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From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Week on Wheels: the Siberian Hamster edition Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:13:37 +0000 == THIS WEEK == The LONDON FRIDAY NIGHT SKATE is themed on the Year of the Rat. We'll take you along some Rat Runs to Battersea, and then through the Rat infested (so we hear) Battersea Park and back home. The ancient Zen Koan of finding wisdom by following a Rat's tail served as inspiration, just ask your Lead Marshal. And what is the Rat in the route map holding in its teeth that makes it look like a kangaroo? Answer on a post card. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20080215 Please don't be Rat-arsed, that's just dangerous. The SUNDAY STROLL is a nice figure of 8 skate, taking in sights of the Thames. Crossing over Lambeth Bridge and returning over Waterloo Bridge - and all this before half time! Our Lead Marshal Bren claims that there is "no reason for the route really, but try copying it and colouring it in, hand it in at half time and and I'll pick a winner". The prize is to ride the Firebrox in the second half. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20080217 == LAST WEEK == Roggie took the LONDON FRIDAY NIGHT SKATE to a dark alley south of the river. Other highlights, as if that wasn't enough, included a sprint off Albert Bridge and down the side of Battersea Park, and a downhill dash from the top of Larkhall Rise all the way to another damp and dark place somewhere in South London. Unfortunately a sudden case of the flu meant there was nobody to ride our Firebrox music bike, so we had to run the skate sans toons, as they say in Clapham. The route was shorter than normal for a Friday, but if anything that meant it could go a little bit faster. We should be back to normal next week. The sun shone on the wicked - and on a couple of hundred skaters (percentages may not add up to 100%) out for the SUNDAY STROLL. It was almost hot enough to melt the Albert Bridge, but not quite. Maybe in future we should say we are going over it rather than sacrificing to the weather gods. Anyway it was a perfect day for skating: as the photos will attest, if you weren't there you missed a good one http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20080210 == EXTRA! EXTRA! BEST OF LONDON, 29TH FEB == There's a spare day this year. The Leap Day (subject to discussion on Serpentineroad.com) falls on FRIDAY 29th FEBRUARY this year. To take advantage of this we will be running our first "Best of London" skate of 2008. These special skates are slower than your normal LFNS - "red" route speed throughout, and take in some of the more touristy places in the Capital. So if you're thinking of trying out a Friday for the first time and thinking it's going to be too fast, well, this is your skate. If you want to mark the occasion of it being Ladies Day, feel free to wear a silly hat. == EASTERSKATE == The web site for the 2008 Easter Eggstravaganza Event is now live. If you know of journalist-type people (or if you are one) ask us for the press pack: if you're interested in sponsorship opportunities, we have stuff we can send you too. There is more to come yet: not everyone in the plans has confirmed their involvement. http://www.easterskate.co.uk/ == HIKE IN BIKE SPENDING == Keen cyclists, commuting skaters, and followers of local politics will already be aware of Mayor Ken's recent announcement of £400m new cash for cycling in the capital. http://www.london.gov.uk/view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=15612 "The aim of this programme is nothing short of a cycling and walking transformation in London", says Ken, which makes us wonder if he's proposing giving everyone an extra wheel (and presumably an extra leg). But on the bright side at least he didn't say "revolutionary". Variously reported to include 12 new bicycle motorways, 6,000 bikes available every 300 metres (at 20 bikes per metre, that makes them each 5cm long) and SWAT teams to engage any 4x4 drivers with the temerity to breach the congestion charge area boundary, this does have at least the potential - of properly executed - to be welcome news to anyone (including skaters) who gets around central London other than in a car. We don't have a mole on the inside of these discussions, so we've don the next best thing: find someone elses and pretend to pass their comments off as our own. Thus: "around 12 corridors primarily using the bus lane network and wide cycle lanes", "speculation in the media is supposedly unfounded – including the map in the Standard", and "it will be for the boroughs and TfL to argue it all out". http://www.anothercyclingforum.com/index.php?topic=47301.msg675670#msg675670 == WEAK ENDING == Australians wouldn't give a XXXX for any other word on the street: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.498495,-0.143702&t=h&z=21 This email comes from an unattended mailbox and an inattentive mind, so don't reply: it won't help. Use the feedback form on our site instead. To unsubscribe, use the link in the mail footer - right at the bottom after the copyright notice. 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 are acknowledged. 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