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Wowbagger

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Announcing the WARTY.
« on: 03 January, 2009, 05:53:33 pm »
Anyone who pays attention to a certain board cannot have helped but notice the RRTY, standing for Randonneur Round The Year, an award for long-distance cyclists. To achieve this award requires a certain tenacity, toughness, single-mindedness and the ability to avoid eye contact.

It gives us great pleasure to announce the WARTY, Wowbagger/Annie Round the Year.  This is for a completely different type of cyclist.  Eye contact is encouraged, as indeed are other sorts of bodily contact, however inappropriate.   There will be pub lunches, cafe stops, photographic opportunities, the occasional beach and more innuendo than you thought existed anywhere. 

These rides will take place on an approximately monthly basis and be of 40-60 miles duration.  Anyone who succeeds in enduring a whole year's worth of this nonsense will be awarded a prize of an unspecified nature: they may well be certified.

We decided to include the Essex Christmas Pootle as the first of these rides so the esteemed company present on that august occasion are well on the way to acquiring the UK's most exclusive and highly coveted award. Olympic Gold Medals?  Two a penny.

The second in this sequence will be the Annie-versary ride on 10th January 2009, venue to be announced.

WARTY ROLL OF HONOUR

30/1210/121/221/34/4
Annie :) :) :) :) :)
Wowbagger :) :) :) :) :)
Delthebike :) :) :) :) :)
Jurek :) :) :) :)
Mrs Wow :) :) :) :)
NSTN :) :) :) :)
Wobbly John :) :) :) :)
Tokamak :) :) :)
Jane :) :) :)
Tim O :) :) :)
Teethgrinder :) :) :)
Her Welshness :) :) :)
Tim Hall :) :) :)
Bobb :) :)
Ploddin Pedro :) :)
Roger T :) :)
Adam :) :)
Clarion :) :)
Ian :) :)
Auntie Helen :) :)
Fatbloke >:(
Mike :)
Sue :)
Cometworm :)
Butterfly :)
Rower40 :)
Regulator :-\
Andrew :)
Jasper TSC :)
Anne Hall :)
Borak :)
Jo :)
William :)

Regulator's first appearance was a half-day: he turned up at lunchtime without a note from his mum.
Quote from: Dez
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #1 on: 03 January, 2009, 05:56:30 pm »
Getting warty with Annie and Wowbagger!  O:-)

edit: I hope they are genteel warties.

Wowbagger

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Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #2 on: 03 January, 2009, 05:59:49 pm »
Annie also wondered about a similar series with Fidgetbuzz... the F...
Quote from: Dez
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #3 on: 03 January, 2009, 06:00:28 pm »
Oy, you can't retrospectively include the Essex Christmas ride before announcing the WARTY.  That puts all of us who weren't on it at an immediate disadvantage of completing the entire set (ie we can't !).
Actually, it is rocket science.
 

Wowbagger

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Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #4 on: 03 January, 2009, 06:02:14 pm »
That's quite right but you'll only be a month behind the others. I'll tell you what: if you can stand 11 months of us we'll give you an extra one free!
Quote from: Dez
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #5 on: 03 January, 2009, 06:06:31 pm »
Rock on...If you can possibly keep it to Saturdays then I might be able participate in most if not all of these.

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #6 on: 03 January, 2009, 06:08:14 pm »
Annie can PARTY with me if she would like to ...   :-*   ;)

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #7 on: 03 January, 2009, 07:14:26 pm »
Is it true that the July warty is LEL?  ;)

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #8 on: 03 January, 2009, 07:31:15 pm »
Yeah, London-Essex-London. ;)

Andrij

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Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #9 on: 03 January, 2009, 08:00:46 pm »
Yeah, London-Essex-London. ;)

That will be an easy 45 minutes.  :)
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Wowbagger

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Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #10 on: 04 January, 2009, 06:44:52 pm »
OK, the Official January WARTY Ride is to celebrate Annie's birthday, which is on Friday. We are going out Saturday 10th Jan here.

