“To me a bicycle is a machine of magic … taking me on to the ways of satisfied happiness; giving to me the good friendship I enjoy with others, and to share with me the delights and ecstasies of the outdoors. It gives to me the pleasures of mingling the past with the present … always discovering … always learning. Above all it gives to me also, memories to cherish and store inwardly, as I wheel my ways on joyous days … such a day has been today.” Albert Winstanley 1917-2012

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SFNR Golden Jubilee – its at least 50th ride
Tuesday 5 June
Afternoon! Start TBC but approx 3.00 pm, probably at Barker’s Pool

When I organised the Breweries ride we also did the brewery tour and you were all brilliant at signing up on a Doodle and honouring your commitment to join it and pay for it.
The planned ride to Wortley Hall on Tuesday 5th June involves a sit-down high tea.
I’ve set up a doodle for this ride so you can sign up for the high tea – please.
The event: A sit-down high tea for (initially) 30 people (meat/veggie salad + trifle + tea or coffee) served at 5.30 pm in the stupendous Fire Brigades Union Room
Cost: £8.50 pp (I trust you to pay on the day, I’ve paid a deposit; judging from last year’s ride to Wortley I just think enough people will come along)
Doodle at: http://www.doodle.com/m67e4putu566pg4p

More details of the ride are on Next Sheffield FNR

Mon 7 May 2012
Mayday Bank Holiday – remember socialism?
Edward Carpenter and Sheffield
The report and intro for this ride have been tucked on the end of the write up of the Free Love and Socialism Ride of June 2011

More Rides
I get ride info sent to me from time to time and now its spring and longer evening let’s look forward to getting out on our bikes more
Don’t forget to look on the local CTC site too – see side bar
For starters below is what I’ve got for the next few months.
I’ll update this as and when so set up a feed or check out the social network of your choice every so often.

Breeze Rides
Lynne Bland (rides with Norton Wheelers) and sometime nightrider is one of the team offering rides for women in the Sheffield area as part of the SkyRide Local programme.
Details are on the URL below and some of then will be easy and some will be – what’s the modern euphemism for difficult/hard? – ah, ‘challenging’.
see
http://www.goskyride.com/Search/Details?eventid=5016
Check it out! and/or pass it on

Most Thursdays during Summer Time: CycleSheffield’s Western Circular
CycleSheffield puts this ride on to keep us all fit and ready for the challenges that lie ahead.
Usually starts @ 6:30 pm at the Ranmoor Inn, Fulwood Rd.
The route is always more or less the same and can be viewed here:http://g.co/maps/s3aj2
CycleSheffield members can check whether the ride is going on a particular Thursday by following The CycleSheffield email list.
If you’re not a member, check http://www.cyclesheffield.org.uk/event-calendar/ or follow @cycleSheffield on Twitter by the Thursday midday

Fri 22 June 2012 SFNR Redmires, Stanage Pole and Stanage Edge (SFNR will be 4 yrs old)

Sun 1 July 2012 Sheffield-Esteli Society’s Two Peaks bike ride Start in Endcliffe Park and there is a choice of 20 or 50 miles, much of the long ride being on quieter roads. Fundraiser: ride fee. Routes are here Info email: sheffieldestelisociety@yahoo.co.uk

Fri 6 July SFNR Baths and Spas Presently investigating whether we can get to Hathersage Pool

Click on this logo, check out what it says, sign up if you want to. I know its News International, obviously linked to News Corp who sponsor all that cycling through SKY; but I think this is genuinely felt – shock that a colleague ordinarily commuting to work can be seriously injured through poor vehicle design and driver behaviour.

Inaugural Sheffield Cycle Chic Sundays™ Ride
Style over speed
Sun 19th June 2011
30 riders on the inaugural ride and many of them also nightriders; ride report on the Sheffield Cycle Chic Sunday Ride page
Mair who organises these has turned the photos into the neat montage below

Cycle Chic Sundays Sheffield June 2011 from sheffieldcyclechic on Vimeo.

Sheffield FridayNightRide has a short piece in the June/July 2011 issue of Cycle, the CTC magazine. It’s at the back in Travellers’ Tales and its a report on our Bounded Infinity Ride. I entitled it “Night Riding an infinite ride in a finite area is a pleasure” – trips off the tongue eh? The editor turned that into Urban Night Riding – rivetting, eh? My draft is in the ride report.

Sheffield FridayNightRide in the coolest cycling journal in the world, The Ride
I submitted a short article to The Ride last year; many of you contributed by sending in reflective comments about Sheffield FridayNightRide
It has been published in issue 5. Sorry can’t wet your appetite with the issue 5 cover as can’t get the html code right!
The Ride has contributions from cyclists from all over the world, telling their stories about their rides – and we’re in it.
The SFNR article is enhanced by a superb piece of artwork, artists queue up to illustrate articles and we have been done proud by Liam Stevens.
To get your own copy of issue 5 then pedal along to ReCycleBikes, top of Thirlwell Rd, S8 9TF (0114 250 7717) weekdays between 9 and 5
Price £7 (sorry no plastic)
The Ride (www.theridejournal.com) is visually sumptuous, literally stimulating and at over 178 pp the size of a book – and only 20 pp of ads; the rest is cool stuff about all kinds of riding.
The Ride’s website is well worth checking out (and you can now download issues 1 and 2) but nothing beats the aesthetic and pleasure of the hard copy journal itself. Go on – collect some cultural stuff and come along to the next FNR to make some more!

Friday 14 Jan 2011 (Full Moon 19 Jan) The We Live Here Ride Quick note Ride report still to follow but let’s just note: 45 nightriders max – well done all; some real fun riding around Sheffield, through the inner courtyards of Park Hill Flats; swarming over the tram bridge and even some went around and through Peace Gardens – you were all very naughty! It was a ride to visit buildings and structures, past and present, represented in the work of Jonathan Wilkinson, local artist (www.welivehere.co.uk). Badge Design

Ride details and a map are in the ride notes – see side bar: I just haven’t had the time to translate a word doc with images into a html page on wordpress, with images.

If you want to collect the FNR badges then ‘spares’ will be available at ReCycleBikes – for a price (we would like to cover costs)

Cheer yourself up before the next ride – take a dekko at this

Fraternal/Sororal Rides: There used to be a London FridayNightRide www.fridaynightride.com (where I was inducted into the experience) sadly no more. If any body knows of another FNR like this one – there are other FNRs which cycle to the coast and all that kind of stuff but we are not into distance or endurance or power (I think we are in it for the joy of social urban riding and being a tourist in your own backyard) then I could maybe see if any other FNR wants to do a fraternal/sororal ride sometime in Sheffield and vice-versa.

“FridayNightRiders of the World Unite!”

Mick

“We have nothing to lose but our chains!”