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Sunday 09.30

Ahoy

Looks dry and sunny tomorrow !
Steady NNW wind
Winter bikes, winter pace
Roll along and enjoy the late autumn colours
35 to 40 miles, head North

CP
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  • Bring your poppies as well.
  • Good crowd out in the sunshine
    Yelling and back
    41 miles at 16.3mph

    Tony to lead ride next week
    CP
  • Yo Ho Yellers

    Riding restricted today as it was the Flying Dutchboy's 17th.

    First lesson for him how to drive his birthday car - free taxis home for the parents not far off now.

    Tuns on a Friday night?!

    Getting dark so stayed in and went for a Zwift one in Watopia instead.

    Virtual Dutchman
  • Yes tuns Friday night a regular event
    Will get an extra barrel in if you are coming
    6.30 pm
    Ghent next week
    what sores ?
  • Yo Ho Dronkaards

    Looking forward to dronken gemaakt next weekend.

    Look at those shores!

    What shores?

    Mine's a Bink Bruin

    Flandering Dutchman
  • Ahoy
    Tony to take the ride this Sunday.
    Have a good one
    CP
  • FDFD
    edited November 2016
    Yo Ho Ghents

    Off with the Cap'n and spouses to the land of cycling, beer and chocolates. What's not to like? Looking forward to seeing Cav and Wiggo smash it!

    Should be good or I'm a Dutchman.

    It might be only next to the orange land, but at least they almost speak the same language.

    Nog een bierke alsjeblieft
    Nog één biertje, graag

    Mines a Double Dutchman
  • FDFD
    edited November 2016
    Yo Ho stayathomers

    Cap'n and I and our spouses had a great time in Ghent. Waffles, snow storm, chocolates, cycling, coffee houses, double fried frites and the odd beer. Delerium Tremens my favourite tipple of the trip and De Karpe cycling bar near the velodrome was a great experience.

    Thoroughly recommend a visit if you haven't been before. A very popular destination for many UK cyclists - they were everywhere!

    Foaming Delerium.
  • Great time.
    FD setting the pace. Velodrome definitely worth a visit as was Ghent.
    Wiggins and Cav in action.
    Lovely feel to bars and tourist spots.
    Lovely Jubbly
    CP


  • In dry dock this weekend
    Tony away too.
    Post if you will take the ride
    See you soon
    CP
  • Yo Ho lost boys

    Doubt I'll be out as meeting a few landlubber friends the night before. They don't sail, but they like their grog! Lie in and Zwift turbo later probably.

    Flailing Duvetman
  • Yo Ho Mary Celesters

    Not sure if any of the crew were out? Our champion, the Cap'n, laid up with scurvy. A few weeks recovery apparently.

    I stayed in for a Zwift one and did so again tonight.

    Maybe out to lead ride next week, weather and grog permitting.

    Fitbit Dutchman
  • Ahoy the champions
    Still on recovery but will be out as soon as can. Not this Sunday I am afraid but on the mend.
    Catch up soon. Looking forward to the Thia night.
    CP
  • Yo Ho campionissimos

    Swift recovery Cap'n from the operation to scrape barnacles from your hull. Follow ship's doctors' orders before setting sail again.

    Also looking forward to the Thai night.

    Green Curry Dutchman
  • FDFD
    edited December 2016
    Yo Ho champions

    Forecast currently sunny, cold and dry this Sunday 4th December, albeit with a freshening easterly breeze.

    Thinking Bassingbourn, Fowlmere, Thriplow, Newton, Chapel Hill, Orwell, Wendy loop. 35miles @16's.

    Nothing too strenuous in the winter sunshine. Steady club pace, all taking a turn on the front, plenty of friendship and banter, nobody left behind. Happy days.

    Perhaps our recuperating Cap'n is up to receiving visitors afterwards?

    We are the champions, my friends
    And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end
    We are the champions
    We are the champions
    No time for losers
    'Cause we are the champions of the world

    Freddie Dutchman
  • Ahoy the queens

    Will be going to archery as can do standing up things.
    Should be back in time for 12.15 onward. Call in , if I am back will make the coffee.

    Open your eyes
    Look up to the skies and see
    I'm just a poor boy,
    I get no sympathy
    Easy come easy go
    Little high little low
    Anyway the wind blows
    Does not really matter to me

    To you
    CP
  • FDFD
    edited December 2016
    Yo Ho Bohemians

    I'm a shooting star leaping through the skies
    Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
    I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
    I'm gonna go go go
    There's no stopping me

    Don't stop me now
    I'm having such a good time
    I'm having a ball
    Don't stop me now
    If you wanna have a good time
    Just give me a call

    Tuns 9.30 tomorrow. Pace WON'T be as described above!

