Author Topic: ACME Easter Arrow Teams 2017 (Read 18263 times)

Tomsk · « **on:** 27 January, 2017, 07:55:53 pm »

Somewhere to recruit riders and knock into shape ACME plans for the assault on York...

Cheap train tickets are available NOW - looks like it has to be done individually [no group-save] with bike bookings.

jsabine · « **Reply #1 on:** 27 January, 2017, 08:00:05 pm »

No groupsave on Vermin East Coast, but you can book several tickets at a time, and up to the same number of bike reservations.

tedshred · « **Reply #2 on:** 27 January, 2017, 08:56:39 pm »

Booked on 12.31 coach C seat 66

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Phil W · « **Reply #3 on:** 27 January, 2017, 09:00:36 pm »

Booked the 1331 train with bike.

Interested in the Thursday night team.

Tomsk · « **Reply #4 on:** 27 January, 2017, 09:09:51 pm »

Looks like we may need two teams for the Thursday evening start!

Witham 'spoons ok for location? Either same time start, different routes, maybe meeting up after 12 hours or so at Sleaford's Pack Horse Inn [Wetherspoons] for breakfast and again at the finish, of course. Otherwise start an hour apart on same route and still overlap a bit in Sleaford, probably...

bobb · « **Reply #5 on:** 27 January, 2017, 09:20:48 pm »

Quote from: tedshred on 27 January, 2017, 08:56:39 pm

Booked on 12.31 coach C seat 66

I'm booked on 12.31 coach C seat 06

Tomsk · « **Reply #6 on:** 27 January, 2017, 09:24:35 pm »

12:31, C18

Wake me up when we hit the buffers at King's Cross

bobb · « **Reply #7 on:** 27 January, 2017, 09:30:32 pm »

How many bikes can each train take?!

Tomsk · « **Reply #8 on:** 27 January, 2017, 09:38:57 pm »

^ 5 spaces officially, I thought...

Btw, York YHA is £35/night [ in a dorm] I'll go for that if no-one wants to share a Travelodge room, not that I'm a cheapskate or anything...

Phil W · « **Reply #9 on:** 27 January, 2017, 09:43:05 pm »

Happy sharing a room.

Just checking trains from Liverpool Street to Witham to see how timings might work.

After 1830 from Liverpool Street, so depends what planned start it is Thursday night. Else drive to Witham and retrieve car over weekend.

tedshred · « **Reply #10 on:** 27 January, 2017, 09:50:26 pm »

Carriage C Massive

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bobb · « **Reply #11 on:** 27 January, 2017, 09:53:36 pm »

Sat 15th is the correct day, right?!

tedshred · « **Reply #12 on:** 27 January, 2017, 10:31:38 pm »

Indeed. All aboard the ACME express.

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the straggler · « **Reply #13 on:** 27 January, 2017, 10:38:30 pm »

Just booked 11.59 with bike. What are the the journey plans back to Witham?

jiberjaber · « **Reply #14 on:** 27 January, 2017, 11:06:49 pm »

So to recap on the bookings for Friday night:

Room 1 Double, 2 adults
Room 2 Double, 2 adults
Room 3 Double, 1 adults
Room 4 Double, 1 adults
Room 5 Double, 1 adults

There doesn't appear to be any price difference between the occupancy of the rooms, I think its just so they know the number and names of occupying soles...

Bikeabilityman · « **Reply #15 on:** 27 January, 2017, 11:12:02 pm »

So on these arrows, everyone only rides TO York (work commitments preventing riding home)?

psyclist · « **Reply #16 on:** 28 January, 2017, 08:04:30 am »

Quote from: jiberjaber on 27 January, 2017, 11:06:49 pm

So to recap on the bookings for Friday night

Thank you for sorting this out Jason ... presumably one of those is for me, and if so, would you prefer cash or money straight into your account?

jiberjaber · « **Reply #17 on:** 28 January, 2017, 08:57:11 am »

Happy for a bank transfer Andrew... no rush at the moment, we can sort it out in a couple of weeks.. I think the key thing was getting the places reserved before the BH rush.

Tomsk · « **Reply #18 on:** 28 January, 2017, 07:10:11 pm »

Quote from: Bikeabilityman on 27 January, 2017, 11:12:02 pm

So on these arrows, everyone only rides TO York (work commitments preventing riding home)?

You can extend to a 600 - has been done...200km back south takes you to a Peterborough-ish sort of distance, via the LEL [old] route. Teethgrinder usually rides home...

Bikeabilityman · « **Reply #19 on:** 28 January, 2017, 08:30:56 pm »

I saw tg in spoons last week. He mentioned a 500k to York, the 300 mark being my home town of Brid! I'm still planning my audax calendar.

tippers_kiwi · « **Reply #20 on:** 29 January, 2017, 12:21:46 am »

Quote from: the straggler on 27 January, 2017, 10:38:30 pm

Just booked 11.59 with bike. What are the the journey plans back to Witham?

You might all like to know. the below from Greater Anglia:

Saturday, April 15, 2017 (CLICKY)
As a result of Crossrail and Overhead Line Renewal works, there will be no Greater Anglia train service between London Liverpool Street and Ingatestone / Billericay all day.

I guess I am going to ride back (80ish I think along the canals and then UP the hill in Chingford and Epping Forest. I did it last year after a morning finish and it was fine, I even managed to help a damsel in distress with getting her boar through a lock!)

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #21 on:** 29 January, 2017, 08:48:09 am »

Quote from: Tomsk on 27 January, 2017, 09:24:35 pm

12:31, C18 Wake me up when we hit the buffers at King's Cross

Coach C is going to have that unmistakable whiff of sweaty cyclist unless you get showers first

Phil W · « **Reply #22 on:** 29 January, 2017, 09:27:22 am »

Quote from: tippers_kiwi on 29 January, 2017, 12:21:46 am

I even managed to help a damsel in distress with getting her boar through a lock!)

Anyone failing to get a camel through the eye of a needle isn't trying hard enough.

Carlosfandango · « **Reply #23 on:** 29 January, 2017, 10:27:24 am »

Quote from: Phil W on 29 January, 2017, 09:27:22 am

Quote from: tippers_kiwi on 29 January, 2017, 12:21:46 am
I even managed to help a damsel in distress with getting her boar through a lock!)

Anyone failing to get a camel through the eye of a needle isn't trying hard enough.

Sounds like a pig of a job!

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #24 on:** 29 January, 2017, 01:16:18 pm »

Quote from: Phil W on 29 January, 2017, 09:27:22 am

Quote from: tippers_kiwi on 29 January, 2017, 12:21:46 am
I even managed to help a damsel in distress with getting her boar through a lock!)

Anyone failing to get a camel through the eye of a needle isn't trying hard enough.

What is it with you and animals tippers? Yesterday cock horses and now wild pigs, you're turning into Johnny Morris!