Bike Right 18
Friday 26th October – Sunday 28th October 2012

The Youth Hostel (30 Cheviot Street) is booked from Friday afternoon until Sunday
afternoon.

There are plenty of centrally heated bedrooms (most sleep 4), a large common room,
well-equipped kitchen and hot showers! There are four new shepherd’s huts – each of which
sleep 2 people – I will allocate these to the first 4 couples who request, and pay for, them! There
are also some new en-suite rooms. I allocate rooms on a fairly ad hoc basis so if you have any
special requests let me know and I’ll do my best – but can’t promise to meet them all!
This is a self-catering event – there is a late shop in Wooler as well as pubs, cafes &
takeaways.
The programme is likely to be very similar to previous years – with the emphasis on
cycling and socialising.
We will try to have a limited number of cycling related slideshows on the Friday and
Saturday evenings—but with plenty of time for talking to one another!!

I’m assuming that the usual suspects will be planning routes and leading
rides……………

The cost will be £30 per person for the two nights – please send you cheque (Payable to Glendale
Gateway Trust) to:
Rachel Sinton
Cheviot Centre
12 Padgepool Place
Wooler
NE71 6BL
bikerightwooler@gmail.com

Please email bikerightwooler@gmail.com me in the first instance to ensure you go onto the
email database at the new email address – (to keep the costs down all communication this year
will be via email) – letting me know how many people and any room requirements etc – then
pop your cheque in the post. Let others know if you think they might have missed this first email
which Jason is distributing for me – all future bookings etc should be to me not him.

To book additional nights at the Youth Hostel please do this directly with the Hostel on
01668 281365 or via the website: www.yha.org.uk

Any enquiries about Bike Right should come to me at 01668 282406 or via
bikerightwooler@gmail.com

£30 in the post today.

I don't know if I'm going but at least I'm paid for it.



so on the news that a railway company are electried thier lines and it the tax payers and their pasegers that are going to pay for it.
Surely it company should pay for it and get the money off their passenger for ever.

I must get my cheque in the post!

Although due to Alfred's injury (torn Achilles tendon, so far he's had 6 weeks in a Beckham Boot), he may not be capable of riding far even by then. If the worst comes to the worst, we'll drive to cafes and meet folk!

If I had a baby elephant, it could help me wash the car. If I had a car.

Also often found on www.cyclechat.co.uk

I'll be there. Already looking forward to it after missing York.

"I thought of that while riding my bike." --Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity

2007 ICE QNT
2008 Hase Kettwiesel AL27
2011 Catrike Trail.
1951 Engine in need of partial rebuild.

Apogies to that person

On that fisrt meeting when we decided on Bike Right in the MountHooley Barn* and later in the Milfield Cafe.

I stole Mr Johnston's Marathon bar.

What bike what Jason riding that he shouldnt been?


*Mounthooly Barn is one of the camping barns that the YHA do nowadays. So for that first Bike Right meeting go there. You'll be late

Jason was riding the Linear recumbent that he sold to Rob Brock at CycleFest.


OK. Why sort of Recumbent bike was the meeting at Mounthooley Barn?

" Why sort of Recumbent bike was the meeting at Mounthooley Barn?"

I still do know what it says?

Jason had a Linear LWB recumbent and ? Grrr forgaotten his name had a 16V SWB recumbent.

I was on my maroon Dawes Super Galaxay.

Found it...

[www.angelfire.com]

but it doesnt mention what sorts of bikes we were on.


Now, where is the Tiger Story and what happened to the piccie on it?

Met office are currently predicting 'a few snow showers' for Saturday day. Might be good to take some antifreeze!

"I thought of that while riding my bike." --Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity

2007 ICE QNT
2008 Hase Kettwiesel AL27
2011 Catrike Trail.
1951 Engine in need of partial rebuild.

the BBC 1 weather mentioned that ot would be cold and bright for a change.
Sick of this blooming fog.

The map showed snow on the hills.

Looking forward to it even if I get trapped up there.

Yes, I've been monitoring the weather forecast for over a week and the main foresasters online seem to be moving to dry and cold for Friday/Saturday, but wet on Sunday.

