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PY Friday 30th with special visitor

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  1. SRD
    Moderator

    So, as mentioned elsewhere, the sallyhinch of this parish and Cycling Dumfries, will be around on the morning of the 30th, and we are proposing a PY meetup.

    Neither of us are committing to be there at 7.30. I am unlikely to be there until 8 at the earliest, and it might be closer to 9, with a plan for starting work a bit late. However, if other people want to start early, then obviously that is fine too!

    (for parents with small children, the 'special visitor' ref in thread title should be read as per Jonathan Emmett's "She'll be coming round the mountain"

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    Statutory reminder -

    For newcomers (ALL welcome) -

    AKA http://tinyurl.com/PY-Fri

    "Normally from 7.30 to 8.30 for most folk."

    Some people hang on past nine.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. sallyhinch
    Member

    Wow, not only am I going to get to go to a PY, but I'm to be there as a *special visitor*

    I feel I might have to dress up now. I shall bring the Brompton, anyway

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. cc
    Member

    If there's a late end to this one I should be able to manage it - great. Me and paper bike should make it there by quarter to nine or so.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    I'll be there as ever (though as per it'll be till about 8.30 then I'll have to shoot off). If I can sneak any in I may do a test run of a Christmas special macaroon I've got planned for nearer the festivities (given we've got a special visitor n' all - someone nearer the time remind me to bring along my book by a certain S Hinch....)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. sallyhinch
    Member

    It looks like my train leaves at 9:50 so I'll be there till sometime after nine depending on how panicky I get about missing it

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. steveo
    Member

    woooh there trigger, how did this post end up in here!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. Roibeard
    Member

    @sally I feel I might have to dress up now

    Pink pyjamas, channelling Emmett and courtesy of Blue Peter?

    Robert

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. sallyhinch
    Member

    Silk pyjamas, surely?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. fimm
    Member

    Now I should be able to make this one, and drink coffee.

    I always bring a Brompton ;-)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  11. chdot
    Admin

    Doesn't it bring you...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  12. fimm
    Member

    Well, I have to provide some propulsion... the Brompton wouldn't get there without me (unless Uberuce brought it in the cargo bike).

    Posted 12 years ago #

  13. Uberuce
    Member

    Recent testing with Min's Dahon shows my Carry Freedom trailer is also perfectly capable of Inception biking.

    It was a pleasant surprise just how stable a folder is when tied down - I didn't even need to bust out the heavyduty cargo straps, just bungees and the velcro strips.

    I'll be there, unless something odd happens in t'office.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  14. PS
    Member

    Bump.

    Are pedestrians allowed to attend? ;-) I'm planning on taking Friday off and may be able to clump my way over to PY if I can haul myself out of bed and onto a bus in time.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  15. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    I'll swing by and give you a backie... ;)

    Had forgotten about this - excellent, nice end to a really rather tiresome week.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  16. chdot
    Admin

    "Are pedestrians allowed to attend?"

    Well that's one of the attractions of PY it has its own dedicated/segregated pedestrian and cycle lanes.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  17. PS
    Member

    @ WC Nice offer, but 9 weeks of muscle wastage is unlikely to have made me any lighter - I'll have put on at least as much useless weight as I've lost in useful weight. 80+kgs extra up the Bridges would be a challenge. ;-)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  18. steveo
    Member

    Send Roibert round with the oddcycle.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  19. chdot
    Admin

    "Send Roibert round with the oddcycle."

    Or -

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8966#post-91901

    Posted 12 years ago #

  20. kaputnik
    Moderator

    If anyone wants some Chrimbo cards, I'll be there with a box of them that I'm en route to London to flog.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  21. DaveC
    Member

    Oh that would be nice Kappers, how much?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  22. gembo
    Member

    @kapps when you staying in PY uNtil? I am aiming for 8.45 until 9.30, hoping WC will remember his jersey for sizing/ feeling the schmutter

    Posted 12 years ago #

  23. Puzzle
    Member

    Wont be able to make it - what on earth is a PY *scratches head*

    Posted 12 years ago #

  24. Uberuce
    Member

    It's normally a pleasant, albiet steeply priced, coffee and baked produce vendor located halfway up Edinburgh's picturesque Middle Meadow Walk, but roughly once a month it undergoes a nightmarish transformation and becomes a festering pit of velocipdal fetishism, as hordes of lycra-swaddled freaks huddle in dank corners and spit in the face of all that is good and internally combusted and true on this Earth.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  25. cc
    Member

    Sadly I can't make it tomorrow :-( I popped in this morning on the offchance but didn't see any familiar CCE faces. Still, I had a very nice cardamom bun.

    Puzzle: it's maybe a bit out of your way but PY is Peter's Yard on Middle Meadow Walk, between Edinburgh University / George Square and Quartermile / old Royal Infirmary. It has CCE morning meet-ups now and then. And cardamom buns. Did I mention the cardamom buns?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  26. kaputnik
    Moderator

    In terms of price, I don't imagine PY is any more expensive than the Starbucks next door. However the quality of their bakery means its far better value and more than makes up for the slightly odd (to my taste) Scandinavian coffee blend!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  27. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Oh yes, cards questions.

    Set of 6 designs, £11. 5x7 inches, 280gsm linen-finish card. I haven't been able to work out logistics of splitting up the sets yet. Hand folded by me and packed in fetching copy of 1985 Cycling Weekly magazine for that vintage newsprint smell.

    Full details and pictures of finished item here - also webshop if you want to pay online (or later, if that suits).

    My train is at 12:30 so I can hang around until whenever.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  28. Uberuce
    Member

    I do admit to being spoiled by Zazou's teensy tariffs, but agree the PY baked stuff is winnity win.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  29. Min
    Member

    I should be able to squeeze in a quick visit tomorrow. :-)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  30. sallyhinch
    Member

    Planning to be there from 8ish (emphasis on the 'ish'), avec Brompton.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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