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The Great .cc/CCE Washing Machine/Fridage Race
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Bloody hell, wouldn't want to try and stop that in hurry.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Is this still on for the 18th?
Posted 11 years ago # -
Don't be daft, it was yet something else I was supposed to be organising *no loss to PoP this year*
Posted 11 years ago # -
Never mind, at least you got the Sunbeam up and runn...
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Fine one to talk, I'm 18 months into my TT bike build... Still haven't glued the tyres on!
Posted 11 years ago # -
I assumed you were just having trouble finding a fridage.;-)
Posted 11 years ago # -
There's a stove halfway up montpelier that someone could retrieve. and one out at the gypsybrae track according to twitter...
Posted 11 years ago # -
One might consider sponsorship for a race, as indeed we had for a Rag Week stunt in Bradford. S&N had the contract for the Union Bar(s) and the challenge was to get a full firkin to London in the shortest possible time. The winners used a motorbike with the barrel sandwiched between the pilot and the pillion.
In Copenhagen they race on a closed circuit around the harbour district so I can imagine that a suitable option for Edinburgh might be to look for a circuit around Leith especially with so many bijou bistros and bars which the course could be routed past, to provide suitable viewing locations with victuals ready to hand
There are I think a couple of Bullitts or 8freights in town and I could bring the Brompton with a trailer of some form - with a capacity of around 100Kg, which should be sufficient for a barrel or two.
I would suggest that it might be modelled on the Smithfield Nocturne, and so could include other supporting races for folding bikes, and high wheelers. I believe there is still some profit to be made from selling drink, and given that some of this church may have connections with media/PR companies, who work with the brewers, vintners and distillers of this parish, to come up with suitable supporting arrangements. Now if I ever get a new PA I might have the resources to do something towards getting such an event organised.
Perhaps a title "Roll Out (with) The Barrel" might be appropriate (or even Barrelling around Leith)
Posted 11 years ago # -
This past weekend I had occasion to move an unusual load by trailer. A bay tree to be precise. Here's the evidence:
Tree and photo courtesy Edinburgh Cycle Training of this parish.
Any advance on moving a tree by trailer? I'm sure someone out there must be crazy enough to try something like this...
Posted 7 years ago # -
@crowriver - you made the Spotted thread!
I'll see your tree and raise you a brace of 4'x3' bookcases.
Great for claiming space on the road, terrible for frontage and drag, as I'd mounted them across the bike as a massive air dam.
Robert
Posted 7 years ago # -
"a brace of 4'x3' bookcases"
"I'd mounted them across the bike as a massive air dam"
Individually? Or all at once?
It's an important distinction... :-)
Posted 7 years ago # -
<grin>
For the sake of precision two bookcases back to back, so total frontal area wasn't doubled... I'm not quite that dim!
Robert
Posted 7 years ago #
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