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Re: More new ...
Posted: 05 Mar 2005, 19:51
by petermiller36
***** wrote:Of course, all of this is completely nonsense, and is the sort of thing you start to dream up when you're relaxing with a beer on holiday, but I'm just throwing it into the pot to see if anyone takes one of the, up ...
No you're not Geoff!!! YOu're not throwing it into the pot. You're just showing off the fact that you're in sunny conditions whilst supping a beer! Where as I was playing football at 10:30am on a pitch that had a 2 inch layer of mud on the top and then it snowed so much that you couldn't see both goals at the same time! oh to be you Geoff...
Posted: 06 Mar 2005, 11:09
by G Force
I have a few new challenges:-
The Kennington Loop challenge - who can go from Kennington to Kennington in the fastest time!
The Paddington to Finchley Road challenge - strangely this is my commute home from work
Posted: 07 Mar 2005, 02:28
by CrunchySaviour
If this forum didn't have a speech filter, the words that I am about to type would be slightly different:
Geoff, you are a jammy ****.
Posted: 12 Jun 2005, 00:51
by the_tube_boy
G Force wrote:I have a few new challenges:-
The Kennington Loop challenge - who can go from Kennington to Kennington in the fastest time!
This is the easiest challenge in the world!!!!!! considering you only have to visit 9 stations
Posted: 12 Jun 2005, 13:30
by moley
9 Stations - Surely you would only vist one station - the same one to start and finish???
3 minutes or so at a guess!!!!
Posted: 12 Jun 2005, 19:13
by G Force
the_tube_boy wrote:G Force wrote:I have a few new challenges:-
The Kennington Loop challenge - who can go from Kennington to Kennington in the fastest time!
This is the easiest challenge in the world!!!!!! considering you only have to visit 9 stations
Er, I think you would be taking the long route there!
Posted: 21 Jun 2005, 20:35
by kizzers
What about a zone 2 challenge?
Re: More new ...
Posted: 24 Jul 2005, 22:20
by James_#510
***** wrote:(1) How long would it take/what's the shortest time you could cover EVERY part of the tube map in? i.e. when doing just the 275 stations I've never travelled between Rayners Lane and West Harrow. In fact, I think that's one bit of tube track/map I've never ever travelled down in my life - so .. how long would it take you to do each bit of the map, so that if you 'scribbled' over each bit as you did it, it would all be scribbled in.
And (more importantly), could you actually do it in a day? I reckon you could: Might take you between 20 to 21 hours, but probably possible.
Funnily enough, my first route didn't involve any of the clever stuff you find by looking outside the box (except the Kenton thing) so we didn't, for example, run to Ickenham from West Ruislip.
This was split over two days and took almost 22 hours, and there were still some bits missing. The one that comes to mind is Camden Town to Euston on a Bank train.
So its not actually possible. Sorry.
Posted: 28 Aug 2005, 18:02
by CrunchySaviour
How about the following challenge:
Alphabetical Order Challenge
1. List all stations in alphabetical order.
2. Visit them in that order for a set amount of time (eg somewhere between 2 - 5 hours).
The record will not, then, be a time, but a station.
If there's a long journey between stations near the end of the time period, though, it might be difficult to get to the next one, ad everyone might end up finishing at the same station after however many hours.
Posted: 28 Aug 2005, 20:38
by James_#510
Even the first trip would take a bit of time. Acton Town - Aldgate East - Aldgate (or vice versa depending) - Alperton would take ages! Then it goes up to Amersham!
It would have to be a lot more than 5 hours just to get to B!
Posted: 28 Aug 2005, 20:43
by tubeguru
Aldgate first of the two Aldgates.
Yeah - we'd need 12 to 15 hours to get anywhere near D ...
Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 10:50
by James_#510
Oddly enough if you read the A-Z list on a Tube map A.E. comes first.
Strange that.
Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 11:01
by CrunchySaviour
Maybe it's because "Aldgate East Station" comes before "Aldgate Station" alphabetically, and thye mised off the "Station"s.