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From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Week on Weds: Kensington & Battersea Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:49:07 +0100 This Week, on Wheels * This week - Friday: Around the Park / Sunday: Belgravia, Chelsea, Battersea * Last week: hot skates, cool skaters * Your chance to win a prize - provided your name is Nicholas * Skating Fast * Skating Slow * Skating Fast again * Coming up: did we mention the Circle Line skate? Wear yellow! == THIS WEEK == DID YOU REMEMBER to bring your skates to work? Is there time to go home and get them? You surely haven't forgotten that the our friends at the LONDONSKATE kick off tonight. 7:30 for 8 at the Bandstand on Serpentine Road: the route goes to Camden and the pace will be somewhere in between LFNS and Sunday Stroll pace. "The streets are waiting", they say. Which is good news, really: there were a couple of places on Friday it felt like the streets had upped and left before we got there. http://www.londonskate.com/ The second LONDON FRIDAY NIGHT SKATE in our short season of "there is no theme" skates is not going to Camden. Just for a change. It has some nice straight bits through Fitzrovia, a couple of mews (purrfect for any skater), a downhill from Notting Hill, and some twisty bits and very nice surfaces in the South Kensington second half. Half time at Queensway, 12.5 mile total. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070420 In the Mall on SUNDAY will be lots of tired and sweaty people who have just made their way round parts of London. No it's NOT Bunny Stroll 2 but the London Marathon. In order not to steal their thunder we are going in the opposite direction, southwest through Belgravia and Chelsea over to Battersea Park for a half time stop, and then back again. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070422 == LAST WEEK == We're taking our cue from the trendiest modern media and letting you, our readers, write this week's LONDON FRIDAY NIGHT SKATE report. It saves us the trouble. "Great skate! & my first friday night finish (after a few attempts!!)" - LouLou "Last night was great! I really enjoyed all those hilly bits, specially speeding down them!" "Good skate and thanks to some freshly laid tarmac theres now an imprint of my skates in Trafalgar Square and probably an imprint of the Trafalgar Square road surface in my knees." - Phil http://www.flickr.com/photos/3dm4r/sets/72157600074308750/ On SUNDAY 280 of us made our way north to Camden. Then we paused to enjoy the sunshine before we headed back to Hyde Park Corner. Congratulations to Marzena W who was one of the 280 and who completed her very first Stroll. == AXLES NO QUESTIONS, WE'LL TELL YOU NO LIES == For anyone wondering what happened to the Firebrox on Friday when it slowed down dramatically and dropped off the back of the skate: no, it wasn't just a tired bike rider, it was one of the back brakes which had decided to clamp itself onto the disc. A bit of a drag, you might say. We've got some new bits for it and we're investigating (it looks like the axle is bent, which probably doesn't help) - hopefully it should be back on the road soon. == DESPERATELY SEEKING NICHOLAS == We're still trying to track down Nicholas, who won a Proline skates voucher in our EasterSkate raffle, which was held after the Bunny Stroll. Winning ticket is orange number 95, we have part of your phone number, contact us and quote the rest and we can give you your prize. http://www.lfns.co.uk/feedback.php#contactus == CAT AND RAT GAMES == Some of us who weren't out on the Stroll were doing another skate elsewhere in London: the FISS track race organised by the LondonSkaters Speed Team at Tatem Park. Gorgeous weather encouraged a large number of competitors and spectators, and the LSST folk put in a pretty good showing, with medals for marshals Hans (2nd in Category 1), Fred (2nd in Cat 2) and Dan (3rd in Cat 2) Track race days are free for spectators and cost around a tenner to participate in if you're a FISS member. There are also races for non-members - "RAT" races (which are cheaper but shorter) are open to anyone with skates and a helmet. Check the events list on the LSST web site for future races. http://www.londonspeedskaters.com/events.php == A BIG BIRD WRITES == It's tough being a big bird but I'm not chicken. I can come out now and tell it how it was. My hours of hell! The heat, the exhaustion, the silly comments about my tights. I've got Max Clifford's number and he says it's Big Bucks for Big Bird. I'm selling my story, but not for chickenfeed. Which is why Week on Wheels can't afford it. Now cluck off! == THE SARDINIAN DRINKING CLUB== A few weeks ago, you may have noticed that several familiar faces on the skate were conspicuous by their absence. They had all abandoned London for the joys of Sardinia, where thirty of our very own Lycra fans had joined seventy German speed skaters to get drunk for a week. Unfortunately, they had to do some skating too. Each day saw them practicing their drills in the morning and then taking off for a road skate in the afternoon. The more enthusiastic of the group kept going even through the snow and hail that Sardinia threw at them. (Back in London, we were just enjoying Spring. Serves them right for skipping marshal duty!) The week finished with a 60km road trip, allowing the skaters to show off their newfound skills and perfectly honed bodies. Did you notice the difference when they got back? Is a certain well-known bunny's backside still the best looking bum in London? Or is Marty now a serious challenger for the title? It wasn't all hard work, though. Much drinking was done and the meals (the week is fully catered) were often the high point of the day. You don't have to be a Lycra clad freak to take part - you don't even need to wear speed skates - and anyone who finishes the Sunday skates would get a lot from it. Check the long range weather forecasts and, if there's no mention of snow, book up for next year! Photos: http://qurl.com/53m5p Official site: http://www.experts-in-speed.de/w.full.detail.278..htm == COMING UP == May 4th - CIRCLE LINE SKATE, to celebrate the 6th birthday of the LFNS. 18 miles, travelling the route anticlockwise, the skate will have 3 sections with 2 breaks. Wear yellow! June 2nd - BIRTHDAY STROLL - join us to celebrate the Sunday Stroll's 5th birthday. Wear birthday suits! No, wait, that joke's been done. The birthday suits are for the Naked Bike Ride, not the Stroll. ==LEGAL STUFF== Feedback, comments, complaints, suggestions, please drop us a line through the feedback form on the site. To unsubscribe, see the link in the page footer. If you email us, it will bounce. http://www.lfns.co.uk/feedback.php#contactus Material in this email is protected by copyright; it may be reproduced unchanged in full provided that credit is given. All trademarks acknowledged. The LFNS is not responsible for the content of external web sites, we have enough to do keeping track of our own. -- Sent from the London Friday Night Skate - http://www.lfns.co.uk/ Check out any time - see http://www.lfns.co.uk/unsubscribe.php?list=wow |
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