Meet at Marks Tey for 9.30 (conveniently, there's a train leaving Lpoo St at 8.38 which arrives at 9.29. I intend to get on it at 9.02 in Shenfield so don't hog all the places!). Elevenses will be in Halstead (about 13 miles in) and lunch will be at the Red Lion, Church Hill, Finchingfield (those who came Up the Uts in August will remember that it rains there).

Shortly before the end of the ride there is a pub, the Shoulder of Mutton, in Fordstreet. It is not impossible that we will have a wee drinkie in here before saying our tearful farewells.

We hope to return to Marks Tey before sunset, but obviously cannot guarantee this. The ride is about 50 miles.

NSTN rating: good. All roads are marked at least yellow on the OS map, but there may be skog.

Of course, there is no guarantee that there will not be "shitloads*" of snow.

Please indicate below in the usual way if you plan to be part of this hilarious fiasco.

*A shitload is an unspecified large quantity as defined by my daughter.
Quote from: Dez
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.

annie

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #11 on: 04 January, 2009, 06:47:21 pm »
Yep, I plan to be there :thumbsup:

tonycollinet

  • No Longer a western province of Númenor
Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #12 on: 04 January, 2009, 06:58:24 pm »
I'd love to join some of your rides - but really too far away. If they are every month though, I may be able to make one during the year.

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #13 on: 04 January, 2009, 07:07:46 pm »
Reckon I'm in  :thumbsup:
Those wonderful norks are never far from my thoughts, oh yeah!

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #14 on: 04 January, 2009, 07:10:39 pm »
Of course I'm in - 2 out of 2, eyes on the prize!

annie

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #15 on: 04 January, 2009, 07:14:53 pm »
Excellent news:

Tokamak
Bobb
Delthebike
Myself
Wowbagger and Mrs Wow
PloddinPedro
Cometworm?
NSTN?
TG?


Would be lovely to see you sometime Tony, there is always room here if you wish to stay over.

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #16 on: 04 January, 2009, 07:28:40 pm »
 :thumbsup:

Wowbagger, group discount on train again?

edit: if I can get a railcard in time you can journey on mine.

alan

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #17 on: 04 January, 2009, 07:30:27 pm »
eyes on the prize!

To hell with the prize.
Mine eyes are thine Annie ;)

annie

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #18 on: 04 January, 2009, 07:32:40 pm »
eyes on the prize!

To hell with the prize.
Mine eyes are thine Annie ;)
:-* :-* :-*

alan

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #19 on: 04 January, 2009, 07:33:30 pm »
I'd love to join some of your rides - but really too far away. If they are every month though, I may be able to make one during the year.

We could take advantage of our common geography & go together in one car,sharing petrol costs, one month...but not this current one.
Yeah or nay?

annie

Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #20 on: 04 January, 2009, 07:34:44 pm »
I'd love to join some of your rides - but really too far away. If they are every month though, I may be able to make one during the year.

We could take advantage of our common geography & go together in one car,sharing petrol costs, one month...but not this current one.
Yeah or nay?

Plenty of room at the inn.

tonycollinet

  • No Longer a western province of Númenor
Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #21 on: 04 January, 2009, 08:48:27 pm »
I'd love to join some of your rides - but really too far away. If they are every month though, I may be able to make one during the year.

We could take advantage of our common geography & go together in one car,sharing petrol costs, one month...but not this current one.
Yeah or nay?

Sounds good to me - possibly when the weather is a bit better?

tonycollinet

  • No Longer a western province of Númenor
Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #22 on: 04 January, 2009, 08:48:58 pm »
I'd love to join some of your rides - but really too far away. If they are every month though, I may be able to make one during the year.

We could take advantage of our common geography & go together in one car,sharing petrol costs, one month...but not this current one.
Yeah or nay?

Plenty of room at the inn.

That sounds good too.   :thumbsup:

Torslanda

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Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #23 on: 04 January, 2009, 10:41:43 pm »
If you extrapolate this concept to a ride somewhere 'oop norf' and drop Wowbagger and substitute Torslanda then it becomes TARTY

Is that tenuous or what?

IGMC

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VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

RichForrest

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Re: Announcing the WARTY.
« Reply #24 on: 04 January, 2009, 10:48:08 pm »
Can't make this one as I'm doing the Poor Student the day after. Will ride over again later in the year and join you all.