Ageing

[BigonaBianchi]

...smiles a bit different now though

 

[ChrisKH]

Boab, you're front light on the old racer, i've still got the same one. Ever Ready, I think. Very heavy, but nice and dependable. Works well too!

 

[Aperitif]

Boab, you're front light on the old racer, i've still got the same one. Ever Ready, I think. Very heavy, but nice and dependable. Works well too!

Sure you're not describing the Mid Essex posse Chris?

Nice montage BoaB - "those were the days..."

 

[BigonaBianchi]

ha!...not anymore that one dont ..it came off in the middle of th enight as I was riding around the arc de triumph...I remember getting off the bike and crawling on all fours in the middle of all that traffic trying to recover all the bits!...'course the scotch in the water bottles had nothing to do with it.

 

[ChrisKH]

ha!...not anymore that one dont ..it came off in the middle of th enight as I was riding around the arc de triumph...I remember getting off the bike and crawling on all fours in the middle of all that traffic trying to recover all the bits!...'course the scotch in the water bottles had nothing to do with it.

Sounds like a good trip to me! My trip in the same year involved waking up in Kent somewhere to find the tent and bikes covered in snow and my cycling companion had donned all my spare clothes in the middle of the night because of the cold. Those were the days. Your trip sounded better.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

we had a blast...2 mates from skool and I...we just grabbed some maps, our bikes and some gear and legged it down to paris...the long way..along the coast!...free for the first time ever...loads of great memories...there was the Youth hostel which was also the lunatic asylum...the flying bike incident...the oopps I'm stuck on top of the bog cubicle door incident...the sleeping rough...the wheel stuck in the ferry gangplank incident...the flirty french waitress who I had to leave in Dieppe (without a tip)....then we had the shoot in the cornfield while somebody stole the bike...and who could forget the Huge plastic ivory elephant incident....

just a few of the highlights!

 

[Black Sheep]

bars are too wide on the newer bike

 

[BigonaBianchi]

really?...why's that then?

 

[Black Sheep]

really?...why's that then?

streamlining

 

[longers]

Great pair of pics BTFBOAB

Did you forget the saddle for the first trip?

 

[BigonaBianchi]

...I remember it hurt when it got wet..it was leather. The bike was a peugot I think.

See that small orange roll on the back?...thats a survival bag....or my 'tent' as it was back then!

 

[Maz]

Great pair of pics BTFBOAB

Did you forget the saddle for the first trip?

I only just realised that it is BTFB once I saw the picture.
Doh!

 

[Abitrary]

wow, boab. That paris trip was a quite a feat and looked like a laugh. Very impressed.

Good photo / story.