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AlanGoodman 
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 Topic: London to ParisPosted: 27 September 2013 at 10:07pm |
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Hi All,
Adam Lamb (via Facebook) has sent details of a charity event next July... Recumbents will be welcome!!  Details and entry form here (please be patient - it is a very big file) |
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AlanGoodman
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Posted: 04 October 2013 at 5:14pm |
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Website is now live... http://www.c4charity.co.uk/
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LeeW
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Posted: 04 October 2013 at 9:10pm |
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While recumbents maybe welcome on the ride, I notice the return transport is on eurostar where I belive recumbents are not so welcome, maybe something to bear in mind, you may need to arrange your own return transport.
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AlanGoodman
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Posted: 04 October 2013 at 9:12pm |
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Adrian Setter
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Posted: 05 October 2013 at 5:30am |
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To my reading, the wording of the ride website implies that riders travel by Eurostar but the bikes are likely to be going by other means. Relying on Eurostar to transport the bikes would restrict the numbers somewhat!
I'm not aware that Eurostar won't take recumbents. There is a length limit of 2m (http://www.eurostar.com/uk-en/travel-information/travel-preparation/baggage/bikes-on-trains), but a fair number of recumbents would fit within that. If I were thinking of taking a trike, of either persuasion, I'd check first whether they would carry it. |
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Yanto
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Posted: 05 October 2013 at 7:54am |
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Not my kind of ride, too few miles for too much dosh, talking of which I can't find the actual price, I see £99 deposit, plus a pledge to raise money - of which ONLY "40% at least" goes to charity, so is the 60% of "non-charity" money used to pay for the trip and the £99 deposit all you pay?
Following that train of thought through, if someone doing it paid the deposit and then raised the rest through sponsorship from family and friends then the sponsorship money is paying for the trip (holiday). That can't be right, can it? I actually detest rides like this, if you haven't noticed, organising companies making themselves rich on the pretext of YOU raising money for charity, hell if you want to do that organise your own ride, pay your own costs and give the charity money straight to the charities - and yes I have done that and raised thousands of pounds - and now I'm ranting so i'll shut up!
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AlanGoodman
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Posted: 05 October 2013 at 10:31am |
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Good points well made I think Ian!
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Posted: 05 October 2013 at 2:27pm |
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Once a mid-aged chap named Yanto
Went on accasional Rantos His words raised eyes But Oh.., heard so wise That he was treated to a clucking Nando's.  Bye the way, in 2009 and 2013, Eurostar said "N0" to my trike. On the latest occasion I explained that the ICE would fold up. "It's still too wide sir". I had asked ever so nicely...... |
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Yanto
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Posted: 05 October 2013 at 7:22pm |
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Thanks, I think
 , i'm not sure what a "clucking Nando" is, I presume it isn't too insulting or rude coming from a gentleman such as yourself Mr Wyndrake.
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Wyndrake
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Posted: 05 October 2013 at 9:21pm |
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Yanto - In the Soft South a "clucking Nando" is the finest Chicken dinner a Jobseekers Allowance can buy. I believe first introduced by Heston Services, or was is Heston Bloomingthingy .... can't remember.... one more bottles of single orchard Perry's Cider might help me recall .....
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