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Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #50 on: 11 August, 2013, 05:20:57 pm »
Very nice Feline, the only mistakes I could find are the spelling of Cygnet, and the identification of my motorbike as Charlotte's. She used to have a BMW K1100 LT, so mistaking my BMW K100RS for that is understandable.

Are you sure she wasn't also on a motorbike? Maybe my halucinations began earlier in the ride than I thought!  ;D

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #51 on: 11 August, 2013, 05:40:00 pm »
Very nice Feline, the only mistakes I could find are the spelling of Cygnet, and the identification of my motorbike as Charlotte's. She used to have a BMW K1100 LT, so mistaking my BMW K100RS for that is understandable.

Are you sure she wasn't also on a motorbike? Maybe my halucinations began earlier in the ride than I thought!  ;D

I recall a hatchback, possibly a Renault Clio, with a blowing exhaust. She had a lot of camera kit, including a remote flash on a stand, which wouldn't go on a motorbike. I got to the bridge around 5pm. I'd made a decision not to film the section up to the bridge, apart from St Ives control. There's bound to a lot of Go Pro footage which conveys that better, and I'd been up since 4am, and filmed in the sun until the last riders had gone.
I'd mentioned the Bridge to Charlotte, she said she wasn't going that far.
I filmed some early riders, then got 90 minutes sleep at the Country Park Lodge in Hessle, just under the bridge. Then I went back and met Charlotte, I advised her to go beyond the main stanchions to get a less cluttered view, then I went to film riders crossing the bridge from the Humber shore, so we've got video of riders approaching Charlotte and the flash going off.
I then went back to offer Charlotte the other twin bed if she needed a rest before driving back to London. She declined and I went back to the lodge, and had a couple of pints while getting shots of the gathering apocalyptic clouds. Then to bed and up at 4 am. All this would have been fairly straightforward without my painful sciatica.

You must have passed at a time when I was limping from my motorbike to the bridge deck or back, as it's a few hundred metres.

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Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #52 on: 11 August, 2013, 06:56:04 pm »
[ http://edscoble.tumblr.com/post/57421760544/the-london-edinburgh-london-1400k-audax ]

Great - like Kerouac with his hand caught in a door!
;D That would make a brilliant cover quote. Nice report Ed - but may I ask whether English is your first language?

;)

p.s. I have no idea what a Reese Piece is.
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Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #53 on: 11 August, 2013, 06:58:58 pm »
[ http://edscoble.tumblr.com/post/57421760544/the-london-edinburgh-london-1400k-audax ]

Great - like Kerouac with his hand caught in a door!
;D That would make a brilliant cover quote. Nice report Ed - but may I ask whether English is your first language?

;)

Ed's first language may be BSL, I don't know how that is punctuated.

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #54 on: 11 August, 2013, 07:09:10 pm »
[ http://edscoble.tumblr.com/post/57421760544/the-london-edinburgh-london-1400k-audax ]

Great - like Kerouac with his hand caught in a door!
;D That would make a brilliant cover quote. Nice report Ed - but may I ask whether English is your first language?

;)

p.s. I have no idea what a Reese Piece is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese's_Pieces  :)

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #55 on: 11 August, 2013, 08:52:07 pm »

Ed's first language may be BSL, I don't know how that is punctuated.

BSL wasn't my first language, but I know some of them after going to a deaf boarding school.

BSL is basically a combination of body language (v. important, signing won't work if your facial expression doesn't match) and text messaging.

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #56 on: 12 August, 2013, 08:57:21 am »
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I saw a particularly nice goat, so I was happy with that. When I said that to Simon later he looked at me like I had lost the plot.
Don't know why, but this had me creased up !

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #57 on: 12 August, 2013, 09:22:34 am »

Ed's first language may be BSL, I don't know how that is punctuated.

BSL wasn't my first language, but I know some of them after going to a deaf boarding school.

BSL is basically a combination of body language (v. important, signing won't work if your facial expression doesn't match) and text messaging.

I find it interesting to think how punctuation is a reflection of actual speech. I tend even to think grammatically, as I only read quality papers, and watch highbrow TV. My only problem is that I had a bad stammer between the ages of 9 and 15. That gave me a very broad vocabulary, as it meant I had to avoid 'trigger words'. There's still a gap between the fluency in my head and that from my tongue.

