Are you a singlespeed Billy No Mates, like me?
Should we arrange a meet-up?
If you still have the beard I might be a mate for a day!
Yep, at SSUK09, just to avoid you getting mixed up, i will be the bloke in a pink frock and strappy heels on a single speed bike. Errr that should narrow things down to about 20 of us then.
mike, look out for me, i am quite noticable... 8)
If you still have the beard I might be a mate for a day!
The beard got trimmed down on Tuesday night, for an interview yesterday, but I'll be leaving it till SSUK now.
Yep, at SSUK09, just to avoid you getting mixed up, i will be the bloke in a pink frock and strappy heels on a single speed bike. Errr that should narrow things down to about 20 of us then.
I'll be the guy with a beard riding an Inbred. There won't be many, I'm sure.
mike, look out for me, i am quite noticable
Will do ton, cheers. Big white transit?
I'm the fat old guy with the tall son!
I'll be all on my todd after everyone else who was supposed to be going (you know who you are) are washing their hair that weekend, so was going to reply to this thread...
But having seen some of the replies I am now not so sure... 😯
But having seen some of the replies I am now not so sure...
You weren't expecting deviants at SSUK? 🙂
Oh... I was expecting deviants, I was at SSUK '06 after all, just not that kind! 😉
Mike you're welcome to meet up with The Knights of Niche if you want.
Mike you're welcome to meet up with The Knights of Niche if you want.
I'll be on a kiddie wheel bike. Will I be niche enough? 🙂
Is any one else up on the Friday and if so where are you staying?
Miketually- I realised the iother day that we rode SSUK06 together or should I say we walked the first hill together. I have lost a bit of weight since then thank god.
Funky Nick rode with us...
So I will look forward to seeing you guys there. A small group of us are coming from Cambridge, but it may be at different times so I may be a billy for a night.
ton: mike, look out for me, i am quite noticable
particularly when he sits on your knee...
Mike, you have a perfect niche-steed. Why are you not riding it? 😀
tommid - our scrumpers of three are planning to make a long weekend of it, no camp site booked yet!
We were thinking of trying to make up a offroad route to the coast for a few errr refreshments 😉
[any locals that could help up plan a route, much appreciated]
Miketually- I realised the iother day that we rode SSUK06 together or should I say we walked the first hill together. I have lost a bit of weight since then thank god
I've got much more singlespeedy since then - I can ride that hill now, then wait for my brother on his big bike:
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Mike, you have a perfect niche-steed. Why are you not riding it?
The Solitude is ace, but the 29er tyres I got for it are just too big for V brakes when used on narrow rims. I get a little while out of the pads, then the arms catch on the side of the tyre. There're nice grooves in the brake arms now. Some wider rims would fix it, but I can't really justify the cash when I have another bike. The thinner tyres are going back on and I'm going back to using it as a monstercross, which is what it's really meant for.
We were thinking of trying to make up a offroad route to the coast for a few errr refreshments
Is that not the plan for the 'official' Saturday ride out?
I'm going up there on my tod 🙁
Hopefully, it'll be a friendly niche to hang out in. Weirdly, like funkynick, I haven't been since 06.
Hopefully, it'll be a friendly niche to hang out in. Weirdly, like funkynick, I haven't been since 06
I was there in 06 and 07. Felt a bit swamped by non-SS at 07, but had fun despite breaking my bike on lap 1; hoping this is like 06.
Another nomates here. First timer as well - cant wait though, as it sounds like it will be a hoot!! i'll be riding an On One Volvo Biscuit Biege colour.
Will be there friday so would be keen to hook up with some STWers.
pink frock and strappy heels
*starts thinking about outfit.....*
The Solitude is ace, but the 29er tyres I got for it are just too big for V brakes when used on narrow rims. I get a little while out of the pads, then the arms catch on the side of the tyre.
Try putting an extra spacer between the brake block and the brake arm.
Or I can give you a pair of tyres that're a bit narrower if you want.
