A new cycle route planner

I have found a new route planner on the web called cyclestreets. It is easy to use and allows you to enter a street name for start and end of the journey and then it offers three routes, fastest, quietest and balanced. For my route to work it suggests taking 1 hour 42 min's....which is a little generous. It tells me the route is very hostile... well it does go past some streets of recent gun crimes. It also shows how many traffic lights are on the route and assumes that I stop at all of them.... which is of course true officer.

The screenshots show a green route (quiet), red (fastest) and yellow for balanced. The quietest route includes footpaths and footbridges, and goes around the houses taking 2 and a half hours and an extra 2 miles. You can zoom in on the map and it also generates a street by street itinerary, which will probably add an extra to my journey if I stopped at each junction to read them.

http://epsom.cyclestreets.net/

The Bionic Man takes a rest - again!

Mike, thanks for adding your contribution to the rides list. I do hope that nobody else joined you on your event nor should they wish to in future. I set up the sheet as a rides list and you have now introduced a new dimension...an off-ride list! Well at least now we can keep track of you. I can't find your event listed anywhere on the web so to be sure that it is a valid event please publish the photo's - more pictures of nurses!! ? :-O

There are now 5 of us on the rides list to date. Hopefully there will be several more going on after the handbooks are issued in the next few days. If anyone would like to edit the spreadsheet please email me at steve@kprc.org.uk so that I can add you to the list of editors.

Here's the link:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t7HGJmsRva60xl33C_k2NFA&single=true&gid=0&output=html

Steve

Calleva RC MG 25 - 23 March 1952

Further to the conversation at 11's this morning, about this event, here's a copy of the result sheet (with thanks to Ray for giving me his old results):

This event is detailed at Steve Morris' Medium Gear site (click here) as a special event where the fastest three riders all beat the hour on a 72" gear. For a detailed account of the event - which was ridden by our own Ron Powney, Ray Dare and Frank Powney - follow the link. Ron set a Club Record of 1:3:16 for a Medium Gear, beating the 1:5:23 that Ray had set the previous week in the Club Medium Gear 25.

CTT Handbook

OK Folks

I now have the handbooks. Members who ordered them can collect them at the clubroom on Thursday 21st at 21-00hrs and most Thursday’s after.

The price is £7

Frank

Do you have any plans to ride in 2010?

I've been thinking - a phrase that you really don't want to hear from 'er indoors !

Wouldn't it be nice to know what rides we are all planning to do this year? I don't mean the evening 10's (because they are usually well attended) but open events whether they be time trials or sportives. If we had a way of viewing all of our plans on a single summary sheet we could consider travelling together, request closer start times to enable us to meet after the event, encourage another rider or two to attend to make a team and most importantly create a stronger club.

Well after a short time of looking at youtube tutorials re google docs, I have found a way of doing this by using a web based spreadsheet in the same way that Lisa has been doing for years with the results and tables.

I have started by setting out my plans in the following link and I would be very pleased if you could add your planned rides to this. In order to do this you need to email me at steve@kprc.org.uk so that I can add you to the list of editors. You will then receive an email back from me inviting you to open the spreadsheet. In the next few weeks I hope to get this set up on the KPRC website for all to see.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t7HGJmsRva60xl33C_k2NFA&single=true&gid=0&output=html


I also plan to prepare a list of local sportives to encourage some of us to get some early season miles in.

Finally could you post a comment to let me know your thoughts - good or bad. It would also give us an indication of how many members read the blog.

Happy new year

Steve

2nd Jan 2010

The crew enjoying 11s at Garson's Farm

The frozen pond at West End (outside Garson's Farm)

Thanks to Ron & Doreen for the pics.

Jake & Gary NY eve party.

Steve and Jake get the party swinging.

Thanks for a great party to bring in the New Year 2010 (what shall it be "two thousand and ten" or "twenty ten") According to the BBC language department it depends on how the common usage works out! Joe public will decide. Twenty Ten for me!! Sorry to let you down on the quiz Glenda Jackson but the I got Ennis, so my contribution was a net ZERO.