Mundane News

[mybike]

Is it a mountain bike that you are after? It was riding mine that knackered me, I wish now that I had taken one of my old road bikes. The ride would have been a lot smoother and I could have free wheeled half the distance.

Currently I'm riding a Tesco special full susp, weighing about 20kg, mostly along the very rough canal towpath here. Hence I'd quite like front suspension to cope with the lumps of concrete. I must admit drooling over a couple of Whyte road bikes they had. I've started adding loops from the canal but the terrain is rather hilly. Last year I managed 391 miles with the longest at 20 miles, so I'm getting there.

 

[mybike]

Yes please

You want to eat Henry?

 

[cuberider]

Oh crap. Its snowing

 

[summerdays]

It definitely is although I expect it will go away quite quickly. And there isn't enough to build a snowman

There looked to be enough in the Sperrins.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've just spent an hour on the turbo. An hour with a head full of Etta James, not the best choice for training but OK for a base session.

 

[Gravity Aided]

The Bible is God's word, its author is God.

And the translations get a little better, each time around.

 

[Illaveago]

Currently I'm riding a Tesco special full susp, weighing about 20kg, mostly along more very rough canal towpath here. Hence I'd quite like front suspension to cope with the lumps of concrete. I must admit drooling over a couple of Whyte road bikes they had. I've started adding loops from the canal but the terrain is rather hilly. Last year I managed 391 miles with the longest at 20 miles, so I'm getting there.

Do you know of anyone who has a steel road bike that will let you try it. I have gone back to mine as I have found them to be more comfortable , lighter and easier to ride. My ride today was like riding over a cattle grid all the way.

 

[tyred]

There looked to be enough in the Sperrins.

They always get it much worse.

 

[summerdays]

They always get it much worse.

My Dad always tells of one time, possibly 1963, when he had to dig a tunnel from the house to the byre, when the snow was higher than his head.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

My Dad always tells of one time, possibly 1963, when he had to dig a tunnel from the house to the byre, when the snow was higher than his head.

I was at school in 1963, I remember it started snowing on Boxing day and didn't clear till March, I was woken every morning by the sound of my Dad clearing our path.

 

[Hill Wimp]

My Dad always tells me of the Winter of 68/69 when he ised to have to walk through the snow to the dairy for a week to get my milk.

I love my Dad

 

[summerdays]

TVC had to miss his 21st birthday party that year because of the snow

Well I wasn't alive for the 63 snow... But since you are retired and over the hill I assume you were....

 

[Illaveago]

There were huge huge icicles as well as the snow. I can remember skating on a frozen pond with a friend singing Puff the Magic Dragon.

 

[Maverick Goose]

There were huge huge icicles as well as the snow. I can remember skating on a frozen pond with a friend singing Puff the Magic Dragon.

...lives in the Tea thread...

 

[Hill Wimp]

I think Henry has settled in