Going back to the blogs. It's nice to see that Veloman gets credit for saving a few rides by spotting bikes in the bike park that should have been long gone.

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #58 on: 12 August, 2013, 10:02:20 am »
Well done Ed great read!
Liked the bike you were on. Noticed it at Brampton after I'd been helping Richard change a 105 gear cable, took ages to get the end out. Then saw yours D/T shifters, steel frame, BIG tyres! Nice.('Why didn't he need a new cable?' )   

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #59 on: 12 August, 2013, 10:37:19 am »
I find it interesting to think how punctuation is a reflection of actual speech. I tend even to think grammatically, as I only read quality papers, and watch highbrow TV. My only problem is that I had a bad stammer between the ages of 9 and 15. That gave me a very broad vocabulary, as it meant I had to avoid 'trigger words'. There's still a gap between the fluency in my head and that from my tongue.

Going back to the blogs. It's nice to see that Veloman gets credit for saving a few rides by spotting bikes in the bike park that should have been long gone.

I work pretty hard in trying to produced a readable sentence that vaguely make some kind of sense, it's more the fact that when it come to speech, it's hard for me to hear the difference between has, have, and had despite the slight difference in lips movement, I can't tell the difference between the squeal of a poorly fitted disc brakes and the tweet of an angry bird, having dyslexia does not help further.

Basically, I write how I hear, luckily computer have spell checker nowadays so that's one less thing to worry about.

Well done Ed great read!
Liked the bike you were on. Noticed it at Brampton after I'd been helping Richard change a 105 gear cable, took ages to get the end out. Then saw yours D/T shifters, steel frame, BIG tyres! Nice.('Why didn't he need a new cable?' )   

Instant shifting of the brifter are great, but a royal bastard to work with when it go wrong (note "when", not "if"), Campagnolo fortunately a little easier.

Big tyres were real comfy at 37psi, I cannot express how exhilarating it is to sped down the Yorkshire road without gripping the handlebar tightly to prevent losing grip of the bar, especially the same when climbing without wheelspinning, like ever.

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #60 on: 12 August, 2013, 10:45:13 am »
ED, I say again, your blog is great.  I wondered about dyslexia and deafness when I read it, but they are just background for me (though obviously not for you!).  I was just absorbed in your general style; it is so colourful, explosive and funny!  Any grammatical glitches, just add to the whole thing and I hope you won't find that patronising.  It's break-neck stuff, much like reading Woody Guthrie or Kerouac, as I mentioned.


Thanks again

Peter

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Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #61 on: 12 August, 2013, 10:56:58 am »
I found kerouac unreadable (my loss probably - I suspect I'd enjoy his books translated into proper punctuate english ).

ed's blog was far more enjoyable (and readable).
Has never ridden RAAM
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Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #62 on: 12 August, 2013, 11:44:17 am »
Kerouac's pretty difficult to follow, kinda like cycling in London; you have to keep your wit about, observe surrounding a lots, be assertive, ride predictably, work with traffic otherwise you'll lose it all and become a kerb hugger barely able to copulate into the main traffic of Holborn junction.

I like it as it's very free-flowing with almost no structure and a nonlinear way of describing scenario in such an abstract form that you'd be forgiven to think it doesn't exist.

I prefer Allen Ginsberg thought, easier to follow and understood, probably cause it's slightly more linear, with commas, and sometime full stop.

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #63 on: 12 August, 2013, 04:24:26 pm »
My favourite writer was Norman Lewis. I stayed in Enfield the night before the registration, and got to ride through Forty Hill, his birthplace, which he writes about here. His lucid, humourous style is a joy.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ms87wYhDuBcC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Norman+Lewis+Forty+Hill&source=bl&ots=t6-x36IAvO&sig=lP5kZCGhP8vQi7eSumzVO6oy-3k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vfsIUsGMNKv40gWQrIG4BQ&ved=0CGgQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Norman%20Lewis%20Forty%20Hill&f=false

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #64 on: 13 August, 2013, 11:38:30 am »

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #65 on: 13 August, 2013, 11:54:32 am »
My write up of my first audax:

http://irbandito.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/lel-2013/

Loved the
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....with a comment of “you’re one of THEM aren’t you?”.