BTW I think your cargo bike might make you too niche for us guys. 😉
Can we have a Solitude owners meet too? :o)
Tommid... I apologise now at being crap with names and faces so say hello when you see me.. 😳
Stu was your mouth out! "too niche" WTF, take a thousand lashes from the nichestick!
Anyway bikes with more tubes than they need is the new niche! You should know this you ride a Jones, that's got enough tubing for a cargobike, they just forgot to stretch it.
Sheldon.
shouldn't you be working? 😉
I shall be there and yes I'm a B.N.M.SSer, no beard tho. My first time at an ssuk and only the second [s]race[/s] event I've entered (HTN was my first) looking forward to it.
was everyone on geared bikes? Had you got lost and ended up at the wrong race? 🙂Felt a bit swamped by non-SS at 07
was everyone on geared bikes? Had you got lost and ended up at the wrong race?
It was part of Bristol Bike Fest, so lots of non-SSers at a huge event. MAde it harder to locate the weirdos.
erm...... looking a the Forestry.gov website (to locate Dalby.. may come have a look see...) I note, with concern, that the only event they list for June is 'Badger Watching'.........
is a badger the new name for the niche-est of niche products........ or just a facial hair reference..... 😆
Sheldon.shouldn't you be working? [:wink:]
No I've been flying back today!
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I'm Tom second in the line behing tiLover Tom. I think Funky Nick is behind me and Miketually behind Nick.
I'm Tom second in the line behing tiLover Tom. I think Funky Nick is behind me and Miketually behind Nick.
Yes, that's me in fourth place - red helmet, blue shorts. Embarrassingly, I'll possibly be wearing the same shorts next month, three years later.
Ok, so my plan is to look for ton and his bog white van and head toward that. Are other SSUK Billys going to do the same? Ton's probably the biggest single feature on the race site, so seems like a good target 😉
We can have a long bike love in Mike 🙂
it was easy to id the ssers in 07. They were the ones trying really hard to be wacky and crazy. 😉
Great event but seriously there really is a bit of a lame undercurrent of "look at me, i really am different" rather than just enjoying the silliness of it all.
We can have a long bike love in Mike
She's going to be staying at home - don't think a 65 mile ride home starting after the 6pm prize-giving is going to work, so I'm on the train.
I'm on my own too...my first SSUK
Aaaaaah.. gotcha... and yes, that is me just behind you, but it took me a while to work out what the hell I was wearing as I don't have any red tops with white cuffs... then I remembered it was the bandage I had on after my slight Dyfi excursion...
And this is really spooky, but that pic shows my race number as 37 back in '06 and I've just checked, I'm number 37 again on the '09 list on the website...
I'm kinda freaked out by that... especially as that's how old I am...
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bakey... just join in, everyone is kinda weird, but in a good way.. 😀
clubber - Member
it was easy to id the ssers in 07. They were the ones trying really hard to be wacky and crazy...
Must have been a different event to the one I attended. The wacky ones were all those deadly serious geared riders - bikes are supposed to be fun.
My main impression though was loads of nice people.
Would have been a Billy, but a busted shoulder has put paid to my SSUK debut (and SS debut) Was looking forward to it too....
Does anyone remember who finished fourth at SSUK 06?
Does anyone remember who finished fourth at SSUK 06?
Can I remember what I was doing three minutes ago?
Does anyone remember who finished fourth at SSUK 06?
I did. I was also officially most singlespeedy.
dragging it back to the original thread, my mate will be riding a Jones.
Am i better pretending i'm on my own?
dragging it back to the original thread, my mate will be riding a Jones.
Along with half the other folks there.....
We had 3 Jones' on our ride today! Common as muck isn't it!
I have just spotted that number 98 for SSUK is Neil Ruddock. Will it be Neil "Razor" Ruddock the ex spurs, West Ham, Liverpool player and all round fat bloke?
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Aaaaaah.. gotcha... and yes, that is me just behind you, but it took me a while to work out what the hell I was wearing as I don't have any red tops with white cuffs... then I remembered it was the bandage I had on after my slight Dyfi excursion...
