Author Topic: [HAMR] Feb 25th (Read 7366 times)

Wowbagger · « **on:** 25 February, 2015, 05:48:28 am »

And he's away.

Good luck Steve!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1 on:** 25 February, 2015, 06:07:30 am »

As a matter of interest, who was last night's host?

Climberruss · « **Reply #2 on:** 25 February, 2015, 06:31:55 am »

I believe it was Pete Gifford.

Inyerestingly, he's heading North from the off...could be intertesting..

andyoxon · « **Reply #3 on:** 25 February, 2015, 07:12:36 am »

May be about to Grimsby...

edit. or perhaps not...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4 on:** 25 February, 2015, 08:40:14 am »

He's turned back from cycling into the Humber. 43 miles done, according to Googlemaps, 144 by road between Barton and MK. Plenty of scope to push today over 200 miles.

Polar Bear · « **Reply #5 on:** 25 February, 2015, 08:43:37 am »

Relatively mild winds so hopefully Steve can bag a double ton.

Clemo · « **Reply #6 on:** 25 February, 2015, 08:54:42 am »

A lot milder today, good luck to Steve

Climberruss · « **Reply #7 on:** 25 February, 2015, 08:54:59 am »

I reckon he's game on for a double plus a bit. Can he squeeze a Gibbon in too?

loadsabikes · « **Reply #8 on:** 25 February, 2015, 09:39:13 am »

Conditions are indeed benign compared with yesterday's strong and gusty winds.
Go Steve, have a safe and productive day.

Arry-R · « **Reply #9 on:** 25 February, 2015, 10:00:57 am »

Grimsby is a fine place to visit
Have a good day Steve.

rob · « **Reply #10 on:** 25 February, 2015, 10:04:23 am »

Quote from: Climberruss on 25 February, 2015, 06:31:55 am

I believe it was Pete Gifford.

Inyerestingly, he's heading North from the off...could be intertesting..

Pete lives in Bardney these days so looks like it. Only a few miles from my parents place.

Vince · « **Reply #11 on:** 25 February, 2015, 10:18:19 am »

Go Steve!

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #12 on:** 25 February, 2015, 10:33:11 am »

For the second time this year I was on the road before Steve, for my once in a month cycle commute to London. Dodging flooded manhole covers in the wet, my admiration for him only increases, sampling once a month what he manages to do every single day.

I bet he longs for spring more than any of us, for the time when he starts riding with the first light of dawn rather than it being hours into the ride.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #13 on:** 25 February, 2015, 10:47:35 am »

Great riding conditions up here; not too warm, no frost, almost no wind in Leeds.

Tomorrow is forecast for stronger winds, I guess the routing team will know this and planned accordingly. Tailwinds across the fens would be nice . . . but weatheronline is saying SW for the morning. Not ideal.

tiermat · « **Reply #14 on:** 25 February, 2015, 11:50:22 am »

No update for an hour, early lunch, or a problem?

Nuncio · « **Reply #15 on:** 25 February, 2015, 12:19:01 pm »

I don't think it was a problem because he tweeted:

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steve abraham @steve_abraham74 · 45m 45 minutes ago

80 miles done and 100 from home with 9 hours until it's time to stop

But it looked an odd place to stop. Mind you, he'd been cycling close to the Edge for a while.

I wondered if he'd stopped at what has been acknowledged to be one of the top Audax sleeping facilities in the country but it was just a bit later than that.

Ray 6701 · « **Reply #16 on:** 25 February, 2015, 12:39:59 pm »

Quote from: Nuncio on 25 February, 2015, 12:19:01 pm

I don't think it was a problem because he tweeted:

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steve abraham @steve_abraham74 · 45m 45 minutes ago

80 miles done and 100 from home with 9 hours until it's time to stop

But it looked an odd place to stop. Mind you, he'd been cycling close to the Edge for a while.

I wondered if he'd stopped at what has been acknowledged to be one of the top Audax sleeping facilities in the country but it was just a bit later than that.

That Audax hotel is truly a thing of beauty

Salvatore · « **Reply #17 on:** 25 February, 2015, 03:07:53 pm »

Quote from: fungus on 25 February, 2015, 12:39:59 pm

Quote from: Nuncio on 25 February, 2015, 12:19:01 pm
I don't think it was a problem because he tweeted:

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steve abraham @steve_abraham74 · 45m 45 minutes ago

80 miles done and 100 from home with 9 hours until it's time to stop

But it looked an odd place to stop. Mind you, he'd been cycling close to the Edge for a while.

I wondered if he'd stopped at what has been acknowledged to be one of the top Audax sleeping facilities in the country but it was just a bit later than that.

That Audax hotel is truly a thing of beauty

Steve himself has acknowledged the qualities of that very example on the Lincoln Edge above Fillingham.

Quote from: teethgrinder on 01 July, 2011, 01:02:52 am

Do you have any photos of those ones north of Lincoln? You know the ones on the top of the ridge. Back in the day, around the mid 1990s, they used to even have hanging baskets outside, but they seem to be left to ruin now. The gutterring is coming off of one of them.

Salvatore · « **Reply #18 on:** 25 February, 2015, 03:09:53 pm »

Quote from: Nuncio on 25 February, 2015, 12:19:01 pm

I don't think it was a problem because he tweeted:

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steve abraham @steve_abraham74 · 45m 45 minutes ago

80 miles done and 100 from home with 9 hours until it's time to stop

But it looked an odd place to stop. Mind you, he'd been cycling close to the Edge for a while.

I see what you did there.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #19 on:** 25 February, 2015, 03:36:45 pm »

Steve appears to have stopped in Stamford. I think he's in the Sainsbury's café.

Basil · « **Reply #20 on:** 25 February, 2015, 03:41:16 pm »

I zomed right in. I can't see a bike parked outside.

My lads and I were having a discussion the other week. How long before Google Earth is 'Live'.

urban_biker · « **Reply #21 on:** 25 February, 2015, 03:43:06 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 25 February, 2015, 03:41:16 pm

I zomed right in. I can't see a bike parked outside.

My lads and I were having a discussion the other week. How long before Google Earth is 'Live'.

Well being as the aerial photos of my house haven't changed for about 8 years I suspect it will be a long time!

Kim · « **Reply #22 on:** 25 February, 2015, 03:51:53 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 25 February, 2015, 03:41:16 pm

I zomed right in. I can't see a bike parked outside.

My lads and I were having a discussion the other week. How long before Google Earth is 'Live'.

I reckon that would require saturation google-drone coverage, so not any time soon. I can see networked autonomous vehicles acting as streetview cars, though.

duncan · « **Reply #23 on:** 25 February, 2015, 04:01:44 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 25 February, 2015, 03:41:16 pm

I zomed right in. I can't see a bike parked outside.

My lads and I were having a discussion the other week. How long before Google Earth is 'Live'.

Last night I was playing with Google StreetView, showing my four-year-old various houses she's been to in the past and asking if she knew where they were. She asked me if we could drop the person in her old bedroom in Oxford...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #24 on:** 25 February, 2015, 05:04:03 pm »

It's midday Tarzan Time and he has only done 36 miles.

Wossgoinon?

Edit: from his facebook page it looks as though he's been to a bike shop.