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Post-Weather, pre-Festive PY Rendezvous?

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  1. LaidBack
    Member

    Just wondering when we should have a pre-Christmas PY meet? (Yes I know it doesn't suit everyone).

    I propose next Friday 17th at around 8am at Peter's Yard.

    If we set this date then people can guess the temperature, snow cover and wind direction on that day.

    Winner gets a free Velo Vision magazine worth £6. All weather guesses have to be in by Sat as otherwise you can use 5 day forecast. Winner doesn't have to attend. eg - If weather returns meeting may be cancelled. Usual T&Cs apply. Your bike is at risk if path has not been gritted.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    "Your bike is at risk if path has not been gritted."

    Your bike is at risk if path HAS been gritted! (Well salted anyway.)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. spitfire
    Member

    Nope. Not until the Caley meet goes ahead or a more central option is selected (there's a nice looking wee coffee shop on the West side of Canning St)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Yes. And we need to set a time/date for the glue-wine and sausage visit to the germination chrimble markets.

    In the spirt of laidback's prize suggestion, I think everyone should bring something odd and amusing from their "spare bike bits that I know I'm never going to use again, but can't bare to part with" box, giftwrapped as a secret santa present.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. Min
    Member

    Can pencil me in.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Sadly not, tis work Christmas lunch day ('lunch' having a particularly fluid meaning at these things...)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. kaputnik
    Moderator

    8AM? you must be starting your "fluid" lunch early!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Ah! I assumed an evening! Yep, 8am (and earlier) I should be able to make!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. thebikechain
    Member

    Pop my name on the invite list.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  10. Min
    Member

    "Ah! I assumed an evening! Yep, 8am (and earlier) I should be able to make! "

    I was wondering just how wild your Christmas "Lunch" was going to be! Ours is on that day too but I am not planning to start at 8am. ;-)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  11. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Count me in, as long as I can drag myself out of bed. :-)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  12. wingpig
    Member

    I know I said I'd try and make the previous meetings but I will try and make this one.

    -2°C (online), -1°C (ambient). Packed ice with a light surface dusting at the edges of the path, slightly crusty snow with clear patches on the Meadows, slight frosting on the path surface. 10mph, blowing south-west.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  13. Min
    Member

    Wow, you ARE keen. :-)

    Edit-multiple posts now vanished.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  14. wingpig
    Member

    BAGH. IE is horrible, especially when overlain with a stupid McAfee sniffer. How many instances of that post were there?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  15. kaputnik
    Moderator

    17th must be the day for work christmas lunches, mine too, but not until 3PM!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  16. Min
    Member

    Wingpig-A mere 3. I'm sure I've seen more. Board has been a bit slow for me occasionally, might have been to do with that.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  17. PS
    Member

    It currently feels like if you go to the German market either lunchtime or after work then you'll find me there. This is good for neither my wallet nor my waistline (seeing as I haven't been on a bike for 18 days and counting).

    Posted 13 years ago #

  18. LaidBack
    Member

    PS I know the German market beckons too...

    wingpig -2°C (online), -1°C (ambient). Packed ice with a light surface dusting at the edges of the path, slightly crusty snow with clear patches on the Meadows, slight frosting on the path surface. 10mph, blowing south-west.

    This may be a winning entry you know!

    Kaputnik Good idea about gift wrapping parts from the bits box. I have the LB Christmas card to give out too.

    If everything goes to plan we could have as many as 4 at 8am. Is busy time of year so lets just see how it goes.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  19. cb
    Member

    Hey, it's my Christmas lunch that day too. Probably won't be able to make PY unless I take a sneakily late train.

    But my weather prediction shall be:
    -4 outside PY, a pleasant 20 inside.
    90% of today's current snow still there, but looking decidedly scruffy by then. However a fresh 5cm will have covered it in a nicely unblemished layer, untouched by an Edinburgh populace now fed up with the white stuff.
    Wind 15 - 20mph from the north east making it buff-tastically cold.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  20. LaidBack
    Member

    cb -4 outside PY, a pleasant 20 inside.
    90% of today's current snow still there, but looking decidedly scruffy by then. However a fresh 5cm will have covered it in a nicely unblemished layer, untouched by an Edinburgh populace now fed up with the white stuff.
    Wind 15 - 20mph from the north east making it buff-tastically cold.

    Your forecast has been noted. Two forecasts so far.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  21. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    By the way, I love the secret Santa idea. How do we randomise it?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  22. Arellcat
    Moderator

    And do we get our little 'spare bike bit' back afterwards?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  23. kaputnik
    Moderator

    By the way, I love the secret Santa idea. How do we randomise it?
    by mutually exchanging them until everyone has something that isn't theirs?

    And do we get our little 'spare bike bit' back afterwards?

    no*, it must be something you're willing to part with (in exchange for another random part)

    * - that's my vote anyway, I don't make the rules round here :)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  24. cb
    Member

    Hang on? Didn't you say you weren't a fan of Christmas on another thread?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  25. LaidBack
    Member

    And do we get our little 'spare bike bit' back?

    Now that's the real test... The idea is learning to let go... It's only a bike part!
    (Unless of course it's a from Campagnolo.. although I suspect unwanted Abus U lock frame mounting brackets may be a popular choice!)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  26. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Didn't you say you weren't a fan of Christmas on another thread?

    I did. I'm totally a fan of free random bike bits though! I was just hijacking Christmas for my own purposes of disposing of / acquiring them.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  27. Arellcat
    Moderator

    The problem with all my spare bike bits that I know I'm never going to use again, but can't bear to part with, is that I can't bear to part with them. The part-worn Ultegra 8spd bar end lever is a case in point: it's only partly worn out, in the sense that it's unreliable for actually shifting accurately, but shirley bits of it can be reused, if I were ever to buy spares for it. If I ever found a need for it, that is, which I might, one day. Maybe.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  28. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Don't look on it as losing a worn-out Ultegra shifter lever, look on it as gaining a new (old) bottle cage, a part functional frame pump or a Tour de France 2010 stage tracking poster (unsoiled)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  29. SRD
    Moderator

    I think we should exchange loaves of bread/jars of jam....

    Posted 13 years ago #

  30. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Well I have just bought a new bread baking book that I'm itching to start trying out :)

    Posted 13 years ago #

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