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Cycle Infrastructure to go up imminently. I am also about to contact Fietsberaad.
I would like to propose Saturday 8th January 2011 (noon) as the inaugural Meeting of the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain where you can meet me and poke me with a bicycle pump if you don’t feel enough progress is being made. Items for discussion will be to approve aims and actions and just to see what other like-minded souls look like. Maybe we can also discuss merchandice as I still quite like my ‘Make Hammond History’ wristband idea.
To be held at Look Mum, No Hands! 49 Old Street London EC1V 9HX maybe followed by a jolly nice bike ride if any of the Londoners out there would like to suggest a route (or even an alternate venue). Otherwise you can just cycle with me to Victoria or East Croydon and then, if you’re lucky, watch me get a bit heated as I inform someone behind a counter that holding people captive at a railway station is not enough reason to charge £2.10 for a sodding sausage roll.
That is all.
The Lo Fidelity Bicycle Club 
If it was a few weeks later (end of Jan) I could make it as I have to be down to That London. Otherwise, perhaps we need a Scottish Consulate as well?
or a northern one?
Like Mr Colostomy ‘said’ below, we are meeting in Manchester in January, similar idea to the Cycling Embassy… Although a trip across the Pennines would be required, Sheffielders would be very welcome too!! 😀
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The date is flexible but we do need a Scottish Consulate regardless. We can’t expect our Scottish colleagues to swan down to London. Having said that not all meetings have to be held there. I can make it up to Scotland because my Sister in Law lives in Aberdeen. What weekend can you commit to?
It looks like I will be down in London the very last week of January. Could make any other weekend in Scotland although Aberdeen might take a bit of organising. Edinburgh would suit me – or the Cycling Consulate could foregather in Dumfries to try out Scotland’s first ever bike share scheme…
Love to be there and LMNH is a great venue! Away until the following week but presume they’ll be an update on everything discussed, via the blog? Could you please add me as a member? Liv
Sounds great Jim, and I like the idea of combining it with a bit of a ride, too. Why don’t I put my route planning thinking cap on and we will make it a bit of an event? Either way, I’ll be there!
I won’t be able to make it to London, however a few of us Manchester-based citizen cyclists are meeting up at the end of January. The ideas are similar to the Embassy and I will encourage everyone there to become a part of it and see what happens.
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Jim
I’m really impressed by your embassy idea and I’d love to join on the 8th. Unfortunately, I can’ tmake that weekend but please do keep me in the loop. I think I’m on exactly the same wavelength as you and totally supportive of what you’re trying to do.
Slightly speedy comment for now but I hope to have some time to send you some more considered thoughts in a few days’ time.
Danny
Sorry, can’t make the 8th as I’ll be abroad (OK Wales).