I’ve just noticed on my silly names thread Chris Dobbie suggested riding to Barton on the Beans and meeting up there or somewhere near there at a purveyor of pintage. Whilst there, we could also bag the villages of Sheepy Parva and Sheepy Magna, which definately count in the game of Blubberhouses* too.
Now this sounds like a splendid idea, but now it’s in my head, I have this idea of unicyclists from all over the midlands descending on a tiny unsuspecting village in the middle of nowhere.
It’s very convenient it’s 30 miles from Nottingham, 15 from Leicester, not very far from Coventry, Nuneaton and Rugby. It’s a little bit of a long ride from Birmingham, but Birmingham people could get the train or drive to where the airport is and ride from there, to miss out the dull bit from the centre and then it’d be a nice little ride of 20 miles or so.
Anyone interested?
Joe
Which is what the going to places with silly names game is now officially called. It’s a village in the Yorkshire Dales.
i dont know what my work schedual is for those dates but if they are free i will be up for it… i only have a 20" onza but i like to ride a little distance on it now and again.
id be most up for riding from notts… or even just a session in notts!.
Personally, I definitely couldn’t do 12th Feb because my wife is on a yoga teacher training tutorial for the day, so I am the kids’ taxi, cook, cleaner, boxing referee, etc for the day, but 27th is definitely more of a goer.
Alan and Mark would probably be up for it too - I’m seeing Alan tonight at Nuneaton JC so I’ll mention it to him then - I don’t think he uses RSU any more.
Depending on your route from Notts., you could also take in Newton Burgoland - wow, another tick in your Blubberhousing notebook.
As I am a bit out of distance training recently, I would probably take the wuss option of starting out from Nuneaton, which might also make a better starting place for any Brum based riders who may like to join us.
There is a layby on the left of the northbound A444 north of Nuneaton, just past the ex-railway embankment. The ex-railway is a bit muddy but ridable (except if, like me, you have no tread left on your Coker tyre); this would avoid riding the busy A444 and there is a tunnel beneath the A5.
Chris Dobbie + some others are meeting here at 8.30am
Barton in the Beans
This is about 24 miles from Beeston and a minimum of about 12 from Nuneaton. We shall all aim to get here for about 11:30 and meet up at the crossroads. If we’re running early or late, we’ll organise with mobiles so that we all coincide.
We will then race faster than a fast thing that knows there’s a pint ready for it when the pub opens at 12 towards
The Cock Inn, Sibson
Even the lunch place has a silly name!
Sheepy Magna and Sheepy Parva
These are undoubtedly silly names. Maybe we’ll see some sheep here?
Newton Burgoland
I’m not sure what this name is about…