UKRM Run 2010
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From: Andy Bonwick on 6 May 2010 13:47 On Thu, 6 May 2010 12:11:18 +0200, Spete <i_am_some_body(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >On 2010-05-05 23:04:46 +0200, doetnietcomputeren said: > >> On 2010-05-05 22:13:35 +0200, Wicked Uncle Nigel >> <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> said: >> >>>>>> As WUN said, it's got to be a "French" run. I'll check out some interesting >>>>>> places if TOG hands over the reins to Colin. >>>>> I've considered Belgium and Holland in the past, the difficulty being >>>>> the distance from home in the time available. Plus the factor that, >>>>> while 200 miles in the rain is a PITA, 400 miles is worse. >>>> >>>> Not least to mention that NL doesn't have much in the way of good >> >>>> riding. It's a pretty enough country, but it mostly looks the same all >>>> >> over. They're also speeding Nazi's with long memories. >>>> >>>> I suspect BE isn't much different until you get to the hilly bits that >>>> >> border France. >>> >>> A few years back we were on the French / Belgian border. You could tell >>> > the instant you crossed into Belgique. The roads went to absolute > >>> ratshit. >> >> I think I was on that run. >> >> Oh and *ding*. > >Were you? This was the run, where we made the local bar(tender's) >holiday. He was about to shut when some loudmouthed bikers came in... I don't think it was. The run where the most noticeable changes in road surface occurred were when we were in Sedan and popped up into the Ardennes. We've done Sedan twice and both times it's been a case of thrashing around on the French roads until you cross the border and it all gets a bit shitty. We even did the same roads when the select few went to Verdun for a long weekend and my recently purchased 10R showed up its out of the box suspension issues.
From: zymurgy on 6 May 2010 14:32 On May 3, 6:08 pm, Colin Irvine <l...(a)bottom.of.home.page> wrote: > On Sun, 2 May 2010 11:45:51 +0100, Cab squeezed out the following: > > >Looking forward to next year's trip, although this _may_ be Colin doing the > >DFV'ing as he volunteered (or was it press-ganged?) > > Definitely the latter - and WUN eventually confessed to being the culprit.. > > > (After a light hearted lunch on Sat, I volunteered to do the hotel bit, whilst > > Colin does the ferries). > > Sounds like a plan. Although with luck TOG has another year yet. The King is (not) dead. Long live the King .. Paul.
From: J�r�my on 7 May 2010 03:04 des hanging around for a while <des(a)des.com> wrote in news:4be3477d$1(a)news.x-privat.org: >>> Where's 'around here'? As-tu la chance de vivre dans le plus beau >>> pays du monde? >> >> 74490. Le plus beau du plus beau. > > Comment tu fais pour te trouver si loin de Paris??? Tu ne te fais pas > trop chier?? Well, I work in Geneva, it would be a long commute. I lived in Paris for five years, actually, including a couple of years on the Rue des Ecouffes in the Marais, which might mean something to you. It was wonderful, it's a marvellous city. But I always missed the mountains. >> LOL. Go on, drop the sock puppet. You're human really. > > I hope not. No escaping it, I'm afraid. -- Jeremy R1200RT
From: des hanging around for a while on 7 May 2010 03:37 On 07-05-2010, Jérémy <a(a)b.com> wrote: > des hanging around for a while <des(a)des.com> wrote in > news:4be3477d$1(a)news.x-privat.org: > >>>> Where's 'around here'? As-tu la chance de vivre dans le plus beau >>>> pays du monde? >>> >>> 74490. Le plus beau du plus beau. >> >> Comment tu fais pour te trouver si loin de Paris??? Tu ne te fais pas >> trop chier?? > > Well, I work in Geneva, it would be a long commute. > > I lived in Paris for five years, actually, including a couple of years on > the Rue des Ecouffes in the Marais, which might mean something to you. It > was wonderful, it's a marvellous city. But I always missed the mountains. Ah yes, 'know it well. If you know that area, then you'll know rue Charles V, across the rue de Rivoli. We did our teacher training there, and went to the Synagogue on rue des Écouffes during the day. We used to patronise l'As du Falafel on the rue des Rosiers, too. *sigh* Awesome place. Fuckin' awesome. -- des 'This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades...' (Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Secretary General of Arab League, May 1948)
From: J�r�my on 7 May 2010 05:45
des hanging around for a while <des(a)des.com> wrote in news:4be3c31e$1 @news.x-privat.org: > We used to patronise > l'As du Falafel on the rue des Rosiers, too. > I used to get falafels on the rue des Rosiers, just opposite the end of the rue des Ecouffes. It probably wasn't the same place though - this was in the early '80s. <checks Streetview> Damn. It *is* the same place. -- Jeremy R1200RT |