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Neil Wheadon2026-07-21 16:10:46tcn2026

OOOPS, hit return, so FRIDAY CONTINUED. After Ilminster through Dillington Park and back via Barrington Court. The long is at https://tandem-club.org.uk/rides?cmd=view&id=1925 This takes you further south. If you have time, you can visit Forde Abbey. I stopped at the delightful Thorncombe Village shop that serves a good cup of tea, a community shop seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Out and return as the medium Ride

Neil Wheadon2026-07-21 16:37:41tcn2026

OOOPS again FRIDAY is the rest day, nothing planned aside the Hog Roast in the evening

Neil Wheadon2026-07-21 16:38:10tcn2026

SATURDAY RIDES are the ones I labelled as Friday, apologise

Neil Wheadon2026-07-21 16:44:58tcn2026

SUNDAY. Last day and it has to be Glastonbury. The short/family is at https://tandem-club.org.uk/rides?cmd=view&id=1920. There is no sensible way to shorten the short for a family, but it could be reversed to go back, but there will be a climb as on the way out, it is shorter than the short if you do that. The medium takes in Wells at https://tandem-club.org.uk/rides?cmd=view&id=1921, well worth a look, to get in the mood watch the film 'Hot Fuzz' and mind them swans. The long ride heads to Castle Cary. Personally I liked this ride when I test rode it (as with all the routes) a few months ago. The countryside around Castle Cary is different to the levels. It's at https://tandem-club.org.uk/rides?cmd=view&id=1922. These have 6 as the number in front, could be 4, but it makes no difference really. So endeth the routes, I hope you can print of the detailed route sheets and please have a look on rides, even icon tells a story and helps plan to get the most out of the day

Chris Peachey2026-07-21 17:55:35tcn2026

Hi Neil Can we fit in a jumble at the rally? I have a few bits and I am sure others will have also. Perhaps on the Wednesday or Thursday? See you soon Chris & Margaret

Mark Tipping2026-07-21 19:08:58tcn2026

A seconder for jumble please. Mark and Gill

Mark Tipping2026-07-21 19:09:00tcn2026

A seconder for jumble please. Mark and Gill

John Pound2026-07-21 22:06:27tcn2026

Ive tried to download the route for Saturday and Sunday so i can print it out but i am unable

Neil Wheadon2026-07-21 22:36:45tcn2026

Hi John. Could you download Tuesday and Wednesday?

Neil Wheadon2026-07-21 22:38:18tcn2026

If we add bringing things to sell, that should work. After the Tandem Games

John Pound2026-07-21 22:49:43WestMidlands

Download route sheet as PDF file

John Pound2026-07-21 22:53:46tcn2026

Tuesday and Wednesday were ok but no link to Saturday or Sunday

John Pound2026-07-21 22:57:00tcn2026

Only links to gps and tpx

Neil Wheadon2026-07-21 22:58:50tcn2026

CAMPING WITH FRIENDS. The site is exclusive use and not that large. However I can try to arrange for friends to camp next to eachother if you are on an electric site. To allow this, can you liaise with the folks you wish to be next to and as a group tell me. What I can't easily do is cope with daisy chains, where X wishes to be close to Y and Y next to Z, then Z next to A etc. Please email me privately at Neilwheadon1@gmail.com. For non electric there is space and non marked pitches, so come along and save a space for a friend. All the families will camp together if they are non electric. Having written this as the campsite is small and there are new members, everyone mixed up is a nice thing to have.

Neil Wheadon2026-07-21 23:22:29tcn2026

Download for route sheets on Saturday and Sunday, hopefully fixed, thanks for the fedback

Tony Prichard2026-07-22 18:40:11tcn2026
Club Shop at TCN2026

Janet and I will be bringing a selection of items from the Club Shop

Simon Preston2026-07-23 06:44:43tcn2026

I contacted the campsite to check for availability a

Simon Preston2026-07-23 06:47:29tcn2026

Over the weekend before the rally. They have spaces and said they anticipate having the rally pitch allocations so we can be put in the same one throughout without having to move on the Monday. Is that correct?

Neil Wheadon2026-07-23 08:27:43tcn2026

PRE CAMPING FOR THE RALLY. I visited the campsite for the last time yesterday before the event and Sally gave me the list of those that have booked a pitch before the rally. I will be allocating pitches by Saturday and people prebooked will be placed where they will be during the rally. It is therefore absolutely crucial that anyone booking a site before Monday emails me and tells me, otherwise you may have to move when the rally starts. Can I also put this one to bed please. I have had maybe 6 emails regading the price of the pitch at the rally being £10 more than if you booked it yourself. There are 2 factors. Firstly the level of extras involved. The extra showers and marquee are just shy of £3000 for example, you don't get that for hiring a piece of grass for a day. The other is the fact that we have sole use of the site, so a single figure was asked for. In advance it is tough to guestimate the break even point, therefore for the clubs sake I took the decision to make sure that it would hopefully break even. Any surplus does not go to shareholders it either goes to the club or is ploughed back into the event. Previous organisers may appreciate this but having some money to play with takes an awful lot of stress out of putting these together. In short this is an event

Peter Simpson2026-07-24 15:08:00tcn2026

Hi Neil. It would appear that you used Ride With GPS to create the routes. Did you save them with public or friends visibility? If not, would it be possible to make them available to us? It would appear that inporting the gpx files only loads the route with no cues. It would be particularly helpful for David and me to have the turn-by-turn cues which ar automatically generated when creating a route. Thanks Peter and David