Mundane News

[Mike_P]

Maybe they can collect them up and turn them into a massive art work on the Stray. Giving the keep the common folk off , preserve in aspic ladies that lunch nimby bunch. Something else to get in a twist about. How about a massive bike that really will make heads explode.

For maximum effect the signs would need refacing with "Site acquired" and a Tesco logo.

 

[Speicher]

Were they ever proper railway sleepers, or just bought as "sleepers"?

If they were treated, the area around them would dead for a few inches around them. If they were bought as "sleepers", the area around them would be still growing.

The demand outstripped supply, which led to untreated timber being sold as sleepers. Particularly for raised plant beds.

Yes, they were originally in a neighbour's garden probably as part of of a raised bed. When she wanted to get rid of them, I said I could use them. I will have a good look in daylight, but I do not think the area around them is dead. At present they are on top of or near the newer timbers, which are about 40cm x 40cm x 200cm.

 

[tom73]

For maximum effect the signs would need refacing with "Site acquired" and a Tesco logo.

To mop up any still standing add a KFC opening soon sign in the window at Bettys.

 

[Jenkins]

Well on its last day the outright useless North Yorkshire County Council has announced that not only had it failed in its bid for money for cycling improvements in Harrogate but the money they had previously said they had received did not exist. The biggy that is not now going to happen was the narrowing of the three lane A59 on the hill out of Knaresborough and the provision of cycle lanes in each direction replacing as a result the existing uphill one that is initially steeper than the road.

Having only been down the A59 from Starbeck to Knaresborough, I wouldn't fancy the ride up in the opposite direction. The (Beryl Burton?) cycleway & lanes to Bilton and the Nidderdale Greenway back were a much more scenic and less hilly option for me. Plus taking in the the extension down to Riply on a second trip later in the day.

 

[Mike_P]

Having only been down the A59 from Starbeck to Knaresborough, I wouldn't fancy the ride up in the opposite direction. The (Beryl Burton?) cycleway & lanes to Bilton and the Nidderdale Greenway back were a much more scenic and less hilly option for me. Plus taking in the the extension down to Riply on a second trip later in the day.

I usually use the up hill cycle track, it starts a short way up the climb but as the road quickly widens out to two lane there is rarely any close-ish passing traffic.

The steeper nature of it compared to the road is a bit of a killer and when it's quiet I have stayed on the road but the surface has recently got really rough.

I dislike using the Beryl Burton on the road bike due to, one, having acquired punctures and, two, having had to stop on the steep bit going up hill. I do use it downgrade when on the ebike.

The cycle track next to the A59 ends immediately before a road off to the right which comes to the NCN beyond Beryl Burton.

Alternatively continuing on the A59 to a right turn at a set of traffic lights brings you to a bridge over the Starbeck branch of the Nidderdale Greenway immediately beyond which their is a steep decent down to it.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Having only been down the A59 from Starbeck to Knaresborough, I wouldn't fancy the ride up in the opposite direction. The (Beryl Burton?) cycleway & lanes to Bilton and the Nidderdale Greenway back were a much more scenic and less hilly option for me. Plus taking in the the extension down to Riply on a second trip later in the day.

Just looking at the OS map, the climb back you must have taken back up from Knaresborough (marked as Harrogate Ringway) looks steeper in places than the A59. Though a good deal more pleasant, no doubt. Anyhow, I was over in Starbeck and Ripley about 3 weeks ago.

 

[Reynard]

o/~ Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deckchair up your nose, buy a jumbo jet... o/~

 

[Gravity Aided]

Not sure ! I expect they have been imported from somewhere so wouldn't know what they have been treated with . I would have thought that if it was harmful to insects then there wouldn't be much insect life near them . If they are infested with insects it would seem that they like them . If any animals that go near them grow extra eyes or limbs then I think they might be harmful .

American railroad ties were treated in a pressure vessel with creosote. My first grown up job was as a gandy dancer in a gigantic railroad yard, but we still used 8 pound sledge hammers and tongs to build tracks. Railroad ties are very heavy when new. The creosote will burn the skin on your arms, and it is very toxic. We used gloves and long-sleeved shirts, even in the hottest weather. Take care, very toxic. Railroad near me was upgraded, they replaced the tracks with heavy rail and concrete ties.

 

[tyred]

Just pondering how short our actual lifetime is and the incredible changes that occur. The people who manufactured and installed this pillar box c1870 could never possibly have envisaged a small wheeled folding bike with pneumatic tyres, suspension, chain drive and three gears as all that was somewhere in the future and God knows what they would have made of the adjacent cars or that people would be able to fly from all over the world just to visit some strange hexagonal-shaped rocks. (This is near the Giant's Causeway.)

 

[tyred]

Apparently only about 300 of those John Penfold pillar boxes were made and about 150 still survive. I've found three of them on my cycle travels.

 

[Reynard]

I've been taking a pencil and an ink pen for a walk across a piece of paper.

 

[PeteXXX]

PPFDOTM Nr 😘

 

[Reynard]

I'm off. Bed calls.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[biggs682]

First ride of the month in a while

 

[PeteXXX]

Yesterday, I went to see the Warwick trebuchet.. It's very big and, I reckon, could launch a scone or piece of cake a very long way!!