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From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Week on wheels: bridging the gaps Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 17:00:58 +0100 This week, on wheels: * This week: Union Street and Tower Hill. Plus the Londonskate - a bridge too far? * Last week: Circle Line Skate, and Victoria * Chequered History : we're in the movies * Photographic memories: we're snapping up all offers fo help with snaps * Stolen skates * London Bikeathon - marshals wanted "Streetskating is essentially skating alongside traffic, which sounds scary, but Waters says to just throw yourself into it." - thelondonpaper, today == THIS WEEK == On the LONDON FRIDAY NIGHT SKATE, Markus is taking us Over and Over. That's over the Thames, twice on a 12 mile route taking in Marylebone, Embankment and on a jaunt through Southwark. Half time is on Union Street (nearest tube: Borough). http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070511 This week's SUNDAY STROLL is Heading to a Beheading. The route takes us east across the City for a half time stop at The Tower. Slightly longer than normal for a Stroll as we have to avoid most of the roadworks around the Central West End, it'll be about 11 miles in total, but we're promised an additional short break on the homeward stretch. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070513 And TONIGHT, the LondonSkate are introducing a new route: 'Bridging the Town'. Meet tonight as usual at 7:30pm opposite the bandstand on Serpentine Road for a departure at 8pm. The route is weather dependent, check the thread on the forum to see if they're running or not. http://www.serpentineroad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24811 == LAST WEEK == "Wow, that was great fun. And apart from one sore foot I'm feeling fairly good this morning. Lets do it again soon, and go the other way round so it feel like a different route" - Matt, presumably wanted to make _both_ feet sore "Very impressed by the music bike since its reincarnation" - Mick "Every Friday should be like that" - lightnix. Well, maybe, but only if we can get the pub to stay open later "Wow, and who's making you do it?" - a passer-by. Er, er, er "Oh what a thing to have done, and it was all yellow" - Coldplay Seems that the LONDON FRIDAY NIGHT SIXTH BIRTHDAY CIRCLE LINE SKATE was a great success. We started and finished at Victoria and went round anticlockwise and progressively faster past such old favourite sights and roads as Tower Hill, New Cavendish Street and Kensington Church Street. Do you have photos? See below for what to do with them ... On SUNDAY a good few of you strolled around Victoria and Chelsea with lead marshal Alan and marshal Sol riding the FireBrox. We took a hundred photos of skaters - is your face among them? http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070506/01 == CHEQUERED HISTORY : A VIDEO == Some of you may have noticed we've had video cameras out and on our most recent skates. Our volunteer film crew have been hard at work editing several gigabytes of footage into a more concentrated format, and the first fruits of their effort are now available for download: the Chequered Stroll from two weeks ago. Full colour, too - not everything in black and white makes sense. http://www.lfns.co.uk/2007/04/29/movie.mp4 [15MB] == PICTURE THIS == Our new system for dealing with skate photos is now running, and the beauty is two-fold: first, that we don't have to do any work any more (cough), and second that nobody should have noticed the difference except for the band of photographers who send us stuff. The thumbnails are a little bigger, and the portrait photos are quite a bit bigger (you can see them now) but in other respects it's pretty much the same as it was. Minus a few wrinkles that we'll get to sorting in the next few days. If you wield a camera from time to time on the LFNS or Sunday Stroll, all you have to do to get them on the lfns.co.uk web site is register with Flickr and upload them, then follow the full and comprehensive instructions (link below). Please put your photos up before you ask for a group invite, though - we have to approve each group member, and that's a lot easier when we can see you're not a spammer or a pornographer. http://www.flickr.com/groups/335076@N20/discuss/72157600128263302/ If you're already sending pics - thanks! It does brighten up the site a lot. We should soon be able to display the photographer's name along with each picture so that you get a degree of credit for it too... == DE-DEEMAXED == If you see a fairly battered pair of DeeMax II skates for sale (grey and red, 247EA-R frames, Hyper Concrete wheels), one of our marshals might want to hear from you. Mark's favourite skates went walkabout (rollabout?) from a pub last Sunday and he's eager for news of them. We've heard all kinds of stories about the increasing desirability of this range since Salomon pulled out of the skate market and stopped making new ones, but in Mark's own words "the boots were pretty tired and I was thinking I'd need to replace them before too long", so why anyone'd want this particular example we don't know. Shame about the frames, though ... If you have any news you can contact us through the feedback form and we'll pass it on. Or you can PM Mark directly on the serpentineroad.com forum http://www.serpentineroad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24765 == BIKEATHON : JULY 15th == We've been asked for help to marshal the London Bikeathon, a cycling event organised by Leukaemia Research on Sunday July 15th. The route (see below) is pretty long, which is why they need lots of volunteer marshals. The cyclists are leaving from Chelsea Hospital, through the City into Docklands and back again. They're hoping to place us as far east as Holborn, because we'll be able to skate back easily from there in time to marshal the Sunday Stroll. They need volunteers from 9am to 4:30pm, although we'll be leaving around 1pm to return to the park. If you're interested in helping out, please contact us using our feedback form. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/LR20070715 http://www.lfns.co.uk/feedback.php#contactus == THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT == 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 (down a bit, yes, there). 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. 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