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Ready for the Rally
Back in the office, and will see some of you this weekend...
Over 180 emails (after spam deleted!) and about a six-inch thick pile of post to process... so please bear with me if you're awaiting a reply.
Will be off to the York Rally tomorrow evening to set up the stand - we'll be in the 'exhibition' tent. Look out for our advert on the back cover of the Rally programme, incidentally.
Peter
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Time for a short holiday after a very busy few months of producing and mailing Issue 10, and going to CycleVision and various UK events. In the same period we also produced another issue of HPV News for the Human Powered Vehicle Association in the USA - they're printing it shortly. Join the HPVA if you want to receive a copy... That issue is, incidentally, the last we'll be doing for them - a US-based volunteer team is now taking over HPVN production. A much better arrangement really, and we wish them all the best. Contact for HPV News is now Al and Alice Krause: [email protected].
Anyway, I'm now away until Thursdsay the 19th June and the office will be closed from the end of today (Monday 9th). I will be checking my email (and comments on this site!) every so often, but don't expect a reply unless it's screamingly urgent. Feel free to send in subscription renewals, orders etc, by post, fax or online shop, and I'll process them all on my return. Or leave an answermachine message until the tape runs out :-)
It would be good to see plenty of readers at the York Cycle Show (aka the York Rally) on the 21-22nd June, a few days after I return. Usually tens of thousands of cyclists turn up and increasing numbers of interesting machines are to be seen nowadays...we'll be there with the infamous 'Punch and Judy' stand.
Posted on 19 June 2003
Your comments ...| From: ;-) (;-)) on 09 June 2003 |
Contrary to popular rumours, the venerabl Mr Eland only does cycling for a living so all those shows he attends really is work and in no way fun at all.
For relaxation Mr Eland enjoys driving his elderly Ford Escort XR3 down narrow winding country lanes at break-neck speeds playing at being a rally driver. |
| From: Mr Smudge ([email protected]) on 09 June 2003 |
| Can't he afford the insurance to get the 'i' version then? |
| From: ;-) (....) on 10 June 2003 |
| Don't know about insurance but his XR3 is red with a white go-faster stripe down the side though he'd really like a 'stripey-tomato' stripe for when he's playing Starsky & Hutch. |
| From: andy scaife ([email protected]) on 10 June 2003 |
| In case you've not read the item below, I'm arranging a little pub pootle for anyone who fancies putting names to faces, at the York Rally. About time we all bought Mr Eland a pint. Details in comments on the item below. See you there? |
| From: Brian (bholt37@aol) on 10 June 2003 |
| If matters don't improve this side of la Manche somebody may have to drink that pint for him - form an orderly queue. He's just lost the first 3 days of his french break through industrial action and if the unions have anything to do with it he could find his return flight cancelled and miss the Rally altogether. He'll just have to stay here and drown his sorrows in red wine. |
| From: antony (at pedalcars dot info) on 11 June 2003 |
Sorry Peter, can't make the York show. Someone's inconveniently organised it to clash with the Swansea 24 hour race!
Think of us hammering around in the rain while you're all enjoying your pints in the pub!! |
| From: Seamus (etc) on 13 June 2003 |
| Pedal cars.....hee-hee |
| From: antony (again) on 16 June 2003 |
Blimey! The Big S has resurfaced!
Come and have a go...
...if you dare.
:) |
| From: Seamus ([email protected]) on 16 June 2003 |
| Watch out for the Girl Guides Pedal Car Racing Team. They'll give you a run for your money or so I've been told;-) |
| From: antony (again) on 16 June 2003 |
No Seamus, the quote was, they'd give *you* a run for *your* money.
;-)
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| From: John J ([email protected]) on 17 June 2003 |
So, Andy
How many VeloVisionaries have signed up so far for the York pub ride on Saturday? |
| From: andy scaife ([email protected]) on 18 June 2003 |
| Stacking up nicely thanks, although it has been said that organising cyclists is like herding cats. Have selected a short quiet pootle with a lovely riverside pub. More riding to points beyond if everyone's in a riding mood. A couple of loan bikes available if anyone's stuck. |
| From: Seamus ([email protected]) on 20 June 2003 |
For anyone unfamiliar with Pete's Velovision show stand, there's an excellent piccie of it at the 2001 York Rally in issue 6 of Byke Kultuur Never at...
http://uk.geocities.com/bykekultuur/issue6.html |
| From: Seamus ([email protected]) on 23 June 2003 |
Bit of fun at York. Arrived at the train station at six, well in time for my quarter past train, had alook at the ticket and found it was for five past. Slight panic.
On way out of Doncaster, with 8 more miles to reach home, I had a rear tyre blowout which left a three inch split in the tyre. Fortunately I was able to patch the hole with a bit of old Kingcycle tyre I got off Jason Patient quite some time ago. Unfortunately hole and patch were exactly the same size so I could push but not ride the bike for fear of it getting worse.
Annoyingly I'd bought a new tyre at the Rally but that had gone home in Ian Beever's car along with my panniers. A significant, "DOH!" moment. |
| From: andy scaife ([email protected]) on 23 June 2003 |
| Thanks to everyone who turned out for the Pootle. A total of 20, including those who just made it for a while. Predictably, we never made it to the second pub, -owing to a rather palatable Tim Taylor's Lendlord bitter - but a hard core, Burrows, Dennison et al, wobbled back at a late but still respectable hour with a short detour to look at some Sustrans art. Incidentally, the 'lightweights' may be interested to know that the youngest member of the contingent (Lauren) was among the last returning group! Repeat next year? |
| From: S (etc) on 23 June 2003 |
Lauren would have been hard pressed to leave before Denise.
Copious quantities of fine red wine quaffed back at the campsite. |
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