forum name is unknown to me unfortunately).First time made it to Cramond and it was worth it.
What a night!
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and Steve (whose current forum name is unknown to me unfortunately).
*waves*Though I only joined at Fairmilehead, primarily to go and annoy Mr. Bill, who was running Ride to the Sun from Lockerbie!
And I somehow still managed to get a puncture in that short distance...
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...annoy Mr. Bill, who was running Ride to the Sun from Lockerbie!...
He did what?
<investigates>
118km (73 miles) in just under 12 hours moving time...Posted 5 months ago # -
Yeah but @bill had stashed bottles of Skoosh along the route. He did cart the empties for the Deposits
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