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SAFETY BRIEFING.

Wear a helmet. Despite recent advances in medical science, brains still cannot be mended nor replaced.
Wear gloves or mitts. Hands often hit the ground first. Cuts and grazes invite infection and a hospital visit.
Wear eye protection, it only takes a twig or thorn to lose an eye. Crud catchers are a good idea in mucky weather.
When downhilling, for your own protection, allow plenty of space behind the rider in front.
Bring a bare minimum emergency tool kit and a spare inner tube.
Breakdowns are a bore. Plan not to have any by ensuring your bike is in perfect working order.
Punctures are also tedious. You can minimise them by fitting latex tubes, slime tubes or running tubeless tyres.

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m

May 9, 2011 - 8:07AM

Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

Dear All,
For those of you who don't know, Thursday's venue, the Med, is the old Master Mariner pub on Perne Road, Cambridge. The car park is plenty big enough if any of you are doing a 'Dom', and Mark Bowes knows the landlord (surprise, surprise), so I think he'll be able to secure safe storage of our bikes when we arrive.

The original idea of the ride was to do as much 'urban off-road' as possible, but given the good weather of late, we will have to watch out for runners, walkers, dogs, etc, so we'll be heading out of town, and then back in, with various options depending on time, numbers, mechanicals, enthusiasm, etc.

Hopefully see some of you on Thursday at Brookside. Don't get too excited though, it's not Wales...

Mark

p

May 9, 2011 - 10:30AM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

Hi Mark,

Drat! Due to pointed hat wearing transferred to thursdays for this week I wont be able to make this rather unusual/interesting ride/destination. Hope it all goes well.

Also, in the "I remember when this was all fields category", am I correct in thinking this pub used to be called the Weathervane?

Pete

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Pat AKA The Jolly Green Giant

May 9, 2011 - 1:37PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

Are we rideing out from brookside at 7.30 or as the ride name suggests, getting the train to pastures new, hence need to bring some back up beer tokens for the Train?

m

May 9, 2011 - 2:23PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

No, you're looking at the ride on the 19th to Elsenham.

Brookside as normal.

p

May 9, 2011 - 5:35PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

Afraid I'll be in Belgium on Thurs so I'll miss returning to the MM for the first time in ~ 15 years... If it was the Weathervane, that must have been a long time ago indeed!

Paul

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Pat Aka The jolly Green Giant

May 9, 2011 - 7:47PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

good point Mark, good job i'm not leading, who knows where we would end up.

p

May 9, 2011 - 9:06PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

I'm showing my age a bit, but when I used to drive around Perne Road a lot 23 years ago (Mrs Lee comes from down that way, you see) it was The Master Mariner. I don't remember it being the Weathervane.

Is the beer any better?

PT

p

May 9, 2011 - 9:33PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

Actually, according to Google, it was indeed the Weathervane until the 'mid 80s'. It must have changed before I first went there circa '85 then. It used to be quite a rough clientele back then too. Hopefully they've changed too, before you lot walk in, in lycra...

Paul

s

May 10, 2011 - 2:41PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

I'll be out as i can stagger home from that pub

a

May 11, 2011 - 11:43AM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

Finally a ride that is in staggering distance for me!

Unfortunately I am not going to make it as I am nursing a fractured rib,(from the May Day Wales trip) and hence I am not drinking either.

Grrrrr!

Hope you all have fun! (said through gritted teeth)

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May 11th, 2011 - 11:43 AM

p

May 12, 2011 - 12:57PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

Assuming I can get the bike in the new motor, I should be out tonight. And even if I can't, I'll just nick my wife's car

(And I am getting excited about it, even though it's not Wales. I am too easily pleased)

PT

p

May 12, 2011 - 1:13PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

i'll be out, do we know if there will be some secure bike storage. Might just bring a real lock to be sure...

Email

May 12th, 2011 - 1:13 PM

r

May 12, 2011 - 1:58PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

Can't do the ride tonight but hoping I might make it to the pub later. Please can someone text me if for any reason there's a change of venue?

Ta,

Richard

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Pat AKA The Jolly Green Giant

May 12, 2011 - 3:30PM

Re: Mark T's Misguided MTB Meander to the Med.

i will be out.