    (Mr) Fahenheit Dutchman
  • Yo Ho the crew

    Not going to lead a ride today:

    Sharp frost here in Hitchin and currently -4C, so a group ride maybe too dangerous with ice around.

    Probably go out later when it's thawed out.

    Stay safe if you're riding today

    FD
  • Archery for moi
    Take care
    Always the mountain bike option
    Assume no one back for coffee

    Catch up soon
    CP
  • No other Pirates turned up at the Tuns, so I set sail on my own. The sun soon took any patches of frost off the road. Maybe catch you next time...
  • Yo Ho Popsicles

    I want to ride my bicycle
    I want to ride my bike
    I want to ride my bicycle
    I want to ride it where I like.....

    .....Except when there's the possibility of black ice. Didn't want the group to go down like dominoes if one slipped.

    Stayed iced over and a sharp frost in my back garden in Hitchin even during the afternoon.

    Went for a Zwift ride in sunny Watopia instead. Organised group ride 30 miles @ 20mph. Fab.

    Freezing Dutchman.
  • Not ready for a saddle yet
    Pity a solo voyage
    Gets milder end of next week

    Buddy your a young hard man
    Shouting in the street
    Gonna take on the world some day
    You got blood on yo face
    You big disgrace
    Waving your banner all over the place

    We will we will rock you
    CP
  • Looks like no cycling for at least 4 weeks for moi. FD and Tony will take as needed I am sure. Have fun, back in the new year.
    CP
  • Yo Ho Ho Buccaneers

    Grog ho!

    Sunday 11th looks doubtful for me as it's highly unlikely that the bilge pumps will have bailed me dry following a festive double header this Friday and Saturday.

    Another one bites the dust
    Another one bites the dust
    And another one gone, and another one gone
    Another one bites the dust
    Hey, I'm gonna get you, too
    Another one bites the dust

    How do you think I'm going to get along
    Without you when you're gone?
    You took me for everything that I had
    And kicked me out on my own

    Festive Dutchman
  • Hey listen here
    Now I got mortgages on homes
    I got stiffness in ma bones
    Aint no beauty queens in this locality
    Oh but I still get my pleasure
    Still get my greatest treasure
    Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me.

    See you Friday
    Fat bottomed me
    CP
  • Yo Ho Massamans

    Time and Thai wait for no man.

    Just a man
    With a man's courage
    He knows nothing but a man
    But he can never fail
    No one but the pure in heart
    May find the golden grail
    Oh oh, oh oh
    Flash.

    Flash Dutchman
  • FDFD
    edited December 2016
    Yo Ho Ho champions

    It's Christmas Thai'me - See you tonight!

    Yeah, you don't waste no time at all
    Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
    It comes to you as to us all
    Hey, we're just waiting
    For the hammer to fall - yeah

    Yeah, toe the line and play their game
    Yeah, let the anaesthetic cover it all
    Till one day they call your name
    You know it's time for the hammer to fall - yeah

    Freddie Dutchman
  • FDFD
    edited December 2016
    Yo Ho Ho champions

    10 out last night for Cap'n's festive Far East table. 0miles @ 0mph but plenty of laughs & banter as always. No sign of Walter.

    I gotta be cool, relax, get hip
    And get on my tracks
    Take a back seat, hitch-hike
    And take a long ride on my winter bike
    Until I'm ready
    Crazy little thing called love.

    Festive Dutchman
  • FDFD
    edited December 2016
    Yo Ho Ho virtual reality fans

    Miserable weather here in the real world so went for a dry Zwift 25 mile group ride in virtual London with over 200 other riders. Even managed to ride close to my real West End office. No virtual muppets though and still no sign of Walter. Just the thing to sweat out last night's red curry.

    Now for a real drink in Hitchin's latest bar. Over 500 bottled beers available. Close my eyes, drink a Delerium Tremens and I could virtually be back in Ghent....

    Imaginary Dutchman.
  • FDFD
    edited December 2016
    Yo Ho Ho

    Will lead a shortish ride Sunday 18th Dec.
    Head for the flatlands of the North. Nice and steady, 15-16mph average with no one left behind.

    Weather forecast is foggy to start but clearing later. Light winds and hopefully dry.

    Make space for those mince pies and brussells!

    See you there

    Festive Dutchman
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