SlowerThanASluggishSloth
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Be off with you! Why did you go all the way to the Midlands? Didn't anyone tell you there's a Sainsbury's in Longridge?
England : Lancashire ColinJ's 103 km or 107 mile 'Back from the Dead' forum ride Sat 29/03/14
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It was nice to meet you Sam, and I hope you and your dad turn out for some of my more rides out that way! There is going to be another one in June which will go up several big hills so you will have to decide if you are going to be ready for that. It will be about 100 km in length.
I think you are probably the youngest rider to turn out on one of my forum rides. We have had a 19 year old and a 17 year old in the past, but most riders are aged between about 30 and 60.
As in 'town situated on a long ridge'!Be off with you! Why did you go all the way to the Midlands? Didn't anyone tell you there's a Sainsbury's in Longridge?
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Steve H
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- Location
- Brighouse in West Yorkshire
STASS - you're such a charmer!@coffeejo That's also a very nice piece of writing, by the way.
Have you ever thought of going in for short stories, or even a novel?
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
Gotta throw this one in to finish off with.
@coffeejo has lulled @potsy into a false sense of security, sneaks up on the outside and attacks off the front
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-oBUct5BoU
If I'd known you were filming, I would have put more effort into it
Be off with you! Why did you go all the way to the Midlands? Didn't anyone tell you there's a Sainsbury's in Longridge?
Though the last mile felt like I'd gone all the way to the Midlands...
onwards and upwards
New Member
- Location
- Burnley
@tubycyclist thanks for showing me the way back along with a vast amount of patience. Cheers.
tubbycyclist
Senior Member
- Location
- Hebden Bridge
You're welcome - and good luck with Way of the Roses.
totallyfixed
Veteran
- Location
- The only county without a McDonalds
First, apologies for submitting this so late, problems with my phone not talking to my computer plus much going on this week.
Thanks for the ride @ColinJ , and another thank you to @kiwi-Sal for putting us up, or should that be putting up with us. The 15 mile ride to the start from yours was a nice warm up and gave us time to visit The Fell bike shop in Whalley where dr_pink's new TT bike is being readied. It was good to see some familiar faces from past rides, the downside being we could not all ride together.
I tried to make life as difficult as I could for myself by stopping at the roadside to get some pics of following groups, some on The Trough to capture some gurning on the steep bit, then pushing hard to catch back up with the front group again. I'm not sure how many photos I can upload on a thread these days but here goes, if necessary I will do another post to get them all in.
After only a few miles
Looking back down The Trough
Rob, who we had ridden with a few weeks earlier on Cambridge CC's 75 mile reliability ride, small world!
@oldfatfool followed by
@kiwi-Sal
Little and large
We came across this little guy out with his dad, he only looked about 7, this was going uphill into the wind, I reckon he did well to keep going weighing so little, the wind must have been a killer. They breed 'em tough in these parts.
GPS had done it's usual trick and tried to pull the wool over our eyes
We got back to Whalley at just after 3.30 with 78.23 miles done, if the GPS had worked we would have done 3 miles less and got back 12 mins earlier. After once more drooling over more bikes in The Fell we got some map directions for the ride back to Kiwi-Sal's, this time taking a more direct route which began with a 2.5 mile climb! It continued to be the hilliest route you could wish for - or not.
Back at Sal's after a quick shower, cup of tea and a flapjack, [@SteveH , I never did get through that water bottle] we drove back to Rutland.
The next day it was out as usual for 40 miles in the hills. Bonkers or what
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Thanks for the ride @ColinJ , and another thank you to @kiwi-Sal for putting us up, or should that be putting up with us. The 15 mile ride to the start from yours was a nice warm up and gave us time to visit The Fell bike shop in Whalley where dr_pink's new TT bike is being readied. It was good to see some familiar faces from past rides, the downside being we could not all ride together.
I tried to make life as difficult as I could for myself by stopping at the roadside to get some pics of following groups, some on The Trough to capture some gurning on the steep bit, then pushing hard to catch back up with the front group again. I'm not sure how many photos I can upload on a thread these days but here goes, if necessary I will do another post to get them all in.
After only a few miles
Looking back down The Trough
Rob, who we had ridden with a few weeks earlier on Cambridge CC's 75 mile reliability ride, small world!
@oldfatfool followed by
@kiwi-Sal
Little and large
We came across this little guy out with his dad, he only looked about 7, this was going uphill into the wind, I reckon he did well to keep going weighing so little, the wind must have been a killer. They breed 'em tough in these parts.
GPS had done it's usual trick and tried to pull the wool over our eyes
We got back to Whalley at just after 3.30 with 78.23 miles done, if the GPS had worked we would have done 3 miles less and got back 12 mins earlier. After once more drooling over more bikes in The Fell we got some map directions for the ride back to Kiwi-Sal's, this time taking a more direct route which began with a 2.5 mile climb! It continued to be the hilliest route you could wish for - or not.
Back at Sal's after a quick shower, cup of tea and a flapjack, [@SteveH , I never did get through that water bottle] we drove back to Rutland.
The next day it was out as usual for 40 miles in the hills. Bonkers or what
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Blimey, my bald spot is almost bigger than my head now ... (Third photo from the end.) 
Let's do something similar again this time next year! Assuming my health continues to improve and I get plenty of riding in, I should be pretty fit by then and maybe able to go with the front group for a change?
PS I turned my GPS off at the cafe and when I turned it back on, I forgot to tell it to navigate to the end of the route. For some obscure reason, the programmer who wrote the software for it made it default to navigating to the start so I tried taking us straight on at the junction at Five Lane Ends which would take us back towards the Fells. Fortunately, @coffeejo and others were not so easy to fool ...
Let's do something similar again this time next year! Assuming my health continues to improve and I get plenty of riding in, I should be pretty fit by then and maybe able to go with the front group for a change?
PS I turned my GPS off at the cafe and when I turned it back on, I forgot to tell it to navigate to the end of the route. For some obscure reason, the programmer who wrote the software for it made it default to navigating to the start so I tried taking us straight on at the junction at Five Lane Ends which would take us back towards the Fells. Fortunately, @coffeejo and others were not so easy to fool ...
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I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
For some reason, the first time I read this it reached my brain as above (in red)
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I feel like I have had a premonition of the future that lies in wait for my head!
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
PS I turned my GPS off at the cafe and when I turned it back on, I forgot to tell it to navigate to the end of the route. For some obscure reason, the programmer who wrote the software for it made it default to navigating to the start so I tried taking us straight on at the junction at Five Lane Ends which would take us back towards the Fells. Fortunately, @coffeejo and others were not so easy to fool ...
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
The only CCer I can think of who looks a bit like that and is pretty nippy, is Calum but I think he is down in Bristol, though he is coming up for SITD at the weekend, so maybe he came up early? I don't think it is him, but I have never seen him with anything on his head, apart from his glasses!
