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From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Week on Wheels: Over and Back Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:19:42 +0100 * This week: over and over * Last week: down and out * Charged with battery * Thames Festival * Skate Patrol * The bit at the end == THIS WEEK: OVER AND OVER == It's the LONDON FLYOVER NIGHT SKATE this week: last month we had to passover the flyover when it started raining at 7:55; this month we're having another go. Sadly it's no longer Markus' birthday, though. Half time is on Union Street, second half is faster, and as we're going south of the river there shouldn't be any trouble with taxis. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070720 Continuing the recycling theme - after the SUNDAY STROLL last week was washed out, this week we're planning to try that again too. This is a 6.6 mile cobble-free route especially suited to less-experienced skaters, so if you started skating recently and haven't finished a Stroll before (perhaps due to it being a 12 mile trek out to Greenwich, or maybe more prosaically because you spent half an hour sheltering under a tree instead), come and have another go. Half time is on the King's Road, next to a scrummy ice-cream shop. We set off at 2pm from Serpentine Road in Hyde Park. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070722 TONIGHT the LondonSkate's doing VICE CITY: a tour of Victoria and Embankment with half time at Liverpool St. Meet 7:30 by the bandstand on Serpentine Road, http://www.serpentineroad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26017 "Most of the characters wear the then-fashionable white or pastel baggy cotton suits and, like Miami Vice, much of the action takes place in mansions, on speedboats, or in other glamorous settings." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Vice_City Baggy suits obviously good for wearing kneepads inside trousers ... == LAST WEEK == Happily, "Have-a-stack" Hill last FRIDAY did not live up to its name for most (really, we should save that joke for another time): we reached the bottom still upright and without too many incidents. Lots of new skaters out for the first time on this 13 mile route, so well done to all that finished it. SUNDAY? More like "What sun?" day. Weather looked great until 2:05 - just as we were about to set off, the hydrologic cycle span up without warning. Apologies to people who made the trip specially, but we can only point out the Met Office didn't predict that one either. == HARD CELL == If you noticed the Firebrox was a bit quiet towards the end of Friday's skate last week: it's the batteries, guv. It seems our usage profile is a bit different from the average invalid chair, and one of the two 26Ah batteries no longer holds a charge. We're looking into redesigning the power supply with sexy new technologies like Li-ion, but in the meantime we've ordered another. == LIGHT ON THEIR FEET == The Mayor's Thames Festival this year is promised to be smaller(!) and better than ever. After logistics concerns last year, the organisers decided to restrict the number of floats returning this year, so we're very happy to be able to say that we've just heard our application was accepted for the Night Carnival parade. So now we have two months to come good on what we promised, including a mobile rollerdisco, a divine visitation, a snakefight on wheels, and an abduction by hairy Vikings. If you know good cheap sources of glitter balls, Scotchlite, fishing rods, bamboo strips, glowsticks, electro-luminescent thingy, project managers or cornucopia machines (the last two may be a bit of a stretch) you know how to get in touch. The rest of the usual suspects - and the unusual suspects - please take this as first notice of imminent arm twisting. September 16th is the date: it should be fantastic, in one sense of the word or another. == SKATE PATROL == It appears that the other day when we weren't looking we crossed the magic "1000 subscriber" line for Week on Wheels. Which is all very gratifying given that we've only been going for a year, but at the same time could be said to be somewhat puzzling - we don't see 1000 people out on the street skates, so where are you all? If you read this mailout every week dissuaded by the warnings about turns and stops and downhills, thinking "gosh, that sounds far too difficult", why not head along to the skate clinic at Skate Patrol? They're in Hyde Park every dry Sunday afternoon, and they will - for free - teach you how to go, how to stop, and how to change direction. http://www.skatepatrol.co.uk They're also offering training for volunteers at 4pm this Sunday, as it happens: a practical 'how to teach' session, plus a quick theory test. The session is open to anyone who is able to stop using a heel brake. http://www.serpentineroad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26029 == STILL HERE? == Help us settle an argument here in the Week on Wheels editorial suite. We don't hear a lot from our readers. Sure, we get mentioned sometimes on the Serpentine Road forum, but it can be a bit confusing - "I read it every week and think it's pretty good!" "... into the ... mediocrity morass" So 'pretty good' or a 'morass of mediocrity'. Or 'I never read this far down the page'. Let us know. == OVER AND OUT == Doesn't the time just fly past? Registration for the 5th London Inline Marathon is now open (as predicted two weeks ago): you have until 10th August before the price goes up. In the meantime, that's all from us. If you have comments, use the feedback form. If you don't want more of this drivel, use the unsubscribe link. This mail is sent from an address that doesn't accept replies, so don't reply by mail. 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. The LFNS is not responsible for the price of fish. -- 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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