Future Sheffield FNR
Future Sheffield FridayNightRides.
If any body wants to talk about putting on an event like the one below then please get back to me
FNR usually takes a break in August and tries not to go in the rain so rescheduling is not a taboo.
For the 2011-2012 season Sheffield FNR is planned to take place on a monthly Friday near a full moon when it can! This will add to the romance of our adventures because if there is no cloud cover then we will be riding under a full(ish) moon. I’ve checked the lunar calendar and, taking into account school holidays and Critical Mass the proposed dates for the rides are below.
If it is very likely to be wet then the ride will be cancelled for that night. Notice will be sent out on email, the web, Facebook and Twitter by the morning of the ride. The ride with that theme will be rescheduled for another Friday, preferably as soon as we have a dry Friday, in which case we may clash with Critical Mass but c’est la vie.
Occasionally additional rides will be added if the weather is good, we did this in 2009-2010 with the Bridges II – click on Past Sheffield FNR or on the ride title on the side buttons
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List of planned future Sheffield FNRs for the 2011-2012 season
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Date |
Theme |
Ride no. |
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16 Sep 2011 (full moon 12th) |
Pulchritudinous Pitsmoor
After Hidden Hillsborough and Amazing Attercliffe a tour of this district of Sheffield now Mick’s moved there |
41 |
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14 Oct 2011 (full moon 12th) |
NOW 42! that’s what I call a SFNR!
A compilation ride of our ‘best bits’ as a contribution to the CycleNation conference in Sheffield at this weekend. |
42 |
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11 Nov 2011 (full moon 10th) |
Tour des Frites Riding to the as yet unvisited but recommended chip shops – includes Col de Crosspool, see red route on map at http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=212203149685311138226.00048471643a9a4fdfa81&msa=0 |
43 |
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9 Dec 2011 (full moon 10th) |
Christmas Lights III
We’ve been invited back! See past ride reports |
44 |
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6 Jan 2012 (full moon 3rd ) |
Past Cinemas
A ride to the sites and remains of past cinemas. Plenty to visit and see and a good ride for winter in the city. Finish with a film show from The Magic Lantern Film Club |
45 |
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10 Feb 2012 (full moon 7th) |
Breweries (past (pissed?) and present)
With at least one visit to a micro-brewery |
46 |
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9 March 2012 (full moon 8th) |
Railways II
Follow up to Railways I – a ride out to the east of the city |
47 |
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13 April 2012 (full moon 6th) Good Friday |
Sheffield Olympians A visit to sites associated with people who have been born, lived or trained in Sheffield and have taken part in an Olympics Games, like where they went to school, live(d), performed, worked etc It’s Olympics year so maybe concentrate on athletes and sportsmen and women like, Jessica Ennis, Seb Coe etc but there are also many from past Olympics and we may even have an Olympics mountain biker, David Baker who competed in 1996 at Atlanta and rides with Norton Wheelers, join us
Make it a Long Good Friday |
48 |
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4 May 2012 (full moon 6th) Bank Holiday on the 7th |
Snooker Ride
Its the final weekend of the world snooker championship at the Crucible so we will be cycling past white, red, yellow, red, green, red, brown, red, blue, red, blue, red, black – in that order through pub, street, company, shop names or colours of buildings etc. |
49 |
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1 June 2012 (full moon 4th) Bank Holiday on 4thand 5th June -The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee |
No ride as going on afternoon of Tuesday 5 June 2012 – see below |
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Tue 5 June 2012 Bank Holiday on 4thand 5th June -The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee |
Jubilee Ride
I know it’s a Tuesday but its a bank holiday and we have a booking for high tea for 30 (can be increased) places in the Fire Brigades Union dining room at Wortley Hall, which we visited this year to get away from the Royal Wedding – now excuse yourself from the Royal Diamond Jubilee. |
50(!)