And this is really spooky, but that pic shows my race number as 37 back in '06 and I've just checked, I'm number 37 again on the '09 list on the website...
I'm kinda freaked out by that... especially as that's how old I am...
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [i]
Funky Nick I was number 99 in 06 and I am number 33 this time... will I be number 11 next year? and number 3.666 the year after?
Ok, fellow Billy No Matesees,
I'm hopefully going to be arriving on site fairly early on the Saturday. (Not sure exactly when, as I'm riding over so it'll be whenever I get there.)
If you want to join the Lonely Hearts Club, look out for a skinny guy with a beard, short hair and glasses riding an Inbred. I'm sure there won't be anyone else looking like that there 🙂
I will have whisky, so will be worth finding 😉
Damn. I thought this was a thread where I could get non-needy no-strings hard sex 😐
Damn. I thought this was a thread where I could get non-needy no-strings hard sex
Maybe it is...
Mike,
We'll be there earlyish as well as we will want to get away from our Friday night Campsite and get on site and get set up early. I'm the 6'3 skin head with a beard and a white Surly 1x1. Although I'm not sure I will qualify foir the lonely hearts club as I will be with two others and a third arriving later that day.
Is it wrong that I am so excited about SSUK?
I'm going to be at Hagg Farm on the Friday night* now, in martinh's pod, so should be there on time.
* assuming I don't get lost on the way over the Moors, in which case I'll be sleeping rough somewhere and then continuing the journey on Saturday morning 🙂
PSA: Has everyone read [url= http://www.ssuk09.com/page10.htm ]the small print[/url]?
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Ooh "no campfires/bonfires", anyone know if disposable BBQs (on top of bricks) will be OK? Was going to do bacon/sausage butties sunday morning.
D0NK - Member
Ooh "no campfires/bonfires", anyone know if disposable BBQs (on top of bricks) will be OK? Was going to do bacon/sausage butties sunday morning
I like mine with HP Sauce
Yes Tommid, after I clicked send post I realised I might get a few of those replies
🙂
Woohoo BBQs are OK
I was going to tell you what colour my tent is and invite everyone round for brekkie but I've not put it up yet so I dunno 🙂
That and there may not be enough bacon to go round
Still one space available in the High Rigg Farm Lonely-Hearts (no sex please we're british) mega-pod Fri/Sat night
Still one space available in the High Rigg Farm Lonely-Hearts (no sex please we're british) mega-pod Fri/Sat night
Am I ok for both night Martin? It'll save me bringing the tent.
No problems. Just make sure the tent space is filled with alkyhol instead 😉
Hmm, sod "what tyres?"
What booze for SSUK?
Just make sure the tent space is filled with alkyhol instead
Don't worry, I'm shopping for SSUK tonight... I assume the pods are easy to find on the farm?
I assume the pods are easy to find on the farm?
Just look for the pod with the fuglybike outside. 😛 😉
Just look for the pod with the fuglybike outside
But that'll be whichever one I've just ridden up to 🙂
shoppers bike isn't coming. It's taking an unearned holiday in Tennessee. fugly pink thing will be present instead.
Yay, I get to meet the pink Solitude in the flesh!
Can we take a photo of it mounting my Mundo, just to see how many heads we can make explode on here?
martinh - Membershoppers bike isn't coming.
I'll park mine there then. 😆
D0NK - Member
Hmm, sod "what tyres?"What booze for SSUK?
What Booze?? The only answer to that is what ever takes your fancy/ whatever is cheap and plentiful when visiting your local supermarket or off lisence. Oh and lots of it..
Although going back to you other post Beer fried bacon is always good.... Especially with HP!
What Booze?
Becks Vier and Aberlour. That's what I'm bringing anyway.
(I bought my food and drink last night; it's worryingly heavy. At least my bike will be lighter riding home.)
sorry going way OT but back to the beer fried bacon Tommid
What sort of beer?
And how? Add a splash of beer when bacon is done? Marinate bacon in beer first? Broil(?) bacon in beer? I'd guess the first one.
No need to apologise for being OT when it's OT about beer and bacon!