Bristol and Velodrome merriment
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andygatesI've just been offered a fill-in slot with a bunch of C+ers who have a taster sesion booked at Newport Velodrome on Sunday. This means I've got an early "in" to my Planned Winter Folderol, that being track cycling.
It also means I've got four days to turn my fixie from its audax/offroad king of oozy trundle into a lean, mean, track racing machine - this being effected by the removal of brakes, some new handlebars, and a teeny tiny cog so I can go vewwy vewwy fast. And maybe a quick rub down and lube.
It also means that, since the session starts at 9am, I will be in Bristol on Saturday evening. I dimly recallstripey_mouse and some others were glomming somewhere - the Hatchet? Mmm, vile beer and goths.
It also means I've got four days to turn my fixie from its audax/offroad king of oozy trundle into a lean, mean, track racing machine - this being effected by the removal of brakes, some new handlebars, and a teeny tiny cog so I can go vewwy vewwy fast. And maybe a quick rub down and lube.
It also means that, since the session starts at 9am, I will be in Bristol on Saturday evening. I dimly recall
stripey_mouse and some others were glomming somewhere - the Hatchet? Mmm, vile beer and goths. 
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Either way, it's "vile beer," and that should be a deal-breaker.
Date: 2006-10-04 01:50 pm (UTC)Is this "(vile beer) and goths" or "vile (beer and goths)"?
Re: Either way, it's "vile beer," and that should be a deal-breaker.
Date: 2006-10-04 04:53 pm (UTC)The beer in question is Smile's Brewery output. It's lovely stuff, but it doesn't travel well: there's a little flat dishwater midnote that's characterful locally but two hundred miles away, in a beer festival, that midnote escapes and threatens sanity. The Hatchet's about a mile from the brewery; the Vaults a mile and a half and it's uphill. Could be rough.
Re: Either way, it's "vile beer," and that should be a deal-breaker.
Date: 2006-10-05 11:50 am (UTC)Re: Either way, it's "vile beer," and that should be a deal-breaker.
Date: 2006-10-05 11:51 am (UTC)Re: Either way, it's "vile beer," and that should be a deal-breaker.
Date: 2006-10-05 12:08 pm (UTC)It's the Vaults for good beer then!
Re: Either way, it's "vile beer," and that should be a deal-breaker.
Date: 2006-10-05 12:17 pm (UTC)