Right, we have a sort of plan.....
Kim'n'me, lungs and knees and weather permitting, will meet in York on the Saturday morning and go for a ride somewhere currently unspecified (but quite probably east into the flatlands, with the option of a gratuitous hill if she insists). There will be tea stops, and cake stops, and possibly a pub stop, and undoubtably (if she makes me go up a hill) Crinkly-stopping-to-pick-up-lung-stops. I may make her go to Millington if the weather is nice enough for a picnic. If requested, pooh sticks can be arranged. Somewhere in the region of
40ish 55-60 miles round trip (unless we change strategy very early on!). We will then return to York, potentially indulge in lessons in disc-brake-fu and almost undoubtably eat takeaway curry.
On the Sunday, lungs and knees and weather permitting, we will probably go for a very very flat ride to a park or a pub or possibly both with the EldestCub prior to Kim's departure back to Mordor in the afternoon. If we're really lucky we might even persuade Dearly_Beloved to acompany us and bring the smaller Cub along in his babyseat.
Anyone fancy joining us?
Edited to add the current list of possible attendees:
Saturday
About 55 miles (although with the option of some shortcuts) potentially with the inclusion of mild optical illusions. Gather up at the CrinklyDen in York to leave by 10am. Me - with some
CAKE and alarming levels of responsibility for not getting lost.
Kim -
probably onna upwrong possibly risking the streetmachine for
SCIENCEDeano onna fixed - but only because of
chip spiceMaybe Mr Nesbitt - if hedges aren't more appealing except he got a better offer, and likes hills more than he likes my cake
"Slow"coach - if he doesn't accidentally do an audax instead. GPSs may be removed at the start at the discretion of me
Possibly a ponderous Clarion. With accomplices, I wonder? Unfortunately it looks like life has got in the way - they'll just have to come and ride round god's own county another time with us
possiblely maybe not yet sure Jogler - perhaps onna bent, hopefully without recourse to a WVM rescue lurgy stopped play, but maybe he'll bring me flapjack later this month instead
Postman Piers - will he be on a Pashley? The lack of a towbar scuppered the plan. Couldn't he have ridden here?
Rower40 - who might turn up on anything from a rubber band drive to a 'bent, depending on how far through the bike-fettling algorithm he's got
interzen - will he have 11 gears-inna-can by then, or is the future still orange? has to go do work instead - boo hiss.
Tiermat who is no longer in Norway
MrCharly, and MsCharly on the prettiest little blue bike EVAH
Perhaps Mobbsy the infeasibly tall, possibly with a son or 2 along Sadly, not this time.
tiptop, if I can suppy a sufficiency of cake
andrewc, who promises not to nick your wheels but makes no such rash promises about any
CAKE that might be hanging around....
Mr Bunbury, hopefully joining us in time for the pub. I wonder what the soup of the day might be?
Sunday(not very far at all, probably the planets as far as Naburn and a Pubbe)
CrinklyCub - we'll make him take charge of not getting lost
Me
Kim (possibly pedalling one-legged)
Arch
Arch's friend-who-is-a-boy
Perhaps Dearly_Beloved with the SmallestCub on the back
