York or therebouts-ish ride 12/3/11 - Lungs and Knees and Weather permitting!

[Kim]

Kim - PM or text as you leave the house plz, so that I can bring an appropriate steed.  And we can freak out the guard on the X-country train.  kthx.

*giggle*

It'd be worth it for that.

Will do.

[CrinklyLion]

And Dearly_Beloved has eaten all the plain chocolate (in fairness, I already knew that but had forgotten!) and I just realised that the MICL used half of the tub of dairy-intolerance-friendly marg, which is necessary for one sort of cake.  This is not going to plan!

[Butterfly]

I think that I've had 3 sick days in 5 years in this job.  And two of those were migraine-esque headache due to being over-tired from working too hard whilst pregnant, which of course meant that there was bugger all meds that I could take.

Although I genuinely do have a bit of a poorly knee at the moment.  I'm counting this as a good thing, and hoping that it might ward off the ice age and the need for excessive use of inhalers.

I read that as Meringue-ache  . I thought that might be cake related illness .

[CrinklyLion]

I appear to have caught poorly-knee-itis off Kim over the interwebs 

Good job there's no hills on Saturday.

[mrcharly-YHT]

It's the walking. It's bad for you.

[interzen]

Best thing to do is keep the knee joint mobile - I've got a couple of bikes that might be able to help you do that

[Arch]

I appear to have caught poorly-knee-itis off Kim over the interwebs 

Good job there's no hills on Saturday.

No, no hills at all. Or only downhills...

I hope it clears up soon!

[SlowCoach]

Things could always be worse... or do the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse ride bicycles these days? If so, they are probaly welcome to join us.

Given my flirtation with the pig pox over Christmas I'm quite happy to come along dressed up as Pestilence

I spoke too soon. I saw War, Pestilence and Famine last night and had a drink in the bar with Famine - he might have been interested in coming out for the ride, but unfortunately already has an appointment in Hull on Saturday evening.

(ok - it was a show we went to see - an almost distant relation was playing the part of Famine - we went to see him perform)

It's a bit breezy out there today - I'm scouring the internet for a forecast which will confirm that the weekend will be perfection - weatherwise, but I'm not doing too well so far. Perhaps I should just make up my own forecast and believe that.

[CrinklyLion]

I s'pose it does look a bit on the warm side for me.....

[Deano]

The first thing I looked at is what I thought all cyclists look at first - the wind speed and direction.  Not ideal for a ride from Darlo to York

[Deano]

I should have added (as I usually do) - it's too early to look at the forecast yet anyway.

[tiermat]

The first thing I looked at is what I thought all cyclists look at first - the wind speed and direction.  Not ideal for a ride from Darlo to York

Just think of the homeward leg tho'!!!

[Deano]

Since I've 200 km the next day, I'll be getting the train back

[tiermat]

I am still dithering about whether to drive or train it.

If I drive I can offer you a lift from NA to York and back again.

[CrinklyLion]

My word, Valencia handles most oddly with one Ortlieb back roller full of all my work stuff, with a couple of boxes of porridge wedged in on top, and the other pannier full of 3kg flour, 2kg sugar, 2kg of marg/butter, couple of litres of OJ, 1kg of chocolate, couple of kg of dried fruit and some other bits and bobs.  With lots of eggs precariously balanced on top.  I suspect that my rack isn't technically meant to carry that much weight....

I can do baking now!

[Kim]

Yay \o/

TBH, most racks are rated for something well in excess of 20kg, and it's actually quite hard to exceed that without the aid of lead-acid batteries or Altura panniers.  Maybe if you filled the panniers to the brim with loose milk? 

That said, I doubt even the legendarily stable Streetmachine would handle normally with that much weight on one side.  (I'm going to have to try that now, aren't I?)

[Deano]

I am still dithering about whether to drive or train it.

If I drive I can offer you a lift from NA to York and back again.

I'm looking forward to the ride down!  I'd just be looking forward to it even more without headwinds for 55 miles.

[CrinklyLion]

Yay \o/

TBH, most racks are rated for something well in excess of 20kg, and it's actually quite hard to exceed that without the aid of lead-acid batteries or Altura panniers.  Maybe if you filled the panniers to the brim with loose milk? 

That said, I doubt even the legendarily stable Streetmachine would handle normally with that much weight on one side.  (I'm going to have to try that now, aren't I?)

The work pannier (laptop, charger, random cablage, spare clothes, shoes, tool kit, bike tools, spare tubes'n'stuff, not-very-waterproof, random disks/software/bits of paper etc etc etc) wasn't all that much lighter than the shopping tbh....

[Arch]

Yay \o/

TBH, most racks are rated for something well in excess of 20kg, and it's actually quite hard to exceed that without the aid of lead-acid batteries or Altura panniers.  Maybe if you filled the panniers to the brim with loose milk? 

That's certainly an unorthodox way to carry milk.  It'd certainly be homogenised by the time you got home.  Or butter.

[Karla]

The club are riding out east on Saturday, so I'll be in the same area as you.  I'll probably stop in Pock on the way back and hang around until you turn up.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Plans for tomorrow - as I understand it, I'm going to the station sometime before 9:30, to meet up with some people (anyone have a list?), and escorting them to the CrinklyDen.

Bikes are in a sortofish running order, lets hope for less wind and a fine day.

[tiermat]

Plans for tomorrow - as I understand it, I'm going to the station sometime before 9:30, to meet up with some people (anyone have a list?), and escorting them to the CrinklyDen.

Bikes are in a sortofish running order, lets hope for less wind and a fine day.

I will be at station around 9, shall oiter around Starbucks until 9:30 ish, will be on a grey Ridley, nearly all in black apart from my KOTM YACF jersey.

[Mobbsy]

We will not be attending tomorrow. Have fun everyone. Enjoy the cake. See you next time.

[andrewc]

I'd planned to use my Orbit tomorrow, so fitted new tyres last night. Just checked and  the front ones flat     Too lazy to fix it tonight so I shall be riding the Thorn Nomad instead.   

Should be at the station approx 9:30.

[Kim]

Well, my knee's being clicky and useless tonight, but that's not the failure mode that I'm concerned about, and can be managed with the good pharmaceuticals if it becomes a problem.  I'm completely lacking in energy, but maybe I'll find some by tomorrow morning.

So in the interest of SCIENCE, headwind both ways, my wrist still being a bit funny since the Hilly 50, and not wanting to disappoint SmallestCub (who we've previously established, *really* likes that bike), I'm going to be lying down on the job.  I assume that means that rower40 will be doing the same (PM in the post...).

I expect we may therefore be difficult to spot at York station, so it's a good thing tiermat's going to be wearing a distinctive jersey.