SFNR’s Golden Jubilee |
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22 June 2012 (SFNR 4th b’day ride) |
Redmires, Stanage Pole and Stanage Edge
Get with the pagans and worship (at least admire) the sunset on the longest Friday of the year. Visit Neolithic Sheffield, there’s some remains of post houses up near Wyming Brook |
51 |
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6 July 2012 (full moon 3rd) |
Baths and spas tour to sites of swimming pools and spas and Turkish baths, maybe even a dip/plunge during a ride
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52 |
Themes “in the pipeline”
Sex: http://www.pulpwiki.net/Pulp/SheffieldSexCity and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLpDyvPqm1s A ride on the theme of Sheffield and sex – how is sex found, located, lost, repressed, celebrated in Sheffield through place, venue, art, memory, history, words, law etc.
Phlegm: Some of you may have seen the work of the Sheffield based, street artist called Phlegm. See http://www.phlegmcomicnews.blogspot.com/ or google “Phlegm, street art”. There’s a story there somewhere and an interesting ride – his stuff is all over the place – if you check out the websites you’ll recognise much of it.
Hills: Hills which involves going downhill on all these http://g.co/maps/wbe58
Suggestion: Start University up to Crookes down Tinker Hill then Hagg Hill along Rivelin Valley RD up Walkley bank Rd into Walkley down Blake St into Upperthorpe, Shalesmoor, pitsmoor Fir Vale Shiregreen down Jenkin Rd back along Don to city centre up through Norfolk Park to Arbourthorne then down Kenninghall Rd and onto East Bank Rd and then Myrtle Rd and finally through Heeley to go up Thirlwell Rd and down Kent Rd – final pub in Heeley somewhere
See Robin’s article in NowThen http://nowthenmagazine.com/issue-47/hills/
Bounded Infinity II: the first Bounded Infinity ride was 15 miles within the inner ring road without repeating any of the route (vectorially that is – to go to and fro on any one road is OK as the directions are different). Some are up for trying it again: So ‘Greater Nether Edge’? 15 miles within the ‘triangle’ made by London Rd/Abbeydale Rd with Ecclesall Rd and Carterknowle Rd with no repeat paths.
Edgelands – related to the book of the same name – a ride to places such as retail, industrial, and business parks, allotments, lorry parks, railway yards and sidings, landfill sites – the modern urban wildernesses to discover their aesthetic, environmental impact and think about the shape and form of our cities
Ghost signs – Ghost signs are those signs, mainly advertising, that have never been erased but remain, mainly on walls, and fade slowly away as mementos of past life and the function of buildings. A project has already been done on these see http://www.ghostsigns.co.uk/. I’d like to extend it to graffiti such as political slogans, or the persistent (eg ‘I love you will you marry me?’ Which has now been made permanent at Park Hill Flats by recreating it as a neon sign) or any other public sign that nightriders think fit the bill
Beating the Bounds – this is an idea nicked from Leeds Psychogeographical Association. Sheffield now has at least two Designated Public Place Orders: in Shiregreen and Woodhouse. These are designated areas where people found intoxicated/drinking in the street may be asked to hand all their alcohol over by a PO or PCSO, usually if they are being a nuisance. Failure to do so may lead to arrest. Support is offered or provided by DAAT, the Drugs and Alcohol Action Team. So lets ride round the boundary and have a sip every so often to mark the bounds of the area – and then go for a beer. See http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/business-economy/licensing/general-licensing/alcohol/shiregreendppo
The Sheffield Paris-Roubaix – with our psychogeographical imaginations we shall transform sections of Sheffield streets that are cobbled into parts of the Paris Roubaix race route – not that we would race – but we would share the race riders kinaesthetic experience of riding over cobbles as fast as we dare or can bear; interspersed with sections of potholes Sheffield roads, eh?. Probably for a Friday on or near Bastille Day (July 14).
Ride out to the Wentworth estate: see the grand house and Hoober house, the dowager duchess’ place and enjoy the counytryside in Rotherham
Sheffield by country and continent: many enterprises, mainly restaurants and cafes, are associated with a particular country or continent through their products and services. So we could ride past as many ‘countries’ and ‘continents’ as we could find or know about across town obviously India, Thailand, Pakistan, Italy, France, Spain, Kurdistan, Turkey, Lebanon, Africa, USA, Cyprus, Greece and of course The Globe Works! Anyway a good one that all nightriders could help with with their local knowledge.
