so now that metro have moved into the old b+w bit round the back how many people will be working there?
i remember when they moved from the dust building to the new (now old) building and there was talk of building a cafe in the carpark bit at the back and the place was full of staff.
photographers were spending 1-4k a month on E6 and iris prints, now we all have epson printers and digital backs.
it's progress i suppose. i remember when it was all fields round there. :sigh:

s'all computers these days...

I think all the Couriers should dress as Pirates and everyone else as Ninjas. FIGHT!

This also gives me an excellent chance to link to this.

why you so bother about this alley cat?

you shouldn't know about it in the first place

it's all jos fault

laugh it up furball

wookie wookie wookie, take it easy.....Roger

Anyway. Besides all the commotion, who is actually going to race?

im going,but aint going to race

i am, i have my pirate hat and everything

I may do the same depends on the other half. Def no race though, I don't know the lanes well enough and I am slow and I am a wuss.

i'm not going, i don't like wookies with short fuses and my rapha/condor pista combo would only get him agitated ;-)

the man decided that i gotta work...good reason not to be there

i'm in. just need outfit!
saw Wookie the other other day and he gave me a flyer.
y

same here... and i forgot to go to bed last night... oh well sleep at work again i geuss

I might stroll up, not racing tho

some one let me know who wins

HARDCORE
We went outside of the A-Z!
Brilliant race.

got some photos of the meet point.

Didn't take part but after I'd left the park did see Jos heading down Bishopsgate and a bit later Glow heading in the same direction waving his sword!

Yeah it was good to hang out at the beginning especially with the music in the park!

Nice dressing up by lots of people!

Saw quite a few ppl coming down old street way later around 45 mins after it started.

Looks like you guys had a lot of fun! What was the route? I'm not really sure how alley cat races work ...

jos won it!

london fields to
oval road nw1 then to
grays inn road for a question then to
happy sailor tatto hackney road, where you could get a tattoo and skip the next checkpoint which was
the golden hinde se1 then to
rum close e1 where you had to do a shot of vodka then to
the cutty sark where you had to give them a flower then to
shooters hill se3 (ow) where you had to fish a message in a bottle from the pond then to
woolwich ferry (then on the ferry) then to
waping high street


props to the winner and everyone who did it, fuck ow.

the checkpoints:
1: Oval Road in Camden, at the Pirate ship or something. Just a standard checkpoint
2: Gray's Inn road and Guilford road, clerkenwell. Some squat where you had to queue, then get in and get questioned about Pirate ethics by some dude (?)
3: A tattoo parlor on Hackney Road, in front of the George and Dragon pub. Either you got a tattoo (tiny anchor) or you had to do an additional checkpoints. (anchor for me!)
4: Rum lane or street in Wapping. Standard checkpoint
5: The Cutty Sark. Had to get a flower (from wherever you could find one) and get some moustache drawn on your face.
6: Some pond at the top of Greenwich park (bitch of a hill), where bottles were floating. In each bottle a map burned around the edges, with the next checkpoint...
7: Woolwich Ferry. OUTSIDE of the A-Z (hence the map). Kind of the final checkpoint, we got spoke cards with our number of arrival.
8: Wapping High Street. In a pub.

I could not stay for prizes so don't know who won (Jos I think, or Mike Trampsparadise)

THANKS WOOKIE!! One of the most creative alleycats I've done. Can't believe I got my first tattoo...

OOPs double post MAx.. sorry.
Lost you - did you finish?

yeah man, i was 11 at the golden hinde checkpoint then i got 21 i think

that sounds fantastic!

you had time for tattoos!?

Excellent! sounds great.
Congrats Jos, where did u get your tats guys?

And who won best costume? I'm assuming it wasn't the crack whore :-P

Sounds like a really good route!

congrats, Jos. did you get the anchor tattoo? yarrrrr.

how many riders?

See here

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/forum/discussion/282/pirate-alleycat-report

alley cat was pretty cool untill the last 20 mins or so rain started just after we left the woolwich ferry and then we hit the pave ( pah-vey ) as per the Paris Roubaix slippery l'il buggers back end slid round on me and hit the road just as i was 100m from the captain kidd DOH now i remember why i hate riding in the rain so much

small damage to handle bars and yet another round of brusing to my right elbow and a inch long inch deep cut

managed to finish right behind the crack hoare not sure what position but was great fun my poor london knowledge was my downfall i was last at the third checkpoint then began to move up as things moved to my manor in the eastend didn't get a tatoo did the extra goldenhind stop

Damc wish I had gone to watch that. I don't belive I miseed it I was out shopping in Woolwhich on sat afternoon as well.

i was looking out for you we hung around at the ferry for about 10 mins waiting for it to return missed the first group crossing by about 10 - 15 mins

anybody any idea how many miles we did on sat arvo ?

hey jos can you link a picture with you in it ? i want to see who i should have been following on satuurday just putting names to faces etc

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/london-bicycle-messenger-rides-good-friday-track-meet