"I thought of that while riding my bike." --Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity

2007 ICE QNT
2008 Hase Kettwiesel AL27
2011 Catrike Trail.
1951 Engine in need of partial rebuild.

Radio 4 said on the weather forecast,

"Um. It's going to be a lot colder this weekend."

Lift hasnt come yet.

The Dahon cos it will fit in the car.

Presents for Jason and Rachel cos if they stopped doing Bike Right, etc.

copied this of summat or other,

"Grrr again.

I often get asked to smile on the Bike Right piccie by Jason in spite of me having 2 Strokes which mean that I cant smile."

Bike Right was very good this year and smite of a getting a puncture 0.85 miles into my ride.

Went for a walk a the 'ride' that I didn't do on both days.
It was a ride that Tom Johnston and me took to somewhere on the other side, I only went across 2 fords and 1 other at Haugh Head.
I think it was the ride on the second Bike Right.
The fords were at Coldgate Mill, between Middleton and Ilderton and at Haugh Head,
At Haugh Head at saw lots of fish leaping up the weir on the Sunday. No picture of the fish leaping. Plenty of the water.

How odd that on the fisrt Bike Right we how loads of recumbent bike and trikes but now have touring bikes and Bromptons instead. 3 recumbent trikes and a Dahon folder as well.

I gave a pressies to Jason and Rachel for organing it.

jason didnt have a piccie of the Bike Righters this time.

It was Dwarf Bike Right cos the sleeping shelters were only for less than 6 feet tall and those Bromptons good only for those less than 6 feet tall.

even if they have telescopping seat posts.


Dwarf- anyone less than 6 feet tall, or so Stuart Swann said at Old Hall School.

Am sure that both Jason and Trevor are over 6 feet, so not dwarfs, so what were they riding on Sunday??? (certainly looked like Bromptons to me, but as I am getting old and decrepit now, I could be mistaken)

And I claim the puncture prize - I "only" had 8 in 257 miles (including the rides there and back) (though one could be disqualified, as it was as a result of the a patch not sticking, so the tyre went down again after 300 yards or so (approx 300 metres for modern people))

John Turvey

"even if they have telescopping seat posts."

You probably didnt unsturnd my bad writing (Grrr again)

On a bike, what hits the bike is feet, hand, bum,

the feet hit the pedles, Not problem with that.

Bum on the sadles on the telescoping seat post. ok with probly.

the hands hit that relly little handbrs* so low down.

A picture would be good here.

Imagime that little Brompton with Ken-The_Perite on it.
Now with either Jason or Trevor on it.

it doesnt suit them does it.
They have other bikes the the pirate coulnt ride cos he too small.
The pirate has other bikes they Jason and Treveor couldny ride cos they too big*

*Spelling is Grrr.
*the right size

Punctures are bad!

You ought be looking for something that stops them insteads* of bragging that you got more if them.


The Schwalbe Marathorn Plus stops them. I had one back tire these on my Trice and it had one puncture,

The Schwalbe Marathon Supreme stops them.

These are what I had on my Surly Trucker.

No punctures yet.

*this word is wrong but I cant get the right word out of my head and spell it write. Thanks to one of the Stokes I had years ago. GRRRR

The last puncture was in the back wheel where I did have a Schawlbe Marathon Supreme tyre - that was the sixth puncture in that tyre in 900 miles - mind, the first 5 were in the first 60 miles with the tyre, and I am almost certain they (the first 5 punctures) were a result of using carefully pre-thorned tubes from the Ellesmere Get Cycling holiday.

I am now using a Marathon Plus on the back wheel of my Ti-Rush and have had no punctures yet (but only 600 miles so far).

John Turvey

(This has been a really bad year for me for punctures - I had so many in January I started keeping a rough record (the first time I have ever tried to record all my punctures - I normally only do it when away on tour) and have had about 45 in 6,500 miles so far this year.


LESSON Never (NEVER) record the number of punctures.

On my cycle ride on Saturday I came across lots of thorn clippings from where there where clipping.*

On my walk on Saturday I saw the farmer cutting him thorn trees by the Coldgate Mill.

On my walk on the Sunday I went beyond Coldgate Mill. There was so many thorn clippings, I am sure that I have had too many punctures on my bike and was glad that I was walking instead.

"VeloVision," ought to do summat on the best tires to not puncture.


*that made so much sense when I wrote it down but no anymore.