This is England 86/88: tour of the locations of the Shane Meadow’s film series (aka This is Gleadless!)
Gennels, Snickets and Tracklements II; follow up to the v successful ride of Oct 2009
Sports Grounds: tour of notable sports grounds past and present
Railways and Stations III and IV: tour of as yet unvisited sites follow up to Railways and Stations I and II
Sheffield writers: tour of sites associated with writers either Sheffield born and/or resident
Crime and Punishment: tour of sites associated with Sheffield law and (dis)order, e.g. locations of courts, police stations, scenes of crimes, locations of prisons
Sheffield Food: tour to sites associated with Sheffield food past and present eg Hendersons Relish (Leavygreave Rd), Molly’s Ice Cream (Dungworth), Fancie cakes (Banner Cross), Thorntons chocolates (factory used to be on Archer Rd?)
Public Education II: tour of sites associated with education eg an EMA-support tour of FE and 6th form sites
Bookshops and Libraries II: follow-on of the ride in Spring 2011
Environment Ride: Ride out to and through Treeton – sites of collieries, coking works, open cast mining, all ‘reclaimed’ through land-fill and landscaping and becoming parks and nature reserves
The American Connection: tour to places like Philadelphia, Brooklyn Works, Columbia Works and so on and how Sheffield is and was connected to the USA
60s Sheffield: tour of sites of the first post war re-development of Sheffield; see it before it is all pulled down
Squares and Gardens: tour to formal gardens and squares in Sheffield
POETS: tour to sites associated with poets or poems or song lyrics and do it around the time of the Sheffield Poetry Festival, bring your favourite poem to be read out loud
Curries: tour to recommended curry houses to sample food, maybe course by course or dish by dish, like bahjis at the Mangla, samosas at the Zeenat, channa dall at Nirmals
Disasters?: trip to scenes of Sheffield disasters, eg Malin Bridge and the 1864 Sheffield Flood, Hillsborough football disaster, scenes from the 2007 flood, scenes from works accidents , sites from the Sheffield Blitz etc
Theatres and Music Halls: tour to sites of theatres and music halls past and present, working or abandoned.
The Attercliffe Prowler, Tunnels of Hell: tour to sites associated with Springheeled Jack, a legendary Sheffield figure or figure(s) as told and drawn in Graig Daley’s eponymous graphic novel available from Rare and Racy – could be good near Halloween
Green Roofs: Sheffield has an international centre for research and development of green roofs and there are a lot in town – a ride to visit sites and look at the style and range of buildings with green roofs
Sheffield and Epidemics: Ride to visit the site of St George’s Hospital and Lodge Moor, the isolation hospitals (associated with smallpox) and the Cholera Monument
Sheffield pre 1800; There’s not much but there is some like Bishop’s House, The Old Queen’s Head, Hilltop Chapel, the Unitarian Chapel on Norfolk St, Some of Paradise Square, I think an old barn up at Herdings – if it hasn’t been burnt down and so on
Little Mesters – ride to places like Portland Works, Butcher Works and other sites in the city that were the workshops of Little Mesters
Collieries: ride to sites of past collieries in the city of Sheffield and there were lots! All over from Norfolk Park, Handsworth, Pitsmoor and so on, open cast and shaft mining
Hospitals and Health II – follow on from Hospitals and Health I ridden in Jan 2010
Statue dressing – ride to sites of statues/plaques of people (which we have may have visited before or not) to decorate them with a memento of having been on a SNFR and say a few words about each of them – good one for the winter, mainly city centre
Volunteers required.
We have a lot of suggested themes that I am willing to explore and research but I would value it if others organised a ride as well. (If anything happened to me I would like the FNR to continue)
Choose a theme or add one of your own and get back to me at sheffieldfridaynightride@gmail.com to let me know. I can work with you on it.