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #66 on: 13 August, 2013, 12:51:53 pm »
My write up of my first audax:

http://irbandito.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/lel-2013/

Loved the
Quote
....with a comment of “you’re one of THEM aren’t you?”.

his first statement was "where've you been with all those bags? Do you work for the Royal Mail". It gave me great pleasure to say "Edinburgh". That's what caused the reponse of "one of them". Said not with disdain, more amazement and I like to think, a little respect.  :)

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #67 on: 13 August, 2013, 09:15:36 pm »
I'm an immensly slow (and verbose) writer, and have only managed to get 2 days of the ride and my pre-prologue day done so far.

My blog is also more of a personal journal, recording my progress from initial PBP inspiration until, hopefully, the event in 2015.

So I suspect my account may be rather long winded for most people's tastes. Anyhow, these are the draft sections so far:

http://justkeeppedalling.blogspot.com/2013/07/lel-diy-pre-prologue.html
http://justkeeppedalling.blogspot.com/2013/07/lel-day-1.html
http://justkeeppedalling.blogspot.com/2013/07/lel-day-2.html

Hope to get the rest done in the next week or so.

-- Rob
The other Robw, not the wobbly one

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Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #68 on: 13 August, 2013, 10:01:09 pm »
I'm an immensly slow (and verbose) writer, and have only managed to get 2 days of the ride and my pre-prologue day done so far.

My blog is also more of a personal journal, recording my progress from initial PBP inspiration until, hopefully, the event in 2015.

So I suspect my account may be rather long winded for most people's tastes. Anyhow, these are the draft sections so far:

http://justkeeppedalling.blogspot.com/2013/07/lel-diy-pre-prologue.html
http://justkeeppedalling.blogspot.com/2013/07/lel-day-1.html
http://justkeeppedalling.blogspot.com/2013/07/lel-day-2.html

Hope to get the rest done in the next week or so.

-- Rob

That blue velo was LEL. Being a later starter I was still behind you at that point and saw it parked up at Thirsk!

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Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #69 on: 14 August, 2013, 07:41:53 am »
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et avec John, excellent lecteur de road-book, on s'en est sortis sans erreur

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #70 on: 14 August, 2013, 07:43:30 am »
I'm an immensly slow (and verbose) writer, and have only managed to get 2 days of the ride and my pre-prologue day done so far.

My blog is also more of a personal journal, recording my progress from initial PBP inspiration until, hopefully, the event in 2015.

So I suspect my account may be rather long winded for most people's tastes. Anyhow, these are the draft sections so far:

http://justkeeppedalling.blogspot.com/2013/07/lel-diy-pre-prologue.html
http://justkeeppedalling.blogspot.com/2013/07/lel-day-1.html
http://justkeeppedalling.blogspot.com/2013/07/lel-day-2.html

Hope to get the rest done in the next week or so.

-- Rob

That blue velo was LEL. Being a later starter I was still behind you at that point and saw it parked up at Thirsk!

Cheers Phil - I'll add a footnote. I figured it had to be, but couldn't see any markings and was confused it was going the other way. Guess it was returning to find something dropped, or maybe looping back to meet a friend
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Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #71 on: 14 August, 2013, 07:56:42 am »
The blue velo mobile packed (not sure of reasons) and was heading back I believe.
Right! What's next?

Ooooh. That sounds like a daft idea.  I am in!

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #72 on: 14 August, 2013, 08:01:09 am »
The blue velo mobile packed (not sure of reasons) and was heading back I believe.

Ah, that explains it - thanks for the clarification. Shame to hear the rider had packed though.
The other Robw, not the wobbly one

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #73 on: 14 August, 2013, 08:48:31 am »
He packed due to stomach problems, combined with moral problems. See his blog here (in Dutch):
http://pdrond.blogspot.nl/2013/08/tweede-dag-lel.html
Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It has been too many days since I have ridden through the night with a brevet card in my pocket...

Re: LEL blog links
« Reply #74 on: 14 August, 2013, 08:57:17 am »
Thanks arvid (reaches for Google Dutch translator, but realise with my basic level of Afrikaans I can actually follow quite a bit)
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